Curious Freedom with Kirsty Farrugia & friends

We love that when we work with our clients, it's not about a student/ teacher relationship - it's about being a team, solving problems, and working together for their future of freedom. This means that we learnt some incredible things from our clients. We share heaps of those in our episode this week and how they've impacted how we do our everyday lives, and how it's helped evolve our business. In...

This week we chat firewood at Joanna Strybosch's request! Amy has a fireplace and while Kirsty loves a fire, she has never had a home with a fireplace. In this episode we: ● Challenge you to declutter and organise your firewood; ● Encourage you to consider if your fireplace is used regularly or if it attracts more aspirational clutter instead; ● Give you some tips on how to store and move your fir...

This week we chat about discouragement and what it looks like regarding decluttering. In this episode we: ● Challenge you to remind yourself that you are worth it; ● Encourage you to trust the process; ● Talk about different ways discouragement can occur; ● Discuss the different ways we get discouraged as Professional Organisers; ● And so so so so much more... We hope from this conversation, we al...

We love Osher Gunsberg's podcast 'Better than Yesterday', and last week, we heard the innovative Mike Smith; who else listened to that interview? Amy got to chat with him, so we decided to give a little bonus episode with that chat today! In this episode we: ● Encourage you all to join Zeroco's Kickstarter campaign, which is a win/win/win for our planet and us; ● Challenge our ideas on single-use...

This week we chat with Nicole Bijlsma from Building Biology about mould and all things healthy homes. In this episode we: ● Challenge your thinking around what makes a healthy home ; ● Encourage you to be more aware of mould in your home; ● Give you some tips on how to reduce the impact of mould and dust in your home; ● And so so so so much more... We hope from this conversation, we all learn some...

This week we chat to Angela and Wendy from Hoarding Home Solutions about Hoarding Disorder. In this episode we: ● Give you a definition of what Hoarding Disorder is; ● Encourage you to get curious when people use the word "Hoarding"; ● Give you some idea of the varied way Hoarding Disorder can manifest itself; ● Talk about the difference between Hoarding Disorder and Chronic Disorganisation; ● Wen...

This week we chat about responsibility and dealing with frustrations around the home when you feel others aren't contributing to the household workload. In this episode we: ● Ask who is responsible for shared areas; ● Encourage you to have discussions with people you share the house with; ● Talk about different ways to frame the issues; ● Discuss the difference between being responsible for an are...

We chat with our listener Sylvia about everything you can recycle and how to repurpose stuff before they go to a landfill/recycling plant. In this episode we: ● Challenge you to reuse things at least once more before its recycled ● Encourage you to have grace for yourself as you’re learning how to recycle ● Give you some tips for where you can recycle things Things mentioned in this episode: ●&nbs...

This week we discuss why there is no destination: Decluttered and how the decluttering process is an ongoing life-giving journey. In this episode we: ● Challenge you not to be disheartened by the ongoing process; ● Encourage you that as you progress in this decluttering journey, there comes freedom from overwhelm and freedom to focus on living a more purposeful and intentional life; ● Give you som...

This week we chat about bulky sports equipment and how you declutter, organise and store all those awkward items. In this episode we: ● Challenge you to be honest and reflective about your actual needs; ● Encourage you to ask helpful questions to help you declutter and assess your needs; ● Give you some tips for storage solutions and sentimental sports items; ● And so much more... We hope the conv...

This week we have a conversation about kids and their love of soft toys and how challenging it can be to declutter and organise them. In this episode we: ● Chat about the difference between toys that kids use to sleep with and those that aren't used very often; ● Encourage you to help your kids distinguish those soft toys they can move onto other homes; ● Give you some tips for where to pass those...

This week we have a conversation about what to do when you've been given things you don't love or have space for, aka; offloading In this episode we: ● Challenge you to be thoughtful about what you bring into your home as one day it has to leave your home too; ● Encourage you to do the deep work to untangle yourself from obligation; ● Give you some tips for how to approach people when you want to...

