In this episode of The Becky Beach Show, Becky sits down with Jenna Carlsson, a certified KonMari consultant and professional organizer at The Joy Filter, to explore how decluttering your space can unlock clarity and success in your business. 

From navigating overwhelm to finding joy in simplicity, Jenna shares practical tips and inspiring stories—including her journey to Japan to meet Marie Kondo herself. If clutter is clouding your focus, this conversation is your call to clear the way forward. 

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About Jenna Carlsson

Jenna Carlsson is a certified KonMari consultant, professional organizer, and founder of The Joy Filter. With a background in event planning and a deep passion for intentional living, Jenna helps entrepreneurs and overwhelmed individuals declutter their homes and workspaces to create more clarity, peace, and purpose. Trained in Marie Kondo’s world-renowned method, she even traveled to Japan to learn directly from the source. Through both in-person and virtual organizing services—including her popular monthly Clutter Clear-Out Parties—Jenna empowers people to let go of physical and emotional clutter so they can focus on what truly matters.

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Becky Beach: Hey everybody. This is the Becky Beach Show! I’m Becky Beach, and today’s guest is Jenna Carlsson. She’s a professional organizer over theJoyfilter.me. Welcome, Jenna.

Jenna Carlsson: Thank you, Becky. So glad to be here.

Becky Beach: Yeah. Today Jenna and I are gonna be talking about how to organize your life for business owners. When you live in a clutter-free environment, it helps you so much more with your focus when you’re working on your business.

Becky Beach: Would you agree?

Jenna Carlsson: Definitely, yeah. I as a background and a professional organizer and being certified in Marie Kondo’s, uh, magical Method of Tidying Up, I love to help people [00:01:00] declutter and really have much more stress-free homes, lives and businesses. I

Becky Beach: actually met Jenna when I was on a business mastermind for speaking with Katerina Randa.

Becky Beach: We met up in San Francisco and I was really impressed with Jenna and her business, and she told us that she went to see Marie K Condo in Japan.

Jenna Carlsson: Yes, yes. It was so lovely meeting you there. And yeah, I had the honor and privilege of being able to take a trip with several other certified kaari consultants that have been certified in her method, and we got to see Japan through her eyes.

Jenna Carlsson: We got to meet her, her team meet, uh, the other Japanese consultants. It was just such a magical learning experience, such a beautiful experience. I feel really excited that I could go on that.

Becky Beach: Oh yes. I’m so jealous. I would love to go to Japan one day. I’m actually kind of like sa, saving up for it. Sort of like here and there.

Becky Beach: I really, really wanna go. It’s just such an amazing place. What was your favorite thing about meeting her there? [00:02:00]

Jenna Carlsson: Yeah, Japan is just, it’s amazing how many things are different in Japan from how we have them set up here. They’ve solved problems that I didn’t realize were problems, um, here in the States.

Jenna Carlsson: And yeah, we got to have amazing food. We got to tour, um, and see these Shinto temples that were important to her. Um, Shinto shrines, Buddhist temples, and, and we got to play rock paper scissors with Marie Kondo. So that was super fun. Um, and yeah, just her energy, she has just such a calming energy and um, a light.

Jenna Carlsson: Spirit and to be able to be in that presence and hear about her journey because now she has three kids and so that’s changed how she’s connected to decluttering and she can’t be quite the same person as she was when she was single, but she still believes in the importance of. Not just decluttering, but decluttering.

Jenna Carlsson: So that way you can have a life that’s important to you. It’s really aligning your life with your values. So it was just, yeah, such a joyful [00:03:00] experience being there.

Becky Beach: Yeah. I like how she teaches that, like if there’s something in your house that isn’t bringing you joy, then you should declutter it. Get rid of it.

Jenna Carlsson: Yeah, exactly. It’s very intuitive based. It’s like asking yourself what sparks joy? Choosing the things I do and letting go and thinking the things that don’t.

