Curious Freedom with Kirsty Farrugia & friends

This is our new mini series to help us all during the Covid-19 season. We hope it helps to serve and support you. Inspires you to be productive in your decluttering and encourages your mental health. Today we are talking about how to get creative in this season in decluttering and repurposing your kitchen utensils. Things mentioned in this episode and other helpful links: ● Micro Declutter episode...

This is our new mini series to help us all during the Covid-19 season. We hope it helps to serve and support you. Inspires you to be productive in your decluttering and encourages your mental health. Today we are talking about how to get creative in this season in decluttering and sharing games and puzzles. Things mentioned in this episode and other helpful links: ● Board Games & Puzzles ● Sha...

This is our new mini series to help us all during the Covid-19 season. We hope it helps to serve and support you. Inspires you to be productive in your decluttering and encourages your mental health. Today we are talking about the joy and challenges of working from home! Things mentioned in this episode and other helpful links: ● Work Stations ● Home Office ● Office Desk ● Junk Room Join our commu...

This is our new mini series to help us all during the Covid-19 season. We hope it helps to serve and support you. Inspires you to be productive in your decluttering and encourages your mental health. Today we are being real, honest and hopefully inspire hope! Join our community ● Follow us on Instagram & Facebook ● Join our Facebook group ● Leave a review on Apple Podcast ● Our website Thank y...

This is our new mini series to help us all during the Covid-19 season. We hope it helps to serve and support you. Inspires you to be productive in your decluttering and encourages your mental health. Things mentioned in this episode and other helpful links: ● Grace episode Join our community ● Follow us on Instagram & Facebook ● Join our Facebook group ● Leave a review on Apple Podcast ● Our w...

*Disclaimer: This episode was recorded before Covid-19 took hold of the world, so we just ask for your grace if you find any comments insensitive given the current climate.* This week we chat about storage units, which is a $1.1 Billlion p.a industry, and when is a good time to use them and how to declutter them! In this episode we; ● Give you lots of reasons why you might have a storage unit; ● E...

This week we chat about the major types of clutter we see in the homes of our clients! In this episode we; ● Encourage you to use this episode and the linked episodes to help you diagnose what type of clutter is bothering you at the moment in your home; ● Challenge you dig into why these types of clutter hang around; ● Inspire you to listen to the episode where we deep dive into specific areas or...

This week we chat about bargain clutter and whether it really is a bargain. It is following on from last week's episode on Freebie Clutter! In this episode we; ● Encourage you think about where you are going to store 'bargain' clutter when you bring it home; ● Challenge you to question the marketing and why businesses are offering things at a bargain; ● Question our own buying habits; ● Chat about...

This week we chat about the freebie clutter and what it actually costs you! In this episode we; ● Encourage you to look around and see what 'freebie' clutter you can see around your home; ● Get fired up about the waste that happens with free stuff you get from businesses; ● Understand why you want to say yes to free stuff; ● Challenge you to say no as much as you can; ● And so so so so much more.....

This week we chat about the sharing and borrowing economy, it's a good one! In this episode we; ● Encourage you to reduce your consumerism and think of alternatives to buying new; ● Share some statistics on this booming industry; ● Challenge you to continue to be a conscious consumer ● And so so so so much more... We hope from this conversation we all learn something and puts a smile on your face!...

This week we chat to Carly and glean her wisdom of someone who has gone from being a client to being one our staff members: In this episode we; ● Learn Carly's story, how she came to become a client of The Art of Decluttering; ● How she felt investing in herself and her home; ● What she loves now about working as a Professional Organiser for us; ● And so so so so much more... We hope from this con...

This week we chat about fatigue, more than just really tired, chronic illnesses and reasons why fatigue might slow you down or affect your decluttering. In this episode we; ● Discuss how we help people with chronic diseases and illnesses; ● What are some things we’d do differently for people that suffer from fatigue; ● Give tips for people who can only manage short bursts of energy; ● And so so so...

