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55: The Ripple Effect of Clutter with Laura Carlin Oct 22, 2024

Have you ever considered how your home either helps you or hinders you when it comes to your goals?

Is it helping you be the kind of parent you want to be, or making it harder?

Is it helping you have a stronger marriage, or distracting you from your partner?

Clutter can affect us in ways we may not even realize. So can our routines and boundaries.

In this episode, author Laura Forbes Carlin shares her insight on this ripple effect of clutter, and offers different concepts that can help us figure out how to choose what stays and what goes (like “everything is alive”). She also shares a framework for deciding when and how to include your kids in the decluttering process.

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54: How to Keep the Clutter from Coming Back Oct 15, 2024

Somehow, inanimate objects seem to grow legs and find their way back into our homes and onto our counters. Decluttering can feel like fighting a losing battle-- barely scooping the water out of the boat before it comes rushing back in.

This episode covers 5 reasons clutter might keep coming back in your home, and ways to make sure you can finally keep it out for good.

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53: Home Organization Tips with Kenika Williams Oct 08, 2024

Decluttering is the first step to an organized home, but today we're diving into the organization piece of home management head first.

What product should we use? Where should we start? How do we make it look pretty?

Professional home organizer, Kenika Williams of Tidied by K answers all of those questions and more to set you up for success as you create a home that is functional and beautiful.

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52: Getting Past the "Wasted Money" When Decluttering Oct 01, 2024

If you struggle with decluttering because it feels like watching bags of money go out the door, then this episode is for you!

In it, I share not only helpful mindset shifts, but practical ways that decluttering actually helps us financially in the long run.

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51: Getting to the Root of Our Clutter with Jenny Albertini Sep 24, 2024

Who better to help us understand how clutter affects us from a holistic perspective than public health expert, Jenny Albertini?

Jenny uses easy to recognize categories (health, home and work/beyond), but pulls in the underpinning issues (structural inequities, brain based conditions, consumer culture) to help anyone looking to live a healthier, less overwhelmed life.

Her experience being trained under Marie Kondo herself and spending thousands of hours helping clients organize their homes gives her a tremendous amount of insight and perspective to complement her background in public health.

How does clutter affect our relationships? Our culture? Our health? And what about the other way around...how do all of those things affect our clutter?

This conversation will make you feel validated in your struggle with clutter and consumerism, but inspired and challenged at the same time.

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50: The Guilt & Fear of Decluttering Gifts Sep 17, 2024

"What if they ask me where it is??" "I feel ungrateful." "They expect to see it displayed."

These are just a few of the hard issues we dive into on today's episode, because we're talking about parting with items that were gifted to us.

Decluttering gifts can be really tricky, primarily because of two emotions:

Guilt - an internal experience as we wrestle with our core values (gratitude, kindness, etc.).

Fear - which is formed from the external pressure we feel from another person to keep the gift...and our discomfort around their potential reaction if we don't.

Today's episode is NOT an easy or straightforward topic, but I hope you find the strategies and mindsets I share useful as you declutter your home to experience a less stressful, more functional environment...all while navigating the tricky waters of relationships and personal dissonance.

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49: The Link Between Money Management & Clutter with Brad Nelson Sep 10, 2024

There are two major pieces to living a decluttered life:

1) What we get OUT

2) What we let IN

On today's episode with Brad Nelson from Debt Free Dad, we talk about how to make smart choices with our money that not only decrease financial stress, but help us stay mindful about what we let IN during our decluttering journey.

Brad also shares ways we can make money while decluttering as a tool for getting out of debt or creating a rainy day savings account.

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48: Decluttering Books as a Book Lover Sep 03, 2024

STOP, book lovers! Don't scoff and say "No way am I listening to this episode because books are something I'll never declutter!"

I mean, you can absolutely say that and we can still be friends and it's all good.

However, I think this episode will surprise you! I'm a huge book lover myself, so I want to 100% validate readers by recognizing exactly why it's so hard to declutter our precious books.

I offer 5 top reasons we want to hold onto them, then ONLY once those reasons are fully understood and accepted do we dive into mindset shifts or new perspectives that may help you lighten your load in a way that heightens your love for books rather than diminishes it in any way.

