You're listening to The Lively Show, episode 65.

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 show guys.

Welcome to the show guys. Thank you so much for spending time with me today. As you may have seen, I did not actually create a podcast for Tuesday because I was that I have an amazing assistant, amazing grace to help me out now, but this week has really taught me that just getting an assistant alone is not enough.

There needs to be other major changes in my career in my life in order to make things manageable.

This last few weeks has been a really interesting experiment and a lot of lessons learned,

which is perfect for today's episode.

In this episode we're talking with Katie Richardson of Pudge.com, p u.g.com

Katie is an industrial designer and has an amazing line of kids products that help simplify parenthood. A few weeks ago,

Shanderson 22 tagged me on one of her Instagram photos that said stop the

glorification of Busy and she had mentioned that that might be a

great lively show topic which I completely agreed with and immediately asked Katie

to come on the show to talk more about this subject. As you can tell in my own

personal life this is

really perfect timing because I'm working on finding a way to not only make my

work day manageable but also to make it enjoyable again and to bring back the balance in my life as well as in my career

instead of just putting everything in my life to suit my career that's not the way I want to live

that's not actually aligned with my values overall and I need to make some shifts

So this conversation is part of that journey for me and hopefully it's helpful for anyone else out there too

Unlike a typical interview where I'm just

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