Becky Beach: What would you say to a business owner out there that’s saying, well, this, this sounds interesting, but I just don’t think I have the time to declutter.

Becky Beach: Like I, I’m just so busy. What would you say to that person?

Jenna Carlsson: Yeah, this is a great question. So a little bit about how I came to, uh, decluttering and through to, uh, Marie Kondo’s method is I am an entrepreneur. Um, but first I had a events business. So I’ve had that for now, coming on 10 years this year, which is a.

Jenna Carlsson: Sighting and then I, um, added in my kaari business, but I came to Kaari and decluttering and ting because I was so overwhelmed in my events business, keeping all these papers, not having a good organizational system for them, [00:04:00] trying to keep everything together for everyone else and feeling like I was at.

Jenna Carlsson: The wit’s end of what I could really organize, and I think I’m a pretty organized person, but I also am used to keeping a lot of things. So I totally, I get that for those who have people who are feeling overwhelmed and feeling like they don’t have time to declutter, and I have to say that. It’s what helped me.

Jenna Carlsson: When things feel out of control, maybe in the world or in our business, it’s really nice to bring the attention back to the things that we can control and be able to focus on those declutter and create a space that’s gonna help us to feel more calm, to feel relieved, and to be able to do our best work because we’re focused on the things that matter to us.

Jenna Carlsson: So it took some shifting for me to, I used to see it not as part of my work, like, well, organizing, saving things the right way in certain files. Like that’s not. That’s not real work, but actually that is the work that’s so important to do, to be able to have the businesses and lives that we want. And [00:05:00] so just shifting that perspective of that’s all part of it, and you’ll be able to be more productive when you let go of the clutter.

Becky Beach: Yeah, totally, totally agree. Because I, yeah, because I kind of struggle with keeping things decluttered myself. And, and I find that if I’m in an environment that’s decluttered and everything’s organized, everything is in its place, I can find things better. So that makes me more productive so I can get done the things that I need to be done.

Becky Beach: ’cause if you’re living in a, like, like a decluttered office, for instance, like you don’t know where things are in you. Especially if you’re doing services like a, like a service based business, it can be so difficult to locate what you need and it’s just, yeah, it could just create a lot of frustration.

Jenna Carlsson: Yeah, I’ve had a lot of clients come to me, um, feeling like, oh, I was looking for this. I couldn’t find this one paper I really needed for my taxes. I’m missing one of my kids’ birth certificates, um, or passports and things where they just, yeah, it’s frustration. It’s overwhelming. We can’t find those things.

Jenna Carlsson: And so being able [00:06:00] to really like, let go of the things that don’t matter. Create a system for the things that do and be able to. Find things easily and do our work easily. It just makes our lives so much more peaceful. Um, rather than fighting with papers and fighting to find the things that we need quickly when we need them.

Becky Beach: Yeah, so true. So, so Jenna, could you tell us more, more about you? Like how, how’d you get started doing this decluttering?

Jenna Carlsson: Yeah, so like I said, I was working in my events business. Um, I was just working on an event for six months, putting in so much hard work. Um, and it ended up getting canceled the day before because of a labor strike at the venue where we were going to do it.

Jenna Carlsson: Um, so that happened then I had a lot of other things happened in my life at the time. Both of my parents went through major surgeries. I had a death in the family. And my mom, right after her surgery then had to evacuate because there was a fire close to her. She evacuated to her, to my house. So I just [00:07:00] felt like I was being hit over the head again and again as a planner, um, that you cannot plan anything.

Jenna Carlsson: You can’t control anything. There’s things in life that are, um, out of our control. And so I just, I had found Marie Kondo’s book and I just started bit by bit. Taking things that were in my control and focusing on them. So I started organizing like little space in my house that would help me feel better when I was feeling overwhelmed with my work.

Jenna Carlsson: Um, then later I took out all my clothes and I started going through my clothes and deciding what I wanted to let go of. So I just started turning the attention on the things that I could control and we’re in a another place in life in the world where there’s a lot of things that are outside of our control and we need to.

