You're listening to the Decluttered Mom podcast. A podcast built specifically for busy moms by a busy mom. I'm your host, Diana Renee. And in 2017, I had my second daughter and it felt like I was literally drowning in my home. Okay, not literally,

but I felt like I couldn't breathe with all of the stuff surrounding me. Over the next 10 months,

I got rid of approximately 70% of our household belongings and I have never looked back. I kind of feel like I hacked the mom

system, and I'm here to share all the tips, tricks, and encouragement. Let's listen to today's show.

Awesome. So I have Olivia here with me today, And Olivia is a member of Minimlish starts here.

So we're just going to kind of talk about her journey and where she started from and where she is now.

But first, Olivia, if you can just share a little bit about yourself who you are and a little bit about your story. I'm Olivia. I'm 27 years old.

I'm from California, but I'm living in Washington State right now. And I'm a stay-at-home mom full-time.

I do have like a side customer service job that takes me about an hour a day. But yeah, I'm home

with my kids. I have a two daughters,

a three-year-old and a one-year-old. And my husband works from home as well. So we're all at home

together a lot, which is fun. That is a lot. Yeah, we had a year, well, not a whole year. We had like

seven, eight months of that during 2020. And it was a lot. It was an adjustment. It was a, you know, different types of challenges and different types of joys. Yes. It's nice that my husband can help during the day. But it's also I have to, you know, be wary of noise and things like that.

Yes, that was our biggest issue also.

When when COVID happened, my oldest was in kindergarten.

So it was like our first year of experiencing her being gone during the day, you know, because she, she did preschool,

but it was like two hours, three days a week or something.

It was very short.

And then COVID happened and she came home for online school for an entire year.

And then my husband came home and wasn't working in the office.

And so it was like, oh, like we were just starting this transition into like a little bit different.

And then it was like, just kidding.

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