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Episode 1 – Introducing The Declutter Hub Podcast

A warm welcome to you! It’s our first episode of the Declutter Hub Podcast - a new and exciting decluttering podcast. We are delighted you’re here and can’t wait to share all our top tips about decluttering and organising.

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Transcript of this podcast episode

0:14  
Hello and welcome listeners to Episode One of the Declutter Hub Podcast. I'm Ingrid and I'm Lesley. If you have clutter and want to sort it out, this is the show for you. And today's episode since it's our first one, we thought it might be a good idea to introduce ourselves to you. So Lesley, do you want to share with our listeners who you are? Yeah, so I'm Lesley Spellman, sometimes known as the clutter fairy, which is my business, my professional organising business up in Manchester. So I've been a professional organiser for nine years, and I've absolutely loved every minute of it and continue to do so. I have a busy family. They're kind of grown up now. So my eldest son is 22. I have a daughter who's 19 and a son who's 15. That keeps me really busy. So I've grown my professional organising business whilst running a busy family. I think that's really been key to the success really, because it keeps it real, if you know what I mean. As well as being the clutter fairy. I've also been part of the Association of Professional declutters and organisers, a bit of a tongue twister, but that is like a trade association that professionalise our industry and trains, people and so on. I've had lots of different roles there. But the most exciting ones for me have been training and mentoring other professional organisers all around the UK, to love and joy and prosper their own professional organising businesses. And that's where we met. 

1:42  
Yes, I've been lucky enough to be the president for four years. And while I was president, I was part of a board and you were in the board as well. And we had a great time working together. And I've been running my business organise your house for the past eight years. I'm in southeast London. I'm married. I've got two children. They're both preteens. I've got a son who's 12 and a daughter who's 10. And yeah, I think, you know, staying and being a professional organiser is just fantastic. And I absolutely love sharing my knowledge and my my enthusiasm about professional organising, with my clients and in their homes. And, and decluttering and organising a home, whether it's yours or whether it's for a client can be completely life changing for people. Oh, yeah, you know, in terms of you know, you want you want to when you go into your house, you want it to be a sanctuary, you want to be somewhere that you want to be in and live in, and, you know, raise your family in and have nice times. And what you don't want is that kind of sinking feeling as soon as you walk through the front door. And that's what we're lucky enough to do in our day to day lives as professional organisers, that's what we want to bring to the wider audience, because we can't get to everybody. And that's why we started. 

2:52  
I know, I wish, I wish we could declare ourselves in 10 different people, but it's just not possible. So we want to just share our knowledge and our advice and our tips with you. And because we can see in our day to day work, how incredibly life changing it is for people and people start to sleep better and feel better and, and enjoy their life more. And it's so wonderful to see that happening with our clients. And we we want to share that with you want to get right down to the nitty gritty of how to actually do it and how to have success and how to maintain that success and and keep that house controlled and organised and tidy. Yes. So what can we expect from the podcast? 

3:32  
Well, we'regoing to do weekly podcasts and which is good because we love talking anyway together. And so a weekly podcast and on a regular basis we'll have guest speakers on our on our podcast, interviews with other well known organisers and what sorts of topics or will it be similar people? Or will it be other professional organisers, loads of different things? I mean, I think we'll start with interviewing some other professional organisers who have their expertise may be organising when you've got ADHD, or organising when you want to know more about time management, or if you want to know more about procrastination, or people who have to. Yeah, and people with very full homes, what can you do if you've got a really full home? And we're going to share our our advice and top tips as well on this podcast. So I'm really looking forward to doing this with you, Lesley. 

4:11  
And we've tried to keep it short. We're going to try and keep it short and snappy, because we know you're all busy people out there. So maybe sort of 20 minutes. Yes. So each week, something like that the interviews might be a bit longer, but our main focus will be about 1520 minutes. Keep it keep it really short and simple and bring a lot of information to you and put some actions in there too for you. So if you want to have an action at the end of the podcast, it will give you a job to do if you want it. 

4:11  
Yeah. So chatting is key. The tactical fun, hopefully, and and that's a really, isn't it? Yeah. So we're looking forward to getting started. Can we get on to episode two now? 

4:11  
No. Well, that's just for this episode now Lesley, hold your horses. We hope you've all enjoyed listening and are inspired to join us in listening to the declutter her podcast. So thanks for listening. Follow us on social media. And if you don't want to miss the next episode of declutter podcast, don't forget subscribe. See you next time.

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