Jenna Carlsson: Do work to influence the things that we want to but in the world, but also remember the things that we can’t control and like how can we put some energy in ourselves? So I started doing that and as I started, I just started getting these really great benefits. I’m like, oh, I feel lighter. I like how my closet works.

Jenna Carlsson: It’s [00:08:00] easier for me to find things. And I just started continuing with it. Continuing with it. Um, ended up hiring a kaari consultant, um, to help me with my decluttering when I felt stuck and felt overwhelmed, and then just kept following my intuition as the method said. And it led me all the way to, uh, go to Kaari consultant training, become a certified Marie Kondo consultant, and then be able to help others.

Jenna Carlsson: And now it’s just, I love it because I get to go to people’s homes and we get such a fast result in their mental health and wellbeing because of their space. So quickly, and so it’s a way that I can help people and I just, um, yeah, I never looked back.

Becky Beach: Yeah. That just sounds so amazing. I’m sure there’s people out there thinking that, oh, well, well, I don’t know if I have a, a decluttering problem.

Becky Beach: I’m not like a hoarder or anything. Like, like they’re just like, there are just different levels of, of like cluttering aren’t there. Like hoarding is probably the extreme.

Jenna Carlsson: Yeah, there’s definitely a, a huge spectrum of people and there’s some people who are very, very minimalist and they just, [00:09:00] they don’t want anything in their space and so that might bother them more having things, um, in their space.

Jenna Carlsson: And then there’s other people who are comfortable with a lot more of more items or more things in their space in terms of like actual hoarding disorder. That’s something that I usually, um, suggest. Contacting a mental health professional because there’s underlying causes for that that need to be addressed in order to, to, uh, have that person get the support that they need.

Jenna Carlsson: But for anyone else that’s really on the spectrum, feeling like overwhelmed with clutter, they might have feelings of shame. They might feel Yeah, overwhelmed. Um, there’s so many things that we can do and I like to say that it’s really never about the stuff. It’s always about what’s underneath that. Stuff.

Jenna Carlsson: So if you’re keeping a binder of a business training you went to, it might be because you have these thoughts and ideas that you wanna implement, or if you’re keeping clothes that don’t fit, but they’re a memory of an identity that you had before. Like these are all identity shifts, these are changes, these are, it can be [00:10:00] grief in a way to let go of something that was once dear to you but doesn’t really necessarily represent who you are anymore.

Jenna Carlsson: So it’s definitely, um. A reflection process. And it can be hard, but it can be fun and it can be interesting as we get to know who we are now and what’s important to us now, and let go and think the things that, um, we don’t need anymore.

Becky Beach: Yeah, I so agree. And, and like another reason to have claw around is comfort.

Becky Beach: ’cause I, I grew up very poor and at, and when I was little I didn’t have hardly anything. Like we just didn’t have much. We went without a lot of times. So nowadays I, I like to have a lot of things like, I like to have a lot of jewelry, clothes. I enjoy having, I, I got some makeup, I got a declutter, like decluttering your makeup is a, a project in itself.

Becky Beach: There’s a lot of old makeup that just keep around. Like I really need to go through that and also have like a doll collection. ’cause I didn’t have, I grew up not having many toys. So nowadays I like to and um, collect dolls and toys that I couldn’t purchase when I was little, like American [00:11:00] girl dolls for instance.

Becky Beach: And yeah, so that gets another thing like comfort. Dude. Do your clients ever run into that?

Jenna Carlsson: Yeah, that’s a really beautiful, um, reflection and thank you for sharing that so vulnerably. I think that, yeah, it, there’s so much about how we, um, our backgrounds, how we were raised, our families, um, connection to things and, um, what, how we grew up that impacts how we are.

Jenna Carlsson: Today. And I think that having that self-awareness is really huge because, um, yeah, like you with the dolls, it might be something that sparks a lot of joy for you now that you’re like, I couldn’t afford those dolls. My family couldn’t get those dolls for me growing up and I wanna be able to get those for myself now.

