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. So today I
Speaker 1: am delighted to welcome Chelsea Joe to the show. Chelsea
Speaker 1: is the host of the Systemaize Your Life podcast. So, Chelsea,
Speaker 1: welcome to Before Breakfast.
Speaker 2: Thanks for having me. It's going to be a great
Speaker 2: conversation absolutely.
Speaker 1: So why don't you tell our listeners a little bit
Speaker 1: about yourself?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a wife and a mom. I've got two
Speaker 2: girls that are thirteen and about well just actually eight.
Speaker 3: It's a birthday today, so happy birthday. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I am the CEO of Chelsea Joe dot Co. I've
Speaker 2: been running this company for the past six years. I
Speaker 2: retired myself out of my profession, which was I was
Speaker 2: a side language interpreter for many years and I also
Speaker 2: ran an event based business for quite some time with
Speaker 2: my mom, and so this is my full time work now.
Speaker 2: My husband was a firefighter for many years and so
Speaker 2: we juggled a really crazy, hectic schedule and we now
Speaker 2: are using systems on a regular basis for me to
Speaker 2: be able to juggle all of the demands that we
Speaker 2: have on a regular basis.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, what got you interested in the productivity world?
Speaker 1: I mean, was this always something that you were interested
Speaker 1: in then just decided to transition into it or anything?
Speaker 3: What happened?
Speaker 2: I mean, essentially, I was when I first got married.
Speaker 2: I had a two year old daughter that I brought
Speaker 2: with me to that marriage, and so we had a family. Immediately,
Speaker 2: my husband was trying to get on with a better
Speaker 2: fire department than the one he was in. He went
Speaker 2: through a couple of fire academies. I was running that
Speaker 2: event base business this, and doing sign language. And then
Speaker 2: we had another baby while I was interpreting, and I
Speaker 2: was doing that for about twenty hours a week, and
Speaker 2: then we had another baby, and things just got really chaotic,
Speaker 2: and so I just knew that I didn't want to
Speaker 2: live that way, and I knew by looking around that
Speaker 2: other people were accomplishing a lot of things, and so
Speaker 2: I essentially gravitate towards doing things the way that other
Speaker 2: people are doing them, that are doing the things that
Speaker 2: I want to be doing, and so it's just more
Speaker 2: so I think the way that I wanted to live,
Speaker 2: and so I started testing things, found something that really worked,
Speaker 2: started sharing with my friends, started a blog, started a podcast,
Speaker 2: and the rest as you do.
Speaker 1: As you do. Yeah, because both of you were working
Speaker 1: then and jobs that are not really known for being
Speaker 1: nine to five sort of jobs, right, I mean between
Speaker 1: the you know, firefighting and event planning. I mean, things
Speaker 1: are happening at all different times, right, it seems like
Speaker 1: that might be challenging to build systems into there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that was really I think that's the one
Speaker 2: kickback that I get from everybody is, oh, my life
Speaker 2: is too chaotic to have a system like I can't
Speaker 2: do the same thing every day. And that is literally
Speaker 2: why I built them in order to be able to
Speaker 2: still be highly productive and not have that chaos during
Speaker 2: all of the highs and lows. Because for sign language interpreting,
Speaker 2: I was an independent contractor, so I would just wait
Speaker 2: anytime we got an email, anybody that was licensed and
Speaker 2: felt qualified could pick up the job. So like at
Speaker 2: any moment I would have to say yes, I could
Speaker 2: do that gig, and then I'm scrambling for sitters and okay,
Speaker 2: what's for dinner, and my husband not to take over,
Speaker 2: but if he wasn't available because he was at the
Speaker 2: fire department, then we'd have to hand over to the sitters.
Speaker 2: Like it was just so many pieces. And then obviously
Speaker 2: for him he would works. He's had a lot of
Speaker 2: crazy schedules, but the one that we lived with the
Speaker 2: most was he would work two days, then off four
Speaker 2: and then work two days and then off four, which
Speaker 2: is only six out of seven days. So there was
Speaker 2: always a rotation, so like he would work Saturday Sunday,
Speaker 2: then Friday, Saturday, then Thursday Friday, and it just kept
Speaker 2: going around the week like that. So I could never
Speaker 2: have consistent babysitters, or there's no consistency. And that's why
Speaker 2: I created these systems, because any given day I could
Speaker 2: actually have a rhythm based on the things that I
Speaker 2: knew needed to be in a certain order in order
Speaker 2: for us to.
