An Intentional Maine Lifestyle, My Conversation with Charlotte Miller Part II

In this episode of Elegant Maine Living, I continue my conversation with Charlotte Miller about building an intentional, balanced life in Maine. Charlotte and her husband moved from Boston during the pandemic and chose Maine as their permanent home, and together we explore what it means to raise a young family here while pursuing rewarding careers.

We talk about the daily rhythms of life that come so naturally in Maine—like Charlotte’s little boy running to the door every morning, eager to get outside. From backyard adventures to preschools with direct access to acres of preserved woods, Charlotte shares how her children are learning independence, curiosity, and resilience through outdoor play. It’s a reminder of the healthy outdoor lifestyle that Maine encourages for both children and parents.

Our conversation touches on the balance between work and life. Charlotte describes how she thrives in a national career with PWC while living in Cumberland, Maine, with nature just outside her door. We also talk about technology and parenting, and why access to the outdoors is such a powerful antidote to screen time.

Community is another theme. Charlotte reflects on moving here without a strong friend or peer network and finding that Maine is incredibly welcoming. From neighbors inviting you to dinner to friends pulling you into sailing, skiing, or mountain biking, she’s found that Maine offers both inclusivity and connection.

I loved hearing Charlotte’s stories about sailing the coast with her children, cross country skiing on the Royal River, and finding joy in simple, everyday experiences. For me, this is what Maine Real Estate is really about—it’s not just houses, it’s the lifestyle and community you create once you’re here.

If you’ve ever wondered whether leaving a big city for Maine would mean giving something up, this conversation shows that you can have both: meaningful work and a rich, healthy outdoor lifestyle.

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Elise Kiely: [00:00:00] Welcome listeners to the second episode of my conversation with Charlotte Miller about living an intentional and balanced life. In the first episode, we talked about Charlotte's journey of how she moved from Boston and found her way during the pandemic up to Maine, and she and her husband decided to make Maine their permanent home.

And Charlotte, I'd like to pick back up on where we were, where we left off. You have moved to Maine picked a location that gave you accessibility to the outdoors even though you weren't aware of it, perhaps when you first bought your home, but you were sharing with me the other day, your typical or maybe even an ideal day.

You now have two beautiful children. They're in preschool. Or I think one's in daycare, one's in preschool. But you said [00:01:00] something to me when we were having coffee the other day. Every morning your son knocks on the door. He wants to go outside. Can you share with us, because I think that's important for listeners to remember, that's one of the benefits of living in Maine is that you are outside all the time.

Charlotte Miller: Oh, yes. We start most of our days walking our dog, which I mentioned in our last last discussion that the dog needs a lot of exercise. And some days I certainly don't want to do that. But I will say that it's been the best thing that I've noticed about our two and a half year old Jack. He's, he now expects this as part of the morning routine.

So there's a door that leads out to our backyard right off of our kitchen, and Jack often opens the door and lets the dog out and then starts to try to let himself out as well, most mornings. And it's wait a second, we've got two and a half. Yeah, we've gotta have breakfast and maybe some shoes would be good and maybe pants full of snow.

We might want a hat. But he, he is a pretty [00:02:00] independent little guy and he likes to put his shoes on and get his coat on and will find his hat. And he will sometimes make it as far as the garage before he comes back in and he says, I might need help with something. And it's, you go out into the garage and he's picked up like a pitchfork or something that he certainly should not be, not to sound like a, an irresponsible parent, but, 

Elise Kiely: he's a Maine boy. Oh, yes. 

Charlotte Miller: And we'll say great. Go outside. And we always have eyes on him out the back window of the kitchen. But he'll be out there and he'll be piling rocks up and digging in the dirt. And 90% of the time we have to bring him back inside and change 'em before we drop him off at school.

But he. 

Elise Kiely: So that's part of his expected morning routine? Oh, yes. Yeah. Just like brushing your teeth and having breakfast. It's what happens in the morning as you go outside. Absolutely. For fresh air. And, 

Charlotte Miller: and I, before we had kids, I was really nervous that we would have these indoor bookworms that didn't want to partake in our kind of crazy at times family outdoor activities.

But I think I've created the [00:03:00] opposite effect is now there'll be sometimes where I'm like, check, I just want to have my coffee. And he'll be banging on the door to go outside. 

Elise Kiely: That's fantastic. Yeah. And you, I know that when you were looking at different preschools for Jack, it's, it's different in Maine than it would've been if you were in Boston.

