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For more than 20 years, she's helped people create homes that feel as good as they look by teaching a practical, deeply personal approach to feng shui.

Amanda is also the host of the House Therapy Podcast, and has been featured by Architectural Digest, Forbes, and Food52.

Her work encourages people to see their homes not as projects to perfect, but as partners in the lives they're creating, and that resonates so much with me.

I don't know if it does with you.

Zola is a Seattle-based food writer, recipe developer, and former professional pastry chef.

She writes a bi-weekly recipe column for taste called Extra Good, and her work has appeared in publications like Bon Appetit, Food 52, and more.

Zola's debut cookbook, Sheet Cakes, more than 50 exceptional cakes to make in one pan, was just released, and it's a collection of approachable and fun cake recipes and includes everything from single-layer cakes to rolled sponges and multi-layer showstoppers.

Zola joins me in the studio to talk about her favorite baking book, a book of birthday cakes, no less, how her book deal came to be, talk about manifesting what you want, and developing the cakes for her new book.