We’re Our Best Selves the First Week of January

The World's First Podcast with Erin & Sara Foster

Dear Media | Wishbone Production

Business, Society & Culture, Aging, Leisure, Comedy, Female Founders, Health & Fitness, Advice, Life Advice, Infertility, Nutrition, 750325

4.5 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 92 minutes

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This week, Erin and Sara discuss how to start the new year as their best selves. They are joined by author Cecily Mak to explore the different habits we use to escape our lives and why they act as dimmers, how we can go into this new year with more intentionality, and how to live our best lives.

Executive Producers: Erin Foster, Sara Foster, and Allison Bresnick

Associate Producers: Montana McBirney and Olivia Geffner

Audio Engineer: Josh Windisch

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:03.3	This episode was produced by Wishphone Production.
0:06.0	Hi, I'm Otto.
0:08.1	Welcome to Ellen Sarah's podcast.
0:16.3	Okay, guys, this week we are joined by Cecily Mack.
0:20.1	I love her. She is the author of Undimmed,
0:24.8	The Eight Awareness for Freedom from Unwanted Habits and the Founder of the Clear Life Community.
0:32.7	Okay, you guys, we talk about all the different habits that we use to escape our lives and why they act as
0:40.6	dimmers. We talk about how we can go into this new year with more intentionality, feel our
0:46.7	feelings, and so much more. I mean, if you guys are looking to be inspired to scroll less, the doom scroll less, and connect to habits that make you
1:00.2	actually feel good because I don't feel good about myself when I'm doom scrolling and doing
1:05.2	things that are not feeding the health of my mind or of my connections or whatever. I don't actually feel good
1:12.1	about myself doing that. But it's hard to break the cycle. She, this episode, I really think
1:18.4	you're going to listen to this episode and you're going to walk away and you're like,
1:21.2	so inspired to just start making little changes in your life, which is really all you can do.
1:26.6	So I love this conversation a lot.
1:30.3	I don't say that about all our conversations. I like most of our conversations. I love some of
1:34.8	them. I loved this one. So happy New Year. Let's all hold each other accountable. Let's all do
1:40.8	better. Let's all be better. Let's judge less. Let's... Okay. We'll just listen to that episode.
1:52.5	Okay, Cecily, where are you right now?
1:55.2	I'm in my office in Mill Valley, California, just north of San Francisco.
2:00.2	Oh, gosh. Do you know this area? Well, my husband just north of San Francisco. Oh, gosh.
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