Life is Delicious- Inspiration for Thriving in Midlife and Living Well with Joy, Purpose, Vitality, and Self Love.

44: Letting Go Of Stuff As an Act Of Self Love and Emotional Intelligence with Tracy Hoth

Marnie Martin- Midlife Mentor, Empowerment Coach, Happiness Expert, Best Selling Author Season 2 Episode 44

Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.

0:00 | 33:00

Send us Fan Mail

Ready for a Midlife Boundary RESET? Click here for YOUR FREE 5 Day RESET   

The quiet after the holidays can feel stark—and also full of promise. We’re leaning into that fresh energy with certified life and organizing coach Tracy Hoth to explore how clearing clutter becomes a powerful act of self-respect, especially in midlife when roles and routines shift. Together we unpack why decisions feel heavy, how identity ties us to old stuff, and what it takes to design systems that actually stick.

Tracy reframes “organized” in the most freeing way: know what you have and find it when you need it. From there, we map out practical starting points—either tackle your biggest friction or claim an easy, low-sentiment win for fast momentum. We talk about empty nest puzzles, downsizing under a deadline, and the surprising emotions that surface when you release objects tied to past versions of yourself. You’ll hear how a simple mindset shift—treating decluttering like a practice—reduces guilt and comparison while building confidence one small decision at a time.

You’ll also learn Tracy’s 15-minute SPACE method: Sort first without deciding, Purge with clear questions, Assign homes where you’d naturally look, Contain only after homes exist, and Energize with labels and simple reset habits. We share a live junk-drawer example, tips for planning your decluttering like a project, and a donation mindset that imagines the future life of your things. If you’ve ever kept a corporate wardrobe you don’t wear or stored your kids’ boxes long after they’ve moved out, this conversation offers clarity, tools, and permission to step into who you’re becoming.

If this episode gives you a lift, tap follow, share it with a friend who’s craving a reset, and leave a quick review to help more midlife listeners find us. Your next chapter deserves space—let’s make it on purpose.

Find TRACY HOTH Here:

Website: https://www.SimplySquaredAway.com

Instagram: simplysquaredaway.com/ig

15 Minute Decluttering Challenge:

https://www.SimplySquaredAway.com/declutter

Support the show

LOVING THIS CONTENT? Become a Supporter of the SHOW HERE: 

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2405011/supporters/new

FIND MARNIE HERE:

https://lifeisdelicious.superpatch.com

Website : https://www.LifeIsDelicious.ca                

Join the FREE Facebook Community here: 

MINDSET MASTERY FOR MIDLIFE WOMEN

https://www.facebook.com/groups/24181886758064052

Get your FREE COPY of the MIDLIFE MANIFESTO HERE

Ready for a Midlife Boundary RESET?  Click here for YOUR FREE 5 Day RESET

Buy my Guided Journal: "HAPPY IS NOT AN ACCIDENT" or

THE LIFE IS DELICIOUS Weekly and Monthly Planner here:

https://www.LifeIsDelicious.ca/bookshelf

If this episode resonated with a full body YES!
→ Share it with a woman you love who needs to hear this message
→ Leave a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ review on Spotify





