In this episode, Helen chats with Bridget Johns.
Bridget is a Life Simplifier and Time Optimiser, who’s redefining how we go about decluttering and organising our lives.
She’s the founder of Be Simply Free, an online declutter coaching and life organisation business dedicated to empowering women to live simpler, more fulfilling lives by streamlining their physical and mental spaces.
Bridget is also a skilled grant writer, helping businesses, councils and community groups to turn their dreams into reality by finding the funding they need.
And, she’s an ex-city girl turned farmer’s wife, living happily with her family on a sheep and cereal farm at the top of the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia.
In this conversation, Bridget discusses the psychological aspects of why people accumulate stuff and offers practical tips for decluttering, organising, and prioritising well-being and balance in life.
Highlights:
- Professional burnout: Bridget explains how working on a workplace well-being event brought about the lightbulb moment that she needed to make changes.
- Sharing the load: How to ask for help, communicate your needs, and share the mental and physical load with your family or team.
- Stop, focus, notice: Bridget outlines her organising mantra and methodology.
- The bold leap into self-employment: How organisational restructures led Bridget to recognising the need for a career transition.
- Decluttering tips and strategies for a simplified life: The reasons why we become overwhelmed by our “stuff” and practical tips for creating more organisation.
More about Bridget
If you’d like more information about Bridget and her work, you can find it here:
Be Simply Free: besimplyfree.com.au
Listen to the Clear Clutter, Find Time podcast
Connect with Bridget on -
Instagram - @be.simplyfree
Facebook - @BeSimplyFree
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