Welcome to Live Well, I'm your host, Mackenzie 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.

You guys, I'm so excited for this solo show today where we are going to be talking all about

reading. Because believe it or not, we are in the home stretch of 2021 and i don't know

about you but my reading life has taken a little bit of a hit this year and so we are going to

talk about what we can do to kind of re-get on the reading bandwagon and some little hacks and tips and tricks and definitely a lot of book

ideas to get us inspired to be reading again and just help us to make that a part of our life

because I know that when I can kind of pull myself out of that dark and slumpy place and start

actively using my brain again.

I always start to feel a little bit better.

I start to feel a little bit more like myself.

I start to feel a whole lot smarter because I'm reading again.

And so we are going to talk all about that in today's episode.

But before we get there, I want to talk about Patreon. You guys, it's such a cozy little

place on the internet where me and all you ladies who really want to live well anyway, who

have it just as not together as I do, but are really wanting to make the most of your lives, even when things are hard.

And sometimes we just struggle together.

Sometimes it is just a matter of getting through the hard stuff together.

But we also inspire and encourage each other to take advantage of whatever we can in life to be living well anyway.

One of the ways that we are doing that this month

is with our October challenge. Don't freak out. It's not super hard because I don't think any

of us can really handle super hard right now. But what the patrons are doing is we are reading

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