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. On the show today is my friend Joellen Woods. I met her on

Instagram and have been following her because she's had just such an

inspiring minimalist journey herself, which all started a few years ago when she and her

family of six moved abroad and she discovered then that less really is better. So since then,

she and her family have actually become Italian citizens.

She's continued to prove through her fashion blog that minimalism isn't boring.

So today we're going to be diving into the best tips to buying clothes online, her favorite sustainable brands, and the importance of versatility, and also her family's minimalist

journey.

Let's dive in. De Welllin, welcome to the show today.

Thanks. Thanks for having me. So let's dive right in. I want to, well, first of all, I told my viewers

before I introduced you that I love what you talk about. You talk about, like one of your kind of

taglines is making minimalism not boring right because so many people

have this idea of like less is boring which you completely you know I handle that with your

beautiful Instagram and everything you preach in your fashion which I so appreciate and I love but

I want to know like how you got into that? How do you get into fashion? Did you get

minimalism first and then fashion or the other way around? No, it's definitely fashion first. And then I

don't even call myself like a fashionist or a stylist or anything. It's just simple. But no,

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