Minimal-ish: Minimalism, Intentional Living, Motherhood

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Minimal-ish is a podcast hosted by Desirae Endres about striving to live with less of the things that don't matter, more of what does, and pursuing intention in every area of our everyday lives and motherhood. We'll talk about a realistic version of minimalism, family life, motherhood, work, caring for ourselves, budgeting and intentional finances, and everything in between.

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Today I'm coming to you with a solo episode about how we can begin to change our shopping habits. It's so easy to find immediate gratification through shopping in our modern world. We can get an impulse idea to search ...

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01.26.2023 Simple Ways to Start Changing Your Shopping Habits (Bring Less into Your Home) Today I'm coming to you with a solo episode about how we can begin to change our shopping habits. It's so easy to find immediate gratification through shopping in our modern world. We can get an impulse idea to search ...
01.19.2023 Simplifying "Sticking to" your Budget + Tips for Your Grocery Budget Woes with Carly of Debt Free Mom Today my guest is Carly of Debt Free Mom. Setting up a budget for ourselves is one thing, but actually following through with it is a while different beast. Carly brings us helpful and attainable tips to help us making ...
01.13.2023 Get Yourself Outside in Any Weather and Live a More Open Air Life with Linda Mcgurk Today my guest is Linda McGurk, author of There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather and The Open Air Life. Today we talk about "Friluftsliv" and how this aspect of Nordic culture can benefit us wherever we're from. If you've ...
01.06.2023 One Small, Impactful Change to Start the Year (Changing the New Years Narrative) Today we're shifting the New Year, New You narrative. This episode is for you if you're weary from the new year new you marketing, or just don't have the energy for a whole life overhaul/ big resolutions as we start ...
12.30.2022 End of Year Q&A! Going from 1-2 Kids, 2023 Goals, Social Media Boundaries, + More I hope you enjoy this end of year Q&A! Thank you for sending in questions. This was a fun way to end the year and I hope to do it more often in the new year! Links: Simple Morning Lists ...
12.15.2022 A Word For the Year + Grace Filled Morning Routines with Emily Ley Today I am honored to have Emily Ley as my guest. She recently wrote a devotional book titled Sure as the Sunrise, and in today's episode, we focus in on the idea of creating a word for the year along ...
12.09.2022 Let's Set Some Deep, Meaningful Goals Together (That You'll be More Likely to Work Towards) Today I'm taking you through a reflection to help you set a meaningful goal or two (or three) that you'll be more likely to keep for 2023. We reflect a bit on this past year and then dive right into ...
12.01.2022 Minimalism Stories: Mary Simpson Today's episode is the second in the Minimalism Stories series. My guest, Mary Simpson, shares her story about how downsizing and a health scare brought her into minimalism. She also gives great advice for getting started along with tackling sentimental ...
11.24.2022 Series Finale: What Will Your Intentional Holiday Season Look Like? A Recap and Reflection Today we're recapping and reflecting on some of the main points of the last several episodes as we get specific on what matters most to us this holiday season, what we can plan for so we make sure it happens, ...
11.17.2022 Making the Holidays Intentional and Special in a Low Pressure, Low Budget Way with Tasheena Ticer Warning: As with many holiday episodes, we are talking about gifts, the emphasis of gifts, and gifts under the tree. If this might be something you don't want your kids to hear, you may want to listen with earbuds in! ...
11.10.2022 How to Hygge this Winter + Holiday Season with Diane in Denmark We are getting Hygge again on the show because it has been one of the most popular topics recently on minimal-ish, and I personally wanted to learn even more. This time, I went straight to the source: Denmark. I started ...
11.03.2022 Minimalism and Gifts This Holiday Season - Reflecting, Planning, and Mindset Shifts Around Our Gift Giving This Year How are you feeling about gifts this holiday season? Whether you're all about simplifying your gift giving (and receiving) for your family, or you just want to get more intentional and planned out, today's episode is for you! Gift giving ...
10.27.2022 Minimal and Meaningful Home Decor + Simplifying Holiday Decorating with Sharon Marcus Today I talk with Sharon Marcus of The Realized Home. Sharon is an interior designer with a philosophy that we can keep our decor simple, within our budgets, and still allow it to be incredibly meaningful as it reflects us ...
10.20.2022 Decluttering Our Kids' Stuff Part 2 - Decluttering WITH our Kids Today I'm bringing you part two of this series of what I've learned while decluttering with my daughter. I'm bringing you my process and what has made decluttering easier with my 5 year old as I've handed over the reigns ...
10.13.2022 Decluttering Our Kids Stuff Part 1 - A Mindset Shift - Can it Become Selfish? I'm bringing you a two part series on what I'm learning as I declutter with my 5 year old daughter. First, we are starting with a reflection. Next week we will get a little more practical with the how. As ...
