We all have a common struggle with clutter and how it makes us feel – but did you know those same emotions apply to our relationship with money?

Kathi Lipp and her guest, multidisciplinary coach and TikTok star Stefania Mariaa, have innovative and imaginative answers to the questions, “What is financial intimacy and why do I need it?” In this episode, Kathi and Stefania discuss ways to manage your personal finances and spending habits more deliberately and thoughtfully.

Tune in to learn:

• Where do I stand on the spending spectrum?
• How do I make my time, energy, and money count?
• How does my inner teen influence my decisions?

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Are you ready to start the year with less clutter?

This is the episode for you, my friend.

As you put away the holiday decorations and look around, you may feel like it’s time to start fresh with some decluttering for the new year. Kathi Lipp and her partner in life and decluttering Roger Lipp give us 7 perfectly practical ways to declutter by buying less in 2024. They’ve looked at their personal practices and come up with some fabulous ideas for you to implement to start 2024 a bit more clutter-free. Listen in as they discuss decluttering ideas such as:

• How to make online shopping inconvenient.
• How to use it up before you buy more.
• How to recognize your personal clutter traps.

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Is it hard for you to reach out for prayer? Do you feel guilty or like you are being a burden?

I took some time to talk with my good friend, Renee Swope and ask her about a blog post she wrote about asking for prayer called, “I hate to be a burden.” 

She shares why we fear asking for prayer, what we are missing out on by not asking, and what baby steps we can take in order to ask without feeling like a burden.

Can there be guilt-free home organization? Oh sweet sister, there is! Kathi Lipp and her three-time coauthor Cheri Gregory are with us today discussing the lessons each learned during their recent home renovations. Cheri has three simple strategies for us regarding clutter, home organization and renovations. In Part 2 of Lessons Learned from Living Through a Renovation Part 2, Kathi and Cheri do a deep dive into strategies 2 & 3, as well as giving us gems of advice such as:

• There is satisfaction in waiting for the right item for a space
• Give yourself permission to “waste” some money
• Find places where returning items is easy

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An Abundant Place By Kathi Lipp & Cheri Gregory

Sensitive and Strong By Denise J. Hughes and Cheri Gregory

Sensitive and Strong Community Cafe

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Overwhelmed by Kathi Lipp and Cheri Gregory

2 Pcs Wardrobe Clothes Organizer with Support Board

Premium Acacia Wood Napkin Holder

Ultra Fine Continuous Water Mister for Hairstyling, Cleaning, Plants, Misting & Skin Care

Organizer Caddy Tote Divided Basket Bin with Handle

KUT from the Kloth (Kathi’s favorite brand of jeans)

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What do eating green bananas and decluttering have in common? More than one would think! Join Kathi Lipp and writer, educator, and fellow recovering green banana eater Amy Betters-Midtvedt as they laugh and discuss their way through topics such as:

• How to figure out what we like and not settle all the time.
• How to not get stuck in a poverty mindset.
• Why it’s okay to order an ice cream sundae just for yourself!

And as promised by Kathi in the episode, here’s a copy of Amy’s Green Banana Article for your enjoyment and edification.

There was a time I just ate bananas.
Like any banana. I’d buy them put them in my lunch and eat them. Green, light green, yellow, brown I didn’t pay much attention.
Then one day I was driving to my awesome college job at Gap kids, and I took a bite of my greenish banana.
I realized it wasn’t good.
As a matter of fact every time I ate a greenish banana I didn’t really like it.
Suddenly I realized I didn’t like green bananas. And I didn’t have to eat any banana I didn’t like.
I was a legit grown up I could pick the color of bananas I would eat.
I rolled down my window and SPIT OUT the gross banana in my mouth and to this day I’ve never eaten a banana with a grace of green.
Life is too short for green bananas.
This life lesson has served me well in a million areas of my life.
With friendships, jobs, picking out jeans and how I spend my time on a Saturday. The applications are endless.
Tonight I share this lesson with you.
You don’t have to eat green bananas either my friends.
Only eat bananas you really enjoy.
Pass it on.

Guest host: Amy Betters-Midtvedt 

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This week, Kathi continues her four-part conversation with Tonya Kubo, founder and fearless leader of the Clutter Free Academy Facebook Group about how to (finally) create the clutter-free home you’ve always wanted. A few weeks ago, we learned about dedicating your space for its purpose. Last week we focused on how to decide the way you want the room to feel.

In this episode, you’ll learn tips and tricks to create a clutter-free home. Don’t panic, friend, we break it down in easy, actionable steps. You’ve got this! 

• How to effectively use a timer to time-box your way to clean. 
• Why a strategy is paramount! No, you cannot pick the easiest room. 
• What spaces in your home are basically a storage closet and what you can do about it. 

Clutter-Free Home

Are you longing for a place of peace from which you can love others well? The Clutter-Free Home: Making Room for Your Life is your room-by-room guide to decluttering, reclaiming, and celebrating every space of your home.

In The Clutter-Free Home, you’ll walk through each room of your house to create organizational zones that are not only functional and practical but create places of peace that reflect your personality.  Kathi will help you tackle the four-step process to reveal the home you’ve always dreamed of, and then transform it into a haven that reflects who you truly are meant to be.

Pre-order your copy of The Clutter-Free Home on Amazon today.

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Join Kathi and Tonya Kubo, the fearless leader of the Clutter Free Academy Facebook Group and Clutter Free for Life, where they have all the fun, for today’s interesting topic of getting over a poverty mindset. Kathi and Tonya discuss the difference between poverty circumstances and poverty mindset. In understanding the difference, we can take an honest look and realize what is pushing us into our place of pain and discomfort. With this understanding, we can ask the three important questions:

• Do you love it?
• Do you use it?
• Would you buy it again?

Clutter-Free Home

Are you longing for a place of peace from which you can love others well? The Clutter-Free Home: Making Room for Your Life is your room-by-room guide to decluttering, reclaiming, and celebrating every space of your home.

In The Clutter-Free Home, you’ll walk through each room of your house to create organizational zones that are not only functional and practical but create places of peace that reflect your personality.  Kathi will help you tackle the four-step process to reveal the home you’ve always dreamed of, and then transform it into a haven that reflects who you truly are meant to be.

Order your copy of The Clutter-Free Home on Amazon today.

Life often feels out of balance for us especially if we are in ministry. We get overwhelmed by all we are doing, all we think we have to do, and everything we think other people think we have to do. If you've ever wondered if a balanced life was possible, you won't want to miss this episode. Join Kathi and special guest author, Susie Larson as they talk about how to find a balance in our lives.

We’re back with KariAnne Woods in part 2 of our conversation on finding and cultivating your own unique decorating style. We lead off with Kathi’s “boring” bedroom and transitional decorating ideas. KariAnne literally gives us an easy and awesome tip we can use right off the bat! So fun.

KariAnne and Kathi’s conversation gives us permission to:

• Have our own style without pressure to be Joanna Gaines (although we love and adore her!)
• Decorate without spending a ton of money
• Use the things we have around the house to make our home the place we love

PLUS, Kathi gives KariAnne a pop quiz where she asks what is one simple thing each style of decorator can do to make something pop and feel new in your house today! We had so much fun in our time with KariAnne. You will too!

Kathi’s “boring” bedroom:

All these amazing ideas are talked about in KariAnne’s newest book, The DIY Style Finder: Discover Your Unique Style and Decorate It Yourself so check it out as well.

Make sure to sign up for KariAnne’s blog, Thistlewood Farms, here.

If you would like to purchase this book now you can order it on AMAZON now.

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Rules, Boundaries, Guidelines..... How do we raise our children to be responsible adults?

