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.

Real housewives has done it again, folks.

If you've been with me for a while,

you know I love some real housewives.

And I always tell my husband,

I watch it for the educational purposes, to he laughs looks like I did but here I am back again with round

two of a big takeaway I've was really reminded of from a recent episode by the way if you want to

go back in here one of the first things I learned from watching that series, it's episode 99, but here is this. The reality is that companies use emotional advertising

and use our vulnerabilities that we have as human beings to get us to buy. And contrary to what

most people believe, we actually don't buy things and we don't buy products.

Instead, what we're buying are stories, solutions, beliefs, transformations, and emotions.

Because here's the thing.

If people bought products, everyone would buy the same car.

We'd all be driving around in Honda Odyssey's because they're practical.

And they have decent gas mileage and they have good safety ratings, right?

Cars get us from point A to point B.

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