You're listening to The Lively Show, episode 172.

Welcome to the Lively Show.

I'm your host Jess Lively, and this blog cast is designed to

uplift, inspire, and add a little extra intention to your everyday.

Welcome to the show guys.

Thank you so much as always for listening.

Today's episode is sponsored by encircled. C. A.

encircled is a clothing company that takes a mindful and slow approach to fashion

by meshing function with style and quality over quantity.

At the end of the show I'll be speaking with founder Christy Summer about the company.

As far as where I am in the world right now, this week, here in Chicago love Chicago for those who may be

newer to the show you may or may not know that I lived in Chicago for seven years

basically ever since graduating college all the way through most of my 20s.

I think I moved when I turned 30 to Austin, Texas.

So I love me some Chicago.

When I moved there, I never thought I would leave. I thought I was

there to stay forever but after seven Chicago winters and after the

Shiberia winter in particularly I was ready for a change of pace and that led me to Austin, Texas in warmer climates.

I am so excited to be back and spending time with friends and my birthday is this Saturday.

So I'll be kind of having a birthday that I didn't expect to be having in Chicago,

but so excited to spend that day with some great friends I've known for so many years.

So when it comes to today's episode, of course, we have our Q&A episode. I love doing these for you guys so much and I hope you're enjoying them as well. We have a lot of questions. I'm just going to dive right in. So first up we have Health Coach Alex who said

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