Hey there, welcome to Going Scared. I'm Jessica Oniger, founder of the World Changing

Brand New Day Collection, and I'm so glad to have you here for today's conversation.

Our Going Scared community gathers here every week for direct and honest conversations

that help you live a life of courage by leaving comfort and going scared.

This is our third episode in our new series, Habits for Highly-Hesitant Habit Keepers.

Did you know that out of the 40% of Americans that make New Year's resolutions only 9% actually

end up keeping them? I know that I can be a part of that 91% of people that's like

what? New Year's resolutions. So I wanted to host a series specifically about how we start

stop but really keep Habits for some of those hesitant habits that we have in our lives.

Y'all, we kicked off the series with my favorite habit researcher, Gretchen Rubin, and you all

have made that the top listened to podcasts in our entire history of the Going Scared podcast.

So this topic has your attention. That is why I would love for you to continue sharing it and

just join us on this journey. In our last episode, we talked about meal planning with

Polly Irtson of the Modern Proper. I learned three amazing tips from her when I did a Instagram

live cooking class at her house. Did you know that you can buy the rind from Parmesan,

so it's a lot more affordable the rind and a lot of grocery stores just sell the rind and you

can just throw it into a pot of soup at the end and it flavors the entire soup. Did you know you can

buy garlic that is already peeled and you just buy it and then you can mince it because I hate

peeling garlic. These are just a few of the discoveries that I learned while interviewing and talking

to Holly. So you definitely want to check out that episode. And today we're talking about

friendship. It's been such a challenging environment the last couple of years, depending on how

different friends responded or reacted to the pandemic, political conversations. I know that

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