Lighten Up with Melanie Dale

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Lighten Up #13: Jennifer Dukes Lee Oct 18, 2016

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Melanie talks with Jennifer Dukes Lee about her new book, The Happiness Dare. She took the quiz to find her happiness style and Jennifer psychoanalyses her and explains all five happiness styles, Experiencer, Doer, Thinker, Giver, and Relater. What’s your happiness style? Listen in, and lighten up.

Lighten Up #12: Lydia Mays Oct 04, 2016

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Melanie talks with Lydia Mays, the founder of See Beautiful, a philanthropic company focused on giving back, which empowers children and adults to see and create more beautiful in the world. They cover dogs in strollers and purses, plus adult Halloween costumes. Listen in and lighten up.

Lighten Up #11: Kari Kampakis Sep 20, 2016

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Melanie talks to Kari Kampakis, author of 10 Ultimate Truths Girls Should Know, about her new book, Liked, releasing November 15. They cover navigating your middle and high school girls through social media and "mean girls," as well as writing, lightening up, and this little known thing people are talking about called football season.

Lighten Up #10: Alli Worthington Sep 06, 2016

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Melanie talks with Alli Worthington, COO of Propel, founder of Blissdom, and author of Breaking Busy, about cutting out distraction, writing books, and leading leaders, plus how we need to lighten up, movie reviews, and When Pumpkin Spice Goes Too Far. Alli has so much wisdom to share with us and she’s fun and funny and after listening to this you’ll want to be her friend.

Lighten Up #9: Alex Dale Aug 23, 2016

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Melanie talks with Alex Dale, her long-suffering graphic designer husband who of his own volition dressed up in a Maimed Cookie Man costume to become the It’s Not Fair mascot at the book launch party. They interview each other, discussing important topics like who is cooler, Batman or Iron Man, which John Cusack movie is the best, how they met when Melanie was a twerpy freshman, and how they learned to laugh through hard stuff. They also perform a dramatic reading of their kids talking about where babies come out of.

Lighten Up #8: Kendall Ashley Aug 09, 2016

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Melanie talks with Kendall Ashley, a writer at Nerdist and Geek & Sundry and editor at a publishing house, about bun-stuffing in ballet, her perspective as an editor, San Diego Comic-Con, and all their conflicted feelings about the new Harry Potter book, The Cursed Child. She has so many great recommendations for reading and viewing and Melanie shares about one of the most embarrassing moments of her life.

Lighten Up #7: Chris Marlow Jul 26, 2016

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Melanie talks with Chris Marlow, founder of Help One Now and author of Doing Good Is Simple, about his new book, Ryan Reynold’s parenting tweets, and sending kids on mission trips. There may have been a moment when they were both talking about seals, but he meant Navy and Melanie was picturing the ones with whiskers and flippers.

Lighten Up #6: Steen Jones Jul 11, 2016

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Melanie talks with Steen Jones, new author and founder of COLORS scarves, about her debut novel, The Door Keeper, our awesome kids with autism, spending the night in a treehouse, and reasons women were committed to mental institutions in the ninetheenth century that will melt your brain. Also, doing the sniff test on clothes and the pros and cons of nose rings. World-changing stuff.

Lighten Up #5: Osheta Moore Jun 26, 2016

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Melanie talks with Osheta Moore, podcaster and blogger at Shalom in the City, about her practice of shalom, lightening up about dinners, and her hair. Then they deep dive into The Princess Bride about everything from favorite quotes, characters, and scenes to if The Machine could suck one year of your life away, which one would you want it to suck?

Lighten Up #4: Jenny Rapson Jun 14, 2016

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Melanie talks with Jenny Rapson, editor of ForEveryMom.com, about three B’s: bad reviews, bikinis, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She reads her one-star reviews for the first time ever, Jenny shares how she thinks people need to lighten up, and they get all late-nineties nostalgic about the WB.

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