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On The Simple Home Podcast, Jenna Arvidson from athomewithkids.com, provides practical solutions for busy families looking to live a simple life. Simple-living is more than just getting rid of the clutter in your home. It's about letting go of expectations, creating routines and systems that work for your family, living intentionally, and using your time and money for what matters most. Jenna talks about minimalism, simple parenting, money and time management, along with other relevant conte ...
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Key Takeaways From This Episode How to align your priorities even in busy seasons. You can make money and be home with your babies. Being a mom doesn't mean you can't reach your goals. You don't need an overnight success to be successful. Links From This Episode TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mrshollymorgan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hol…
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Links From This Episode: At Home With Kids Resources The Simple Home Reset If you’d like to hang out more and stay motivated in between episodes, come join my free Facebook community. It’s full of like minded people who are working hard to simplify their lives too! This work is easier done in community than by yourself so come over and join us! If …
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Links From This Episode: At Home With Kids Resources The Simple Home Reset If you’d like to hang out more and stay motivated in between episodes, come join my free Facebook community. It’s full of like minded people who are working hard to simplify their lives too! This work is easier done in community than by yourself so come over and join us! If …
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Links From This Episode: At Home With Kids Resources The Simple Home Reset If you’d like to hang out more and stay motivated in between episodes, come join my free Facebook community. It’s full of like minded people who are working hard to simplify their lives too! This work is easier done in community than by yourself so come over and join us! If …
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Links From This Episode: At Home With Kids Resources The Simple Home Reset Learn more about the spending day with this episode! If you’d like to hang out more and stay motivated in between episodes, come join my free Facebook community. It’s full of like minded people who are working hard to simplify their lives too! This work is easier done in com…
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Trying to stay organized as the seasons of life change is challenging, especially if you have kids. The amount of stuff that comes into our lives on a daily basis is almost mind blowing sometimes. One of my biggest struggles in motherhood is being able to manage the different kinds of clutter as my family grows and changes. On top of the clutter, o…
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Links From This Episode: At Home With Kids Resources The Simple Home Reset Learn more about the spending day with this episode! If you’d like to hang out more and stay motivated in between episodes, come join my free Facebook community. It’s full of like minded people who are working hard to simplify their lives too! This work is easier done in com…
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Links From This Episode: At Home With Kids Resources The Simple Home Reset Learn more about the spending day with this episode! If you’d like to hang out more and stay motivated in between episodes, come join my free Facebook community. It’s full of like minded people who are working hard to simplify their lives too! This work is easier done in com…
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As you listen to this episode, choose one tip to focus on this week and gradually add more as you are able. Links From This Episode: At Home With Kids Resources The Simple Home Reset Learn more about the spending day with this episode! If you’d like to hang out more and stay motivated in between episodes, come join my free Facebook community. It’s …
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As you listen to this episode, choose one tip to focus on this week and gradually add more as you are able. Links From This Episode: In Over My Head Podcast In Over My Head Website At Home With Kids Resources The Simple Home Reset Mentorship Program If you’d like to hang out more and stay motivated in between episodes, come join my free Facebook co…
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As you listen to this episode, choose one tip to focus on this week and gradually add more as you are able. Links From This Episode: At Home With Kids Resources The Simple Home Reset Learn more about the spending day with this episode! If you’d like to hang out more and stay motivated in between episodes, come join my free Facebook community. It’s …
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In this episode of The Simple Home Podcast, we talk about the theory of Kaizn and how making micro changes can change your life. Kaizn, is a theory that originated in the 1940’s. During a time when many factories in America needed to make improvements in order to be successful. Factory owners were encouraged to make small changes for continuous imp…
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In this episode of The Simple Home Podcast, I talk with Cason from Her Pursuit Podcast. We discuss motherhood, simplicity, and finding consistency. Cason is a mom of three who has a heart for helping moms get unstuck. We all struggle in motherhood. It's the nature of raising humans. But we don't have to do it alone. Cason has a gift for sharing ins…
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In this episode of The Simple Home Podcast, I talk with Lindsay about positive parenting and how to implement strategies that benefit both the parent and the child. Having effective strategies to help ease the hardest moments of parenting are invaluable. Lindsay shares her wisdom with us on connecting with our children through discipline that build…
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In this episode of The Simple Home Podcast, we'll chat about the idea of seasonal minimalism and how it can help us live more intentionally. I recently read an article that was talking about the idea of living seasonally. I had never really heard this concept before so it got me thinking. The article was talking about how our lives might be simpler…
