Welcome to Live Well, I'm your host, McKenzie Kappa, 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.

And today, you guys, this episode, I feel very exposed because I'm having on my friend and

writing coach, and we're exposing the fact that I have

been working on a book. Now, don't get excited. It's not been picked up or anything. It's very much

in the early stages. But I am working on writing it. And that all comes out in today's episode.

I feel incredibly naked before you to admit

that this is a project that I have been working on. But I have had some of you be interested

in the past. And so I have been working on a both heartfelt and humorous memoir of sorts of the

last few years. And so it basically picks up from the day that I

fled my marriage and then talks about all the crazy experiences and everything that we have

been through since then. And I am actually going to be reading one of the chapters on today's episode at the end after I've

interviewed Joy Agrich Reed, who by the way, I should mention her name as Joy Agridtree on the

episode today of Punchline Agency, which is my new speaking agency if you want to hire me, contact

punchline. But anyway,

I am very excited to be having her on. So after I chat with her, I'm actually reading a chapter

all about my dating experiences over the last few years. So that is after today's interview. And then I'm also actually reading a chapter from

her new book that is based on the writing cohort that I was in with her back in March. It is called

Getting to the Publishing Punchline. We talk about it in this episode. It's this amazing guide

that helps you to actually write a book

proposal. And it is so down to earth. It is so specific. It really gets you where you need to go

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