And I know with Oh yeah. When I was in DC people would get, when they would get married and the, when they were just talking about having children, they'd get on a list in DC or Boston 'because they were so afraid of getting shut out of a preschool. Explain a little bit about how you decided on the preschool you, you chose. And the importance of outdoors. 

Charlotte Miller: Absolutely. We actually did not know about our preschool until your daughter, Hannah told us about it. We were very fortunate to be, we knew that she was planning to move to Utah and we were of course encouraging that and supportive of it, and we knew that we would need to figure out childcare for Jack. And we had never heard of the school where he ended up and checked it out online, went and took a tour, and we're [00:04:00] very enthralled with the teachers, the community, the small, very kid focused. But one of the things that really stood out to us was that it backs up to this 30 acre preserve and that the kids are literally running in the woods.

A lot of the days. Pick up, drop off. They're just running around out there having the time of their life with no toys or really any infrastructure. They're just playing in the dirt and running through the trees. And that 

Elise Kiely: sticks and leaves Exactly. Stones. 

Charlotte Miller: Absolutely. And having a really great time.

Elise Kiely: Do you think there's a correlation between being in outdoors with freedom in the outdoors and curiosity and sort of a growth mindset, 

Charlotte Miller: of course. Yeah. For children, and I think it's really important to let them really do what they want and not have it be directed by adults. It's pretty unbelievable watching Jack explore on his own and pick up the bugs and the grass. And [00:05:00] figure out, what a worm is on his own. Yeah. And of course, we're always standing by, but I think it's really important to let them have that freedom to explore and figure out what they like and what they don't like and, 

Elise Kiely: and freedom to trip over a root and yeah. Have a skin knee. As much as we wanna avoid that, they, you have to have that experience of course to know, to watch where you're running. 

Charlotte Miller: Absolutely. Yeah. I think a lot of parenting is to really control yourself from interjecting in their process. 

Elise Kiely: I love how you said that. I think that's true. And it's easy to look back and say, oh, I wish I had done this differently or that differently.

I think, most parents do the best they can with the experiences they have. But one of the nice things about being in this part of Maine is that you have a variety of different experiences. And I think, I can't imagine a parent today not worried about screen time and the influence of technology on children.

And I think that the access to nature is a good antidote to that, [00:06:00] especially when you can create curiosity and interest at an early age. I think that's just super important. 

Charlotte Miller: It's critical. Absolutely. 

Elise Kiely: Yeah. And do you all have, do you all talk about that with your friends, about technology? 

Charlotte Miller: Oh yes. There's a very popular book right now called The Anxious Generation that I listen to on Audible, and I would not shut up about it.

I've literally told anyone that will listen about the importance of reading this book, and it's really just about the effective screen time on our kids. Yeah. And that, that they're, of course I recommend the book, but it's much bigger than that. But it, the, my biggest takeaway was how important it is to not-

it's very tempting. You're ti I mean, my husband and I both work full time and it can be really long days and so at the end of the day it would be certainly a lot easier I think, as a parent to stick the kids in front of a TV and get dinner ready or whatever, clean up or finish up work.

But and the reality is we, they're in school full time or daycare full time, and so that's two hours that we get to spend with them. [00:07:00] It's really not that much time in the grand scheme of things. And the screen time is something that I'm. Very adamant about. 

Elise Kiely: Yeah. I applaud you for that.

I think that's wonderful. I remember one social media post that you posted, I can't even remember when it was a very, it was very funny picture of your two and a half year old Jack who was very upset, un, very uncommon situation for Jack to be upset. But he had this look of distress on his face or crying, and your baby was of course adorable and smiling.

And I pick a picture of you. Was, and the caption was, we have now sung wheels on the bus for the 40th time in a row. And the, and we are trying to hold everything together. Yes, he is. 

Charlotte Miller: He can have the temper tantrums like everyone, but it is pretty funny. We do a lot of singing in our household. 

Elise Kiely: That's wonderful.

You'd worry if they never had a temper tantrum. Yes, that's 

Charlotte Miller: true. 

Elise Kiely: My mother, who was a child psychologist says, usually says, those things are age appropriate. Yes, absolutely. And while it's frustrating in the moment. They have to go through that experience. And [00:08:00] it's unrealistic and naive to think that they're not going to have, of course.

