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

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and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show.

I can't believe you're showing everyone this. So a few months ago, I got this exact DM from someone

who follows me on Instagram.

And she was responding to a video I put up of myself where I was practicing these jump rope

moves and kind of not very, I was not doing a very good job.

And I wanted to share this video on purpose, but for some more context here

and what inspired this kind of silly video that I posted of myself practicing and making a fool of

myself, jump ropeing, are one of my favorite Instagram accounts, really for entertainment purposes,

but it sparks joy. And she makes me smile at these videos.

And I forgive me. I don't remember her name. But she's a jump rope world champion, which I didn't

know was a thing. And she makes the coolest reels of herself doing, you know, jump roping to music.

And she like incorporates dancing into it. It's like the most cool, unique thing I've ever seen in

my life. It gets me jazzed up. And anyway, seeing these videos all the time for a while, I was like,

I just want to try like basic 101. I'm never going to be a world champion in jump roping. But I wanted

to try and do this for fun. And also at the time,

I was in an exercise rut. Like, I stopped exercising, going to the gym felt too hard, and like

my usual routine just felt, nah. So I thought, this is a great way to have some fun and get

exercise. And I'm telling you what? It did. It was. I broke an intense

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