Do you lay down the law or do you let your kids have a say?

And have you ever uttered words you never expected to have to say like, "No slugs in bed!"

Listen as Kathi and Erin discuss setting rules for kids and then leave comments with your input and advice.

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On today’s episode of the podcast, Kathi is joined by Melissa Maimone, author of The Radiant Midnight: Depression, Grace, and the Gifts of a Dark Place. Kathi and Melissa have an open and honest discussion around a topic that is more common to clutter than we’d like to talk about- depression.  

On today’s show you’ll learn:

• Why clutter is more of a symptom than the problem
• How there are deep gifts to be found in the hard places
• Why we don’t need fixing but we need His presence

Get a copy of the book here 

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Kathi and Erin discuss planning hot dates on any budget!

Can't find your favorite pair of sandals?

Where is that outfit you wanted to wear tonight?

Which clothes still fit you and which do not?

Going into our closet can be an overwhelming experience. Maybe you just shove things in there and say you'll get to organizing it "later."

Today Kathi and Erin discuss how to thin out the items that aren't needed today in order to be able to easily find the wardrobe you enjoy and will be wearing this week.

On today’s episode of the podcast, Kathi is joined again by Joshua Becker, author of The More of Less: Finding the Life You Want Under Everything You Own. Kathi and Joshua continue their conversation about his new book The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life.

On today’s show you’ll learn:
• Whether it is possible to be a minimalist when you have small children 
• How minimalism helps spur on the values we want for our children 
• Why there is an abundance of life in owning few possessions

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On today’s episode of the podcast, Kathi is joined by Tonya Kubo, the illustrious leader of the Clutter-Free Academy Facebook group. Kathi and Tonya share about the value of creating a clutter-free community and how you can create a culture of generosity and reciprocity in your own community.

On today’s show you’ll learn:

• How a “small give” can be a great way to start building a community of sharing
• Why it is a false economy to hold onto stuff “until I have time to sell it”
• The many benefits of a “semi-permanent” loan

Clutter-Free Home

Are you longing for a place of peace from which you can love others well? The Clutter-Free Home: Making Room for Your Life is your room-by-room guide to decluttering, reclaiming, and celebrating every space of your home.

In The Clutter-Free Home, you’ll walk through each room of your house to create organizational zones that are not only functional and practical but create places of peace that reflect your personality. Kathi will help you tackle the four-step process to reveal the home you’ve always dreamed of and then transform it into a haven that reflects who you truly are meant to be.

Do you feel stressed out during the holidays? Trust us, your future self will thank you for listening to this episode.

In this episode of Clutter Free Academy, Kathi Lipp and co-host Tonya Kubo discuss the importance of making key decisions in August to ensure a less stressful holiday season. Kathi and Tonya emphasize the benefits of early planning, such as reduced stress, better financial management, and more time to enjoy the holiday season. They share personal anecdotes and practical advice, making the episode both relatable and actionable for listeners.

Listeners will discover:

• How to decide on holiday gathering dates, locations, and participants early to avoid last-minute conflicts.
• How to plan gift exchanges, considering family dynamics and financial situations.
• How to set a realistic holiday budget, including categories like gifts, food, and decorations.

So grab a cool drink, find a comfy spot, and listen in on how to get started on making this Christmas your most organized and enjoyable one yet!

Would you like to receive an early Christmas gift? Join the Clutter Free Facebook Group where they will provide you with a download of all 10 Planning Tips! Remember, you can't join the CFA Facebook Group without answering the membership questions. It's how we keep it the kindest corner of the internet.

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Do you find yourself starting things, but not finishing them? Would you like to learn from someone who broke that habit and replaced it with other habits that help her finish strong?

Today I talk with author Nicki Koziarz about her book 5 Habits of a Woman Who Doesn't Quit about not quitting including the five questions to ask yourself before quitting.

Does Nicki's name sound familiar? That's because I did an awesome interview with her for the Husband Project. Be sure to listen to it here: 

Episode #206-Nicki Koziarz and The Ultimate Resource Guide for (trying to be) Awesome Wives

Welcome to Part 3 of the Abundant Home Conference series! In this segment, Kathi and her guest Amy Betters-Midtvedt talk about having a neurodiverse family and how having a brain that processes differently affects how people declutter. Together they discuss:

• The process of body doubling: helping someone complete a project like decluttering by completing pieces of that project for them while training them to take over the entire process eventually
• Why it's important to decide on systems like organization and decluttering as a team
• Chaotic creativity and why not everything needs to be special all the time

If you missed Part 1 of their conversation, Why Just in Case Is a Trap or Part 2 Fear, Finances, and Finding Peace: Decluttering Your Mind and Home, click the link. Be sure to sign up here and be notified when the next podcast episode drops.

This conversation is a small excerpt from the Abundant Home Conference - a half-day conference held exclusively for members of Kathi Lipp’s Clutter Free for Life membership community. Are you ready to take the next step in your decluttering journey? The step-by-step plan inside Clutter Free for Life can guide you, and the community you find there will encourage you to keep going. It’s time to change the way you think about your home and your stuff! Click here to learn more and join us today, for only $24.99 per month.

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In this episode of You’ve Got This! we sit down with blogger and author extraordinaire, Crystal Paine, and talk about how to move beyond surviving day to day and move into being excited about your life once again.

Crystal shares great secrets from her New York Times best-selling book Say Goodbye to Survival Mode: 9 Simple Strategies to Stress Less, Sleep More, and Restore Your Passion for Life, and gives specific encouragement for all of us women who have stopped living and moved into survival mode.

Just some of the wisdom that Crystal shares:

 · Avoiding the trap of trying to “Just getting more organized”

· Going into the “No Zone”

· How to sort out your true friends from the users when you are trying to get out of survival mode

· How do you get to the other side of survival mode and overwhelmed to peace

· How to say no so you can say yes to what really matters

· Finding and fixing your mom “Achilles Heel”

 Join Kathi and Crystal for the most info-packed, freeing, 20 minutes you will experience all week.

Kathi Lipp is talking with Clutter Free community leader, friend, and screenwriter, Grace Church, about how decluttering and creativity can actually help one another. Have you ever struggled to balance decluttering time and creative time? You are not alone. In this episode, Kathi and Grace share how they have found that balance by:

• Shifting their mentality
• Doing a little bit every day
• Establishing routines

If you’ve ever found your creativity blocked by the clutter around you, you won’t want to miss this episode.

Before jobs, responsibilities, and children came along, we had creativity. Somehow along the way, we lost it.

Now there’s a lot of pressure for us to PRODUCE, but not to produce our creativeness.

How do we get that back?

Today I talk with Erin about rediscovering your creativity.

It’s easy to put your worth in your children’s failures and successes. In this week’s episode, Kathi and guest, Erin MacPherson, author of the Christian Mama’s Guide series, discuss being a part of the Bad Moms Club. While most moms are striving to be the best mom she can be, she is usually riddled with doubt, guilt and worry. If this sounds like you, take heart, you aren’t alone. 

Kathi and Erin discuss ways to get through this journey of motherhood from birth through young adulthood. Some of the highlights include:

• “Don’t judge your parenting on one bad day!”- One bad day doesn’t undo all that parenting that you’ve poured into your kid/s.
• “Find your people that will still be a fan of your kid even when he/she doesn’t make the best decision.”- When our child has royally messed up, there is something about another adult who you admire seeing something besides “future adult delinquent” in your child that will give you hope.
• “Don’t put your faith in the sheep, put it in the Shepherd.”-  We base the outcome of our lives on the actions of our children. Wrong. Our hope is only in God.

