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's up, friend? Welcome back. Based on today's episode for brilliant ideas to get your

family to put stuff back where it belongs. I have a suspicion you are

going to want to take notes. And I also realize that that's simply not possible for many of you to do.

So guess what I'm going to do for you, my friend. I love my podcast listeners. Y'all are some of my

favorite people on the planet. And so I'm going to be doing

something for you. I'm actually going to take the notes for you. So you can keep doing your grocery

shopping, keep driving to pick the kids up from school, keep on keeping on and multitasking.

But what I'm going to do is take notes for you from now on, and I'm going to create what I'm calling

my podcast action guides. And these are going to have the most important takeaways and

add-a-glan steps from each week's episode, because here's the thing. It's one thing to listen to

the episode and go, oh, that's a good point. Oh, that's a cool strategy. I should probably

try that. Oh, yeah, that's really smart. I'm going to do that next time I'm decluttering.

And then guess what happens? Like 30 minutes after you listen to the episode or 60 minutes.

If you're anything like me, you've forgotten 99% of everything you heard, right? Because life, right? You're multitasking. You're busy.

You're driving the car. You're doing dishes, whatever it is. And I'm all about getting you

faster results and long-term results, but that's not going to happen if you only remember

like 0.5% of what I say on these episodes. And that's the point of these action guides. I want you to

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