315: Packing Lunches Just Got Easier: Simple Systems + Smart Food Mindsets with Megan McNamee
Release Date: 07/16/2025
345: What Your Partner's Resistance to Decluttering Is Actually Telling You
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
📚 PRE-ORDER MY NEW BOOK Making Home Your Happy Place: The Real-Life Guide to Decluttering Without the Overwhelm releases February 17th. Pre-order now to receive exclusive bonus goodies — simple, supportive tools you can start using right away. 👉 🎯 TAKE THE FREE DECLUTTERING STYLE QUIZ Discover your personal Decluttering Style and get a clear, realistic starting plan that actually fits your life. 👉 If you’ve ever looked around your home and thought, “Why does this feel like it’s all on me?”—this episode is for you. Because getting another...
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344: Why "Try Harder" Doesn't Work for an ADHD Brain (And What Does) with Brooke Schnittman
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
📚 PRE-ORDER MY NEW BOOK Making Home Your Happy Place: The Real-Life Guide to Decluttering Without the Overwhelm releases February 17th. Pre-order now to receive exclusive bonus goodies — simple, supportive tools you can start using right away. 👉 🎯 TAKE THE FREE DECLUTTERING STYLE QUIZ Discover your personal Decluttering Style and get a clear, realistic starting plan that actually fits your life. 👉 If you’ve ever felt like you’re working twice as hard as everyone else just to keep your head above water… this episode is going to feel like a deep...
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343: When Decluttering Gets Hard: How to Tackle Decision Fatigue
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
📚 PRE-ORDER MY NEW BOOK Making Home Your Happy Place: The Real-Life Guide to Decluttering Without the Overwhelm releases February 17th. Pre-order now to receive exclusive bonus goodies — simple, supportive tools you can start using right away. 👉 🎯 TAKE THE FREE DECLUTTERING STYLE QUIZ Discover your personal Decluttering Style and get a clear, realistic starting plan that actually fits your life. 👉 When Decluttering Feels Impossible, It’s Probably Decision Fatigue (Not Laziness) Have you ever started decluttering with good intentions… and then your...
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342: (BONUS) A Birthday Gift: I'm Reading You a Chapter From My New Book
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
🎯 TAKE THE FREE DECLUTTERING STYLE QUIZ Discover your personal Decluttering Style and get a clear, realistic starting plan that actually fits your life. 👉 Why Letting Go Feels So Hard (And the “Stuff Story” That Explains It) Have you ever looked around your home and thought, “Why is this still such a struggle for me?” You know what you want — more calm, more space, less mental weight — but every time you try to declutter, something in you freezes. Most women assume they just need a better system… or more willpower… or a free weekend to finally tackle it all. But what...
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341: 25 to Thrive: The Framework That Kickstarts Your Year
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
📚 PRE-ORDER MY NEW BOOK Making Home Your Happy Place: The Real-Life Guide to Decluttering Without the Overwhelm releases February 17th. Pre-order now to receive exclusive bonus goodies — simple, supportive tools you can start using right away. 👉 🎯 TAKE THE FREE DECLUTTERING STYLE QUIZ Discover your personal Decluttering Style and get a clear, realistic starting plan that actually fits your life. 👉 The 25-Minute Decluttering Strategy That Actually Works When You’re Short on Time You know that moment when you want to declutter… but the idea of pulling everything out and...
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340: What I'm Not Carrying Into the New Year And What You Shouldn't Either
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
📚 PRE-ORDER MY NEW BOOK Making Home Your Happy Place: The Real-Life Guide to Decluttering Without the Overwhelm releases February 17th. Pre-order now to receive exclusive bonus goodies — simple, supportive tools you can start using right away. 👉 🎯 TAKE THE FREE DECLUTTERING STYLE QUIZ Discover your personal Decluttering Style and get a clear, realistic starting plan that actually fits your life. 👉 If you’ve ever opened social media and instantly felt behind — about your body, your home, or your progress — you’re not alone. I share a moment like that in this episode,...
