I remember telling Tom, you know, I don't know if this will go somewhere or not, but if I took

like November through February off and just focused on my YouTube channel and we'll just

see like if it goes somewhere.

And if not, no big deal, I'll just go back and I'll push into real estate more.

But I just have to know like if this could be something or not.

Welcome to the Minimal Mom podcast. Dawn has become well known for her practical approach

to decluttering and simple living. She's the friend you turn to when you're overwhelmed

with your stuff and don't know where to start. The Minimum has helped me by minimizing

everything that I have in my house to believe that

we actually didn't want to become minimalist before because we thought it was weird.

But with her explaining step by step, me and my daughter and my son understand that things

can be let go without us feeling guilty.

I'm truly thankful for her videos.

Now, here's Dawn. Well, for my

official first podcast on YouTube, I know you could be listening to this anywhere, but for my

first YouTube podcast, I wanted to share the story of becoming the minimal mom. And so if I could

take you back to 1982, I was born an identical twin twin cities in Minnesota.

And so we grew up on a farm.

It was really unique in that we were very close to the twin cities, but yet we were in

the country on a farm.

So I felt like we had a lot of opportunities to go to events in the cities and do different

things, yet it was so cool, obviously, to get to grow up on a farm in the country.

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