Speaker 3: Get to school on time. And you know, then we
Speaker 3: homeschooled for one of.
Speaker 2: The kids still is and there's just a lot of
Speaker 2: moving pieces in all of that, and the systems allowed
Speaker 2: me to not be overwhelmed and not run around like
Speaker 2: a crazy person with it like a chicken with its
Speaker 2: head cut off, is what I say all the time.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, So then you know, would you plan in weeks
Speaker 1: or planned by day or sort of look ahead for
Speaker 1: you know, how was the timeline then of figuring out
Speaker 1: how systems might work?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yea.
Speaker 2: My method is based on a seven day or a
Speaker 2: week long home management system, and so I have all
Speaker 2: seven days mapped out, and depending on what the week
Speaker 2: looks like, right, we have some days that have lots
Speaker 2: of extracurriculars, we have some days that don't. We have
Speaker 2: some days where there's a lot of variables. But you
Speaker 2: can essentially look through all of those things that are
Speaker 2: happening in your week and you can really decide just
Speaker 2: by seeing everything at a glance, how you can group
Speaker 2: things together so you're not constantly multitasking all day long.
Speaker 2: So I really ended up just building my whole life,
Speaker 2: is what I call it. Basically, it was a week
Speaker 2: of time, right, and I chunked that down and every
Speaker 2: seven days we repeat it. So on Sundays, we have
Speaker 2: a very specific event on the calendar that says Sunday Reset,
Speaker 2: and we sit down and we reset all of our systems,
Speaker 2: that need to be reset, and they're pretty much all automated.
Speaker 2: We just make sure that we update them. Like today's
Speaker 2: Bailey's birthday, so it's not a normal Tuesday night, right,
Speaker 2: We're doing something very different this Tuesday night, So we
Speaker 2: just update and tweak those small pieces.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and so I mean when people are feeling like
Speaker 1: their life is chaotic and they are feeling overwhelmed, I mean,
Speaker 1: what do you think they're generally getting wrong? Like what
Speaker 1: leads to that sense of overwhelming chaos?
Speaker 2: Yeah, the biggest part is just using too rigid of
Speaker 2: a schedule or having like one hundred percent fly by
Speaker 2: the seat of your pants. So I try and bring
Speaker 2: people to the middle of that pendulum. There's a really
Speaker 2: good mix in between those two that I have dialed
Speaker 2: in and live in on a regular basis. A lot
Speaker 2: of people would plague or peg me as a type
Speaker 2: a personality, but you know, I mean, I guess by
Speaker 2: different definitions, somebody will be that if they wanted to.
Speaker 2: But I hate being told what to do. I don't
Speaker 2: like doing the same thing over and over again. I
Speaker 2: hated working a nine to five. I want to do
Speaker 2: my own thing and having the framework and like an
Speaker 2: actual home management system did allow me to have that
Speaker 2: freedom to be able to do that.
Speaker 3: Excellent.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, We're going to take a quick ad
Speaker 1: break and then I'll be back with more from Chelsea Joe. Well,
Speaker 1: I am back talking with Chelsea Joe, who is the
Speaker 1: host of the Systemize Your Life podcast for talking about
Speaker 1: ways to systemize your life. So Chelsea, let's talk about
Speaker 1: some of those systems, Like what are some of your
Speaker 1: favorite Like if somebody is living in chaos and the
Speaker 1: Chelsea comes to them and the first thing she has
Speaker 1: them to, what's one of the easy systems that somebody
Speaker 1: could start putting into place.
Speaker 2: Well, I think the easiest and most impactful to start with.
Speaker 2: This wouldn't necessarily be where I would have you start foundationally,
Speaker 2: but still part of my huge system is my meal
Speaker 2: planning system. Like the home management that whole thing definitely
Speaker 2: is the meal planning system. That's super straightforward. I teach
Speaker 2: that in depth on my blog and on the podcast
Speaker 2: all the time. It is part of the program as well.