Season Two Kickoff & New Year Energy

SPEAKER_01

Hey beautiful friend, it's Marnie. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas with your family and your friends and whoever else is most important in your world. My Christmas was particularly quiet this year, but in a really beautiful, intimate kind of way. I got some lovely one-on-one with both of my sons and of course got connected by phone to all of my other favorite people. So it was just really relaxing and slow and one of the first times in a while that I've had an entire week without any work at all. So it was amazing. And I did a nice big exhale and I'm ready to get back into it. So today is going to be the beginning of our season two of the Life is Delicious podcast. And I'm super excited because we are going to be tapping into a whole myriad of the eight pillars of a happy life throughout the course of the entire year. And I've got some super exciting guests lined up, and we are going to do a deep dive into each one of these pillars as we move through the seasons of 2026. So I'm really excited about that. And I don't know about you, but man, I sure feel as the year comes to a close and we have all our Christmas decorations up, and then we think about taking everything down, and we want to give the house a big deep clean. And then everything feels just a little more sparse and a little less sparkly. But I also feel that beautiful space that's left. And there's just something about the end of the year that feels, at least to me, like I just want to clean everything up. And that means getting rid of stuff that is too much, um, letting go of things I no longer need. There's just so much of that feeling so that we can step into the new year lighter and fresher. And yeah, so right now I'm just kind of going through in my head doing the mental checklist of what I want to work through and clear out as the new year begins. And that's why today's guest is such a perfect way to start season two. Today I have Tracy Hoth, and she's a certified life and organizing coach, and she's on a mission to help women simplify their homes and their lives. And she is the creator of the Organized Life Academy and the host of the top 1% globally ranked organized coach podcast. Tracy equips Empty Nestors to declutter with confidence, and she helps create the systems that last so that you can step into the role of the CEO of your own organized life. Her advice is not only for Empty Nestors, but you know, as we get into this midlife space, often quietly our houses begin to shift and change. Our children leave, our roles shift, maybe we've gotten a new job or we've left a marriage that didn't work. And the seasons just uh seem to be different. And all of a sudden we're surrounded by things uh that belong to the versions of us that we no longer are. So today's conversation is going to be about intentionally letting go not just of physical items, but of identities, expectations, and stories that we've outgrown too, about uh what it means to hang on to things from uh a physical perspective and from um an obligation perspective. I'm super excited to talk to her today, and I'm really looking forward to this conversation as a kickstart to season two. So grab yourself

Introducing Tracy Hoth & Her Mission

SPEAKER_01

a cup of tea and settle in because you're not gonna want to miss this. Welcome to this episode of Life is Delicious. I'm Larnie Martin, and I'm so glad you're here. And if this is your first time here, welcome to the Life is Delicious family. This podcast isn't about surviving midlife, it's about crafting your next chapter life, overflowing with purpose, joy, and delicious possibilities. Listen, midlife doesn't have to be a crisis, it can be a beautiful invitation to remember who we are, to rediscover a new version of ourself, or to completely reinvent our life to reflect who we are becoming now. So if you're tired of being exhausted, living life on autopilot and putting everyone else first, then you are in the right place. Each week we'll bring you thought-provoking ideas and practical strategies as well as inspiration to help you prioritize yourself again. It's time to take back your joie de vive. So grab a notebook and pen and pop in those earbuds and let's go get it. It's official. The Life is Delicious. Week and month at a glance calendar is now available up on Amazon. It's part life coach, part executive assistant, and part old school 8.5x11 planner. It's got space to tackle all of your 2026 dreams from health, wealth, and holiday goals to tracking monthly financial plans and self-care moments. I know everything has gone digital these days, but I'm still old school and I love to write down business appointments, my financial milestones, birthdays, and everything in between. So if you're old school like me or want to give the gift of organization this year, I've made this year's Life is Delicious planner with undated pages, so it's perfect for gifting year-round. Get your copy or one for someone you love at lifeisdelicious.ca forward slash bookshelf. Or search for it on Amazon. I wish you a 2026 that lights you up on every level. That's lifeisdelicious.ca forward slash bookshelf. Welcome, Tracy, to the Life is Delicious podcast. I'm so grateful to have you here today.

SPEAKER_00

So glad to be here, Marnie. I'm excited to talk about organization and whatever else comes up.

SPEAKER_01

Well, you know what? It's just such a perfect time of the year to tackle this topic. I know it's your specialty, but thank you again for making some time during the holidays to have this conversation. But maybe before we get started, tell the listeners how did you get into doing this work and how did you know that it was something that you just had a knack for?

