000: How Minimalism Saved My Motherhood
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
Katy Wells
4.8 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In this new show, Katy shares why she became a minimalist. Minimalism is not about what you remove, but rather what you gain by removing it!
You will also discover how she went from being an overwhelmed, stressed out, anxious Mom to one that is content, more joy-filled and able to focus on what matters most.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist |
| 0:07.7 | podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to |
| 0:14.1 | rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you |
| 0:20.4 | take back your motherhood |
| 0:21.6 | and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:29.8 | Welcome everyone to episode 0-00 of the podcast. So nice to have you here. My name is Katie Wells, |
| 0:37.3 | and I wanted to tell you a story of how I became a minimalist. So nice to have you here. My name is Katie Wells, and I wanted to tell you a story |
| 0:39.1 | of how I became a minimalist. So the problem started after my second son came into the world. |
| 0:46.1 | I was a new mom of two boys, a one and a half year old son and a newborn baby. Needless to say, life was pretty challenging, |
| 0:58.5 | and I wasn't getting a lot of sleep. Just a few months after my second son was born, |
| 1:03.9 | I found out pretty unexpectedly that I had to go back to work full time. This was just devastating |
| 1:10.6 | on so many levels. The mom guilt I had to go back to work full time. This was just devastating on so many levels. The mom guilt I had |
| 1:14.1 | leaving both of my children, but especially my newborn, who I really wanted to breastfeed and, |
| 1:21.5 | you know, obviously removing me from him and I had to pump a lot and just added this whole other complicating factor to |
| 1:29.7 | motherhood. And on top of that, I had to go back to a job which no longer really satisfied me. |
| 1:37.0 | I didn't enjoy it anymore. And I grew really bitter towards my position in the clinic because |
| 1:43.4 | I wanted to be home with my kids. I felt |
| 1:46.4 | like that's where I should be. But anyway, I went to work and I got really, really stressed out. |
| 1:55.1 | Because of my newborn, again, I was getting very little sleep. I was so tired every single day. |
| 2:00.6 | I was juggling work, breast pumping, |
| 2:03.6 | being a mom, being a wife. I was overwhelmed, stressed out. And because of all this, I started to get |
| 2:09.8 | really random health issues, which I had never had before. And actually, the stress got so bad. I |
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