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339: Why Fresh Starts Fail And What Actually Works Instead
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
📚 PRE-ORDER MY NEW BOOK Making Home Your Happy Place: The Real-Life Guide to Decluttering Without the Overwhelm releases February 17th. Pre-order now to receive exclusive bonus goodies—simple, supportive tools you can start using right away. 👉 🎯 TAKE THE FREE DECLUTTERING STYLE QUIZ Discover your personal Decluttering Style and get a clear, realistic starting plan that actually fits your life. 👉 Every January, we’re sold the same promise: New year, new you. Fresh motivation. Big plans. A clean slate. But what if the “fresh start” was never designed to work in the first...
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338: What to Do With Unwanted Gifts (Without the Guilt)
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
📚 PRE-ORDER MY NEW BOOK! Making Home Your Happy Place: The Real Life Guide to Decluttering Without the Overwhelm releases February 17th! Pre-order now and receive exclusive bonus goodies—simple, supportive tools you can apply right away through the holiday season and beyond! 👉 🎯 TAKE THE FREE QUIZ! Discover your unique Decluttering Style and get personalized tips that actually work for YOU. 👉 Somewhere right now, there’s a decorative ceramic rooster sitting in the back of a closet—kept out of guilt, obligation, or fear of hurting someone’s feelings. In today’s...
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337: Sentimentality, Letting Go, and What Home Teaches Us with Andrew Wells
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
📚 PRE-ORDER MY NEW BOOK! Making Home Your Happy Place: The Real Life Guide to Decluttering Without the Overwhelm releases February 17th! Pre-order now and receive exclusive bonus goodies—simple, supportive tools you can apply right away through the holiday season and beyond! 👉 🎯 TAKE THE FREE QUIZ! Discover your unique Decluttering Style and get personalized tips that actually work for YOU. 👉 In this heartfelt episode, Andrew joins me to share the story of our unexpected mold crisis—one that forced us to let go of sentimental items, old hobbies, emotional...
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336: The 10-Minute Reset That Saves Your Sanity This December
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
📚 PRE-ORDER MY NEW BOOK! Making Home Your Happy Place: The Real Life Guide to Decluttering Without the Overwhelm releases February 17th! Pre-order now and receive exclusive bonus goodies—simple, supportive tools you can apply right away through the holiday season and beyond! 👉 🎯 TAKE THE FREE QUIZ! Discover your unique Decluttering Style and get personalized tips that actually work for YOU. 👉 In today’s bonus episode, we’re talking about something nearly every woman struggles with this time of year—when your home suddenly feels loud, chaotic, and like everything has...
info_outlineEver feel like you’re stuck in lunch limbo—standing in front of the fridge at 11:58 a.m. with no plan, no energy, and three hungry kids staring you down?
You’re so not alone. Today’s guest, Megan McNamee, co-founder of Feeding Littles and co-author of the New York Times bestselling book Feeding Littles Lunches, is here to help you ditch the decision fatigue and start feeding your family with more ease, flexibility, and confidence.
In this episode, we’re breaking down:
- Megan’s go-to lunchbox formula (hint: it’s genius—and easy to remember)
- How to raise intuitive eaters without pressure or perfection
- Tips for navigating picky eating, food guilt, and power struggles at the table
- What to do when your kid only eats beige food (because we’ve all been there)
- Summer survival strategies when it feels like the kitchen is open 24/7
- How to make packed lunches (even during summer) a breeze—not a burden
Plus, we chat about how Megan’s non-recipe cookbook is helping kids and parents get excited about lunch again (my boys are obsessed with it—and yours might be too).
🎧 Whether your kids are heading to summer camp, starting school soon, or just raiding the pantry on repeat, this episode is full of fresh, grace-filled ideas that make food feel fun again.
🔗 Links & Resources:
- Grab Megan’s book: Feeding Littles Lunches
- Follow Megan on Instagram: @FeedingLittles (https://www.instagram.com/feedinglittles)
- Join 35K+ women getting the Ready, Set, Simplify newsletter every Wednesday: Sign up here (https://www.katyjoywells.com/simplify)
💡 Pro tip: Want your kids to pack their own lunches? This episode will give you the tools (and the mindset shift) to make it happen—without the usual lunchtime battles.
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