SPEAKER_00

Ooh, I mean, that takes me back to when I had kids. I was a stay-at-home mom. I have four kids. And I remember always wanting to do stuff, like meet friends for play dates and all that kind of thing. And I remember asking, and sometimes they'd be like, No, I have to clean the house, I have to organize. There's a bunch of stuff I need to get picked up. And I was like, uh. And I thought to myself, I I want people to not have to say that. And then one of my, well, my youngest's good friend, she had a parent and they weren't allowed to have anybody in their house. And her and I, the mom and I, became friends. And when I started, decided, when my youngest was in school, I decided to be a professional organizer. And I started by helping her in her home, helping her declutter and make decisions and work through things so that she could have people in her home.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, that's great. I love that so much. Because yeah, it's something that, you know, there's not probably a person on the planet that doesn't need a little bit of help with decluttering and organizing. And it's just something we all have to work through at some point. So it's um a very specific skill and it's amazing.

Midlife Transitions And Clutter

SPEAKER_01

And I know you do a lot of work with um people in midlife and helping people through the empty nest space. But do you think that decluttering is more uh difficult or overwhelming in midlife just compared to maybe when you're younger, 20 or 30 something?

SPEAKER_00

Well, I think in midlife we have a lot of transitions. And so anytime you have a transition, whether it be you have a new baby, you move cities or houses, or someone dies in the family, midlife is another transition where your role is changing, and then maybe it's retirement, or maybe it's just you have a different job, or parenting, your parenting role is changing. So anytime there's a transition, I think there's challenge that goes along with it because things are changing. You have to make a lot of decisions, you are changing your identity a little bit, your your role and your identity is shifting, and sometimes that's a little bit more unknown of where you're gonna go in the future and having to make decisions that leads to some challenges.

SPEAKER_01

Absolutely. And I think that's a big piece for a lot of people to have their children move out of the house. But there's so many more, like you say. It could be that you're looking after elderly parents and you're dealing with, you know, cleaning out those kinds of things. So there's just so many ways that we can come up against those issues. And what do you think is the biggest challenge that people come up against? Like, what is it letting go of things or being able to not have guilt?

SPEAKER_00

That's such a good question. I'm trying to think, like, what is it really? I think first it's different for everyone. Some people have a really hard time making decisions, and so that's what keeps them stuck. Some of them have had a lot of identity in their past role, and so as they're letting go of those things, it's hard to shift into who they are now, who they want to be, what do they need for the purpose of the next part of their life? And so I think it's the combination of those two things.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. And I think, you know, what's amazing is even our clothes and things like that, quite often we hang on to them because they remind us of a time when we maybe looked a little different or had a different identity. And it's really difficult to sometimes go, I'm never gonna wear that again.

SPEAKER_00

I know. One of my clients had an entire wardrobe of corporate office stuff she wore. And when she realized, wait a minute, my identity now is this. This is what I'm doing, this is what I love. She was able to then let that go. But it took her realizing that that's what was holding her in that spot of keeping them, or maybe she hadn't even considered like where she was going now. She had made the decision, okay, I'm not going back to that world. I can let these things go. It was so powerful for her.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it's well, it's freeing in so many ways. And it gives you permission to be the next version of yourself.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, I love that. Gives you permission.

SPEAKER_01

Wow, that's such a big well, isn't that a big piece of us as women? Well, not just women, but you know, we're having that, you know, conversation about women, but just as we we sometimes feel like we're obligated to stay in certain roles because that's what people in our lives expect from us. And so it often is hard to let ourselves have permission to step into something else.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. And I think a lot of things I just had this conversation that goes along with that is we don't really know what's next. I think a lot of people aren't sure. Like, what do we want to do? And to know even what decisions to make to let go of things or intentionally keep things because they don't really have. I always think of it like you have the destination in your GPS. If you don't know what the destination is yet, then it becomes it like adds another layer of challenge on there.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it's kind of like packing for a vacation and you don't know where you're going.

SPEAKER_00

That's so good.

