Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.
Speaker 1: This is Laura, Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: episode is going to be a longer one part of
Speaker 1: the series where I interview fascinating people about how they
Speaker 1: take their days from great to awesome and any advice
Speaker 1: they have for the rest of us.
Speaker 2: So today, I.
Speaker 1: Am delighted to welcome Erin Port to the show. Erin
Speaker 1: is the author of the brand new book Tiny Tweaks,
Speaker 1: Happy Life. She's also the brains behind the popular Simple
Speaker 1: Purposeful Living platform on social media. So Erin, welcome to
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 2: Thanks Laura for having me. I'm delighted to be here
Speaker 2: with you. Great.
Speaker 1: Well, why don't you tell our listeners a little bit
Speaker 1: more about yourself.
Speaker 2: Well, sure, I'm a mom to four biological and adoptive mom.
Speaker 2: We live in central Iowa in a tiny little town.
Speaker 2: I've been married to my husband for nineteen years, former
Speaker 2: educator turned ontorepreneur, and I fill my days trying to
Speaker 2: help people simplify their lives so they can make the
Speaker 2: most of what matters.
Speaker 1: Absolutely So, how did Simple Purposeful Living start?
Speaker 2: That's a great question. Well, I was a first grade teacher,
Speaker 2: decided to stay home and wanted to have a bit
Speaker 2: of a passion project. So I started blogging back in
Speaker 2: the dark days when it was a blog spot in
Speaker 2: two thousand and nine, back when most people wrote about
Speaker 2: recipes and fashion, but I didn't really have that interest,
Speaker 2: and so I kind of thought about my knack. What
Speaker 2: is my knack and everything that I do, I always
Speaker 2: am looking to make it as simple as possible, and now,
Speaker 2: as a mom of four, I'm really looking for that.
Speaker 2: And it was when our son came home via adoption
Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen. He was nonverbal, malnourished, weighing just nineteen
Speaker 2: pounds at twenty five months, and every feeding session took
Speaker 2: an hour, and I realized that I couldn't get a
Speaker 2: life overhaul right. My life felt very full. I'm sure
Speaker 2: many of your listeners feel that way and maybe some
Speaker 2: facet of their life. But I could make a tiny change.
Speaker 2: And that's kind of where tiny Tweaks was born. That
Speaker 2: I couldn't change my circumstances, but I could do tiny
Speaker 2: little things to make my circumstances feel less hard and
Speaker 2: embrace the season. And while my circumstances didn't change, Quincy
Speaker 2: didn't heal overnight. My perspective did, and that helped me
Speaker 2: get through that season. And now that's part of what
Speaker 2: I share.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Well, why don't you tell us a little bit
Speaker 1: about what the business mix is of simple, purposeful of ving.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know a lot of people are like, well,
Speaker 1: that's exciting to have a blog that becomes a business,
Speaker 1: but what do you actually do as the different components
Speaker 1: of this?
Speaker 2: Sure? Yes, So we have a weekly podcast where I
Speaker 2: share tiny tweaks that simplify life. We also have a
Speaker 2: social media platform where I'm sharing that, and we have
Speaker 2: a full line of paper products that aim to help
Speaker 2: people simplify their life. I'm a planner just like you, Laura,
Speaker 2: So anything I can do to make people think about
Speaker 2: what they're doing with a little bit more intention, and
Speaker 2: we sell those on Amazon and on our website course
Speaker 2: an author as well. Different facets, all aimed with the same.
Speaker 1: Focus, absolutely, And one of those focuses is this idea
Speaker 1: of tweaks. I mean, how would you define a tweak?
Speaker 1: What makes something a tweak in your life?
Speaker 2: Right? It's so simple, so easy that it's almost imperceptible
Speaker 2: at the moment, Right, Like our brain craves big solutions.
Speaker 2: It thinks that if I have a big solution to
Speaker 2: this problem, it's going to take every care of everything.
