
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Spark Joy co-hosts cover the 2019 KonMari Consultant Meetup as Marie Kondo and her team greets hundreds of certified KonMari Consultants and trainees gathering for a joyful weekend in New York City.
Exclusively for Spark Joy listeners, we are sharing special, joyful moments we captured on consultant meetup day when certified Consultants and trainees gathered in NYC from all over the world.
Marie Kondo did made multiple appearances throughout the weekend. She shared some statistics about the impact certified consultants have had on the world. We’ve officially logged over 12,000 tidying sessions, impacting 4200 clients across 30 countries.
We’re excited to give you rare access to the stories of joy behind all of these tidying hours, shared by those closely connected to the KonMari movement.
This episode features stories from the following certified KonMari Consultants:
and KonMari Consultant trainees:
KonMari Consultant favorite tidying tips:
You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
Scott Marschall of Morgan Manhattan Moving shares tips and strategies for making your move less stressful. Listen as we combine his years of experience in the moving industry with KonMari principles.
Scott first began at Morgan Manhattan over his high school summers as a moving helper where he fell in love with the industry and its clients.
Following a career in the corporate world, he currently works in operations giving him the opportunity to work closely with all aspects of the company along the 5th generation of the Morgan family.
He says his favorite part is helping customers during some of their most stressful days knowing that they are working with the best, and oldest, moving company in the area.
We want to hear from you! Tell us your burning tidying questions or share stories about how KonMari has impacted your life. Find us at www.sparkjoypodcast.com and click “Ask Spark Joy” to leave a question or comment for a chance to be featured on next week’s show.
While you’re there, sign-up to join our Spark Joy podcast community and get notified when each episode airs. You can also join the Spark Joy podcast community on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter at the handle @sparkjoypodcast.
Join The Spark Joy Club today by heading over to our website, and clicking Join The Club!
In this episode, you’ll enjoy:
Scott’s favorite moving tip: “Be prepared, give yourself time and be sure you trust the professionals you have hired.”
What Sparks Joy for Scott “The happy families after they move into their new homes and some of the special projects we are involved in that really make a difference in people’s lives. And, I’m training for the NYC Marathon!”
You can reach Scott at Morgan Manhattan: Morgan Manhattan
His email is: [email protected]
Gems:
“If you aren’t using it now, it’s highly unlikely you will use it in your new home.”
“When in doubt, leave it out.”
You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
Special Guest: Scott Marschall.
Becky May, fellow KonMari Consultant, helps us explore the best ways to make your next moving experience spark joy.
In this episode, we explore the very necessary task that everyone loves to hate - Moving. We invited certified KonMari Consultant Becky May to help you make your next move organized and stress free.
Becky is based in San Francisco, where she runs her business, Tidy With Becky. She loves helping people tidy the clutter that weighs on their homes and minds, so they can live lightly.
We want to hear from you! Tell us your burning tidying questions or share stories about how KonMari has impacted your life. Find us at www.sparkjoypodcast.com and click “Ask Spark Joy” to leave a question or comment for a chance to be featured on next week’s show.
While you’re there, sign-up to join our Spark Joy podcast community and get notified when each episode airs. You can also join the Spark Joy podcast community on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter at the handle @sparkjoypodcast.
Join The Spark Joy Club today by heading over to our website, and clicking Join The Club!
In this episode, you’ll enjoy:
Becky's favorite tidying tip: Keep your moving boxes to use as temporary storage.
What Sparks Joy for Becky: Having a home that's a sanctuary that she shares with her husband.
To connect with Becky May visit, tidywithbecky.com . Becky has an online tidying program called The Tidy Home Program
Gems:
You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
Special Guest: Becky May.
KonMari Quick Tips! Every few weeks, we dedicate an episode to quick tips around a particular topic requested by a Spark Joy listener.
This week KonMari Quick Tips episode is dedicated to tidying with kids! KonMari’ing with kids presents its own special opportunities and challenges, but it can be done and can even be fun!
So now, we want to hear from you. Tell us your burning tidying questions or share stories about how KonMari has impacted your life.
Head over to Apple podcasts to subscribe and review the show, which helps us reach others along their tidying journeys.
To extend your tidying experience, you can join the Spark Joy Club!
