Making the Space Monday

Since having kids, we’ve lived in twelve homes, in six cities and two states. We even sold our dream home, and everyone thought we were bonkers! But here’s what all those moves taught me: a new house never fixed anything on its own. This episode is for the mama who isn’t going anywhere but knows something in her home feels off. We take a little Zillow tour of your own house, room by room, to find the spaces that aren’t working for your family anymore, so you can love your home again and make it fit the season you’re in, no moving truck required.

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Things I get into:

• Why the guest room and formal dining room are usually the first spaces to stop working
• How the garage turns into a storage unit for decisions we haven’t made yet (matching bins and all)
• Why your bedroom deserves more than overflow duty
• Using your values, not a list of rules, to decide what each space is for right now

Your house might be screaming at you right now. You don’t need a new one. You need the one you have to catch up with you!

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Connect with me:
💌 Newsletter + the FREE Does Your Home Still Fit? Quiz
📲 Instagram: @makingthespacewithjackie
✉️ Email: [email protected]

Want 1:1 help making your home fit your family? Book a free 20-minute call HERE.

A tool I love:
📵 The Brick helps me unplug from my phone and be more present at home!

Affiliate Disclosure: Some links above are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only share products I personally use and love.

This podcast is for educational and coaching purposes only and is not a substitute for therapy, medical, mental health, or financial advice. If you're needing mental health support, please reach out to a licensed provider in your area.

© 2026 Making the Space, LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this podcast may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form without prior written permission.

📝 FREE: Does Your Home Still Fit? Quiz. Before the holiday stuff starts coming in, take five minutes to see where your home is supporting you and where it’s quietly making things harder. Subscribe HERE and it lands in your inbox right away!

It’s not even Halloween, and holiday mode has already been activated. Between Pinterest, Prime Day, and a feed full of traditions I’ve never done, it’s so easy to feel behind before the season even starts. In this episode, I’m sharing our holiday not-doing list, the simple traditions we’re keeping, and the values card activity my family uses to decide what stays, so we can be present for the holidays instead of rushing through them.

In this episode:

• Why everything feels required when everything is at your fingertips
• The values card activity we use to choose our holiday traditions
• The traditions we’re keeping: ornament night and family baking day
• Our holiday not-doing list, from holiday cards to saying yes to every invite
• Why a fall pre-holiday declutter helps you actually enjoy the season

Mentioned in this episode:

• Ep 20: Permission to Skip Holiday Cards This Year (and What We Send Instead) 

If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to follow the show so you don't miss your Monday reset. And if you're loving it, a quick rating or review helps more people find it.

Connect with me:
💌 Newsletter + the FREE Does Your Home Still Fit? Quiz
📲 Instagram: @makingthespacewithjackie
✉️ Email: [email protected]

Want 1:1 help making your home fit your family? Book a free 20-minute call HERE.

A tool I love:
📵 The Brick helps me unplug from my phone and be more present at home!

Affiliate Disclosure: Some links above are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only share products I personally use and love.

This podcast is for educational and coaching purposes only and is not a substitute for therapy, medical, mental health, or financial advice. If you're needing mental health support, please reach out to a licensed provider in your area.

© 2026 Making the Space, LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this podcast may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form without prior written permission.

Already dreading the Christmas cards this year? SAME. The photographer emails, the coordinating outfits, the price of stamps, the hunt for everyone’s new address. If you feel like you can’t skip it, you’re not the only one. In this episode of Making the Space Monday, I’m sharing why our family stopped sending Christmas cards a few years ago, the best little surprise that came out of it, and the one question that made the decision easy.

🏡 FREE QUIZ: Does Your Home Still Fit? TAKE IT HERE
8 questions, 5 minutes. It lands in your inbox when you join my free newsletter.

Things I get into in this episode:

• What a Christmas card really costs in money, time, and mental load
• From 90s portrait studio photos to embossed trifolds, and where the fun got lost
• What I send now, and why I hear back from more people
• The question for every holiday tradition: does this give us more than it takes?

If you love sending cards, please keep sending them. I love getting them. This is about the things you dread and do anyway.

