It's okay to admit that mom life feels harder than you ever thought it would be. It's also okay to want it to feel easier. We're surrounded by mixed messages all day. Keep a clean house, but not too clean. Take a rest, Mama, but not too long. That's just selfish. Homemaking is dead, but you better still take care of everything every day. We're told you have two choices. Be Pinterest perfect

or a 24-7 hot mess. I don't know about you, but I'm exhausted and over it. I'm Kendra Hennessy,

founder of Mother like a boss, and I put reluctant homemakers back in the driver's seat of

motherhood with realistic routines and practical mindset shifts. I believe in empowering you to

create a home that feels like a safety net, not a tightrope. I believe in empowering you to create a home that feels like a

safety net, not a tightrope. I believe in martyr-free motherhood that puts you behind the wheel

of your own life. As a mom of two, I'm here to give you judgment-free strategies and have

honest conversations that equip you with what you need to live your absolute best mom life. Welcome to

the Mother Like a Boss podcast. Well, hello there, friends.

Welcome back to the Mother Like a Boss podcast. Here we are again. It's your host, Kendra Hennessy.

I'm pretty excited for this conversation today because it involves one of my favorite topics,

and that is organization, staying organized, getting organized, being organized,

all the things. Before we get into all of the stuff that I have for you, I do want to say that

there is a huge misconception about what organization actually means, and it's the reason that

getting organized, and quotation marks, my air quotes,

you can't see, feels so difficult. It's the reason that there are people that feel like they're just

not naturally organized and then people that feel like they are naturally organized. Now, I do think

that they're obviously, just like there are different personality traits and people have different strengths. There are some people that may think

in a more organized fashion. For some people, being organized is just the way that they think.

It's also the way that they stay. It's the way that they fight off stress, I'll say, is when things are organized in a certain

fashion, then it helps them to feel like they're more in control. And for some people,

it's just not how they think and they don't really care that much. But I will also say

...