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.

Hey friends, I am so happy you're here today. If you're a longtime listener or this is your first

time, welcome. Today's episode is a doozy. So if you find yourself

overwhelmed, struggling with clutter, you need to do this one thing because here's a thing.

I know a lot of people think when they come in and they're like, I just need to declutter.

Give me the checklist, Katie. Give me these simple

step by step. That's all I need. And then I'll be good. But if that were the case, I wouldn't

have a job and you guys wouldn't be here. No one would have a clutter issue, right? Because it's so

much more complex than that. I think we all realize that at this point. In fact, when I first began this podcast

over two years ago now, I'm over 100 episodes now, but I remember some of my friends looking at me

and going, how are you going to talk about clutter every single week? Like, aren't you going to

run out of stuff to talk about? It's pretty simple, isn't it? And I just had to

chuckle to myself. And I'm like, well, they have no idea. This is a complex topic and theme.

And again, so many people are kind of looking for that one-two strategy, like give it to me and then I'll be good to go.

But I always say the biggest change,

it doesn't happen that comes from decluttering. It doesn't happen within our homes, although obviously

a lot of you are here because you want to see a change in your home. And while you will see change,

I think the more powerful and potent and unique and lovable and unexpected change that comes through decluttering is a change

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