SPEAKER_01

So, what do you think is um the biggest mindset shift that you would encourage women to make so that decluttering becomes more of a an act of self-respect rather than judgment?

SPEAKER_00

Hmm. I think to think of it like a practice, like you think of yoga like a practice or exercise or your journaling or your faith. It's like a practice that you are growing in every day. If you shift your mind to think about

Guilt, Identity, And Decision Making

SPEAKER_00

this decluttering, this stewardship or managing of the stuff in my life is a practice that I'm learning and I'm getting better and better at. I think that releases the emotion and judgment on yourself that you're not good at this. It's taking too long, you should have not gotten to this place. Kind of removes those things because it's a practice that you're going in. I always used to love for a while I did hot yoga. And she would say to us, This is your practice. Don't compare. This is where you are. If you want to do easy today, do it easy. And I always loved that encouragement. I needed to hear that, that I could not just work as hard as I could, you know, every time I went.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, that's great because you meet yourself where you are right today. Yeah. So what's um the first place to start in terms of getting organized? And do you start room by room or do you look at it in a bit of a different way?

SPEAKER_00

The first thing I like to say is what does being organized mean? It means that you know what you have and you can find it when you need it. And I think that's important to just get that definition out there because so many times people think I have to make it look like all the perfect pictures on Instagram. And if it doesn't, I'm not organized. Yes, you need to just know what you have and be able to find it when you need it. And then as far as where what location to start, I always kind of ask two questions. What would feel the best? What would make you the happiest if you had it organized? Or where is the biggest amount of friction? Like what is causing you the most pain, wasting the most time, making you pay more for duplicates that you're buying, that kind of thing. So either way, there's not a right or wrong answer. It's just picking one. In my program, I map it out and I just give people the space that we're gonna work on that month in case they haven't, they don't have an idea where they want to go. I just kind of map it out so that they don't even have to think about it. Sometimes when I go work out, I want a trainer to just tell me what to do. I don't want to think about it. So there's all those options, but I'd say just pick a spot and then follow the steps to organize.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, that's a great way to correlate it with the trainer because it is hard sometimes. And sometimes it's somebody else can see the things in our lives that we can't see because we're kind of in it all the time, right?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah. And they say like the bathroom has the least sentimental items. So I would suggest people start with something easy. Like I had someone say, Well, we decided to start on this her husband's box of photos. And I was like, What? That is like the most sentimental stuff, and it's one little box in the midst of a whole house.

SPEAKER_01

So start with stuff that's easy in a bathroom often is easy, and build the muscle of being able to let go, and then it becomes easier and it's not quite so emotionally charged.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, and you've practiced the steps because once you know the steps and you practice them, just like playing the piano, you get better and better at it. So exactly emotionally easier and mentally like following the steps easier, the skill.

SPEAKER_01

What do you think that empty nesters specifically struggle with? Is it more like identity-based stuff, or is it just that now they need to let go of

Redefining Organized And Where To Start

SPEAKER_01

maybe some of their kids' stuff that they just can't seem to do?

SPEAKER_00

Well, lately it's been my kids moving out, but they don't live in a house yet. So do you keep that stuff? Do you make them take it? What do you do with it? They want their room to stay the same. They have a house and they don't want to take their stuff. And so I think it's that shifting of kids stuff. That's one big area. The other one is downsizing. If they're moving, it's really having to make some bigger decisions, like on lots of stuff at one time. So if you take it slow and you have the ability to take it slow and go room by room and you have the support and the motivation to do that, I would suggest that. But like one of my clients found her dream house, and then she had to downsize like in half in three months' time. And so it was very challenging. She had to do make a lot of decisions in that moment about what was important to her.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, we just moved my mom and dad um a couple of years into assisted living, and they'd been in their house for 40 years, and it was just such a process, and it was so emotionally charged, and it was just so interesting. The things that I thought my mom really would be super sentimentally attached to, she was like, ah, that can go, you know. And then there were other things that I was like, wow, like she wants to keep that thing, you know, and it's just really fascinating because, you know, you just never know what kind of emotional charge something holds for someone.

