{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Clutter Free Academy","title":"Cluttery People Are Great Storytellers—It's the Editing We Struggle With","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1595,"description":"What if the reason it's so hard to let go of your stuff isn't that you're disorganized—but that you're a really good storyteller?\nIn this episode of Clutter Free Academy, Kathi Lipp brings together three of her great loves—decluttering, writing, and her longtime friend Susy Flory—for a conversation about the one skill most cluttery people are missing. Kathi's theory? People with clutter aren't bad at storytelling. Pick up almost anything in a cluttered home and the owner can tell you exactly where it came from, who gave it to them, and why it matters. The struggle isn't the story. It's the editing.\nSusy Flory is a memoirist, collaborator on two New York Times bestsellers, and the founder of Shake Ridge Press, a publishing house devoted to true stories by real people. Her actual job is deciding what stays in the story and what gets cut—which turns out to be exactly what listeners need to learn to do in their homes.\nYour Home Is Telling a Story. Is It the One You Want to Tell?\nKathi and Susy talk about how a home—like a book—can get so crowded with \"good stuff\" that the reader (or the guest, or you) can't find the heart of it. As Susy puts it, when there's too much in a space, \"it's just a pile rather than a storyteller.\" The goal isn't an empty house. The goal is a home where the things you kept can actually be seen.\nIn This Episode, Listeners Will Learn:\n\nWhy the object isn't always where the story lives—and how that realization makes letting go so much easier\nThe simple, low-tech tool Susy uses to decide what makes the cut (hint: it involves a pen and paper, not a system)\nHow to handle the inherited things that don't actually tell the story of the person who gave them to you\nWhat to do with that mishmash box of photos, letters, and journals someone left behind\nWhy \"edit one scene at a time\" translates perfectly to \"one shelf, one drawer at a time\"\nHow to \"shop your own house\" for meaningful pieces instead of buying something a thousand other people already own...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/cDkfsIad8ttwNVTe53KcoWMyy7wfRYQTcB4BkQ4V-KE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83OWRi/YTFiZjNjZTBjNmRm/ZDcyNTQ4Mzk2MDQ4/NjViZS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}