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Stefanie Schroeder: Well, hi, everyone. Thank you for joining us this evening. My name is Stephanie Schroeder and I am the publicity director for gift books at Thomas Nelson.
Stefanie Schroeder: Which is a division of Harper Collins Christian publishing I'm thrilled to introduce you to our author Stephanie Fleming. The brilliant mind behind plan a happy life define your passion nurture creativity.
Stefanie Schroeder: And take hold of your dreams, which goes on sale. This week tomorrow and fact, thank you all for tuning into this special webinar with us today. It should be a real treat for you.
Stefanie Schroeder: Those of you here today, most likely already know a bit about Stephanie, you know that she is a creative entrepreneur speaker optimist and wellness seeker.
Stefanie Schroeder: You might know her as one of the co founders of me and my big ideas a business that began in her garage and is now an industry leading lifestyle brand.
Stefanie Schroeder: You might also know that Stephanie made the decision to retire, but she's keeping busier than ever with the upcoming upcoming launch of this amazing book.
Stefanie Schroeder: Stephanie is also married to Kevin has two grown children and three amazing grandchildren, she is on a mission to create a happy life.
Stefanie Schroeder: Movement by empowering people everywhere to take control of their own happiness by embracing planning positivity and all things creative
Stefanie Schroeder: We're so happy to have Stephanie here with us online today in such a special capacity exclusively to you into Michael's if you feel so moved. Please join me in giving Stephanie a warm welcome with the virtual round of applause.
Stefanie Schroeder: So we're going to be talking about Chapter one of plan a happy life today, which is about creating happiness. So first off, staff, let's talk about how all of this started. When did you really focus on and intentional journey with happiness.
Stacy Burrell: It looks like she may have fallen off the call.
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Stefanie Schroeder: Webinars in the time of coven
Stacy Burrell: Yes, everyone just give us a few minutes while we
Stacy Burrell: While we problem solve and then we'll be right back to it.
Stefanie Schroeder: I saw some people mentioned in the chat that she you can only see me right now and we're working on a bit of a technical difficulty. So we're waiting for Steph to make her way back. So please, please, hold on.
Stefanie Schroeder: And I just asked someone say how excited they are to be here. So we're excited you're all here with us. Thank you for joining.
The Happy Planner: And also wanted to share something since people are asking all three sessions are going to be different. It won't be the same thing. So the next two, which are data, this week will be different than today's with focus on different chapters.
Stefanie Schroeder: It's really cool to see where everybody is joining from all around the United States and I even saw some in Canada and Mexico. So welcome from wherever you're tuning in today.
Stefanie Schroeder: Sweden. Wow.
Stefanie Schroeder: There's quite a bit of activity happening over in the chat. I noticed a couple people asked how long today's session would be. And we're aiming for about an hour today.
Stefanie Schroeder: Someone said this only builds up the suspense and I agree.
Steph Fleming: I'm yet.
Steph Fleming: Okay. Wait, okay, okay.
Stefanie Schroeder: Drumroll Sound
Steph Fleming: So sorry. We sat there for what a half an hour on like a pre call and as soon as Stephanie started talking it just dropped me off. So, I'm so sorry.
Stefanie Schroeder: We're joking around that these are webinars and the time of covert you're just, you're just kicked off or, you know, never a dull moment so
Steph Fleming: It was great technical thing. We had so much time on our hands and then all
Stefanie Schroeder: The irony of you being a planner and then all the things that are unplanned so
Stefanie Schroeder: For the people there are some people who said this built up their suspense, so
Steph Fleming: You did this on purpose.
Stefanie Schroeder: So we'll just we'll just jump right into the questions here. And first off stuff I let's talk about how the start all started when did you really focus on an intentional journey with happiness.
Steph Fleming: Oh my gosh. So it's really funny because actually, what led me to like really talk about intentionally or focus on intentionally
Steph Fleming: Planning for happiness was when I just was really unhappy, and I didn't even know what happiness looked like.
Steph Fleming: I was, I was going through a divorce and going through a really hard time in my life and I was like the first time in a long time, I'd had
Steph Fleming: Like some actual time for myself as a 38 year old woman to sit down and go okay my life's kind of in the shambles right now and I need to focus on what makes me happy. And I had no idea what that was. I mean, beyond the fact that I loved my children and I was mom, I loved being a mom.
Steph Fleming: That was about all I could identify with. So I really did a lot of internal soul searching
Steph Fleming: To figure out, well, this is kind of ridiculous. You know, I'm 38 years old and I don't even know what makes me happy. And so I started with something just super, super small like writing anything down that made me happy.
Steph Fleming: And I just kept working at it. I kept growing and it kept evolving and figuring out, like, you know, hey, I am the only one that can define this for myself. And if I don't do it. I'm going to be sitting around, you know, in the wings and, you know,
Steph Fleming: Just waiting for life to happen and. And so during that time. That was the darkest for me was when I decided, you know, this is where I need to really take control of what actually makes me happy.
Stefanie Schroeder: Yeah, it's, it's interesting that that came about from something horrible in your life because I think, you know, even in the times we're in right now.
Stefanie Schroeder: People there. They're just so many elements that are going on where I think that we're all kind of wondering what's next. And we think that a lot of things have changed. And, you know, realizing how time is important so
Stefanie Schroeder: Do you feel like right now. Like you ever reflected on why right now might even though you didn't plan it this way, why this book was really relevant for these times were in
Steph Fleming: Oh yeah, when when I posted about this on my Instagram because I really struggled with the timing at first of the release of the book.
Steph Fleming: You know, Stephanie, you know that it's taken over two years to write the book from concepts to where it is today to where it releases and I'm thinking, Oh my gosh, like
Steph Fleming: At a time when everyone is going through some of the most difficult times and challenging times and
Steph Fleming: Unhappy. Does the idea of a book called planet, happy life seem tone deaf or like, I don't really, I can't read the room.
Steph Fleming: But, and I had to settle with that for a little. I had to think about it.
Steph Fleming: And the more I did the more I just kind of saw what was happening. I was able to relate it back to that time for me where it was like, you know, this the most difficult time in my life was when I really got in touch with
Steph Fleming: Who I was who I wanted to be and and what I wanted my life to look like. And it was empowering during one of the
Steph Fleming: You know, darkest lowest times of my life. So it really kind of renewed my commitment and my you know my passion for what the content of the book actually is, which is
Steph Fleming: You know, this isn't just about like let's skip through life. This is, this book is about how you take times how you yes you experience the joy when times are beautiful.
Steph Fleming: But also how do you live through times like what we're going through right now without just like on this is the worst thing ever. How do you find those little sparks of joy.
