You are listening to The Lively Show, episode number two.

Welcome to the Lively Show.

I'm your host, Jess Lively, and this blogcast

is designed to uplift, inspire, and add a little extra intention

to your everyday. Welcome to the second episode of The Lively Show.

Thank you guys so much for all of your awesome support last week. I was

being so grateful about the positive reaction you guys gave to the

podcast. It's really awesome and I'm so excited to have a new episode for you

today. I also want to let you know that we're now

on iTunes. So if you want to have this recording sent directly to your iTunes or to

your iPhone in the future, you're welcome to sign up for that now we actually now have a link on

just lively.com so that you can sign up for that and have it sent directly to your

phones you don't have to go anywhere to get those podcasts wherever you might be

I appear that a lot of people are listening to the

podcast on their commutes, on the train, in their cars, while they're doing laundry,

while they're getting ready for brunch even. So I hope you find a way to incorporate these weekly

podcasts into your routine going forward. Today we are talking with Jess

Mernan. She's a Chicago-based blogger with a site called One Part Plant.com and she also helps people around

the country of really the world.

She's an online-based consultant really helping people eat a plant-based diet. Now this episode is not

about saying that everyone needs to be plant-based by any means. That's not the

intention for the show, but I find her story so compelling. I've been so honored to become her friend over the last

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