In this episode, we’re thrilled to introduce you to Tirra as she embarks on a new phase of her life. Her focus is on decluttering her home to create an environment that matches her current lifestyle and brings her joy. We get to hear Tirra sharing her struggles and victories with retiring from homeschooling, her hopes for her home, and the emotional attachments she has with her belongings. We dig into how to approach home organization with empathy, emphasizing the need to recognize the emotional aspects of decluttering and the effect of creating a living space that promotes personal wellness. Throughout the episode, we highlight the transformational potential of reassessing one’s living space, inspiring listeners to start their journey towards a more joyful and fulfilling home life.

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Lacey:

Welcome to No Shame in the Home Game, the podcast that not looks.

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I'm Lacey and I'm the more awake one

of the two of us, which I feel like is

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not usual, here with my co host, Sarah.

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Hi, Sarah.

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Sara: Hi, Laci!

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Yes, this is real time live updates

of me and Laci's relationship.

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She is getting to see the natural Sarah.

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no shame, this is me rolled out of bed.

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I haven't done anything.

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I haven't even washed my face yet.

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I am honestly, this feels like

TMI, I'm wearing my pajamas.

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I am.

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Lacey: Yeah.

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Sara: I got home.

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It was a very long travel day yesterday.

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Flight got delayed, got home very late.

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And I was like, I gotta just embrace this.

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No shame.

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And I was like, okay, no shame.

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I'm in my slippers.

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I'm in my pajamas.

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Lacey: yes, that's what we like to all.

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I like sleepy Sarah, so that's just I

am so excited for everyone to meet Tyra,

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because, Sarah and I have fallen in so

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Sara: This is going to

sound so ridiculous.

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So I was traveling yesterday.

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We had this really long

layover in an airport.

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And something in me was like,

I wonder if Tyra's here.

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We've never met in real life, but I

was like, Oh, maybe the magic of the

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universe will put Tyra on my long layover.

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And I kept looking for her secretly

hoping that she would just like

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appear in the crowd and I would be

like, Oh my gosh, Tyra in real life!

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Lacey: Cause she would be

sunshine to make it better.

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I

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Sara: I, and I, you know what's so funny?

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I was smiling just

imagining if she was there.

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I was just, I was like, oh my

gosh, it would feel so good

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to get a real hug from Tyra.

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Okay, I'm borderline, stalking, I think.

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Maybe?

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I'm just wishing for her.

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I'm not showing up on her doorstep.

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I'm just wishing for her to

appear in the path of my life.

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Lacey: And I get it she is a delight,

and I really love that her story is very

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different than anyone we've done so far.

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A lot of our, they have kids currently

and for Tyra, retired from being a

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moving her life told my mom I was

like mom I want and your yourself

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Sara: Oh, it was so powerful.

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I'm actually tearing up just thinking

about it because The way we were

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able to help her is the reason I do

this work to see the shame and the

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heaviness that she was carrying.

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She did amazing, beautiful work.

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And for her to walk around

with shame, it's the opposite.

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She should be celebrating

her accomplishments.

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And so to guide her to a different.

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Mindset and to be able to

frame her home differently.

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that's what we want for everybody.

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Just 1 percent happier, just one, 1%.

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And I think Tyra maybe got

more than 1 percent happier.

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I really think she did.

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Lacey: I Think let's

take a look or listen.

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Whatever.

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We're gonna listen to part none

of Tirra's story we think you're

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going to love her as much as we do.

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Mhm.

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Lacey: Welcome to No

Shame in the Home Game.

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I'm Laci.

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We are here with, one of our participants

for season two and we're really excited to

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get started, but I'm going to toss it over

to Sarah because she's our lady in charge.

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Sara: Ooh, lady in charge.

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I've never had that title before.

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I'm going to try that one on today.

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So yes, very excited.

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Season two, we have our third

participant for this season.

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Miss Tyra, who I met

through Becky Mollenkamp.

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that's our mutual connection.

