Becoming The Minimal Mom (Podcast Ep. 12)
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Thank you so much for listening and could I ask a favor? Would you mind subscribing? It helps KZread recommend this podcast to more friends. Thank you! Dawn
ABOUT THE MINIMAL MOM:
Hi, I'm Dawn, if we haven't met before, I'm married to Tom and we have four kids ages 8-13. We live outside of the Twin Cities in MN and have called ourselves minimalists for 8 years now. We got rid of 85% of our stuff and don't miss ANY OF IT!
If you'd like to see more instructional videos about minimalism and decluttering, be sure to check out my other channel @TheMinimalMom
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Thank you so much for listening and could I ask a favor? Would you mind subscribing? It helps KZread recommend this podcast to more friends. Thank you! Dawn
@thefarmista
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Subscribed the minute I found it😊
@debbiev.1311
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Subscribed! ✔️😉🔔
@rosywilson3076
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Done x
@amybethsiebert8757
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@@thefarmista 111😂
@kraykray4118
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Really enjoyed this. I have put in a lot of hard work the last few months with decluttering but I can't shift the sentimental items (which are A LOT) what can you suggest that could help me to downsize the amount of keepsakes that I have. Thank you
We will likely never meet, but you have changed my life. Thank you.
@tgayer1
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Me too! I’m so blessed by Dawn and her family!
@erinoluwalana3537
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Don’t say that!! I thought the same but then was able to meet her in MD and it was sooooooooo COOL!! She probably thought I was a little cray cray, I could barely tell her my name when I met her because I was crying. She has helped me so Much. Keep it on your heart to meet her in person and it just might happen👍😊
@jonealbravosongs
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I want to show her what I have done in my home, haha! I live in an apartment with a family of 5. She has helped me SO much!! Would be SO cool to meet her! Sometimes I daydream about working for her someday, haha. If she had a group program to host, I would totally do it out here in Utah!!
@dellapitre4520
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I would cry too if I met her...I would be fan girling with her! 😅🤣
@dlo1291
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I never comment on videos but this has been one of my favorite that she has done! It’s just so real and I love that she is open about her faith. She has changed my life in such a positive way!
I’ve watched you for three years now and it feels like you are a friend. Thank you for all you do.
@louiseisobel
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Agree xoxooxox❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@SF-ru3lp
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I concur! 😊 G Ire
@tgayer1
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Me too!
@comishchick
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Ditto !!!! Isn’t that crazy ! Great job Dawn and parents
@momtrck
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I can’t remember when i started watching but it was a loooong time ago and i learn something new with every video. Thanks Dawn👏
I’d love to hear how you met and decided to work with Cas and Dana. It’s such a fantastic collaboration and the warmth between you all is lovely. What’s your origin story?
@royalone3009
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I agree
@tgayer1
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Good idea!
@patriciaday7416
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Yes!
Your natural speaking talent and skills makes you so enjoyable and easy to listen to. Excited for your new channel!
I love your youtube! I am a 66 year old wife, mother and grandma and I am still trying to become more efficient in my house,..you and Cass the clutterbig are such an encouragement to me! Thanks!!
I am in Australia and between Minimal Mom and Rusty Judgement I visit with your family twice a week. I literally don't see some family this frequently. You have made a material difference in my life, and as a consequence the lives of my husband and sons. If mum is happy, everybody is happy. Thank you Dawn, I love you and thank God for you. ❤
Love this!! “And then I met Tom”…there’s a much better story to that! 😜
Hi! On Thursday I will be 79 and the only reason I mention it is because it’s never too late to declutter and become a minimalist. Your videos have been immeasurably helpful for me on my journey. You are a delight to listen to. Many thanks.