Speaker 2: But essentially it's just a really straightforward, old fashioned way
Speaker 2: of making sure that you're not skimming through Pinterest meals
Speaker 2: all the time and that you use your family's favorites
Speaker 2: as a bank that you can repeat over and over
Speaker 2: and over again. And you create a menu board for
Speaker 2: your family so they can always see what's on the
Speaker 2: menu every week. And from there you get into a
Speaker 2: really great rhythm of just making sure that your meal
Speaker 2: planning every single weekend, and then you no longer have
Speaker 2: to hear what's for dinner. You're not going through drive
Speaker 2: through multiple time times a week, you're not over buying
Speaker 2: at the grocery store and not utilizing the food and
Speaker 2: throwing out a ton, so you end up saving a
Speaker 2: ton of money doing that. It's probably one of the
Speaker 2: first systems that I ever set up, truly, because I
Speaker 2: remember very vividly in my mind when I like threw
Speaker 2: my hands up in there and I was like, I'm
Speaker 2: done with this. And I had been on Pinteres for
Speaker 2: like two hours trying to figure out what to make
Speaker 2: for food that week, and I was still trying to
Speaker 2: wildly impress my husband with these you know, over the
Speaker 2: top meals, and I was like, this is I'm done
Speaker 2: with this, because I had two hours by the time
Speaker 2: the baby woke up from the nap, and like I
Speaker 2: was like, this is ridiculous.
Speaker 3: I can't do this.
Speaker 2: So I ended up setting up this system and we
Speaker 2: literally still use it like nine years later.
Speaker 1: So how many crowd placing meals should I have like
Speaker 1: in my in my docket that I can then pull
Speaker 1: up for my weekly plan?
Speaker 2: Listen, I tell families with the pickiest eaters to start
Speaker 2: with five, and you're gonna want to ask your family.
Speaker 2: I think we have ten that we rotate still to
Speaker 2: this day, and then they switch because you know, kids
Speaker 2: get tired of it, We get tired of it, We
Speaker 2: find a new one, an old one phases out, and
Speaker 2: we have like a huge stack at this point that
Speaker 2: we've you know, been building. We don't use all of those,
Speaker 2: but it's fun to go back and look and be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: I remember that season when we had like chicken legs,
Speaker 2: corn on the cob and watermelon like every week over
Speaker 2: the summer. You know.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Yeah, we have. We have a couple of
Speaker 1: true crowd placers in my family too. So around here,
Speaker 1: Monday is always pasta night because Monday is like the
Speaker 1: day when I least want to think about what it's
Speaker 1: for dinner. So that's something that's wound up working for us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that. I have had a lot of
Speaker 3: families that will.
Speaker 2: End up making like like theme nights, like Monday's always
Speaker 2: pasta and Tuesday's always tacos of some sword and like,
Speaker 2: or they'll they'll put like a specific culture it's like Mexican, Italian,
Speaker 2: American traditional and whatever. You know, and how you want
Speaker 2: to go about creating a system for yourself is always
Speaker 2: a good place to start.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, what's the other major housework thing that or
Speaker 1: house management thing that tends to get people feeling like
Speaker 1: they're behind? I mean, I don't know. Is it cleaning,
Speaker 1: is it laundry, is it you know, administration or bill
Speaker 1: paying or what is it that's sort of next, you know,
Speaker 1: contributing to the chaos.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think for me, it's the biggest thing for
Speaker 2: me is time management. And people have never been taught
Speaker 2: how to manage their time. And even if we were
Speaker 2: taught by our parents, what they had to juggle in
Speaker 2: a daily basis is nothing in comparison to what we
Speaker 2: are juggling now our kids. The pressure for our kids
Speaker 2: to be in a thousand things and just like everybody
Speaker 2: is running at the speed of light, and so time
Speaker 2: management is really important, and so I have a very
Speaker 2: specific method that's hybrid between a paper planner and a
Speaker 2: Google calendar of putting in a lot of automation in there.
Speaker 2: So it takes the bandwidth and like the complexity of
Speaker 2: managing a schedule out of it. But then we also
Speaker 2: use five specific core time blocks to get your entire
Speaker 2: life from being scattered all over the place into really
Speaker 2: digestible groups of time. After we get your time management
Speaker 2: down path, than everything else literally that's driving people crazy
Speaker 2: is keeping up with the cooking, cleaning, dishes, laundry. It's
Speaker 2: the dishes, toilets, laundry, you know, et cetera, those things.
Speaker 2: Keeping up with housework is really complex for a lot
Speaker 2: of people because they never set time aside to do it,
Speaker 2: and when they do, they're like, that sounds really boring.
Speaker 3: I would rather it.
