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.

Hello and welcome to another episode of the decluttered Mom podcast. I am actually recording this podcast in my car sitting outside a Starbucks right now because I was thinking about this story I wanted to tell you and I was like, you know what? My girls are with the babysitter. I have some time.

My car is mostly quiet. It's a little hot because I had to turn off the AC. Otherwise,

that's all you would hear. But hopefully the audio is okay. And my producer on here doesn't hate

me for doing this in my car. but I really wanted to share with you

about this story when I accidentally became a minimalist earlier in my life and how I went from that

to accumulating so much stuff really easily and so when I I was, gosh, how old was I? I was in my early 20s. I had just

graduated college. I moved to a new city to start a new job. And the night that I moved there,

I actually met my now husband on the phone, which let me know.

Send me a DM if you want to hear about the story of how I met my husband because it's a really random wild story that anytime I tell people, they're like, what?

Like, how did you guys end up together

through this entire story? So just let me know. DM me, tell me if I should go into this on

my podcast. But I talked to him on the phone the first night I was in this new city, my first,

not my first real job out of college, but my first

job that was not a startup.

I actually worked for a startup in college for my junior and senior year.

And then I continued working with them for, I don't know, maybe six months or so after

college. And then as soon as that job

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