10.06.2022 Decluttering Your Clothes by Creating a Uniform (And How I'm Using This Method Postpartum) My first solo episode of each month will cover something I'm simplifying - today, that is my wardrobe. I've talked about creating a uniform on this podcast before, about three years ago, so I felt it was time to update ...
09.29.2022 Minimalist Moving: Selling Everything & Refurnishing Fully Secondhand with Kat Steck Today I'm talking with Kat Steck all about her cross country move from LA to Nashville. She's a mom to two young kids who sold nearly everything her family owned and refurnished her new home completely secondhand. This conversation is ...
09.22.2022 Hygge: Creating a Space (and Life) that Offers Comfort, Connection and Contentment as the Weather gets Colder Today I'm talking with Jamie Erickson of The Unlikely Homeschool all about the concept of Hygge and how we can apply it to our homes and lives. We go beyond the aesthetics of Hygge and talk about how we can ...
09.15.2022 Learning When to Call it Enough \| Striving for Perfection vs. Choosing Contentment Today I'm bringing you a solo episode of something I've been learning lately. I hope this idea of learning when to call it enough, stop trying so hard and stop striving for perfectionism resonates with you if you've been feeling ...
09.12.2022 Introducing the "3 in 30 Takeaways for Moms" Podcast Today I'm bringing you a mini episode to share a podcast I've been loving that is a part of Cloud10 Media - the network Minimal-ish is a part of. I've been so grateful to work alongside of amazing podcasters like ...
09.08.2022 Minimalism Stories: Emily McDermott Today starts our minimalism stories series which will return every 5 or so episodes. I am so excited to be starting this series that is all about sharing our stories and being encouraged by the journeys of others. My guest ...
09.02.2022 How Yoga Can Help Us Through Parenthood and Ease Our Kids Back into School with Dr. Chelsea Jackson Roberts In today's episode, we are bringing you a unique topic that we haven't approached on the podcast: Yoga, breath-work, and meditation. My guest, Dr. Chelsea Jackson Robert, is an internationally celebrated Peloton yoga teacher, and she's the perfect one to ...
08.25.2022 5 Things I'm Simplifying Right Now (Back to School Edition) Some of my favorite things to hear from guests on the podcast? The two questions I always ask - what are they simplifying? What are they loving? Today I answered one of those questions as I went through 5 things ...
08.19.2022 Simplifying Time Blocking with Cara Harvey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08.12.2022 Creating Daily Rhythms for Your Everyday Life with Katie Lewis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
08.05.2022 What Matters Most This School Year? Getting Intentional as Life Gets Busier Today I'm taking you through a reflection that I did myself as I started to think about the upcoming school year. Life gets busier for many of us - how can we make sure to make it about what matters ...
07.28.2022 Tips for Organizing Kids Spaces and Sentimental Items + How to Make Organizing Your Life Less Overwhelming with Carly Adams Today I talk with Carly Adams of Tidy Revival all about how to get organized when you're not an organized person. We focus in on organizing the kids spaces and sentimental items. Links: Carly's Website Carly on Instagram Podcast Website ...
07.22.2022 Declutter and Organize Your Closet with Me + 6 Questions to Ask Yourself to help you Declutter Anything Today I'm giving you action steps to help you give a purpose to each closet in your house, declutter it, and organize it. Closets tend to be a place where clutter gathers, and this episode can be a companion to ...
07.14.2022 Thrifting Tips + The World of Reselling with Lydia of Love This For You Today I'm talking with Lydia of Love This For You all about her best thrifting and secondhand shopping tips. Lydia has created a thriving clothing reselling business which she does part time, in addition to working in marketing. She loves ...
07.12.2022 Bonus Episode: Getting Intentional about our Gut Health with Tina Anderson Today's episode is a bonus episode where we are approaching a topic a little off the norm for minimal-ish, but one I think is important! It's also different because I got to interview the owner of a company that I ...
07.08.2022 Make Room for Rest: Where does burnout come from + A quick exercise to help us make room for the things that recharge us Today is a reflective episode where I go through some questions to help us look at our days currently and rearrange to find space for things that are restful and recharge us. I also discuss a quote about burnout that ...
06.30.2022 Traveling with Less: Applying Minimalism to how you Pack and Travel with Rachelle Crawford When I heard Rachelle Crawford of Abundant Life with Less talk about how she travels with carry-ons only anytime she does air travel, even with a family of five, I knew I had to have her on the show to ...
06.23.2022 Creating a Laundry System that Works with Amy Eilers Laundry is one of those household chores that we can't avoid. It seems to always be waiting for us. How can we fit it into our days without letting it take up too much of our time (but also getting ...
