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Live Well Anyway

S5 Ep173: Summer Lovelies with MacKenzie and Katie

Live Well Anyway

MacKenzie Koppa

Books, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Arts

4.6605 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Today on Cultivating the Lovely the Podcast, MacKenzie Koppa sits down with her dear friend Katie Duckett to talk about some of the things they are loving this summer. In order to take their minds off the craziness going on in the world, they are both finding some small lovelies to hold onto and stay joyful in the midst of challenging times.

  • Of course, this conversation wouldn't be complete without MacKenzie talking about her love for Hamilton 
  • Katie talks about her family's newfound love of the show Lost
  • MacKenzie talks about her reaction to watching The Morning Show 
  • What MacKenzie has been reading and enjoying
  •  Katie shares what she has been reading lately
  • Giving ourselves grace to consume and produce different content in different seasons
  • Making sure we have balance in what media we are consuming and paying attention to how it affects us
  • Katie and MacKenzie talk about some of the things they miss about their pre-pandemic schedules
  • Katie talks about her gratitude for Alexa 
  • Katie's current favorite drink addition: lavender simple syrup
  • MacKenzie's story about caring for her neighbor's flowers
Resources Mentioned-

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Books:

All Things Reconsidered by Knox McCoy

The Winston Brothers series by Penny Reid

The Reluctant Royals series by Alyssa Cole

Beach Read by Emily Henry

The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks and Jennifer Morgan

The American Royals by Katharine McGee

Barbara O'neal

The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi

Music:

Hamilton

Jazz Morning Playlist Cafe 

Podcasts:

The Popcast

Thanks to Our Sponsor-

This episode of Cultivating the Lovely is brought to you by Postmates. For a limited time, CTL listeners get a $100 free delivery credit for the first 7 days when you use code LOVELY100 in the Postmates app. 

Find Katie-

You can find Katie Duckett on Instagram @may_these_arrows_fly.

Find MacKenzie-

You can find MacKenzie Koppa on InstagramFacebook, and the CTL Facebook Group, of course! Join us on Patreon at Patreon.com/CultivatingtheLovely.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I love those verses in that chapter where it talks about the person who meditates on the law of the

0:05.6

Lord is like a tree planted by streams of water that bears its fruit in due season.

0:38.4

Welcome to cultivating the lovely. I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa. 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. So it's my mission to bring you great conversations, practical tools and information, and a healthy dose of community to help make those things happen. If you want to find out more, you can go to our website at cultivating

0:42.6

thelovely.com, visit our amazing membership community at patreon.com slash cultivating the lovely,

0:48.1

or by connecting with me on Instagram, which is one of my favorite places to interact with all of you.

0:52.7

You can find me at McKenzie Kappa.

0:54.8

Thanks so much for joining me today.

0:58.6

Okay, ladies, we are back again this week. I am so excited to be releasing a new episode to you guys.

1:04.3

We are working on getting new sponsors. We're starting to have a few of them roll in, so we've got

1:08.8

some more shows on the books, which is really fun and

1:11.8

exciting. I'm really looking forward to what the rest of this summer and this fall is going to bring some brand new sponsors that are really fun and I'm really excited about. So that is great news. If you do know someone who would like to sponsor the show, though, and get in on some of this action as we get things rolling again. You can have them get a hold of me on Instagram at McKenzie Kappa, or you can have them email me at bold turquoise at gmail.com, and I would love to be able to send them my media kit and chat about that. But on this episode, you guys, I'm excited to have my good friend, Katie Duckett back. And we have a really fun episode today. I think

1:45.0

sometimes you need a little bit of lightheartedness. We talk about some of our favorite things

1:49.7

we've been consuming in media lately and books and our favorite summer drinks. It's a really

1:55.7

fun and sometimes deep episode that I think you guys are really going to enjoy.

2:01.2

But before we get there, I do also just want to mention really quickly that if you want

2:04.9

another way to support the show or just be a part of the most amazing community of women on

2:10.4

the internet, you should come over and join us at Patreon.

2:13.6

Just go to patreon.com slash cultivating the lovely.

2:16.6

We have so many fun things going on there all the time.

2:19.3

I do daily lives in our private Facebook group with everyone, which are so much fun to be able to communicate and go a little bit deeper than we do in this format.

2:27.8

We talk about everything from really serious issues to just ridiculous updates on my life.

2:32.9

We're also watching rom-coms together this summer, which is super fun.

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