Charlotte Miller: Yeah. That's a really good, I'll remind myself of that during the next one, 

Elise Kiely: ab Absolutely. Absolutely. Let's turn a little bit to how you have managed this life while still working at Price Waters Coopers. How have you managed that to have a national consulting firm employer while living this idyllic, outdoorsy lifestyle in Maine?

Charlotte Miller: I am really lucky that I am in a part of the business at PWC that is within business services, so I'm not in the client service part of the business, which I think it would be a lot harder to, to sustain the lifestyle that we do with the hours that are required of that. I am very fortunate that we have incredible help with our children and we have found great communities for them to grow and thrive in. And so I never worry about dropping them off where they are. 

Elise Kiely: Are you talking about at friends houses for play dates or No, 

Charlotte Miller: For [00:09:00] school. For daycare. Oh, for daycare and school. So for during the day. I don't have that guilt that a lot of moms talk of. I do have the mom guilt elsewhere, but but I, it's age appropriate.

Elise Kiely: Charlotte. That's fine. You'd wor I'd worry if you didn't. Okay. It's okay. Okay. 

Charlotte Miller: Thank you. I. I really love to work and I love to be challenged. I love to use my brain and I'm lucky that we have these places to, to bring our children and that I can then come back home and really dive into work. So you 

Elise Kiely: have a home office in your home? Yeah, I have 

Charlotte Miller: a home office in our house. I, sometimes we'll go elsewhere and work, but I, like many remote workers have the whole setup. I have a standing desk and a extra screen and the matt and everything's pretty dialed in at this point. And I've always, a lot of, most of PWC is flexible, so a lot of people do go into offices, but it's not uncommon to get on a call with 10 people and 10 people are all at home.

Elise Kiely: And in different cities. 

Charlotte Miller: Different cities [00:10:00] all over the country. Yeah. And it's always a great conversation starter is. Okay, where do you live and especially this time of year when the weather's typically getting nicer for most folks. I always am is so excited to say I'm from Maine, and either people's reaction is wow, you must love being cold or, wow, I've only been there on vacation, or, oh, that's on our bucket list to visit for a vacation with the, once the kids are a little older,

Elise Kiely: I'm so glad you said that, Charlotte, because I've had the same responses and I've shared this in other episodes that whenever I'm at networking events around the country or on Zooms and on my Zoom name, I always put Maine afterwards. It's a conversation starter and I feel people lean in their eyes, get a little bigger, and they're very curious because it seems like this romantic, mysterious place that how can you live and work and the fact that you get to have your everyday life and allow your son to go out the door and you can have an eye on him, he is playing with rocks and [00:11:00] leaves and sticks and super 

Charlotte Miller: safe, 

Elise Kiely: super safe. And yet then be able to have this career is really special and we, we can never take that for granted. 

Charlotte Miller: That's a great reminder and I think about it a lot of how lucky we are.

Yeah. And to be able to have both. 

Elise Kiely: When you decided to make Maine your home and that you were not gonna do the trajectory, go back to the office, live in Boston, you made that decision of that combination of balancing lifestyle and work. Were you worried about isolation being in Cumberland, Maine, not being in an office with lots of other people, or have you been able to replicate that?

Charlotte Miller: I'm not. We're very social. I do get to Boston, New York often for work and I'm really not, because I've found it's, especially with kids, we're building a family. It's incredibly, we're, I often joke we're molding young minds. Which is incredibly cliche, but it's true. And I want to be able to show up for my kids and I want to give them this life that [00:12:00] is so important to, to, to us.

And. May, they may grow up and decide to not live in Maine, but that's okay. I know that I gave them sort of the foundation for this sort of outdoor focused lifestyle, and I think it's also important to another cliche statement, but it life is really short and it should be enjoyed. 

Elise Kiely: It should be savored and enjoyed is my mother's phrase.

And I think that's true. And when you look, it's, I wish we had a lens that we could look through when we have big decisions in our lives. Should I move to this city or should I stay in that city? If you could look back. If you could look at your life through a lens of if you had decided to stay in Boston and you have a positive outlook, and I know you would've had a great life, you have a beautiful family, you would've had a great life anywhere.

But do you ever try to imagine what your life would've been like if you had stayed in Boston? 

Charlotte Miller: I think about it a lot. We have an incredibly close-knit group of friends that all stayed in the Boston area. So we do think about it a [00:13:00] lot and we get to visit with them and we have them to Maine often, and I really have no regrets about the life we chose.

