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.

Get kids to listen without nagging, yelling, and losing control. Sounds like a pipe dream,

doesn't it? On the show today is Amy McCready, who describes

herself as a recovering yeller, and she is the founder of positive parenting solutions and the

creator of the seven-step parenting success system. Amy is also a Today Show contributor and has been

featured on CBS, CNN, Fox and Friends, MSNBC, The Doctors, and so much more.

Her greatest joy, and this really shines through in her work, is helping moms and dads

becomes the parents they've always wanted to be. And both Amy and my dear friend, Kaylee Kukla,

who's also been on the show, have been my go-to parenting experts for the last

several years and have helped me on my parenting journey so much. Let's dive in. Amy, welcome to the show.

I am so happy you're here today. Thanks for spending some time with me and my listeners.

Katie, thank you so much. I love the work that you do. Our community loves all of

your programs, so I'm delighted to be with you. Oh, thank you. So let's dive right in because we have

so much to cover today, and I'm really excited. Just on a personal note, I've been following you for

quite a few years. You and Kaylee are my go-to parenting experts, and I feel like now is such a

good time for me personally as a parent to just have this conversation. So as much as this is for my

listeners, everyone listening, this is also for me too. So your goal is for parents to not even be able

to remember the last time they yelled at their kids. Is that really

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