Visit sparkjoypodcast.com and click “Join the Club” to become a member of the Spark Joy Community or join us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Thanks for tuning in and we hope your day, sparks joy.
In this episode, you’ll enjoy:
-The question from listener Heather that sparked our Quick Tips episode.
KonMari Quick Tips:
We are pleased to introduce the new Joy Sparker members of the Spark Joy Club.
Welcome!
Visit sparkjoypodcast.com and click “Join the Club” to become a member of the Spark Joy Community
You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
Robin Mitchell Cranfield, a graphic designer and illustrator who specializes in book design for art galleries and children’s books, shares her thoughts on the KonMari book category.
Her work has been recognized by the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the Alcuin Society, and How Magazine. Robin teaches typography & book design at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
We want to hear from you! Tell us your burning tidying questions or share stories about how KonMari has impacted your life. Find us at www.sparkjoypodcast.com and click “Ask Spark Joy” to leave a question or comment for a chance to be featured on next week’s show.
While you’re there, sign-up to join our Spark Joy podcast community and get notified when each episode airs. You can also join the Spark Joy podcast community on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter at the handle @sparkjoypodcast.
Join The Spark Joy Club today by heading over to our website, and clicking Join The Club!
In this episode, you’ll enjoy:
The Guardian: What We Gain From Keeping Books
-We discuss some of the reasons that people have reacted to the books category with a lot of emotion.
-What Marie Kondo has actually said about books.
-The unanticipated benefits of the KonMari process in the books categories.
-About tokimeku.
-How Robin has sorted and organized her own books.
-If you are tidying your books and looking for more details and tidying advice, check out our original book discussion via Spark Joy episode 57 | KonMari Books Category: Building a Library of Joy.
Robin’s favorite tidying tip: “Feel free to discard book jackets. The jacket can be visually distracting to some people, so feel free to let it go if you want.“
What Sparks Joy for Robin: Google images! Uses images as a means to discover new wonders in nature with her son.
Robin’s book recommendation:
You can reach Robin at robinmitchellcranfield.com or on Twitter at @robincranfield
Gems:
"It's interesting that people who are otherwise live-and-let-live are really quick to tell people how they should feel about books!"
"Books are physical objects that hold not just the written contents, but the experience of holding the book itself. That is why Marie Kondo's tapping of the book to "wake it up" is so interesting to me."
“Marie Kondo’s metric is to suggest that you find your own metric.”
“Tidying the books in my home opened up my awareness of new types of books to explore.”
You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
Special Guest: Robin Mitchell Cranfield.
Bestselling author Gretchen Rubin debuts her latest book, "Outer Order, Inner Calm," as we explore the intersection of happiness, joy and order.
Gretchen Rubin is one of the most influential writers on habits, happiness, and human nature. She’s the author of many books, including the New York Times bestsellers "Better Than Before" and "The Happiness Project" and she’s debuting her newest book, "Outer Order, Inner Calm" today!
We want to hear from you! Tell us your burning tidying questions or share stories about how KonMari has impacted your life. Find us at www.sparkjoypodcast.com and click “Ask Spark Joy” to leave a question or comment for a chance to be featured on next week’s show.
While you’re there, sign-up to join our Spark Joy podcast community and get notified when each episode airs. You can also join the Spark Joy podcast community on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter at the handle @sparkjoypodcast.
Join The Spark Joy Club today by heading over to our website, and clicking Join The Club!
In this episode, you’ll enjoy:
Gretchen's thoughts on defining happiness vs. joy
Gretchen's interview with Marie Kondo and why she gave Netflix's Tidying Up a gold star on a recent episode of the Happier podcast
Tips on tidying up while managing emotions around other's messiness
Why every office should have a Chief Clutter Officer
How your clutter comfort level is way more important than achieving perfection
Gretchen's new book "Outer Order, Inner Calm"
How to avoid fakework and makework
How to get those little things done by leaning into a power hour
The tension that comes along with "procrasticlearing"
The deeper meaning behind someday, someone-based decision making
The difference between underbuyers and overbuyers
Gretchen's favorite tidying tip: The one minute rule.