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So this is actually our first time meeting

and I am just, as always, so thankful

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that guests are willing to come on.

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share where they are, share their

journey and be willing to be vulnerable

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in that space to help others.

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So thank you first and foremost.

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And then Tyra, if you'd like to share

just a little bit about who you are,

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where you are, and then about your

house, just, who lives in your house.

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Just a brief overview.

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I don't need to know like what color the

paint is, but just, is it an apartment?

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Is it a townhouse?

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whatever you can share so I can get a

feeling So and the homeschooling how

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many how many people did you homeschool?

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How many years did you homeschool?

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that's You I have so many questions,

first of all, but we're not

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going to get to all my questions.

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I am like, you just opened up this whole

plethora of, oh, that's interesting,

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but I'm going to try to keep it on

topic of No Shame in the Home Game.

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Tell me about the homeschooling.

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Did you do it in the house

that you're in right now?

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how many, years was that?

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lot of, so that's a lot of history.

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And what I love about this is when

I come to work with people, there's

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often some sort of transition,

either moving into a new house,

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getting ready to move out of a house.

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And so what I'm hearing is you've got

this transition point of, You did, you

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were homeschooling for a long time and

now you've got these new endeavors.

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And so the history, you're still

surrounded by the history of

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what you were doing for so long.

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And you were saying you're just

living with your husband now.

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So your boys are out of the house.

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Okay.

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Yes.

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And, Oh, absolutely.

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Oh, no.

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Absolutely.

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And so your husband, is he still

working as well or is he home more?

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I'm just trying to figure out traffic

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patterns of the house.

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Yeah.

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The pandemic provided a lot of clarity

to my work about how a home functions

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and the energy of people coming

in and going back and the flows.

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So good to know about that.

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And with your work, are you

doing it all from the home?

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Are you traveling out

and coming back as well?

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Okay.

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Just briefly because sometimes it helps

me understand where people are coming

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from in your home of origin where you

grew up did you have a stay at home

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mom and did homeschooling as well?

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Or like what?

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What was that like growing up?

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Is it similar?

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Is it different?

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so what I heard is your mom

was naturally the picker upper.

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You didn't naturally do that, but when

called upon, you know how to do it and

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it, now, as an adult, what I'm hearing

you say is you like when things are

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picked up, when guests come and you

really go at it, but I, what I hear you

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saying is it's a little exhausting day to

day when you're basically taking on the

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role of your mom saying okay, everybody,

come on, let's rally, let's pick up.

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And, but it's exhausting when it's every

day and the visions maybe don't line up.

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Okay.

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and I wanna get really

clear on that value.

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Value in that nobody is appreciating

your hard work and or value

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that they're not also doing it.

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Is there a distinction or is it both?

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Okay, and so now we're at a point

where you said one son is pretty

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much the older son is pretty much not

living at the house and the younger

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son just comes home every now and then.

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So luckily not as many.

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People to try to accommodate now

thinking about your house and the

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different spaces Can you tell me like

is there a kitchen dining room family?

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Can you give me a rundown of all the?

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the spaces in the house is

it a one car or two car garage

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and is there a car in there?

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and I, and for the listener and for you,

I never asked these questions cause I'm

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doing some Zillow estimate in my head.

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I, it really is to get

to where you want to go.

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All of this information just helps.

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Yeah.

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And so anyone listening

who's boy, she's nosy.

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It really helps me picture load because

, I always talk about how items have weight.

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Not just physical weight,

but emotional weight.

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Like every time you're passing that

garage and doesn't have a car in it.

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you've done it so much, but

you don't realize how much

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it's actually in your head.

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And so it's just

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important for me to visualize

like, Oh, are we really just

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talking about a couple of closets?

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It's no, you're telling me

there's no car in the garage.

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And is there a basement or an

attic that you're dealing with?

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When you work at home, Are

you in an office space?

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Where are you working out of?

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I've said this for a long time

now and I still feel this way.

