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Dec 2019
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Ep. 226 All of the Awesome of 2019!

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Grab a glass of champagne and a plateful of party food, Awesomes! It’s time for our annual year-end look back on the year. This year brought a lot of awesome to our lives, and we are excited to share it with you! Tune in to hear Meg, Kelly, and Rebekah reflect back on favorites from the year, and do some looking forward to the year ahead!

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SHOW NOTES:

Awesomes of the Year:

Kelly: The Big One (featured on Sorta Awesome Ep 193) AND Joia Cocktails

Rebekah: Sorta Awesome Ep 192 - Heartbreak, doubt, and finding faith through the storms

Kelly's Food of the Year:

Blood orange chocolate chip ricotta OR lemon ricotta (Trader Joe's)

Chocolate peanut butter mocchi (Trader Joe's)

Super Sour Scandinavian Swimmers (Trader Joe's)

Chocolate peppermint loaf (Trader Joe's)

candles at Trader Joe's

chili lime cashews (Aldi)

bite-sized spicy salami (Aldi)

street taco meal kit (Costco)

Kelly's Transformative Reads:

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle, Emily and Amelia Nagoski

Living a chronic life in a fix-it-now world by Kate Bowler

What are we teaching boys when we discourage them from reading books about girls?

Rebekah’s Favorites of the Year:

The Big One

Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes

The Beautiful World of Jeffree Star by Shane Dawson (If you decide to watch the series, it may be helpful to watch the first series Shane did with Jeffree for some context. You can find the first video in that series here)

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