Welcome to Live Well Anyway. I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa. If you're new here, this is a podcast geared towards women who want to feel healthy, look good, and stay organized. We're real women doing our best to live well anyway in the midst of life's chaos. I'm so glad you're here. And this week, I am back with my good

friend Katie Deckett, and we are talking about a few different things. First of all, we dive into a lot of

the college prep that Katie has been doing as her oldest son is getting ready to head off to college

next year. And they have been in the depths of going through the whole process with scholarships and figuring out the

financial situation and deciding on a school and going and visiting the schools. And I know

that this may be a little bit far ahead of where some of you are at in your mothering journey.

However, I would still suggest that you listen because I know I have gained so much from listening

to mothers who are a few

steps ahead of me in this process and then when I actually get to those stages I feel so much

better prepared having listened to them as they were going through the exact same things that I am then

going through later on. I just think it's a really good idea. So I'm going to suggest that you

stick around and listen to this episode where we talk a lot

about the college journey that they have been on. But also, Katie is gearing up for knee surgery

next week. And we go in depth in this episode all about what she's been doing to prep for surgery,

how she's been getting her body ready, her family ready, all those different kinds of

things, working through those logistics, things that have really helped with inflammation

and all kinds of things.

So we really deep dive into that as well.

But before we get there for just a second, I want to say a huge thank you to those of you

who've been reaching out to me on Instagram.

I say this all the time.

I love hearing from you guys. I love hearing your suggestions, things that you would like to see

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