If you are in need of some encouragement through your mom walk, this one is for you. After you listen, comment below on what struck a cord with you the most. You’ll be entered to win a copy for you and a friend of Kathi’s new book, I Need Some Help Here! Help for When Your Kids Don’t Go According to Plan. In fact, two winners will win a copy for her and a friend!

Have you ever felt ashamed at the playground? Have you worried that your kids are the only ones playing Ninja Warrior while the others swing peacefully? Have you felt like you just can’t measure up as a mom? This week, Kathi and Erin discuss the reaction to Erin’s new blog post entitled “I’m Worried About Our Girls” and the ways that parents can help their kids build strong, healthy relationships with other kids.

Knowing that every mom has felt shame, worry and stress about playground behavior– and that every mom earnestly seeks what’s best for their children– we openly discuss:

* How little girls can respond to wild boys on a playground.

* The difference between a dangerous situation and a situation that a child can take care of on his or her own.

* How moms can get rid of the shame they feel when their children misbehave.

* How to communicate to our kids that God created both genders lovingly and intentionally– and that neither is inherently “good” or “bad.”

Listen in and then share your own playground experiences in the comments below. One winner will get his or her choice of one of Erin’s books! Plus, check out the “Download” section below to get Erin’s playground toolkit for girls.

If you can relate to living a chaotic, overstuffed, and overscheduled life, then you definitely won’t want to miss this conversation. Join Kathi and her kindred friend Milena Regos as they help us discover how to unhustle our life and find courage, simplicity, joy, wellbeing, and a sense of purpose.

In this episode you will learn:

• The Importance of a Reset
• How to Re-evaluate Your Life
• How to Build in Reset
• Five Actionable Steps to Unhustle your life

Ready For Anything

Bad stuff happens all the time, but this doesn’t mean we have to live in constant fear.

Ready for Anything: Preparing Your Heart and Home for Any Crisis Big or Small gives finite simple steps for being proactive rather than reactive—helping you prepare your mind, heart, and home for any unfortunate circumstance. Full of stories and humor along with facts, tips, and lists, Kathi’s book offers a down-to-earth guide that will show you how to face the unexpected with confidence, relying on God’s strength and plan rather than giving in to fear and anxiety.

Her step-by-step plan is easy to implement and will help anyone become a better steward of their resources as well as be the neighbor who can help in a crisis rather than needing help. Kathi’s goal is to equip readers to be the frontline of helpers in any crisis, from a natural disaster to a friend’s job loss.

Order your copy of Ready For Anything today.

My friend and speaker, Michele Cushatt hasn’t had the prettiest life. It has been down right hard and the things God have called her to haven’t always been pretty. Michele has handled the not so pretty with such grace that I wanted her to speak about her experiences because no matter how ugly, she always inspires me. I think she’ll inspire you too.

In this episode of So Here’s the Thing, we discuss how following God isn’t always easy. We deal with some of the tough questions like:

• Should I be a working mom or stay-at-home mom?
• If God has called me to this, shouldn’t it be easy?
• Why do some decisions have only comprises for answers?
• How can I even think of reinventing my life with all of the responsibilities I already have?
• How can/do I say NO to the wrong things so I can say YES to the right things?

After listening, tell me how you have reinvented a part of your life whether it be your work, the way you juggle the needs of your family, your ministry or the relationships with your extended family. Two people will win pack of books from me- The Cure for the Perfect Life (being released in August!) and Praying God’s Word for Your Life.

Thank you.

I’m sorry.

How can I help you?

Have you ever had a hard time knowing what to say to your husband, especially when you’re at a tough place in your marriage? It’s hard. But often all it takes to rebuild a connection is a few, intentional and encouraging words. In this podcast, Erin and Kathi will:

• Share simple things you can say (or text) to your husband when marriage is tough.
• Help you to find the sticky points in your marriage so you know how to avoid those rough places—and to climb out of those dark corners when you are stuck in them.
• Encourage you to intentionally pursue your husband with respectful and encouraging words.

Listen in, and then click here to read Kathi’s entire list of words you can use to build connections in your marriage.

When it comes to being a mom, have you ever felt like you wish someone would just tell you what to do? (Or at least talk you down after your kid has told you that he wishes Jake’s mom was his real mother?)

My dear friend Stephanie Shott joined us this week to discuss mentoring, a topic that is near and dear to her heart as she lacked a true mentor and community when she was a teenage/single/unsaved mom. She started the Mom Initiative specifically to help women be the mentors other moms need. And guess what, she shares the secrets with us today.

Some of the things we discuss:

• Mentoring makes us better women
• Great mentoring isn’t difficult!
• Why mentoring is so important
• REAL friends can be our mentors

When you are in the thick of it, knowing someone is there for you makes all the difference. We shouldn’t do this mothering things alone friends. Take this first step to learn how to find your tribe and your mentors.

"Women are bad at articulating what we want or need without feeling guilty"
~ Cheri Gregory.

Kathy is joined by Overwhelmed co-author, Cheri Gregory, to discuss Part 2 of what they have learned since writing Overwhelmed.  

We are often s busy preventing problems for other people we forget about our own wants and needs, expectations and communications.

Kathi and Cheri provide tips to help you in this area.

Kathi is joined by early childhood educator (and bonus-daughter) Amanda Thivierge. How can you teach kids to be clutter-free? Well, Amanda shares her top three tips to fight clutter and get your kids in on it.

• Clutter-free is a journey, and we don’t all come by it naturally.
• Modeling for kids is key. (AND how to do that well.)
• Get brutal and say goodbye to the stuff you will not use. (BYE-BYE DOILIES!)
• and more…

Clutter-Free Home

Are you longing for a place of peace from which you can love others well? The Clutter-Free Home: Making Room for Your Life is your room-by-room guide to decluttering, reclaiming, and celebrating every space of your home.

In The Clutter-Free Home, you’ll walk through each room of your house to create organizational zones that are not only functional and practical but create places of peace that reflect your personality.  Kathi will help you tackle the four-step process to reveal the home you’ve always dreamed of, and then transform it into a haven that reflects who you truly are meant to be.

Order your copy of The Clutter-Free Home on Amazon today.

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Have you struggled to keep decluttering right side up while the world turned upside down this year? You are not alone, friend. Kathi and coauthor Cheri Gregory are with us today discussing the common emotions when it comes to clutter, why it’s hard to declutter in a crisis, and how to keep going when it’s hard. Listen in to find out:

• What you can do practically
• How to respond in a healthy manner
• How to dispel the fear

Overwhelmed

How to Quiet the Chaos and Restore Your Sanity

Feeling overwhelmed? Wondering if it’s possible to move from “out of my mind” to “in control” when you’ve got too many projects on your plate and too much mess in your relationships?

Kathi and Cheri want to show you five surprising reasons why you become stressed, why social media solutions don’t often work, and how you can finally create a plan that works for you. As you identify your underlying hurts, uncover hope, and embrace practical healing, you’ll become equipped to:

• trade the to-do list that controls you for a calendar that allows space in your life
• decide whose feedback to forget and whose input to invite
• replace fear of the future with peace in the present

You can simplify and savor your life—guilt-free! Clutter, tasks, and relationships may overwhelm you now, but God can help you overcome with grace.

Kathi and Cheri Gregory, co-author of Overwhelmed, get together for this episode for a little discussion regarding the concepts of being overwhelmed and being clutter-free. So often we find that our clutter overwhelms us and that being overwhelmed contributes to our clutter. It can be a vicious cycle.

Kathi and Cheri discuss five steps to keep from getting overwhelmed as you declutter your home, your heart, and your life. Order your copy of Overwhelmed here.

