Creating Intentional Space (with Lizzie Johnson)

Edit Your Life | Simplify + Declutter Your Home, Time, and Mental Space

Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Time is the most scarce resource, especially when you have young kids and are an independent business owner. Christine chats with bakery owner Lizzie Johnson about creating intentional space amidst a very full life. They talk about community, the power of outsourcing and playing to your strengths, staying present with your kids when your to-do list is a mile long, picking your battles with decluttering, and more. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that offers tips, recommendations, and expert advice to simplify and declutter your home, schedule, to-do list, relationships, and mental space. Connect with host Christine Koh at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Subscribe to Christine’s personal newsletter at Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.4	Welcome to Edit Your Life, a podcast to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.
0:42.4	Through episodes with me, Christine Coe, and a range of smart, compassionate guests, you will come away with insights and tactics to help you find the agency and space to simplify and declutter your home, time, mental space, and more.
0:56.9	Hello, friends. I'm really excited to share today's conversation with you. I'm talking to Lizzie
1:03.0	Johnson, who is a mom of two young children and also the owner of Lizzie's bakery in the Boston
1:09.4	area. I actually first found out about Lizzie
1:12.6	seeing her on the Food Network, where she competed in the Girl Scout Cookie Championship.
1:17.7	I was just so excited about this. And Violet, who was a Girl Scout at the time, really loved
1:22.2	watching it. So when I found out she was in the Boston area, I actually reached out to her to ask if she
1:28.5	might be willing to do a little baking demo with Violet's Girl Scout troop.
1:33.5	And she actually responded and said, yes, I couldn't believe it.
1:37.5	Her spirit of generosity was so evident right from the beginning.
1:41.1	And then the pandemic hit and that event got canceled along with a lot of other
1:45.5	things. Anyway, in the years since, I've followed Lizzie's journey online. She is just incredible.
1:52.6	She has a bright, generous spirit. Her baking work is so beautiful. And she's even given me
1:59.0	some tips on tools and other things, continuing that generosity
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