Welcome to Live Well Anyway. I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa, formerly of Cultivating the Lovely, and on this podcast, we focus on wellness, beauty, style, planning, and life.

I feature both a fun mix of guests who I've

invited as well as some hopefully helpful and humorous solo shows centered on things I've

learned in my own life. And you guys, I'm so excited about today's episode. I know I say that a lot,

but this was an author. I'm having on an author again. I know I've been a little bit more selective

this season of who I'm having on.

So when I have them on, that means I really like their book and their work. And today's author

is Robin Conley Downs and her book, The Feel Good Effect. Now, even when I was going into reading

this book, I actually listened to the audiobook. I had my doubts. You know, I listen to a lot

of these kinds of things and sometimes they sort of say the same thing as somebody else. This one doesn't.

It's backed by really good science that she's invested so much time into how our brains work

and how to form habits that will last and to create change that lasts. And I think it gives us such a good

perspective going into a new year and how we are thinking about our goals and how we're doing

our planning for a new year. This is going to shift everything. And I'm in love with everything

she had to say. It led to such a great fun conversation. I just really enjoyed talking with her. And I hope that you

are going to enjoy listening to this episode as well. And I also want to mention if you guys are

wanting a little bit more support with your planning for 2021, I mean, I don't know about you,

but a lot of my goals went out the window this past year because it was

just such a hard year to plan for having so much uncertainty about what is happening in the world.

And so I have really set out this December to outline a step-by-step process for helping us

to figure out looking at our goals differently for the new year specifically.

And I'm actually holding a few webinars

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