Stop Wishing, Start Loving the Life You Already Have | Kate Strickler (Naptime Kitchen) (EP404)
Minimalist Moms Podcast | Simple Living for Overwhelmed Moms
Diane Boden
4.8 • 952 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Ever catch yourself scrolling and thinking, “I love my life, I just wish…”? In this episode, I sit down with Kate Strickler—mom of three, founder of Naptime Kitchen, and author—to talk about finding joy in the life you already have. Kate shares honest stories, practical tips, and simple perspective shifts to help you stop measuring yourself against someone else’s highlight reel and start embracing what’s real. If you’re tired of wishing your days looked different, this conversation will encourage you to see your home, your family, and your time in a whole new light.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- How to stop measuring your life against someone else’s highlight reel
- The subtle lies that keep us wishing for more instead of enjoying what we have
- Small perspective shifts that can transform the way you see your home, marriage, money and time
Links Discussed in This Episode |
- Diane's Resource: Book: Chasing Slow by Erin Loechner
- Previous Episode: The Opt-Out Family | How to Give Your Kids What Technology Can't with Erin Loechner (EP339)
- Previous Episode: Intentional Learning at Home (EP200) with Erin Loechner
- Book: The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness by Morgan Housel
- Kate's Resource(s): Book: In His Image: 10 Ways God Calls Us to Reflect His Character by Jen Wilkin | Book: None Like Him: 10 Ways God Is Different from Us (and Why That's a Good Thing) by Jen Wilkin
- Kate Can't Stop Talking About: Unseen Sunscreen by Goop
- Connect with Kate:
- https://naptimekitchen.com/
- https://www.instagram.com/naptimekitchen/
- Book: I Just Wish I Had a Bigger Kitchen: And Other Lies I Think Will Make Me Happy
About Kate |
Kate Strickler is the creator behind the extremely popular blog and Instagram account Naptime Kitchen. Known for her down-to-earth practicality and home and parenting hacks, she's been featured by Good Morning America, Southern Living, The Lazy Genius Podcast, The Best Today Podcast, and more. When she isn't wrangling the kids or working, you can find her in her happy place: experimenting in the kitchen. Kate lives in Charleston, South Carolina, with her husband, Nate, and their four children.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The home gets life out of being used and you get joy out of using your home. I would never |
| 0:08.5 | look at my kitchen knife and go, oh my gosh, this thing has gotten dull. I'm doing something wrong. |
| 0:13.5 | I would say, no, it's gotten dull because I've been using it a lot. It's like the goalpost keeps moving |
| 0:19.7 | in terms of what will make you happy. And two years ago, you said, if I just had a home, I would be so happy. We cannot compare our lives to theirs because we don't have the same game. We're not playing the same game. And if it's not going well, I can fight to change it moving forward because I only |
| 0:40.8 | get these 24 hours, but I do get them. They're renewing every single day. Hello and welcome to |
| 0:45.8 | the minimalist moms podcast. In today's episode, I'm joined by Kate Strickler, founder of Nap Time |
| 0:51.7 | Kitchen. Kate knows firsthand the pressure of living in a world |
| 0:55.3 | that's saturated with social media. After more than a decade of professional life online, |
| 1:01.1 | Kate came face to face with a common trap, looking at someone else's highlight reel and thinking, |
| 1:06.0 | I love my life, I just wish. But instead of staying stuck in that cycle, she set out to challenge that mindset. |
| 1:12.4 | What she discovered was powerful, that the life she already had was worth loving. All it took |
| 1:17.5 | were a few perspective shifts to truly see it. So in our conversation today, Kate shares |
| 1:22.0 | practical tips and relatable stories that dismantle the subtle lies we often believe about |
| 1:26.2 | relationships, money, time, and |
| 1:28.8 | home life. So if you've ever found yourself scrolling and wishing for a different life, |
| 1:32.5 | this episode will encourage you to pause, embrace what's real, and begin enjoying the life that's |
| 1:37.7 | already yours. But before we get there, I quickly want to share a minimalist resource with all of you. |
| 1:43.4 | Recently, I've been resharing some resources that I've shared in the past. |
| 1:47.1 | And the book that I want to share today is Chasing Slow by Aaron Lochner. |
| 1:51.1 | I remember the first time I read this. |
| 1:52.5 | It was so grounding and refreshing for me. |
| 1:55.3 | Aaron writes was such honesty about the tension between wanting simplicity and yet still |
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