And the I'm Laura Tremaine and I have 10 things to tell you and you have 10 things to tell.

This show is about connection with each other and with ourselves.

And the hope is that the things we talk about here

will be fuel for better conversations

and a personal awareness.

This is an interactive podcast.

Each episode has a prompt and a topic that I want you to take to your journal,

text to your best friend, or answer on social media using the hashtag 10 things to tell you.

This is a show about digging deeper and sharing our stuff. I'll go first.

Okay, Ali Kaza, is someone I didn't even know I needed in my life until now.

She sent me her new book, Declutter Like a Mother, based on her popular online program of the same name, great name, right?

And I read it in one sitting on the airplane, actually.

When Ali and I recorded this episode together a couple of weeks ago,

I'd already read her book and we had a great conversation for this show

that you're about to listen to,

but it also ended up being a message that I needed a week or so to really sink in.

Like yeah, yeah, declutter, your space matters, all that stuff, it's real, but in the week that followed as recording together,

I started to realize how much my stuff was strangling me.

This was kind of surprising giving the timing because our family moved houses just a few months ago and in that process we did multiple rounds of deep, deep decluttering and organizing and donating and all of that.

So for the first time, since I become a mom, basically the first time in over a decade,

I haven't really felt like I have too much crap

everywhere because we really did clear a lot of clutter when we moved, but still

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