Welcome to Live Well, I'm your host, McKenzie Kappa, formerly of Cultivating the Lovely,

and on this podcast, we focus on wellness, beauty, style, planning, and 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. Today, I am really going first because I've been doing all the research and all the planning to talk about automating our lives for summer.

So we talked about a lot of things in our summer planning episode.

But today I'm going to talk about specific little hacks and tricks and things that you can

put into place with both your routines and then also some other things like technology

to make your summer go in a more automated way.

So you don't have to put as much brain effort into what you need to do next and how to get things done.

So we're just going to talk about some of those little hacks.

And a lot of those things, especially with technology, are things like having a smart home or having pieces of a smart home

or having certain appliances and that kind of thing to make your life easier. And it just so happens

that Amazon Prime Day is coming up on June 21st and 22nd. And it's a fabulous time to get some of

these things that are going to make your life easier for really,

really great prices. So we are going to talk about all of that together on this episode about

automating your life this summer and getting prepared to make the most of Amazon Prime Day.

But first, I want to tell you about some stuff that we have going on in Patreon right now.

If you are not familiar with Patreon, it's basically the paid membership part of Live Well

Anyway. Our Patreon is actually called Live Well Together because we have such an amazing community

of ladies who come together and get to really participate in friendship and support and encouragement of each other,

especially as we keep trying to hone in our lives and our planning and all of the stuff about

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