Wannabe Minimalist

By Deanna Yates

Education Kids & Family

What's Wannabe Minimalist about?

Welcome to Wannabe Clutter Free - the podcast for busy families who are tired of the chaos of their overwhelming piles of stuff, fed up with weekends of cleaning house instead of having fun, and ready to live an intentional and fulfilling life where they get to focus on what matters most. Each week I offer tips on how to live an amazing life with less stuff - physical stuff, mental stuff, and emotional stuff - it's all holding you back so I share what I have done in my own life to declutter, organize, and calm the chaos. And you won’t hear it just from me - there are amazing guests too! It’s practical, doable, and simple for those of us that wannabe clutter free.

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05.31.2023

Do you get enough sleep? If you're like most busy parents, the answer is no. It's perfectly understandable to see why our sleep suffers - families take a lot of time, energy, and effort to nurture and grow. Add in ...

Wannabe Minimalist episodes:

05.31.2023 The Importance of Sleep in Your Clutter Free Life with Terry Cralle, RN Do you get enough sleep? If you're like most busy parents, the answer is no. It's perfectly understandable to see why our sleep suffers - families take a lot of time, energy, and effort to nurture and grow. Add in ...
05.24.2023 Stop Decluttering Burnout Before it Starts: 7 Tips to Save Your Sanity This might be a bit controversial coming from someone who would consider herself a declutter coach and wannabe minimalist, but I do not believe you can live in a constant state of decluttering. We need breaks from decluttering, just like ...
05.17.2023 Creating a capsule wardrobe for kids with Kara and Nicole from Hand Me Up If you have young kids, you know how quickly they grow - especially out of all of their clothes. A game-changer in our home was our embracing of the capsule wardrobe - not just for me, but for our daughter ...
05.10.2023 Positive Decluttering: The Benefits of Focusing on What You Want to Keep What do you think of when I say the word declutter? Most people don't think very highly of decluttering and try to avoid it if they can. I get it. Going through our belongings can be emotionally draining and overwhelming. ...
05.03.2023 Free Yourself from Your Toughest Sentimental Clutter with Krista St Germain Sentimental clutter is one of the toughest kinds of clutter we deal with in our lives. This type of clutter that is made up of items we hold onto for emotional reasons, such as old photographs, love letters, and childhood ...
04.26.2023 The Secret to a Calm Home Life: These Routines and Boundaries Do you feel like your house is always a mess no matter how much you try to clean it up? Does it stress you out? Do you feel like you’re constantly spinning in circles moving from one mess to the ...
04.19.2023 An Award-Winning Designer’s Secret for Clutter Free Cohesion with Adina Hall Do you love interior design shows on tv? Do you wish you could channel some of that energy and inspiration into your own home? Well, today you are in luck. I invited my friend Adina to join me on the ...
04.12.2023 5 Daily Habits to Simplify Your Busy Life with Gretchen Dow Being a mom is a busy, overwhelming, and often self-sacrificing job. However, we know that in order to be a better mom, wife, and person we need to take care of ourselves. But, how are we supposed to make the ...
04.05.2023 Simple Ways to Boost Self Esteem & Reach Your Goals with Risa Williams One of the things I discovered as an adult was that it's much harder to maintain a high level of self esteem than it had been when I was younger. No one is there to offer you praise on a ...
03.29.2023 Finding the Right Place to Donate Your Decluttered Stuff In the private Facebook group, a member recently asked about how to let go of the need to find the perfect recipient for the items she is decluttering. This has become a road block for her and is keeping her ...
03.22.2023 Simple Tips to Stop Eating Battles at the Table with Dr Sam Goldman Do you struggle with getting your kids to eat their veggies? Would you consider them picky eaters who only want to eat a few “kid-friendly” things? This is a common struggle with parents and can be extremely stressful when all ...
03.15.2023 Q & A: Your Decluttering and Minimalism Questions Answered Decluttering can be difficult and when you add in family and all the things life throws at you, it’s no wonder so many questions come up on your journey. Are you doing the right things? How can you get others ...
03.08.2023 Stop the Mom Guilt Cycle with Decluttering and Organizing Your Home with Kori Tomelden In our time crunched lives as moms, we can get caught up in the cycle of guilt because we have high standards and even higher expectations. This is especially true when it comes to decluttering and organizing our homes. On ...
03.01.2023 Transform Your Home and Life: Creating a New Routine That Sticks Most of us function everyday following habits, routines, and systems whether we realize it or not. You probably have a system for getting ready in the morning, a system for getting the kids to school, a system for grocery shopping...the ...