This week we chat to Lex who is Amy's client and a participant of our Head, Heart and Home course. In this episode we; ● Learn Lexs' story, how she came to become a client of The Art of Decluttering; ● How she felt opening the door to Amy; ● What she found the hardest part of working with a Professional Organiser; ● Lex challenges you to build a team to help you; ● And so so so so much more... We...

This week we chat about having all your family admin paperwork and tasks in one place, the Command Centre: In this episode we; ● Question who needs a command centre and why; ● Give you lots of possibilities of what could be included in your command centre and where it should live; ● Encourage you to think about the functioning of your current command centre and whether it is the system that needs...

This week we chat to Chantal Imbach from Photos In Order about how to declutter and organise your photos. In this episode Chantal; ● Encourages us to back up our photos regularly in a few different ways; ● Challenges us to be thoughtful and intentional about taking photos in the first place with the end in mind as well as to be ruthless in the deleting and archiving process as well; ● Gives us tip...

We’ve had an episode on having a recycling holding zone as some of our listeners and clients are passionate about diverting all they can from landfill and feel a significant burden to find the right solution for all of their consumption and decluttering efforts, so this week we have created another bonus episode where we chat to Charlotte from 1800-Got-Junk . In this episode Amy and Charlotte: ● C...

This week we chat about having the kids go back or start school here in Australia: ● Encourage you to think the different ways your children approach the morning, do they jump out of bed eager or do they take a long time to wake up; ● Challenge you plan out your week so that people get to where they need to get to and food gets into hungry bellies after all the after school activities ● Give tips...

This week we chat about setting your vision for 2020. In this episode we: ● Talk about the difference between resolutions and setting vision; ● Challenge you to cast vision for 2020; ● Encourage you to think about where you currently are, where do you want to be, what you need to do/be/change to get to your vision and think about who you need to bring alongside you to achieve success; ● Discuss ou...

This week, we are sharing This Organized Life podcast and our conversation with Laurie Palau. We have a chat about starting the new year well and even though it was recorded for 2019 we think you’ll love it as you start 2020. If you want to hear more from the three of us then listen to episode #94 as we interview Laurie on the on 4 Types of Clutter, we will link to it in the show notes. Things men...

This December we again wanted to practice what we preach and have some white space in our lead ups to Christmas this year. We decided to showcase some of the podcast where we have been the guests! In 2017 we recorded 5 episodes around Christmas themes, Schedules, Decorations, Gifts and Wrapping, Christmas Functions and Christmas holidays and we repeated these again last year so if you are wanting...

This December we again wanted to practice what we preach and have some white space in our lead ups to Christmas this year. We decided to showcase some of the podcast where we have been the guests! In 2017 we recorded 5 episodes around Christmas themes, Schedules, Decorations, Gifts and Wrapping, Christmas Functions and Christmas holidays and we repeated these again last year so if you are wanting...

This December we again wanted to practice what we preach and have some white space in our lead ups to Christmas this year. We decided to showcase some of the podcast where we have been the guests! In 2017 we recorded 5 episodes around Christmas themes, Schedules, Decorations, Gifts and Wrapping, Christmas Functions and Christmas holidays and we repeated these again last year so if you are wanting...

This December we wanted to again practice what we preach and have some white space in our lead ups to Christmas this year. We decided to showcase some of the podcast where we have been the guests! In 2017 we recorded 5 episodes around Christmas themes, Schedules, Decorations, Gifts and Wrapping, Christmas Functions and Christmas holidays and we repeated these again last year so if you are wanting...

This week we chat about Perfectionism. Neither of us identified as perfectionist until we did this episode. So if you, too, don't resonate with this topic, we still recommend you listen! If you do have perfectionist tendencies, this will be a helpful conversation. In this episode we: ● Give nine characteristics of perfectionism; ● Talk about if we display those characteristics; ● Discuss how perfe...

Kirsty had a great conversation with the extraordinary Clare Press from Wardrobe Crisis this week. Clare is also the Sustainability Editor of Vogue Australia and an incredible author, among many other talents. In this episode we: ● Talk about fashion and the effect that our insatiable desire for fast fashion has on our planet; ● Highlight some of the alarming statistics around fashion and the envi...