Stefanie Schroeder: You have to find a nugget somewhere.
Stefanie Schroeder: So with that in mind, I love that our first webinar is just chapter one right from the beginning. So the first chapter of the book is all about creating happiness. So why you saying the book. Why is creativity, an essential part of planning a happy life.
Steph Fleming: It was really funny to start the book because, you know, one of the most challenging things for me was, what goes where. And where do you start with and you know
Steph Fleming: And for me, creativity, has always been how I have defined myself and how what's inside of me and what I've been uniquely blessed with
Steph Fleming: How that it like shows up in the world. And, um, and so this this concept of nurturing your creativity and using that
Steph Fleming: Like what you discover as the first step to planning a happy life is it really kind of is actually an eye opener for me because that that's where it started. I have always grown up.
Steph Fleming: Nurturing my creativity. Even when I didn't know that because I was really fortunate enough to be to grow up in a family where, you know, my mom was in touch with her creativity and really
Steph Fleming: Just was something that encouraged like all of us kids to do, to the point where it was so ingrained in me. I didn't really know any anything different.
Steph Fleming: And so when I think about creativity. So many people think of it as you know, are you a painter or you know what the creative arts
Steph Fleming: And I see creativity as a way. It's like, what is inside of you. What is something, it's going to help you to find your purpose, right, and your passions and that is like how you like start the path start down the path to a happy life and what makes you happy. So whether it's
Steph Fleming: I always said computer programming. I always use that because it's the farthest thing thing that I can do or you know whether you're, you know, you're addicted and you love numbers and
Steph Fleming: And figuring out creative solutions to problems or you want to go to the moon or whatever. Um, I guess people have already done that so wherever else you go farther than that Mars, um, you know, that is a creative expression, you know, maybe that so so to me it just seemed like a natural
Steph Fleming: First step, and also when I think that a lot of people. It's a barrier to entry right like there's a lot of people who
Steph Fleming: Who don't know how to express themselves creatively or have a fear of expressing themselves. So I wanted to kind of address that first as a way to, like, how do we how do we nurture and embrace that as that first step.
Stefanie Schroeder: Well, even I appreciate your vulnerability and the book where you talk about not knowing what your purpose or creative talents were even 10 years ago and that you needed to put some work into finding those things. So, what, what did that work look like for you.
Steph Fleming: I took a lot of online classes. I think it was kind of at the beginning where like everybody had like an online class. And so I signed up for like
Steph Fleming: Every one of them. And because my son had just gone off to college. My daughter was in high school and was like, you know, mildly interested in wanting to hang out with me.
Steph Fleming: And so I just had all this time I was separated and and you know just trying to figure things out. So I took classes. I went to therapy I journaled I spent time alone. I talked to friends, I just
Steph Fleming: I did anything. I guess the tube for me. I didn't go to college, I was 18 and pregnant and went from being somebody's daughter and being a high school student to being someones mother and
Steph Fleming: didn't go to college, then went to, you know, went and started working and became someone's wife, and then a mother again and
Steph Fleming: I pride myself on being a good mom but i just i didn't have that time that a lot of people do have after high school or even during high school to say right now is my time to figure me out.
Steph Fleming: And so I didn't have that. So I just did that whole, like, okay, what is what is Stephanie into the honest with you, I hadn't even really. I didn't know it, but I don't even think I had cultivated
Steph Fleming: Who I was so I was starting from scratch. Like when I talked to you about like I talked about a happy list that I started with.
Steph Fleming: And actually almost came to tears because I couldn't figure out what to write down until somebody said, start with just the most basic truth and it could be like it doesn't even have to be profound.
Steph Fleming: What is something that everybody knows about you and the only thing that I could really think of the time, besides being a mom was that I just was obsessed with peanut butter.
Steph Fleming: I love peanut butter on everything and it went from that to like I like I like going to angels games. I like, you know, the smell of fresh cut grass and I like fall. Why do you like fall
Steph Fleming: I like fall BECAUSE IT MAKES ME FEEL COZY I guess because I like to know I'm nurturing and I like to create my, you know, it starts from there.
Stefanie Schroeder: And you
Steph Fleming: Know, I started small, and then just did a bunch of work.
Stefanie Schroeder: Yeah. And so for anybody who's thinking about, you know, trying something new or a creative pursuit. I think there are a few a few of us out there who
Stefanie Schroeder: Strive to be perfectionist, even if it's something that we haven't tried before. So I really love the statement in your book allow yourself to be less than perfect. And so, as someone who also likes peanut butter and is also named
Stefanie Schroeder: Stephanie. I'm going to admit that I'm a recovering perfectionist. Is that something else that we have in common.
Steph Fleming: Yes, I am like, definitely. When I say I'm a recovering
Steph Fleming: Perfectionist which we all know it doesn't ever go away. I am a recovering people pleaser. And I am a perfectionist all of the things that held me back.
Steph Fleming: That I thought were going to define me. Like, or at least help, help me in the world right like because if all these people liked me
Steph Fleming: And if all these people thought I was successful because they thought that I did it perfectly because that's what I was setting out to do right like achieve their idea of perfection, then I would be worthy. I would be
Steph Fleming: Not that 18 year old pregnant prom queen, you know that I'm going to show you because I'm going to do it so perfectly that you're going to go, oh my god, I can't believe she really did have her act together, you know,
Steph Fleming: If I had something to prove. And I wanted people to like me like desperately and but I didn't like me. And so, and none of that perfectionism ever made me feel worthy ever I because I wasn't doing it for the right reasons. I was doing it for everybody else's approval to make me feel
Steph Fleming: The way I thought I could feel through that. So yeah, and I still struggle with perfectionism every day because then I procrastinate, and all the things. But there's something about when you're aware of it.
Stefanie Schroeder: At least you're making it as the first step.
Steph Fleming: That's true, that's true. And then you just do the work every day.
Stefanie Schroeder: Yeah. Yeah. So there's hope for all of us. Yeah.
Stefanie Schroeder: In terms of something else that can hold people back you know that fear can be a huge element of
Stefanie Schroeder: You know what holds us back from pursuing our big dreams. So how do you attack that fear monster and quiet. The thoughts. Tell us. We're not ready, or we're not good enough or we don't have X quality to tackle our dreams.
Steph Fleming: You know, fear is so I would have never identified as somebody who was fearful when I was probably the most fearful, because it seems to me like I had this like idea that fear was, you know, fear.
Steph Fleming: And really I was afraid to be judged. I was afraid that people would see that, oh my gosh, we had this perception of you you don't live up to that at all.