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In this episode of The Simple Home Podcast, we'll learn all about toxin free living and how to make simple swaps in our homes. This is an area I've been interested in for a long time, but it's always felt too hard to make the switch to living toxin free. Then I met Megan and she showed me just how easy it can be to detox your house. She is an exper…
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"Busy isn't a lifestyle, it's a choice." The Minimalists Do you ever find yourself repeating the same thing over and over when someone asks how you're doing? "It's been busy." "We've just been busy." "It's been a busy few weeks." It's become a badge of honor to be busy and still act like we've got it altogether. I want to give you permission to cho…
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In this episode of The Simple Home Podcast, we'll discuss the habits and routines of highly organized people. I've spent years trying to simplify every aspect of my life and each season brings new challenges. Learning to organize in a way that works for me and my life has made all the difference when it comes to feeling lighter. As you listen to th…
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In this episode of The Simple Home Podcast, we'll discuss simplicity in parenting and how living with less impacts our whole family. Denaye Barahona, author and podcaster, shares her wisdom with us around simple parenting. We discuss many important topics and shed light on letting go of what is expected and just slowing down. As you listen to this …
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In this episode of The Simple Home Podcast, you'll learn how to be productive without adding to your schedule. Cara Harvey, quthor of The 15 Minute Formula and host of The Purpose Driven Mom Podcast, will walk you through her productivity process and teach you how to let go of the "busy badge". Being more productive doesn't have to mean doing more.…
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In this episode of The Simple Home Podcast, we'll get the clutter out of your garage! The garage or any other storage space are usually home to lots of stuff! That's what makes it such a large project to tackle. In the US, 82% of homes have a garage, but only 15% of people park in them. In the UK, 53% of homes have garages, and only 23% of people p…
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In this episode of The Simple Home Podcast, we'll tackle a challenging and rewarding space in your house; your closet and bedroom! If this is your first episode of the "Declutter Your House" series, please go back and listen to a few of the previous episodes to get started. The closet tends to be a very challenging area to declutter and should not …
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In this episode you're going to put your decluttering skills to work in your bathroom! The bathroom gets a bad rap. It's often our least favorite place to clean due to obvious grossness and we keep a lot of little things that can be difficult to organize in this space. However, we also spend a lot of time in the bathroom. Over the next week or so, …
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Today's the day to tackle the clutter in your kitchen! You spend most of your time in or around your kitchen. This is a very active space in your house. As you start to declutter and organize this space remember it has many uses and each one is probably very important to you. You cook, you pay the bills, you help kids with homework, maybe you even …
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Do you ever look around your house and think, "Where should I start?" You're not alone! Sometimes that's what keeps us from starting. The friction of not knowing where to begin can keep you from making any stride at all. Well, let's go ahead and take away that friction. Over the next few weeks we'll work our way through your house, room by room, de…
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It's that time of year again where we set new goals and reflect on our past goals. The fresh start of a new year can be both encouraging and paralyzing. Thinking about all the things you wanted to do the past year, but never even started. Or maybe it's something you've had on your goal list for the past several years and still haven't made any head…
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In this episode of The Simple Home Podcast, we'll learn all about toxin free living and how to make simple swaps in our homes. This is an area I've been interested in for a long time, but it's always felt too hard to make the switch to living toxin free. Then I met Megan and she showed me just how easy it can be to detox your house. She is an exper…
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The Simple Home Reset is OPEN! Come join us in this fun program and finally get your house, your schedule, and your time under control. Sign up now and you'll also get "Curate and Cherish", the course that helps you declutter and organize your photos for FREE. We make an average of 35,000 decisions everyday. It's no wonder, when it comes to making …
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If you're anything like me, you've gotten stuck on the hampster wheel of decluttering, organizing, decluttering, and organizing again. I spent years wondering why I couldn't seem to get a handle on my clutter. Why I couldn't fnd a way to stay organized. And why my house kept filling up with different size storage containers. It wasn't until I final…
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Can I tell you a secret? I’ve bought way too many toys for my kids. Creating a clutter free toy space has been a challenge for me at times. I’ve purchased toys for them that have never been played with. I’ve had a hard time getting rid of things because I wanted so badly for my kids to love and play with, but never really did. If toy clutter is tak…
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Have you ever been in the never ending cycle of organizing and reorganizing and putting things in new containers, and moving things to a new room and organizing again? It feels like it never stops, doesn’t it? I know this all too well from my own experience. Decluttering and organization can be never ending. The terms, organization and decluttering…
