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 in space to simplify and

declutter your home, time, mental space, and more.

Hello, friends.

I'm excited to bring you this conversation today with the wonderful Margaret Ables and

Amy Wilson of the What Fresh Hell podcast.

I have been meaning to have Margaret and Amy on the show for some time,

and then that idea got punted up my to-do list after seeing them requested on my Edit Your Life

survey earlier this year. I have known Amy and Margaret for some time. They run the funny parenting

show, What Fresh Hell. I also loved talking to them a few years back on their show,

and I was really impressed because of all the lifestyle editing things we could have talked about,

they asked if I would be willing to talk about adverse childhood experiences, given all of the

public writing I have done on this topic. I will link up that show on building a family after

adverse childhood experiences in the show notes. And then they are also the powerhouses behind

Adelis Media who help make it possible to keep this show free for you through sponsor integration.

When I invited Margaret and Amy on the show, I was originally

planning on talking to them about navigating end-of-school year chaos. But then we started talking

about their forthcoming episode, What Can We Add? What Can We Take Away? I was really curious about

talking to them further about this approach from a more general seasonal transition

lens. And of course, the idea of subtracting things to improve your life, well, it's very

edit your life. Now, before we get to this conversation, I have a quick ask, and that is,

if you would please drop a review for Edit Your Life on Apple Podcasts. I know it's another thing to add to your

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