Do you have a passion for learning about personal and professional development through reading books? If you do, then you’ll love this week's episode of Hello Flow with Sammie Bergan. The first half of the episode we talk about what inspired our reading habits, our favorite books/authors, and book recommendations. In the second half of the episode we focus on a casual book review of Best Selling Book, Atomic Habits by James Clear.

Sam Bergan is the owner of BookHouse Hawai’i, a mini thrifted bookshop that hosts bookish events! She also works as an event planner and a marketing/communications consultant. BookHouse is Sam's passion project for sharing great books, bringing book lovers together, and getting more people excited about reading. She's been reading since a young age, and in her adult life has been able to connect with other amazing book lovers, now friends, through her bookstagram and her shop! Her mission is to expand her business to offer more events, a book club, and a larger space for everyone to come together and share their love of books.

Key Takeaways:

• What sparked the idea for Sammie to become a bookstore owner & how she built a business around books

• Sammie shares what made her love reading and some of her favorite books she has read over the years 

• How books are sometimes used as a form of escapism and what Sammie’s personal experience was growing up using books to escape 

• How reading helps people in general with their personal and professional development, and how learning through reading books is different than watching movies or shows

• Sammie and Kaycee share their favorite fiction and nonfiction authors

• What books Sammie is currently reading and what books she would recommend you read in 2024

• Kaycee and Sammie give a strong review on Atomic Habits by James Clear

• Kaycee explains chapter 11’s quality vs quantity experiment and how she applies the same technique in her business 

• How to use affirmations to create and stick to good habits

Make sure to tune into the next episode where I talk about what Dharma represents and the four goals of life through the lens of Ayurveda.

Connect with Kaycee, Host of Hello Flow Podcast:

Website: https://www.hello-flow.co/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/helloflowcollective/ 

Connect with Sam, Owner of BookHouse Hawai’i:

Website: https://bookhousehawaii.com 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bookhousehi/ 

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