I, I certainly, to your earlier point, I am happy pretty much all of the time. So I do have faith and confidence that we would have been happy had we chose that path. But I just, I love the life that we've built here. Yeah. And I am incredibly proud of us for sticking to what is true to ourselves, as true to ourselves as a couple, and as a family.

And it, to your earlier point, it's been very intentional the way that we've chosen. And of course we think about it, okay does it make sense to. Continue to live here, and we laugh at this point because we're not going anywhere. Yeah. And it's been we're, again, I feel so lucky to have landed here and to be building this life that, that I'm really proud of.

Elise Kiely: Charlotte, we were talking before we were recorded this morning about looking at [00:14:00] moving to Maine, and I remember when my husband Neil and I decided that we were going to move to Maine. It was for a career opportunity, and I didn't know anything about Maine. I think I'd been to the state once to pick up my brother from summer camp, but I had no friends here, no family here.

So it was the wild west. It was a new frontier. And one of my concerns from my own narrative of what Maine must be like was that people who were born in Maine, grew up in Maine, stayed in Maine, and that they were very comfortable being just them, and that it would be very hard for an outsider to move in, would I get invited to a party? Probably not because I'm not somebody's granddaughter or second cousin. And I think about some towns that I'm familiar with in the South where that was very true. If you didn't have a good connection, you could live and work there, but you were going to have a different experience.

And I was completely wrong. I have never met nicer people, more open and welcoming people than I [00:15:00] have in Maine and I just wanted to get your experience. As you said, you're very social, so it's easy for you to make friends and community, but what were some of the ways that you and your husband were able to develop community?

Charlotte Miller: I'm laughing because when we first moved here, I was really nervous about meeting people and I remember being really lonely at first and it was COVID. It was really scary and I ultimately was pregnant and was just wondering, wandering around when we were living harps ball, especially wondering where I would make friends and I would talk to our friends in other communities and they would all be hanging out and I would think to myself like, okay, I'm still glad that we made this move, but I need to figure out where are the young people?

Where are the people that are excited to be out on the water, to be skiing, to be skating, where are these people? 'because I know that they're here and I don't even really know how it started. And it's certainly snowballed over the years, of course, now being here for five years.

But [00:16:00] we have met an incredible group of people and have also found it to be amazingly inclusive. People you barely know are inviting you over to their house for dinner on a Monday night. And they're saying, oh, I'm having a barbecue on Saturday. You should come by there are a million people that you'll get to know.

Or, Hey, have you ever tried mountain biking? Let's go on a mountain bike ride. I ride every week with this group of girls. I'll add you to the text ride. It's just a really nice. People are excited to meet new faces and it really has been really nice to, I have made female friends on my own.

We've made friends as a couple, we've made friends as a family, and there's not this sort of oh, what do you do for a living and where do you live? Sort of hierarchy or importance. That's just you come as you are. Yeah. And people love that. And I think it's really. Inclusive.

Elise Kiely: I was going to, at the end of the, of each episode, I always ask [00:17:00] guests certain rapid fire questions, uhoh, and that's okay. We're gonna get to that and it's fine. But one of the questions I always ask is, what do you find elegant about Maine? And as you were just describing that Charlotte, that sounds so elegant.

Charlotte Miller: It really is. It's really great and elegant. 

Elise Kiely: Isn't. Which fork do you use or can you wear white after Easter before Labor Day? Elegance is an intentionality. It's hospitality, it's kindness, it's being aware of others having a growth mindset. I think all of those things are elegant, and that's the word that popped in my head when you were describing that.

That's, and it could be mountain biking, it can be dirty, it can be gritty. But it's still elegant when someone says, come join us. 

Charlotte Miller: Yes. And I think it's nice that people, when I think about our friends that we've made here, it's not just like we infiltrated this one group of friends that they were already friends and they invited us to their clique.

It is this eclectic group of people that we have met and we are aligned by our shared interest. Our shared activities not even [00:18:00] sometimes our shared political views or mindset or parenting ways we are it was truly just about we have something in common. And it again, is not about what your profession is.

I don't even know what half of my friends do for a living and I love that. I was gonna 

Elise Kiely: ask Love that. I was gonna ask if you even knew that. Yeah that's wonderful. 

Charlotte Miller: And some of, a lot of our friends are doing really impactful, incredible things. During their day to day life. And we, of course as we get to know more and more people we do find that out eventually, but I'm still, some of the first people we met five years ago, I am still learning things about them that they just have, it hasn't come up or they haven't thought to share.