Speaker 2: And what I've found is the tiniest weak has the
Speaker 2: big impact. Right. So the other day I was in
Speaker 2: my podcasting studio and I was sitting on the floor recording,
Speaker 2: and I thought, what is a tiny tweak I could
Speaker 2: make right now? And I could go out and buy
Speaker 2: a chair, And then somebody said, actually, you could just
Speaker 2: roll your office chair into your office, right, the tiniest
Speaker 2: little change. But then I was more comfortable and I
Speaker 2: could record my podcast. So it's these tiny little things
Speaker 2: and it builds evidence that we can be successful, because
Speaker 2: a lot of times people start to believe they can't
Speaker 2: make a change because they've tried and they've failed, and
Speaker 2: so they're just stuff where tiny tweaks build evidence in
Speaker 2: our mind that we can be successful and the tiny tweak,
Speaker 2: by tiny tweak, we can change our life. And that's
Speaker 2: what I love about it, because the light bulb goes
Speaker 2: off in people's minds and they say, oh, yeah, that
Speaker 2: did work. I'm going to try that again. And then
Speaker 2: I'm going to try it again, and I'm going to
Speaker 2: try it again and we iterate our life to fall
Speaker 2: more back in love with it, which is what I love.
Speaker 1: I am all about falling in love with our lives.
Speaker 1: But let's go back to when you were first starting
Speaker 1: this this business and this blog and simple purposeful living,
Speaker 1: and you said you have a new son at home
Speaker 1: who has complex medical issues. This is obviously a moment
Speaker 1: I know some of my listeners have experienced. This is
Speaker 1: really really tough. I mean, what are tweaks doing in
Speaker 1: that moment? What kind of tweaks were you actually trying
Speaker 1: in that moment to get out of this very sort
Speaker 1: of overwhelmed in a little bit dark place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think one of the first things I'd
Speaker 2: let go of and caring for him was caring for myself.
Speaker 2: And so one day, after particularly harding feeding, I collapsed
Speaker 2: in the dark hallway and I started to cry and
Speaker 2: I just thought, oh my goodness, this is not working.
Speaker 2: What do I need right now? And that was kind
Speaker 2: of the first week I said, like, what do I need?
Speaker 2: And so often I think as caregivers, as a busy mom,
Speaker 2: that we kind of forget what we need. And so
Speaker 2: in that moment, I went downstairs and I brewed myself
Speaker 2: a cup of coffee, and I walked on the back
Speaker 2: deck and I let the sunshine hit my face. And
Speaker 2: we think it's so small that it's not going to help,
Speaker 2: but it gave me a bit of peace and calm
Speaker 2: in that moment. And then I started to pick up
Speaker 2: walking around the block. I'd pack him up in his
Speaker 2: stroller and I'd walk him around the block, getting that
Speaker 2: fresh air, and it just revitalized me, and it started
Speaker 2: to make me realize these tiny little changes could help
Speaker 2: me not only survive my days, but enjoy those moments
Speaker 2: and those those opportunities.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that there can always be little moments we can
Speaker 1: enjoy even if life itself feels overwhelming. Well, we're going
Speaker 1: to take a quick ad break and then we'll be
Speaker 1: back with some more specific tweaks that maybe people can
Speaker 1: try today. Well, I am back. I am talking with
Speaker 1: Aaron Port, who is the author of the book Tiny Tweaks,
Speaker 1: Happy Life. She's also the founder of the business Simple
Speaker 1: Purposeful Living, with a very large following on social media,
Speaker 1: which is amazing that you've built that up over time, Aaron,
Speaker 1: So let's talk about somebody's listening to this and they're like,
Speaker 1: my house is a disaster. What are some tiny tweaks
Speaker 1: we can try to make ourselves feel more like it's organized,
Speaker 1: or that it's livable or anything like that.
Speaker 2: I always tell people there's two types of clutter. Clutter
Speaker 2: that you need and use that just doesn't have a home,
Speaker 2: and clutter that no longer is needed. So I have
Speaker 2: two tweaks. Number one, the clutter that you need. Right So,
Speaker 2: for a long time, my kids would come home from
Speaker 2: school and place their papers on the counter, but we
Speaker 2: had no system or home for that. So those papers
Speaker 2: were just stack up on the counter. And if you've
Speaker 2: ever noticed, this clutter is like a magnet. Once one
Speaker 2: thing's on the counter, then suddenly there's forty five things
Speaker 2: on the counter. So we started this system where we'd
Speaker 2: talk about what they did with these papers, and then
Speaker 2: after that we decide is it going in the recycling
Speaker 2: bin or is it going on the bulletin board. And
Speaker 2: by and large, most of it would go in the
Speaker 2: recycling bin. But it took care of the clutter needs.