Speaker 1: Well, it is, I mean, but it's true that tasks
Speaker 1: take time, and I think people have in their mind
Speaker 1: that they don't I mean, I don't know where that
Speaker 1: comes from, but yes, of course, like if you are
Speaker 1: the one cleaning your house, you're gonna have to devote
Speaker 1: time in your schedule to cleaning your house.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, And even whenever they do devote time,
Speaker 2: They have no idea how long it actually takes what
Speaker 2: they're going to do with that time. They just look
Speaker 2: around and see a messy house and think, I need
Speaker 2: to get the house cleaned, and so they wait for
Speaker 2: it to build up and build up and build up
Speaker 2: and build up. And it's pretty basically the same thing
Speaker 2: with all home management, and so they push everything off
Speaker 2: to the back burner and they don't prioritize it. And
Speaker 2: these are foundational parts of living also our health, and
Speaker 2: moms are notorious for this right of not taking care
Speaker 2: of himself and putting themselves on the back burner. The
Speaker 2: food that we eat, how often we work out, are
Speaker 2: we caring for ourselves and were getting to bed on time?
Speaker 2: That is a very big holistic approach to managing your life,
Speaker 2: but essentially to managing the home. And my husband's very
Speaker 2: involved in the home management, but it's still like my
Speaker 2: brain and my baby behind this machine that I've built,
Speaker 2: and then he just helps execute all of it. He's
Speaker 2: got great, great feedback at times too. And I always
Speaker 2: encourage the families that I work with to make sure
Speaker 2: that it is involving and we're soliciting information back from
Speaker 2: the other people that we live with to help us
Speaker 2: build a really sustainable home management system.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm curious what those five times of the day are.
Speaker 1: Now I'm pondering, what are my five blocks of the day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so most people that here time blocking, they've had
Speaker 2: some experience with it, and I don't do it anything
Speaker 2: like anybody else that you will find on the internet.
Speaker 2: So essentially, there's three major things that we have to
Speaker 2: tackle in a day. There's three major groups. The first
Speaker 2: one is ourselves. We have to give time to ourself.
Speaker 2: We have to get ready, we have to work out,
Speaker 2: we need to feed ourselves whether or not. You know,
Speaker 2: I'm a very faith based person, so having time to
Speaker 2: read and do Bible studies or whatever that practice is
Speaker 2: for you is really important. And no one ever really
Speaker 2: takes the time to do that. And no matter what
Speaker 2: season of life you're in, Like I nursed my babies
Speaker 2: around the clock, Like I get it, I've been been
Speaker 2: in that season completely, But there's still an opportunity for
Speaker 2: at least fifteen minutes for yourself.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: The other big group or category that we have to
Speaker 2: tackle into vote a lot of time too, is everything
Speaker 2: else in the home. So taking care of the kids,
Speaker 2: taking care of the home itself, and the marriage. Right,
Speaker 2: that's a huge consumption of our life. And then the
Speaker 2: third one is our work. If you're whether or not
Speaker 2: you're working to earn money or you're giving of your
Speaker 2: time and your gifts to the PTO or to your
Speaker 2: local whatever. Right, it's very rare that a woman is
Speaker 2: not doing something outside of being a wife and a mom,
Speaker 2: and so there needs to be time for that. And
Speaker 2: so those three things. When I sat down, I was like,
Speaker 2: this is super easy. We don't have to mix this
Speaker 2: all up. We're just going to do these three things right.
Speaker 2: But essentially, you can't just pour into the kids once
Speaker 2: a day. You've got to touch it before and after work.
Speaker 2: It has to be touched, right. So this is where
Speaker 2: my five time blocks come in place. So the very first,
Speaker 2: first first part of the day is your morning routine block.
Speaker 2: You focus on yourself. Then you bump into your am block,
Speaker 2: you focus on the home, the kids, marriage, whatever needs
Speaker 2: to be done there. Then you focus on your work,
Speaker 2: and then you do it backwards. You go back to
Speaker 2: focusing on your home, your kids, your marriage, all the things.