SPEAKER_00

Right. And I love how you say it was fascinating. That's a great way to look at it, to just get curious, even for ourselves. Like what things bring up a lot of emotion and know that decluttering is is going to bring up emotions and give space for those emotions. Don't judge yourself that you're having these emotions to things. But to be curious, I love that. Fascinated.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, well, it really was fascinating. And I mean, at this time of year, it's such an interesting time to revisit this as well because I find, and I I kind of introed this in the podcast earlier, is that you know, when you get all your Christmas decorations out and the house is full of all kinds of beautiful, sparkly things, and then you take it all down and you're like, oh, it's just so bland. But there's something kind of beautiful about the extra space that I find, and it just really feels like a cathartic time of year to go, let's just start the new year a little lighter and let a few things, you know, go.

SPEAKER_00

Yes. I know this next year, my goal is to imagine that I am going to move at the end of the year. And so every space as I methodically go through the spaces, I am imagining myself kind of staging that area so that if I'm ready to move, all I have to do is pack the stuff that I've intentionally kept. Like it's my favorite things, I use them, and then I can pack them easily. And so it's kind of this mindset shift of we are downsizing, we are moving, but we're really not.

SPEAKER_01

You're just getting prepped ahead of time.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. In case it comes up. Like I want to have that in my head so that I can make some bigger decisions this year about things that I've just kept because we have the space and so it's easy to make the decision to leave it there versus let it go and feel those emotions that come with it.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, and there's something kind of beautiful also about being able to let go of something, whether you're taking it to goodwill or you're donating it, or even selling it, even if you know you're just having a garage sale or whatever

Empty Nesters, Downsizing, And Emotions

SPEAKER_01

that is, to be able to know that somebody else is going to get to use that item.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, and that often life. Yeah. And it often makes it helpful for the person, if they have a cause that they want to give to, to give things to that cause. That might be to a specific donation center or uh to a a churchy garage sale they're having or something like that. But I even like to think, even if they drop it off at the local one that has no special meaning to them, that someone is going to find it and use it in a great way or use it to resell to bless and support their family. And so it's fun to imagine the life of your belonging. And if you're sticking it in the cup, the storage room or whatever for 20 years versus that thing, have this glorious, adventurous life, like from Toy Story. Yeah. Yeah. That it's it's fun to kind of think about the life of your things and how you want to manage it and be generous and abundant and give it away and trust that you're gonna have everything you need right when you need it.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, and also making space for more good things to come into your life, whatever that looks like for you, right? Yes. So good. I think there's so much energetic um shifting that comes with letting go and making space for things because it doesn't matter if you're letting go of maybe people that you've outgrown or, you know, um a job that doesn't serve you anymore. Every time you take that shift intentionally to honor your own needs, it it changes everything.

SPEAKER_00

Yes. And you don't, I think the issue is that a lot of people don't realize that. It's more they're more thinking about what they need to keep and what if they need it versus what, like you said, glorious thing could come into the space if I cleared some space for it and experience that a few times, that that's really helpful to be able to make decisions to let go of more things.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I love that so much. Now I know you have a 15-minute decluttered challenge that you are doing. Is it possible to do 15 minutes a day or is it 15 minutes a week, or how does it work?

SPEAKER_00

Yes, I have been an organizer for 17 years. So I have been helping people get organized. And just this last year, I'm like, okay, let me put the steps to organizing into a 15-minute challenge to first show us how much we can actually get done in 15 minutes, but also just to give people a different view on the process. And so I use my space steps, they spell the acronym Space, sort, purge, assign homes, contain, and energize. Those are the five steps to organize. And I gave it to my organized life academy when I first made it and said, hey, I want you guys to, you know, use this, practice it. And I was blown away by how much they loved it. Like I just had someone again tell me, Tracy, this thing has changed my life because I have gotten more done. I have, I think it's the momentum of getting started if they know they only could do it for 15 minutes, and it keeps you so focused on what you're doing that you don't have time to get distracted and sit and look at something and have all the memories of it. That you just get busy, get in there, follow the steps, and go. It's just been so fun to see how it's impacted people. So you can decide how you want to do it. You can pick a certain area, you can just do 15 minutes and see how much you get done in that 15 minutes. So plan it out, have fun with it, imagine, you know, try it, test it in different ways to see what works best for you.

