Welcome to Live Well Anyway. I'm your host, McKenzie Kappa. On this podcast, I help you learn how to feel healthy, look good, and plan a life you actually like in the midst of all the everyday chaos. I'm so glad you're here. In today's episode is a little bit different. I'm going to sit down just kind of like one-on-one

with you guys first and talk about some updates in my life, hopefully some encouragement to you guys too

for when you face those seasons when something just needs to shift or you need to take on new things

or you need to rethink things. And so we are going to kind of talk about

all of that today and what I am doing in my life currently making some big changes, especially

as we are headed into this school year. And then to kind of cap that off, I sat down with each of my

daughters. So Emerson is 11 and Eliana is 8. And we talked about what they're looking forward

to in the school year, how we are setting goals for them, how we are thinking about routines with them,

the way I've communicated those things to them, talking about, you know, some middle school

things with my 11 year old. She's headed into sixth grade this year. So it's a whole different world.

Our city just recently changed over to putting sixth grade into the middle schools. So she is

having a middle school experience this year. And we talked about a lot of those different things.

And I hope you hearing the conversations I have with my girls will maybe help you to be inspired about

how you can have conversations with your kids about study skills and planners and, you know,

all of those kinds of things that I absolutely love. And for those of you who are like, I don't

even know how to get them started with it or how do I talk with them about their goals or whatever.

Well, here's just an example of one of the ways that I do it with my kids.

And you get to hear those conversations.

So before we get into all of the goods of this episode, though,

I have something I've been teasing out for a little while that I am very excited about.

That is going to be coming out in about two weeks. On August 23rd, I am doing a

podcasting masterclass. Okay, this is going to be a three-hour one-day event where I am going

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