Steph Fleming: So much fear for me and I'm even down to the point where when you talk about being a perfectionist. I'm your this is something that's like
Steph Fleming: I mean, you may laugh, you can laugh with me because I can laugh with me now.
Steph Fleming: Like I was so afraid to do something wrong, that when I was going through this divorce. And I thought, you know, I'm going to go out there going to be a big girl in the world. And I'm going to like do things on my own and
Steph Fleming: I can't parallel park like to save my life and I was like, okay, so I'm going to go down to the beach. I love the beach. I'm just going to walk around by myself alone time
Steph Fleming: And I'm going to go down there and I had this like paralyzing fear what the beach. You have to parallel park so I'm not going to go and I didn't go
Steph Fleming: And finally, I asked myself, and this is how to answer your question, and I usually give you know make it a long story longer is
Steph Fleming: I just asked myself, What is the worst that can happen if I can handle the worst that can happen for whatever I'm afraid of
Steph Fleming: Then, it gives me that permission to say didn't go for it. You know the worst that can happen in that situation is I can't find a parking space that I can park it and I turn around and I go home.
Steph Fleming: I can handle that. So, you know, and shockingly not
Steph Fleming: You know, get down there and I can find a parking space and I have to see watch a beautiful sunset and I have this experience in my life that I never would have had if I let that silly fear, but you can use that same
Steph Fleming: Concept with anything else, you know, if one of the things that you're afraid of, like, you take something on the opposite side of the spectrum and say,
Steph Fleming: You know I'm terrified to jump out of an airplane. Well, what's the worst that could happen is, well, I could die and I am not comfortable with that outcome. Some people might go you know what
Steph Fleming: I'm I you know what I've looked at all the things and I'm comfortable with it. Why not, it's not something I do. That's not a fear I face. So, um, that question I think is a very helpful thing to have. You just start taking those baby steps that you need.
Steph Fleming: To face your fears, however small, and you know, related to parallel parking that they may be or jumping out of an airplane.
Stefanie Schroeder: Mm hmm. Well, and I think it's interesting because I think that fear and sadness sort of aligned themselves with each other. Because if you would prevent yourself from going to the beach.
Stefanie Schroeder: Because you were scared of parallel parking you're depriving yourself of that happiness and if watching sunsets, or on your happy list is I'm sure they are. I know they are because I read your book, um, you know, that was sort of like a cost. What's, what's the cost. And what's the
Stefanie Schroeder: The cost benefit. You know, when you look at it.
Steph Fleming: Exactly. And I think you know it's it's stopped fear has stopped me.
Steph Fleming: From a lot of things in my life. For some, a lot of them have to do with the beach, which I love. And now live by. But you know, I didn't like the way I looked in a bathing suit I judged myself so harshly. And so for a long time. I didn't go
Steph Fleming: And I you know I deprived being myself from being down there with my kids and enjoying because because what I wasn't a size two
Steph Fleming: You know, and I didn't like fit the, the, what the stereotype of what I thought a bikini body was supposed to look like.
Steph Fleming: I missed out and I finally got to a place in my life later. So, which is why please read the book and like understand that you don't have to wait till you're 3840 years old.
Steph Fleming: Like I got to the point I'm going like I'm wearing a bathing suit. I'm going in the pool with my grandkids I'm going wherever and if somebody doesn't like it. They don't have to look at me. You know, if some, you know, it's
Steph Fleming: You don't want to let that fear keep you from things because yes, there will be there is that sadness of missing out. And there's just
Steph Fleming: There's so much of life to be enjoyed. And, you know, learning how to deal with and and because you're not going to get the fear is not going to go away but knowing how to deal with it when it comes up right
Stefanie Schroeder: I think that that theme of timing is sort of woven all throughout the book in terms of, like, it's never not to quote something that really belongs on a pillow or a
Stefanie Schroeder: You know, a plaque above your desk, but you know every day is sort of a chance to start over. And I love that you talk about how intentional, you know, happiness is whether you are 3848 you know 78 it's never it's never too late to work these things into your life.
Steph Fleming: Absolutely. And I think, you know, one of the things that I wanted to the book to be
Steph Fleming: Was a toolkit. And one of the things I didn't want it to be was like a prescription because
Steph Fleming: I don't have all of the answers to how to make you happy. I don't have the answers to tell you if you do X y&z my way, you will be happy.
Steph Fleming: What I do know is that throughout our lives. This is a and again this is such a cliche, but it's a journey. It's a road that you're going to walk down
Steph Fleming: Your whole life, whatever this experience is for you and you will come across times where you are just joyful and blissful. And it's wonderful.
Steph Fleming: And then they're going to be times when you go through and you're struggling, you know, and
Steph Fleming: When what the book is is a way to look and say yes, it's the timing of our lives. It's what's happening. And then it's how you deal with what shows up because
Steph Fleming: It's life's gonna throw. If there's one thing we can count on is that life is going to change things will change.
Steph Fleming: You will encounter hardships and struggles and enjoys and all of those things and you learning how to deal with that in a way that supports your happiness and what the vision is that you have for your life.
Steph Fleming: Is one of the most effective tools that I've learned. And that's why I was just so excited to actually get it, you know, in a book form.
Steph Fleming: So that you know I love to talk. I mean this obviously this is, you know, no shocker to anybody.
Steph Fleming: But there's only so many people I can talk to you. And yes, I stopped people on the streets and do this all the time and to the, you know, to the horror of my family. Usually, but like I wanted to be able to share those things that I had learned
Steph Fleming: At least that had worked for me and hopefully it could be maybe a tool for other people to say hey you know maybe these 10 things work for her and these five are amazing and work for me, too. So yeah. Awesome.
Stefanie Schroeder: Well, going back to that concept of designing you know this happy life and and how creativity plays a part in it. People often think of creative endeavors is huge. Things like you were saying before, like being a painter writer.
Stefanie Schroeder: But why do you think it's important for someone to take a few minutes to doodle or try new recipe or sing in the shower all which mentioned your book.
Steph Fleming: I think it's just a way to get out of your head. Don't take yourself so seriously don't take the outcome so seriously.
Steph Fleming: And it's, it's a creativity is a muscle that needs to be exercised. And if we're too concerned with perfection or the final outcome or we don't learn we don't
Steph Fleming: Experience. We don't appreciate it. And sometimes we don't even start. So I've taken I've taken like an intuitive painting classes where I have like nobody wants this painting.