SPEAKER_01

That's cool. And and I've heard, you know, maybe just start with one drawer at a time, but I think the 15-minute bite-size, you know, um, letting go is also gonna eliminate that decision fatigue that comes along with the overwhelm.

SPEAKER_00

Yes. And like we I used an example in a live workshop of a junk drawer, and I went to my neighbor's house and I said, Can I get do you have a junk drawer? And she graciously let me take her junk drawer. And I brought it in and did it live on a workshop

Donation Mindset And The Life Of Things

SPEAKER_00

and showed people how an entire junk drawer, which was a tub that I had full of stuff. I dumped her stuff in a tub. I could sort it, purge it, assign homes to it. I had an elsewhere bucket that I used the tub for, if it would go in a different location, and then had two minutes to spare. And people were so amazed that you could get that much done. And I think it is really just following those steps, knowing that's all you have to do, and sorting first is really key. And then having that elsewhere bucket to deliver things when you're finished is really helpful too.

SPEAKER_01

So give us an example of, say, that live workshop. What kinds of things, how would you sort the items?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so I just pull one thing out at a time and say, What is this? And I remember I was at a garage when I was back organizing in person, and I just was standing there completely overwhelmed because I was thinking, there's no way her and I can do this together. And I told myself, Tracy, the first step to organizing is to sort. And then I felt super focused. So I walked forward, I said, just grab something. I said, What is this? Can of paint. I said, all paint and paint supplies will go there. I walked forward, grab something else. It was a hoe or a rake or something, and I said, All lawn supplies will go over here. And I just kept doing it. So the example of the junk drawer, I would pull something out, it was a cat brush. So I said, cat supplies, animal supplies will go here. Pulled something out, it was a nail file. I said, nail files will go here. Pulled something out, it was medicine. Medicine goes here. And I just kept doing that as fast as I could. That's key because you don't want to get caught up in making decisions. I think the decision part of what I noticed with women in my group is that they try to make decisions while they're sorting and they get hung up on the decision and then they quit. So only sort as fast as you can into any category that it is. And then there were some things I pulled out and I was like, I don't know what this is. This is going in a craft pile because it was like a palm leaf or some branch or something. And I was like, I don't know what that is. But you just make up piles as you go, keep going. Even if you don't know what it is, put it in a I don't know what this is pile. And then when you're done sorting, you go back to each category, and then that's when you make more decisions. You choose your favorite things, the things you use all the time. And you keep those, of course, because you use those. And then you can ask those tougher questions like when's the last time I used that? Could I live without that? Could someone else benefit more than me right now with this item? Those types of questions to help you make decisions.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, that's great. I love that. And it's so funny as you were talking about the cat brush. I was envisioning you saying, Well, we haven't had a cat in three years, and I'm sure you encounter that all the time too.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, those kinds of things. But you might get a cat. That's why they keep the cat brush, if that's the case. And I'm like, or yeah, maybe.

SPEAKER_01

We're all guilty of a little bit of that, I'm sure. Yeah, totally.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, that's amazing. So give us maybe three other quick steps that we could do if we want to start the new year off with our best foot forward and to maybe lighten our load a little bit.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, such a good question. I first think of think of organizing like a project. So you're not just gonna start organizing somewhere in your house. You're gonna

The 15-Minute SPACE Method

SPEAKER_00

think, I am going to do a project in January or the first week of January, whatever, whenever this is out and whenever you decide. But it's gonna have a start and an end date. I'm gonna choose the area and then I'm gonna follow the steps. Set my timer for 15 minutes and just follow the organizing steps. If I don't finish in 15 minutes, I'll just set the timer again later for 15 minutes and go through the steps again and just keep moving through there. So thinking of it like a project and planning it out like a project and putting appointments on your calendar, like you would if you were at work and you had a project you had to complete, like you would kind of yeah, when you're gonna do it.

