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, happy New Year. I feel like I should blow like a party popper or play a kazoo

just to share my excitement for the new year. But I don't

have one probably because I decluttered it. So I am so happy to kick off 2022 with y'all. And just so

excited you're here, whether this is your first time listening or you've been with me since the

beginning. This is a space where we talk all things clutter, all things simplifying, no judgment, no shame, just real stories,

helpful advice and my journey along the way. I was totally debating what should be the first

episode of the year, but ultimately landed on today's topic because everybody, yeah, even me, needs this reminder.

So if you've been with me for a while, you understand that getting to the root of clutter,

of scarcity mindset, of subconscious patterns we often have is so important if you truly want to

simplify your life. It takes a lot of work to untangle and

reframe lines of thinking that so many of us have, conscious and unconscious. And that has to be the

ultimate goal, is to see things differently, to think about stuff in a new way and evolve our relationship with it.

Because we can declutter tons of possessions. We can get rid of tons of stuff and have these

quick flash-in-a-pan successes. But not getting to the root means it's going to be an uphill

battle and your chances of success,

I mean, go way down. So let's start with a really big one, which not that long ago was a way

people, specifically women, defined themselves and often still do. And that's this belief we need

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