Speaker 2: And then you have that little and that's your PM block,
Speaker 2: and then you have your little little block at the
Speaker 2: end of the day, your book nds of your day
Speaker 2: is your nighttime routine block. And for me, like a
Speaker 2: couple of nights a week that consists one night a
Speaker 2: week that consists of a date night with my husband,
Speaker 2: and then the rest of the nights of the week,
Speaker 2: maybe once or twice I'm watching something on YouTube, a
Speaker 2: podcast or something of some sort. And then the other
Speaker 2: nights it's just me. I'm in a bath, I'm unwinding,
Speaker 2: I'm reading, I'm journaling or whatever. And so those are
Speaker 2: the five time blocks, and the goal is to get
Speaker 2: your entire life out of every single nook and cranny
Speaker 2: and get them put into these very specific time blocks.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like that and just giving people the idea that yes,
Speaker 1: you are a time block right like that. There doesn't
Speaker 1: have to because I like, I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people feel that, you know, all I'm ever doing is house, kids, work.
Speaker 1: You know, it's there's there's no time for me. But
Speaker 1: even if it's just a sliver at the beginning and
Speaker 1: at the end, yeah.
Speaker 3: It could be fifteen minutes, it doesn't have to be
Speaker 3: two hours, which there, but it's still there. It's still
Speaker 3: there and it's something to look forward to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I'm curious, I mean, Telsey, because obviously this
Speaker 1: is a show called Before Breakfast, so we're big on
Speaker 1: morning routines here. What is your morning routine?
Speaker 2: Well, oddly enough, mine just changed drastically. Okay, my morning
Speaker 2: routine for a real long time. For like the last
Speaker 2: several years, we my husband and I spend a lot
Speaker 2: of time separated in the morning. We read and I
Speaker 2: kind of get ready for the day. I do check
Speaker 2: in with my team. I do a quick power like
Speaker 2: fifteen thirty minutes to address because I'm on the Pacific
Speaker 2: time zone and everybody else is basically East. So by
Speaker 2: the time I get to work, they're all like checking
Speaker 2: out for the day. So I have to like plug
Speaker 2: in with them early in the morning, and then I
Speaker 2: would kind of open up the house. A lot of
Speaker 2: people say that they wake up their house and put
Speaker 2: their house to bed, you know, but I really, I
Speaker 2: really do enjoy that. And then getting ready for the day.
Speaker 2: That's what I was doing for a really long time.
Speaker 2: Obviously making the bed there's little nuances within that. But
Speaker 2: now I am the five am workout warrior, and that's
Speaker 2: where we're at right now. So I'm up at four
Speaker 2: forty five, We're at the gym at like five point fifteen,
Speaker 2: and I get back home and we eat immediately and
Speaker 2: get the kids to school. And my husband and I
Speaker 2: are rotating every other day, so the days that I
Speaker 2: take the kids and go straight to work, I get
Speaker 2: to take a shower while the kids are getting ready
Speaker 2: and then we flip flop that.
Speaker 3: And that's been working out really well.
Speaker 1: All right, well, we're going to take a quick ad
Speaker 1: break and I'll be back with more from Chelsea jo Well,
Speaker 1: I'm back talking with Chelsea Joe, who is the host
Speaker 1: of the Systemize Your Life podcast. So I'm very curious
Speaker 1: what inspired the you know, shift to being a five
Speaker 1: point fifteen workout warrior person. Like what what I mean?
Speaker 1: I am not I you know, despite hosting a show
Speaker 1: called Before Breakfast, I am not a hardcore morning person.
Speaker 1: So I'm always curious what makes that happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, we were trying to work out in any
Speaker 2: other time of the day and it was essentially taking
Speaker 2: two hours. It literally will take two hours of my
Speaker 2: day to go get there, warm up, and then my
Speaker 2: four days so like warming up is like a thing
Speaker 2: that has to be done at this point.
Speaker 3: Can't just like dive in like I used to.
Speaker 2: I just used to like show up to class and
Speaker 2: like just hammer out a hardcore workout and be fine.
Speaker 2: That Now like everything hurts and you know whatever. But
Speaker 2: it just was eating up into work essentially, because we
Speaker 2: really want to be available for our kids when they
Speaker 2: get off of school. Woll and my husband recently retired
Speaker 2: from the fire department, and we just had to make
Speaker 2: a hard decision of like, can we get this done
Speaker 2: in the morning so that we can still both run
Speaker 2: our businesses and both for the most part be off
Speaker 2: work by three thirty or four thirty every single day.
Speaker 2: And I he and I both are really wonderful morning people,
Speaker 2: but we also really like to stay up after the
Speaker 2: kids go to.
