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Tranquility du Jour

Tranquility du Jour #482: Clutter-Free

Tranquility du Jour

Kimberly Wilson

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.6554 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this week's edition of Tranquility du Jour, I chat with Tracy McCubbin of dClutterfly  about how to get started decluttering, clutterbocks, and why decluttering is such an emotional process.

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Guest

 
Tracy has always referred to herself as "obsessive compulsive delightful," but who knew she could turn that trait into a booming business? While working for a major television director in Los Angeles, Tracy discovered she had the ability to see through any mess and clearly envision a clutter-free space. Coupled with keen time-management and organizational skills, Tracy soon found more and more people were asking her for help. Before she knew it, dClutterfly was born.
 
Twelve years and thousands of decluttered homes later, Tracy knew it was time to take what she had learned working with her clients and write a book to help others dealing with clutter.  She is author of the newly published book Making Space, Clutter-Free: The Last Book on Decluttering You'll Ever Need and is a regularly featured expert in the media, including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, goop, Home & Family, Real Simple, mindbodygreen,  KTLA Morning Show, KCAL9, and more.
 
In addition to her impressive organizing tool belt, Tracy grew up with family members who hoarded and knows firsthand that the effects of living amongst an accumulation of possessions goes far beyond the home's walls. This personal experience gives her an advantage over most professional organizers as she has a unique understanding of the mindset of the organizationally and spatially-challenged.
 
When she is not dCluttering, Tracy is the proud Co-Executive Director of OneKid OneWorld, a non-profit building strong educational foundations for children in impoverished communities throughout Kenya and Central America. OKOW is providing kids with the basic (yet essential) fundamentals like desks and books, as well as paying teachers' salaries, building classrooms and even installing solar power technology so students can study at night. OKOW's most recent project #OneGirlOnePad will provide access to reusable feminine hygiene kits to over 4,000 girls in Kenya, allowing them to attend school all year round. OneKid OneWorld is Tracy's "full time, non-paying passion."

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello there, this is Kimberly Wilson and welcome to the 482 edition of Tranquility DeJure, bringing you nourishing

0:14.1

conversations about living a full and meaningful life with doses of tranquility since 2005. In this week's edition, I chat with Tracy McCubbin

0:25.0

of Declutterfly about how to get started decluttering, which I thought was perfectly aligned with

0:31.4

spring cleaning this time of the year. What are clutter blocks? And why this is such a freaking emotional process. I remember having a team

0:42.8

member come and help me with my tiny little office. I mean, my office was, you know,

0:47.6

it was like you couldn't really walk in. It was more like an electrical closet sort of size.

0:53.9

And I had a team member come and help me go through

0:57.1

some things. And I remember it's like there was this old tranquil space stamp from our old logo,

1:02.7

our old look. And I was like tearing up. I was like, I can't let it go. She's like,

1:07.0

what are you going to do with it? So, you know, I think back on that moment of really how

1:12.2

emotional this whole process can be and yet why it's so freaking important. And to help, get a set

1:20.3

up for spring cleaning. Be sure to save the date. March 22nd is our next free seasonal TDJ live

1:26.4

gathering from 8 to 9 p.m. And you can sign it for this

1:30.4

for free. You'll find the show notes to this episode over at Kimberlywilson.com slash 482. You'll find

1:36.7

a link to that or just go over to Kimberlywilson.com and look for TDJ live and you will find

1:41.7

everything you need. Also, this spring I'm going to be releasing

1:45.5

Tranquility Salon online and join the wait list for this. This is going to be an amazing e-course,

1:53.1

my first kind of six-weeker that I've done in quite a while, years actually. And we're going to be

2:00.1

diving into the six tenets of

2:02.2

Tranquility DeJure. We'd love to have you join us for that, and see Spring as the perfect

2:07.4

time to dive into actually trying to get things kind of back on track and think about blooming.

2:14.7

What does that look like for us personally? And don't forget Provence,

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