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, I'm going

first trying to be aggressively happy with the one and only Joy Clarkson. Now, I have had her mom

on the show numerous times. I have had her sister on the show.

I was so excited to be able to have Joy on the show today to talk about her latest book,

which is truly wonderful. It is so well written. Just, I mean, just right out of the gate.

Just the pros of it is so good because, hi, she's a doctor.

But it's also such great thought process and wisdom about finding joy and happiness in our

lives and not apologizing for liking the things that we like and being ourselves.

I found this book so inspirational.

I can't wait to read it again.

Katie Duckett, who you guys know well, she has read this book already like three or four times

because it's just that good.

It is one of those books that will stay right next to my my bed on my bed stand because

I really truly loved it. I knew as soon as I got my fingers into it, it was like, oh yeah,

I've got to have joy on the show because we all need a little bit more happiness. We all

need to learn how to be more aggressively happy in these times, right? I feel like this book

encapsulates so much of what we

talk about in living well anyway, is finding the happy even when life can be honestly very hard.

And she's got so much wisdom to spill forth. So I hope that you guys really enjoy this episode.

But before we get there there have you gone over and

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