Kathi Lipp is back with good friend and Enneagram expert, Lori Young for part 2 of this series: “How Knowing Your Personality Type Can Help You Declutter. Have you ever heard someone talk about a clutter strategy that has been helpful for them and thought, “there is no way that would work for my personality?” You may be right! Different personality types have different challenges and solutions. Knowing your Enneagram number can help you identify your clutter roadblocks as well as provide insight for getting past them. This week, Kathi and Lori are talking specifically about the heart triad:

• Type 2: The Helper
• Type 3: The Achiever
• Type 4: The Inspirer

If you missed part one of the series, be sure to go back and catch up here, and don’t miss next week’s episode when Kathi and Lori will wrap up the series with information about the head triad.

A conversation with Sheila Wray Gregoire, the author of The Good Girls Guide to Great Sex (And You Thought Bad Girls Have All the Fun) and blogger extraordinaire over at To Love Honor and Vacuum.

Kathi and Sheila have a fun, but frank conversation about sex in marriage. Here are some of the areas where they just go there:

 • Women love talking about sex, but when you ask them about their sex lives, there is always a

groan. What’s the deal?

• What is the difference between sex and making love?

• What can I do during the day to make me ready for sex at night?

• Sheila’s best piece of advice when your sex life is stalled out.

• What do you do if you are one of the 30% women who have a higher sex drive than her

husband?

• Sheila’s word to women whose husbands are addicted to porn.

Fun informative, and hopefully for your husband, a little motivating.

Let’s Talk About Sex (Baby…)

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Kathi and her Clutter Free OG, Tonya Kubo, are here to help us get rid of the clutter, and the guilt, at the same time. Kathi's number one goal for herself and us is to only have things in the house that we use, love, or would buy again. A functional home is a home you can be at peace in. We can all achieve this by:

• Getting intentional at giving stuff away
• Selling stuff - but only if you're good at it!
• If you can't give it away or sell it in 3 days... Donate it or Trash it!

You won't want to miss these valuable tips, and be sure to listen next week for part 2!

Ever feel like the digital age has taken over your life and the lives of your loved ones? Listen in as Kathi interviews Arlene Pellicane to discuss Arlene's new book, "Calm, Cool and Connected". Learn five digital habits for a more balanced life and how to tame the modern tools to take back our lives. Leave a comment on our website to be entered to receive a free copy of Arlene's new book.

It just won't be Christmas unless . . . you listen in to these tips from Kathi Lipp and Tonya Kubo. Have less clutter and more living at Christmas without the mandatory expectations that wear everyone out. Listen in for tips 8 through 14 in this series on how to have a Clutter-Free Christmas.

You want to invest in your marriage, but don't have a lot of money to invest?

We understand! But you don't have to have a lot of money to be a Hot Mama.

Kathi and Erin discuss creative ideas to be a Hot Mama without breaking the bank and we want YOU to join the conversation.

One person who leaves a comment sharing an idea on how to be a Hot Mama on a Budget will randomly be picked to win a FREE copy of Hot Mama: 12 Secrets to a Sizzling Hot Marriage.

Tonya has just lived my nightmare; not only did she move, she moved into a smaller house.

You would think that this would have sent her into a corner, rocking back and forth, but not Tonya. As the leader of Clutter Free Academy on Facebook Tonya has learned more than a thing or two about how to do life Clutter Free - including moving all of her earthly possessions.

And now, Tonya and I will share everything we've learned about moving in the midst of getting rid of clutter.

In this info-filled interview, you will learn how to
• make decisions about what to bring and what to get rid of
• change your attitude about keeping stuff "just in case"
• give things away with an attitude of abundance

After the interview, I asked Tonya to share with me her 3 rules for holding a yard sale/giveaway. Here is what Tonya encourages you to state:

1. No Holds: Your objective is to get rid of stuff, not to establish layaway programs.)
2. No Negotiating: This will considerably lessen your stress on the day. Price things to move!
3. No Give-Backs: Once you take it, it's yours. Tonya had her couch returned 3 times because people failed to measure their space or the couch. Eventually, they ended up taking it to the dump - what a waste - especially since the right buyer may have stopped by at some point while the couch was on a field trip.

I’m thrilled to have Tonya back on the show! Join us if you are planning a move, or ever plan on moving - you will thank me!

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Today, we’re talking to Deva Dalporto of YouTube fame.  Yes, she’s the real woman behind the series of parody videos that you see on Facebook all the time.  She’s the mom behind What Does the Kid Say?, My Lips are Movin’ and her brand new Back-to-School Rap.  Listen in and find camaraderie in the fact that:

• Housekeeping is hard.
• Parenting is hard.
• Kids are hard.
• Life balance is hard.
• But there are millions of other moms out there who feel just like you do right now.  And maybe, just maybe if you step back and allow yourself to find joy in the big and the little, that burden will be eased.

If you are overwhelmed trying to make life Pinterest-perfect, you are in good company! This week, Kathi chats with comedian and self-proclaimed Hot Mess for Jesus, Kerri Pomarolli. Kathi and Kerri discuss what it means to find grace right where you are today, in the midst of a messy, busy life.

In this episode, you’ll laugh along with Kathi and Kerri as you learn:

• What it means to be a Proverbs 32 woman, AKA a Hot Mess for Jesus.
• How to figure out what level of decluttering works for you
• Who are the people you need to have around you in your life

For Kathi’s family stuffing recipe, click here.

To hear Sebastian Maniscalco’s bit about company coming over, click here (warning: some language is inappropriate for children).

Order your copy of Kerri’s book, Confessions of a Proverbs 32 Woman: How I Went From Messed Up to Blessed Up Without Changing a Single Thing from Amazon today.

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Do any of these sound like you?

• I’m afraid to get rid of things, because what if I need it in the future and don’t have money to replace it?
• My kids’ notes and artwork are all so special and I can’t part with any of it!
• I better buy three of those, that way I’ll always be able to find at least one.

If so, then today’s podcast is for you! In this session Kathi chats with self-proclaimed “pack rat” Amy Betters-Midtvedt about her process of digging out from under all the clutter. They talk about green bananas, earring emergencies, and how worry and sentimentality can trip us up. You don’t want to miss it!

This conversation is a small part of the Abundant Home Conference - a half-day conference held exclusively for members of Kathi Lipp’s Clutter Free for Life membership community. Are you ready to take the next step in your decluttering journey? The step-by-step plan inside Clutter Free for Life can guide you, and the community you find there will encourage you to keep going. It’s time to change the way you think about your home and your stuff! Click here to learn more and join us today.

Be sure to sign up here and be notified when the second part of this three-part conversation releases next week.

Also, if you haven't listened to Kathi and Amy laugh through episode 547 Why I Don't Eat Green Bananas Anymore, put that one in your queue!

Links Mentioned:

Meet Our Guest: Amy Betters-Midtvedt

Amy Betters-Midtvedt website

Amy Betters-Midtvedt on Instagram

Amy Betters-Midtvedt on Facebook

Noonday

Poshmark

GapKids

Kathi's Favorites:

Learn more about Clutter Free for Life

Kathi Lipp's Clutter Free Academy Facebook Group

The Clutter-Free Home

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Hey there, friend!

If you've ever felt like your finances are a runaway train and you're just hanging on for dear life, this episode is your lifeline.

In this episode of Clutter Free Academy, Kathi Lipp and Tonya Kubo dive deep into five transformative financial habits that can help listeners take control of their personal finances. The hosts discuss practical strategies for managing money, reducing unnecessary expenses, and creating a more intentional approach to spending.

Listeners will discover:

• How to implement a weekly budget check-in process
• How to conduct a monthly subscription audit
• The importance of creating a dedicated financial focus hour
• Strategies for cutting unnecessary expenses

This episode is about real, practical steps that actually work for us cluttery people who sometimes struggle to keep things together. Ready to take back control? Let's go!

