To Dr. Karie Willyerd, who inspires me to push outside my comfort zone.

To my amazing husband and our awesome, crazy, brilliant kids—I love you. Thanks for eating take-out for a year while I worked on this project. I promise the next book will be less stressful for the family, but I can't promise I'll ever learn to cook.

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