@carolgeorge6409
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@P J Freeman Agree 76yrs young and learned so much from Dawn. So grateful to finally declutter🫶🏻
Just found your channel Dawn a few months ago in a time when I was feeling overwhelmed. I watched "Your stuff is making you sick" and I just sat there in awe and cried. At that moment, I felt like you were speaking directly to me.. and i realized all of my anxiety over the last year was stemming from and excess of STUFF. I was tired of managing it all, and when you said that every item is telling you something (clean this, put that up, paint this, build that) I looked around my house with new eyes and thought "We have WAY too much and I'm simply DONE with managing it all!" There's 2 of us (weren't able to have children but we have a niece and nephew that come stay with us often) and we have 3 FULL sets of dishes, we have decor that I've never liked, we have triplicates of tons random things like emergency car blankets (not in the car btw but in our laundry room 🙄🤣). And this truly is the first time I'm making the connection between my anxiety/depression and the sheer volume of THINGS we have! Thank you Dawn for your amazing content 🧡 I am genuinely blessed to have come across your channel!
@SF-ru3lp
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Every blessing to you, Jodi. Every success with everything. G Ire
@tgayer1
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Keep watching and keep up the awesome work!
Your dream house came true! I love your entire journey story. God is so good. I can see His hand throughout your life.
@tgayer1
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Yes! I’m thankful to God for Dawn and her family!
@amysuehoodjrnot4426
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Ditto Dawn and Tom / kids
So glad you are doing this!! Your story is so inspiring, and perfect body-doubling while I clean up. 😊
@MinimalMomPodcast
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Thank you so much Shu!
@tgayer1
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Bonus points for speaking The Minimal Mom lingo!
Also, in one of your videos some months ago you mentioned without any detail how you explained to your family that not helping with cleaning chores they would be charged a cleaner’s fee if you had to it for them. I’d love to hear more about this. It’s a clever way to illustrate the value of your time and that everyone has responsibilities around the house.
@TheMinimalMom
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That’s right! Ironically I haven’t had to enforce it since, but yes, one of our kids had left for an activity (my mom was taking them so I didn’t know that they hadn’t completed their chores) and so we made the rule that if this happened again that I would charge them $25/hour to do it for them (with a minimum of a one hour charge even if it only takes 10 minutes) and we haven’t had the issue since. Usually they know if Tom or I are home that they don’t get to leave unless their stuff is done, but this is still a helpful tactic to establish value for everyone’s time like you said!
@jocelynturner2532
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@@TheMinimalMom so clever! Thanks for explaining! I think this can really help us. I’m going to try it.
@beans4853
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@@TheMinimalMom Brilliant!
@cfw900
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I did not see that episode, bi boy do I wish I would have thought of that 25 years ago!!!
Hi Dawn I really love your KZread channel. You speak eloquently and have a comforting, calming voice. I have tried so many ways to simplify my life and you are the only one who has literally saved me from drowning.❤ 🙏🏽thank you so much words cannot explain how grateful I am for your existence ❤️❤️
You're work is my life-saver. Thank you!! I'm raising my granddaughter and everybody is always giving her gifts! Really - everybody, my other daughters in laws, our neighbors, folks at school - I guess it's their way to help a little girl deal with loss. It's nice that she's blessed with this generosity. Thank goodness I came upon your videos years ago and we have a system for dealing with her toy abundance! You saved my sanity!! Thank you! Much love - Gramma Carla
Same here. I always come back to rewatch videos for inspiration ❤thank you, Dawn:) you are amazing
Keeping this comment minimal: you are genuine,realistic ,extremely helpful and joy shows on your face that comes from a joyful heart! Thankyou!
Thank you Dawn, this is great . Have seen your Minimal Mom channel for years , in Australia 😁👍🇦🇺
Love you and your message! You are one of my biggest role models and your advice has made a huge impact on my current state of mind. Honestly I'm so happy to have found this community!
@tgayer1
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Me too!
I’ve listened to you for at least a couple of years now. My home and my attitude about stuff is far different. I can’t even tell you! I cannot tell you how inspiring you are to us! ❤❤❤
Liked and subscribed! ❤ Very excited that you are posting podcasts on KZread which is my go-to. I started watching your videos in 2019, and was hooked! I went back at that time and caught up from the very first ones on KZread. I agree with others that you seem like a friend, and you have inspired and helped me so much along this decluttering journey! I remember when you celebrated 100,000 viewers! You are changing the world, both from a decluttering standpoint as well as by raising money for worthy causes, and you deserve all the good things that come to you and your family. As you say, I love you! ❤
@tgayer1
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Yes! Well said!
