Hiiii! Happy Friday! How are you? I hope you’ve had a great week! We got back from our cruise and it was right back into the routine. Liv had a choir concert – it was beeeeautiful – P has soccer, we have NCL and a fall festival this weekend. Also, suddenly it’s cold here in Tucson and I’ve realized I have no clue how to dress for fall lol. We usually only have summer and winter around here, so it’s been a pleasant surprise.

For now, i’s time for the weekly Friday Faves roundup! This is where I share some of my favorite finds from the week and around the web. I always love hearing about your faves, too, so please shout out something you’re loving in the comments section below.

(Friendly reminder that affiliate links are included in Friday Faves! Thank you so much for supporting the blog)

10.16 Friday Faves

Fashion, beauty, random:

Scoping out some things for fall since the weather has magically cooled down!

Here’s what I have my eye on for a capsule-ish wardrobe:

These booties in espresso.

Love this alternative to a jean jacket.

This silk slip dress.

This silk blouse.

This cardigan.

This burgundy V neck.

This Farm Rio cardigan.

These effortless pants.

Still loving these Ruti jeans:

(Splurge-y but fit like a dream and true to size. I’m wearing a 26P)

This month’s Vivrelle pick!

(used an older pic since the one I took yesterday ended up bein

Sharing a roundup of the books I’ve read lately and whether they’re worth adding to your collection.

Hi friends! How are you? I hope you had an amazing weekend. We just got back from the best Disney cruise on the Treasure (full recap coming soon!) and I’m getting back into the swing of school, work, and life. It’s a real struggle not having twice-daily cleanings and food at our disposal at all times lol.

For today’s post, I wanted to share a roundup of the books I’ve read lately and whether they’re worth adding to your collection. I’ve read some great ones over the past month and am always looking for new additions to the TBR stack. If you’re reading anything you love right now, especially historical fiction or fluffy fiction with witty banter, please send your recommendations my way!

Books I’ve read lately

Dolly All the Time

I read this entire book on the cruise, and it was the perfect cupcake of a book. Not too heavy, just the perfect lil sweet bite.

The story follows Dolly, a single mom who works at her family’s fish market and ends up helping the richest man in town do some damage control by pretending to be his girlfriend. It’s very Cinderella meets Pretty Woman, and I.ate.it.up.

I’ve read a couple of books by Annabel Monaghan, and I highly recommend Nora Goes Off Script, too. If you’re looking for a bit of fluff in the absolute best way, read this one. 9/10

From Amazon:

If they start by pretending, can they end with something real?

Dolly Brick has never met a problem she couldn’t solve. Not when her mom left when she was twelve, and not at thirty-nine when she moves with her son back to Whitfield, Rhode Island, for the summer to keep her dad and brother from losing the family home.

So when she comes across Stewart Whitfield—annoyingly handsome scion of the Whitfield family—with a flat tire and at the wrong end of a very public, very humiliating breakup, it’s in her nature to help. But Stewart’s proposed arrangement ends up being more than either of them bargained for, because as public dinners and high-society benefits turn into sunset boat rides and kisses that hit her bloodstream like a ghost pepper, Dolly starts to feel something more than helpful. She’s never relied on anyone besides herself—can she really start now?

Countdown to Riches

The author of The Secret (an OG!) takes you through 21 days of practices designed to help you shift out of a scarcity mindset and create a more abundant relationship with money.

I’m a huge manifestation fan, and I’ve been working through the audio version of this book. I definitely think it’s worth a listen if you enjoy guided practices and meditations, especially the nighttime meditations. I’m not finished with it yet, but I’m really enjoying it so far. Rating so far: 8/10

From Amazon:

Financial struggle is caused by one thing—our thoughts. To have a rich life

Hiiii! Happy Friday! How are you? I hope you had a wonderful week. The Pilot was gone this week so it was just me and the crew, but now he’s home and we’re headed on vacation for fall break! I’ll share all of the details over on IG stories but we’re doing another Disney cruise with some friends and I.can’t.even.wait. I hope you have an amazing weekend, too!

(boo baskets for my favorite lil cuties! They both got Halloween pajamas, a Halloween glass tumbler, Roblox gift card and candy. P’s had NBA trading cards and some little toys and Liv’s had a lip gloss, candy corn nails, and some bracelets.)

