"Your Space is a Reflection of Self" | Gala Magrina (EP443)
Minimalist Moms Podcast | Purposeful Life & Parenting Tips
Diane Boden
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Diane sits down with holistic interior designer Gala Magina to explore how our homes can better support our well-being. Drawing from her background in meditation, feng shui, and healthy materials, Gala shares how thoughtful design choices—from decluttering and intentional purchasing to biophilic elements and circadian-friendly lighting—can help create calmer, healthier spaces. She also encourages overwhelmed homeowners to start with the area of their home that feels like the biggest energy drain and work toward a more intentional environment.
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About Gala |
Gala Magriñá, Principal and Founder of Gala Magriñá Design, is an award-winning holistic designer and expert dedicated to elevating the collective consciousness through intentionally crafted spaces. Guided by her own mindfulness journey and backed by certifications in WELL, Feng Shui, Vastu, Holistic Interior Design, and Healthy Materials, she partners with residential clients, brands and corporations to harness the power of the built environment as a catalyst for growth, healing, and overall greater wellbeing.
Called to empower others to take a deeper look at how interiors both reflect and affect us, Gala shares her expertise and creative prowess through engaging workshops and keynotes for venerable groups such as Business of Home, Goop and Luxe Magazine. She also hosts Going Beyond Spaces With Gala, a top-40 U.S. design podcast, inspiring greater awareness of the power of our environments.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And my son really helped me make peace with things not being perfect in the home all of the time, ironically. |
| 0:07.5 | And that's some healing that I needed to do myself because it can easily turn into a form of control. |
| 0:12.9 | So my son really helped me accept, hey, there are going to be days where it looks like a bomb went off. |
| 0:18.9 | But then you spend five minutes at the end of the day and you put everything |
| 0:21.4 | back in place and you have your peace again. But really balancing the energy it takes to keep |
| 0:27.7 | everything perfect versus just letting things flow and be a disaster for a second and be okay with that. |
| 0:33.1 | So that doesn't really apply to how it made me a better holistic interior designer. |
| 0:37.5 | I think it made me a more balanced human. |
| 0:39.8 | This is Diane Bowden, and you're listening to the minimalist moms podcast. |
| 0:43.5 | In today's episode, I speak with holistic interior designer, Gala Magrina, about how our homes |
| 0:48.8 | can support not just function and beauty, but our overall well-being. |
| 0:53.1 | Drawing from her background in film, retail design, |
| 0:56.2 | meditation, feng shui, and healthy building materials, Gala explains what holistic interior |
| 1:01.1 | design really means, creating spaces that support the mind, body, and soul while considering |
| 1:05.5 | the health of the planet. If you've ever felt overwhelmed by your space, this conversation |
| 1:09.7 | offers a grounded starting point, |
| 1:11.8 | begin with an area that feels like the biggest energy drain and move toward a home that feels lighter, |
| 1:16.5 | calmer, and more intentional. |
| 1:18.2 | But quickly before we get there, I want to share a minimalist resource with all of you. |
| 1:22.6 | Obviously, the main theme of every episode here is intentionality. |
| 1:26.5 | And so I'm often looking for ways I can be more intentional in every area of my life. And I happened upon a reel earlier this week talking about intentionality when it comes to listening to music. So I'll share that real with you here. I think we should listen to albums all the way through more often because in a world where everything seems like it's on shuffle, like even the video you're seeing on your screen right now |
| 1:45.0 | was shuffled through an algorithm and fed to you, it's kind of nice to have a different experience that was curated by an artist instead of an algorithm. It's like if track four on an album isn't very good, and it's not your favorite, but you listen to it anyways, in order to get to track five, which is your favorite that you really like, And that type of contrast is what makes track 5 that much better. |
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