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 humor solo shows centered on things I've learned in my own life.

And today we have on one of my favorite authors. Her books are just so deep and amazing and

they get me every time. They are so encouraging and so wise, especially when I think of how old

she is. I'm like, what? That's not, that's not even like a fair thing that you have figured out so

much in your life so far. It is Hannah Bruncher with her brand new book, Fighting Forward.

I love this book. I recommend it to everyone right now. You can't go wrong with it. It's

a perfect read for New Year's, especially if you're just wanting to be encouraged to be showing up

to the things in your life that you need to show up to, but not in an oppressive way. It's just,

it's just so good. You've got to read it and the chapters are nice and short, so it feels quick to be able to get through. It is great. But before we get there, of course, I want to tell you about a little something that is helping me to show up in this season, and it's helping a lot of other women to show up as well, and that is Patreon, our Live Well together Patreon. This group of ladies I have really

been noticing over the past couple of months just as a whole group has been getting so much

tighter and getting to know each other more and always so eager to be bringing new women in

and welcoming them to the whole live well anyway philosophy. We are always learning together

and finding ways to

laugh and get through life and all of its realness and rawness and chaos. And there's been a lot of

that lately. These ladies really get the behind the scenes picture of what is happening in my life

and what is happening with the podcast and my whole platform. And we would just really love to have you be a part of that.

We have daily lives every single day that are so much fun.

We love getting together and chatting.

Sometimes they're serious, but a lot of times they're ridiculous.

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