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.

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.

Hello, friends. I was excited to interview Natasha Nichols for some relatively basic reasons.

For example, we have known each other for a number of years but never have had proper

face time, and

to work to create community and increase beautification and a connection to produce by creating

a farm in the south side of Chicago, yes, in the city, fascinated me. And while yes, those two things

came to fruition, this conversation is so much more. We went deep talking about

relationships, trauma, the connection of loss to material goods and mental load, the critical

nature of community, and more. I couldn't ask for a better way to kick off this summer series.

I had the idea of creating a bit more laid-back series than

typical interviews, showing how super interesting people from different walks of life, for example,

different types of work, home, family arrangements, are or are not editing their lives during these

less structured months. I hope you love this conversation as much as I do. I truly think every

human can glean wisdom from Natasha. Let's get right to it. Hello and welcome Natasha. I am so

excited to welcome you to edit your life. Thanks for being with me today. Hey, I'm excited to be here today.

Yes, I feel like this is a long overdue conversation

I've wanted to talk to for a long time and dig into the details of your life. So I'm just so

delighted you said yes to this invitation. And I will have already introduced you earlier.

So I wanted to jump right into this summer storytelling, what I'm calling it.

You gave me a little bit of a preview before we hit record, but your household's very full.

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