Jenna Carlsson: And so, yeah, you get to choose that and you get to say, this sparks joy for me. I’ll do this, or I have, um, a client and friend that I was working with who has a lot of hair ties and accessories for her daughter because she never got to have those types of fun hair things when she grew up. And so she gets to play through that and also her daughter likes those.

Jenna Carlsson: Um, and so it’s just keeping an awareness of when, is it [00:12:00] something that is sparking joy for you and when is it something that you’re like, you know what? I don’t need to keep this anymore. That’s not a version of me, um, that I am anymore. Or the makeup, for example, if you’re like, okay, I have expired makeup, I can let it go and purchase new makeup that.

Jenna Carlsson: I that, um, that fits for me now and you can give yourself some extra appreciation and reassurance also to say, you know, I am able to do that now. And I, I know I’ve heard, yeah, your podcast and your, your money story and how much you’ve shifted and that’s huge and you can shift along with that. Your, um, self-talk and beliefs as you talk to yourself of like.

Jenna Carlsson: Um, for some people like this happened in the pandemic, for example. A lot of people, you know, keeping extra toilet paper, keeping extra food, and then some people still hold onto things for different reasons. And so you can tell yourself of like, yeah, I am safe, I am okay. I am abundant. And I’m able to get those things again if I need them.

Jenna Carlsson: Um, and thank them though. But you can also thank that part of you that like, yeah, I [00:13:00] appreciate that I’m able to get these now, or thinking that part of you that was able to scrimp and save and be able to get by with less. And so it’s just, I think scarcity is a, is a real thing. Scarcity is something that so many people in this country suffer.

Jenna Carlsson: Um, from when there’s really not enough growing up, it’s a real situation. And there’s also, um, how we see ourselves. Do we see ourselves in a scarce, a scarcity or in an abundance? And I’ve actually had clients say that as they go through their clothes and they, and. They think about what they wanna let go of, they thought they would feel a scarcity, getting rid of things, but they say, actually I feel more abundant because now I know everything in my closet I love and I can wear and I feel abundant that I’m able to be generous and give to other people like my mom.

Jenna Carlsson: Um, she was able to give to fire victims who had LA lost everything, um, in the fire. Oh, that’s nice. Able to let go. Yeah. So that gives you a feeling of abundance as well as when we’re able to share. So yeah. [00:14:00]

Becky Beach: Gosh, I, I, I just love that, that she was so given and, and I could see, um, you, you being such a giving woman yourself now, you probably got that from her, right?

Jenna Carlsson: Yeah, it’s like some things in family. Yeah. I got to, I get to choose the things from each of my parents, like what are the things that I wanna keep, um, in my philosophy and what are the things I wanna let go of? It’s like you can con Marie belief systems also. And so I think it’s just being intentional is the main thing of however we wanna have our items, we get to decide what sparks joy for us, what works for our storage, for our families, and being intentional with that.

Becky Beach: Yeah, I so agree. ’cause it, it can, it, it can be hard, you know, growing up with, with so little and then you do get a scarcity mindset. So I, I’m still battling with that. Like, on one hand I try to, you know, um, bring abundance into my life, but ’cause I have all this stuff and I, I just enjoy seeing the stuff. I don’t know if that makes any sense.

Becky Beach: Like when I see the stuff, I feel comforted and secure. Like I know, and my husband is upset with me because I have all this [00:15:00] stuff, especially in my bathroom. Like I have a lot of. Like I had signed up to this, um, this, this membership where every month you would get these, um, these, these products, like bath products, hair care products.

Becky Beach: It was, it was called Ipsy and Makeup. So I, I just was, I was, uh, for several years I subscribed to that and I was in the pro one where I would get the, the full size items. So now I got tons and tons of stuff everywhere, all over the bathroom, all all stuff I need to declutter ’cause I don’t use half of it.