And I, I think that's, it's, we're all brought together by these shared interests rather than our socioeconomic status. 

Elise Kiely: It's, I think it's all how you define yourself. And what's what? What's the race you're running? 

Charlotte Miller: Yeah. What's your personal brand? I like to say yes. 

Elise Kiely: What's your that's a great way to say it.

What's your personal brand and how do you want people to know you? Do you want people, do you [00:19:00] think people will respect you based on your work title or where your address of where you live? Or will people respect you because they say, look, we're having a barbecue. We've got extra. Come. Come. You're gonna know a ton of people.

Of course. Bring your children and yeah, it's 

Charlotte Miller: about how you make them feel. 

Elise Kiely: A hundred percent. A hundred percent. So as we get to this last section, Charlotte, here comes the rapid fire questions. Oh, okay. Are you ready? I'm ready. And there is no wrong or right. Where's your favorite place for a family hike In the area where you live?

By Har by area, Harpswell, Cumberland, Portland, Falmouth, Yarmouth. 

Charlotte Miller: Gosh, that's, I would say my favorite hike is not in the area where we live. Okay. So I'm gonna give you that answer first. We do a lot of sailing as we talked about, and there's an island called Isle au Haut, which is off of Deer Isle, which is a lot of the island is part of Acadia National Park, which is actually something I didn't know until relatively recently.

And there are these incredible trails on that island. And we [00:20:00] stumbled upon them on a sailing trip a couple of years ago, and we had just Jack our oldest at the time and pouring rain, threw 'him in a backpack, hiked around the mountain and it was one of those moments where it was like, is this real life?

This is really something special. But I think in our backyard we do most of our, I wouldn't even call it hiking, but most of our sort of trail adventuring at Twin Brooks. Because they just, there's an incredible trail network there. And Jack is at such, such an exploratory age that he loves the river there and that the hill trail is this huge mountain in his eyes.

And so that's been really fun. 

Elise Kiely: That's I love, I think that's a great trail system and I think the town does a great job of keeping that up as well. And I know it gets a lot of use. Best sailing spot. 

Charlotte Miller: Okay. So our favorite spot to go to is this place called The Basin, which is in Phippsburg.

And it is, so that's really just for those of you that [00:21:00] don't know, the Maine coast as well as I have learned, have come to learn the, it's just north of Harpswell and a great overnight spot. It's an incredible, it's this little hurricane hole that you are coming into it. And you think there's no way our sailboat can get in here.

This is so narrow and tight and is it shallow? And there's, but it is so beautiful. You come in around a bend and it opens up into this huge circular haven and

Elise Kiely: that sounds lovely. We 

Charlotte Miller: spent a lot of time there on the boat. And do you all 

Elise Kiely: do overnights with the boys? Oh 

Charlotte Miller: yes. Yep. Yeah. Do 

Elise Kiely: you ever since they were babies, yes.

Charlotte Miller: Since. So with Jack, his first sailing trip was he went on the boat at three days old, but his first overnight long, multiple night sailing adventure was at six weeks old. And then Amory was about four weeks old when he did his first. 

Elise Kiely: And how did they like sleeping over on the sailboat? 

Charlotte Miller: I think so far so good.

There's some nights that are better than others, but it is an experience. It's like camping. 

Elise Kiely: Yeah. 

Charlotte Miller: And I, I just think that they [00:22:00] are still both so young that they just don't really know any other way. And it's an adventure. It's an fun, it's. It is, we get special dinner, we make special dinner on the boat and you're on land exploring the beaches that you come across and lots of sailing and rowing and paddle boarding.

So that's been really fun 

Elise Kiely: Sha you're giving them such a gift, such a legacy. That's wonderful. I already know your favorite winter activity, but besides downhill skiing and do you do trekking too? Is that back country skiing? Yes. Yes. Back country skiing. Okay. 

Charlotte Miller: Yeah. We do a lot of that great exercise, especially when you're lugging two kids up on your back.

I would say our favorite activity for the winter is going to Oxbow Brewery in, in Oxford, Maine, Uhhuh. They have this really awesome barn that makes incredible wood-fired pizza. I think it's probably the best pizza in the state of Maine, but they have adjacent to the brewery are these nordic skiing trails and we put the kids in [00:23:00] a little tow behind and tow them on skis and Nordic ski.

