Clutter Free Academy

Feel lost when you enter a Costco? You are not alone. Listen in as Kathi offers tips to help guide you through Costco as a savvy shopper. Equipping us with strategies and surefire tips for preparedness that will remove the stress out of shopping (and maybe even make it fun!) your trip to Costco will never be the same.

Ever feel like the digital age has taken over your life and the lives of your loved ones? Listen in as Kathi interviews Arlene Pellicane to discuss Arlene's new book, "Calm, Cool and Connected". Learn five digital habits for a more balanced life and how to tame the modern tools to take back our lives. Leave a comment on our website to be entered to receive a free copy of Arlene's new book.

Tonya Kubo joins Kathi for Part 2 of the Kickstart to Clutter Free series. They discuss how people in the Clutter Free Academy group are escaping their clutter and enjoying a more clutter free life. So many people with clutter problems are afraid of being judged.  The Facebook group Clutter Free Academy is judgment free.  Everyone in the group has or has had a clutter problem too. They are learning to take care of the future by doing stuff today. You can do the same.  Listen in to learn how.

Kathi and guest, Tonya Kubo, discuss what they have learned during the Clutter Free Bible Study - What Jesus Has To Say About Your Stuff. It seems to be that people with clutter often struggle with boundaries. They say yes to too many things and put themselves last. Then because we don't handle the clutter correctly we are mean to ourselves. We just try to do too much and set ourselves up for failure. Kathi has broken the process down into tiny steps that everyone can complete in her Kickstart to Clutterfree. Listen in to learn more!  

Chock-full of tips to help us survive in the rugged terrain of the dogged morning routine, Author, Speaker and Clutter-Free guru Kathi Lipp guides us with many failproof strategies to get out the door with a smile on our face. And, yes, we can get up and going even with kids. Links to the resources Kathi uses are in the podcast post on our website. Listen in today and comment to be entered for a free giveaway of the book, "Overwhelmed". In the words of Kathi, "Be the wise woman who gets focused and gets out the door in a powerful way each and every day."

Ever feel like you will never get a handle on your breakfast routine? Kathi Lipp guides us in this episode to developing strategies with several practical tips that will help you to eat healthier and be less stressed for breakfast. Get unstuck with a variety of different tools to aid in easier cooking, recipe ideas, prep ideas for ahead of time, and storage ideas that Kathi shares to take the hassle out of breakfast. Come on in and get your breakfast time rejuventated! Bonus: GET A FREE DOWNLOAD of 30 breakfast ideas from Kathi.

Do you have a morning routine that works for you? Kathi and Erin discuss how to have a clutter free morning and give you three strategies to make mornings much easier. Implement these tips now to start the new school year stress-free.

Kathi and Cheri Gregory, co-author of Overwhelmed, have a mashup of Clutter Free and Overwhelmed. They discuss how the two overlap.  Clutter makes people overwhelmed or if people tell you they are overwhelmed, when you talk to them they end up discussing clutter somewhere in their life. Kathi and Cheri discuss 5 steps to keep from getting overwhelmed as your declutter. Listen in to learn about each of those 5 steps and how you can implement them in your own life.

Kathi and Glynnis pick up the conversation from where they left off last week. Glynnis Whitwer is the author of Doing Busy Better. Women are busy and have too much to do.  While being busy is not wrong, we just need to do it better. Stop feeling guilty when you work and guilty when you rest.  There is a sustainable balance between the two and the book, Doing Busy Better, can help you find it. Listen to their discussion and check out the show notes for the free gift and a chance to win a free copy of Doing Busy Better.

Kathi talks with her guest, Glynnis Whitwer, author of Doing Busy Better. Glynnis points out, "This book is for the woman who works too much!  The woman who feels guilty when working and guilty when they rest." They discuss how being busy is not wrong, we just need to do it better.   There is a sustainable balance between rest and work.  We need to find that balance. Glynnis explains four kinds of bad busy.  Listen in to learn more!

Life is noisy. What would happen if every day - for the next 40 days - you soaked in God's love as He intimately whispered words of rest just for you? Kathi talks with Bonnie Gray, author of Whispers of Rest 40 Days of God’s Love to Revitalize Your Soul  Why is it hard for women to carve out time to take care of themselves? We feel we have to take care of everyone else first.  Even after everyone else is cared for we resist and hold back from caring for ourselves.  We have a sense of guilt about taking care of our own needs. Bonnie suggests injecting pockets (nanoseconds) of time into your life to spend with God and beautiful things in your life. Check out the show notes for details about a book giveaway.

Kathi and co-host, Erin bring you a very special episode of Clutter Free Academy. Their guest, Erin's mom, Ellen Schuknecht talks with them about the new book, Put the Disciple into Discipline, Parenting with Love and Limits.   Erin and Ellen wrote this book to help parents in the tough moments of parenting. They talk about dealing with children using justice, mercy, and grace.   They discuss giving your kids the kind of mercy that Jesus gives us. Check out a book giveaway and a freebie download on the show notes page.

People evolve, papers do not. ~Kathi Lipp Kathi and Cheri Gregory, co-author of Overwhelmed, discuss how decluttering is an ongoing process.  It isn't one and done, it is a day in and day out process. People can change and evolve.  They have a different perspective on things.  What they once thought was emptiness is now viewed as spaciousness.  As you declutter you provide room for new opportunities. Check out the show notes on podcast for Kathi's tips for getting the support you need as you tackle decluttering in your home, life, and mind.

"Women are bad at articulating what we want or need without feeling guilty" ~ Cheri Gregory. Kathy is joined by Overwhelmed co-author, Cheri Gregory, to discuss Part 2 of what they have learned since writing Overwhelmed.   We are often s busy preventing problems for other people we forget about our own wants and needs, expectations and communications. Kathi and Cheri provide tips to help you in this area.  

Build your own dreams or someone will hire you to build theirs. ~ Farrah Gray   Co-Author of Overwhelmed, Cheri Gregory, joins Kathi to discuss what they have learned since writing Overwhelmed. So often, we let others tell us what our values are and thus who we should be. Check out the show notes for a link to a guide to creating a personal manifesto.

Kathi and co-host, Erin MacPherson discuss kid's activities and how to keep all their equipment and stuff organized.   Listen in as Kathi shares tested ideas that help keep kid's uniforms and equipment organized and clutter free so they are ready when your kids have an event and you don't waste time hunting for what is needed.

"The more you clean out your bag, the more organized you will feel each and every time." ~Kathi Lipp Is your bag a mess?  Do you have a lot of nonsense in your bag? Kathi and co-host, Erin MacPherson discuss how to clean out your bag and keep it organized. Kathi recommends doing the purse clean out once a week. Check out the show notes for giveaway information. 

“No act of kindness no matter how small is ever wasted."   Aesop  Generosity isn't all about money.  It can be time, space, energy or a number of other things. Kathi and co-host, Erin MacPherson, talk about how you can be generous when you don't have a lot of extra money. The important things is to make sure you are giving out of joy and not out of guilt. Many people worry they can't give enough.  Any gift is better than not giving. It is our faithfulness that God will bless.  Whatever we do God can multiply! Look at what you can give and they various ways you can be generous.  Listen in to this episode for generosity tips.