This week we have a conversation around areas in your home that might cause you to come unstuck because of memories or issues that rise to the surface when you go to declutter and organise these spaces. It is yet another episode that Kirsty cries and Amy holds space for her as we both hold space for you, our gorgeous listeners, in these harder areas. In this episode we: ● Cover issues of death, lo...

This week is about decluttering and organising your cords and cables! In this episode we: ● Challenge you to stop procrastinating decluttering this area! If this area of your home typically belongs to someone else, ask them to listen with you ● Encourage you to label cords and cables ● Give you some tips for how to organise them now and how to let go of them ● Get you to think about disposing of t...

This week we have a conversation around an accidental experiment that Amy conducted when she was sick a few months ago which we found fascinating and thought we would share our learnings from it. In this episode we: ● Encourage you to consider what rest looks like to you and which of your tanks empty first; mental, emotional or physical; ● Share how this experiment grew our empathy and compassion...

This week we have a conversation around big books, think reference books, textbooks, recipe books, encyclopaedias, dictionaries etc. In this episode we: ● Challenge you to assess whether you need to keep outdated reference books critically; ● Encourage you to use other mediums to access the same information; ● Give you some tips for how you can keep just part of the information contained in the bo...

This week we have a conversation around Judgement! In this episode we: ● Challenge you to have a whole lot of grace and forgiveness for yourself; ● Encourage you to let go of others' judgements of yourself; ● Give you some tips for how to go about letting go of self-judgement and others' judgement of you and using it to motivate you; ● Have some tears flow as we show you our heart for you; ● And s...

This week we chat about house guests, whether they stay for one night or one year! In this episode we: ● Challenge you to think critically about how often you have house guests, and you need a whole room dedicated to this function; ● Encourage you to treat guests how they like to be treated; ● Give you some tips for what to provide for your guests; ● Have lively discussions about whether to use yo...

This week we get passionate with Tania Goranitis from Woman Against Waste. Tania is a Professional Organiser from regional Victoria and the founder of the movement we know will be embraced by so many of you! In this episode, we learn: ● What inspired Tania to start Women Against Waste; ● How her community has changed their behaviour; ● How you can get involved; ● Changes that we can all make in ou...

This week we get passionate about repetitive clutter, you know those spaces you've decluttered but for some reason, it is groundhog day again! In this episode we talk about the four major issues that contribute to clutter reappearing: ● You might have too much - it’s a quantity problem ● You might not have a suitable way to keep things - it’s a storage problem ● You have systems but you’re not sti...

This week we get passionate about board games and puzzles! In this episode we: ● Challenge you to declutter this area of your home regularly, like in the upcoming school holidays. ● Encourage you to donate preloved games and puzzles to your local preschool, school, op shop or nursing home and more! ● Give you some tips for organising these often awkwardly shaped items. ● Have lively discussions ab...

This week we get passionate about the holding zone! The what? So you have started decluttering and want to move your things onto their next home (op shop, specialty space, reselling), but you just haven’t gotten there yet; what do you do? You create a holding zone, of course! But where? In this episode we: ● Challenge you to move things on from the holding zone to their next home by making frequen...

This week we chat about Tupperware (& other plastic containers!). We explain why we are like toddlers in more ways than one when we come into your home to help you, especially in this section of your home. We challenge you to critically assess what you do need in terms of plastic containers; we give you some great questions to ask yourself and helpful ways of organising your plastic containers...

This week we speak to Amy's best friend, Jess Winnell, about Autism. Jess has kids on the spectrum and works for an organisation that helps families living with Autism. We chat about routines, caring for yourself as a parent of kids on the spectrum, and more. We also talk about how being decluttered and organised can help your whole family and that sometimes it is great to call for extra help. We...

This week we get very passionate about Junk Rooms! This episode is filled with #truthbombs and #micdrops, like “Rooms without a purpose look like a room without a purpose”. We challenge the idea that it is indulgent to have a room dedicated to hobbies and inspire you to value yourself and your dreams. We’d like to encourage you to evict procrastination from your home by getting in and clearing out...