Speaker 2: So I always tell people, if you have clutter that
Speaker 2: needs to find a home, because you need it, find
Speaker 2: a home and a simple system to solve that. Now
Speaker 2: with the clutter that you no longer need. What often
Speaker 2: happens as my kids come upstairs, they have a shirt
Speaker 2: that no longer fits and they stick it on the
Speaker 2: kitchen table and there it sits. Or worse yet, I
Speaker 2: think it's dirty, and I put it in the laundry bin,
Speaker 2: repeating the cycle, which is horrible. So I tell people
Speaker 2: this is so simple, but grab a bin, a box,
Speaker 2: something that comes to your door, put it somewhere out
Speaker 2: of sight but not out of mind so you know
Speaker 2: where it is, and then put those items in that bin,
Speaker 2: and then when it gets full, take it to the
Speaker 2: donation center. But it's just giving clutter a place to go.
Speaker 2: I really think is helpful. And the last week I'd
Speaker 2: say is I'm very motivated by timers. Fifteen minutes can
Speaker 2: make a huge difference, and a little bit every day
Speaker 2: adds up over time. So if you're not feeling motivated,
Speaker 2: set a fifteen ten minute timer, turn on some good tunes.
Speaker 2: Man music can make a huge difference, and get to work.
Speaker 2: You'll be surprised how much you can get accomplished.
Speaker 1: Absolutely well, you'll be proud of me. I threw out
Speaker 1: a pair of socks this morning that had a large
Speaker 1: hole in them. I believe those socks had probably gone
Speaker 1: through the wash several times, been put back in the
Speaker 1: drawer where they were then put on and cast off
Speaker 1: because they had a hole in them. So now they
Speaker 1: are gone out of our life. We will not encounter
Speaker 1: those socks again. Well, what are the things I think
Speaker 1: people struggle with when they are in the busy years
Speaker 1: And a lot of my listeners are where they are
Speaker 1: building careers, they're raising families, not feeling like they have
Speaker 1: time for connection with people outside their immediate families. So
Speaker 1: if somebody's feeling that way, what are some tweaks you
Speaker 1: could do in your schedule to make time for people
Speaker 1: who aren't necessarily sharing it with you.
Speaker 2: Every morning, on the way home from dropping my kids off,
Speaker 2: I have about five minutes and I started texting somebody
Speaker 2: in my life whoever comes to mind that morning, Hey,
Speaker 2: I thought of you. And sometimes it results in things,
Speaker 2: but a lot of times it results in a little
Speaker 2: text conversation back and forth. So that's one way I
Speaker 2: would say, just intentionally every day texting somebody that you
Speaker 2: care about. If you have a pocket of time, if
Speaker 2: you're in the car, I love voice texting.
Speaker 1: Say she's not texting by texting with her thumbs here
Speaker 1: while she's driving people.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I'm sorry, thank you for clarifying. Yes, voice texting,
Speaker 2: but just I have that five minutes. And oftentimes, as
Speaker 2: busy individuals, when we give our brain space to think,
Speaker 2: things come to mind. And so that's when I'm thinking
Speaker 2: of people. The other thing that I do in my
Speaker 2: schedule that I think you'd be proud of, Laura, it
Speaker 2: might have been inspired by you, is that I schedule
Speaker 2: connection in my week. So every Thursday is my connection day.
Speaker 2: I have to eat lunch anyway, and so I schedule
Speaker 2: a lunch date and it's a different person every week,
Speaker 2: but I just say, hey, do you want to get
Speaker 2: together for lunch? And I plan it out and it's
Speaker 2: about forty five to an hour of time with friends,
Speaker 2: and that works really well in this season of my life.
Speaker 2: And then we also have a couple's group we meet
Speaker 2: with weekly. I find that if it's just in our
Speaker 2: schedule and we're in the habit of it, it makes
Speaker 2: all of the difference. So those would be my three ideas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anything you can set up that's a recurring sort
Speaker 1: of get together, I think people have too many recurring
Speaker 1: meetings in their professional lives and too few recurring get
Speaker 1: togethers in their personal lives. How about some self care
Speaker 1: tweaks I mean you mentioned earlier, you know, just brewing
Speaker 1: yourself a cup of coffee and sitting on the porch
Speaker 1: and feeling the sunshine. What are some other little tweaks
Speaker 1: we can put in our schedules to take care of ourselves.
