065-Spark Joy and Abundance in Your Life Using the KonMari Method w/ Kristyn Ivey
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Consumerism and the desire to accumulate 'things' can be one of the greatest threats to achieving Financial Independence. One of the best ways to combat this and the clutter that results is to lead a more organized lifestyle that is fueled by the things that bring you joy. This is the main principle behind the KonMari™ organization method.
This week, I am speaking with Kristyn Ivey, the founder of For the Love of Tidy and Chicago’s first certified KonMari™ consultant. Kristyn is also on the journey to FI and she has made several interesting connections between tidiness and personal finance. With a background in both engineering and interior design, Kristyn has made it her mission to teach families and professionals how to let go of “stuff” to attract a truly abundant life.
In this episode we discuss:
- How becoming more organized and tidy can lead someone to focus and find their passion and pursue big changes in their lives
- The finance/organizing connection
- The KonMari method and the art of tidying up
- Finding Freedom through KonMari
- Using the concept of “what sparks joy” to our budgets and therefore prioritize what and how we spend/save
- The relationship of clutter and spending more on rent/mortgage
- Incorporating tidy habits for those that are not naturally tidy
- Kristyn’s FI journey
- Other tidiness and organization tips
Other related blog posts/links mentioned in this episode:
- For The Love of Tidy
- Finding Freedom Through KonMari
- The Spark Joy Podcast
- Get the Book: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to episode 65 of the Journey to Launch Podcast, |
| 0:05.0 | How to Spark Joy and Abundance in your life with Kristen Ivy. |
| 0:11.0 | T-minous 10 seconds. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast with your host, |
| 0:17.0 | Jamila Sufrant, as a muddy expert who walks her talk. |
| 0:21.0 | She helps brave journeyers like you you get out of debt, save, invest, and build real well. |
| 0:27.0 | Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in... |
| 0:31.0 | Five, four, three, three, two... financial freedom in five four three two one |
| 0:37.0 | hey hey journiers welcome back to another episode of the Journey to |
| 0:44.5 | launch podcast. This is episode 65, and in today's episode I'm diving |
| 0:51.0 | even deeper into this concept of tidying up minimalism living a simple but good life. |
| 0:59.4 | And so last week I spoke to Joshua Becker from becoming a minimalist and if you haven't heard that |
| 1:04.3 | so you definitely go check that out after you listen to this one that was episode 64 with |
| 1:09.2 | Joshua Becker in this episode I'm going to be talking about the Khan-Mari method and that is going to be done with Kristen Ivy who is a Khan-Marie consultant and she actually is Chicago's first certified Con Marie's consultant |
| 1:26.6 | and she's a dedicated professional organizer who teaches families and professionals |
| 1:31.1 | how to let go of stuff so they can attract a truly abundant life and |
| 1:35.3 | you'll hear in Kristen's story how she herself came to this realization and started to make these |
| 1:42.1 | changes in her life and started to live the life |
| 1:44.9 | she wanted to live instead of kind of chasing something that she wasn't happy |
| 1:49.7 | in and figuring out what worked best for her. So following along the lines of how do we live our best life, how do we reach financial freedom, financial independence, this is part of that. How do we pick up more tools in our toolbox to be able to live a life that we can really enjoy without stuff and crap and things we really don't have space for holding us down? |
| 2:11.0 | And so I thought it would be pretty cool to talk about this specific method |
| 2:14.2 | because actually I mentioned it in a couple podcasts and I've always had people and |
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