Organizing for Beautiful Living: Home Organizing Tips, Sustainable Organizing Tips, Decluttering Tips, and Time Management Tips for Working Moms and Busy Moms
Let's simplify organizing, shall we? Join Professional Organizer and Productivity Consultant, Zee Siman, along with her occasional co-host or guest, as she provides sustainable decluttering, home organizing and time management tips curated for you: working moms, mompreneurs and entrepreneurs. Beautiful Living is all about creating joy-filled, organized homes and vibrant social connections, balanced with meaningful work for a fulfilling, sustainable life. As 'The Choosy Organizer', Zee shows you how to do this by being thoughtful about what actually deserves your time and energy. As she says, “I don’t want to organize all day, I just want things to BE organized. So I’m choosy about what's worth organizing, and what's just fine for now." You don't have time to waste on solutions that won't work for you! You don't want more containers, charts or plans to manage! You want to enjoy your home and work with confidence and joy. Well, this podcast will tell you how to do that. Let's get started!
Episodes
A decluttered kitchen helps working moms feel calmer, faster, and more in control. Learn why kitchen organization reduces mental load and supports smoother mornings and evenings.
A decluttered kitchen isn’t about matching containers or perfect counters - it’s about making daily life feel lighter. In this episode, I explain why the kitchen carries more mental load than any other room and how a calmer, decluttered kitchen helps workin...
It’s Christmas week, and I'm answering real listener questions about organizing a full, busy life - kids, work, cars, cleaning, schedules, and the mental load that never clocks out. This episode is about organizing real life, not Pinterest life, so you can feel calmer and more confident without doing more.
✨ You’re not disorganized; you’re over-assigned. Learn how to create simpler systems that respect your work, your family, a...
Ten boring-but-easy organizing habits that reduce decision fatigue and keep your home calm without constant decluttering. Simple routines for real-life Beautiful Living.
Some of the calmest homes aren’t doing anything flashy, and that’s exactly why they work. In this episode, I’m sharing ten intentionally boring habits that quietly keep my home organized for Beautiful Living, without constant resets, new systems, or weekend-long dec...
Learn five simple decluttering goals that quickly reduce stress and bring calm back to your home. Perfect for busy women wanting an easier, clutter-free home this season.
December can feel bananas! Between school events, work deadlines, and all the holiday “extras,” your home can slip into that loud, visual noise that makes it hard to think. In this episode, I’m sharing five of the simplest organizing goals that help you get your ho...
Lighten your holiday season with tiny sustainable swaps that reduce waste, simplify your routines, and help you create a calmer, more intentional home, without giving up convenience.
This week we’re talking about that moment when the house smells like gingerbread, the candles are glowing…and the trash is overflowing with plastic packaging and scrunched-up wrapping paper. If you’ve ever wondered how “cozy season” turned into “waste ...
Learn the 3 hidden Christmas décor mistakes creating clutter and stress, plus simple holiday organizing tips for a calmer January and a beautifully intentional season.
If you’ve ever found a stray stuffed snowman in March still smiling at you like, “Hey girl, remember Christmas?” - this episode is for you. Today we’re talking about the three sneaky holiday decorations mistakes that create clutter, stress, and that make undecorating ...
Simple holiday home-management tips for working moms. Learn five rules that reduce stress, lighten the mental load, and keep your home running smoothly all season.
When you’re juggling work deadlines, school events, travel, hosting, and the everyday homework–dinner–laundry loop, “holiday magic” starts to look a lot like “holiday mayhem.”
Today I’m sharing five simple rules that keep your home running smoothly during the holidays - e...
Learn how to balance simplicity and complexity for a calmer, more organized life. Zee shares what to simplify, and what deserves your energy, for Beautiful Living.
Some things in life should be simple: your home, your schedule, your email inbox. But others are just meant to be complex, like your relationships, your health, and your purpose.
In this episode, I'll share how to tell the difference so you can focus your energy ...
Learn simple, sustainable Thanksgiving decorating ideas using Zee’s CLEAR-5 Framework to create a warm, clutter-free home that feels like gratitude all season long.
This Thanksgiving, let’s trade holiday frenzy for a long holiday festival that feels like gratitude, not clutter. In this episode, I'm sharing sustainable Thanksgiving decorating ideas using my CLEAR-5 Framework so your home feels warm, welcoming, and easy to mainta...