Steph Fleming: A guarantee
Steph Fleming: Nobody wants it. No one wants to look at it, it's really not cute at all. But, you know, it was all about me like getting over myself and like, you know, putting music on and like just putting paint on my fingers and like you know painting around and not caring and
Steph Fleming: I've tried all kinds of things like that. I'm not the best cook, but I try and do things like that as well and
Steph Fleming: You know, and then occasionally you've come across something, you go, Oh man, I'm really good at this. And I like it. And you kind of go down that road. But if you don't start something um
Steph Fleming: I don't know. That's where I feel like people get stuck and in you know sometimes you just need to create for the sake of creating that's
Steph Fleming: Just make something just do something just, you know, we were created to create and it's up to us to figure out what that is that we're supposed to be creating in this world. Mm hmm.
Stefanie Schroeder: Well, someone someone's story, who inspired me. And the book and I love how you how, what's your story. But then there are also call outs and snippets of other people's story as well. I'm, I, I found like
Stefanie Schroeder: I found your mom's contribution so inspiring because she really wanted to renovate a house and she decided knock down some walls and
Stefanie Schroeder: You know, she doesn't. She said she didn't care if it was two bedrooms and you know it might affect the resale value, but she really wanted to renovate and she had a blast. So, um, and she just had this great list of creative pursuits as well. So what is she up to these days.
Steph Fleming: Um. She just finished renovating another house.
Steph Fleming: She doesn't stop and she's, she's doing really great. She's retired now for a while, which for somebody who's as driven as my mom is was very difficult.
Steph Fleming: She's the one that taught me to, you know, to be as resilient as I am and to be as creative as I am.
Steph Fleming: But she is like she's one of those people who will has reinvented herself when you know you see her. She's like, okay, now I'm retired. And she's single so she lives alone with my two sisters. Those are her with its
Steph Fleming: And she's like, you know, okay, well, I think I'm a little bored right now. You know what I want to do. My mom has actually gone on, like,
Steph Fleming: When, when she went through a divorce, she actually said, You know what, I'm going to go on a photo expedition in Yellowstone in the winter.
Steph Fleming: Which she had ever done before.
Steph Fleming: tog refer. She's not a you know backpacker but she was just like, I'm just going to try something different.
Steph Fleming: You know she's gone and Christmas at a particularly, you know, to Christmas time she was kind of like, you know, I'm not really doing too much and I guess I love Christmas. But, you know,
Steph Fleming: She took my daughter to Machu Picchu, you know, to go and like do something unique and she's just she's not afraid to travel and try something new. And so right now. One of the things my mom does so well as make a house a home.
Steph Fleming: And she just kind of has that knack. And so I think that's why she liked it. She took this house which anyone would have said.
Steph Fleming: You don't take a house where this house is that had, I don't know, four or five bedrooms and knock it down into a two bedroom, but she's like that that's what's going to make me happy.
Steph Fleming: I'm going to go here and I'm not doing it, you know, this wasn't an investment property. So it wasn't she didn't make those decisions for that reason.
Steph Fleming: But she's like this is going to be my sanctuary my house, my oasis. And I want to do what's going to make me happy and
Steph Fleming: Oh my gosh, you go there and I'm like, okay, so where's the registration desk like where do we check in.
Steph Fleming: Amazing. So yeah, she's, she's doing good. She's doing the same same stuff she's inspired me always even when I was, you know, a kid and probably was like you know every other kid like so lame.
Stefanie Schroeder: Yeah. Wonder what a great example though, I love your mom. I've ever met your mom so
Steph Fleming: I have to come to you have to come to her oasis.
Stefanie Schroeder: I guess so.
Stefanie Schroeder: So in the book you write make room in your life or whatever it is that brings you joy. And so, for we have about 1300 people on right now. I'm sure there might be someone who's thinking, you know, I don't have time to be creative. What would you say to them.
Steph Fleming: I would say, I don't think you have time to not be creative, because you know time is our most precious precious commodity, you can't get more of it. You have one life to live. We don't know how long we have and you know
Steph Fleming: I think too. I've been a busy mom. I've been a mom who had two kids worked 11 hour days for eight years.
Steph Fleming: And doing you know in home daycare and I know what it means to not have a second to breathe or go to the bathroom without your kids like you know, wanting to get in. But I think you can find
Steph Fleming: Time for little things for, let's say,
Steph Fleming: I don't know. I'm trying to think of like
Steph Fleming: Something little. I don't care if it's as little as I want to. Journal, a little bit or I just want to take some you know what my kids are coloring
Steph Fleming: I'm going to take the. I'm going to take the cramps and I'm just going to play around with these colors a little bit. I'm gonna
Steph Fleming: Finger paint with them. I'm going to, you know, if you can, if you instead of and I don't mean this in a way where I'm not honoring the fact that I understand people are busy.
Steph Fleming: If you can switch the thought process to
Steph Fleming: Looking for opportunities to be creative in your life. Like I said, you're sitting down with your kids, instead of just going like, OK, they're going to color I'm going to like how to make sure that they walk to the plate up play with the Plato with them.
Steph Fleming: You know, like, make a little something bring them in the kitchen or and I'm focusing on moms because so many moms have, you know, such little time, but, you know, look for the opportunities because just like when you're trying to
Steph Fleming: You know, look for things to be thankful for. When you walk out that door. If you think today is a crappy day
Steph Fleming: And it's going to be terrible because it's hot and humid and I know that this is going to have everything that you felt go outside, thinking of
Steph Fleming: Is going to be so bad. You're going to notice every you know thing that's, you know, kind of, not so great happening in your day.
Steph Fleming: And conversely, if you go outside thinking like, okay, I'm going to have a good day, or I'm going to least maybe even I'm having a really tough time right now.
Steph Fleming: But I'm gonna walk through my day and think about the time. Like, what can I see what is going to be beautiful. What can I be thankful for the little blessings in life.
Steph Fleming: You can do that with creativity. Also, where it's like, you know, looking for those little times where you can express yourself creatively.
Steph Fleming: And whether it's volunteering for something or, you know, and it doesn't have to be every single day. It doesn't have to be a big huge project, but I would challenge you to
Steph Fleming: You know, just look for that tiny little five minutes, five minutes a day because again it's a it's a muscle that needs to be exercised. And the more you do
Steph Fleming: The more you're going to get used to, you know, looking and finding and seeing those opportunities when they present themselves to you because I think they're they're around you all the time. But when we're busy. We don't see it. Yeah.
Stefanie Schroeder: That's I completely agree.
Stefanie Schroeder: And I love in the book. There's a phrase that I identified with a lot. Just because I had recently read it.
Stefanie Schroeder: A similar version of it somewhere else. But you said, you know, find the things that set your soul on fire, and I love you also said, you know, find things that make your soul sing. So, what, what makes your soul sing these days.
