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HELLO DECEMBER! A brand new month means a brand new intentional to-do list full of all the things your heart needs to do for a purposeful and intentional life lived this December.

Sharing the 9 things to do this December to keep your heart and soul inspired for the holiday season.

This list is equal parts holiday and productive focusing in on the NINE things to do to get yourself ready for the end of the year and ready for the start of a new one come new year!

This is an episode you are not going to want to miss!

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The Real Reason to Shop Small Business This Holiday Season - From Black Friday, to small business Saturday, through Cyber Monday - there is so much pressure to buy, buy, and buy this time of the year. While, I do love a good deal, something I am very passionate about is supporting small businesses.

I firmly believe that shopping small business should happen ALL YEAR LONG, not just on Small Business Saturday.

I am sharing FIVE reasons why you should SHOP SMALL BUSINESS this holiday season, plus sharing my favorite small businesses on today's episode.

Notable Mentions:

Gracefulandfree's Small Business Holiday Gift Guide

FAVORITE SMALL BUSINESSES TO SHOP:

Stamped and Finch - handmade, customized & stamped personal jewelry

Rachel Allene - hand-lettered goods & products (your new favorite coffee mug & glasses)

Soft Serenity Candle Company - heavenly candles that are toxin-free and smell amazing, use code GRACEFULANDFREE to save you 15% off your purchase

Copper and Quinn - gorgeous earrings at a great price point

Steady and Flight - body & home essential oil products

Marigold Lettering Co - beautiful hand lettered products, coffee shops, stationary, and more!

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xo. Haley

Happy Thanksgiving Friends! Truly wishing you and your family the BEST day!

Thanks so much for tuning into the Best Day Podcast.

I truly hope your day is full of all the love, joy, and thanksgiving!

Have the BEST day!

xo. Haley

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Want to cultivate a heart of gratitude? Looking for a way to feel more thankful this season of all things Thanksgiving?

Sharing the SIMPLE and EASY way to cultivate a heart of gratitude this month and beyond.

Easy words of encouragement to help you live a more thankful life this holiday season!

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Do you ever feel like you are the furtherest thing from having it all together? You know the feeling where everything is just a scramble and you are feeling further and further behind?

If you find yourself feeling hard emotions, walking through a season that seems heavy, or just don't quite seem like yourself, sharing with you a pep talk that you didn't even know you needed.

An encouraging pep talk on life for the human who feels like they are struggling to keep all the things together!

You got this friend! Hang in there. Cheering you on every step of the way!

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Do you ever wonder if it is possible to be happier? To find the secret to living each and every day out as truly the best day? Well friends, the solution is a lot easier than you think and on today's episode of the Best Day Podcast, host Haley has an incredibly honest and encouraging conversation with digital marketing expert, Ashley Brock.

Ashley is a wife, mom of a toddler, and full-time digital marketer. Ashley has managed over $200 million dollars in ad spend for her clients from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies in both b2b and b2c verticals.

She's also a digital marketing educator. For the last 4 years, she has served as a lead instructor at the world's top online education platform for the most in-demand skills in the industry, General Assembly. She's taught thousands of students across the globe the foundations of digital marketing. She's recently created and launched her own course, called "How to Land a Job in Digital Marketing", where she specializes in helping people of all experience levels and age ranges land a job in digital marketing so they can have a job they love that offers the flexibility they crave.

She loves playing sports (she actually met her husband playing basketball in college!), she's a UGA Alum and die-hard dawg fan, values her morning routine and gratitude practice, and loves to travel.

Check out Ashley's course here on How to Land a Job In Digital Marketing and catch her FREE workshop HERE!

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Remember back in January of 2022 when you sat down to reflect, goal plan, and dream about the year ahead? What were the dreams you envisioned for yourself? What goals did you have that you hoped to accomplish?

As a big dreamer and believer of big and great things, I know exactly what it is like to set out incredibly ambitious goals and expectations for yourself for the new year. And I know exactly what it feels like to feel like you have fallen short.

But no need to worry friends! With only EIGHT weeks left in 2022, it is STILL possible to show up for yourself and accomplish the VERY GOAL you hoped to accomplish back at the start of the year.

On today's episode of the Best Day Podcast I am sharing with you the THREE STEPS you need to be able to accomplish your goals and finish the 2022 year off strong.

If you are looking to accomplish your goals by the end of the year then this episode is for you. Plus, I am sharing three reminders to encourage you in the process of working towards your goals and reaching your ambitious dreams!

You can absolutely do this friend! Believing in you and cheering you on, every single step of the way!

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Your November Intentional To-do List - How to Live a More Intentional Life This Month

Welcome to November, the month where things finally feel real. The holidays seem to be very near, a new semester seems to be wrapping up ever so quickly and we will blink and we will be ringing in the new year and toasting to 2023. This is why it is so important to make sure we spend the month of November with a heart reset so we can have what it takes to end the year in style. So we can feel encouraged and rested and hopeful as we close out 22 and move ahead into 23. I have some really FUN episodes planned for the month of November and I cannot wait to share them with you! We will definitely be focused on a theme over the course of the next few weeks on the Best Day Podcast and that theme is gratitude. And it is my intention with this November intentional to-do list that your heart would feel encouraged to spend this month doing things that are full of purpose and intention. To be present, to be honest, and to be incredibly real.

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November Intentional To-do List Show Notes

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Do you ever think to yourself, man if I could only go back and experience certain moments of life as a kid all over again. To have that abundant childlike joy, to be able to dream without knowing fear, to laugh without a care, to love with no end. As we grow up we find ourselves losing that sense of magic, that care for joy, and sheer innocence of living life to the fullest. Instead, we focus on the worries, the logistics, the structure, all working to find a solution to the chaos. But what if we could go back, what if we could hit the factory reset button to our own self and get that feeling back. The childlike joy, the childlike belief, that childlike feeling of magic. I believe that feeling is possible and today that is what we are going to do. Sharing tips and tricks that you need in order to truly celebrate the small things and feel like a kid again! You looking for more joy in your life, well then let's feel encouraged in today's episode.

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Prioritize What Matters Most! How to Spend Quality Time and Intentionally Connect With Your Kids During The Week

On Part Two of this Intentional Living Series - focused on ways to cultivate and live a more intentional life, by prioritizing and focusing on the relationships that matter most - Haley shares ways to spend quality time with your kids during the week!

8 Simple Ways to Spend More Quality Time and Intentionally Connect with your kids throughout the week!

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