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39: Your Life as a Story

Cohesive Home Podcast : Family Values | Intentional Living | Simplicity

Release Date: 10/24/2017

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Cohesive Home Podcast : Family Values | Intentional Living | Simplicity

Please listen in, subscribe, and take 2 minutes to leave us a review on Apple or your favorite podcast app. It means so much to us!  We would love to hear from you: send us an email at Find Kate on her website: Find Melissa on Youtube:

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Cohesive Home Podcast : Family Values | Intentional Living | Simplicity

Have you ever felt that urge to just get rid off everything you own and completely simplify? The things in your home seem to take over, it’s constantly messy, and it would be so nice to have a clean slate. That was us a decade ago when we first started Cohesive Home. We were both reading alllllll the blogs and books on minimalism and applying it to our homes. In a movement led primarily by childless males, we wanted to show other families it was doable to live minimally. But time has passed. We’re older. We’ve moved. Our kids are older. Our lives has shifted tremendously. Are we...

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Cohesive Home Podcast : Family Values | Intentional Living | Simplicity

Welcome to Episode 5 of the NEW season of Cohesive Home! We are back with the craziest of updates on where we've been since last summer's episodes and what really happened. Promise you, we can't make this stuff up! In this episode, you'll hear about: Melissa's near death experience in France Kate's big dream coming true and the epic surprise she gave her hubs for Father's Day Where Melissa and her family are heading to next  Plus more of the real mom talk you expect  Please listen in, subscribe, and take 2 minutes to leave us a review on Apple or your favorite podcast app. It means...

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Cohesive Home Podcast : Family Values | Intentional Living | Simplicity

Do you feel most comfortable at home OR love being out in the world, around other people? In this episode, Kate and Melissa talk about how they've both realized what homebodies they've become. They also share the ways they ground and reconnect back to their homes after being away and why these simple rituals make such a difference.  We would love to hear from you, send us an email at Find Kate on IG:  Or Find Melissa on Youtube: Or IG:

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Cohesive Home Podcast : Family Values | Intentional Living | Simplicity

By the time you hear this episode, Kate and Melissa are well underway with their BIG summer plans. Listen in to hear how they're intentionally making the most of vacation time with their families and slowing down.  We would love to hear from you, send us an email at Find Kate on IG:  Find Melissa on Youtube: or Find Melissa on IG:  

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Cohesive Home Podcast : Family Values | Intentional Living | Simplicity

Melissa and Kate chat about how they stay organized and the many ways they get off track.   We would love to hear from you, send us an email at Find Kate on IG:  Find Melissa on Youtube: or

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Cohesive Home Podcast : Family Values | Intentional Living | Simplicity

SURPRISE! Kate and Melissa have jumped back on the mic and share where they have been the last 5 years, as well as future plans for Cohesive Home.  We would love to hear from you, send us an email at Find Kate on IG:  Find Melissa on Youtube: or  

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Cohesive Home Podcast : Family Values | Intentional Living | Simplicity

Interested in the zero or low-waste lifestyle? Need some fresh inspiration to jumpstart your journey? In episode 58 of the Cohesive Home Podcast, Melissa chats with Lindsey McCoy, co-founder of Plaine Products, a sustainable, vegan, and non-toxic hair and body line. Lindsey shares her drive to start the company and practical ideas for living sustainably.

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57: Parenting Peacefully + the Montessori Method with Simone Davies show art 57: Parenting Peacefully + the Montessori Method with Simone Davies

Cohesive Home Podcast : Family Values | Intentional Living | Simplicity

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56: 5 Tips to Being More Intentional and Less Reactive show art 56: 5 Tips to Being More Intentional and Less Reactive

Cohesive Home Podcast : Family Values | Intentional Living | Simplicity

In episode 56 of the Cohesive Home Podcast, Kate and Melissa tackle a listener question about living intentionally.

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Ever wonder if your life would make a good movie? Or is your life still stuck in the opening credits? In this episode, Kate and Melissa share a unique approach of visualizing your family's life as a story. They share specific steps to implement so that you can move from a mundane life to one full of passion and without regret. 
 
Three major points to think about when imagining your life's story:
1. What are you drawn to?
2. Where have you gone?
3. Where are you going?
 
More questions to ponder:
1. What's stopping you?
2. What's your plot twist?
3. What is your legacy?
 
Mentioned in this episode:
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Melissa's favorite glasses: Warby Parker
 
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Melissa's Youtube Channel: Melissa Risenhoover
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