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, folks, I have a quick announcement before we get to today's episode.

After a couple of days immersed in deep creative thinking, I decided to launch a second

home for the Edit Your Life podcast.

In a nutshell, the original website will function as it always has, as the home for show

notes, for produce shows that appear in your typical podcast feed, whereas the substack space

will focus on short form written content and community. In addition to sharing edit of the week type content,

I also wanted a space where people have the option to chat, air their challenges,

share their wins, and problem solved together. I hope you'll come over and subscribe.

Just head to edityourlifshow.com to subscribe. Okay, let's get to our episode.

I am excited to share this episode with Karen Walrind with you today because what we are

talking about is ultimately all about you and putting yourself at the center, which I think

we all need more of. Karen is a longtime friend who I met

on the internet back in the old blogging days, but we have spent plenty of time in person together.

She has a new book out called In Defense of Dabbling, The Brilliance of Being a Total Amateur.

This book is a lovely invitation to prioritize your own amateur practices.

We talk about why it's important to embrace amateurism without the expectations of

productivity or money, getting past roadblocks such as guilt and a capitalist mindset,

the connection between values and being intentional about

amateurism, and much more.

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