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.

Hey there, welcome to the show. I'm your host, Katie Wells, and on the show today is my good friend,

Bryce Reddy. But before we dive in, I wanted to do a quick

listener spotlight going to Bex in the Rock. And she recently wrote, I am so thankful to have

found the Maximized Minimalist Podcast. Each episode is so encouraging and motivating. As a busy

single mom feeling overwhelmed is all too common for me.

But listening to this podcast helped me finally take my first steps to decluttering my home.

I already feel so much lighter and happier when I look around my house. I've got a long way to go,

but I'm moving in the right direction. Bex, that is what it's all about moving in the right

direction. So, so proud of you and so thrilled that we met on your journey to simplifying your

home. So on the episode today, my friend Bryce, who is a licensed mental health counselor.

Rice is a mama of two living in Massachusetts with a clinical focus in maternal mental health.

And she has an incredibly helpful Instagram account that provides moms with real-life tools to manage their mental health.

I've been following her for months now.

And her page is just always one that I look forward to seeing because it just talks about the real life stuff, you know,

the heavy stuff, the messy stuff, the real stuff in motherhood. So we recorded this episode on

March 24th. Its air date is April 8th. I say that to say this. As I speak right now,

we are in the midst of social distancing in quarantine and I'm assuming we still will be for

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