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I feel like the perfect home setup is

this mirrored where there's a common

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communal kitchen living room, but

then we have like our separate Like,

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kind of like what you're saying.

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if the husband wants to have his style

over here, like you don't have to see

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it, have, let him have his own bedroom,

bathroom, everything like laundry room.

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, yeah, I would love to be able to

just be like, yeah, let's meet up

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for meals in this communal space.

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And then let's be able to go

back to how we want to keep.

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Sara: So I love that you've already

claimed this office and do you feel

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like you're keeping your office exactly

how you want it to make you feel good?

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Have you gotten to that point?

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this is the part where I always like

to validate people because I feel like

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we don't get enough validation in our

lives, which is you've got this home

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you've lived in since, what was it?

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yeah, we're coming up on.

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I can't do 20 years math, 20 years.

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You raised two sons who

are moved out, right?

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You and your husband

are both still working.

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You still have, you're doing

your own business, which Lacey

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and I are both entrepreneurs.

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that is seven days a week.

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You never stopped thinking about it.

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You also have this part

time job with a nonprofit.

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So let's just first validate

how much you have going on.

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And that's really, honestly, when I

go to work with clients, the first

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step is always just let's honor

how we got here, why we're here.

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And it not feeling good, I

always say is like a red flag.

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And it's okay.

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Red flag, it needs attention, but we

don't have to keep feeling that red flag.

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Once we're like, okay, I've noted it,

now let's make a plan and do something.

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Because that, like I said, that emotional

weight, it can keep dragging us down.

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until we either solve it or come

to peace with it, which I think

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I feel like you've already come

to peace with a lot of things.

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It sounds like you've already moved

through a lot and I'd love that

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you claimed this room for yourself.

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How does all of that feel to

just honor like, Oh, I do have

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a lot going on in my life.

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Oh,

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I I tried

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homeschooling my son

for that pandemic year.

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And I waved the white flag and I

told his teacher, I can't do this.

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I'm never going to, I'm not in my style.

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So for you to say that you homeschooled

your boy, like I, I can't do that.

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And so the amount of energy and

attention that took mama needs a break.

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you've

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done so much.

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And this is why I started doing this work,

because I was in so many people's homes.

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And I heard women share with me

this shame, this sense of failure.

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And everyone had it, but with

something slightly different.

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and I was like this confidant, but yet I'm

going, Hey, everyone's feeling this way.

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And if we just talk about it,

maybe it won't feel so shameful.

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Because it's a lot of

work and Oh, take your

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time.

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You're so welcome.

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this is why I love this because I

needed to hear that when I became a wife

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and a mom and I was like, Oh my gosh,

nobody is giving me breathing space.

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There's never a time to catch your breath.

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There's always something to do.

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And it's just oh my gosh, I also don't

feel like I was trained to do this

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stuff, but yet we're expected to live up

to this, I always call it the magazine

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standard, which is just a catch all of.

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There's this weird expectation that

somehow we're always ready for a

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magazine shoot to happen in our homes.

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And it's no homes are for living

and functioning and you lived

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and functioned in your house.

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And now you're at a point where you're

at a different stage and you have time

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to catch your breath and look around

and go, this isn't working for me.

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Great.

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That's where we are.

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that's why we're here.

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And I'm So thankful that you're

trusting me and somebody else

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listening is resonating with this.

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I Bet more than one person.

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I know I am I know Lacey is I know more

people are gonna resonate with us So what

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we come to is I have a very good feel

of where you are I want to get a little

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bit clear on where you want to go and

I'm gonna tell you right now We're not

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gonna achieve all of the where you want

to go but You We're going to talk about

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where you want to go and then we're going

to find a path to, to start to get to

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maybe one of the mini goals that will

come to where you want to go in the end.

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So when you visualize, what do

you want the house to be, to

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feel, to look, what's the dream?

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yeah.

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I hear you say breathing room.

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All of that I hear you say.

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I want some breathing room.

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this is beautiful and this is great.

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And I just jotted down some directions.

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I'm going to review what that looks like.

