Your Celebration Season On Ramp with Jen Ludwig EP 275

Best Laid Plans

Sarah Hart-Unger

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Jen Ludwig loves holiday planning -specifically, she loves planning around her traditions of Christmas. However, this episode is for you no matter what you love to celebrate at the end of the year! In today's episode, Jen shares her tips for creating a celebratory season that is filled with fun and not overwhelm. She also has some fantastic gift tips + hacks!Find Jen's book, Embracing Advent: Rediscovering Christmas in the Chaos (A Daily Devotional) on amazon, and more from jen at @jenludwigwrites on IG or substack. Sponsor Notes: IXL: Make an impact on your child’s learning, get IXL now. Best Laid Plans listeners can get an exclusive 20% off IXL membership when they sign up today at ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.ixl.com/plans⁠⁠⁠⁠ Green Chef: Make this fall your healthiest yet with Green Chef. Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠greenchef.com/50bestlaid ⁠⁠⁠⁠and use code 50BESTLAID to get fifty percent off your first month, then twenty percent off for two months with free shipping. Mint Mobile: Ready to save on your wireless? Make the switch at ⁠⁠⁠⁠mintmobile.com/BLP⁠⁠⁠⁠. PrepDish: Meal plans ready to go, in your inbox each week. You can try 2 weeks free at ⁠⁠⁠⁠prepdish.com/plans⁠⁠⁠⁠! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to best laid plans.
0:11.0	This is your host, Sarah Hart Unger, and this is a podcast where we talk all things planning
0:15.4	and planning adjacent.
0:17.1	Today, I have a treat for you because it is time to start thinking a little bit about
0:22.6	reflection season and celebration season. And that includes planning the holidays.
0:28.0	So this episode is for you. You know, it's November already ready to blast some holiday tunes.
0:33.8	You've got Mariah Carey going already. You're thinking about what movies you want to watch.
0:38.3	And yes, we know that most of those celebrations aren't going to take place for a little while.
0:42.3	And of course, I want to acknowledge that everyone has different celebrations. You may be
0:47.1	celebrating Christmas. You may be celebrating Hanukkah. You may be celebrating any number of things.
0:52.8	And so no matter what your traditions are, this can be
0:55.5	a celebratory month for you. And I don't want this discussion to be specific to anyone's traditions.
1:00.6	In fact, we talk all about Christmas and that isn't even a holiday I celebrate in the religious
1:05.1	sense, although I do enjoy a lot of kind of traditional holiday trappings and events and like watching elf and things like
1:13.1	that. Anyway, so this conversation is going to be a fun treat as I chat with Jen Ludwig,
1:17.9	who is an expert on planning Christmas and all things holiday. And she talks about some of her
1:23.7	favorite ways to ensure that she really gets to experience things within the month of
1:28.7	December that bring her joy and that are important to her without experiencing the undue
1:33.5	stress of trying to cram in too many things. And I think really the takeaway here is that we want
1:38.6	to prepare and leave enough space so that when we're having these enjoyable things, they don't
1:43.7	feel like chores, they don't feel like burdens.
1:45.7	They mostly feel just like things we are excited to participate in
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