Welcome to Live Well Anyway. I'm your host, McKenzie Kappa, and on this podcast, we focus on a lot of life's logistics like planning and wellness, along with some fun things like skincare and reading, and overall we just throw in a

whole lot of life. Around here, we know that life is messy, but we're just doing our best to

learn how to live well anyway. So join me on this journey as we figured out together. And just to get

us started, I'll go first. And today I am going first, getting ready for back to school,

you guys. It is right around the

corner. I can't believe how long our Target and Walmart has had things already in the stores

trying to get on top of things. It feels a little shameful, really. Like, hey, where did the swimsuits

go? Like, why did they stop being in the stores in like January and you already put out all the

back to school stuff? I digress. It is what it is. And we do need to get on top of things. There's no

sense in getting bulldozed by the school year when we can just put some really simple things

into place to be a little bit more on top of everything and not feel as overwhelmed when

all the craziness of the school year hits. So today I am going to talk about what I believe

are some of the top three things that you can do to get yourself ready right now for

back to school. But before we get there, I want to talk a little bit about our cohorts.

You guys, you may have heard me talk in the past couple of months about the live well planned

cohorts. So basically what these are are small groups of ladies that I walk through a course

that I created that is all about planning.

Now, we have two different types of cohorts.

We have like the holistic overall, life overhaul kind of cohort where I take ladies who are

just overwhelmed by kind of everything in general.

They have a lot of different plates spinning and they're needing to just

distill things down, figure out their priorities because sometimes when you're juggling so much,

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