Welcome to Live Well Anyway. I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa, and on this podcast, we focus on wellness, beauty, style, planning, and life. Because 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 ladies, if you follow me on Instagram, then you know that I've really been going first this week.

I can't believe that I have been showing

everyone the before pictures in my house right now because it's been a long summer and there's been

a lot of stress, especially these last couple of weeks. And for me me like the first thing out the window when

I am under a ton of stress is like keeping up with the house so it has gotten a little bit

out of control and a little bit overwhelming and I knew I was needing to like batten down

the hatches readjust get everything reorgan, and get on top of it,

especially because our school year starts in just over two weeks.

And so I wanted to make sure that I was getting on top of that.

And of course, I asked all of you on Instagram if you were interested in seeing my before

photos and you guys were so rude and you

said yes I don't know why I thought maybe you'd be like oh no don't worry about it oh no

everybody wanted to see just how atrocious the mess was and so I put myself out there

which was very hard for me to do and I went ahead and I have been showing our before photos and then all of the organizing

that we have been doing to get our house all ready and together.

And so we are going to be talking about that on today's episode.

And you can just know that I'm not coming at this from a place of mastery. I am coming

at this from being in the trenches with you, understanding how hard it is to keep on top of everything

when kids are home all the time and when life gets extra hard. And let's face it, we've all been under a ton of stress

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