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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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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:Okay.
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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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:Mhm.
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:Mhm.
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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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:Wow.
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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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:Every time you walk in a room and
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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:I
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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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:And one of the things that you said
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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:As soon as that box is
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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: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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:-:
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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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:-:
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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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:Track 1: Sarah.
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