Becky Beach: And my husband’s like, I, you really need to get rid of this stuff. Like the co the counter is covered. With all this stuff and I just can’t find my myself to get rid of it.

Jenna Carlsson: Yeah. I think I see with a lot of clients where there’s a place where it tips the scale. Like we feel like we want, you know, we want, might wanna bring something in new, which is okay to bring new things that it’s okay to, yeah.

Jenna Carlsson: To bring things that spark joy for us and then at a certain point it might tip where you’re like, okay, now. Storing all these items is not sparking joy for me anymore. Like there’s a place where I’m like, I, you want to be able to have, the space is [00:16:00] more valuable than the item. So you kind of, you have to see where is the tipping point, and it might be different for you versus for your husband.

Jenna Carlsson: And so what I like to recommend in those kind of situations is just take everything out. See what it can look like without the things, and then choose the things that spark joy that you wanna bring back. In that way, you’re choosing, you’re kind of disrupting the status quo and you’re choosing what you want to bring back into your space.

Jenna Carlsson: But I think having that self-awareness and knowing what, what you like and why, I think that makes so much sense. And that helps as you’re going through the process of, of looking and, and deciding what we wanna keep in our homes.

Becky Beach: Yeah, so those are such a great idea. So like, I really wanna get that bathroom organized and get rid of that excess products that I’m not using.

Becky Beach: ’cause I, I only only use a few things of the stuff. So I really need to get like a container, like go to the container store. Do you like going to the Container store?

Jenna Carlsson: Yeah, I was gonna say, you can take everything out and then you can see maybe like, um, in the Marie Kondo [00:17:00] method, there’s a lot of Yeah, containment of things.

Jenna Carlsson: And it might be in a tray, a nice tray that you like, or you might, it might be in a container, you could even use a box at home, you know, people, that’s how she started and then, you know, later swapped for other things. And so you don’t have to have a lot of money to be able to declutter things. There’s ways to do it from on every budget.

Jenna Carlsson: And so I would say, yeah, you take things out. Then you can find something that works for you. Maybe it’s underneath the sink or maybe it’s something that’s on the on the counter. And then things end up to be contained in that space. And it keeps things, it has a home for things. And then they also don’t grow bigger than that.

Jenna Carlsson: So I think that’s something that’s nice to add after you’ve decluttered things.

Becky Beach: God, this is just getting the wheels in my head, turning. I’m thinking about all this stuff in my house that I want to declutter. Like even our pantry, there’s just like some of the food is old that we haven’t got gotten rid of, and there’s just all these places in my house that I’m just thinking of now that you need to be decluttered.

Becky Beach: Wish you could come over here and help me.

Jenna Carlsson: Well, I [00:18:00] would be happy to come and help you. Um, and yeah, I think it’s just, um. In our lives, in our culture, it’s just there’s consume, consume, consume. And so it’s easy to just bring more things into our lives, add more things on our calendars, bring more items into the house, and it will happen naturally.

Jenna Carlsson: And so then we have to add a system of like also going through and letting items go. And one thing I really. From the Marie Kondo method is that items she considers the items have a soul and a purpose. And so if that’s the case, like you can ask yourself, is that item serving its purpose? And if there’s items that are, that you are being enjoyed, appreciated, used, that’s great.

Jenna Carlsson: And if they’re not, then it’s okay to pass them along to their next home. And I think that, yeah, it’s just creating that, that intentionality that things come in, but also things go out and there’s. Flow. Just like we talk with money, there’s flow in and out with things. There’s a flow of things in and out and it doesn’t just [00:19:00] get stagnant and then build.

Becky Beach: Yeah, I so agree. I’m actually gonna be having a, a garage sale to benefit, benefit my woman’s course in October, so mm-hmm. That’s a great opportunity for me to get all the old stuff ’cause you don’t have a lot of baby stuff. From when Brian was a baby, he’s now nine years old and I, and I can’t have any more children, so like it’s pointless for me to keep all this baby stuff.