Listen to these No/Low Buy July episodes to encourage you.

• 571 - How to Succeed with No Buy July
• 623 - 10 Ways to Buy Less Clothing
• 626 – The Hidden Trauma Behind Clutter: How to Start Healing Your Relationship with Possessions  

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Guest: Tonya Kubo

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Profit First by Mike Michalowicz

Mike Michalowicz website

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Does your three-year-old know more about your iPhone than you do? Does your ten-year-old spend more time worrying about screen time than family time? Are you ready to throw screens out of your house altogether?  Listen in as Kathi and Erin talk to Arlene Pellicane, the author of Growing Up Social:  Raising Relational Kids in a Screen Driven World about:

• How to put appropriate boundaries in place with your kids in regards to technology.
• How to keep your kids relational even when they are inundated with screens and technology.
• How to teach your kids character and virtue even in a world where screens are so prevalent.

Plus, click here to take Arlene's quiz "Is Your Child Getting Too Much Screen Time" and then listen in to find out how you can find the happy middle between our screen-driven world and the relationships that help our kids to thrive.

Kathi Lipp is here today with her very good friend, Susy Flory for a special conversation about crisis. Have you ever found yourself surrounded by crises and it causes you to feel stuck? Join Kathi and Susy as they talk about Susy’s new book Sanctuary, a story about a man from a tiny village in Ireland who grew up on a donkey sanctuary. When Patrick Barrett left the donkey sanctuary to find his own path, he found himself living through one crisis after another. Listen in as Susy shares the lessons she learned from Patrick including:

• Reach out when you need to
• Get outside and into nature
• Adopt a meaningful morning ritual

If you are feeling stressed out and stuck in crisis mode, you won’t want to miss this episode; and you can get your own copy of Sanctuary here.

Ever catch your man's eyes wander as the woman with the low-cut blouse with the lacy bra peeking out walks by?

Does your son suddenly stop what he's doing and stare at the TV screen when a certain fast food burger commercial with the seductive women comes on the screen?

Sometimes this leaves us feeling hurt or angry. Some want to say men are pigs or perverts.

What if you found out that science has shown that men's brains are physically different than women's making it hard for us to understand the draw they have to certain visual stimulation? That the first initial reaction to the stimulation is an involuntary reflex?

Kathi talks with Shaunti Feldhahn  about her book Through a Man's Eyes: Helping Women Understand the Visual Nature of Men. While is the full responsibility of men to make the right choices, it is also time to let women in on what that truly entails, and how to be “empathetic without endorsing.” Through compassion and candor, women can finally learn what guys have long wished they knew, but had no idea how to explain—and then see the amazing difference it makes in their relationships. 

Listen to this amazing episode as we work to understand our men in order to have a better marriage.

Kathi and co-host, Erin MacPherson discuss the need to keep the romance alive in your marriage.

Listen in as they provide tips for keeping the relationship fresh.  They talk about everything from cooking together to planning for sex.

In this compelling episode of Clutter-Free Academy, host Kathi Lipp teams up with Tonya Kubo to explore the significant and often surprising habits they've relinquished to maintain a clutter-free lifestyle. Listeners will discover insights and practical advice tailored for anyone feeling overwhelmed by household clutter. Whether you're tired of decluttering only to find the mess back a week later or looking to simplify your daily routine, this episode is for you. 

Listen in as Kathi and Tonya share their journey of transformation, including ditching weekend decluttering marathons and learning to tackle small tasks daily. They emphasize the importance of mindfulness in everyday actions, providing the tools you need to reclaim your living space. 

Join the conversation and get ready to implement life-changing habits that will help you live every day with less clutter and more life.

Kathi Lipp and Clutter Free OG, Tonya Kubo, are here to share critical strategies guaranteed to help you live your best Clutter Free life. Listen in to learn how committing to challenges and being bossed around by the  calendar can help you:

• Maintain mental energy while decluttering
• Manage decision fatigue
• Avoid BSOS (Bright Shiny Object Syndrome)

Don't miss this first episode in a 2-part series sure to help you end your year on a Clutter Free high note. And be sure to take advantage of the amazing offer to join the Clutter Free for Life program for the entire year of 2022 at a hugely discounted rate. Click here to find out more.

Do you struggle with the idea of throwing things away? You’re not alone. In this episode, Kathi is joined by Tonya Kubo to unpack the complexities of this topic. Throwing things away is difficult for a number of reasons, but especially because it triggers a sense of wastefulness. In addition to explaining when it’s time to throw something away, Kathi shares with us four tips for how to get comfortable with getting stuff out of our houses, such as:

• Stop feeling guilty about throwing things away.
• Put it on your calendar to go to the dump.
• Give everything away that you can, but you don’t get to give away junk.
• Know how to dispose of things.

We all want to live in a cute, cozy home. And now that we've been getting rid of clutter it seems to be a very real possibility for us. If you're like most people, you don't always know where to start decorating your home. Please join Kari Anne Woods and Kathi as they chat about having a Cute, Cozy AND Clutter-Free home. 

Have you struggled with grief this past year? Your life has fallen apart due to one big crisis or perhaps a series of crises that feel like death from a million paper cuts. Sweet friend, you are not alone. Join Kathi and her trusted friend and fellow trauma navigator Michele Cushatt as they discuss Michele’s newest book “A Faith That Will Not Fail: Ten Practices To Build Up Your Faith When Your World Is Falling Apart.” The practices in Michele’s newest book are not homework for you to complete. Not even close! They are less about doing and more about being. Kathi and Michele discuss these practices as they share very personal stories of grief and trauma. Listen in as they give a sneak peak into some of the practices that can be found in Michele Cushatt’s latest book, such as:

• When we’re overwhelmed, we need to make things smaller, not bigger.
• One of the best things we can do is get grounded in THIS moment.
• How these practices and more help us lead a clutter free life.

Links Mentioned:

Guest Host: Michele Cushatt

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Michele Cushatt on Facebook

Michele Cushatt on Instagram

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A Faith That Will Not Fail: Ten Practices To Build Up Your Faith When Your World Is Falling Apart

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If you have a homesteader complex in the least, this is the woman you want to be friends with! Kathi is here today with Melissa Norris, author of The Family Garden Plan, and they are talking about how to grow a whole year’s worth of food for your family. Listen in as they talk about how much space, time, energy, and money are really required. Find out why this really isn’t just a fool’s dream and how you can learn: 

• How to have a plan for growing and preserving food for your family
• How to figure out your climate and what crops will do best there
• How much should I plant for my individual family’s needs
• Why gardening zones and planting times are not the same 

Ready For Anything

Bad stuff happens all the time, but this doesn’t mean we have to live in constant fear.

Ready for Anything: Preparing Your Heart and Home for Any Crisis Big or Small gives finite simple steps for being proactive rather than reactive—helping you prepare your mind, heart, and home for any unfortunate circumstance. Full of stories and humor along with facts, tips, and lists, Kathi’s book offers a down-to-earth guide that will show you how to face the unexpected with confidence, relying on God’s strength and plan rather than giving into fear and anxiety.

Her step-by-step plan is easy to implement and will help anyone become a better steward of their resources as well as be the neighbor who can help in a crisis rather than needing help. Kathi’s goal is to equip readers to be the frontline of helpers in any crisis, from a natural disaster to a friend’s job loss.

Order your copy of Ready For Anything today.