Tell me what you’re letting go of this holiday season. DM me on Instagram or send me an email, both are linked below.

If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to follow the show so you don't miss your Monday reset. And if you're loving it, a quick rating or review helps more people find it.

Connect with me:
💌 Newsletter + the FREE Does Your Home Still Fit? Quiz
📲 Instagram: @makingthespacewithjackie
✉️ Email: [email protected]

Want 1:1 help making your home fit your family? Book a free 20-minute call HERE.

A tool I love:
📵 The Brick helps me unplug from my phone and be more present at home!

Affiliate Disclosure: Some links above are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only share products I personally use and love.

This podcast is for educational and coaching purposes only and is not a substitute for therapy, medical, mental health, or financial advice. If you're needing mental health support, please reach out to a licensed provider in your area.

© 2026 Making the Space, LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this podcast may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form without prior written permission.

We’ve been landlords. We’ve owned homes, including our dream home. We’ve rented more than once. And right now we’re in one of our happiest seasons, as renters. In this episode of Making the Space Monday, I’m sharing a bit of a hot take: owning a home isn’t the finish line, and renting isn’t a step backward. After 12 homes in 6 cities and 2 states, I’ve learned the right home is the one that fits the life you’re living now.

🏡 FREE QUIZ: Does Your Home Still Fit? TAKE IT HERE
8 questions, 5 minutes. It lands in your inbox when you join my free newsletter. (I call it the home alignment assessment in this episode. Same quiz, new name.)

Things I get into in this episode:

• The “rent, buy, upgrade, stay forever” script we all inherited
• Why we sold our dream home and moved back to California
• The freedom of dropping the never-ending project list
• The question to ask yourself: whose timeline are you living on?

If your home looks great on paper and still feels off, this one is for you.

If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to follow the show so you don't miss your Monday reset. And if you're loving it, a quick rating or review helps more people find it.

Connect with me:
💌 Newsletter + the FREE Does Your Home Still Fit? Quiz
📲 Instagram: @makingthespacewithjackie
✉️ Email: [email protected]

Want 1:1 help making your home fit your family? Book a free 20-minute call HERE.

A tool I love:
📵 The Brick helps me unplug from my phone and be more present at home!

Affiliate Disclosure: Some links above are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only share products I personally use and love.

This podcast is for educational and coaching purposes only and is not a substitute for therapy, medical, mental health, or financial advice. If you're needing mental health support, please reach out to a licensed provider in your area.

© 2026 Making the Space, LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this podcast may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form without prior written permission.

I just got back from the best vacation, a moms’ getaway to the South with my best friend. But this episode isn’t really about the trip. It’s about what I noticed while I was there and how I’m bringing it home into my fall. In this episode of Making the Space Monday, I’m sharing why we don’t have to wait for vacation to feel calm, present, and alive.

🏡 FREE QUIZ: Does Your Home Still Fit? TAKE IT HERE
8 questions, 5 minutes. It lands in your inbox when you join my free newsletter. (This replaces any older freebie I mention in this episode.)

Things I get into in this episode:

• What saying yes to a moms’ trip taught me about permission
• The slower pace of the South compared to the West Coast
• The coffee shop moment that changed how I show up in conversations
• Why baking, puzzles, and analog activities do more than fill time

If you only feel like yourself when you’re away from home, this one is for you.

If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to follow the show so you don't miss your Monday reset. And if you're loving it, a quick rating or review helps more people find it.

Connect with me:
💌 Newsletter + the FREE Does Your Home Still Fit? Quiz
📲 Instagram: @makingthespacewithjackie
✉️ Email: [email protected]

Want 1:1 help making your home fit your family? Book a free 20-minute call HERE.

A tool I love:
📵 The Brick helps me unplug from my phone and be more present at home!

Affiliate Disclosure: Some links above are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only share products I personally use and love.

This podcast is for educational and coaching purposes only and is not a substitute for therapy, medical, mental health, or financial advice. If you're needing mental health support, please reach out to a licensed provider in your area.

© 2026 Making the Space, LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this podcast may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form without prior written permission.

