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Hi, friends, welcome to another episode of That Sounds Fun.

The Seasons.

I'm your host, Annie F Downs.

I am so happy to be here with you today.

If you're in the U.S., happy Labor Day.

I hope you're getting time with your friends outside, getting lost somewhere, playing around, whatever you get to do today.

I hope you're enjoying it, honored to be walking alongside you on your Monday. I need you to know that in my 11 years of podcasting and a thousand episodes, my sister has never been as major a fan girl of anyone as she is, the guest I've had on today. So you are in

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Today on the show, I get to talk with my new friend Kate Strickler, also known as Nap Time Kitchen.

She is a delight. We're going to take a look behind the curtain of launching a book for the first

time. We recorded on her book launch day last week. Her first book

just came out called I Just Wish I Had a Bigger Kitchen. We're going to talk about why we struggle

with what we don't have and how to learn to love the life that we do have. And you're going to

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