Welcome to Live Well Anyway. 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.

And you guys, today I'm going first about New Year's because it is December 1st,

and that can only mean one thing.

And it's not going to be the thing that you think that I'm going to say it is New Year's. It is not Christmas. It is New Year's. I don't know. For me this year, it probably hits a little bit differently because I don't have my kids for a lot of the Christmas season. In fact, I have them this weekend and then I don't have them again for a weekend until after Christmas.

So that does have a little bit of a want-want-wifact to the season.

Not going to lie.

But even in years where I do have my kids, I always look forward to New Year's.

It is my absolute favorite holiday and we are going to get into all of that

in a second. But first, I just want to say that yes, it is the Christmas season and I know that a lot

of you are doing a lot of shopping right now. Can I get an amen? I mean, it's just kind of what we got to do

this time of year.

And I just want to say, and I made this little announcement over on Instagram as well,

that I so appreciate when you shop through my affiliate links or you support our sponsors.

It may not feel like very much to you, but from this side of things, it makes a world

of difference. And you also might not realize that when you shop through affiliate links,

even if you are buying from bigger stores, you are supporting small businesses because those of

us out there who are putting out the affiliate links we own small

businesses and one of the ways that we help make our income and provide for our families is through

affiliate sales and so while I try to really not be salesy I try to only talk about things that I

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