About this episode

Emily Brown and guest Kayse Pratt discuss the importance of simplification in reducing overwhelm, especially for homeschool moms.

What if the thing making you feel overwhelmed isn't that you're bad at managing your time? What if you just have too much on your plate? I know. Revolutionary. In this episode, I'm talking with Kayse Pratt of Anchored Women about something both of us have had to wrestle with: simplification . Kayse recently made a pretty dramatic change in her business. After 16 years of creating digital products, she found herself with 223 different products. And here's the kicker: the business whose entire mission was to help people simplify had created a product line that was actually making things more complicated. So Kayse did something that is not easy to do. She cut it down to four. And that decision got us talking about what happens when we look at our own lives and realize we've done the exact same thing. We've added good thing after good thing until our lives are completely packed. And then we wonder why we're exhausted. As homeschool moms, this can happen especially easily. We aren't just educating our kids. We're managing the house, feeding everybody, running people to activities, keeping up with relationships, serving at church, working jobs, and trying to maintain some semblance of…

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