This past summer I had a wild idea I couldn’t stop thinking about: I wanted to homeschool. In this episode of Making the Space Monday, I’m sharing the honest, unpolished story of how we got here. There was no five-year plan and no Pinterest-worthy homeschool room, just a willingness to ask whether our days fit the life we wanted to live.

🏡 FREE QUIZ: Does Your Home Still Fit? TAKE IT HERE
8 questions, 5 minutes. It lands in your inbox when you join my free newsletter. (This replaces any older freebie I mention in this episode.)

Things I get into in this episode:

• Why I once told myself I “wasn’t cut out” to homeschool
• Our old mornings: rushing and Whac-A-Mole scheduling
• The check-in I do whenever something in our life feels off
• What our day-to-day looks like now

If you’ve ever looked at your own life and wondered “does this still fit?”, this one is for you.

If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to follow the show so you don't miss your Monday reset. And if you're loving it, a quick rating or review helps more people find it.

Connect with me:
💌 Newsletter + the FREE Does Your Home Still Fit? Quiz
📲 Instagram: @makingthespacewithjackie
✉️ Email: [email protected]

Want 1:1 help making your home fit your family? Book a free 20-minute call HERE.

A tool I love:
📵 The Brick helps me unplug from my phone and be more present at home!

Affiliate Disclosure: Some links above are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only share products I personally use and love.

This podcast is for educational and coaching purposes only and is not a substitute for therapy, medical, mental health, or financial advice. If you're needing mental health support, please reach out to a licensed provider in your area.

© 2026 Making the Space, LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this podcast may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form without prior written permission.

You could have the most beautiful Container Store system in the world and still see piles of clothes on the floor. You could label everything perfectly, and nothing would stick. What if the problem isn’t your systems? In this episode of Making the Space Monday, we’re talking about ADHD, highly sensitive people (HSP), and what happens when both kinds of brains share one house.

🏡 FREE QUIZ: Does Your Home Still Fit? TAKE IT HERE
8 questions, 5 minutes. It lands in your inbox when you join my free newsletter. (This replaces any older freebie I mention in this episode.)

Things I get into in this episode:

• Why ADHD brains make “doom piles,” and why it isn’t laziness
• Why visual clutter overwhelms highly sensitive people so fast
• Why your beautiful organizing systems keep failing
• Toy rotation, separate spaces, and setups that work for different brains

Links from this episode:

• Elaine Aron’s research on highly sensitive people: hsperson.com

If you live with someone whose brain works nothing like yours, whether that’s your kid or your partner, this one is for you.

If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to follow the show so you don't miss your Monday reset. And if you're loving it, a quick rating or review helps more people find it.

Connect with me:
💌 Newsletter + the FREE Does Your Home Still Fit? Quiz
📲 Instagram: @makingthespacewithjackie
✉️ Email: [email protected]

Want 1:1 help making your home fit your family? Book a free 20-minute call HERE.

A tool I love:
📵 The Brick helps me unplug from my phone and be more present at home!

Affiliate Disclosure: Some links above are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only share products I personally use and love.

This podcast is for educational and coaching purposes only and is not a substitute for therapy, medical, mental health, or financial advice. If you're needing mental health support, please reach out to a licensed provider in your area.

© 2026 Making the Space, LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this podcast may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form without prior written permission.

Summer isn’t even over and the school supply displays are already taking over Target. Back to school season doesn’t have to mean losing everything that made summer feel good. In this episode of Making the Space Monday, I’m sharing how to protect that slower pace on purpose, before it disappears the second the school bell rings.

🏡 FREE QUIZ: Does Your Home Still Fit? TAKE IT HERE
8 questions, 5 minutes. It lands in your inbox when you join my free newsletter. (This replaces any older freebie I mention in this episode.)

Things I get into in this episode:

• Permission to opt out of the back to school supply rush
• Checking what you already have before you buy anything new
• Calendar clutter, and which activities deserve a spot this year
• What my analog summer looked like: backyard dinners, an old school radio, and a bricked phone

📵 The tool I use to brick my phone is the Brick. GET IT HERE

If you’re already dreading the September schedule, this one is for you.