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47: Motivation to Unplug & Enjoy Life with Eric Moeller Aug 27, 2024

No one wants to end up on their death bed and say, "I wish I hadn't spent so much time on my phone."

Founder of FreeWyld vacation cabins, Eric Moeller helps shed light on the importance of unplugging in a practical (not unrealistic) way.

His 6 steps for entering into what he calls "Wyld Mode" help us break out of our screens and embrace experiences with our loved ones that truly feed our souls and help us live the life we know we want to live.

In this episode, we also talk about finding purpose in what we do with our time, alongside the benefits of spending unplugged time building healthy relationships.

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46: How We Decluttered Our Garage Aug 20, 2024

Ask and you shall receive!

When I polled the audience a few weeks ago about areas you'd like to declutter, lots of you said that your garage or your basement were hanging over your heads.

Sometimes these huge projects can feel impossible, so we never start them out of a state of overwhelmed paralyzation.

I hope today's episode gives you the encouragement to start on your own garage, basement, or doom room - to hear how my husband and I tackled ours, and to know that it CAN be done! You CAN do it!

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45: Determining Your Priorities with Ashli Pollard Aug 13, 2024

Paring down what's important in our life sounds nice and all, but HOW?

So often, pretty much everything feels important. We'd love to say that not everything is a priority, but most of the time it can feel anxiety-provoking to not *do it all.*

Business owner (x5) Ashli Pollard is at the top of her field - her agency working with celebs from Brooke Shields to Bethenny Frankel - and reaching thousands of entrepreneurs with her podcast, The Unfiltered Entrepreneur, and her online membership, The Doers.

If anyone knows about determining priorities, it's Ashli. She offers practical approaches we can take to figuring out what needs our attention NOW, and what can wait - both in our work and in our personal life.

Plus she's been one of my favorite humans and friends for 12 years. It's a fun episode - we both love to laugh, and hope you do too!

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44: Brainstorming Solutions to Clutter Problem Areas Aug 06, 2024

Do you have an area of your house that can't seem to stay decluttered or organized no matter what you do?

Same.

Today I walk you through the four biggest clutter problem areas in my own home, and hope that you find inspiration as I brainstorm how to keep the clutter at bay!

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43: Creating Household Rhythms to Foster Peace with Ben & Brianna Folkman Jul 30, 2024

One of the most efficient ways to simplify your life so your life becomes exponentially easier is to implement household rhythms.

Each new rhythm (i.e. routine, habit, etc,) takes away the mental load of problem-solving and decision fatigue. When you don't have to think through what to do, you're left with way more brain space and a lot less stress.

Ben and Brianna Folkman of Folklife Rhythms have spent years learning best practices for implementing their "flexible frameworks" in order to create a more peaceful home - even during the chaotic years of little kids.

They walk us through their understanding of how rhythms create security in our relationships (for our kids, too!), as well as their Parenting and Teamwork Series that sets couples up for success as they navigate life as a unit.

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42: 15 Ways to Spend Less Money Jul 23, 2024

This episode doesn't list things to avoid temptation, like unfollow influencers or take the Amazon Prime app off your phone - though those are great ways to save money!

Instead, we're talking about actionable steps that will save you money - from small choices to big life decisions.

Why should we bother paring down our spending? Does spending less and saving more truly matter? Don't worry, we'll cover that, too!

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41: Timeless Truths About Simplicity with Suzanne Johnson Jul 16, 2024

How do you know an idea is true?

That's a pretty big question, but I've found that the best way to know if an idea is worth exploring is to find out how long it's been around.

Because, as Mark Twain famously said, "There's no such thing as a new idea."

Sage wisdom usually comes in the form of a repetitive idea that respected spiritual and thought leaders have landed on independently over hundreds - even thousands - of years.

Today on the podcast, we welcome Suzanne Johnson, whose book Vital Simplicity pulls on the work of Charles Wagner - who authored The Simple Life in 1895.

Living simply as a means to internal fulfillment is a timeless truth - a conclusion that dates back as far as 600 BCE.

