Whiskey & Work Podcast - How To Create A Minimalist Home & Business {Featuring Expert Shira Gill}

How To Create A Minimalist Home & Business {Featuring Expert Shira Gill}

07/11/23 • 48 min

Shira Gill joins Whiskey and Work to talk about organizing and decluttering both physically and mentally. She is a minimalist organizer, author, and former life coach who is recognized for her work globally. Kelsey and Shira discuss organization while in the thickets of having young kids, why Shira opts for minimalism, what this really means and using this all as an approach to get you to the life you want to be living. Sit back, relax and enjoy the latest and greatest from Whiskey and Work!

What we’re talking about...

Kelsey introduces Shira and shares how this conversation has been helping her in this season of life
The two talk about the chaos that can unfold during the summer season with kids at home while maintaining your workload
How to combat this chaos with intentionality and, of course, mental and physical organization
Kelsey shares her approach of minimalism in her business, but how she struggles for physical minimalism
Shira explains her approach and emphasis in decluttering: the more we own, the more we manage
She explains the process of taking a step back to reflect on how you want your life to look, feel, function versus what is adding noise and distraction in your life
Shira shares a tool of how to declutter when it comes to kids toys through a library approach
She details the 5 key steps to organization in her book Minimalista
Step 1: clarify your bigger life and home goals
Step 2: edit and declutter
Step 3: Organizing in a simplistic manner - group like with like and give everything a home
Step 4: Evelvate and add a little something pretty to the project your taking on
Step 5: Maintain this by creating little habits that take less than 5 minutes a day
Shira talks about her new book Organized Living in which she and a photographer interviewed and photographed 25 professional organizers from around the world
See the links below to connect with Shira, check out her books, or stay involved with Kelsey!

A {free} Tool or Two!

Did someone say free? Yup that’s right. Kelsey’s here to help with a few free tools to help launch your business and creative ideas! Click the links to start your journey.

Links Mentioned

Shira Gill’s Website

Shira’s Books

Kelsey Murphy’s Website

Kelsey Murphy’s Instagram

What we’re talking about...

Kelsey introduces Shira and shares how this conversation has been helping her in this season of life
The two talk about the chaos that can unfold during the summer season with kids at home while maintaining your workload
How to combat this chaos with intentionality and, of course, mental and physical organization
Kelsey shares her approach of minimalism in her business, but how she struggles for physical minimalism
Shira explains her approach and emphasis in decluttering: the more we own, the more we manage
She explains the process of taking a step back to reflect on how you want your life to look, feel, function versus what is adding noise and distraction in your life
Shira shares a tool of how to declutter when it comes to kids toys through a library approach
She details the 5 key steps to organization in her book Minimalista
Step 1: clarify your bigger life and home goals
Step 2: edit and declutter
Step 3: Organizing in a simplistic manner - group like with like and give everything a home
Step 4: Evelvate and add a little something pretty to the project your taking on
Step 5: Maintain this by creating little habits that take less than 5 minutes a day
Shira talks about her new book Organized Living in which she and a photographer interviewed and photographed 25 professional organizers from around the world
See the links below to connect with Shira, check out her books, or stay involved with Kelsey!

A {free} Tool or Two!

Did someone say free? Yup that’s right. Kelsey’s here to help with a few free tools to help launch your business and creative ideas! Click the links to start your journey.

Links Mentioned

Shira Gill’s Website

Shira’s Books

Kelsey Murphy’s Website

Kelsey Murphy’s Instagram

Previous Episode

Building “People First” Businesses {Featuring Expert Gina Gomez}

Gina Gomez joins Whiskey and Work to talk about building a business in an evolving market. Kelsey and Gina discuss creating a product that sells itself, savvy consumers, business core values and how to lean into the challenges of your business. Sit back, relax and get ready to take some notes on this episode!

What we’re talking about...

Gina Gomez is a business strategist and advisor for her business development company that specializes in diversity, equity and inclusion
Kelsey talks about meeting Gina first through business and how their friendship has grown since then
Gina explains how her clients range across industries and how that enables her to pick business she believes she can make a real impact with
How business interactions are changing with the savvy consumer
Gina explains why she hated sales
The two talk discuss the art of selling without ever letting it feel like sales
How to and why you should work to craft a product that sells itself (aka creating a more valuable product for the consumer/client)
How to separate yourself from the rest of the market
The value of face-time in creating and running a business
How to offer more for less
Creating core values in business and how you hold those values personally
Kelsey shares about her value of transparency and how she uses this virtue as a sounding board (both in business and her marriage)
The two discuss the inspection of business
How to let these challenges shape you and prepare you for the next thing
The skill sets that comes from overcoming these challenges

A {free} Tool or Two!

Did someone say free? Yup that’s right. Kelsey’s here to help with a few free tools to help launch your business and creative ideas! Click the links to start your journey.

Links Mentioned

Gina Gomez’s Website

Gina’s Free Resources

Kelsey Murphy’s Website

Kelsey Murphy’s Instagram

Next Episode

From 9-5 To Successful Motherhood Coach: How She Built It {Featuring Dena Tibsherany}

Dena Tibsherany, a mental health clinical director turned entrepreneur, sits down with Kelsey to share about her podcasting journey that began with Kelsey’s Podcast with Soul course, how Dena created a meaningful product for mothers, and how she has grown her business to what it is today. Whether you are expecting a baby, already have kids, know and love someone in this transitional time of life, or just looking to hear how Dena created such a successful and impactful business, this episode is for you!

What we’re talking about...

Dena was working as a director of a mental health clinic when she had her son
Despite her extensive education around mental health and years of experience in the field, Dena found herself filled with anxiety postpartum.
She found Kelsey’s podcasting course and told her husband that’s what she wanted for Christmas and she was going to quit her job
Dena explains the pivot she found in her niche after taking the course and releasing her first episode
After three months of podcasting, Dena took a leap of faith and left her full time job to pursue her podcast and growing business
Dena has since created a product for her business: a one year plan postpartum
This plan pulls from her years of experience and education in the mental health realm
It ranges from what is biologically happening to your body postpartum to fostering your relationships during this transitional time
Kelsey shares about a similar course she took when having her first born, but had spent an entire weekend trip and lots of money on it
Dena’s course is 4 hours, can be broken up into whatever way works best for you and is recommended to be completed alongside your partner and/or supporters
Dena also runs a club called “Empowered Mamas Club” where she coaches, educations and creates a safe space for mother’s to share about their experiences in this season of life

A {free} Tool or Two!

Did someone say free? Yup that’s right. Kelsey’s here to help with a few free tools to help launch your business and creative ideas! Click the links to start your journey.

Links Mentioned

Dena Tibsherany’s Website

Empower to Heal Podcast

Kelsey Murphy’s Website

Kelsey Murphy’s Instagram