For now, i’s time for the weekly Friday Faves roundup! This is where I share some of my favorite finds from the week and around the web. I always love hearing about your faves, too, so please shout out something you’re loving in the comments section below.

(Friendly reminder that affiliate links are included in Friday Faves! Thank you so much for supporting the blog)

10.2 Friday Faves

Fashion, beauty, random:

September bestsellers! It’s so wild to think that October is already here.

Here are the top things that I shared on the blog last month:

This perfect midi dress.

This jumpsuit on super sale (love it for hot yoga).

This AN hoodie. I packed it for our trip this weekend.

My go-to leggings.

These gorgeous metallic flats.

This exquisite Farm Rio dress.

One of my all-time favorite hair masks.

These jeans are perfection and an amazing price point.

This scoop tank – I have it in three colors.

Hi friends!

I’m finally back with a new podcast episode and apparently I had a lot to say.

This one is part honest life update, part behind-the-scenes business plot twist, and part “ok, what am I doing next?”

Listen to the episode:

Listen on Apple Podcasts

Listen on Spotify

After almost 18 years of building this business, the version that had worked for a very long time suddenly wasn’t working the same way anymore. Losing a major income stream I had built on someone else’s platform sent me into a full identity crisis and forced me to ask some uncomfortable questions.

What do you do when the thing you know how to do – and have done successfully for years – stops working?

Who are you when an old version of your business, career, health, or life no longer fits, but the next version isn’t completely clear yet?

In this episode, I’m sharing what has been happening behind the scenes, what this season has taught me, and why I’m going all in on helping women over 40 understand what’s happening in their bodies and feel like themselves again.

We chat about:

• The identity crisis that happened when something I had built for 18 years stopped working the way it used to
• What losing ShopMy forced me to face about building a business on platforms you don’t own
• Why I’m focusing more than ever on the things I do own: my expertise, website, email list, content, and relationships with all of you
• My own health journey—including the eye flares, rashes, joint pain, exhaustion, histamine issues, and positive autoimmune markers that completely changed the way I approach health
• Why treating every symptom like a separate problem kept me stuck
• The moment I realized that functional health wasn’t going to remain a side note in my business
• My new signature health coaching program, SPARK, which is officially launching October 14th
• Who SPARK is designed to help and why I created it specifically for the woman who is still getting everything done but knows it should not feel this hard to live in her body
• What I’ve learned about burnout, reinvention, and making decisions when you absolutely do not have the next 20 years mapped out
• Why you don’t need to know exactly where the new path leads—you just need to identify the next right step

I wish I could wrap this up by telling you I know exactly what the next chapter looks like, but I don’t. I’m still figuring it out as I go.

What I do know is that I feel more excited and hopeful than I did a few months ago. I have a direction again, even if I can’t see the entire path or exactly where it’s headed yet.

If you’re in one of those weird in-between seasons too, I hope this episode makes you feel a little less alone.

I’m also sharing more about SPARK, my new four-month health coaching program for women who feel exhausted, infl

Hiiii! Happy weekend! Hello from the other side of the plague. We had the domino effect of sickness in our house. P got sick, then the Pilot, then Liv, and I thought I had fought it… and it got me. I was pretty sick all week last week and just now on the ups. It felt good to take a barre class yesterday – my first workout in over a week!!

The rest of the weekend should be pretty fun. The Pilot is in town, I’m hoping we can go line dancing at Maverick, high school football game (so fun), P has a soccer game and a bday party. The weather has been the tiniest bit crispy and I love that it feels a little bit like fall. I hope you have a fun and relaxing weekend ahead!

For now, i’s time for the weekly Friday Faves roundup! This is where I share some of my favorite finds from the week and around the web. I always love hearing about your faves, too, so please shout out something you’re loving in the comments section below.

(Friendly reminder that affiliate links are included in Friday Faves! Thank you so much for supporting the blog)

9.25 Friday Faves

Fashion, beauty, random:

These beauty gummies from Organifi! It’s still a little too early to see if they’re doing anything, but they taste absolutely amazing. This link should auto-apply my code FITNESSISTA for your discount.

Madewell is havin