Welcome to Edit Your Life, a podcast to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.

Through episodes with me, Christine Coe, and a range of smart, compassionate guests, you will come away with insights and tactics to help you find the agency and space to simplify and

declutter your home, time, mental space, and more.

Hello, friends.

This episode on parenting lessons originally was published May 2019 and has been in the

locked archives since.

I'm very much in a parenting reflection space with Laurel graduating

from college. I will link up a recent substack essay I wrote in which I describe my parenting

North Star. And this episode is packed with 11 lessons inspired by people Asha and I have learned

from over the years. It was really cool to rehear and re-remember

some stories from Asha that are really quite amazing, and to hear my life-is-debt comment

that came from my mom, which has been reverberating with me ever since. I recently shared

about this framing in a financial episode with Dana Miranda. And hearing reference to my

dear friend Paige Lewin was a good reminder that she and I are overdue on dinner and it sparked

me to get that scheduling train rolling. So yay for friendship inspiration. Before we get there, I have a really

quick ask since we're on the topic of lessons.

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for considering. Let's get to the episode. All right, Christine, let's hear about your first

badass parent lesson. Okay. Well, I think it is really fitting to start with the ultimate

matriarch in my mind, my mother. And it's,

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