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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 we're planning our summer! Not the tangible kind of planning where we're looking at a calendar or planning tips. Instead, we're going through 4 pillars of minimal-ish living and applying them to our summer. The result will be a plan to move forward with a summer that is focused on what matters most to us. We'll talk about:
-What matters most in summer 2023
-Summer decluttering
-Aligning our summer days to what is most important to us
-How we can declutter our minds this summer
-Contentment
I hope you enjoy today's episode! Thank you for being here and listening in.
Links:
Simple Morning Lists
Intentional Summer episode 2022
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Today I'm bringing you a different episode of our "minimalism stories" series. My guest, Tara, shares her story of minimalism, but also how minimalism helped give her permission to make big changes in her life. We also talk about ways to work with your family when they aren't necessarily minimalists, and some simplified meal planning tips.
If you enjoyed today's episode and you're enjoying the show, share it, or give the podcast a rating or review if you're able to spare an extra minute. I'm so grateful for your support of the show!
Links:
Tara on Instagram
Desirae on Instagram
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Today I'm starting a new series! Each month, I plan to dedicate one solo episode to a behind the scenes of what is working (or not) in my family's minimal-ish lifestyle. I'll start the first several of these by going room by room. These are the perfect episodes to use as a companion to your own decluttering. This week, we are starting in the living room, but many of these tips may apply to any room in the house, so hit play and declutter or tidy wherever you need to!
Links:
Desirae on Instagram
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Today I have Kelly Briggs of Simple Home Mom as my guest to share her tips on simplifying home management and habits in our homes. I love Kelly because her perspective on home management is a breath of fresh air: both realistic AND attainable. She doesn't shy away from sharing that mess will STILL be there, but we can find ways to manage our home and even enjoy the process along the way.
Links:
Kelly on Instagram
Kelly's website
Desirae on Instagram
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Today I'm bringing you a solo episode about a topic that has been on my mind lately - perfectionism and what it steals from us. Lately I've seen a shift in my ability to feel content and a lot of that has been my ability to see notice perfectionism when it shows up in my life. I am bringing you my reflections about what perfectionism steals from us, how it might manifest in our live, and how we can let go when we see it effecting us.
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Today we're talking about stress - something 2/3 of us experience to an extent that it is actually effecting our health. We live in a stressed out society, and dealing with our clutter is one way to help lessen the stress in our everyday life. But there are so many different types of stress we deal with, and some of them we cannot "declutter" out of our lives. An important question becomes "how do we cope with this stress?" Today I have Stacey Littlefield as my guest. She is a master herbalist at Redd Remedies, and she has a degree in biology with a master's degree in herbalism. We talk quite a bit about how stress effects us as women and moms, and different ways that we can cope with that stress. We also talk about natural remedies we can use to help support our bodies in coping with stress.
I also spend time today sharing some of my coping mechanisms for stress, and how I had to come to terms with the way that stress was effecting me this past year. It's a bit of a longer intro so I can share all of that with you, so this episode is almost a hybrid solo episode/ guest episode. It's a unique one, and I hope you enjoy it!
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1Today I'm bringing you an interview of...myself. I know it sounds strange, but what I mean is I was on another podcast and I loved our conversation so much, I wanted to make sure you heard it here if you didn't get to hear it there. If you love this conversation, I hope you'll go check out the Mom's Overcoming Overwhelm podcast and hear more like it.
On this episode, I share my story with minimalism and how it has been so impactful for me, what minimalism has taught me about myself and my daughter, along with how minimalism doesn't have to be about hiding the evidence that kids live in our homes. Kids will bring mess no matter how little stuff we have - so how do we embrace this season with littles and let the mess be (so we don't go crazy)
Links:
Moms Overcoming Overwhelm
Emily on Instagram
Desirae on Instagram
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Today I'm bringing you a mindset shift that I hope will help ease the stress we might feel when other people we have close relationships with or who even live in our homes don't see eye to eye with our minimal-ish lifestyle. How do we choose intentionality with our stuff when it isn't us bringing the stuff into our homes? How do we have conversations with family members who love to bless our kids with plenty of gifts? Sometimes, trying to control it all can cause more stress than having that extra item in our homes.
We talk about a mindset shift that might help along with some action steps we can take to deal with the influx of stuff that might come from the people we love.
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Today I'm bringing you a Q&A where I answer two longer winded questions - one that I have gotten a lot since our family's most recent move. I hope you enjoy this more personal episode! I'll be doing a Q&A each quarter, so if you have a question you'd like me to answer, send it my way at hi@desiraeendres.com!
