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, life, basically life is messy, and here we learn to live well anyway.

So join me on this journey as we figure it out together.

And just to get us started, I'll go first.

And today I actually have Katie and Shell back on the show.

It was so much fun to get to record with both of them

because you guys, it's my birthday week. So we thought it would be really fun to get to record with both of them because you guys is my birthday week.

So we thought it would be really fun to get together the three of us and talk about how we

celebrate each other for our birthdays. But also the bigger, broader conversation is how

the longevity of friendship really allows you to not have the pressures when you are celebrating your friends.

It's a bonus. It's just a really fun extra thing that you get to do with people that you love.

And even when it doesn't work out on the timeline or the schedules that you want it to,

when you have that longevity of friendship, it gives you the freedom to be able to celebrate each other whenever you're able to. So we really

dive into that in this episode and it's just a fun conversation with two of my dearest friends.

I hope you really enjoy it. But before we get there, you guys, you know planning? It's like

my jam. And so we have created some content coming up in May that I really want to make sure that you are aware of.

First of all, Mother's Day.

It's coming really quickly.

And this week in Patreon, which you can find at patreon.com slash live well together,

we are releasing a live well love kit all about Mother's Day.

Basically what Katie and I did is we got

together. We created a video to walk your children through how to create a nice Mother's Day

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