Kathi and her favorite holiday celebrant, Roger Lipp, are bringing all the best tips for our least stressful holiday season ever and equipping us with a game plan to carry it out. So much of preparing our house is about being comfortable in our own space. There are some key things we can do to declutter and make the holidays less stressful including

• Determine the priority places & spaces to be decluttered
• Make a help list 
• Don’t leave room for unmet expectations 
• Get a membership to Clutter Free for Life

You might have heard of the Circle of Life but how about the Circle of Thrift?

In this part 2 episode, Kathi interviews full-time Pinterest employee and thrifting enthusiast Erin Handley. Erin and Kathi both have a love for a great thrift find and share personal stories about how thrifting has been a real benefit to them and their families through the years. Listen in as she and Kathi laugh and discuss some tips and tricks they have learned about thrifting, such as:

• There are times of year when people donate certain items. Kathi and Erin share when those times are!
• How to develop your personal style while thrifting.
• What is the Circle of Thrift?

Bonus: Erin shares her super secret thrifting tip of where, when, and how to find those special items you’re looking for!

Haven’t listened to 589 Thrifting with Purpose: Tips and Strategies for Finding Gems and Reducing Clutter - Part 1? Click here.

Join the free Clutter Free Academy group on Facebook! 

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Links Mentioned:

Meet Our Guest: Erin Handley

Erin Handley on the Leading Bold Podcast

Erin Handley on Instagram

Kathi Lipp's Clutter Free Academy Facebook Group

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Learn more about Clutter Free for Life

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Today Kathi is joined by Crystal Paine, also known as the Money Saving Mom, as they discuss how to juggle a lot, enjoy your life, and accomplish what matters! Crystal is a busy entrepreneur and mother of six who has been on a journey including secondary infertility, foster care, adoption, and caring for a child with special needs. 

How does she decide what to take on and what to say no to at any given time? Crystal shares her six by two priority system - six priorities, focusing on two each day. These are her top priorities:

1. Spiritual health
2. Marriage
3. Kids
4. Home
5. Business
6. Friendships

Rotating the focus of these priorities during the week gives her a little breathing room, while still making sure she accomplishes what matters. Next week Crystal Paine will continue her conversation with Kathi, as they chat about planning systems and how to turn these priorities into action steps.

Be sure to subscribe to the podcast to be notified when the next episode is released. When you do you will also receive a free Clutter Free Kit with handouts and video interview with Kathi!

Links Mentioned:

Crystal Paine

Money Saving Mom

The Time Saving Mom

Undone by Michele Cushatt

Renee Swope

Weekend at Bernie’s

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Learn more about Clutter Free for Life.

Clutter Free Academy Facebook Group

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Special offer for our Clutter Free community – get 10% off your first month at betterhelp.com/clutterfree (code clutterfree will automatically be applied)

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Kathi chats with her friend and co-author for Overwhelmed and You Don’t Have to Try So Hard, Cheri Gregory. Today they venture into the office where the hidden shrines reside and keep us from progressing in our work.

Today you will learn:

• About the items we keep that become the shrines that define us.
• How to overcome the shame that traps those items in our office.
• How to release the fear of letting go and claim the woman you are today.

Clutter-Free Home

Are you longing for a place of peace from which you can love others well? The Clutter-Free Home: Making Room for Your Life is your room-by-room guide to decluttering, reclaiming, and celebrating every space of your home.

In The Clutter-Free Home, you’ll walk through each room of your house to create organizational zones that are not only functional and practical but create places of peace that reflect your personality.  Kathi will help you tackle the four-step process to reveal the home you’ve always dreamed of, and then transform it into a haven that reflects who you truly are meant to be.

Pre-order your copy of The Clutter-Free Home on Amazon today.

Links and Resources

Learn more about Clutter Free for Life.

Writing At The Red House

Overwhelmed

You Don’t Have to Try So Hard

Cure for the Perfect Life

Exhale

Sensitive & Strong

Michele Cushatt

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You've been given a gift, a hand-me-down that you're hanging on to for dear life but it is has outlived it's uselfulness. Or maybe it was never all that useful but out of guilt you're holding on to it. Join Kathi Lipp and Cheri Gregory as they give you Three Easy-Peasy Steps to deal with clutter that has been handed down to you. It's easier than you think and more freeing than you could ever imagine.

Kathi sits down with Jami Amerine, author of “Sacred Ground, Sticky Floors,” to talk about one of her blog posts that went viral over night. Jami shares the positive and negative reactions to this “rant” as she calls it, when she realized she didn’t want her kids to go into the world not having compassion for others.

Jami says the idea popped into her head shortly after her last foster child was placed in her home. “God showed me it wasn’t all about me…in the midst of all of this…I was in an if-then relationship with Jesus. If I do this…then you’ll do this.”

Kathi and Jami share an in depth conversation about how the shift happened with Jami going from an if-then relationship with God to a relationship of knowing God loved her no matter what she was or wasn’t doing.

If you want to check out the blog post that launched it all, visit Jami’s site here.

Enter to Win!

Enter to win a copy of Jami’s book! One lucky winner will win the grand prize- a Sacred Ground Stick Floors gift basket from Kathi. Go to this blog post to enter.

*US residents only

Buy the book here.

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She had all of her “Christian” ducks in a row…. until God swept them all to the side.  Jen Hatmaker was a Christian speaker and author, married to a PASTOR for heaven’s sake who spent every day of her life doing the church thing and doing it well. But then, Jen prayed a prayer: “God, raise up in me a holy passion.”

And that’s when her whole life got completely messed up.

In this episode of “So Here’s the Thing” Kathi and Erin talk to Jen about her book, “Interrupted: When Jesus Wrecks Your Comfortable Christianity” and discuss how that one simple prayer led her to flip her life upside down… and do everything from serving the poor to letting HGTV invade her home.

Tell us in the comments below how Jen’s experience of being interrupted has inspired you to pray for a holy passion or what is keeping you in your comfortable Christianity. Two winners will be randomly chosen and will receive two copies of Interrupted.

Join in the fun as Kathi and Tonya Kubo, our very own fearless leader of Clutter Free Academy Facebook Group and Clutter Free for Life, get to nerd out on one of Kathi’s favorite topics and challenge our thinking about what we really need to be happy, healthy, and content. Together we will discover that there are a million different little things we can do every single day that make a huge difference and add up. Friend, we are creative human beings who can make a beautiful life out of our abundance. So, let’s start this journey today by learning about:

• Backwards Planning
• Embracing the Power of And
• Reevaluating our Space, Time, and Money
• Delightfully Using our Abundance

Ready For Anything

Bad stuff happens all the time, but this doesn’t mean we have to live in constant fear.

Ready for Anything: Preparing Your Heart and Home for Any Crisis Big or Small gives finite simple steps for being proactive rather than reactive—helping readers prepare their mind, heart, and home for any unfortunate circumstance. Full of stories and humor along with facts, tips, and lists, Kathi’s book offers a down-to-earth guide that will show readers how to face the unexpected with confidence, relying on God’s strength and plan rather than giving in to fear and anxiety.

Her step-by-step plan is easy to implement and will help anyone become a better steward of their resources as well as be the neighbor who can help in a crisis rather than needing help themselves. Kathi’s goal is to equip you to be the frontline of helpers in any crisis from a natural disaster to a friend’s job loss.

Do you sometimes wish that someone else would do your meal planning? Kathi and Tiffany King are here to make your wish come true. We all know that successful meal planning lessens decisions and chaos in this busy life, but finding the time to consistently devote to it can be challenging. Tiffany King has developed Meals at Home to help relieve decision fatigue and help us save time and money. Join in the discussion to find out:

Why it’s so helpful to have a consistent meal plan
How meal planning will help you save time and money
How meal planning will help to alleviate decision fatigue

Ready For Anything

Bad stuff happens all the time, but this doesn’t mean we have to live in constant fear.

