Welcome to Live Well Anyway. I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa.

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 today, I'm so excited for this episode. It was such a

fun discussion with Ashley Gadd from Coffee and Crumbs. We talk about her new book, of course,

called Create Anyway, which is all about creating in the margins of motherhood. But we also do this

deep dive into what it's been like to be a creator on the internet for about the last

decade or so. All the things that have changed, how we have had to evolve the ways that we show up

online. And I just had so much fun diving into this with her and talking about all the different

iterations that our businesses and websites and online presences have gone through and what we've

learned and how we've learned

and how we're continuing to change things. It was just really fun to get in the nitty-gritty

with someone else who is familiar with that lifestyle and go into all of the details about it.

So I hope you are really going to enjoy this episode with Ashley Gadd. But since this episode

is all about creativity, I wanted to mention to you guys

a resource that I have been utilizing lately that you just might want to try out as well.

You've heard me mention it before, but it is Skillshare. I love Skillshare because I'm always

liking to like dabble in different kinds of like crafty things or maybe I want to take a class on

productivity or how to take better photographs or you know how to make a different crochet blanket

than the same one I've been making for the past 20 years you know they have got thousands of different

classes one of them that I'm actually taking right now is called kickstart Your Creativity. And for 20 days, you do a different drawing in Procreate on your iPad. I have really been wanting to learn more about Procreate. And this class is so good. It's these little bite-sized pieces that you do every day. I've made like a cute little orange with a face, which is not maybe something

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