Organize First, Decorate Second | Whitney English (EP39)
Minimalist Moms Podcast | Purposeful Life & Parenting Tips
Diane Boden
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Minimalism isn’t about living in a blank, sterile space — it’s about making room for what truly reflects you. It’s less about having less, and more about living with intention. On today’s episode, I’m chatting with designer and author Whitney English, about her brand-new book Organize First, Decorate Second. We talk about how to bring order to your space before you style it — and why a home that feels like you doesn’t have to feel chaotic.
Links Discussed in This Episode |
- Previous Episode: Making Space for Balance with Whitney English (EP220)
- Book: The Next Right Thing by Emily Freeman
- Connect with Whitney:
- Website
- Substack
- Book: Organize First, Decorate Second
About Whitney|
Whitney English believes in living a beautiful, intentional life — one rooted in gratitude, creativity, and growth. She’s built two seven-figure businesses from the ground up, holds a degree in interior design, and studied management at Parsons in New York. Her work has been featured in O Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and twice on the Today Show. In 2008, Country Living named her one of their Women Entrepreneurs. Above all, her favorite roles are wife to David and mom to their three kids.
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| 1:09.9 | is a lot harder than I thought it was going to be whenever I was seven. |
| 1:14.3 | You can't organize clutter. If you have clutter and you have too much, I think that's where we get caught up. |
| 1:21.3 | I come from a long line of hoarders on both sides. It's like genetically in me to collect things and love things. It's like going to the |
| 1:29.9 | container store and buying the containers without really knowing what you're trying to contain. |
| 1:34.9 | The constraints make us resourceful. People want to have their homes be tidy, organized, |
| 1:42.5 | edited. They want that. |
| 1:44.8 | Our brains are trying to make sense of the world around this. |
| 1:48.1 | And if you have to stop on a little chotchky animal every three feet on a bookshelf, |
| 1:56.6 | you're not seeing, oh, bookshelf. |
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