What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist

podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to

rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take

back your motherhood

and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show.

What's up, friends? Welcome to another episode of the Maximized Minimalist. I'm your host,

Katie Wells, and on the show today is a dear friend, one of those people you just meet

in life and, you know, instantly, they're just an amazing soul. My dear friend Kelly Altman is a

holistic health coach and lifestyle coach, a fitness business owner, a wife, and a mom to four

amazing kiddos. Her mission is to help women see that nothing is more important than our physical

and mental health. She coaches women on how to put ourselves first when it comes to daily

routines and how to stop following someone else's rules around eating and exercise. Let's dive in.

Miss Kelly, welcome to the show today. I'm thrilled to have you on. Yes, thanks so much,

Katie. I'm really excited to be here. Now, from a Midwest girl to Midwest girl, my first question

I want to ask you is, what does being intentional mean to you? What's your take? Oh, boy. So I feel like

it's taken me a few years, or I think every time that that I think about

kind of my journey with being more intentional, right? It kind of started from a place of feeling

like I was just living in a very reactive stage and it wasn't serving me very well.

So right now in my life, what being intentional means is just

being really clear on my thoughts, kind of my behaviors and my actions, and the things that make

me feel really the best, and then choosing it like very thoughtfully, like how I show up in

different situations. And kind of like I said, it hasn't always been that way. I would say

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