Stay ConnectedThe evolution of the MINIMALIST MOMS podcast is now CLEAR INTENTIONS.
"Clear Intentions" is an interview-based podcast where guests share their personal stories and hard-earned expertise, offering listeners deeper insight into life’s most meaningful pursuits.
Each episode invites you to reflect on your own path, using these powerful narratives as a guide for personal growth and clarity.
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Today I bring you my conversation with author, Greta Eskridge. Greta Eskridge is a second-generation homeschooling mom of four. Her message of deeply connected and intentional parenting began as a blog in her early days of mothering, but quickly blossomed into a writing and speaking career. Now, Greta helps parents and kids create connection in a disconnected world on her website, at the popular Wild and Free homeschool conferences, and at speaking engagements around the country. Today we'll be discussing the subject of her new book, adventuring with kids.
In recent years, children are growing up in a world that looks little like the one their parents experienced during childhood. The Internet at their fingertips, cameras on phones that fit in their pockets, schedules jam-packed with extracurriculars. Parents find themselves competing for their children’s attention, at a loss for meaningful ways to cut through the noise and connect. Greta will answer questions such as: how do I get my unadventurous child to feel comfortable stepping out of his/her comfort zone, adventures that are do-able with little children, free adventures to have with our children and more.
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Today, I bring you my conversation with Rita Rogers. Rita is an is an ICU nurse, farm wife, mom to two little girls and blogger at Rita Rogers Co. where she advocates for living well on purpose. Rita takes on cultural norms such as health culture and thought processes that may not be serving us well by getting us to ask questions and apply common sense solutions.
In this conversation, we have an open dialogue on intentional media consumption and what that looks like in our day-to-day. We're not experts, just two minimalist mamas looking to navigate the plethora of information coming our way. I need to have ways to insulate my mind from the negativity of the world so that I can fulfill my daily parenting duties. That said, the 'noise' of the news media is something that's hard to tune out so instead of completely doing so, I just have to get better at navigating.
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Today I bring you my conversation with Diana Rene. Diana is a busy mom of two located in Denver, Colorado. She helps other busy mama's online to declutter their homes and simplify their lives, so they can spend more time doing what they love - and spend less time picking up after everyone. Today we discuss one of the most-asked listener questions: how do I simplify when my spouse isn't on board? Diana shares from personal experience and gives great suggestions on how to lovingly invite your spouse to join you (or at least arrive at some compromises that will leave both partners feeling satisfied!)
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Today I bring you my conversation with host of the The Money, Career & Motherhood Podcast, Janice Scholl. Janice has made an entire career out of talking about money and business. She found her purpose when she began mentoring female entrepreneurs in 2012. Today, we define how value-based budgeting varies from a typical budget. The budget is designed to help people have the money to spend it on the things they want to. It shouldn’t feel like a restrictor but an enabler. Changing your family’s financial future requires a change in behavior and there’s no better time to start than today.
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Show Notes for EP123: Values-Based Budgeting
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Today I bring you my conversation with Kate Miley. Kate is a professional photo organizer and is on a mission to help moms both back up their photos so they can sleep well at night and organize their photos so they can enjoy them again. Do you have thousands of photos that need sorting, saving, and deleting? Are your photos stored in a safe place? Does the thought of organizing your photos overwhelm you? Hopefully you’ll walk away from our conversation with a handful of helpful nuggets in your pocket to get the process started!
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Show Notes for EP121: Safe & Organized Photos
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Today, I bring you my interview with author, Carla Naumburg. Carla is is a writer, mother, and clinical social worker. She is the author of three parenting books and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, CNN, and Mindful Magazine, among other places. Today we will be discussing her latest book, How To Stop Losing Your S*** with Your Kids. The title suggests humor; however, there is so much wisdom we can draw from Carla's research and insights.
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Show Notes for EP120: Understanding Our Triggers in Parenting
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Today I bring you my conversation with Co-Founder and Chief Learning Officer of Tinkergarten, Meghan Fitzgerald. After 18 years as an educator, curriculum developer and school leader, Meghan has her dream gig—an entrepreneur/educator/mom who helps families everywhere, including hers, learn outside. Tinkergarten is on a mission to elevate the childhood experience. The idea is that children learn through play through bringing families together in a natural place within their community. Today, Meghan will speak to the importance of using nature as a classroom and why it's beneficial for children of all ages.
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Show Notes for EP119: Nature as a Classroom
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Today I bring you my conversation with Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson, comedians, mothers, and hosts of the podcast What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood. What Fresh Hell regularly ranks at the top of the Parenting and Kids and Family charts on Apple Podcasts, and is nearing two million lifetime downloads. In each episode Margaret and Amy discuss a parenting topic from their usually-completely opposite perspectives. Today, we discuss a variety of minimalist topics: from older children, toys, living in small spaces and just the weight of having 'too much'.
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Show Notes for EP118: Children, Small Spaces and Too Much Stuff with Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson
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Today I bring you my conversation with author, Sharon Jaynes. Sharon is an international inspirational speaker and Bible teacher for women’s conferences and events. She is also the author of several books and today we’ll be discussing one of her most popular books, The Power of a Woman’s Words. In our conversation, Sharon will provide practical tips for encouraging our children with our words, how tiny shifts in our language can make a huge difference in our relationship with our children and she also begins the conversation with helpful tips that support positive communication with our spouses.
I appreciated all of the wisdom that Sharon brought to the episode but if you’re specifically looking for her tips regarding children, skip to (around) minute twenty to bypass our conversation about spouses (though it’s a rich discussion that I do recommend giving a listen!)
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Show Notes for EP117: The Way We Talk to Our Kids (and Why It Matters...)
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This week, I bring you my interview with author, Kate Crocco. Kate is a psychotherapist, confidence and mindset coach and writer who mentors female leaders around the globe. She is the host of a weekly podcast, Thinking Like a Boss, where she regularly interviews female entrepreneurs from various fields who have found success in business and in life. Today we discuss the difficulties women face when launching and running their own businesses - how can we overcome our limiting beliefs? How do we discern whether or not to take an opportunity? How do we start before we feel ready?
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Show Notes for EP116: Turning Limiting Beliefs Into Limitless Opportunities
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