Becky Beach: So I’m gonna like get it all together and it’s stuff that, that’s gonna be sold. It’s like really nice, nice things. Like there’s a crib and I got. Like a diaper genie that’s, um, it’s, that’s cleaned and has, it’s like it could be reused and there’s in like a crib. Yeah, I got a crib, I got, you know, just all kinds of different baby stuff and toys and I really need to get that, the house as well.

Becky Beach: So do you think Yeah, having a garage sale is a great idea to get rid of declutter.

Jenna Carlsson: Yeah, I mean, it sounds like, I think having some event is really helpful to have a goal end goal, whether that’s a garage sale, um, if there’s a neighborhood garage sale, that’s great. Sometimes garage sales can be overwhelming for folks.

Jenna Carlsson: So [00:20:00] even it can be a having a party hosting a few people in your house, and then there’s an end date to bring things forward. Or maybe there’s a donation drive where people want to be able to, to contribute. So I love the idea of having like an end goal that brings some motivation. I think just to comment about the things that were your sons like.

Jenna Carlsson: Yeah. I’ve had this with many clients where there can be a, a grieving process in a way, or thinking about like people who are considering to, if they wanna have another kid or if they can’t have another kid or decided not to. It can be like, wow, this is the last time that this is gonna be used. It can be a grief.

Jenna Carlsson: And I had one client. Have, um, a lot of hesitation to get rid of the changing table. And it was taking a broom in her bathroom. She needed to let it go. Um, bathroom, bedroom. And she decided instead to put pictures of her kids when they were babies in the closet to really help that. That. Remember, she wanted to remember when they were babies and remember that like those special moments, and instead of keeping a [00:21:00] bulky item to do that, she could do that through a photo.

Jenna Carlsson: So I thought that was a really beautiful way to address it and say, okay, thank you for the things that it’s given me. Pass it along to someone who can use it and then still have a way to, to honor that, that special time that she had with her kids.

Becky Beach: Oh, I just love, love that idea. ’cause yes, I have a changing table upstairs in my guest room.

Becky Beach: And I just can’t bear to get rid of it. ’cause you know, it’s a part of me think is thinking, well maybe you, you might have another kid. You know, I’m now 43 and I’m thinking, oh, maybe I could have another kid. Maybe I can, like, every year I, I think about that. ’cause I would really love to have another kid, but it’s just not good for my mental health to have one.

Becky Beach: ’cause I, I did very poorly in my last pregnancy. Uh, like I had mental health issues and also health issues. Like, I had always, I had, um, the, the diabetes that you get. And, um, so it was just really like taxing on my health and, and, uh, like mental and physical. So I, I just don’t think I could have another child, but you know, I still want to have another kid.

Becky Beach: Like [00:22:00] there’s just part of me that just wants to have it. I mean, I’m even still menstruating, you know, so I know I could have one. It’s just so hard.

Jenna Carlsson: Yeah, I think that going through things in the house, it totally brings up all of these things and it’s, it’s completely normal that all of these emotions are there.

Jenna Carlsson: ’cause the things are not the things they represent. Bigger things, bigger decisions, and so I think it’s just being gentle with yourself as you’re going through things, as you’re making decisions. I tell clients like. You know, also if they are, it could be your kids’ items, um, baby items. It could be, um, a book or a binder of business materials of something that they wanted to start that they’re not sometimes letting go of the thing.

Jenna Carlsson: It’s not making the decision forever like it could be. It could be I’m gonna make this decision and let it go, or it could be, I’m gonna let go of this. It’s not creating space, like taking away space in the house. I’m gonna let it go and. You know, [00:23:00] you, just because you let go of a book of business ideas doesn’t mean that you’re not an entrepreneur.

