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.

What is up, my friend? Man, I really love hanging out with you every Wednesday or whatever day

you listen to this podcast.

I truly do. I can just picture having coffee with you or tea with you or sitting next to you while you're decluttering and just encouraging you, cheering you on from the sidelines.

That's what I do best. All right, friend, welcome back to another episode.

I am so excited to talk about balance today,

this ever-elusive balance and why I don't strive for balance in my life anymore. And I'm

going to be sharing what I strive for instead. And I'm telling you, it's made such a positive

impact for me, for my husband, and for my kids,

whether they realize it or not. And that's just a simple, you know, I like to talk about these

perspective shifts that really pays massive amounts in the long term. So I see this frequently,

and I'm really no different. I'm just like every other

person out there and maybe woman and mom listening to this, but I feel like there is a certain

pressure that we often put on ourselves and that pressure is to achieve this balance. I see it all

the time and spending any amount of time on social media, you'll probably run across a mom blogger or mom influencer or whatever business coach or someone just preaching balance, whether that's balancing your career, motherhood, relationships.

And I think, you know, in the U.S. here, a lot of us are heading into a new school year.

So there's kind of a new routine that a lot of us are working our way back into or trying to figure out how to

navigate because I know there's still a lot of uncertainty going on and unknowns. Kids activities

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