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Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's episode is going to be a longer one, part of the series where

I interview fascinating people about how they take their days from great to awesome and any

advice they have for the rest of us. So today I am delighted to welcome Erin Port to the show.

Erin is the author of the brand new book Tiny Tweaks, Happy Life. She's also the brains behind the

popular, simple, purposeful living platform on social media. So, Erin, welcome to the show.

Thanks, Laura, for having me. I'm delighted to be here with you. Great. Well, why don't you

tell our listeners a little bit more about yourself? Well, sure. I'm a mom to four biological and adoptive mom.

We live in central Iowa in a tiny little town. I've been married to my husband for 19 years,

former educator, turned entrepreneur, and I fill my days trying to help people simplify their

lives so they can make the most of what matters. Absolutely. So how did simple, purposeful living start?

That's a great question. Well, I was a first grade teacher, decided to stay home and wanted

to have a bit of a passion project. So I started blogging back in the dark days when it was a blog spot

in 2009, back when most people wrote about

recipes and fashion. But I didn't really have that interest. And so I kind of thought about

my knack. What is my knack? And everything that I do, I always am looking to make it as simple as

possible. And now as a mama four, I'm really looking for that. And it was when our son came home via

adoption in 2019. He was nonverbal, malnourished, weighing just 19 pounds at 25 months. And every

feeding session took an hour. And I realized that I couldn't get a life overhaul, right? My life felt

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