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.

My name is Diana Renee. I'm your host and I am excited to be here. I am always excited to talk to you here on the podcast because it gives me a chance to just go a little deeper with you guys, especially with how much Instagram has changed this year. Oh my goodness. I, it's, it's wild. It is so, so,

it's so different even from last year at this time. But like compared to 2018 through 23-ish, I felt like it was a place that I could really connect with you guys and I felt like I could,

you know, I could talk in stories for five minutes at a time and I could engage with you

and oh my gosh, it has changed so much. And I think it's just, it's a reflection of like our

society. Let's get real philosophical here right off the bat. I just think we

have, we don't have the attention span on social media and social media understands that. And so it's

constantly trying to, you know, feed us our dopamine hits and giving us those hits every 1.7 seconds or whatever. So it's hard. So basically what I'm

trying to say is like in 2020, again, 2018 to 2023, I could put like multiple multiple store.

I could put like 17 stories up in one day and they could all be 30 seconds long. And it would reach a large part of

my audience like every single time. And you guys could DM me and I could DM you back. And it was just

great. Now if I post anything more than one story. Yes, one 15 to 30 second story. It doesn't show it to anyone like anyone for context. So I have,

I think like just over 400,000 followers on Instagram right now. And if I post more than one story,

I will get 5,000 or less views, which, yes, I get that 5,000 is a lot.

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