Learn how to organize memorabilia with meaning. Discover the 3 purposes of keepsakes so you can keep what matters, let go of the rest, and live more intentionally.
Keeping memories matters, but keeping everything doesn’t. In this episode, I'm sharing how to organize your memorabilia with intention so you can honor your past without drowning in it. You’ll learn the three purposes of memorabilia and how to use them to decide what...
Save hours every week with Zee’s simple meal prep tips—learn how to shop smarter, keep produce fresher, and make weeknight dinners calm and easy.
You don’t need to spend your whole Sunday batch-cooking to have calm weeknights. In this episode, I’ll show you how to simplify your weekly meal prep so you can save hours every week—and a surprising amount of money too.
✨ You’ll learn how to master one cooking method per protein,
✨ Cre...
If you have ADHD, you're feeling scattered, running on caffeine, and wondering how you’ll finish the year strong, this episode’s for you. I'm sharing 10 ADHD-friendly ways to get organized. These are real strategies that work with your brain, not against it, so you can wrap up the year calm, focused, and proud of what you’ve achieved.
You'll hear about:
✨ The Simple Single - the one-home rule that saves your sanity
We all love a good Hallmark glow, a Housewives chandelier moment, or an HGTV reveal, but when those highlight reels start feeling like report cards for our own homes, something’s off. In this episode, I'm looking at the myths those shows sell and what real Beautiful Living actually looks like.
✨ Hallmark makes calm look effortless.
✨ HGTV makes change look instant.
✨ Housewives make beauty a performance.
You’ll learn how...
Are you constantly apologizing for the state of your home? You’re not alone. In this episode, I share why that habit doesn’t serve you — and how to shift your identity to become a Choosy Organizer instead. You’ll learn the 5 Principles of Beautiful Living that help you create a clutter-free home you love, feel more confident, and live with less stress and more intention.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
✨ Why apologizing for your h...
Want a cozy, clutter-free Fall without blowing your budget? In this episode of Organizing for Beautiful Living, I've got 7 simple ways to “rollover” your home into Fall. These ideas are low-cost or no-cost, sustainable, and will help you stay organized while keeping the season light and joyful.
You’ll learn how to:
💨 Shore up drafts to cut costs and keep cozy
🥾 Refresh your entryway for Fall clutter (boots, umbrellas, jackets!)
...
Why is decluttering so hard even when you know you’re ready to do it?
In this tough-love episode, I walk you through the top 10 excuses that keep us stuck in clutter. From “I don’t have time” to “but it was expensive” to “it’s organized chaos,” I break each one down with research and stories, then shares the mindset shifts you can use to finally move forward.
You’ll hear:
- The most common excuses we use to avoid decluttering
- Why tho...
What do decluttering your home and your finances have in common? More than you think.
In this special interview-style episode, I sat down with financial coach and author Bernadette Joy, whose CRUSH method helps people declutter their money goals and design a life with more freedom — financial and otherwise. We talked about how clutter shows up in our homes and our heads, and how you can start organizing both in a way that actually s...
Do you feel like you’re the only one in your household who notices the clutter? 🧺
You're tired of being the default “home manager” while everyone else moves through the mess like it’s invisible!
You’re not alone, and you don’t have to wait for your partner or kids to suddenly jump on the decluttering train.
In this episode, I’m showing you how to organize your home by being choosy using my CLEAR-5 Framework, even if you’re the o...
Decluttering doesn’t have to feel like scrubbing the toilet.
What if instead of dragging yourself through organizing projects, you reframed it as curating your life?
In this episode of Organizing for Beautiful Living, we’re trading burnout for intention. I’ll guide you through a mindset shift that transforms decluttering from a chore into something meaningful — curating your legacy.
We’ll walk through four key areas of your home and l...
Early alarms + school rush don’t have to mean foggy, frantic mornings. In this episode, I'm sharing the six small “levers” that reliably flip my mornings from groggy to calm and focused—no perfection required.
You’ll learn how to:
- 📵 Phone fast for 10–15 minutes to protect your attention and stop the doom-scroll before it starts
- 🧭 Use a simple Get-Going habit (coffee, unload the dishwasher, feed the dog) to beat sleep inerti...
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