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The first thing is all these

items you want to get rid of.

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That's so great.

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It sounds like you already

have the fire to do it.

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Sometimes when I meet with

clients, the first step is just

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getting Comfortable letting go.

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But I hear you saying

you're ready to let go.

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Is that right?

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Okay, great.

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One is you and I will figure out

together way to get away, selling,

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you and I will figure that out.

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The second would be for you and your

husband have a about if you, okay.

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So at least the schooling items,

does he have feelings about getting

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Tiira: No, not at all.

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Sara: And it's one of those things

sometimes where if we can work

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around the edges and our to notice

they get the and the momentum once

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you start, but sometimes we have to

go for really like low fruit items.

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So I would say if you know where

you can start purging, that's

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not going to ruffle any feathers.

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I would say just keep

on keeping on And then.

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I love the idea.

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Like I said, the fuel when I work with

clients, there's always exciting part

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in and then Oh, you're a and then stuff

gets tough and that's when the energy

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And I hear, a beautiful vision and I

also a lot of weight, emotional weight.

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There's a lot of action So as

much as you can, I would ask

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at inspiration whether it's

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journaling, clear on where

you're going and your coach, you

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know, all this get really clear.

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What's the lighting What

is Is there a don't know.

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is there new artwork on the walls?

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Are you inspire yourself because

what happens is we're in our homes.

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It doesn't feel good.

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It's weighing us down.

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And that's what causes us action,

we have to know can smell this way.

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It but I need to know where

I'm going that I feel inspired.

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To pick up these boxes that I don't want

to make the appointment to donate them

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because You're gonna have steps outside

of your normal every day and you're

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still working You got your own business.

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You're working part time.

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Your husband's to do your day to

day stuff You're gonna be adding

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in new So if you are passionate

About what you're doing vision.

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It'll really help with those steps.

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Cause it's going to right?

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At first it's going to feel like a

difference and then it's going to

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feel like it's not going anywhere,

but And and you know that too,

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you said you used to do right?

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Tiira: Uhhuh.

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Sara: Isn't there always that oh yeah,

I'm going to do this new routine.

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And they're like all excited.

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And then about four, six

weeks in they're tired.

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They haven't give up, but you

know, two or three more Yes.

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Tiira: Very good analogy.

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That's good.

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That's helpful.

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Sara: Oh, I'm the analogy queen.

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That's I see, I actually

see image it's tough for me.

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I see images in my head and

then I have to find the words.

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So I'm always like, are you seeing

what I'm describing in my head?

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I'm glad that one resonated.

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So we're going to figure out an

easy way to get rid of And then I

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would ask like I said, with with

the items you haven't touched.

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no If you pick something up

and you start to you don't need

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because it of items know you Yeah.

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Tiira: That is correct?

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Sara: will, or you will are, I,

that day will come, but let's put

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those items off to the, let's just,

you can just earmark those items.

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I would say, and whatever is Maybe

it's putting a box, a cardboard box

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your eye goes, don't need that, throw

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it in the box, throw it in the box.

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When that box gets full, mark it and

a lot of people want to sell their

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stuff, but the amount of energy

you never get your money back.

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I shouldn't

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hardly.

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Unless it's a big ticket item,

you hardly I really give away.

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So if that box is full, close the lid,

take up a Sharpie and say, donate books

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and paper goods, just briefly label,

because if you donate, or a Salvation

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but if you can get some cardboard boxes.

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make sure you tape the bottom them down.

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pick it up, it's going to be heavy.

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And every time you pick up a box and

you feel that weight, you go, I'm

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getting some more breathing space,

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Tiira: Ooh,

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Sara: right?

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some people want to go deep end,

dive all the way in and just go, but

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I find that people tend to faster.

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So I always encourage put

a box in the room, right?

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Just That to me, the step, the more

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Tiira: Okay.

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Sara: Um, and I what you're kitchen

The living That step is farther

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down the lifted out of the house.

