Today I’m interviewing Laura Gaskill, who is an interiors writer, e-course teacher, mother, and creative soul, living in her hometown of Alameda, an island in the San Francisco Bay, after seven years on the east coast. Her mission is to help people unearth their treasures and live more authentic, beautiful, and meaningful lives. She is a regular contributor on Houzz.com and she teaches people how to mindfully clear clutter, which I think is such an important process and conversation to have in the home staging process. I hope our conversations will help motivate you to start removing clutter in your life and inspire you to better and bigger things. That’s why I thought it would be perfect to have her on, to discuss her own personal experience staging her house for sale and what she’s learned through her professional experiences. I also thought this series will be a really great starting point for next month’s special project, which is something I’m calling Operation Home. Things we talk about on the show today: -What’s Houzz -Laura’s biggest lesson learned from writing for Houzz -What’s the #1 thing to help homes sell faster & for more money -What Laura had learned from her experiences of staging her own home to sell -What was her biggest challenge with DIY staging -Learning to let go of emotional attachment -Techniques on letting go of emotional attachment -Benefits of clearing cluttering -Memory keeping -Project Life -What’s clutter? -Tricks to get into the habit of removing clutter from your home -”But what if I want to keep everything?!” -Breaking down the process of clearing the clutter of the entire house -KonMarie method -Decluttering by category -Ways to help you feel motivated, stay focus & positive about clearing clutter from your home -Tips on managing the clutter clearing process -Clutter wake-up call -Some of the main causes of clutter -Teacher Resource Center -Scrap San Francisco -Visualization -Laura’s best tip for clearing clutter