Welcome to Live Well Anyway.

I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa.

On this podcast, we journey together in learning how to feel healthy, look good, and plan lives we actually like in the midst of all the everyday chaos.

I'm so glad you're here.

Today's episode is a very fun one with the one and only Ruth Cho

Simons. Oh my goodness, if you have looked at any of her books in the past or any of her other

artwork that she does, it's absolutely gorgeous. And this new book that she just released,

Pilgrim, is no different. I was so excited.

You are going to hear in this episode, like, why I was attracted to talking to her about this book

and all of those things. It's absolutely beautiful. Have I mentioned that? You guys are really

going to like it because that artwork really takes you into a deeper place. We talk about all of it in the episode. It's so much fun.

So I think you're really going to enjoy this chat that we have today. But before we get there,

you guys, I have a fun, a fun little announcement. So some things have been changing behind the scenes

a little bit. We've been refining the direction of the Live Well Anyway platform and all

of that kind of thing. And I have actually got something brand new going on on Instagram. So,

I actually have a completely new space on Instagram for you to follow me if you are interested

in wellness and beauty content. This has been

something I've been wanting to bring to the platform for a long time and I kind of have done in

fits and spurts, but I've always felt like, oh, I don't want to show up with too much of it

because I don't want to annoy people who didn't come to my main Instagram handle for that kind of content, people who

followed me because of my divorce or, you know, whatever it was. I just felt awkward talking

about the things that I really love talking about, which are largely wellness and beauty

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