If that's not motivation to at least explore the principle of living with less...I don't know what is!

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Blocks

by Suzanne Johnson

Child plays

Hour after hour

Stacking blocks

Knocking down

Holding wooden

Cubes in his

Tender hands

He is

Entertained

Leave the

Floor bare

Except for

These sturdy

Pieces

He finds his

Way

His interest is

Held

Add Legos

To the mix

And coloring

Books

Trains and trucks

And why not

Screens?

He soon becomes

Bored

Let his

Amusement

Be in the

Simple things

Let his

Vision sharpen on

One thing at a

Time

Cut through the

Clutter

And find

Joy

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40: Managing Your Busy Schedule Using Time Blocking Jul 09, 2024

What do you do when there just aren't enough hours in the day?

I've got you!

Time blocking might sound intimidating, but in this episode I break down exactly how to block out your schedule in order to

- avoid burnout

- accomplish your goals

- avoid time-sucking distractions

This episode also covers brain-dumping and checklists, which are tools you can use no matter how structured or flexible you prefer your days.

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39: How Living with Less Inspires Generosity with Ultralight Backpacker Glen Van Peski Jul 02, 2024

The benefits of living with less can be discovered through as many avenues as there are people - and today, we hear how ultralight backpacking was the catalyst for Glen Van Peski to embrace a lighter load in his every day life.

Glen's wilderness stories are inspiring (I can't help but laugh at his hiking story with Matthew McConaughey), but his lessons about generosity as a result of minimalism are even more profound.

We often think "But I need MORE in order to give to others," but Glen's hard-won wisdom and experience proves otherwise. When we live with only the essentials, we make space for showing up for others in ways that we'd be blind to otherwise.

This is an episode that I think will stick with you for a very long time. Glen's book Take Less, Do More: Surprising Life Lessons in Generosity, Gratitude, and Curiosity from an Ultralight Backpacker is available wherever you buy books!

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38: A Shame-Free & Intentional Approach to Screen Time for Kids Jun 25, 2024

Screen time is a really sensitive subject.

I cover why these sensitivities are important to respect and address in the beginning of this episode - there are very real dynamics that have NOTHING to do with how much parents love their kids as to why some families use more screen time than others.

With that in mind, decluttering and minimalism are rooted in intentionality - and that intentionality piece is the focus of today's episode as we talk through screen use as parents.

I share exactly where we've landed with screens in our home at this stage in life and how we can all approach our decisions about screen time with flexibility, foresight, and deliberate consciousness.

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37: Curating Simple & Ethical Closets with Lacey Woodroof Jun 18, 2024

I don't know about you, but I want getting dressed to feel easy.

I want to feel good in my clothes, no matter how casual or dressy the occasion.

I don't want to feel overwhelmed by choices or frustrated that I have "nothing to wear."

I also want to know that my closet isn't a result of someone else in this world barely scraping by. Cheap clothes that fall apart are not only annoying, they're usually a representation of mistreatment.

The older I get, the more I know it's up to me to put in slightly more effort into how I acquire clothing, because while I can't fix every problem in this world, I CAN look at my own choices and evaluate if they're something I'm proud of.

As always, this podcast is a no-judgment zone, so if you consistently partake in fast fashion - don't be alarmed. This episode is to help ALL of us be less stressed when we get dressed in the morning, and may provide a few new ideas to chew on!

Our guest, Lacey Woodroof of Basic (abasicshop.com), speaks to the heart of why women's fashion can be such a pain, and offers creative and practical ways to start dressing in a less overwhelming, more sustainable manner.

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Pact

Jamie & the Jones

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36: 20 Habits of the Home to Prevent Overwhelm Jun 11, 2024

Want to avoid that terrible feeling when your house just feels like this giant weight on your shoulder?

There's laundry to fold, the counters have stuff all over them, your closet looks like a tornado ran through it, and the inside of your microwave looks like a murder scene.

On today's episode, I walk you through 20 general habits you can begin to implement in order to keep your home from being a source of stress and overwhelm!

*picture of my daughter's hair organization will be in my Instagram stories today 6/11/24, and I'll save it in the my highlight on Instagram titled "Organize"

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