Speaker 2: Well, one of my favorite ways to figure this out
Speaker 2: is to write in a gratitude journal. And I tell
Speaker 2: people there's multi facets for doing this, but one of
Speaker 2: the things is when you start to write down in
Speaker 2: your gratitude journal what you're grateful for, it's the breadcrumbs
Speaker 2: of what brings you happiness. And so I always tell people,
Speaker 2: spend a week write down all the things that you're
Speaker 2: grateful for, and you're going to start to see what
Speaker 2: are those things that you enjoy doing that bring you happiness,
Speaker 2: that bring you rest, that recharge you. One of my
Speaker 2: friends was not loving her job and then she took
Speaker 2: up floral bouquet making recently, and she said, it's the
Speaker 2: craziest thing. She said, I started that habit, and now
Speaker 2: going to work isn't such a chore. It's when we
Speaker 2: start to find those little bits of happiness in our days,
Speaker 2: they've become more enjoyable overall. So I love to get
Speaker 2: outside and go on a morning commute walk. It's don't
Speaker 2: I work from home. I don't have a normal commute,
Speaker 2: So I walk twenty minutes in silence every day. It's
Speaker 2: a chance for my brain to noodle around some of
Speaker 2: the things I'm thinking about, get out and get in
Speaker 2: touch with nature, feel the fresh air, the sun on
Speaker 2: my face. So I would say it's never as fancy
Speaker 2: as self care is made out to be online. But
Speaker 2: look in your gratitude journal, pay attention. I always like
Speaker 2: the red car theory, right where you never noticed the
Speaker 2: red cars until you bought a red car, and then
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, everybody owns a red car. Our
Speaker 2: brain is wired to filter out things that aren't deemed important.
Speaker 2: So when we start to focus on and notice the
Speaker 2: things that do bring us joy, that do bring us happiness,
Speaker 2: that do bring us rest and recharge, our awareness is
Speaker 2: our superpower, and then we can do those things more intentionally.
Speaker 2: And it's never like I said, it doesn't have to
Speaker 2: be more than five minutes, but it can make all
Speaker 2: the difference in making our days more enjoyable.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned getting out into nature, and I know
Speaker 1: that is the whole section of your book on nature
Speaker 1: related tweaks to have a little bit more fresh air
Speaker 1: and outdoor life in our lives and schedules. Is there
Speaker 1: anything else we should try other than a brisk walk outside,
Speaker 1: good as that may be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think even setting up your office near a window,
Speaker 2: or even putting your backdrop of your computer a beautiful
Speaker 2: nature scene, putting a plant now to your desk, listening
Speaker 2: to nature sounds. I mean, some of these things are
Speaker 2: so simple, but they can make a huge difference. It
Speaker 2: doesn't mean we all have to go to a hike
Speaker 2: or all of those sorts of things, but I think
Speaker 2: just stepping outside, breathing in the fresh air is so
Speaker 2: grounding for us.
Speaker 1: Absolutely. And another angle for those tweaks you mentioned, kind
Speaker 1: of confronting your fears, flexing your fear muscles. And I
Speaker 1: love this idea of having tiny tweaks in our lives
Speaker 1: that allow us to take small risks. I wonder what
Speaker 1: are some tweaks we can do to introduce some small
Speaker 1: risks into our lives.
Speaker 2: Well. For a lot of people. Texting a person like
Speaker 2: I mentioned earlier, feels a little risky, right, connecting with people,
Speaker 2: inviting somebody to lunch. I always tell my kids though,
Speaker 2: that's the philosophy in our house is to flex your
Speaker 2: fear muscle, because, just like any other muscle, the more
Speaker 2: that you take small risks, the more likely you are
Speaker 2: to be brave enough to take the big risks. So
Speaker 2: just think about, you know something scares you a little bit,
Speaker 2: to just step into that, right, Like this interview today
Speaker 2: scared me a little bit, but I'm flexing my fear muscle, right.
Speaker 2: Or maybe you want to write a novel, but the
Speaker 2: first step is to write an Instagram caption thinking about
Speaker 2: little risks that you can take that are going to
Speaker 2: build up your evidence that you can take the risk
Speaker 2: and eventually take the bigger risk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we can change the stories that we tell about
Speaker 1: ourselves and whether we're the kind of people who can
Speaker 1: take risks. I hope I'm not too scary. I'm trying
Speaker 1: not to be.
Speaker 2: No, No, I love this. It was always different when
Speaker 2: you're on the other side of the on the other
Speaker 2: side of the interview.
Speaker 1: For sure. We're going to take one more quick ad
Speaker 1: break and then I will be back with more from Airinport. Well,
Speaker 1: I am back talking with Aaronport, who is the brains
Speaker 1: behind the popular simple, purposeful living platform on social media.
