Embracing Simplicity and The Courage to Say “No” with Emily Ley
The Going Scared Podcast with Jessica Honegger
Jessica Honegger
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2018
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Emily Ley is a wife, mom and entrepreneur. After quitting her stressful corporate job in hopes of starting her own business, Emily found that she had worked herself into even more stress. After conceiving and creating the wildly popular, success came and the demands for her time pressed in even harder. Emily shares how she chose to simplify--using the tenets she had preached to others about paring back and living for what matters most--in her own life. She and Jessica talk about what it looks like when we’re more deliberate with how we spend our time, and the dreaded “no,” word that each of them had to embrace in a new way in order to claim margin in their lives.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Jessica Honegger, founder of the socially conscious fashion brand Noonday |
| 0:07.1 | collection. Welcome to the Going Scared Podcast. Today's podcast is Emily Lay. |
| 0:15.0 | Emily is the CEO of Simplified, |
| 0:18.0 | which is a brand that stands on the idea |
| 0:20.0 | that there is more to life than being endlessly busy and always overwhelmed. |
| 0:25.2 | I can give an a amen to that. |
| 0:27.4 | Her cornerstone product is called the simplified planner and I'm sure so many of you |
| 0:31.6 | already know about it. |
| 0:33.0 | It's changed thousands and hundreds of thousands of women around the world |
| 0:38.0 | with its minimal and meaningful pages, |
| 0:40.0 | all with the idea of helping women to simplify their lives. |
| 0:46.4 | I have to admit guys, I'm not even a list maker. |
| 0:51.0 | I am a list maker, but I've got like piles of lists like some on my phone I even have like 20 |
| 0:56.2 | notes opened on my phone with five different lists I was a little intimidated to talk with |
| 1:00.9 | Emily today but guys I was so wrong. Emily's motto is |
| 1:06.0 | really about grace and not perfection. And so if you're someone who's like I |
| 1:11.4 | got my plan and get down and Emily's going to take me to the |
| 1:14.8 | next level this podcast is for you but if you're also a little bit like me and |
| 1:19.2 | you're like oh my gosh I've got a million lists and not even one notebook to plan my life. |
| 1:25.6 | This podcast is for you too. |
| 1:27.8 | We really cover today the power of saying no, which guys that is not easy for me. I thrive on the yeses. |
| 1:36.3 | And so Emily really reminded me today that there's courage in the no. |
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