Steph Fleming: Well, I'm you know I'm in the middle right now, since I'm recently retired from my actual day job. I will. I'm always, I'm going to, you know, always be a passionate happy planner and creative person and spreading my, you know, love and passion for all things positive and
Steph Fleming: But, you know, retirement, which is something I'm going okay my husband retired last year, it's left me in this place where I'm very thankful to be
Steph Fleming: That I'm having to go through this process all over again. Not because I'm unhappy, but because
Steph Fleming: Times change, right. So I'm looking going like, okay, so what does. One of the things that used to set my soul on fire and that I love so much.
Steph Fleming: Was being an entrepreneur. And what I you know I love starting things from scratch. And I love sharing them with people and stuff.
Steph Fleming: And, but, you know, I've been in business for over 20 years. And when you when you own and run your own business.
Steph Fleming: It's but you know makes childcare look like kind of a little bit of not a breeze. But, I mean, I worked. You know, we work 24 seven basically
Steph Fleming: And so the coming to this place right now where I have like some margin to breathe and some space to think a little bit for myself and my life.
Steph Fleming: I'm kind of in a similar spot like what is the section of my life look like what does this part of my life and to be honest with you, I am doing all of the pages in here working
Steph Fleming: And it's different for me than when when I wrote it. It's different for me than when I did you know when I went through it 10 years ago. It's a practice that like this process works for me.
Steph Fleming: And so I thought this was a better
Steph Fleming: You know opportunity then to say I when I first got this. And after I stopped snowing all the pages like a weirdo.
Steph Fleming: After I
Stefanie Schroeder: Got to see cracks is fine. She smells.
Steph Fleming: Smells so good store. And so once I did that, I was like, this is the perfect opportunity. I'm at the doorstep again.
Steph Fleming: Of this new part of my life and I want to be able to, like, you know, I want to be able to really define what makes me happy. And I want to create a plan to go out and really actively pursue that. So,
Steph Fleming: I don't, to answer your question, I don't really know. I love being a Grandma, I love just trying to nest in my home.
Steph Fleming: But beyond that, like, what's really make my, I don't really know um
Steph Fleming: I love sharing things. I love connecting with people. I just don't know how that's going to present itself and how that's going to look
Steph Fleming: In this section of my life. But I'm super excited to find out. And I'm, you know, and I think that I'm following along in the book with everybody else who's getting it just for the first time.
Stefanie Schroeder: Yeah. Well, I appreciate that you say that you don't have all the answers, and you're not, you know, you're not. It's not prescriptive, but it's very tactical and you're willing to share
Stefanie Schroeder: Your method and so thank you for thank you for all thank you for trying to help us all figure that out as well. So when you think when you're thinking of your book. And this is such a it's such a pretty book. I mean, come on.
Stefanie Schroeder: So when you think about the person on the other end reading that book. And I guess what is your ultimate hope for her.
Stefanie Schroeder: And out of all your advice or tips I guess what are, what is something really important you'd want her to take away
Steph Fleming: The very most important thing for me, I think. And when my life actually just did a complete 180
Steph Fleming: And when it changed was the moment and I talked about. There's a chapter in the book where I talk about is
Steph Fleming: You have to believe that you are worthy of a happy life just the way you are just right now, not when I lose 20 pounds, not when I get this degree, not when I'm in a relationship or get married or have this job, or none of those
Steph Fleming: And I don't mean just say it or write it down. But do the work to say, you know, I am worthy of this happy life.
Steph Fleming: Right now, no matter what, you know, just because I am just because I'm here.
Steph Fleming: And yeah, I have work to do. And I can do those things, but they don't define my worth and none of that has anything to do with the fact that I'm worthy. So if you take nothing else from the book.
Steph Fleming: But you can say, you know what, but I've learned. I've learned that I'm worthy of all of it, of love acceptance and success and happiness. Then I'll be a happy camper.
Steph Fleming: And because
Steph Fleming: I think that if you just get that far. I think things in your life will change. You're going to make decisions that you wouldn't make otherwise.
Steph Fleming: If you didn't believe that, you know, you're not going to allow things in your life that aren't worthy of, you know, so, um, you know, I hope that if you go beyond that, I hope, someone's able to just realize that throughout this life.
Steph Fleming: You have the ability to reflect on what makes you happy, reflect on you know just
Steph Fleming: Who you are even like you know that the tagline for the book which is define your passion nurture your creativity and take hold of your dreams.
Steph Fleming: That's a lot. And it's an ongoing process. So I hope that somebody would just read it. Now, you know, dive in and get as much as you can, where you are right now and then open it back up in six months or read it again and you know in 12 months or three years when you're in a different spot.
Stefanie Schroeder: Yeah, I also recognize that I frame that question for our female audience, but you know, I think that anybody can use
Stefanie Schroeder: Happiness in their lives. So I apologize to our male participants on on the webinar Parker, that was not intentional, but I think that that that advice and that system can definitely work for anybody.
Steph Fleming: Oh yeah, absolutely. I think we've been in a place where number one I've, I've connected really our, our with our products and the planner products.
Steph Fleming: Our customers have primarily been women. So there's been a lot of, you know, focus there. But we've also embrace anybody. I mean, especially when it comes to just the book.
Steph Fleming: It's. I mean, this is, this is something that I think in a toolbox that no matter who you are, that that it can work for, and this is not something that it's a good point because it's not really just a
Steph Fleming: method that works for women.
Steph Fleming: This is just about you being happy you believing that you are worthy of it and and
Steph Fleming: And then going forward and just going, you know, and I'm going to be. I'm going to do this, I'm going to make this plan and figure it out. And I'm going to go get it.
Stefanie Schroeder: Well, and I'm sure that you know at home. I'm sure you and your husband have sort of gone through the steps and worked on plans and dreams and
Stefanie Schroeder: And those things together. So I think, you know, people can do it individually or, you know, as part of a unit so so that's that's really exciting. So I see that our chat is extremely active
Steph Fleming: I know
That I'm trying not to be distracted.
Stefanie Schroeder: It's the numbers just keep going up. So I think that we should open it up to some audience questions. How about
Steph Fleming: That. Yeah, I would love that.
The Happy Planner: Okay ladies. A lot of people are asking what's special about the Michaels edition.
Steph Fleming: Oh, I haven't right here. I actually got this was the first one that I got. So the Michaels edition has. Let's see. It's got eight pages I think of bonus content and what it includes are
Steph Fleming: There steps to do what I call them happiness maps, but they're like mind maps or radio maps where you start off with the concept in the middle and then you kind of just do like a brainstorm.
Steph Fleming: So in the Michaels version. And it's one of the things that when I get stuck at that place in my life where I talked about it in the book, but the Michaels.