Links:
Desirae on Instagram
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Today I have Dawn Madsen of The Minimal Mom on the show to share her Minimalism wisdom with us. We focus in on impactful mindset shifts that can help us get rid of more stuff we don't need, even in some of the tougher areas of our home, like our kitchen and our kids' stuff.
Dawn's insights really were eye opening to me, even 5 years into decluttering. Sometimes it just takes thinking of things in a different way, and Dawn helps us do that today. Listen in, and then go declutter something!
Links:
Dawn on Youtube
Dawn's Website
Desirae on Instagram
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Today's episode stems from a question from a cousin of mine: How do I keep going whenever I'm losing steam? I'm bringing you six tips to keep you going whenever you've run out of energy in your decluttering journey. I'm always cheering you on! And today's episode is exactly that in the form of some actionable tips.
Links:
That.Minimalist.Mom on instagram
Desirae on Instagram
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We've talked recently about the benefits of getting ourselves outside on the podcast, so today's episode is full of practical steps to make it more of a routine for our entire family. We talk about fostering a love of nature in our kids, hiking with kids, and just simple ways to get outside regularly. Holly Horch is a mom to four and owner of All Weather Adventuring where she creates adventure kits to help get our kids enjoying the outdoors more often. I know you'll love this episode and walk away with tons of ideas to adventure more as a family.
Links:
Holly on Instagram
Holly's shop
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Today I'm talking about one of my favorite topics when it comes to minimalism: Contentment. I love talking about how we can be more grateful and content with what is right in front of us. We discuss three ways we can take small but impactful action to get more content with our homes. Of course, these all apply to other areas of our lives as well. I hope you enjoy this episode, and I hope you feel a little more content after listening.
Links:
Desirae on Instagram
Podcast Website
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I've been thinking about how minimalism and decluttering can sometimes feel like a surface-level, irrelevant topic in the midst of scary headlines and difficult things that may be going on in our world and our individual lives. I thought a little deeper and realized that minimalism and decluttering can be relevant because it can prompt us to change so much more than just our stuff and our homes.
So why is it that minimalism can be so life changing? How does it trickle down from just our stuff into every area of our lives? Today I'm discussing this and sharing a little bit of my own story along with it.
I hope this episode encourages you to keep going in whatever place you're at in your journey.
Links:
Desirae on Instagram
Simple Morning Lists
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Today I have Vanessa Quigley, co-founder of Chatbooks and mom of 7, as my guest. We talk all about the importance of photos to our kids' "sense of self" and our family culture. We also talk about memory making and how we can do it through simple, budget friendly adventures. Photos + adventuring can help our families grow closer, and I love how this conversation includes so many simple tips to help us do that.
We also talk about the origin story of Chatbooks which was so fun to learn about, and Vanessa shares some of her favorite photo organization tips.
Links:
Vanessa on Instagram
Photo Decluttering Course
Chatbooks
Desirae on Instagram
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Today my guest, Noell Jett, tells us the story of how she and her family built their own dream home with no experience, and encourages us that we are capable of home renovations, or even building a home, too. Noell and her husband did this with multiple kids by their side, and their story is impressive. Noell brings us encouragement for any "new thing" we'd want to embark on where we may feel like a beginner.
Links:
Noell's website
Noell on instagram
Noell's book: Create Your Dream Home on a Budget
Desirae on Instagram
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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 for something online that we think sounds nice, click a few buttons, and end up with something new and shiny on our doorstep a few days later.
So how do we change our shopping habits if this has been a struggle for us? I'm bringing you tips that include challenges to try and simple tips you can use in the moment when you find yourself filling up an online or in person shopping cart. I hope something in this episode helps you get a little closer to aligning your shopping habits with your values!
Links:
Find Desirae on Instagram
Podcast Website
Simple Morning Lists
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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 tracking our budget part of our routine so we stick to the financial goals we set for ourselves. We also talk about a very relevant topic with rising prices: our grocery budgets. This episode is full of applicable takeaways to help us make budgeting a little easier to start the year.
Links:
Carly on Instagram
Carly's Website
Desirae on Instagram
Podcast Website
Simple Morning Lists
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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 wanted to convince yourself to get outside more, no matter the weather, this is the episode for you.
Links:
Rain or Shine Mamma - Linda's Website
The Open Air Life - Linda's Book
Linda on Instagram
Desirae on Instagram
Minimalish: Making Room on Substack
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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 a new year.
I hope this episode encourages you that we can make impactful change in small, sustainable ways.
Links:
Goal Setting Episode
Word for the Year Episode
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Could you do a podcast about sleep? we talk about energy a lot, and setting good habits. I would love to hear your take on sleeping habits!
such great advice during this time! Thank you
I love you two I think you are very good at communicating how to put minimalism into practice 💜 thank you!
i love this podcast. do you have anything new?