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 today, Katie Deckett and I are going first because we're giving a little update

on how things have changed since we did our New Year's episode just a couple of weeks ago.

Both of us have added words of the year, which neither of us have ever done before.

We've always just had one word, but both of us felt compelled to add a second word this year.

And we're talking about how those words are going and some unexpected things that have come up in our year so

far that we think will probably shape the rest of the year and just kind of what we are learning

right now and enjoying about the year and working on. I think it was a really fun, insightful episode

to record with Katie. Both of us did a lot of good verbal processing,

and we hope you guys really enjoy it. I think you are going to love the story of what she did

this past weekend for her dad's birthday. I wish I was there. I wish I could have got a ticket

because it just sounded amazing and like such good food and Katie does such a good

job of explaining all of it.

It was just a really fun conversation and I hope that you guys really enjoy hearing how our

year is shaping up so far.

Also, ladies, I have actually started blogging again.

I know. Can you believe it? I'm showing up this year. I'm doing the stuff. And so I post all of those, obviously, on the website at mackenziecopha.com. But if you want a little summation every week of what's going on on the platform, the things that I'm putting out there, new stuff, in fact, I just found sales to a whole bunch of books that I just recommended on the blog

last week.

And so I'm posting the sales in my newsletter.

Anything that I find that's like, oh, you guys might want to hear about this.

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