I’ll be interested to see how quickly this podcast subscriber number grows. I know there’s so many more people just like me who are so grateful for all you’ve taught me and look so forward to learning more. You clearly do this solely because you want others to find the happiness and peace that you have found. It’s going to be so awesome for you, someday when you get to heaven, and you are able to truly know how you’ve affected so many lives ❤.
You've really helped me for years Dawn, so grateful you're here. I've been decluttering for a few years now, but its not until this past fortnight when we moved furniture out of our lounge to put new carpet down that I realised (and my family) that we love just having space!
Thank you Dawn. Our home is starting the same way, just an experiment and leaving my husbands things alone. It felt so good to see two years of work lead to a clean up free evening 😂
New Subcriber from TN. I have learned so much from you and other channels. We became Debt Free in 2020. We started deculttering in 2018. We sold and threw away so much STUFF. We are still doing it. I was able to retire from being a Hairdresser after 33 years. With 1 income, we are actually saving money now. Thank you so much! Rhonda 💚👩🏼🌾💚
Yey!! So happy to see you back in your podcast 😊can’t wait for the rest of the episodes! ❤
Dawn, I'm so excited that you're sharing your podcast on YT. I love your motivating spirit & enthusiasm. It makes me excited to get rid of things in our house. When we would go on vacation, it would take hours to clean the house before we left & now it doesn't. It's still not done, but the rooms that are done make me feel so relaxed. Thank you for all you do to help us out. Keep up the great work. 😊
This is precious! I teared up!!
Dawn, I subscribed to your channel 3 years ago, and since then, you’ve taught me so much. My home functions better now, and my husband loves it! He’s the first to fill a box with things he no longer wants and donates it without thinking twice about it. Thank you for putting out such great content! It’s like cleaning and decluttering with a friend by my side. Thank you!! 🥰
So happy your podcast is back! Woo hoo!!!! I listened on my pod app the first go round. Welcome back!
Aww, just loved this. I listened while I was painting. You do a wonderful job.
Subscribed! So little payback for all that you teach me. Thank you.
Love this style!
I love your channel and your thought process. I've been able to let stuff go and organize.
Love this!! Thank you for sharing
Seriously, to say that you have changed my life, is an understatement! The video you did of cleaning the front hall closet and "take it there now" method, was the kick-start to me decluttering. Because of you, I was able to go into labor a week early, and not worry that the house is a mess when the dog-sitter came (I also work full time, so I didn't have a lead-time before going to the hospital). I always thought I just wasn't good at organizing, and that everyone else's house was clutter free and this was a ME problem. It's always refreshing to hear that I'm not the only one!!!!
I can love this enough!!!!! I so appreciate you being so candid! You make the YOU in KZread better!
Subscribed and love your work Dawn.
You have helped me so much!! Thank you
Love you and your message!
Love this!! So encouraging 💜!
I enjoy your videos and enjoyed this very much! I have told many friends about your videos.
Dawn thank you for sharing your very interesting journey ! Both you and Tom are willing to test the waters and that's great. Both very energetic and hard working people. I really enjoy your videos and have learned so much. I am beginning to see the light of day in my home now all because of you - you gave me the incentive to begin de-cluttering. Thank you so much !! 🌺🌺🌺🌼🌼🌺🌺
Great job Dawn, I really enjoyed this!
I love watching you! You make me so happy and have helped me soooooo much!! I am in the process of decluttering our home a little at a time. Keep on sharing your secrets and your life with us, please! ❤ I love you!!
I love watching both you & Tom. It IS like visiting with friends. Straight up, honest, funny…. I appreciate that neither of drag out ur message. You have helped me uncluttered so much… more to go, but now I really ask myself if I REALLY NEED something before I buy it. ❤❤❤❤
I just love how balanced you are with "sparce" and "stuff".... lightbulb moments are the best!!!.....thank you for all you do, say, and show!!!....I get sooo much from your channel, very inspiring and do-able.....you have the cutest, adorable personality!!!....
I often think, "Thank you, Dawn" as I'm tossing things out.