Speaker 1: You should go follow her Instagram for instance, she'll see
Speaker 1: her talking about her life and her philosophy, all those
Speaker 1: wonderful things. So let's talk about how we can celebrate
Speaker 1: tiny wins in our lives. So let's say some of
Speaker 1: these tweaks have been successful. What should we do to
Speaker 1: acknowledge that?
Speaker 2: I think, even pausing, we are so busy in our
Speaker 2: daily lives that we don't slow down long enough to
Speaker 2: acknowledge the progress that we're making. And when we adopted
Speaker 2: our youngest, his progress was slow, but it forced me
Speaker 2: to be excited for every little milestone. So, like I said,
Speaker 2: he was nonverbal in the beginning, and when we could
Speaker 2: get him to answer yes no questions, that was monumental.
Speaker 2: And he really taught me this lesson of celebrating tiny wins,
Speaker 2: because if we just wait for the big wins, the
Speaker 2: big moments in our life, there aren't that many, right,
Speaker 2: We're just waiting for the marriage and the kids and
Speaker 2: the promotion. Really, if we look back, there's not that many,
Speaker 2: but there is so much to be celebrated. So getting
Speaker 2: outside and going on a walk, you prove to yourself
Speaker 2: that you could you showed up. Celebrate that, be proud
Speaker 2: of yourself. Did you do something that you had a
Speaker 2: goal for and you showed up. Celebrate that, and also
Speaker 2: acknowledging other people's celebrations. I think when we start to
Speaker 2: acknowledge when our kids win, when our friends win, when
Speaker 2: our significant other wins, then they internally get that too,
Speaker 2: and then they can celebrate you as well. But I
Speaker 2: think just really focusing on hey, did I show up today?
Speaker 2: Did I do something that I'm proud of? Getting into
Speaker 2: the habit again of writing in your gratitude journal. Those things,
Speaker 2: the more we find them, the more we're going to
Speaker 2: see them in our daily life. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, we've been getting snippets about your daily life as
Speaker 1: you've been sharing some of your tweaks. I wonder if
Speaker 1: you could talk us through what a day tends to
Speaker 1: look like in your household. People always love to hear
Speaker 1: people's routines from this show.
Speaker 2: I do too, So I usually get up at six am.
Speaker 2: That's about thirty minutes before my kids, and they're all
Speaker 2: sleeping through the night. So there's that. I go to
Speaker 2: bed at nine point thirty. So I get up at
Speaker 2: six and I go out myself a cup of coffee,
Speaker 2: and I spend some time in the quiet just I
Speaker 2: love just right now, sitting in front of the fireplace.
Speaker 2: I have a gratitude journal, I do some devotions, I
Speaker 2: do some meditations in prayer, and then from there, my
Speaker 2: kids get up at six thirty and I kind of
Speaker 2: am the coach on the sidelines as they're going through
Speaker 2: their morning routine they have, getting breakfast and getting their lunches,
Speaker 2: getting dressed, and then I take the kids and we
Speaker 2: get out the door for school around seven thirty. I
Speaker 2: come home, I do my morning walking commute, get dressed,
Speaker 2: get ready, and spend the rest of the school day working.
Speaker 2: I always take a lunch break. I think it's really
Speaker 2: important to take that time away from work, eat, be quiet,
Speaker 2: and be intentional. And then the kids get home around
Speaker 2: three o'clock. I do the mom duties of taking them
Speaker 2: to all the places right getting dinner around the table
Speaker 2: that always varies based on when everybody's going to be home.
Speaker 2: I always try to capture the most amount of people
Speaker 2: around the dinner table, so that varies. It's about six
Speaker 2: o'clock and then, like I said, we spend some family time,
Speaker 2: maybe playing games, watching a show. We get the little
Speaker 2: two down to bed around eight to eight thirty, and
Speaker 2: then I go to my room, wash my face, put
Speaker 2: on my pajamas, and I like to read my big two.
Speaker 2: I have two teenagers. They come in and tuck mom
Speaker 2: in at the end of the day, and normally it's
Speaker 2: lights out between nine thirty and ten.