Elise Kiely: Yeah, 

Charlotte Miller: great exercise. Beautiful. Really fun. And we've met a couple of new friends there over the years, which has been really fun. And you can ski to this hut in the woods and 

Elise Kiely: Oh, that's fun. Get, 

Charlotte Miller: They have fires going and you can get, they have great kid snacks. Jack. Jack has devoured lots of goldfish there.

That's right. 

Elise Kiely: That's fantastic. I, there's something really elegant about cross country skiing. Maybe I say that because I'm not an elegant downhill skier. When you can be at a peaceful cross country ski and it's quiet and all, I feel, I just feel like it's a Thorough poem. It's just quiet and you can just hear nature around you.

Charlotte Miller: Absolutely. We got to ski on the on the Royal River this year because it froze. Oh, and then, so we did some skating, which was really great, but then it started snowing. We had a pretty snowy, we winter, so we did a lot of tossing our skis on right at in Yarmouth there on the Royal River and skiing for Miles.

Miles. Yeah. It's it was really [00:24:00] an incredible experience. I like to joke with my husband now that I'll be that 90-year-old salty Maine woman and I'll be saying, ah, when I was your age, I skied down the Royal River. But, that's awesome. It's one of those really core memories that I'll really never forget.

Elise Kiely: Alright, and just to finish up, what's one thing that surprised you about raising your family in Maine? 

Charlotte Miller: We touched on this be before, but I think it's the, you do you attitude. There's really zero judgment and there's room to, to be whatever type of parent you want to be, and you'll find like-minded parents, and you'll also find parents that have very different parenting styles.

But they're not judging you, they're not offering you advice. Of course, if you ask questions they'll offer it, but they, but it is a very just come as you are.

And it's been really nice because it's allowed myself and my husband Dave to, to be the parents that we want to [00:25:00] be and grow into that as our children grow and as we grow our family. 

Elise Kiely: It's a very welcoming feeling. Yes. It's very elegant. It's 

Charlotte Miller: really, again, it's very inclusive. 

Elise Kiely: Yeah. Charlotte, I really appreciate your time. I really appreciate your sharing your experience because I think it is both re very relatable to a lot of people who are making that decision.

Do we, is it, are we gonna make a mistake if we leave the big city? The trajectory of where we wanna see our careers go, which are those are important goals and aspirations and people have worked hard for those things. Or do we want to try this other path of either having a career in Maine that allows you to live in Maine, or perhaps remote work that allows you to have a lifestyle in Maine.

And when I meet people every day who are trying to make that decision about moving to Maine, it is, people are being very intentional and it is a balance, and there are sacrifices that you make with whatever decision you decide to make. [00:26:00] And it's wonderful to see someone who has done a done both.

And I'm not saying every day is sunshine and unicorns for you. I'm sure it's, it's life. But you have created a really beautiful and intentional life and I appreciate the reflections that you've shared about how intentional you wanted to live and how intentional you wanted to raise your two beautiful boys.

Everything from the house that you bought to the access to the outdoors, to the preschool, which by the way I'll say is Pine Grove in Falmouth, where I sent both my children and where Jack now goes and your youngest presumably will go there, 

Charlotte Miller: he will certainly go there. Go there as well. Amazing school.

And 

Elise Kiely: and there are lots of great preschools. It's not the only one, but this is a pretty special place. It's 

Charlotte Miller: very special and you really can't go wrong. I think we have friends that are at a variety of different options and they all are wonderful. 

Elise Kiely: I, I agree. You're not going to make a mistake.

It's just whichever one works best for you. And location is a big part of that. Yes, it's gotta be easily accessible. 

Charlotte Miller: I would've said the biggest mistake that we could have made [00:27:00] was to not choose to live here, and to choose it very intentionally and to think about that. I think about that a lot.

Elise Kiely: Yeah. Yeah. It's important to step back and remember those decisions and be grateful for the life that you have here. Yes. Yeah. And I think elegance is looking for those parts of your life and those parts of your environment for which you can really be grateful, but you sometimes have to stop and remember them.

Charlotte Miller: Yes. And be thoughtful about it and not just rush through life. 

Elise Kiely: Well, Charlotte, thank you again and thank you listeners for tuning into today's episode. If you enjoyed this episode, please follow and download the podcast. I welcome any comments and would always appreciate the courtesy of a review.

Please remember, this podcast is for entertainment purposes only and should not be considered real estate investment or legal advice. I am happy to engage in a conversation if I can be helpful in any way. We welcome you to Maine where elegance is not [00:28:00] just an aesthetic, it is a way of life. Until next time, keep living with elegance.