SPEAKER_01

Awesome. Because I think we all, you know, like to open our year with a little bit more intention, and so having that deadline just makes it a little bit more real.

SPEAKER_00

Yes. And let me say one other thing that I think comes up with a lot of people. If they think that they have a lot to do in their home, a lot of times they're like, Well, this won't make a difference. That's why I say pick a project. So even if it's your guest bathroom, if that's the easiest thing you could do, and you set a start and end date, put it on your calendar when you're gonna work on it, and then remember, ignore everything else in the house when you're focusing on that project. Because a lot of times that's what happens. Like, this isn't gonna matter, I have so much, this isn't making a dent. That comes up. And then the other thing is let's say you're sorting and you go through the steps in a let's say a junk drawer, but you are pull out some pictures that go somewhere else, and the cat brush that doesn't, you don't know where that goes. The one key question to ask yourself was if I were to look for those, or if I were to decide where the home is gonna be for all of my photos, where would that be? And then set it up so you put the item as close to that place as you can. Because a lot of times they don't have a home for a cat brush, and so they haven't decided where it's gonna be, and there's no room for it where they want the home to be. You're in the middle of organizing your entire house, there's gonna be a time where it's a little bit messy. So put it on the shelf or squish it next to the door of where it's eventually gonna live. And when you get to that area, you can declutter that area and make a home for it. But just remember, put things where you want them to live, where you think of looking for them. And then when you get to that spot, you can make them neater and tidier. But at least you know what you have and you know where it is so you can find it.

SPEAKER_01

Love that. Love that, because that's the key, right? Is if you have all kinds of good things and you can't find it when you need it, it just adds a whole other level of stress to your life and your daily round, right? And before we go, I really would love for you to tell everybody where they can find you and your programs in case they want to jump on board this year and do some work with you and all your socials and all the

Live Junk Drawer Example & Sorting First

SPEAKER_01

good things.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. So my website, simply squared away.com and forward slash declutter, they can get the 15-minute declutter challenge. So simply squared away.com forward slash declutter. And the rest of the stuff's on my website. You can find um, I help people organize the back end of their businesses, and I also help women midlife and up declutter and organize their home. And I have a podcast, the Organize Coach Podcast, so you can listen to the podcast as well.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, that's amazing. I think that's gonna be such a good thing for my listeners as well, because they're all right in that demographic. So hopefully we can send them off with a nice little gift for the new year.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, sounds good.

SPEAKER_01

Thanks, Tracy. We'll talk to you soon.

SPEAKER_00

Thanks, Marnie.

SPEAKER_01

I hope you enjoyed today's episode. I hope it inspired you or motivated you in some way to keep going and to create your very best life. Wanna know what to do next? Share this episode with someone that you love who maybe just needs a little more delicious in their life. Join my free Facebook community over at Mindset Mastery for Midlife Women, where like-minded women come together to support and inspire each other, and where we get to hang out together. And I offer cool bonuses, videos, and some extra content. And lastly, don't forget to subscribe so that when new episodes drop, they'll be queued up and ready for you. And if you're ready to take a deeper dive into mastering your mindset, I invite you to come on over to lifeisdelicious.ca forward slash work with me, where I offer limited one-to-one coaching sessions, and you can sign up for a free discovery call with me. In case no one has told you today, there's not one person on this planet that is exactly like you. And the world is a better place because you're here. So thank you for being here. I'll be back next week, and I hope you'll join me right here on Life is Delicious.