S5 Ep156: Looking On the Bright Side with Melanie Shankle
Live Well Anyway
MacKenzie Koppa
4.6 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
On the Cultivating the Lovely podcast this week, MacKenzie Koppa interviews Melanie Shankle, co-host of The Big Boo Cast and author of several books, including her newest title On the Bright Side. Together MacKenzie and Melanie talk the new book, podcasting, skin care and more! (Amazon affiliate links are used in this content.)
- MacKenzie shares how she first heard about Melanie and what she loves so much about her podcast
- Melanie and MacKenzie do a little breakdown of their Outlander addiction and the new season
- Melanie talks a little about her book On the Bright Side and why it needed to be written
- Returning to a culture of civility and being kind to others with opposing views
We’ve lost sight of what matters most. We’ve forgotten how to be decent human beings. We’ve lost the art of looking on the bright side.
Melanie Shankle- The importance of finding a few friends who can be your tribe
- Watching out for comparison and insecurity in friendship
- Trusting God with our own lives and with our children, as well
- Guiding our children through disappointment and helping them learning from failure
- Melanie and MacKenzie talk all about skincare
- Melanie’s current typical daily routine
Melanie: knowing when to say “no” to things and making the most of her daughter’s time at home
MacKenzie: cutting her own hair after a bad haircut and rocking it
Resources Mentioned- Books: Movies: Find Melanie-You can find Melanie on her website thebigmamablog.com and listen to her podcast, The Big Boo Cast. You can also follow her on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Find MacKenzie-You can find MacKenzie Koppa on Instagram, Facebook, and the CTL Facebook Group, of course! Join us on Patreon at Patreon.com/CultivatingtheLovely.
Thanks to Our Sponsors-Today’s episode of Cultivating the Lovely is sponsored by Clearly Filtered. You can enjoy a 20% OFF discount on a filtered water system by visiting ClearlyFiltered.com/LOVELY and using code LOVELY.
Thanks to Yoga Sleep for sponsoring this episode of CTL. Go to YogaSleep.com/LOVELY to get 20% OFF your next order of a sound machine for your family.
This week’s episode of CTL is brought to you by Grove. As a CTL listener, you can get a FREE 5-piece Sustainable Home starter set at Grove.co/LOVELY, plus free shipping with your first order.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Life can be so hard, but I think it's so much better if we can look for the positive and to look for |
| 0:06.1 | the bright side and to look for the good and others and to look for the good things in our lives. |
| 0:20.7 | Welcome to Cultivating the Lovely. |
| 0:22.7 | I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa. |
| 0:24.6 | And around here, we know that life is hard and we have to do everything we can to just make it a little bit more lovely. |
| 0:30.9 | So it's my mission to bring you great conversations, practical tools and information, |
| 0:35.0 | and a healthy dose of community to help make those things happen. |
| 0:38.6 | If you want to find out more, you can go to our website at cultivating the lovely.com, |
| 0:42.4 | visit our amazing membership community at patreon.com slash cultivating the lovely, |
| 0:47.0 | or by connecting with me on Instagram, which is one of my favorite places to interact with all of you. |
| 0:51.5 | You can find me at McKenzie Kappa. |
| 0:53.6 | Thanks so much for joining me today. |
| 0:57.1 | Oh, ladies, today's interview. I had been waiting for two and a half years to get to finally |
| 1:05.8 | record. We explain more about it in the episode, but I am so excited to tell you that I finally got |
| 1:12.2 | to interview Melanie Schenkel. |
| 1:14.6 | This is one of my favorite interviews that I have done in a long time because it was just |
| 1:20.7 | so much fun. |
| 1:22.1 | Oh my goodness. |
| 1:23.4 | I knew that I wanted this to be a really conversational episode. |
| 1:27.4 | And of course, we were going to talk |
| 1:28.6 | about her fabulous new book on the bright side, but I just wanted the chance to like hang out with her |
| 1:34.4 | and we did it. It was so much fun. I hope you guys have as much fun listening to this episode as I |
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