Best of For the Love: Emily Ley on Simplified Living

For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

Jen Hatmaker

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the For the Love team! This week, we’re previewing our brand-new series for the new year, For the Love of Good Change, and bringing back one of our most downloaded episodes (not to mention one of our favorite guests): Emily Ley, author and creator of The Simplified Planner! A busy mom and head of a flourishing company, Emily found that striving for “all the things” left her with no time or energy to enjoy the good stuff. A champion for helping others organize, declutter, and simplify, Emily’s own life was lacking in simple joys because she was striving for an impossible standard of perfection. She shares how she learned to give herself grace, say the dreaded “no“ word, and take some steps back in order to move ahead. She also gives us some GREAT bringing-order-to-chaos hacks, like answering the question Jen posed herself: "Why do I have 17 spatulas??” Emily's newest book is A Simplified Life: Tactical Tools for Intentional Living, and her next one comes out this spring—A Standard of Grace: Guided Journal.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, my name is Remy. Welcome to the For the Love Podcast with your host,
0:06.7	Jen Hatmaker, my mom. She writes books and speaks to
0:10.8	cows, but she mostly loves talking to amazing people on this podcast every week.
0:17.0	Thanks for listening. We hope you enjoyed the show.
0:20.5	Hey guys, Jen Hatmaker here. Your delighted hostess of the For the Love Podcast.
0:26.0	Welcome to the show. So you guys guess what? We made it. We made it to the end of 2018.
0:33.6	Woo! And what a year it has been. We have been through happy things and hard things.
0:40.7	We asked challenging questions and received a lot of answers and laughs along the way.
0:47.4	So this has been a banner year at For the Love here at the show.
0:52.5	And I often say this is my very favorite thing because it is.
0:56.6	I mean, I just can't believe that I get to talk to all these amazing people
1:00.8	and pick their brains for a few minutes every week. It's just a joy to bring this show to you
1:05.9	every single week. We have not missed a week since we started in July of 2017.
1:14.0	And just it's a delight to work on this show for you and to bring it to you.
1:19.7	And so this week we're sort of previewing our new series for the new year,
1:25.4	which is called For the Love of Good Change.
1:29.0	Right? So look, as we inch closer to this new year and a new slate,
1:34.0	it's just it's refreshing and rejuvenating to pause and just take stock.
1:38.8	Right? Like look around and take stock. Who do we have in our lives?
1:41.9	What do we thankful for? What are we proud of? What are we committed to?
1:47.0	There's just a slew of messages this time of year telling us to change, right?
1:51.9	Which is so frustrating for me as if nothing about what you have is good enough
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