Organized Living Solutions (with Shira Gill)

Edit Your Life | Simplify + Declutter Your Home, Time, and Mental Space

Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Why is it important for your home to be a living, breathing reflection of you and your values? Christine chats with Shira Gill—a bestselling author, home organizing expert, and mom—about why a values-based frame for organizing and living is a crucial starting point, as well as common organizing pitfalls, living with kids, sustainable solutions, and more. RELATED EPISODES (for additional links, visit the show notes): Pandemic Home Decluttering + Styling (with Paige Lewin) Decluttering For Everyday Living (with Rachel Rosenthal) Guilt-Free Decluttering (with Tracy McCubbin) Fall Edits (+ A New Decluttering Target) Identifying Your Values Embracing Micro Goals Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that shares practical ideas for decluttering your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection. Visit edityourlifeshow.com for show notes and to connect with host Christine Koh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	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.
0:12.5	Through episodes with me, your host, Christine Coe, and a range of super smart, compassionate and thoughtful guests,
0:18.8	you will come away with big picture insights and practical ways to declutter your home, schedule, and thoughtful guests, you will come away with big picture insights and
0:21.6	practical ways to declutter your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection.
0:27.4	I have always believed that small moments and actions matter tremendously. My goal is to help you
0:33.1	find agency and space in your life through doable baby steps that will leave you feeling accomplished
0:38.1	instead of overwhelmed.
0:40.9	Hello, friends. I am so excited about today's conversation. It is with Shira Gill, a best
0:47.6	selling author, home organizing expert, and mom. She is a fellow seeker of order and beauty and joy having grown up amidst chaos.
0:57.6	And she's a dual author. Her first book was Minimalista, your step-by-step guide to a better home
1:03.9	wardrobe and life. This was published in 2021 and is a fantastic tactical guide that actually was gifted to me by my BFF, Paige Lewin,
1:15.1	who is also an interiors person and was my guest on the episode Pandemic Home Decluttering and
1:21.4	Styling, which, by the way, was the most popular episode of 2020. The reason I'm talking to
1:27.2	Shira today, and it feels long overdue, I must say, is that
1:30.6	she has a new book coming out called Organized Living Solutions and Inspiration for Your Home.
1:36.9	It is publishing October 2023, and it's obviously related to her other book, but it's different
1:43.7	in that it provides tactics
1:45.3	in a very story-driven way through the stories of other designers.
1:50.1	I am so delighted to talk to Shera today because not only do we have a mutual friend in the
1:55.6	wonderful Rachel Rosenthal, who was my guest on decluttering for everyday living,
2:03.4	but we have so many synergies in our approach. So even though this is our first time talking, I feel like I am talking with
2:09.7	an old friend. Welcome, Shira. Oh, thank you. Well, likewise, I've been so looking forward to
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