Curious Freedom with Kirsty Farrugia & friends

This week we continue the conversation with the incredible Brooke McAlary (so if you still need to listen to last week's episode, do yourself a favour and listen!). Brooke is a podcaster, author, minimalist, and this week answer your questions for her. You wonderful listeners came up with some great questions about photos, community, their next home, slow travel, her kid's schooling while they tra...

This week we celebrate our 100th episode by interviewing the incredible Brooke McAlary! Brooke is a podcaster, author, and minimalist and shares with us what the catalyst for her lifestyle change was and how that has evolved over the years. We hear about how their family was able to sell the family home, move overseas for 15 months, and go on a book tour and family road trip. Brooke shares what is...

This week we chat about containers! We know so many of you love to dream of and buy containers to store all your things, so we wanted to discuss why containers are not the solution to all of your problems. Just by getting the correct container, you will not magically fix your clutter issue. We always recommend decluttering first and organising second; never organise what you can discard. The great...

This week we chat about the joy of LEGO! We talk about ways of decluttering it, from selling it to donating it and the difficulty of missing pieces! We also give loads of tips and questions to ask yourself when deciding the best way of storing and organising Lego. We chat about the way we declutter, store and organise in our own homes and how we have helped others in different ways. We both love L...

We had a request to do an episode on cancer, and so we decided to interview our friend and course participant Amy Kelman. You can tell from this episode that we are friends as there are lots of smiles and giggles mixed into this serious topic! Amy K is so vulnerable and honest as she shares her journey as a breast cancer survivor. She gives some fantastic tips for when you receive a diagnosis, dur...

This week we chat about the most common word we hear from people we work with, Overwhelm. We all feel it at times, so we give you some suggestions and strategies on how to reduce this feeling when dealing with clutter in your home. We provide tips like start small, KISS, ensure you are fed and hydrated, the Power of 15 minutes and the Micro Declutter. We also discuss how sometimes something else i...

This week we chat all about living in share houses! We chat about the challenge of only having that one room to store all of your things in and different ideas around this concept. We encourage you to make the most of your space and think creatively and vertically about where and how to store your things. We chat about the role that storage units can play for short-term storage and the concept of...

This week we have our first international guest, Laurie Palau! She is our great friend and fellow Professional Organizer from the USA (yes, we are using Z, where we usually use S's today in homage to our guest). Laurie is the author of the book HOT MESS: A Practical Guide to Getting Organized , the host of the weekly podcast, This ORGANIZED Life , and the founder of simply B organized, where she s...

This week we chat all about decluttering and organising your picnic gear, thanks to the request made by Geraldine Van Oord! We laugh about getting older and needing cushions and chairs to go on a picnic! We discuss our opinion that, as a culture, we have moved from a picnicking culture to a cafe culture and how we are so incredibly middle-class! We chat about big heavy old-style picnic baskets and...

This week we chat about home offices! We have two each in our homes, so we share what they look like and how they have changed over time. We'd like to encourage you to set a vision for your home office and challenge you to consider the amount of furniture you need in your office space. What storage do you need for your office? We'd like to ask you to think about the function of your office, what i...

This week we answered Jarred's question, can you declutter too much? Our answer is no, but perhaps yes! We talk briefly about obsessive behaviours and that people can get the bug for decluttering and removing things they regret. However, in our professional experience, the opposite is more the case. People often need help remembering what they have in boxes, and we discover long-lost loved items....

What is your favourite room in your home? Is it your Master Bedroom? Why? Why not? Do you know the difference between a pillow or cushion? (Listen out for Kirsty's mistake when she chats about them.) We challenge you to make it a priority this week to reclaim the serenity and peace of your bedroom by decluttering it. Our antidotal evidence is that you will sleep better if your room is decluttered,...