What Sparks Joy for Gretchen: The Bandoleir
To connect with Gretchen Rubin you can find her and her new book "Outer Order, Inner Calm" at gretchenrubin.com/books
Gems:
"One of the worst things we can do is to do well something that we don't have to do at all."
"Things that can be done at any time are often done at no time."
"The stewing is worse than the doing."
"The best way to anticipate what's going to happen in the future is what's happened in the past."
"There's an unwillingness to accept that things are worth only what people will pay for them."
"So much of clutter really is about delaying decision making."
"The more we can decide now, the easier it gets latter."
"Anything you can do in less than one minute, do it without delay."
You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
Special Guest: Gretchen Rubin.
How to plan and organize the activities associated with tidying up. If you started to tidy, tackled clothes clothing or other categories, but quickly found other life priorities got in the way, then this is the show for you!
Tidying up KonMari style is a one-time, special event that requires consistent effort and prioritization. It’s a project. A series of steps that need to be executed in an efficient series in order to shift behaviors you may have had all of your life. So, the less glamorous or obvious first step is to PLAN your tidying event before digging too deep.
So now, we want to hear from you. Tell us your burning tidying questions or share stories about how KonMari has impacted your life.
Head over to Apple podcasts to subscribe and review the show, which helps us reach others along their tidying journeys.
To extend your tidying experience, you can join the Spark Joy Club!
Visit sparkjoypodcast.com and click “Join the Club” to become a member of the Spark Joy Community or join us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Thanks for tuning in and we hope your day, sparks joy.
Joy Checks:
Karin loves staycations so she can indulge in her passion for the hotel room aesthetic. Here are some great hotel rooms and ways you can incorporate these ideas in your own bedroom.
Kristyn is excited that the The Tidy Home Joy Journal is an Amazon #1 best seller across multiple categories! It’s beginning to arrive in the homes of early buyers and the reviews are amazing, 5 Stars!
You can get yours by joining The Spark Joy Club today by heading over to our website, and clicking Join The Club!
In this episode, you’ll enjoy:
The question from listener Anne that prompted today’s show after listening to Episode 56: How 60 Hours of Tidying Lessons Changed One Single Mom's Life Forever
The three factors that determine the length of time of your tidying event:
How a KonMari Consultant can help in this process as we discussed in Spark Joy Episode 49: Why Hire a KonMari Consultant?
Factors that slow down, or speed up your tidying event
How to make tidying a short-term priority in order to gain from the Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up!
Confronting your calendar to get your priorities and values in order
The suggested length of time for each tidying appointment, the length of time in between tidying appointments, and the length of time the entire process should take according to our experience and best practices
The benefit of a little urgency in the process. As we discussed in Spark Joy Ep 68 | Behind the Scenes: Netflix's "Tidying Up with Marie Kondo" with Tricia Fidler and Jane Grodem something like a reality show can help move the process into overdrive!
How the 5 D’s: delegate, delete, defer, delay, or diminish, we learned about in Ep 16 | Stress Free Holiday Joy with Amanda Jefferson can help you plan your tidying event
What contributes to KonMari Fatigue and how to overcome it
Gems:
You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
Taking to the road alone is a brave decision. We're exploring solo traveling with award-winning writer, podcaster, and solo female travel specialist Gemma Thompson.
Today's guest is Gemma Thompson. Gemma is an award-winning writer, podcaster and specialist in solo female travel. In 2014, she published the popular anthology ‘A Girl's Guide to Travelling Alone’, and has also recently launched a podcast of the same name.
We want to hear from you! Tell us your burning tidying questions or share stories about how KonMari has impacted your life. Find us at www.sparkjoypodcast.com and click “Ask Spark Joy” to leave a question or comment for a chance to be featured on next week’s show.
While you’re there, sign-up to join our Spark Joy podcast community and get notified when each episode airs. You can also join the Spark Joy podcast community on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter at the handle @sparkjoypodcast.
Join The Spark Joy Club today by heading over to our website, and clicking Join The Club!
In this episode, you’ll enjoy:
Gemma’s favorite adventure: The Great Barrier Reef
Why it’s a good idea to try solo traveling at least once
How to stay safe while traveling solo:
How a door wedge can keep you safe: Security Door Wedge
Tips for a great solo trip:
Tips for eating alone:
What Sparks Joy for Gemma:
To connect with Gemma Thompson, you can find her at:
Gemma's podcast: A Girl's Guide to Travelling Alone
Gems:
"The best things happen when you're just wandering around."
