Last updated on May 8th, 2024
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Start to simplify with a first step
This month, we’re focusing on downsizing and decluttering for travel. If you’ve felt the urge to simplify your life, but don’t know how to start, this is your call to action! Not only does downsizing clear out the things you don’t use anymore, but it can also help us emotionally shift into a new chapter of our lives. Imagine how much more freeing it can be to travel when you have less ‘stuff’ holding you back!
How to get started: Decluttering!
Downsizing starts with a single step — decluttering! Join our Decluttering for Travel Community Call on May 7, 2024, at 7:00 pm EST. Bring a junk drawer, a jewelry box, makeup box or a utensil drawer — something that you want to start with.
We’ll chat with decluttering expert Allana Lytle from HowSimpleOrganizing.com, Go-to-Grandma Kathy Buckworth and JourneyWoman’s Carolyn Ray, who downsized her home in six weeks in 2018.
When: Tuesday, May 7, 2024
When: 7 pm EDT (check local time zones here)
Where: Zoom! Sign up below for the link. Capacity is 100 women. The session will be recorded and shared on our YouTube channel for those who can’t join us.
Decluttering for Travel Community Call Participants
- Carolyn Ray, CEO, JourneyWoman: Carolyn downsized her home in six weeks in 2018 to travel and believes that a simpler life starts with having less stuff. As she has shared recently on our Solo Travel Wisdom group, she is planning to sell her condo soon and be nomadic.
- Kathy Buckworth: Kathy is a frequent guest expert on television across the country and knows a thing or two about downsizing, having gone through it herself and interviewing experts on her segment on CHCH TV, “Go-To Grandma” which talks about the world of grandparenting.
- Allana Lytle, Founder, How Simple: Allana is a roll up her sleeves, dig right in, creative problem solver with a glass half full attitude. She is calm in the face of the storm and a juggler of significant bits and pieces. She is energy filled and a compassionate listener who welcomes the opportunity to help her clients find their own, better way. She is a Trained Professional Organizer with the Professional Organizers of Canada and adheres to their code of ethics.
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Carolyn Ray, JourneyWoman
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Kathy Buckworth, Go-to-Grandma and JourneyWoman writer
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Allana Lytle, Professional Organizer + Founder, Howsimple
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