168: Pursuing a Life with Less Stuff, One Mom's Inspiring Story
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
Katy Wells
4.8 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
You'll hear from my student Lucilla, a retired teacher, mother, grandmother and most recently clutter crusher and her biggest takeaways from my 14-Day Clutter Crusher Challenge. You will feel inspired and motivated from our conversation! Get $20 OFF my 14-Day Clutter Challenge with code: PODCAST https://www.katyjoywells.com/cluttercrusherchallenge
In the episode, Lucilla shares how the Clutter Cure Club has been invaluable on her simplifying journey. If you join, you'll get FREE access to the 14-Day Challenge. JOIN HERE: https://www.katyjoywells.com/cluttercureclub
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| 0:00.0 | What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist |
| 0:07.7 | podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to |
| 0:14.1 | rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take |
| 0:20.6 | back your motherhood |
| 0:21.6 | and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:29.8 | So Lucilla, welcome to your first time being on the Maximized Minimalist show. It feels like I know you, |
| 0:36.7 | and I do know you in a lot of ways. |
| 0:38.3 | I've seen your progress throughout the last, gosh, six months or so inside my challenges and in the |
| 0:44.7 | club. So welcome to the show. I'm so happy to have you here and for you to share your story with my |
| 0:49.3 | listeners today. Thank you, Katie. I'm really excited to share it as well. You have been just such a great guide and teacher and, you know, supporter and your club was amazing. So I thank you for this opportunity. |
| 1:05.7 | So tell my listeners a little bit about your story. Where you live, how old you are, and any past declutter history you have, just to kind of |
| 1:15.1 | help set the stage. |
| 1:17.1 | Okay. |
| 1:17.8 | Well, I live on a farm in southern Delaware. |
| 1:20.7 | I'm very blessed to live amongst the corn and beans and the wide open spaces. |
| 1:31.1 | So it's just a beautiful place to live and to raise children. I'm a retired teacher. And I still teach for community college in our area. So that's my |
| 1:38.8 | passion. I have lived in the same house for 31 years. My husband actually built it. And he built me a lot of |
| 1:48.2 | storage space for better or for worse. But like I said, I, well, I retired June of 2019 and went |
| 1:57.1 | from working two jobs, raising children to basically a six-month wait until I could even teach college again. |
| 2:05.9 | And then the pandemic hits. So it's been a big change for me. And I'm very lucky that my daughter took your course in November and suggested it. |
| 2:19.8 | And so that's how you ended up in my world. I love it. Yes, she was very kind about it. I said, I'm very organized. And she says, |
| 2:28.7 | yes, I realized that, but underneath the surface, mom. So I think she might have been alluding to my 64 t-shirts that were very neatly folded, |
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