I am so excited to see this! I look forward to seeing your videos and who your guests will be.
Thanks so much for all you do to help us! You've really helped me in so many ways! Blessings!
Hi Dawn I’ve been following you for years and I always look forward to seeing you on you tube. Your content motivates me every time and you are the kindest. Love from Normandy France
What a journey, Dawn! Thankful for everything you do. ❤
You have helped me so much more then you will ever know.Thank you!!!!
I'm so thrilled there's another way to listen and learn. I loved hearing this story, especially the behind the scenes of your youtube journey! Thank you for sharing!
I love watching your channel and Tom’s channels. Your thoughtfulness and family values make you so special.
I love your comments about us all struggling. Many other great points throughout and those ideas that captivated us who had no realistic perspectives of minimalism. Thanks so much Dawn and looking forward to future content.
Exciting!! Now I can listen while I take a walk. Best and Blessings to you.
And you have such an incredibly soothing voice that I run to in the background and listen as I get things done aka declutter purge clean etc
Love your videos and all your ideas. Thank you
Dawn you are the BEST! You always seem to know just what to say. Somehow it’s just what I need to hear. I love your channel and I look forward to it weekly. I also love the take your house back course. The trio is absolutely perfect together. Keep up the good work.
Thank you very much Dawn for sharing and showing different ways that I can have a simple & calm home.
I’ve followed you for a long time and what I’m noticing lately is these amazing serendipitous things seem to happen to you- it seems like it’s a mix of knowing what you want, patience for the right moment, listening to your gut for ideas, and being flexible to make changes and problem solving as needed. Thanks for sharing your stories!
Thank you Dawn, I've been with you now I guess 3 yrs. My friend shared a video from yours and after that I couldn't get enough. You do encourage me. I'm still trying to declutter our home but I do have hope. My hubby would actually clear out everything, so if I let him we'd probably be minimalist already!! But.... I'm holding on. But not so tightly now. Great work you are doing ❤
After I watch one of your videos, I feel so happy.
Been subscribed to your channel for years and just subscribed to your podcast as well. Thanks for sharing ❤
Dawn! I’m so glad I came across this channel!! You are literally my body double EVERY week, haha! I get things done, while I get to learn and laugh with you!! Love it!! Thank you! 💚
Thank you for sharing all that you share! I cannot tell you the impact you have had on my and my family’s life.
Great job on the podcast good luck with the format.
Yayyy! More Dawn/Minimal Mom time and content! I feel like we can never have too much Dawn! Thank you for the way you speak to us all, it's encouraging, real, and nobody can do this quite like You. ❤
Thank you for your channel. It has helped me a lot. I get inspired to clean/decluttered when I watch your videos. I love your honesty and transparency. And keeping it real.
I’ve watched you for three years now and look forward to Saturday mornings with you as we body-double. :) Thank you for all you do, you have greatly impacted a positive shift in my life that is creating healthy relationships with things and how I want to live my life. Thank you for clearing the clutter out of my house, but most importantly, my mind. Forever grateful for you. ❤
I love all your content and find it very encouraging. It's nice to have this format to listen to. I've got a ways to go yet, but I'll get there eventually. Thanks for introducing ways for us to make minimalism our own.
Love hearing your story! My husband and I talk frequently about how much your channel has changed our home! Thank you for all your guidance, keep up the great work!!❤
Thanks for sharing the back story about your beginning! I love all your videos!
I love all your videos. I'm on the journey to minimalism and we have 3 developmentally under 5 - minimizing is so helpful with the workload of motherhood. You mention a tour of your townhouse on your blog, but I wasn't able to find it. Super interested because our place is getting more sparse and for this season in life, it would be amazing having some inspiration. ❤
Hi Dawn, I found your videos during Covid and you have changed my life. As a stay at home mom of 3, you have helped me get a handle on our stuff and be able to keep up on our stuff. Now 3 yrs later I can still find bags of stuff to donate but think more about my purchases and love that I can get my home tidy in a few minutes now. Thank you for all the work you do and content you share. ❤
I was so fortunate that KZread shared your decluttering kids clothes with me when you only had a handful of videos posted. And I remember thinking “oh I hope she keeps these videos coming!” I honestly bragged about you to my husband that night because I was so excited about what I had learned and I felt like if a fellow Midwestern mom of young kids is saying it works for her I believe her when she says it can work for me. You’re down to earth, not Pinterest perfect everything, was so refreshing to see I waited so anxiously for your next videos! I was already attempting minimalism before I “met” you but your videos were the perfect blend of encouragement and guidance to keep me going!