Jenna Carlsson: It doesn’t mean that you can’t like, do something different in the future. And just if you let go of the changing table doesn’t mean that you won’t in some way have a connection to either another kid, or, or maybe it’s, it looks different, you know, maybe a family could look different. So I think, um. It’s allowing ourselves to feel those feelings, bring it up, maybe journal about it and um, and honor the things as we’re letting them go or as we decide to keep them.

Becky Beach: Yeah. I remember earlier you, earlier you said that every object has a soul and that that’s really true. And now that I think about, I didn’t really think about that before. ’cause there is just different things and they give off different energy. ’cause I’m an empath and I could. Feel energy and having, like, for instance, my dolls, they, they give off energy.

Becky Beach: Like, it, it makes me, brings me back to a happier time before my family ended up, you know, like be getting in dire straits. You know, at one point we [00:24:00] did have a very good, you know, upbringing, but then when my mother ended up with, with a mental illness, that’s where everything went downhill and we ended up losing our house and, and we had to want you to get rid of all our stuff and it, and even our family pictures are gone.

Becky Beach: So, yeah. So it just brings me back to a happier time. And those dolls. Give off this positive energy to me and it makes me happy.

Jenna Carlsson: Yeah. Well that’s, I think that’s beautiful that you, yeah, that you can see that and you can see like those are things that spark joy for me and I want to keep them and, and why, and it’s something that connects to your childhood, something that was positive before.

Jenna Carlsson: A lot of the things that shifted and changed as your mom was suffering with mental illness and, and yeah. So I think it’s just you get to see something and see if it sparks joy. And I’ll give an example. Um, here’s, let’s see here. I’m gonna give an example of how we do it in the Marie Kondo method is we hold up an item, and this is a, a pink box cutter.

Jenna Carlsson: This is one of my favorite tools [00:25:00] for my kaari business because we open a lot of boxes in it, but I like that it’s pink, but it’s also powerful. Mm-hmm. And it’s, um, super helpful. And so this item sparks joy for me, and I like it. And we get to decide if it’s something utilitarian like. We might like it because of how it looks, or we might like because of what it does for us.

Jenna Carlsson: Like, oh, I like that this can help me with this thing. And so it’s not an extreme joy, but I like this thing. Like it makes me happy with the dolls. It might be like an extreme joy, like there’s different levels of it, but we hold something up and we see how it makes us feel. And if the thing that you feel when you hold something up is like, oh, I really should probably keep this because somebody gave this to me, or I spend money on it.

Jenna Carlsson: Or I should have read this book and just notice the energy is really different, um, with that versus with the things that spark joy for us. And so it’s really focusing our energy on the things that spark joy, choosing them, keeping them, and then allowing ourselves to like, um, make decisions on when the things are like, uh, [00:26:00] well, you know, it’s usually not our intuit intuition speaking.

Jenna Carlsson: It’s usually our. Talk, you know, the mental piece that then talking to us afterwards like, but this, this, and this. And we, we rationalize or analyze it. And so it’s trying to remember that our intuition has a, has the first, the first thought, like the first, um, idea is from what sparks joy for us and letting ourselves make decisions from more, from a place of that.

Becky Beach: No, that that is so true. Well, I wanted to tell everybody about this amazing thing that you do. The second of every Saturday of the month, you do a three hour decluttering party. Could you let everybody know more about that?

Jenna Carlsson: Yeah. So, um, even though I’m located in San Francisco Bay Area, I serve people from all across, uh, the US and the world.

Jenna Carlsson: And one of the ways that I do that is, um, I have these clutter clear out parties every second Saturday. And, um, it’s a great way if you’ve been feeling stuck and you just don’t know where to start. It’s a great community. [00:27:00] It’s usually all women. And we come on and, um, they’re from nine to 12 Pacific and we come on and you bring a project that you wanna work on.

Jenna Carlsson: So it’s kind of like co-working, but for decluttering. And say I have people that wanna work on their closet or they’re working in their kitchen. Maybe they’re decluttering their office. I have someone that’s gonna be come calling in from their basement, uh, wherever it is that makes sense for you. You get to bring the project and then you get two hours of dedicated decluttering time.