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Keep that in And that's going to be

once you get down And that, that,

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okay, these are the items are the

items that support the Then that's

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the, that doesn't belong there, but

first we have to lighten the load.

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How does that sound?

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I see you smiling.

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I see you nodding your head.

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I'm hoping this feels doable.

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Tiira: yes, yes, it all feels doable.

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that I hadn't figured out, cause

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I have the boxes and, but I was

leaving them by the front door.

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So to put the box and put a

box in each room is how I'm

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actually going to get this done.

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So that is

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Sara: I keep, this is for anyone

listening who that resonated with.

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I actually bag my closet

and my son's closet.

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And the second I go, I'm

never wearing that again.

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It doesn't fit the second.

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I think that I put it in the bag.

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It's done.

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I never have to remember.

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I never have to have that thought again.

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And when that bag is full, I just tie it

up and And then once that box move it to

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the front It's going out of the house.

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You put it in the front of the garage.

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You put it where move it out.

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Sometimes we have the

tendency leave it to later.

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But once that box is full, get it one step

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Tiira: good with that.

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I actually have a car work

and let down the back seats

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and I keep them flat just for

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Sara: you drive by a place like a

goodwill or a salvation Oh my gosh,

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Tiira: Minutes from my house.

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Sara: this is it.

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full, put it in the car.

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Whenever you run an errand and you go by,

say lovey, somebody else can use this.

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I don't need it.

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It's not adding to So I

feel like we got to steps.

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Do you have any questions about those

steps about lightening your load, getting

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Tiira: No questions.

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I didn't mention that part

cause I got so into the boxes.

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The vision.

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I do stay focused a lot on what I see

now and then it just feels or even just

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thinking, I've tried this in the past

and it doesn't seem like it's worked,

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but I'm going to definitely have the

vision and remind myself of how much

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I'm going to have more breathing room.

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So that was very helpful also.

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but no, I think I'm ready.

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Sara: I'm so excited.

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That's the thing.

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I love that you are a coach and you've

done the exercise know you've worked with

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clients who said, I've tried everything.

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It's not going to work.

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And it's just, no, we just gotta keep

trying different and I know you're

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tired, but that's why I do the work I

do because I'm here to say there is a

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you will because after all that time.

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you've already got mama's

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Tiira: I already got mama's

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Sara: you just got to do

in a couple more spaces.

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You're going to, I'm

giving you permission.

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I'm giving you momentum.

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Oh, Tyra.

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I am like, I'm having a moment

because I love the work that I do.

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And I love And I can see

that it's opened inside of

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Tiira: It really has.

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Thank you.

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Sara: I, my, my day is good.

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I don't need, I don't need

to do anything else today.

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Tiira: That makes me feel good to hear.

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Sara: Oh, we had a moment.

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Oh my God.

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This is

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Tiira: I really appreciate you because

I went on vacation and then I came

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back home and I was just like, so to

come in the day after coming in from

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vacation and talking to you and getting

this kind of hope feels amazing.

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Lacey: Does it Sarah just make

you want to take over the world?

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Tiira: Yes.

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Sara: Well, and speaking of the world,

that's why Lacey and I are doing this

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podcast because of the ripple, because

if you feel 5 percent better in your

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you're going to go out into the world

with 5 percent more of your best self.

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And then every, I truly

believe and Lacey does too.

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at first I said I wanted like a

10% change, and I think Oh, 1%.

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So if

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Lacey: said 1%

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Sara: 1% and that 1% and that like this

is how we make change is with all with us.

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And you.

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and I will be in touch

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Tiira: Okay.

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Sara: And then the next time we to talk

about what's what challenges how are

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Tiira: Okay.

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Sara: And then we're

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Tiira: Okay.

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That sounds perfect.

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Thank you.

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Mhm.

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Mhm.

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I hope you enjoyed meeting

Tyra as much as we did so much

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more amazing goodness to come.

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And again, , I like to try

to remind people often.

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Is to really honor that Tyra

opened up her home to us.

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And as you hear, she

got really vulnerable.