02.22.2023 How Money Affects the Transition to Parenthood and Beyond with Sarah Roller The nursery rhyme says, first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby in the baby carriage. And whether you followed that path or not, there was never any mention of money in the equation. However, as any adult ...
02.15.2023 Improving Your Gut Health for More Intentional Living with Laura Marzen As we get older, we sometimes hear that digestive issues are just a part of life. After all, life gets a lot more stressful when you add a parter, kids, careers, activities, and any semblance of a social life to ...
02.08.2023 You need to swap out this old decluttering advice right now Over the years I have tried several decluttering methods in search of giving the best advice I could. That has lead to a lot of successful tips and tricks. However, it has also lead to some not so great advice ...
02.01.2023 Decluttering is Contagious! 10 Ways to Get Your Family to Say Yes to Less You want to declutter, but your family is not ready, so how do you get them on board? This is probably the most frequently asked question I get asked and so I’ve thought a lot about it. Yes, it’s true ...
01.25.2023 Stop Letting Fear Hold You Back: 7 Ways to Embrace Discomfort "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein Who do you want to be in life? Do you want to be someone who tries new things, sets and achieves goals, and lives life to ...
01.18.2023 3 Simple Ways to Stop Your Paper Clutter Right Now Paper clutter is one of the sneakiest forms of clutter. Each piece of it is incredibly small, yet as a whole it takes up a lot of space in our minds and can create a significant amount of stress in ...
01.11.2023 How to Stop Negative Self Talk and Speak Kindly to Yourself Have you ever found yourself stuck in a loop of negative self talk? Do you get down on yourself when you make a mistake or miss a goal? Negative thoughts can be difficult to escape from, but with the right ...
01.04.2023 Clear Your Clutter this Year with the Avalanche Declutter Challenge I am a sucker for the New Year! I love the fresh start and the feeling of a clean slate, but can I let you in on a secret…it can take me a few days to embrace the new calendar ...
12.28.2022 How We Hosted a Big Christmas in a Minimalist House One of the things that holds people back from decluttering and embracing a more minimalist lifestyle are hosting big family gatherings. I hear this from readers, listeners, and clients. They want to get rid of the clutter, but there are ...
12.21.2022 The Impact of Holiday Cards And What to Send Instead To Christmas card or not to Christmas card? That is a question I have been pondering this year and I find myself in a strange situation. Last year, I declared it would be a year of adulting and I swore ...
12.14.2022 These are the 5 Hard Truths with Decluttering and Organizing Decluttering has been sold as the cure-all to people looking to simplify their lives. The promise of decluttering is that by getting rid of all your extraneous possessions, you will be happier, more organized, and more productive. While this may ...
12.07.2022 Time Management Tips for Chronically Busy People with Risa Williams The holidays are a super busy time of year. Not only is another year winding down, there are additional expectations of holiday festivities, decorations, school functions, travel, parties to attend, gifts to purchase, and everything else we put on ourselves ...
11.30.2022 Mind-Blowing Clutter Statistics That Change Your Views on Stuff Decluttering is important for a lot of reasons, not just because of the effect it has on our mental well-being. More and more research is coming out about how clutter also has a significant impact on our wallets and our ...
11.23.2022 How to Clear Away High Emotional Clutter with The Declutter Hub Decluttering is an emotional minefield. Some things are easy to declutter and we can move through the process quickly at times. Then there are other items that we just cannot bring ourselves to let go of even if that item ...
11.16.2022 Why Minimalism is an Essential Practice for Busy Parents We live in a fast-paced, stuff-driven society. Even if you're not a minimalist, it's impossible to miss. The truth is though that it's easy to get caught up in keeping up with everyone around us, buy into the marketing messages, ...
11.09.2022 The What, Why and How of Self Care for Busy Moms with Suzanne Falter Let’s talk about self care. How good are you at it? If you’re like the majority of moms, the answer is clear. We’re not good at it! In fact, a joint survey done by HealthyWomen and Working Mother, reports that ...
11.02.2022 Your No-Stress Plan for Celebrating the Holiday Season this Year Are you looking forward to the holiday season? The song tells us that it’s the most wonderful time of the year, but I think most families - especially busy moms - would tell you that’s a bunch of baloney. In ...
10.26.2022 Updating Your Makeup Bag Like a Pro Makeup Artist with Natalie Setareh Would you love to minimize the product in your bathroom - specifically the products in you makeup bag? Turns out you can apply a lot of the same aspects of a capsule wardrobe to you makeup bag and skin care ...
10.19.2022 Squeezing in Time to Declutter when You're a Busy Mom You’ve probably noticed that, when your home is filled with clutter, things are not the best - you have a difficult time concentrating, you don't feel at peace in your space, or even enjoy spending time in your home. And ...
