Ep 88 | Clear Your Space, Clear Your Mind: Holistic Decluttering with Noelle Fowler
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Wealthy After 40: Retirement Planning and Budgeting for Gen X
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Clearing out her own clutter during COVID, my guest Noelle Fowler learned how she had a knack for not only decluttering, but why some of us tend to purchase and keep more items than we need. Listen to the episode to learn her story and gain insights into decluttering, especially if you're on the horizon of downsizing your home in the next few years. Welcome to Wealthy After 40, where I help you turn retirement uncertainty into a clear, actionable plan. If you're thinking about retirement but feel unsure whether it's even possible, I understand. The gap between where you are now and where you want to be can feel overwhelming, but it doesn't have to. Hi, I'm Dailene Higgins, founder of Elevate Finances and your personal financial coach.
Having retired at the age of 50 and have enjoyed over two years of retirement bliss, I'm here to help you create your retirement dream and make it a reality. No more wondering, no more guessing, just taking action and building a future for yourself. Join me each week as I guide you through essential topics such as budgeting, cash flow, lifestyle planning, debt and savings, insurance, Medicare, and social security. Together, we'll build a strategy to help you achieve the retirement you've always desired. It's time to shift from uncertain to unstoppable and make your retirement dreams a reality. Welcome to the Wealthy After 40 podcast. Today, my guest is Noelle Fowler, who is a holistic declutter coach, helping busy women simplify their lives to make room for what matters most.
She takes a root cause approach to decluttering because baskets and bins are just band-aids in organizing. Her realistic and sustainable approach to decluttering folds into the rhythms of everyday life, so you're not spending all of your Saturday tackling that closet. Noelle will meet you where you're at, whether you are overwhelmed in the trenches of motherhood or just waiting for someone to give you the green light to get rid of grandma's china. She runs the Making Room membership, an online community that helps busy women simplify their homes to make room for what matters most. Thank you for spending your time with us today, Noelle.
How did Noelle Fowler’s pandemic organizing journey lead her to become a holistic declutter coach?
I'm excited to chat. Thank you for having me. Yeah, we have some good stuff to talk about today, for sure. I'm excited. I'm excited. So we're hoping in our conversation to answer the question, what is your clutter costing you? So I love that, you know, fitting in with finances. But before we dive into any specific question, share a little bit about who you are, your background, and what inspired you to become an expert in decluttering?
I would say I did not start as an expert into cluttering. That's for sure. During the pandemic, I fell in love with organizing. And so I organized my whole house. You know, I had a ton of time on my hands and fell in love with that. And so then I started as a professional organizer. I organized for family and friends and started getting paid and then opened my own LLC and started organizing for other people as well. And I loved that. It was super fun. And I was good at it. Except for the fact that I felt like I was just organizing people's clutter. Like as much as I love the organization and the bins and the labels that so many people seem to love, it felt like I was just taking people's clutter and making it look nice.
Even though I would declutter and I would get rid of things and we would have conversations about what they no longer need or use, I was just doing the work for them. And so I realized that I didn't want to be doing that anymore and that I wasn't really getting to the root of why we have so much stuff in the first place if you just organize all your stuff. So I started to learn more about decluttering and I learned about minimalism. which that word kind of freaks people out. But I really like Joshua Becker's definition. He says it's the intentional promotion of things that matter most and the removal of anything that gets in the way of that. So I love that. I love intentionally promoting what matters most to me and to my clients and then ruthlessly getting rid of what gets in the way of that.
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Chapters
4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:32
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How did Noelle Fowler’s pandemic organizing journey lead her to become a holistic declutter coach?
2:32–24:19
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What simple first steps can someone take to start decluttering without burning out?
24:19–29:47
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How should you transition from easy areas to tackling sentimental clutter like kids’ artwork?
29:47–30:42
Speakers
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