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Do you ever get to 5:00 and have no idea what to make for dinner? I do this all the time! I imagine it's similar to how someone feels when they're writing a book and staring at a blank white screen. I look in the refrigerator and whether I've just been to the grocery store or not, it looks empty. The only way I've found to mitigate this is to have …
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"Busy isn't a lifestyle, it's a choice." The Minimalists Do you ever find yourself repeating the same thing over and over when someone asks how you're doing? "It's been busy." "We've just been busy." "It's been a busy few weeks." It's become a badge of honor to be busy and still act like we've got it altogether. I want to give you permission to cho…
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Simplifying your fitness and health routines can make a huge impact on your well being. Not only will it have profound benefits for your physical health, but also your mental health, stress level, and overall capacity for motherhood. I know I've struggled to make health a priority since having kids. I know how important it is, but finding time for …
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“We all have 24 hours in a day, but we don’t all have the same 24 hours.” -Cara Harvey, A Purpose Driven Mom One of the greatest challenges we face is how we will spend our time. How we can get it all done and still have time for the things that are important to us. How we can slow it down and enjoy the time as it passes. Time may be our most valua…
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If you’ve been listening to The Simple Home Podcast for a while now, then you know that organization is not my strong suit. In fact, I’ve always struggled to stay organized. My idea of good organization was buying new tubs of varying sizes to house all my junk (by category). I had tubs everywhere and so much junk stuffed inside, there wasn’t any wa…
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Simplicity is more about what we decide to edit from our lives than anything else. We live in a world that encourages us to do more, be more, buy more, think bigger, etc. But what if instead, you did less, bought less, and ultimately pruned down your life to only the essentials? Finding simplicity takes intention, patience, and a little trial and e…
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Who else spends the majority of their life in their kitchen? I know I do. Whether it’s cooking, cleaning, homework, art projects, or just congregating, the kitchen has to be the most used place in our home. That’s why it’s so important to create a simpler kitchen. A place you enjoy spending all that time and a place that makes your life simpler, no…
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One of the best ways I find to get through hard seasons of motherhood is to find moms who are in a similar season and are positive, encouraging, and honest. This doesn’t have to be a close friend (of course that’s great too), it can be a mentor that you don’t actually know in person. For me, there are a few podcasters and authors who I find to be i…
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You know that quote, “I was the perfect parent before I had kids”? Well...this may be my favorite parenting quote. Before having kids, I thought I had it all figured out. I was going to be gentle with my kids, yet make sure they listened. I was going to empower them with my words and never quilt or shame them. I was going to teach and not punish. A…
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Minimalist Motherhood? It may seem like minimalism and motherhood don't work together! I used to feel that way too. I thought minimalism was just for young couples who lived in modern apartments in the city. But when I became a mom and my kids started growing, I realized all I did was clean up after them. All day long, I picked up toys, did dishes …
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There's so much information out there about living intentionally and enjoying motherhood, but what I want to hear is: how real moms are making simple changes in their life to find space and balance and actually make the intentional living thing possible. That's why I enjoyed this talk with Amber from The Unhurried Homestead SO much. She is a mom of…
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Do you ever feel like all you do is feed your family and then clean up the mess from cooking and eating. I hear you! Some days I'm not sure I did anything else. Motherhood and life are full of different seasons. Your kids are constantly growing and changing, your schedules are growing and changing, and you are hopefully growing and changing as well…
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The key to organization is to make it easy to put things away. Have you tried to buy all the pretty tubs, label everything, and still find yourself creating piles around your house, just steps from where the item is supposed to go? The problem is, the resistance that’s been created. In physics, resistance is defined as a measure of the opposition t…
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The act of letting go of your physical items can allow simplicity in so many aspects of your life. While I talk a lot about decluttering your belongings on The Simple Home Podcast, the purpose is not just to have a tidier home. My hope for you is that letting go of clutter affords you more space in your mind to simplify other areas of your life. In…
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Parenting is hard! Right? We’ve all heard this a million times and felt it just as many, but it’s just the truth. Raising little human beings who have been so beautifully and uniquely created isn’t easy. Learning to understand their personalities, hold firm boundaries, and parent with love and kindness, can feel like an impossible task. But with po…
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If you’ve ever woke up feeling motivated and ready to take on your day and then by 8:30 you’ve lost track of everything you needed to do and lost all motivation, I think you’re going to love this episode! A few weeks ago, we talked about how to simplify your daily or recurring tasks and today we’re going to talk about small steps you can take to or…
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