"Doing the research is absolutely key when you're traveling alone."
"You have to respect the culture of the city or the country you're going to."
"Once you've eaten out on your own a couple of times it gets easier and it doesn't feel awkward."
You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
Special Guest: Gemma Thompson.
Feng Shui Master, Laura Cerrano shares her expertise in bringing your KonMari tidying in alignment with the principles of Feng Shui.
Today’s guest is Feng Shui Master Laura Cerrano. Laura shares her expertise in bringing your KonMari tidying in alignment with the principles of Feng Shui. Laura received her Feng Shui certification through the Proven Feng Shui School in NY under the guidance of her mother and mentor certified Feng Shui Master, Carole Provenzale.
We want to hear from you! Tell us your burning tidying questions or share stories about how KonMari has impacted your life. Find us at www.sparkjoypodcast.com and click “Ask Spark Joy” to leave a question or comment for a chance to be featured on next week’s show.
While you’re there, sign-up to join our Spark Joy podcast community and get notified when each episode airs. You can also join the Spark Joy podcast community on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter at the handle @sparkjoypodcast.
Join The Spark Joy Club today by heading over to our website, and clicking Join The Club!
In this episode, you’ll enjoy:
-Learning about the importance of the decluttering step of Feng Shui to set up a vision and game plan for the practice
-Hear about the history of Feng Shui
-Learning the difference between “space clearing” and decluttering
-The fundamental principles of Feng Shui and the Five Elements
-How Laura started her company with her mother
-How to incorporate Feng Shui into your own home
-Myths and missteps in Feng Shui. You can hear about Myths and Missteps in KonMari here
-Are you holding on to the very things you need to release in order to realize your vision?
-How a small adjustment near your front door can help you "ring in the money"
-How to Feng Shui your bedroom and what not to keep in your bedroom
What Sparks Joy for Laura: "Traveling and spending time with family."
To connect with Laura Cerrrano you can find her at:
Gems:
"What do you not need, use, or love?"
“What is the function of each room in my house?”
“Your bed should have a commanding position.”
"The headboard is an anchor of support when you're heading off to dream land"
"Energy flows around over through..it goes through everything."
"Depending on the objects that you have under the bed, they convey certain messages to the unconscious mind."
"Does the composition of the overall room present a balance and a sense of harmony?"
"Live in the present moment. Enjoy life to its fullest."
You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
Special Guest: Laura Cerrano.
Spark Joy podcast co-hosts release a very special tool for listeners to extend their tidying experience!
It’s been a very exciting time for the Spark Joy podcast! Our audience has grown so much since the beginning of the year and the release of Netflix’s “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo.”
As KonMari Consultants, we’ve received so much positive support and feedback from clients, colleagues, family and friends as well as you, our listeners. In today’s episode, we have a very special announcement.
In this episode, you’ll enjoy:
-What’s Sparking Joy for Kristyn: The Life Changing Magic of Instacart!
-What’s Sparking Joy for both of us: Spark Joy hit 700,000 downloads and is growing by the day!
-Media outlets and events both Karin and Kristyn have been featured in recently
Karin has been featured in:
Money/Time Magazine: Marie Kondo KonMari Method Consultant Certification
NY Magazine: How to Declutter Your Book Collection
6Sqft City Realty: Meet New York City’s Master KonMari Consultant
Kristyn has been featured in:
HuffPost: 6 Lessons From Marie Kondo’s Netflix Show You Can Apply To Work And Career
You Need A Budget/Wander Wealthy Podcast
And the Chicago Tidy Tour | KonMari 101 continues!
-Our special announcement:
Introducing The Spark Joy Club!
-Spark Joy podcast announces two levels of membership:
The Joy Riser Tier
This tier is $3 per month
The Joy Sparker Tier
This tier is $5 per month
-Learn more about The Tidy Home Joy Journal
-Join The Spark Joy Club today by heading over to our website, and clicking Join The Club!
Gems:
You can find Karin Socci at The Serene Home
From the publisher's feed