Steph Fleming: section in the back actually has blank spaces for you to go through several different things. What makes you happy. And, um, it's when
Steph Fleming: When I get to that place where you're like, Okay, I'm in retirement right now to say, okay, so what makes me happy. That's how I start you just start writing all things make you happy, if I write, and I have an example of it. I'm
Steph Fleming: Kind of here where it's like if you start off with one, you know, being with my husband makes me happy. Well, what makes me happy about that.
Steph Fleming: You know, you kind of just go and if you let your mind just like burst with those things, um,
Steph Fleming: You're going to find some things that you didn't even realize that you liked or why you like them. So the Michaels version has several look what's important to me. What are my strengths. What do I love about myself, How can I
Steph Fleming: Connect with others and, you know, just have some really pretty things in the back to so that you can do your happy maps right here in the book because I you know I was talking to some members of our team.
Steph Fleming: Before the call, because I'm like this book as pretty as it is. And as much as some of you I know really like to keep your books pristine
Steph Fleming: My hope is that you open it up and get your pen your favorite pen and like right all over it. Do all the exercises do all of the minds of the happiness maps in the back and
Steph Fleming: And just like, you know, right, all in it. That's what I'm doing. And it just makes it feel
Steph Fleming: Just, you know, loved and then it makes it really an active you're actively planning your life and you're doing those exercises. But yeah, that in the back for the Michaels.
Steph Fleming: Edition. It's, it's just I think it's a good way for you to be able, like I said to have it all.
Steph Fleming: in one spot. So you're working on the questions and then you actually can go back and you think, Oh my gosh, you know what else I'm going to you know what else makes me happy. And you just flip your book, open
The Happy Planner: Okay, great. Thanks def
The Happy Planner: Yeah, as a good question. She asks when you were designing the happy planner brand where these ideals in the back of your mind to exude positivity and cuteness right down to the hearts and then be shocked by the popularity of it.
Steph Fleming: Oh yeah, oh yeah, I mean, I think if anybody goes into something that's like, you know, you know what this thing. I know it's going to explode. I mean, you hope.
Steph Fleming: But, um, we were so let me answer the first question was yes. One of the things that I did after my husband now and I got married, who was the CEO of our company who's since retired, but
Steph Fleming: Kevin and I have been married now we've been together like 11 years or something. Anyway, when we first got together and had moved in together. I went through another phase of. Okay, now there's this phase in my life and what makes me happy. And I wrote
Steph Fleming: A personal mission statement on what I wanted, because again it was a little bit like okay, there's this new phase in my life.
Steph Fleming: And one of the things was I wanted to share my passion for positivity with people and share my experiences that I've gone through in my life in an order for to, you know, help people.
Steph Fleming: You know plan and live happily. This was before the happy planner. So even just knowing that putting out a vision boards.
Steph Fleming: Really was in the back of my head, not really knowing and then when we found the planner idea. I was like, I really want to do this planner.
Steph Fleming: Worked with our team or my sister, my mom our product development team of designers
Steph Fleming: And everything down to the things that we wanted where those things are in that mission statement which are you know we want people to have a place that of course looks cute, it's affordable.
Steph Fleming: But it's filled with positivity. So as you're going through and you're planning this beautiful, happy life with yours. You have a wonderful place to do that in
Steph Fleming: And then our team, you know like what about hearts and it just really came together and I think that team effort of everybody just putting every all that love into this product line.
Steph Fleming: Really helped connect with the consumers and with, you know, the planner community as it was back then, and I've been blown away. Ever since at how it was.
Steph Fleming: Perceived and just honored and humbled that that so many people love this product that that I love and that we love it. The happy planner.
Steph Fleming: That's a good question.
The Happy Planner: Well, here's another good question. People are asking, How should I read and interact with the book carve out a weekend's a chapter per week.
Steph Fleming: So here's the thing. So I I'm
Steph Fleming: Depending on what you have to make it work for you. So if you're someone who is just struggling going. My kids are going back to school they're having school at home.
Steph Fleming: I I'm working from home and I don't know how to, like, you know, get everything. Don't put that pressure on yourself to say you've got to get the whole book read
Steph Fleming: Flip through it and see what you stop that if you are going like, Hey, I'm ready for a deep dive into I'm ready for this. Like I say, Get out your pen.
Steph Fleming: You know, have some time every day and read it and do the exercises in sync on it, really think about the questions. Don't just write them down to for you know Sake of writing it down and answering the questions because
Steph Fleming: You don't get graded on it. No one's going to say up. She did it in this much amount of you know this much time and you want to make it work and
Steph Fleming: I'm actually doing and hosting a virtual book club because I wanted to be able to walk through this book with you, it will be available always
Steph Fleming: I'm doing it. You can go on. Stephanie Fleming calm. There's the place to sign up for the book club and it starts September 6 and you can walk. It's a month long, so it's like one of those sections. There's four sections and there's one a week and then we kind of go through the the
Steph Fleming: Some exercises in there to just like take it a little bit further. However, if you aren't ready for that during the month of sep tember and you want to wait that stuff will live on that content will live on so you can take it at your own pace so
Steph Fleming: I'm just make it work for you and know what you what you can do right now what you can, how much you can bite off.
The Happy Planner: This is kind of part two of that question, do you recommend reading this as a self care project or with my point.
Steph Fleming: With your family.
Steph Fleming: Is that the second part of the question.
The Happy Planner: Yes, like reading it. So really asking if it's a self care project.
Um,
Steph Fleming: I think it could be both really. I mean, I wrote it. I think as hey this is what you can do, you know, really get in touch with
Steph Fleming: What you want and you're happy life. But I mean, what a gift for your family, you know, if you're able to read this and go through this with your family or read it and do it for yourself and then go through it with your family as well.
Steph Fleming: I mean, what a gift to give children or you know to do with a spouse Kevin and I talked about a lot. Stephanie said that we talked about a lot of the things in here and we do some of these exercises like what's making you happy right now.
Steph Fleming: As a couple, so you know, maybe that's the next one. All right, as planned a happy life for couples plan a happy life for families, but I think that's a great actually hadn't even thought about doing it as a family. But yeah, what a great thing to teach your kids from a young age.
The Happy Planner: Because there's something you do differently every day because of your new happy insights
Steph Fleming: To the question. Um, you know, the one thing that I've learned to do is to evolve and learn. I'm always
Steph Fleming: Learning and realizing that I don't know everything, and that that's actually a really powerful thing to know. And the reason I say that in in in as it pertains to like happiness and how like now that I'm like, have this positive and this is the practices that I have is because
Steph Fleming: If you're not learning all the time and you're very stuck in your ways, or, you know,
Steph Fleming: I just feel like the the learning person is a happier person you go through your life just like open right and I'm not as hard on myself because I don't. I've already given myself permission that I don't have to have all the answers. I don't have to know everything.