Jenna Carlsson: We do a little mini dance. Break in the middle, and you’ll get the support and accountability of a community of people who are all working on that. And you don’t have to show your space if you don’t want to. Um, but the main thing is making us feel like we’re not alone. There’s all, people are working on different things and you don’t have to feel judgment, you feel compassion, and you, you root the other people on as they’re rooting you on.

Jenna Carlsson: And then we share wins at the end. And so this is something I do every second Saturday. And, um, I’ll put, um, we can put a [00:28:00] link in the notes and also a free pass. Um, so, ’cause you can come for free with a free pass for, uh, the coupon guest. And, um, I’d love to have folks come on, um, get some decluttering done and, um, just not, not stay stuck.

Jenna Carlsson: Get the support of community.

Becky Beach: Oh, I just love that. Yeah. I wanna go to the next one. So if, if anyone’s out there listening, they wanna come, like, I’ll be there too. We can declutter together. I wanna, Hey, get rid of all the stuff in my bathroom. It’s just a big mess in there because that, I think, coming up, I wanna get, probably get this out on Monday or Tuesday.

Becky Beach: So the second Saturday that, that’s like tomorrow, right?

Jenna Carlsson: Yeah, we have one, um, that is September 13th. There’s one, so a August 9th and then um, September 13th would be next after that.

Becky Beach: Okay. I’ll probably have to come to that one. ’cause to tomorrow, I think I have to do something like it might tomorrow. I know.

Becky Beach: Yeah, but we’ll talk, [00:29:00] we’ll have more about that in our show notes over@beckybeachshow.com. If you’re interested in hanging out with, with Jenna and myself and getting things decluttered like, I think that’s a great way to, to take action and actually get things done. And, and plus you have other people doing it as well, so you got accountability and, and like, it is like a social party is, that’s like a really great idea.

Jenna Carlsson: Yeah, it’s a really nice way for people to start. Um, and for people who might not feel ready for in-person organizing, I do do in-person organizing in the Bay Area, and I also travel. I love traveling, so I get to help people in person in their homes all across the us. Um, but it’s also really nice to just have people be able to start with something that’s easy.

Jenna Carlsson: Come on. No pressure and just, um, feel that like you’re getting going on something, you’ll feel that relief and release right away. So I’d be happy to have anyone that would like to come and I’m so glad that you’ll get to join also, Becky and yeah, get some, some motivation, some [00:30:00] decluttering done.

Becky Beach: Oh yeah, I’m really excited about that.

Becky Beach: Okay, so again, make sure you check out the show notes@beckybeatshow.com. Well, thanks much for being here. Jenna, do you have any last words for our, our listeners?

Jenna Carlsson: Yeah, I would say if you’re feeling overwhelmed or stuck in anything in your life, your home, your business, start by going within, start by doing some decluttering, and you don’t have to have the answer right away.

Jenna Carlsson: Just trust the intuition and the process, and I’d say. Start with close. If you’re not sure what to start with, start with close. If you’re feeling overwhelmed in your office, you can start with your office, um, whichever one you want to do, but just start doing something, hold something up, see if it sparks joy, and you will feel so much better afterwards.

Jenna Carlsson: So just know that you don’t have to have all the answers or all the time to get going. It’s okay to start small and, and get the, get support for that, whether that’s a friend, whether that’s coming to a clutter Clara party, whether that’s [00:31:00] bringing in a professional organizer. There’s lots of ways to get support, but just know that you’re not alone.

Jenna Carlsson: We’re all working on this. We all come from our different backgrounds and, um, and be gentle with yourself in the process of it.

Becky Beach: Oh, that. That sounds great. Love that. Okay, well thanks again. Again. Check out the show notes at beckybeachshow.com. Have a great day. Goodbye. Bye. Thanks so much for listening to the Becky Beach Show.

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