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, what's up? Welcome to another episode of the maximized minimalist. I'm so happy

you're here today. I'm your host, Katie Wells, and hanging out with me on the show

is my friend Bree Lamberson. You might remember her from episode 25 titled Classic Wardrobe

Pieces that every woman looks fabulous in. It was such a fun episode to record, and in it we

talked everything from how to narrow down your personal style,

classic wardrobe pieces, and how to get out of a style rut. So if that sounds interesting to you,

after this episode, head over to episode 25. So Brianna is a personal stylist and

thrift shopping queen. And I invited her back to the show to talk all things secondhand shopping,

and here's why. I feel so, so obligated to have this conversation with you today after learning

more over the past year about fast fashion. So what is fast fashion exactly? Fast fashion is basically

a term used to describe these cheap, inexpensive designs

that we see moving so quickly into stores to be trends. And these days, it is not uncommon for these

fast fashion retailers to introduce new products multiple times in a single week just to stay, you know, quote unquote, on trend.

On the surface level, yes, this is a big issue because, you know, from my perspective and what I

tend to talk a lot about is clutter. So of course, it's easy for us to go, yeah, like, that's

probably a big reason why I've got clutter in my closet and clutter in my home is because

this fast fashion in our culture. And yep, it adds clutter for sure and it hurts our wallets or

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