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and I did ask her permission

before we started putting these

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episodes out in the world.

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I said, Hey, it got pretty emotional.

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Are you okay with.

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With me publishing that because I

said, I can actually edit that out.

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And she said, Nope, I want to, she

goes, that's what really happened.

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And I want to share it with others.

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And again, just the amazing power of Tyra

that she just thought, yep, let's put

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that out there and help other people.

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So again, thank you to Tyra and all of

our participants for showing what's really

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happening behind the front door in your

home so that we can help other people.

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Track 1: we will get

back to Tyra's few weeks.

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starting episode two for And that's

where we get the nitty gritty of how

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it's going or not going or that stuff.

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Um,

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it is, there's no shame.

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Track 1: not I think that Now,

Sleepy Sarah, of gratitude?

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gonna see Sleepy Sarah wake right up.

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I am so excited.

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So we were in a different town

and there's this movie theater.

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It's a chain.

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It's called the Alamo.

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There's a few of them.

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Not where I, oh, you know about

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Track 1: I've heard of it and

then I went to one in New York.

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There's not here where I am,

but I've, I am aware of them and

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There's not one right where I live.

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So I had to go to a

different state to go to one.

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And.

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So exciting.

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I am such a sci fi nerd.

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I'm a bird nerd.

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I'm a sci fi nerd.

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I'm a systems streamlining nerd.

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We got to see Dune 2 in the theater

and then layer it on top of this

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amazing movie theater where you

get these comfy chairs, you get

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these tables, you get to order this

delicious food that comes right to you.

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The whole experience.

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Was amazing.

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And not only that, I got

to see it with family who

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appreciated Dune as much as I do.

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Cause you know, some people

could take or leave it,

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Track 1: of those people.

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am not going to tell you

to feel otherwise, cause I

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know how that's going to go,

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Track 1: Yeah.

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I was so in it.

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I think the movie, I don't

know what the runtime was.

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We were in the theater for over three

hours with the pre and the post.

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The time flew by in a flash.

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I was so embedded.

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And as soon as it was over, I was

like, I'm seeing that again, because

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it's just, there's so much goodness.

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I'm like, Oh, so yeah.

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And there was this one scene, I don't

want to spoil it for anyone, but there was

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this one scene that I wasn't expecting.

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And I actually threw my

arms up in the theater.

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It was like, yes, I

wasn't embarrassed at all.

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And then, oh boy.

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Bonus gratitude, this Alamo

theater, everything in their

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decor has to do with movies.

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It's really cool.

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The second you walk in, you feel like

you're just, okay, I'm ready for a movie.

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When we were leaving, there was a nine

foot tall replica of the predator.

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So I got my niece to take a picture

of me and I'm hanging onto his arm.

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And I'm like, Smiling and

I like kicked my foot up.

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So I look like I'm in

love with the predator.

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And I was like, this is amazing.

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So I've got a lot of gratitude

around the movie theater.

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And now I'm going to start a

petition so that we can get one

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near me.

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Track 1: I know that they're,

yeah, I've heard of them.

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And like I said, and she lived in

New York, we there in like, I get it.

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Yeah, get it.

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The way movies should be.

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Like totally.

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So that's my, I went long.

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That is mine.

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Lacey, what is your moment of gratitude?

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Track 1: Yes.

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Bye for now.

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I've been over here like going around

and around of and I am just going to

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pick my daughter's three or she will

be I think on the day this it'll be her

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birthday, but lately is just killing me.

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With her little voice saying the funniest

and I just love it so last night So we

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read books mommy daddy and by read books.

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I found out the library the Libby

app specifically or hoopla I

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recommend both if Have read along And

reading out loud is actually a very

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challenging reading speaking out loud.

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You these read along and I hold

the iPad and we talk about it.

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So it's still interactive and last night

for Isaac And I got up to do something.

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I came back and she was in my spot and

she was like, I took your spot, mommy.

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And it was just, she's got just

this high little voice and I

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was like, what are you doing?

