You're listening to The Lively Show, episode 25.

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.

Thank you so much for listening as always welcome to the lively show.

In today's episode we're speaking with Jessica Merchant of how SweetEats.com.

Jessica's a very popular food blogger who actually I became familiar with because of you the listeners.

On Twitter, a few people started asking me to interview her

and other people chimed in on the Twitter feed,

so I knew this was obviously someone I had to have on the show,

and I'm so glad that I did.

Jessica is a riot.

In this episode, we're talking with Jessica

about many different things, including how she

transitioned from her day job to her blog full-time, using an income method and to this day still

using that income method that many bloggers we've had on the show don't do anymore.

We also talk about her advice for those who are struggling to balance a day job and their

blogger, their business on the side and we have a really fun

conversation about chicklet authors that were reading and enjoying and also different

television shows that Jessica is loving.

So this is a kind of a fun and lighter episode.

In addition, we're also going to talk about her pregnancy

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