325: One Year After Hurricane Helene: Gratitude, Grief, and the Meaning of Home
Release Date: 09/24/2025
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_outlineWhat do you do when the place that once held your memories is suddenly gone?
A year ago, I watched floodwaters swallow a familiar corner of Asheville—a neighborhood full of weekend strolls, quiet moments, and memories. In a single day, what felt solid and permanent was swept away.
In this deeply personal episode, I’m finally opening up about Hurricane Helene. What our community faced, how the past 12 months have changed me, and what the storm taught me about gratitude, grief, and what it really means to call a place “home.”
If you’ve ever grieved the loss of a season…
If you’ve ever looked at a cluttered room and felt a surprising wave of emotion…
If you’ve ever asked yourself why certain things feel so hard to let go of…
This one’s for you.
Because decluttering is never just about “stuff.” It’s about memory. Identity. Story.
And sometimes… healing.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
- Why decluttering often stirs up emotion, and why that’s completely normal
- What the storm revealed about the connection between our belongings and our identities
- The surprising truth about grief and gratitude and why they’re not opposites
- How simplicity can be a choice before it’s forced on us
- The moment in Costco that broke me, and what it helped me understand about being human
- Why “things” are never just things and how to know what’s worth keeping
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