What if the clutter in your home is costing you more than just space?

If you’ve ever looked around your house and felt instantly overwhelmed by the piles, laundry, papers, toys, and stuff everywhere, this episode is for you.

Today, I’m talking with Deanna Yates, recovering perfectionist, busy mom, and host of the top-ranked Wannabe Clutter Free podcast. Deanna helps high-achieving moms clear the clutter from their homes and lives so they can create spaces that actually support them instead of draining them.

And this conversation isn’t about having a Pinterest-perfect house.

We’re talking about how clutter affects your mental load, energy, focus, and productivity—and how letting go of the things you don’t need can make everyday life feel so much easier.

Deanna shares why perfectionism can make our homes feel harder to live in, how visual clutter quietly drains our energy, and why you absolutely do NOT need an entire weekend to start decluttering.

We also talk about:

• The difference between a home that looks good and one that actually feels good
• Why clutter can become a constant visual to-do list
• How to declutter in just 5–10 minutes at a time
• Deanna’s simple five-minute family tidy
• How to tackle sentimental items without feeling guilty
• Why keeping fewer meaningful items can actually make them more special
• How to get your family involved so Mom isn’t the keeper of all the things
• The ridiculously simple “declutter box” you can start today

If you’ve been telling yourself you’ll deal with the clutter when you finally have an entire free Saturday, Deanna is going to give you permission to start much, much smaller.

Because your home doesn’t need to be perfect. It needs to work for the people actually living in it.

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Are you the person everyone counts on—the one who can always figure it out, squeeze it in, or take on one more thing?

Being capable is a gift, but it can also become a trap.

In today’s episode, I’m joined by business strategist and executive coach Dawn Andrews, Founder and CEO of Free Range Thinking, to talk about what happens when capable women become responsible for too much—at work, at home, and everywhere in between.

Dawn shares why highly capable women are especially vulnerable to burnout, how caring leaders can accidentally take on responsibilities that belong to other people, and why doing more isn’t always the best use of your capacity.

We also dive into boundaries—and a completely different way to think about them. Instead of waiting until you’re exhausted and finally declaring, “I can’t do this anymore,” Dawn encourages us to build boundaries around what we value and want to protect.

In this episode, we talk about:

• The “curse of the capable” and why capable women often end up carrying more
• Why doing less can actually make you a better leader
• The difference between supporting someone and taking responsibility for them
• Why holding space for someone is different from holding their weight
• How over-functioning prevents the people around us from growing
• Why boundaries can feel so difficult for dependable, high-achieving women
• How to set boundaries based on your values instead of your exhaustion
• Why your capacity should be spent on what you choose
• The power of pausing before automatically saying yes
• Dawn’s simple three-question boundary check using energy, resentment, and enthusiasm

If you’re tired of automatically asking, “How can I make this work?” every time something lands on your plate, this conversation will help you start asking a much more important question: “Do I actually want to?”

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Do you feel responsible for keeping everyone in your family happy? Do you find yourself trying to fix your kids’ hard feelings, keep the peace, or make everything okay?

What if deeper connection with your kids actually starts with learning how to connect with yourself?

In today’s episode of The Secrets of Supermom Show, Lori talks with Diane Sorensen, certified Transformational Coach and host of the Chaos to Connection podcast, about breaking generational patterns, understanding our emotional triggers, and creating stronger relationships with our children.

Diane shares how her daughter’s mental health crisis and her own divorce forced her to look at patterns of perfectionism, people-pleasing, emotional suppression, and approval-seeking that she had unknowingly carried into motherhood.

Together, Lori and Diane discuss:

• Why connection with your children starts with connection to yourself
• How to recognize your emotional triggers—and what they can teach you
• Why trying to keep everyone happy can actually hurt connection
• The difference between feeling an emotion and knowing how to be with an emotion
• How perfectionism and “good girl” conditioning can show up in motherhood
• Why your child’s emotions are not yours to manage
• How to be okay when your kids are not okay
• Why connection isn’t about spending more time or money on your kids
• How to listen to your children without immediately fixing, reframing, or teaching
• A simple practice you can use today to start building more emotional awareness and connection

One of Diane’s most powerful reminders? The secret to being a Supermom isn’t never struggling—it’s learning how to navigate the struggle while staying connected to yourself.

If you’ve ever worried that you’re doing motherhood wrong, felt responsible for everyone else’s emotions, or struggled with mom guilt when your kids are having a hard time, this conversation will give you a completely different way to think about connection.

Connect with Diane Sorensen:

Website: dianesorensen.net
Instagram: @dianesorensen.bb
Podcast: Chaos to Connection

Free Resource:
Drama to Empowerment — Learn how to move out of reactive patterns and into greater awareness, connection, and empowerment.

Listen now and discover how doing the inner work can transform the relationships around you.

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