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Clear Intentions with Diane Boden

Minimalism as a Tool to Discovering Purpose | Sarah Horgan (EP375)

Clear Intentions with Diane Boden

Diane Boden

Self-improvement, How To, Kids & Family, Mental Health, Education, Parenting, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 952 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Joining me for today's episode is host of the Simple Intentional Podcast, Sarah Horgan. After a stage four cancer diagnosis ten years ago, Sarah found herself reevaluating her life, leading her to embrace a minimalist lifestyle and confront perfectionism and people-pleasing habits.During our conversation, Sarah opens up about how this life-altering experience helped her discover a deeper sense of purpose and how significant life events, such as losing a loved one, can bring clarity and inspire change. She shares practical strategies for decluttering your life, staying mindful amidst the challenges of motherhood, and focusing on incremental progress to achieve long-term goals. Minimalism isn't just an aesthetic, rather it can be a tool to discover greater purpose and clarity in life.

About Sarah |

Sarah is a full-time working mom + wife, who lived with clutter and found her way to the other side. She radically changed her own life after a stage 4 cancer diagnosis. Forced to examine everything, including her perfectionism and people pleasing, she realized all the stuff (and not just the physical stuff) was standing in her way of living her life, her way.

After embracing minimalism and finding her way to simplicity, Sarah started simple + intentional to support other women to do the same. She encourages + inspires others through her instagram account, podcast and online membership community.

Sarah lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter. She loves the outdoors, a strong cup of tea and is following her dreams, one step at a time.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

This really all started for me about 10 years ago. I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. And you can imagine this is before I had my daughter, but it just sort of, you know, life stopped. When I got that diagnosis, I just said to myself, I'm going to be in it. I'm not going to avoid it. I'm going to be present throughout this. I'm going to deal with this.

0:23.4

And I'm just going to believe that it's all going to work out. It's like a push to really do what I want to do and show up how I want to show up in this life. Each time you make a decision

0:39.2

towards what you want and who you want to become, that you slowly become that person. You know,

0:45.5

we get these little wake-up calls in life where it's like you can take it as an opportunity to say,

0:49.6

I want this. I'm going to go for it. When we do something new, it doesn't feel safe to our nervous

0:56.0

system. So our subconscious just will resist it because it's something that feels scary.

1:03.1

I am like worthy of living in a clean and tidy environment and I'm worthy of setting boundaries

1:10.7

and saying this doesn't work for me. I want something more.

1:15.8

Hello and welcome to the minimalist moms podcast. Joining me for today's episode is host of the

1:20.9

simple intentional podcast, Sarah Horgan. After a stage four cancer diagnosis 10 years ago,

1:26.9

Sarah found herself re-evaluating her life,

1:29.3

leading her to embrace a minimalist lifestyle and confront perfectionism and people-pleasing habits.

1:34.3

During her conversation today, Sarah opens up about how this life-altering experience helped her discover a deeper sense of purpose

1:41.3

and how significant life events, such as losing a loved one can bring

1:45.5

clarity and inspire change. She shares practical strategies for decluttering your life staying mindful

1:50.8

amidst the challenges of motherhood and focusing on incremental progress to achieve long-term goals.

1:56.8

Minimalism isn't just an aesthetic, rather it can be a tool to discover greater purpose and clarity in our lives.

2:03.5

But before we get there, I quickly want to share a minimalist resource with all of you.

2:07.4

I have the opportunity to join my friend Shannon Laco on her podcast, Paring Down. And I wanted to share just a part of that conversation with you here now.

2:15.5

People just want to be content. People do want to have enough.

2:18.5

It is nice. I will find myself in random groups of people that have a lot more than enough.

2:24.7

And that's kind of nice. It's like, yeah, I want to make money. I want to be successful.

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