10.12.2022 How You Can Raise Good Humans with Hunter Clarke-Fields We’ve all been there… A long day that wore our patience down, the house was a mess again, and then suddenly something our family member does triggers us and sends us spinning. Before we know it, anger has gotten the ...
10.05.2022 How this Mom Practices Sustainable Minimalism with Her Family with Stephanie Seferian Minimalism has many benefits. I have found that to be true in my life and my home. Some of these benefits (that get a lot of attention) include:a home that’s easier to cleanan aesthetically beautiful homethe ease of living in ...
09.29.2022 Simple Halloween Ideas for the Whole Family that Use Less Plastic Who says Halloween has to be filled with plastic trinkets, decorations, and disposable costumes to be fun? Not me! The sad fact is that on average, Americans buy $3.4 billion worth of costumes every year and most of those will ...
09.22.2022 The Real Reason Simple Living Helps with Postpartum Healing with Maranda Bower For a long time women have been fed messages that they can (and need to) “bounce back” after pregnancy. It’s as if growing a human is a temporary inconvenience and your body should snap back into place like a rubber ...
09.15.2022 The Secret to Taking Control of Your Finances so You Can Live It Up with Patrina Dixon When I talk with people about living with less and decluttering, a lot of the conversations end up coming back to money - whether it’s spending it or saving it. And it’s not surprising. There are a lot of similarities ...
09.08.2022 How to keep your cool when parenting a strong-willed child with Danielle Bettmann Are you the parent to a strong-willed child? Guess what…that’s actually a good thing. Hear me out...even though strong-willed kids are spirited and courageous, they strive to learn things for themselves instead of just accepting what others say. While we ...
09.01.2022 You only need 15 minutes and these 3 things to declutter any room How many times have you wanted to declutter a space, but have given up before it even starts because it just seemed like such a big task that it felt too overwhelming. Yeah, I think we’ve all been there. But, ...
08.25.2022 The Key to Building an Ethical Capsule Wardrobe with Kristi Soomer Wanna hear something crazy? The fashion industry is accountable for 8%–10% of overall greenhouse gas emissions. Wow! That’s a big impact our closets and shopping habits are making. The good news is that we can do something about it. That’s ...
08.18.2022 Simple Things We Can Do to Up Our Parenting Long Game with Rachel Bailey Kids…they make life amazing and I, for one, am thrilled that I get to be a parent. But, that doesn't always mean it’s easy. Especially because most of us go into it without any idea of what we are in ...
08.11.2022 The Secret to Helping Your Child Recognize Their Emotions with Lynn McLaughlin and Amber Raymond With conversations about mental health on the rise, it’s incredibly important that we start helping our children learn how to recognize their emotions early in life. In fact, according to the National Institutes of Health, nearly 1 in 3 of ...
08.04.2022 How We Keep Back-to-School Time Simple as a Family Links mentioned in this episode (some may be affiliate links): Get more show notes and ALL THE LINKS at wannabeclutterfree.com/112 Back-to-School Checklist - Make sure you’re well prepared for the year ahead (and organize your home a bit too!) Tidy ...
07.28.2022 Stop Idealizing Motherhood and Do This Instead with Dr. Julie Hanks Links mentioned in this episode (some may be affiliate links): Get all the show notes and all of the links at wannabeclutterfree.com/111 Wannabe Clutter Free Summer Sale Dr. Hank’s Website Books: The Burnout Cure & The Assertiveness Guide for Women ...
07.21.2022 What You Need to Know About Willpower with Jenn Trepeck Links mentioned in this episode (some may be affiliate links): Get all the show notes and all of the links at wannabeclutterfree.com/110 Wannabe Clutter Free Summer Sale Jenn’s Website Follow Jenn Trepeck on Instagram Salad with a Side of Fries ...
07.14.2022 Empowering Conversations to Have with Your Daughter with Dr. Michelle Deering Links mentioned in this episode (some may be affiliate links): Get all the show notes and all of the links at wannabeclutterfree.com/109 Wannabe Clutter Free Summer Sale Dr. Michelle’s Website The Quick Guide To Lessen Arguments With Your Daughter Book ...
07.07.2022 Keep Decluttering Simple this Summer Links mentioned in this episode (some may be affiliate links): Get more show notes and ALL THE LINKS at wannabeclutterfree.com/108 Tidy Home Academy - If you’re seriously ready to take your home & life to the next level, Tidy Home ...
06.30.2022 Use These Routines to Create Better Habits with Ashley Brown Links mentioned in this episode (some may be affiliate links): Get all the show notes and all of the links at wannabeclutterfree.com/107 Ashley’s Website Free Routine Assessment Follow Ashley on Instagram Wannabe Minimalist Facebook Group - come join the community ...
06.23.2022 Proven Strategies for Decluttering with Your Spouse Links mentioned in this episode (some may be affiliate links): Get more show notes and ALL THE LINKS at wannabeclutterfree.com/106 Tidy Home Academy - If you’re seriously ready to take your home & life to the next level, Tidy Home ...

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