Speaker 1: For me, absolutely well. And I'm curious during the workday.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're sort of like after the morning commute
Speaker 1: to eight ish eight thirty and the until three. How
Speaker 1: do you structure your work days? I imagine with running
Speaker 1: a business, that could be different every single day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I have certain tasks for certain days. That's
Speaker 2: worked really well for me. So on Mondays, I do
Speaker 2: a lot of my goal checking, emails, correspondence, prepping for
Speaker 2: my podcast. Tuesday it's all about recording for my podcast.
Speaker 2: Wednesday it's all about the shop so I'm working on
Speaker 2: Amazon Ads, I'm working on Shopify inventory, all of those
Speaker 2: sorts of things. Thursdays are all about social media planning,
Speaker 2: writing my captions, preparing for next week, and then I,
Speaker 2: like you, like to plan for my next week with
Speaker 2: my to do list, so I can go into the
Speaker 2: weekend knowing what's ahead. But having kind of a set
Speaker 2: thing on each day really helps me. Now, next week
Speaker 2: we're leaving for a vacation, so what I normally do
Speaker 2: on Friday, I spread out on the other day so
Speaker 2: I'm flexible. But knowing that each task is going to
Speaker 2: be taken care of on a specific day frees up
Speaker 2: a lot of that mind clutter that otherwise I'd be
Speaker 2: thinking when should I do that this week? Or when
Speaker 2: should I do this? Just knowing, and I have a
Speaker 2: little word doc on my desktop that has those tasks,
Speaker 2: so they just open it up when I'm planning for
Speaker 2: the next week and I can plug those items in.
Speaker 1: Okay, got it, got it. So we have like some
Speaker 1: people do something like marketing Monday or you know, that
Speaker 1: kind of thing, and that helps you structure your business.
Speaker 1: So I always ask my guests erin, what's something you've
Speaker 1: done recently to take a day from great to awesome.
Speaker 1: Now we've been sharing lots of little tweaks over the
Speaker 1: course of this episode of things that you probably do
Speaker 1: that make your days more awesome, but what's What's something
Speaker 1: maybe you've done in the last day or two that
Speaker 1: really really made life feel a lot better for you.
Speaker 2: I love going to the library and picking up a
Speaker 2: great stack of books because one of my favorite rituals
Speaker 2: is reading at the end of the day. I started
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago putting my phone to bed
Speaker 2: with my little too. Like I just put it to bed.
Speaker 2: I try to keep it out of my hands, actually
Speaker 2: in my bathroom from the time we're cooking dinner till
Speaker 2: the kids go to bed. And then because it's in
Speaker 2: my bathroom, I don't scroll at night and I read instead.
Speaker 2: And so I just find a tremendous joy going and
Speaker 2: picking up library books looking around. There's just I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe it's the author in me, but just having a
Speaker 2: real live book and then reading before bed right now
Speaker 2: with a hot cup of tea, it just makes my
Speaker 2: whole day awesome.
Speaker 1: The library is an amazing resource, and even if you
Speaker 1: don't read all the books that you pick up from them,
Speaker 1: you know now you know for the future that that
Speaker 1: might be a book you want to check out again. So, Aaron,
Speaker 1: what are you looking forward to right now?
Speaker 2: You know something that I've really been redefining is what
Speaker 2: does success look like for you? For many years, I
Speaker 2: never defined it for myself, and so I let the
Speaker 2: world define success for me. And I think something I'm
Speaker 2: just really excited about now is being in this season
Speaker 2: with my kids. I've got a sixteen, fourteen, ten, and
Speaker 2: eight year old and a job that allows me the
Speaker 2: flexibility to do what I love to help people, but
Speaker 2: also be there for my family and my kids, and
Speaker 2: so I'm really just excited about leaning into this season
Speaker 2: sharing about tiny tweaks, happy life, but also being present
Speaker 2: for my family. And I feel like in my forties,
Speaker 2: I'm finally starting to figure out how to do that well.
Speaker 1: So when we come into our own for sure, So erin.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you?
Speaker 2: Yes, you can find me at Simple Purposeful Living. I'm
Speaker 2: mostly on Instagram, but then Facebook, TikTok and YouTube as well.
Speaker 2: We have a weekly podcast, Simple Purposeful Living Podcast, and
Speaker 2: our website is also Simple Purposeful Living. You can find
Speaker 2: and all of our products by searching that on Amazon
Speaker 2: or at shop dot simplepurposeful living dot com.
Speaker 1: Awesome, Well, Aaron, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: Thank you to everyone for listening. If you have feedback
Speaker 1: on this or any other episode. You can always reach
Speaker 1: me at Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making
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