Knowing your mess threshold

The Mother Like a Boss Podcast

Kendra Hennessy

Homemanagement, Organizing, Mom, Kids & Family, Motherhood, Parenting, Homemaking, Cleaning

4.8 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

A lot of things in life are highly subjective. Messes are one of those things.

A mess to one person is perfectly acceptable and tidy to another. Clean to one person is dirty to another.

As someone that ran a cleaning business for over a decade and served hundreds of clients, I can tell you that everyone has a very different threshold for messes. Knowing what yours is (and everyone else that lives in your house) can help you set routines that serve you and manage expectations of yourself and others.

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0:00.0	It's okay to admit that mom life feels harder than you ever thought it would be.
0:05.0	It's also okay to want it to feel easier. We're surrounded by mixed messages all day.
0:10.0	Keep a clean house but not too clean.
0:12.0	Take a rest mama, but not too long, that's just selfish.
0:15.0	Homemaking is dead, but you better still take care of everything every day.
0:19.0	We're told you have two choices.
0:21.0	Be Pinterest perfect or a 24-7 hot mess.
0:24.0	I don't know about you, but I'm exhausted and over it.
0:26.7	I'm Kendra Hennessy, founder of Mother Like a Boss,
0:29.0	and I put reluctant homemakers back in the driver's
0:31.4	seat of motherhood with realistic routines and
0:33.8	practical mindset shifts. I believe in empowering you to create a home that feels like a
0:37.7	safety net, not a tight rope. I believe in martyr-free motherhood that puts you
0:41.3	behind the wheel of your own life.
0:43.2	As a mom of two, I'm here to give you judgment-free strategies and have honest conversations
0:47.6	that equip you with what you need to live your absolute best mom life.
0:51.6	Welcome to the Mother Like a Boss podcast.
0:54.0	Well hello there friends welcome back to another episode of the Mother Like a
0:58.4	Boss podcast. So excited that you're here listening to me today. I know there's like 80
1:04.0	bazillion things to listen to. Yeah, that's a pretty accurate number.
1:07.2	There's so many things to listen to, so many things to take our attention these days.
1:11.3	And it just really honors me and I'm not even
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