Hello and welcome to Best Laid Plans.

This is Sarah Hart Unger and this is episode number 31, part of season two as we are still in the first part of 2021.

And I have a great guest episode for you today. The first thing I was just going to mention before we get started with the interview is that

if you have not started looking at a few choice planner icons, I don't know, planner people on Instagram and you enjoy

Instagram, then it might be something you want to look into. There are definitely some big names

out there and some I've featured on this podcast already, like Imani. She goes by the Imani Michelle, as I mentioned. She does a lot of beautiful

cloth and paper products. I love the work of Jen plans. She uses a lot of Aaron Condren and

Moxie Life and she always writes in blue. And I have followed for a long time, plan with Lakin. And you will hear

all about kind of the evolution of her kind of planning career. I feel like her signature is very

bold colors, gorgeous handwriting, and a focus on just positivity and goal setting. And she's

very real as well. I have seen her post some sort of

casual, I think it's like lattes with Lakin, where she'll just kind of bear all. And I do admire

that she is very open and just sort of willing to help others. And I love that. So I'm very excited to

feature her. Obviously, we have a whole

array of different kinds of guests on this show. But every once in a while, I do want to feature

these big voices from the planning community. And that's why we have Lakin on here today. So without

further rambling from me, here comes the interview. I am so excited to welcome

Lakin from Planned with Lakin onto this podcast today. I have been following Lakin for quite some time,

and she is a leader and a trailblazer in the online planning community, and I am just excited to

hear what she has to say

about lots of fun things.

So Lakin, why don't you go ahead and introduce yourself?

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