Hello and welcome to Best Laid Plans.

This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and this is the podcast where we talk all things

planning and planning adjacent.

I have a fun treat for you today.

I have a guest who is an expert in etiquette. Her name is Lizzie Post,

and she's actually the great, great granddaughter of famed etiquette expert, Emily Post. And Lizzie has done

a lot of work on how to translate kind of older lessons of etiquette into the modern era. And there's

actually a lot of places where

etiquette and planning intersect, or at least there are in my life. So this is going to be a

fun episode where Lizzie talks about how she does her planning, which tools she currently

enjoys using, which tools she's actually developing that relate to hosting others and

various etiquette related things.

And then I pepper her with questions that are sort of planning adjacent, but also involve

etiquette, such as how do you gracefully change plans with somebody?

Or how do you deal with the challenge of managing expectations around synchronous and asynchronous

communications? I hope these questions are interesting to you as well. I know I learned a lot

from Lizzie and here we go. I'm going to welcome her to the show. Well, I am so excited to welcome

Lizzie Post on the show. She is a name you might be familiar with. She'll explain why in a second and also a fellow

author and podcaster. Thank you so much for coming on, Lizzie. Thanks so much for having me here,

Sarah. I really appreciate it. As you mentioned, I work in, no, you didn't mention. I'm so sorry.

I work with the Emily Post Institute.

Emily was my great, great grandmother, and we have been America's go-to source for etiquette

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