027 • Emily Ley
Instrumental with Dave & JJ Heller
JJ Heller
5.0 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In 2008 Emily took her love for monograms, stationery and organization and courageously launched a business. Over the last 12 years, her business has exploded and her Simplified planner has changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of women around the world.
The joy and positivity Emily exudes is contagious and her insights about being a working mom are spot-on. And to think, it all started with a taco salad.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm J.J. Heller, and this is Instrumental, a show about the big and small moments that shape our lives. |
| 0:08.4 | In every episode, my guest and I start near the end of their story and work our way back to the beginning. |
| 0:15.3 | I hope our conversation reminds you that every second matters, because none of us knows which moment will be the one that changes everything. |
| 0:24.5 | Big love happens in the small moments. |
| 0:31.5 | Hey, everybody, it's JJ. |
| 0:33.7 | Hey, everybody, it's Dave. |
| 0:35.5 | And we have a wonderful episode for you today. |
| 0:38.9 | We interviewed Emily Lay. |
| 0:42.2 | Emily Lay, who's that? |
| 0:44.2 | I first heard about Emily from my friend Christine. |
| 0:47.7 | What did Christine say? |
| 0:49.0 | Okay, so she was super excited because her new simplified planner was about to come in the mail and she was telling me about it. And I thought, this is funny that she's getting so excited about a planner and she was just raving about it and how she had been using it for several years and it just completely changed and organized her life. Sounds awesome. |
| 1:11.9 | I know. |
| 1:13.1 | So then I started following Emily Lay on Instagram because I thought, boy, I could sure use more organization in my own life. |
| 1:22.4 | Yes, you could. |
| 1:23.6 | Hey. |
| 1:25.1 | I'm just saying. |
| 1:30.1 | Dog house. |
| 1:33.4 | So she's actually one of my favorite people to follow on Instagram. |
| 1:37.9 | Really? |
| 1:38.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:38.8 | I mean, she's always so happy on all of her posts. |
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