Speaker 3: Bed too, So we're like, what is this sleep thing?
Speaker 3: Why do we have to do it so much?
Speaker 1: So your your two ends of the day are starting
Speaker 1: to spread bigger, they're starting to get the bigger the
Speaker 1: two time blacks at the end, well, because what time
Speaker 1: do you need to go to bed then to wake.
Speaker 3: Up that early? Yeah?
Speaker 2: We really want to be like in bed with lights
Speaker 2: out at nine o'clock.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and that's hard.
Speaker 1: That's hard, especially if your kids are not going to
Speaker 1: bed until probably well then no.
Speaker 2: Now we have my kids. I sleep trained my second
Speaker 2: one because my first one I did not, and I
Speaker 2: thought every woman that sleep trained her child was a
Speaker 2: terrible mother. And then I learned that there was very
Speaker 2: great idea to sleep train your children. So with my
Speaker 2: second when, we definitely did that. And she has gone
Speaker 2: to bed like clockwork by like seven seven point thirty
Speaker 2: and just as of late it's been eight o'clock. She
Speaker 2: just went into third grade. But her older sister is
Speaker 2: a huge influence on that because she's thirteen now and
Speaker 2: all she wants to do from nine o'clock on is
Speaker 2: talk for hours on end the teenage life, and so
Speaker 2: we are trying to navigate that and it has looked
Speaker 2: a little bit different for the thirteen year old. You know,
Speaker 2: she now has her own nighttime routine that she navigates
Speaker 2: independently after.
Speaker 3: We put her to bed.
Speaker 2: Put her to bed because we're tired.
Speaker 3: We're like, we gotta go to bed. I can't stay
Speaker 3: up late every night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a I have started to be among the
Speaker 1: earlier people in my household going to bed so yeah,
Speaker 1: it's one of those things. So, Telsey, I always ask
Speaker 1: people on the show, what is something you've done recently
Speaker 1: to take a day from great to.
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 2: That's a really great question, to take a day from
Speaker 2: great to awesome? Well, work out that takes my day
Speaker 2: from great to awesome every single time without a shadow
Speaker 2: of a doubt. But I think the second thing is,
Speaker 2: and the thing that I've been focused on the most lately,
Speaker 2: is definitely the way that we speak to ourselves and
Speaker 2: just constantly. I call it flipping the script. So there's
Speaker 2: a lot of people in my family that cycle really
Speaker 2: negative thoughts often or they maybe they aren't even negative,
Speaker 2: but they're definitely not encouraging or positive. And what we
Speaker 2: think shapes the way that we make decisions. And my
Speaker 2: husband's grandfather always said, where our thoughts go, our feet go.
Speaker 2: And so when we're trying to take a day from
Speaker 2: great to awesome, it's really important to care about the
Speaker 2: kinds of thoughts and words that speak to ourselves.
Speaker 1: So using positive thoughts and in our minds to direct
Speaker 1: where we're going. So, Chelsea, what are you looking forward
Speaker 1: to right now?
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to San Diego this weekend. We're taking
Speaker 2: the kids to a really lovely, kind of last minute
Speaker 2: summer wrap up trip to the beach in San Diego.
Speaker 3: Oh that sounds fun.
Speaker 1: San Diego's gorgeous. So yeah, I assume you've been there before, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I grew up in a neighboring state
Speaker 2: in Arizona, so we went a lot as a kid,
Speaker 2: and it's going to be a great time. My youngest
Speaker 2: one's never been to the beach. My oldest one has
Speaker 2: only been like once when she was I don't know,
Speaker 2: like five or six.
Speaker 3: So they're both going to have the time of their life.
Speaker 1: That's great. What a great hurrah before the end of
Speaker 1: the summer. Where can people find you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, if you love listening to podcasts, you can
Speaker 2: come over. I've had a podcast for the last six years.
Speaker 2: We've got over five hundred episodes that you can binge.
Speaker 2: It's called Systemize your Life. Or you can have a
Speaker 2: head over to the website Chelsea Joe dot Co. And
Speaker 2: you'll find free resources there, a time blocking workbook, the
Speaker 2: meal planning system. There's a quiz there that will tell
Speaker 2: you what system you need to start with first.
Speaker 3: All of that's totally free and ready for you guys,
Speaker 3: so head over.
Speaker 1: Yeah awesome, well please do head over there. And Chelsea,
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