This week we are open, honest and vulnerable as we share our mistakes as Professional Organisers. We ask each other the following questions; Have you ever walked into a space and realised this job was not for you? Have you worked with anyone we regretted? Do we have any disgruntled clients? Have we ever thrown out something by mistake? Have we had clients unhappy with the process or with us? Have...

This week Amy and Kirsty come with love to question some of your beliefs challenge you thinking about YOU! We recommend going for a walk, or run or walk the dog to processes some of your frustration at us as we deliver some truth bombs in love and grace because we want the best for you! Is there clutter in your home that it is always someone else fault? If only your kids or partner or housemate de...

This week we chat about Social Media, the perfect thing to declutter after our episode on the Mental Load! Does decluttering your social media life terrify you, or is it your dream? This week, we want to encourage you to be thoughtful and intentional about what you engage with and what you let influence your life. Do you procrastiscroll? Yes, it is a thing! Do you suffer from comparisonitis (yes,...

This week we chat about Micro Decluttering! We know that many of you don't have hours and hours each week to dedicate to decluttering and organising your home, so we created the idea of a Micro Declutter! The idea is you take a small pocket of time, 2 minutes, and choose an area to declutter quickly. You could be waiting for the microwave to bing or the kettle to boil; any small pocket of time, gr...

This week we chat about the Mental Load! We all carry it in one form or a thousand. We talk about how the division of labour & mental load is held in our home and how that has changed over the years. We give tips on reducing your mental burden by asking for help from others in your home and how having a decluttered home can help everyone! We get interrupted by Kirsty's watch, and as always we...

This week we chat about our jobs! What we do and what we don't do in our profession. This is particularly timely as Marie Kondo's Netflix sensation "Tidying Up" takes the world by storm. We talk about our ideal clients and some preconceived ideas people have about our job. We have a conversation around some of the things that we aren't, but we do. For instance, we aren't cleaners but do clean; we...

This week we chat about decluttering your sports equipment. What are you still using? Do you have sport equipment for a sport you haven’t played in 20 years? Should it be moved on to a memorabilia box or donated rather than taking up real estate in your cupboards/garage. Do you have a treadmill that makes you feel guilty every time you look or can you not even see it anymore because it has become...

This week we chat with about decluttering your teenagers ;-) No, we talk about helping teenagers and parents learn to declutter and stay organised through the fun years! So it is the perfect one to listen to on your smart speaker where the teenager can hear ;-) We give helpful questions to ask yourself, and we encourage everyone to prioritise maintaining relationships over fighting over messy room...

This week we chat about memorabilia (think: newspapers, magazines, ticket stubs, autograph books, order of services from weddings/funerals/christenings, play booklets, brochures from tourist sites, school awards, sports awards, restaurant brochures, anything that reminds you of an event or a person.) We give you tips on how to declutter, how to store it and where to donate some items. We also have...

This week we chat about musical instruments and equipment with our Sound engineer Jarred Doueal! We discuss what instruments we can play or at least attempt to play. We hear a lot about how Jarred declutters and organises his studio and when he is gigging. We give some tips on where you can donate your old instruments and how you can now use technology to help you let go of physical sheet music. W...

This week, we chat with our kids, Oliver & Amelie Farrugia and Jesse & Elijah Revell! We each quizzed our kids about living in an organised and decluttered home, and we asked them if they had any advice for other kids and parents. We also asked our listeners some questions! Such a fun and funny episode. As always, we hope you have a giggle with us and enjoy the conversation! This week's ep...

This Christmas season, we are practising what we preach and making this season a bit slower for us by revisiting last years episodes as we had such a great response to them last year. The great thing about re-listening to podcasts is that you'll take away different tips and you'll learn things you don't even remember hearing last time. So as you prepare for the Christmas season this year, we hope...

This Christmas season, we are practising what we preach and making this season a bit slower for us by revisiting last years episodes as we had such a great response to them last year. The great thing about re-listening to podcasts is that you'll take away different tips and you'll learn things you don't even remember hearing last time. So as you prepare for the Christmas season this year, we hope...