Welcome back to the podcast. This is Michelle, the host of this episode. It always sounds weird

saying that because I just always think it's the same people listening every week, but

I always forget there might be new people. So hello, my name is Michelle. We have a really

fun episode today that I am so pumped for. We're going to be talking about creating your ideal

routine for your daily life in terms of morning routine and a night routine and how to actually

keep up with it. Why I think that routines are important. I am a huge routine person, but I will

specifically say that I have been binge watching and listening to Caitlin Nolan. If you guys don't know

her, I'll have her in the show notes, but she does a lot of really like health and wellness-minded

vlogs and content on her podcast too. And I have been loving her videos in the way that she talks

about having a routine, having healthy habits. And so it really inspired me to share my take on

this as well. And even kind of listening to last week's episode, talking about unpopular opinions

and, you know, different feedback on the that girl trend, I just thought it would be fun to kind

of share my personal outlook on healthy habits and having a healthy routine. Why I think it's

important, but why I think it's also important to have balance. And so that is today's episode. We're

going to start off by just doing a little intro. And I have quite a bit of things that I want to

talk about in this intro. So this is going to be a bit more of a chatty episode. And it might end

up being a bit of a shorter episode too, just because we are headed to Austin, which I'm really pumped

for. But I just want to say this in the beginning that it seems really insignificant and kind of

silly to be talking about this stuff when you read the news right now about what's going on in

Ukraine between Ukraine and Russia. And I just want to say that this is something that's very heavy

on my heart right now and something that I am praying for and specifically just praying for all

the innocent people there. It is heartbreaking to see the stuff that we're seeing right now over

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