It\u2019s time for the weekly Friday Faves party. This is where I share some of my favorite finds form the week and around the web. I always love to hear about your faves, too, so please shout out something you\u2019re loving in the comments section below.<\/p>\n Liv is 12! I can\u2019t even believe it. She\u2019s officially a *tween* and so bright, intelligent, hilariously sarcastic, and I love her passion for dance, skincare, and music.<\/p>\n She asked for a homemade cake instead of a bakery cake, so P and I made this for her:<\/p>\n We spent the day at the mall for shopping, boba, and ramen with her best friend, and then had cake with my mom and nana. Disneyland was her big celebration, so we had a lovely low-key day on her actual birthday.<\/p>\n Italki!<\/a> I was googling ways to practice Spanish and this had excellent reviews. The short story is that my mom\u2019s side of the family speaks Spanish, but growing up, I\u2019d always answer in English. I minored in Spanish in college, and would read novels and write essays, but we spent very little time actually speaking. So while I understand it really well and can write, and much prefer Spanish music over English, I don\u2019t have a lot of confidence speaking it.<\/p>\n I signed up for Italki<\/a> and had my first lesson this week. It felt so nice to actually PRACTICE and get tips from a professional.<\/a> I\u2019d love to eventually record some Spanish workout videos, or help 1:1 clients in Spanish, so I feel like this is a great stepping stone.<\/p>\n Latest read<\/a>. I feel like I can\u2019t read it fast enough; it\u2019s packed with incredible info. \u00a0I want to do everything I can do help Mazer have a happy, healthy, long doggy life.<\/p>\n (The goodest girl)<\/p>\n Natural immunity boosters your whole family needs<\/a>.<\/p>\n Any activity is better for your heart than sitting (even sleeping). \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Sakara goodies!<\/a> My friends at Sakara sent a taste of their January Reset program,<\/a> which I enjoyed earlier this week. It was such an awesome treat when we came back from Disneyland. You still have two more chances to join their Reset – I did a full blog post about it here<\/a> and you can use XOGINAH for 20% off sitewide<\/a>. I\u2019ve enjoyed the jackfruit barrio taco (sooooo good), protein banana bread, apple cider muffin, Thai curry bowl, and all of the delicious, beautiful salads.<\/p>\n Four Trader Joe\u2019s meal hacks.<\/a>\u00a0(The comments section is treasure trove of recipes and combos)<\/p>\n Peanut butter pretzel bars<\/a><\/p>\n 15-minute HIIT workout (no repeats)<\/a><\/p>\n My fave jeans right now.<\/a> Flared but not too much and the perfect amount of stretch. (On sale right now, too)<\/p>\n Beautycounter free gift time! Check it out here<\/a> and I\u2019d love to help with any skincare recs.<\/p>\n Happy Friday, friends! Gina<\/p>\n The post Friday Faves 1.12<\/a> appeared first on The Fitnessista<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi friends! How are you? I hope you had a wonderful week! It was the kids\u2019 first week back at school (wah) so we\u2019re back in the routine and I\u2019m already counting down the days until Rodeo Break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":""},"categories":[20,1,21,22,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestratefinders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestratefinders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestratefinders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestratefinders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestratefinders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16219"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bestratefinders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16227,"href":"https:\/\/bestratefinders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16219\/revisions\/16227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestratefinders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestratefinders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestratefinders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestratefinders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"http:\/\/bestratefinders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/KHP25of97-1-scaled.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nFriday Faves 1.12<\/h2>\n
Life:<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nRead, watch, listen:<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nFitness + good eats:<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nFashion + beauty:<\/h3>\n
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\nxoxo<\/p>\n