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.

I was originally going to say that this conversation with Laura Fenton is particularly

well-timed amidst a change of season, but really, this conversation is good and necessary all year round.

Laura is the author of The Little Book of Living Small and the Substact newsletter Living

Small. In this conversation, we dig deep and draw connections between two things,

becoming mindful about and making the most of what we have, and minimizing consumption and

changing habits that can feel deeply ingrained and hard to change.

Though going against the tide when it comes to consumer culture can feel really hard,

this episode is replete with small, doable ideas to make change in the everyday.

Let's get right to it. Hello, Laura. Welcome to

edit your life. I'm so delighted to have you here. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to chat.

Yes, we have mutual friends. I will link up wonderful episodes with Shira Gill and Dacey Gillespie

in the notes. And I will say, I'm glad I can

say this to your face, that the more I read of your work, the more I'm like, why are we not living

next door to each other? So I'm really excited to talk to you. A good feeling and a good experience.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, let me set up, because I have a number of questions for you, but I wanted to give you some preliminary thoughts. And, you know, it was really interesting because when I started thinking about what I wanted to talk to you about, I felt like my questions were kind of landing in two buckets. One that I might suggest has a bit of a struggle valence because it's focused on minimizing and

habit changes that can feel really deeply ingrained and difficult to change sometimes.

And then the second bucket felt kind of like a noticing celebratory valence because it was all

about becoming mindful about what you have and amplifying that.

So normally, that's actually probably the order I would take the questions, kind of akin to

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