I subscribed a couple of years ago and I loved your accent. You have helped me so much and I love your family and all your adventures with Tom.
Great story, Dawn. I've been listening to you for about a year and I just subscribed . You're my first!
Love your channel, Dawn, and I've just subscribed to this one as well. When I got through with my decluttering journey (are we really ever done? lol), a weight was suddenly lifted off my shoulders that I didn't even know I had been carrying. Decluttering is SO WORTH IT in the end. Thanks for inspiring all of us to lighten our load.
Just discovered this podcast today, Dawn, and what strikes me so much is not how this avenue has become a success in your life (I don't wonder about that at all, it is the natural pathway for your truest talents) but how you have created so much inspiration and possibility and ROOM in the lives of others for all of us to reach towards our most divine selves. I thank you with every communication of yours that you give that life-changing gift. I have hope every day because of you, and I can bring that to the world at large to be my own force for good!
And we love you! You have been such an inspiration to me. You and Cass have given me a whole different perspective about looking at my stuff. I’m a cricket and sentimental so there are some things that I struggle getting rid of, but truly, I’m able to recognize the blocks and that is thanks to you!
You have a Podcast?!?!? YES! Very excited to discover this!
Looking forward to this series!
You have actually changed my life, Dawn. I really appreciate you!
Such a fun video hearing your back story and how you got here! Thank you for sharing! 🥰
How did I miss these podcasts?!?!🤦♀️. I love Dawn! Yay!!!! More Dawn🎉🎉🎉🎉
I have been following you now for over 3 years! You have taught me so much and my house is in such better shape because of you! I love the kind, supportive FB community! It’s like having almost 2000 girlfriends that give love, support and advice on almost anything! So glad you pursued your dreams, are living in on your dream farm and reaching out to the world and blessing so many people! Your entire family is such a joy to experience!
I loved hearing your journey. 😊 Always looking forward to your videos and now your podcasts. Thank you so much Dawn.
Super excited about this channel! Any more Dawn time we can get is awesome!
Dawn, I have watched you since the beginning. I had 4 kids then, I’m now pregnant with our 9th. You have helped me realize I’m just managing to much stuff. I have decided that this is the year that we become a large family minimalist family. 😂 it feels very overwhelming but I watch your videos everyday. You are such a blessing. Thank you.
@TheMinimalMom
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Wow Amanda, 9!!! That’s so cool!!! Thank you for all of your support, I’m excited for you, The best is yet to come ❤
I’ve been watching you for a few years now and have and do enjoy everything that you do. Thank you for such encouraging content. I’m still struggling but a work in progress lol! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻😁😁❤️❤️🖐🏼🖐🏼
Loved your story 😊 I’m listening while declutering! Thank you so much for sharing all your knowledge, greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷
How did I not know you started a podcast??? 🎉 So glad you are doing this.
Thank you Dawn so much for your channel & all the encouragement you give to us Moms! ☺️
Dawn, YOU are so kind and inspirational. 💐 I found your videos and keep coming back because there’s nobody else online who motivates me like you! Thank you!! Keep on posting- we need the cheering on and positivity of the sound of your voice! 🌸🌸🌸
I loved this. I have heard the "full story". Thanks Dawn for sharing.
Subscribed. I really enjoy podcasts on KZread.
You are such a bright light in this community, Dawn! I tried your method and made an episode about it: Empty Nest version. Learned so much. Thank you!
I truly enjoy watching and listening to you. I recommend you to everyone i know. Im sure they're all so sick of me telling them about what The Minimal Mom said the other day. Lol. But I'll keep spreading the word because, like you said, it's just too important of a message not to share.