Why + How to Build Community (with Katherine Goldstein)

Edit Your Life | Simplify + Declutter Your Home, Time, and Mental Space

Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Building your community is a lot more accessible than you might think. Christine talks with Katherine Goldstein about the power of investing in community, why we need to edit down “busyness,” a surprising exercise to ramp up social skills, and more. For links and related episodes, visit the show notes. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that offers tips, recommendations, and expert advice to simplify and declutter your home, schedule, to-do list, relationships, and mental space. Connect with host Christine Koh at edityourlifeshow@gmail.com or DM @edityourlifeshow or @drchristinekoh. Subscribe to Christine’s personal newsletter at Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Babe, it's Gem.
0:02.0	Just voice-noting you because I'm so busy.
0:05.0	I can't even type right now.
0:06.8	I'm working on that big presentation for my new launch.
0:10.3	I'm making it on Canva Mobile like you suggested.
0:13.1	And it's making everything iconic.
0:16.6	So it's a bit noisy, babe's mards is going off.
0:20.3	Anyways, I'm going to ping the presentation to you now so you can see what I mean.
0:25.1	Yeah, madame.
0:26.0	Got to go, hon.
0:27.3	Thanks for introducing me to Canva.
0:29.3	Love you.
0:35.4	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.
0:42.3	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 and space to simplify and declutter your home, time, mental space, and more.
0:56.8	Hello, friends. I'm so excited today to bring you this conversation with the wonderful
1:02.1	Catherine Goldstein. Catherine is an award-winning journalist and mom of three. You might know her
1:07.7	from The Double Shift. She's now working on her first book, How to Find Your People,
1:12.8	a guide to the transformative power of community, and she hosts the How to Find Your People
1:17.9	Club on Substack, which aims to teach and empower people to find and invest in communities
1:23.3	in real life wherever they are. This conversation is so interesting, and it's filled with broader big picture framing.
1:31.2	Catherine drops an amazing stat right up at the top.
1:34.5	And then we also get into the practical, for example, the importance of editing our calendars,
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