Steph Fleming: And being a perfectionist is something where you like you feel like you have to do everything so perfectly and have all the answers and stuff. But if you let yourself have beginner's mind.
Steph Fleming: You know, you heard that phrase before beginner's mind and then you know you give yourself a lot more grace as you walk through life.
The Happy Planner: Excellent. And a lot of people are asking if it's some if it works for everyone. Is it good for teenage girls.
Steph Fleming: Oh,
The Happy Planner: Take a little bit to that.
Steph Fleming: I mean, okay, can I talk to teenage girls because I've been one, I think there's a lot of things I'm going like I think would be great. I think it would be great for everybody. I think I agree for teenage boys. I've just never been a teenage boy.
Steph Fleming: But I know that teenage girls, especially, there's so much pressure on them to be all the things to be
Steph Fleming: You know, to be too old to be too perfect to be to everything to have it all together. And we're so hard on ourselves at that age. And so just learning that first part that I said like learning to know that you're
Steph Fleming: That you're worthy, just as you are. And that you don't have to compete on social media. You don't have to be this perfect influencer and
Steph Fleming: And then being able to say as at a young age as Mina imagine as a teenager to say, you know, to develop these tools to ask yourself, what makes me happy. Who do I want to be.
Steph Fleming: How am I going to be that person, you know, how do I put this plan in I think it for a teenage for teenager period, it would be, it would be an amazing tool.
The Happy Planner: Any vet asks, have you met people from other walks of life for this process, how has this journey changed your outlook.
Steph Fleming: You know, going through. I'll tell you this is that as much as when I started to become one of the spokespeople for
Steph Fleming: The Happy planner. One of the opportunities that I got from the beginning was can you come speak on behalf of the happy planner.
Steph Fleming: And at first I was like, I don't want to do that. I'm much more comfortable being behind the scenes, if you can believe it because now I'm kind of outspoken, but
Steph Fleming: I kind of was a much more personal private person back then.
Steph Fleming: But I was so I but I decided to be brave with my life and say, I love this planner and what it can do for people so much that I am going to challenge myself to go speak to people about it. And in doing so, I got to meet people all over the country.
Steph Fleming: And that were from all different walks of life that shared how the happy planner and planning in their, their planners and focusing on the things that made them happy and grateful and
Steph Fleming: You know actually putting together a plan and being creative in their planners and how it had changed their lives in the most simple ways to some of the most profound and touching ways and
Steph Fleming: So that gave me and this is before I wrote the book. So, you know, it kind of was a proof of concept for me where it wasn't just me and my world and in my situation.
Steph Fleming: But it was every time I would sit and we would talk and I would talk to hundreds of people
Steph Fleming: And they would share their stories about how when I did this. This is how I felt. And when I took control and I you know I was battling depression or
Steph Fleming: I was trying to pay off debt or was trying to you know move on from the death of a family member.
Steph Fleming: Or I was just trying to find myself again or find time to be creative, for me, and they would actively carve out the time and a plan to do that in their planner. And when they did that.
Steph Fleming: Things changed for them, you know, that's me as an example of
Steph Fleming: defining what they wanted, and doing something about it, however small, however big and it making a difference in their lives. So that's been one of the greatest joys that I've had since, you know, coming out with a happy planner and it's one that I think I'll miss the most as I retire.
The Happy Planner: Okay. Speaking of retirement. Some people are asking about what's next will be attending different events and what's next for you.
Steph Fleming: Um, I don't know what's next, to be honest, I'm, I'm kind of letting myself just have that, especially after like with the book coming out. I haven't really slowed down that much and but once that kind of like settles, a little bit. I'm going to allow myself some time to see
Steph Fleming: Where I want to go, you know, what do I want to do. Do I want I originally would have told you I would have wanted to travel, but we can't really go anywhere. So
Steph Fleming: I need to do some adjustment on that but i don't know i can tell you this is that I will go forward just really chasing my passions and
Steph Fleming: And whether that is I want to be the most present and loving mother and grandmother and wife.
Steph Fleming: Then that's what I'll do, you know, if it doesn't have any there's no business and there's no you know no new business no ventured, nothing like that. Um, but if that's what makes me happy, then that's what I will chase
Steph Fleming: And as far as events. I'm not sure I would really love to go to go wild next year. I don't know what my what capacity that would be in but i've been i've gone as a speaker for several years.
Steph Fleming: And I would love to just maybe go sometime as an attendee and just like hang out with the planner babes and, you know, so I don't know. That's really the long and short of it is that I'm just letting myself discover what's next. I don't really know.
The Happy Planner: Or a lot of questions about your book club, you definitely piqued people's interest.
The Happy Planner: A little bit more about that.
Steph Fleming: Yeah. So the reason I again somebody was saying I you have a website. I thought you retired. I'm like, it's basically just to how's the
Steph Fleming: To how's the book club. So the reason I wanted to do this was because for all the people that didn't like we're kind of just wanting to have almost like a friend walk you through this
Steph Fleming: Like the days when you could sit and have a book club and sit in each other's living rooms and
Steph Fleming: Hang out and you know let's talk about this. I wanted to have a virtual place for us to do that. And that way, it allows me to share a little bit of my commentary give you some questions that I call them level up questions and we're just really takes
Steph Fleming: A little bit of a deeper dive into what the chapter has talked about. And then I have a couple of things that are optional. One is a
Steph Fleming: creative challenge and one is a hands on challenge. There's a couple different things were
Steph Fleming: Just. Hey, you want to go even deeper into this. How about try these things. And again, just you could do this next year. You could read the book now. And then you could go back, or you could follow along with us so
Steph Fleming: It's all self paced and and but we do, but I'm going to be going through it with you. Starting on sep tember six and then every Sunday through the month of September will be starting the new one of the four sections of the book.
Steph Fleming: And then, yeah, but then even even that part of it will still live on after I've done the walkthrough. So I'm excited about that.
The Happy Planner: People are very excited about the product. So one question is, are the vendors designed to go with this book, maybe you can speak a little bit about some of the new product offering
Steph Fleming: So okay, so the product offering and I have some of my sitting here, but is in the happy planner, I believe now has a preview page. And I think michaels.com will start to have this online as well. But the product.
Steph Fleming: Is it's designed it's coordinated right so the like this got quotes from the book. It has trying to get not glare and colors from the book and it has some of the practices like the
Steph Fleming: Happy planner. This is a plan a happy life journal that has places for you to record your gratitude and also just a daily reflection.