Ready for Anything: Preparing Your Heart and Home for Any Crisis Big or Small gives finite simple steps for being proactive rather than reactive—helping you prepare your mind, heart, and home for any unfortunate circumstance. Full of stories and humor along with facts, tips, and lists, Kathi’s book offers a down-to-earth guide that will show you how to face the unexpected with confidence, relying on God’s strength and plan rather than giving into fear and anxiety.

Her step-by-step plan is easy to implement and will help anyone become a better steward of their resources as well as be the neighbor who can help in a crisis rather than needing help. Kathi’s goal is to equip readers to be the frontline of helpers in any crisis, from a natural disaster to a friend’s job loss.

Do you ever look around your house only to discover that it doesn’t look as appealing as you envisioned it would? You might have unintentionally put cute on top of your clutter. Kathi is here today with her friend and decorating diva Deanna Day Young. Together they are transparently sharing how they have struggled with contributing to clutter through well intended decorating gone wrong. Don't worry though, Kathi and Deanna won’t leave us in our “cute, but not cute” clutter. Listen in to this candid conversation as they help us learn how to remedy five decorating mistakes they know from experience lead to more clutter:

• Too many Cute containers
• Buying something before you know where you will put it
• Form over function
• Adding cute before decluttering
• Not sticking to your style

Showing love doesn't have to be take a lot of time!

In fact, you can use simple ways to show your husband you love him and we are here to show you how.

Kathi's new book 101 Simple Ways to Show Your Husband You Love Him is now available! In this podcast, she and Erin discuss the second five days of the 10 Days of Love for Your Man challenge. It's the perfect time to refocus on your man as we celebrate Valentine's Day. You'll love the simplicity of the ideas as well as the impact they can have on your marriage.

How do you survive the holidays?

Kathi and Erin share their top 5 Holiday Hacks to make your holidays simple and fun.

• Easy gifts you can keep on hand.
• Simple ways to make baking and cooking… simple.
• Dial back and be intentional about making Christmas meaningful.
• Celebrate and enjoy your family this holiday season instead of feeling stressed.

Plus, click below to download our Holiday Hacks PDF and get a list of all of Kathi’s and Erin’s hacks, plus more hacks from our readers, plus to get the recipes and instructions for crafts mentioned in the podcast.

Kathi chats with Cheri Gregory, coauthor of Overwhelmed, and co-partner on every good caper, about how gutting your office space clears the way for your important work. Cheri shares her motivations and methods for clearing out the old and making way for the new.

In this episode, you’ll learn tips and tricks to create a clutter free office. Don't panic, friend, we break it down in easy, actionable steps. You've got this!

• The primary reason to dig in and get it done.
• How to overcome the overwhelm when you are deciding what to keep and what to toss.
• The process for removing or recycling.
• A couple of handy tools to help keep you motivated.

Clutter-Free Home

Are you longing for a place of peace from which you can love others well? The Clutter-Free Home: Making Room for Your Life is your room-by-room guide to decluttering, reclaiming, and celebrating every space of your home.

In The Clutter-Free Home, you’ll walk through each room of your house to create organizational zones that are not only functional and practical but create places of peace that reflect your personality.  Kathi will help you tackle the four-step process to reveal the home you’ve always dreamed of, and then transform it into a haven that reflects who you truly are meant to be.

Order your copy of The Clutter-Free Home on Amazon today.

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Hey there, friend! Have you ever felt like cooking dinner is just one more overwhelming task on your never-ending to-do list?
Trust us, We've been there. But what if we told you that just five minutes of prep could transform your entire cooking experience?

In this episode of Clutter-Free Academy, host Kathi Lipp shares her top five pre-cooking habits that can transform any kitchen experience. Joined by Tonya Kubo, Kathi reveals simple yet effective strategies to make cooking less stressful and more enjoyable. Kathi and Tonya provide practical advice for listeners looking to implement these habits in their own kitchens, regardless of size or layout.

Listeners will discover:

• The benefits of gathering all ingredients before starting to cook
• Why printing recipes or using a tablet stand can make following instructions easier
• The value of laying out all necessary tools before beginning to cook

Listeners will come away with actionable steps to create a more organized, efficient, and enjoyable cooking experience, ultimately leading to less stress and more time to enjoy meals with family.

As promised in this episode, here's the link to Kathi's cookbook stand: 

https://www.dayspring.com/mary-martha-psalm-90-17-cookbook-stand

And here's her Poppy Seed Chicken recipe!

Poppy Seed Chicken 

Ingredients:

• 4 Chicken breasts, cooked and cubed 
• 1 can Cream of chicken soup 
• 4 oz Sour cream 
• 2 tsp Poppy seeds, divided 
• 1/4 c. Melted margarine 
• 1/2 sleeve Ritz crackers 

Directions:

1. Combine soup, sour cream and 1 tsp of the poppy seeds in a bowl. Crush crackers and combine with melted margarine and remaining poppy seeds. Layer chicken and soup in casserole dish, then top with cracker mixture. Cover and freeze.
2. Defrost overnight.
3. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes.

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How do you stay connected to your man when your life is… crazy?

Fellow podcaster and blogger Jamie Ivey shares her tips and tricks for keeping her marriage hot when she has four kids, a busy husband and messy house.  Listen in and get:

•    Date night ideas that are creative and fun.
•    Ideas on how to make our marriages a priority over work, over chores and yes, even over parenting.
•    Tips on how to connect with your husband emotionally, spiritually and even physically.
•    How to find time and energy for date night, sex and everything else you need to do to make your marriage hot.

Listen in and then head to Jamie's homepage and get loads of free date night ideas and find out how she is "ruling" marriage by making her marriage her number one priority.

On today’s episode, Kathi welcomes Valorie Burton to talk about her new book, the Successful Woman Planner. Kathi and Valorie talk about the planner and Valorie shares practical tips for clearing the emotional clutter so we can be successful in what God has called us to do and take action. 

On today’s show you’ll learn:

• Why you have to let go of the things that don't matter as much if you're going to succeed in the things that really matter
• How authenticity is a hallmark of resilience
• Why we should not downsize our dreams.

Enter to win a copy of Valorie’s planner and a $50 gift card to Office Max!

Simply head over to yesterday's blog post here to find out the one thing every successful women I've ever met does and to enter the giveaway!

Buy the book here

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Do you feel your shoulders getting more and more tense as the days to Christmas tick down? Ready for a less stressful Christmas?

Kimberlee Stokes, the author of Stress Free Holidays, walks you through her totally doable tips (hint: She got rid of her Christmas tree and makes popcorn for gifts!) to make this holiday season simple and joyful. Listen in as Kimberlee shares her ideas on how to:

• Make gifts without feeling stressed about crafting
• Save money for Christmas without sacrificing the things that matter.
• Choose which events truly matter (and which will only leave you feeling overwhelmed.
• Get rid of the clutter in your home and life to keep your stress levels down.

Listen in and get ideas to keep your holiday low-stress, plus get a free download of Kimberlee’s Candy Cane Bath Salts recipe.

Kathi and co-host, Erin MaPherson discuss summer planning and provide tips for having a fantastic summer with your kids.

Kathi shares her summer manifesto and they both share ideas for the 6 items on the list.

They want you to have a great summer – get some stuff off your checklist, have some fun with your kids, and enjoy the (sometimes) slower pace of summer.

On today’s episode of the podcast, Kathi is joined by Tonya Kubo, the illustrious leader of the Clutter-Free Academy Facebook group. Kathi and Tonya talk about a pretty big issue- how to get rid of sentimental treasures without getting rid of the memories.

