You're listening to the Decluttered Mom podcast.

A podcast built specifically for busy moms by a busy mom.

I'm your host, Diana Renee.

And in 2017, I had my second daughter and it felt like I was literally drowning in my home. Okay,

not literally, but I felt like I couldn't breathe with all of the stuff surrounding me.

Over the next 10 months, I got rid of approximately 70% of our household belongings and I have

never looked back. I kind of feel like I hacked the mom system,

and I'm here to share all the tips, tricks, and encouragement. Let's listen to today's show.

Welcome to this episode of the Decluttered Mom podcast. I was not sure I was going to be able to make this episode for you guys. I have been so sick. This is the first day in six days. I think that my voice is like somewhat normal. And I'm going to have to hit pause a lot because just talking makes me cough.

But it's very interesting because actually getting sick this week during Thanksgiving week,

I'm recording this podcast actually like really right before it comes out normally.

I'll record these and they won't come out for a

couple weeks or even a couple months sometimes because we plan out so far. But this, it is like

Sunday evening a couple days before this comes out on Tuesday. So I'm probably still trying to

like fully get better. And that also means that I was really sick for

Thanksgiving week. So I actually was on a work trip last week, like the week before Thanksgiving

in Scottsdale, Arizona. And that was wonderful. It was the last of the three mastermind retreats that if you

haven't have not been around for a while. I talk about this. I think in a episode from February,

but I joined a business mastermind this year that required me to go on three week long business retreats. And that really

pushed me out of my comfort zone because it was away from my girls. And I had never really been away

from them more than like one overnight before, like ever. And so being away from them for three weeks this year, it was, I'm not going to

lie, it was rough. It was a little too much time away from them. I just, I just don't, I just miss

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