Steph Fleming: And the there's like half sheets pages, pages that punch into your planner, but that are, you know, utilize something I talked about in the book called a happy list.
Steph Fleming: So, yes. It coordinates with it, but it's also just a planner and if I'm a this planner has been like
Steph Fleming: It may not seem super thrilling just because it's all black and white, but I have been begging for this thing for you think I would have had some pole.
Steph Fleming: But for the longest time because I just wanted a black and white layout, where I could put all the colorful things on and you know do my own color scheme for the week and have it not clash so um so yes there's product.
Steph Fleming: That coordinates with the book. It can be used alone. It can be used in conjunction with the book. You can use them all together.
Steph Fleming: It's just they were my favorites and since it was the timing of the book coming out. I wanted to have just a collection of things with the stickers that I use and that have the quotes from the book and even some of the practices. So, so yes, I know.
The Happy Planner: So the chat room is really hopping on with comments, since you shared some of the products. People are loving the white planner. It was like a shared
Steph Fleming: Yes. And of course, you know, we had to have the sticker books. So there's two
Steph Fleming: Happy goals and live creatively one's more functional because I'm like obsessed with the colorful boxes. So this isn't the color scheme has a lot of those. And then this has a lot of quotes about wellness and
Steph Fleming: Some of the chapters in the book, the cute script that one of our designers Jenna Wilson did they're actually in STICKERS HERE. SO THOSE do coordinate with the book. If you're taking notes.
Steph Fleming: So, um, yeah. So I'm, I'm just, I was so excited to get my hands on them. I'm afraid to use them now because I'm one of those people. I kind of can afford things. So they're sitting here full sticker sheets and I'm like, I guess I've shot all the previews now so I suppose I could use them.
The Happy Planner: Can you share the dates of the planner.
Steph Fleming: Oh yeah, it's, um, it's a 12 month planner and it starts January 2021 which should be just going off right where we should be having like the best year ever so it's January 2021 through December of last year.
Steph Fleming: And then the journal. The is an undated
The Happy Planner: And Jennifer's asking how do you find happy during these tumultuous times
Steph Fleming: You know, I'm not gonna lie. I had a really, really tough time at the beginning of this and
Steph Fleming: I was not very happy to be honest with you and
Steph Fleming: I work at it. I work at really finding the, you know, really getting down to what am I struggling with
Steph Fleming: journaling through my emotions and then figuring out, you know, even if it's one little thing like, you know what, I'm just happy to go sit up my backyard and watch the sunset.
Steph Fleming: And find the happiness in that. And then the next day. You know what else can I be happy so little bits at a time when it's difficult.
Steph Fleming: I know a lot of people are out of jobs and people are sick and you know and it's not always easy to come by happiness.
Steph Fleming: And you know I create it, I create the little tiny pieces of happiness in my day and i think it's it's most important when it's hard. That's the most important time. So when you when you're struggling
Steph Fleming: That's when I think it's the most important that we learned to just find those little nuggets just those little things like I'm happy that I woke up and I'm healthy. Today, that's enough, that's enough to be, you know, thankful for.
The Happy Planner: Well said. Can you share a little bit about the downloads that were sent
Steph Fleming: Um, I know that they there are downloads. Did they come with i'm not sure about the specifics and the logistics of it. I knew that they were happy. They were happening. I don't know what they are.
Steph Fleming: That's part of like not actually working in the office, day to day. I used to know everything. And now I'm like I don't know everything, which is Stephanie would know. This is very hard for me. By the way, not knowing everything. So I don't know, Terry. I'm sorry.
The Happy Planner: No problem, we'll figure that one out for everyone. So Sarah rights. I love the idea of the mission statement when you create it your first one. Where did you keep it.
Steph Fleming: I kept mine next to my vision board which was on a bulletin board on top of my desk and in the book club. The first week we are going to create a vision board. And we're also going to create
Steph Fleming: A version of mission statement and I just called it that happy life manifesto.
Steph Fleming: So you're going to take what you do in the book, the things that you do the practices in the book and all those things that I know you're going to write in your book and fill out.
Steph Fleming: And you're going to take those and take it to the next level by creating basically your own personal mission statement or your part of your
Steph Fleming: You know your declaration of which is a manifesto, which is a declaration of your beliefs. So who you are and what you are doing. So I'm excited to I'm going to do it again because I love seeing mine. But I think mine is probably changed a little bit since then.
The Happy Planner: Excellent. Thank you. Okay, I'm going to put this give this back to you and I'm Stephanie Schroeder
Stefanie Schroeder: I just wanted to thank everybody for attending today and
Stefanie Schroeder: You know, I saw in the chat. There are some people who have already gotten their copies of the book, or they've ordered from somewhere else, but
Stefanie Schroeder: If you want the special Michaels version, you can always give the copy that you order to somebody else to a friend and you can go through the book together. Just wanted to
Stefanie Schroeder: Again, make sure to check out Stephanie's book plan a happy life and the coordinated happy planner products and Michael stores in the US and Canada and on michaels.com and have a great evening everybody.
The Happy Planner : Hi. Um, can we talk about the downloads real quick before we stop.
The Happy Planner : Okay, the downloads were sent to the attendees on this call before the call started via email. If you'll check your email, you should see an email from Michael's via the any road system that you received your login
The Happy Planner : For the webinar chat.
Steph Fleming: Oh, perfect.
The Happy Planner : And if you will look for that in your email if you don't see it in your email. Check your junk email file and you'll find your downloads there.
Steph Fleming: Great, thank you. Deanna i know i didn't i didn't have the answers for that one. So I appreciate that. I know we were going to add or put some quotes or some some sort of downloads that will help you take it to the next level do my homework before the next one so I know
The Happy Planner : The downloads are some special gifts created by our creative team.
The Happy Planner : They. There are some zoom backgrounds. Some I don't remember what the batch was for today's call. But each on each session. There are different downloads so that encourages you just to come back and join us on the next chats as well. So, because each time there will be different downloads.
Steph Fleming: Yeah, and that's a great next time to to Martin as it tomorrow.
Steph Fleming: Not tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday.
The Happy Planner : Wednesday Thursday.
Steph Fleming: Wednesday and Thursday. If you haven't signed up with us to take the next to come take apart and in the next chats do. So I would love for you to join us because we are going to be going over some different chapters.
Steph Fleming: And talking about a little bit more about planning. I think on Wednesdays. And then beyond that is actually
Steph Fleming: One of the other chapters. So we're going to be doing different content for each one. And like Deanna said, there'll be different downloads for each one. So,
Steph Fleming: Thank you guys so much for joining us. Thanks for allowing me into your homes or wherever we're joining you and I hope to see you on the next chat.
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