If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to follow the show so you don't miss your Monday reset. And if you're loving it, a quick rating or review helps more people find it.

Connect with me:
💌 Newsletter + the FREE Does Your Home Still Fit? Quiz
📲 Instagram: @makingthespacewithjackie
✉️ Email: [email protected]

Want 1:1 help making your home fit your family? Book a free 20-minute call HERE.

A tool I love:
📵 The Brick helps me unplug from my phone and be more present at home!

Affiliate Disclosure: Some links above are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only share products I personally use and love.

This podcast is for educational and coaching purposes only and is not a substitute for therapy, medical, mental health, or financial advice. If you're needing mental health support, please reach out to a licensed provider in your area.

© 2026 Making the Space, LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this podcast may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form without prior written permission.

My closet declutter was one of the most popular things I shared during my 30 Days of Decluttering series. But here’s what nobody tells you: decluttering your closet doesn’t automatically fix decision fatigue. In this episode of Making the Space Monday, I’m joined by my dear friend Amy Casey, a color and style consultant with House of Colour, to talk about what did.

🏡 FREE QUIZ: Does Your Home Still Fit? TAKE IT HERE
8 questions, 5 minutes. It lands in your inbox when you join my free newsletter. (This replaces any older freebie I mention in this episode.)

Things we get into in this episode:

• The math on my closet: 152 pieces and 2,980 possible outfits
• Finding out I’m an autumn (and being a little devastated about it)
• How color analysis becomes a filter that stops you from buying the wrong things
• Amy’s advice on where to start when your closet feels like too much

Links from this episode:

• Curious about color analysis? Learn more at House of Colour

If you have a full closet and still nothing to wear, this one is for you.

If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to follow the show so you don't miss your Monday reset. And if you're loving it, a quick rating or review helps more people find it.

Connect with me:
💌 Newsletter + the FREE Does Your Home Still Fit? Quiz
📲 Instagram: @makingthespacewithjackie
✉️ Email: [email protected]

Want 1:1 help making your home fit your family? Book a free 20-minute call HERE.

A tool I love:
📵 The Brick helps me unplug from my phone and be more present at home!

Affiliate Disclosure: Some links above are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only share products I personally use and love.

This podcast is for educational and coaching purposes only and is not a substitute for therapy, medical, mental health, or financial advice. If you're needing mental health support, please reach out to a licensed provider in your area.

© 2026 Making the Space, LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this podcast may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form without prior written permission.

This week’s episode starts with a home video night that turned into an unexpected gut-check. Watching old clips of the kids, the toys, the outfits, and all the homes we’ve lived in, it hit me fast: what gets us emotional was never the object in the background. It was the memory. In this episode of Making the Space Monday, we’re talking about why sentimental clutter feels so much heavier than regular clutter, and what to do with it without feeling guilty for keeping a few special things.

🏡 FREE QUIZ: Does Your Home Still Fit? TAKE IT HERE
8 questions, 5 minutes. It lands in your inbox when you join my free newsletter. (This replaces any older freebie I mention in this episode.)

Things I get into in this episode:

• Why the box in the garage isn’t what’s holding your memories
• Four reasons from psychology that make sentimental items so hard to let go
• A simple exercise for deciding what’s worth keeping
• How a giant box of forgotten shirts became a quilt we use all the time

If you have a bin you can’t open without crying, this one is for you.

If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to follow the show so you don't miss your Monday reset. And if you're loving it, a quick rating or review helps more people find it.

Connect with me:
💌 Newsletter + the FREE Does Your Home Still Fit? Quiz
📲 Instagram: @makingthespacewithjackie
✉️ Email: [email protected]

Want 1:1 help making your home fit your family? Book a free 20-minute call HERE.

A tool I love:
📵 The Brick helps me unplug from my phone and be more present at home!

Affiliate Disclosure: Some links above are affiliate links. If you purchase through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only share products I personally use and love.

This podcast is for educational and coaching purposes only and is not a substitute for therapy, medical, mental health, or financial advice. If you're needing mental health support, please reach out to a licensed provider in your area.

© 2026 Making the Space, LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this podcast may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form without prior written permission.