Hello and welcome to Best Laid Plan. This is Sarah Hardunger, and this is a podcast where we talk all things planning and planning adjacent.

I am so excited to welcome Ashley Brown on today's show. I first

heard Ashley on the mom hour and immediately knew that I was fascinated with her because I believe

that routines are incredibly important and yet before Ashley, I never really heard anybody

talk about them and really focus on

them as something to pay a lot of attention to. They've been a part of other books, certainly like

Gretchen Rubin talks about routines, but I really like how Ashley just makes it the center of what

she's doing, because I think routines actually do deserve that much attention. They deserve their

own podcast. They deserve their own podcast.

They deserve their own products and they deserve time spent really honing and developing

and thinking about them.

Because if you really think about it, our life is made up of routines, whether we like it or not.

And some of those routines serve us and some of those routines totally don't.

And yet a lot of us don't spend a lot of time

thinking about them because they're kind of habit. So I think this conversation was fantastic

and you should all go check out Ashley's work. I think this is an area that all of us can

continue to devote attention to in our lives and it will pay off for all of us. So here is Ashley.

I am so excited to welcome Ashley Brown onto the podcast today. Ashley is an expert on building

routines and she's going to teach us all that she knows about this topic. And it's one that I'm

very passionate about. Ashley, I'm curious. How did you come to become? Well, first go ahead and

introduce yourself, tell everybody who you are, and then tell us how you became interested in routines.

Yes. So my name is Ashley Brown. And I am a mom of two. I'm also a wife and we reside in Baltimore, Maryland.

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