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So I just am really.

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Loving.

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Now, is she potty training

more places than I would like?

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Yes.

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sassafras?

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Yes.

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But man, I all day and she does, she'll

just lay down and talk another thing,

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and then I'll stop about my kids, but,

so I have implemented, actually, because

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of this, in some ways, at the dinner

every day, I like us all to sit down

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together And at the dinner table, we

do a high and is your high of your day?

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have a low of your day?

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Cause it's both.

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We need to know about both.

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And Iris doesn't totally get it, but

she sits down and when it's time, she's

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my high is, and it's usually her And

then my low is, and then it's usually

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one of the other kids in her class

that she frenemies relationship with.

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And it's just so funny.

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and one a different day we were sitting

down to lunch and she was like, hi and lo.

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And I'm like, no, we do that at

dinner at the end of the day.

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But I was so glad that you

are here and you're ready

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I love when kids start showing

their unique personality and

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you get to see that Oh, okay.

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This is their personality.

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It's so

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fun.

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Track 1: so fun.

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And I am so excited she is a, she

loves to do a callback already to a

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previous thing that we all found funny.

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Yeah.

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So one of the things, for some reason,

at some point, Joe came into a bathroom

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and was like, excuse me, are you pooping?

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And he like did And so now every

once in a while, Iris like, excuse

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me, are you pooping out of nowhere?

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And if the first time I didn't know

about it, so I'm like, are you pooping

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I was like, get up, go to the bathroom.

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And then Joe was like, Oh, I think

I but now she'll like, do it as

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a callback as an inside joke.

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And I'm like, this is the greatest

thing that's ever happened.

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I love this.

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That is a, that's varsity

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for a not even three year old

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to do a comedic callback.

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Track 1: Yeah.

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I look

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what my house is going to

look like they grow because

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that is so great.

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Oh, I love that for

you and your household.

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That's amazing.

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Track 1: Yeah.

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Cause 90 percent of our jokes right now

are fart jokes Joe, but all of the age

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of And I think my favorite part is that

Iris, anytime someone's who farted?

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She always is I did it.

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And she uses it like

And I just, it's solid.

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She's so on it.

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And I cannot how this evolves going

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little sliver of me that goes, Ooh, is

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that mean she's going to be the class

clown and you're going to be getting

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a lot of phone calls from the teacher.

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Stay tuned.

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That'll be worth it.

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you'll go, what was the joke?

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And the teacher will

tell you and you'll go

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worth

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Track 1: Yeah.

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Solid.

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No, I get it.

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approve.

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Track 1: We'll talk about, we'll talk

about appropriateness and timing,

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but the joke itself, clean and

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I love this.

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Oh my gosh.

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I've had a week without Lacey and

it's so good to have, it's so good

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to have you back late, or, you

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didn't go anywhere.

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It's so good to be, it's

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Track 1: And I was trying so hard to

make sure I didn't, I like, I wanted

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Sarah to have time off and space.

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And so I did, I to not, I

don't want to say bother you,

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but I didn't want you had to

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And what's funny is I didn't really look

at this experience as a relaxing trip.

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I, cause it's family.

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So it feels a little bit more

like duty, not in a bad way.

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But, but then once I got there

and I was not at my own house and

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I woke up and I was like, Oh, I

don't have any chores to do here.

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and I didn't plan on doing any work.

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And it was like, Oh, my brain was just

like, you've got nothing to do, man.

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And I was like, cool.

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This is, so I realized I

need that decompression time.

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Everybody does.

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Everybody does.

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But I realized I had to

leave my house to get it.

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And yeah, it felt really good.

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yeah,

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so that was a surprisingly relaxing trip

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and we all need that.

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so this is, I just want to remember,

so this was episode one of Tyra.

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So next week will be

episode two of Ashley,

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Track 1: yep.

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that's where we are.

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And I.

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And I am so thankful for season two,

and I'm so thankful for Lacey, and

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thank you for everything, Lacey.

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