06.20.2022 Introducing: American Girl 10 Minute Mysteries I’m so excited to introduce the 10 Minute Mysteries podcast, which is part of the brand-new American Girl Podcast Network. Narrated by the co-host of The Psychologists are In, Maggie Lawson, this mysterious, suspenseful podcast takes listeners on a fun ...
06.16.2022 Should I keep or declutter the baby and kid stuff as my family grows out of it? Why I don't regret getting rid of so much baby stuff. A question I've gotten lately as we've recently added to the family? "Do you regret getting rid of so much baby stuff?" or "What should I do with the baby/ kid stuff when I'm not sure when or if we ...
06.09.2022 Two Distractions that are Keeping You from the Things That Matter with Joshua Becker Today I have Joshua Becker back on the podcast to talk about his newest book, Things that Matter: Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a more Meaningful Life. In his book, Joshua details 8 distractions that keep us from living an intentional ...
06.03.2022 6 Tips for an Intentional Summer Today I'm talking with you solo about having a great (and intentional) summer. We talk about how we can use our time, plan ahead, declutter a bit, and choose gratitude to help set us up for an intentional summer. I ...
05.26.2022 Peaceful Productivity & Planning our Days around Our Priorities with Jess Massey Today I'm sharing my conversation with Jess Massey of Hustle Sanely. Jess Massey is the host of The Hustle Sanely Podcast, a planner creator, and the founder of the community-centered productivity brand Hustle Sanely®. She uses The 5 Keys to ...
05.19.2022 Find Purpose Right Where You're At + Getting Past The Grass is Always Greener Mentality (Minimal-ish Replay #4) Today I'm talking about The Phrase "The Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side," and a recent run in I had on this mindset. Through navigating these feelings in my own life, I realized there were three problems that ...
05.13.2022 Simplified Parenting and a Happier Motherhood with Denaye Barahona (Minimal-ish Replay #3) Today I'm chatting with Denaye Barahona of Simple Families! We talk all about her new book, Simple, Happy Parenting, and what that means played out in everyday life. I especially love our chat about what it looks like to holistically ...
05.05.2022 Realistic Minimalism that Fits Your Family + Taking Back Your Time with Erica Layne (Minimal-ish Replay #2) Today I chat with Erica of the Life on Purpose Movement about realistic minimalism and how minimalism can benefit everyone- but it isn't one size fits all. She talks about how minimalism and slow living has changed for her has ...
04.28.2022 How and Where to Start Declutering (even when you're busy) with Joshua Becker - Minimal-ish Replay #1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
03.31.2022 On Letting Go of Old Seasons and Embracing the Next with Shauna Niequist On today's episode, I am honored to interview one of my favorite authors, Shauna Niequist. Her new book, I Just Haven't Learned That Yet, is full of stories of how we cope with unexpected change, letting go of previous seasons, ...
03.22.2022 A Minimalist (ish) Pregnancy and Postpartum Does a baby really need the 150+ items you'll find on an "essential" registry checklist? The answer, of course, is no, and today I'm bringing four tips/ mindset shifts to help us stay minimal when we are shopping for baby ...
02.24.2022 8 Budgeting Mistakes We Were Making & Simple Game Changers for Getting Finances Back on Track Today I talk with you solo and transparently about budgeting mistakes my husband and I have made on our debt free journey that have made it really hard for us to make any progress. I share 8 mistakes along with ...
02.10.2022 Tackling Impulse Spending + Debt, Finances, and our Identity Today I talk with Allison Baggerly of Inspired Budget! I love how Allison makes paying off debt and budgeting easier to understand. Her mission to make women feel condient in their finances is one I have personally benefitted from, and ...
02.04.2022 Welcome BACK to Minimal-ish + What Minimalism looks like in This Season Remember: It's okay to change your mind. At least, that's what I'm reminding myself. All about the change you'll see here on the MINIMAL-ISH podcast. Find me on instagram: @desirae.endres Podcast Website Free getting started guide to decluttering/ minimalism Learn ...
01.28.2022 Chasing Purpose in our Work, Focusing on What's Important Now, & Redefining Wealth with Patrice Washington Today I talk with Patrice Washington, best selling author and speaker, all about her 6 pillars of wealth, pursuing purpose in our work and lives, and redefining wealth. This is one of my favorite conversations I've had on the podcast ...
01.20.2022 Messy Minimalism: Make Minimalism Your Own (without the perfectionism) with Rachelle Crawford Today I talk with Rachelle Crawford of Abundant Life with Less, author of Messy Minimalism. Rachelle and I talk about how perfectionism can be debilitating on our road to a less cluttered life, and how we can move past it ...
01.06.2022 How Far Have You Come? Reflecting and Last Minute Goal Setting for 2022 If you haven't set goals yet for the new year, there is still time! This isn't your typical goal setting episode. We focus in on reflection prompts and a few ideas for "goal setting" for the new year that might ...

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