On today’s show you’ll learn the three questions to ask when it comes to decluttering the sentimental items:

• Is this the best representation of my relationship?
• Does this bring back good memory?
• How can I remember the person without the possession?

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Kathi is back with Melissa Norris, author of The Family Garden Plan. Last week they talked about how to grow and store food for your family for an entire year. This week they are discussing the details of food preservation. Join in the conversation to learn more about the four types of food preservation and …

• How to make the food last all year long
• Which food preservation method is the most cost-efficient
• How and why to eat with the seasons
• How all this contributes to a clutter-free way of life 

Ready For Anything

Bad stuff happens all the time, but this doesn’t mean we have to live in constant fear.

Ready for Anything: Preparing Your Heart and Home for Any Crisis Big or Small gives finite simple steps for being proactive rather than reactive—helping you prepare your mind, heart, and home for any unfortunate circumstance. Full of stories and humor along with facts, tips, and lists, Kathi’s book offers a down-to-earth guide that will show you how to face the unexpected with confidence, relying on God’s strength and plan rather than giving into fear and anxiety.

Her step-by-step plan is easy to implement and will help anyone become a better steward of their resources as well as be the neighbor who can help in a crisis rather than needing help. Kathi’s goal is to equip readers to be the frontline of helpers in any crisis, from a natural disaster to a friend’s job loss.

Order your copy of Ready For Anything today.

Kathi and Tonya are back with us today discussing how to store everything with limited space. Listen in as they encourage us to find creative spaces using what we already have. Together let’s think about what kind of storage we have and how we are using it by:

• Designating each space for a purpose
• Making it work hard for us
• Making the spaces function for us
• Looking for hidden storage spots

Kathi’s back with Tonya Kubo, the queen of major decluttering and leader of Clutter Free Academy Facebook Group, to continue the discussion on how to kickstart your major decluttering this fall. In the first episode, they talked about some of the how-to’s and why 500 things. Today, they’re walking us through how to reset our houses by getting the most out of the kick start to clutter free course and tell us:

• The 5 ways to get the most out of the 14 day kickstart course
• How to help children be a part of it
• How to keep the momentum going  

Clutter-Free Home

Are you longing for a place of peace from which you can love others well? The Clutter-Free Home: Making Room for Your Life is your room-by-room guide to decluttering, reclaiming, and celebrating every space of your home.

In The Clutter-Free Home, you’ll walk through each room of your house to create organizational zones that are not only functional and practical but create places of peace that reflect your personality. Kathi will help you tackle the four-step process to reveal the home you’ve always dreamed of and then transform it into a haven that reflects who you truly are meant to be.

Order your copy of The Clutter-Free Home on Amazon today.

What is one word you would use to describe your motherhood?

Kathi said overwhelming.  Erin said chaotic.  Leslie Ludy, our guest, said neither have to be part of your parenting story.  Leslie put off having kids for a long time as she feared all the horror stories.  She didn’t want to lose the wonderful love story that she had built by adding kids to the mix.  But when her kids came, life may not have been simple (her oldest son had acid reflux) but it was wonderful. In this podcast, she tells women how they can:

• gather their community,
• change their attitudes,
• and realize God is building them,

as they partake in the joyous, exciting and sometimes crazy ride that is motherhood.

When you are feeling overwhelmed as a mom, what is one thing you do to get yourself back on track? Share a tip below for your chance to win a book from Set Apart Motherhood.

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Can you imagine how much lighter your home, and your heart, would be if you got rid of 1000 things next month? If you can envision that accomplishment and its accompanying peace, we will take care of teaching you how to get it! And guess who is back on Clutter Free helping lay out this challenge? Kathi is here with her partner in crime, Tonya Kubo, discussing one of their favorite challenges of the whole year. This challenge encourages and supports us in decluttering 1000 items in the month of November! Listen in to find out details and how this can work for you, no matter how many times you’ve tried to get clutter free before, or even if you feel like you’re always asking: 

• Where do I begin? 
• How do I get a loved one on board?
• Am I too far gone?

This week, Kathi is joined by Tonya Kubo, fearless leader of the Clutter Free Academy Facebook group, to discuss strategies for dealing with an overwhelming to-do list. They share their own proven tips for making an overwhelming to-do list manageable and resetting when things feel out-of-hand.

In this episode, you'll learn how to declutter an overwhelming to-do list through:

• Developing realistic expectations for what you can accomplish in the time you have
• Prioritizing the most important tasks
• Breaking larger items down into doable steps

Make sure you listen in next week to hear Part Two of "Declutter Your To-Do List", where Kathi shares how to use your calendar as your to-do list and find some sanity in your schedule. Better yet, subscribe below and have each Clutter Free Academy episode delivered to you!

Check out Kathi's book with Cheri Gregory, Overwhelmed, to learn more about how to quiet the chaos and restore your sanity.

To stay connected with others like Kathi and Tonya do, check out the Voxer app.

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Do you find yourself constantly overwhelmed by the clutter in your kitchen? The kitchen can be the hardest area of the house to keep decluttered because it is constantly being used. Kathi and Tonya are here in this re-released episode to break down their top 5 favorite tips to keep your kitchen free from clutter. Listen in as Kathi explains why she considers the kitchen countertops to be the most important real estate in your home (with the refrigerator running a close second), and many more tips including including:

• Law of proximity
• Do your dishes every night  
• Get rid of duplicate or excess dishes and appliances

Note: Since this is a re-release of a previous episode, the mentioned giveaway has ended.

On today’s episode of the podcast, Kathi is joined by Ty Pennington author of Life to the Extreme: How a Chaotic Kid Became America’s Favorite Carpenter. Kathi and Ty discuss clutter, creativity, Ty’s experience growing up with ADHD and the lessons he’s learned through the years.

On today’s show you’ll learn:

• Why creativity actually thrives when thinking small
• How limitations might seem like obstacles but are actually gifts
• Why we often create our best stuff when the pressure’s on

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Christmas is just around the corner! Do you have a Christmas plan in place or are you overwhelmed thinking about it already? Have no fear! In this episode, Kathi and Tonya Kubo, illustrious leader of the Clutter Free Academy Facebook Group, will help you create a Christmas plan to have your most joyful, meaningful, merry holiday season yet.

Kathi and Tonya will give you a glimpse into some of their favorite Christmas traditions and others that didn’t work for them. Their experiences will help you discover:

• Three things that can make Christmas feel overwhelming and how to address them.
• Important questions to ask when crafting a Christmas plan.
• How to share the giving season and get others involved in your Christmas plan.

Kathi and Tonya are right. You really can get anything on Amazon! Most importantly, you can pre-order your copy of The Christmas Project Planner and get your Christmas plan rolling today.

Join the Christmas planning fun in the Christmas Project Planner Facebook Group.

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Have ever struggled to turn your dream garden into a reality? What if we told you that there's a new secret weapon that can help you achieve gardening success like never before? That's right, we're talking about the incredible power of AI!

Join Kathi and her partner in life and gardening Roger Lipp on this episode as they dive into the world of AI-assisted gardening. They’ll share all the prompts and tips that transformed their gardening game, and you'll walk away feeling empowered and inspired to create your own oasis of abundance. Listen in as Kathi and Roger guide you through using AI to:

• Plan the spacing and layout of your garden
• Determine what plants are best for your growing zone
• Research companion plants for a healthy garden ecosystem

As promised, here’s the Garden Prompt that Kathi and Roger use to direct AI to plan their dream garden:

“I'm trying to create a planting/gardening activity calendar for our home in the 7b zone of 95684 for our 16x48 foot harden and our 8x8 greenhouse and various potted plants on our patios. Can you create a monthly calendar and make some suggestions about the best fruits and vegetables to grow - along with planting instructions?”

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