Hey Clutterbugs, welcome back to the Clutterbug Podcast.

I'm a little bit geeked about today's podcast.

Guess, I just got to say, okay, we have Alexandra Gator,

and let me just say I'm a huge fan of her YouTube channel if you have not watched her YouTube channel

I need you to subscribe immediately because not only is Alexandra a home day core

youtuber she's an author she's a former magazine editor who was connected with

millions of people through her home makeover series.

But she's really showing people how to design this space

and that everyone deserves to live in a beautiful space

that feels like home no matter their budget.

Welcome, Alexandra. Thanks, Cass. I'm so excited to be here.

I'm pretty excited. I'm going to tell you the truth. I had not heard of you until recently and then I'm like where

have you been all my life seriously you're Canadian you're like four hours from me

you're Canadian you were on HD TV You were the host of by or DIY. Yeah. What the heck man? You're you look like a baby. How have you done all these amazing things? Oh, that so nice. Yeah a lot has happened in the last five years for sure.

When I think about it sometimes I'm like yeah I should take a nap. Some like soon.

So tell me how you got started. I mean I kind of know how you got started as the editor of Chatelaine which is an incredible magazine. But if you could share with my listeners kind of your story of how you went, you're so young and how you went to like this incredible career.

Yeah, I would love, I would love to share more about that so I went to school for journalism here in

Toronto I always kind of I always kind of knew that I wanted to do something

impactful I didn't really know what that looked like or what that meant, but I had to do an internship in my last year and I kind of fell into women's publishing specifically Shadowane and at the time I was like I really want to do something a little more

Creative like I was really into photography and I thought maybe I wanted to go into like fashion content or something and when I got to

Shadillane I was like oh my gosh I absolutely love doing this this really like you know

pulls together all the things that I love to do and I ended up

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