Off The Vine with Kaitlyn Bristowe - THE: The Home Edit

Episode Date: September 11, 2018

Kaitlyn is joined by Joanna Teplin and Clea Shearer of The Home Edit, a full service home organization company. Join in as they share cost effective tips to getting organized, their favorite celebrity clients, and their new TV show on Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine network. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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You guys are like, shut up. We're going to laugh. We're going to drink champagne with these two boss ladies from, if you guys don't follow the home at it, I'm following you guys. And it, like, it, there's something about it that takes away my. anxiety. You know, we've heard that. We don't take away the anxiety. Just your, just the feed does. The beautiful organized. We add to the anxiety.

No, no, no. You make me feel more normal about my energy. Well, the normal, but yes, I think that the feed is very zen-like. Yeah. Our stories are a hot mess. Oh, that's perfect. That's a good balance. Yeah. Right. It's like, choose your own adventure. Like, which one do you want? Yeah, and I like both. All right. I'm one of those

choose your adventure books where I'll go back and then choose the other one after just so I can yeah. Just so I can have both. I want to know I chose correctly yes and we were talking about um names earlier and just getting the like pronouncing names properly so not joanne joanna teplin and clea shear correct that you got it i nailed it yeah wow it's too hard names yeah i mean turns out turns out i don't know but yeah but that's what i was saying katelyn can be a hard name for people to read somehow right it's the weirdest thing kathleen i get that all the time oh right right it's like a totally different name totally no right just no it's

My name, it drives me crazy because it's only four letters. And it's actually like C-L-E-A. How else would you? It's clear. Like how, you know, it's not Chloe. It's not Claire. It's not Cleo. I just don't understand why it's-

It's spelled. It's spelled very, like, like, you can't really, yeah. Yeah, it's not like it's like there's a-thrown in there. Right. No. Or, you know, it's very like. It just, it's, it makes sense. Yeah.

And, but it trips people up all the time. Well, same with there's a clear A on the end of your name and people say, Joanne. Yeah. They do. They add an E. Or, yeah. And Joanna literally, like, the look on her face, she cringes outwardly. Do you call people out?

No. No. Well, honestly, it depends on the situation. Yeah. Sometimes it's just not worth going down like that, you know? Yeah, I go down like that. Yeah. I'm like, oh, I'm sorry.

It's clear. I've interrupted conference calls to be like, Clea. Yeah. Yeah. I would do the same thing. I do. Otherwise, it's just so uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable.

But sometimes it's just more uncomfortable to say. It depends on the scenario. Okay. We're very passionate about this time, though. I just don't mind discomfort, so I am like, I'm going to, I'm going down this road. I'm right there with you, but that's usually because we're probably drinking champagne, so we're a little, like a little sauce when I'm like, excuse me, you got my name. Incorrect. Exactly.

Oh, no, and I wait for it. Like, if we're on a conference call and I'm like, we're not together on the conference, like in separate spaces and they say her name, I'm like, I'm like counting the seconds until she like pipes in and is like, that's not how you say my name. I start like pressing keys on the phone to like interrupt. I get really tough. I like know it's coming. It's like, you know when this is screeching tires or whatever, I'm like, it's coming, it's coming. Oh, no. That's funny.

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first box at greenchef.us slash fine. Thank you, too, for being on the podcast today. I'm always happy to have boss ladies in here drinking with me. So match made in heaven. Yeah, we'll come any time. We don't even have to record. And it doesn't even matter what time it is. We were saying it's like Vegas. Yeah, there's no windows in here. Nobody knows what time. There's no windows.

Also, if you could just put a poker table in here, I would be really happy. Oh, set the mood. Yeah. Next time, Caitlin. No, you're right. I should make it more vagusy because there's no windows. Like, you should lean into that for sure. And people who are listening never know what time of date. Like, it could be 11 o'clock at night right now for all people know. And we don't know because. Right. Right. Time is not a thing down here because we're in a sound booth. There's no judging. No. Judge-free zone.

Yeah. Right. I think you should lean into this. Okay. I think you're right, too. Yeah. This sort of feels like a vagus, like, scenario, too, where they'd be, like, giving you your money behind the window and stuff.

That's true. Maybe I should start wearing, like, um, like burlesque outfits. Just see the whole thing. The whole podcast is like so different. It's just a whole production. Yeah. Totally. It's not a podcast anymore.

I've turned it into a TV show because you must see it. I can't just listen when it's going on, when it's going down like that. We talked about a lot before the start. the started. About the color of mimosas, because we're having mimosas. I'm also having coffee. It's my third one of the morning, actually, which is crazy. It's, I mean, I mean, or night. We don't know what time of day it is, right? Or night. It doesn't matter. But you were saying sometimes you just put a little splash of OJ in for color in the morning. Is that your water bottle that you are making I'm trying to open it. I'm sorry. I'm not the only drunk one here. You're drunk on water.

How cool. Cool. No, so here is my feeling about champagne. Yes. It is perfect as it is. The only reason to ever add orange juice is so that people don't think you're an alcoholic. Yes. If you're drinking before 12 p.m. Like if you, because then it's a brunch drink. A mimosa sounds totally acceptable. Like ordering straight up champagne at like 10 a.m. feels wrong.

Yeah. So you just get a little bit of orange juice, put like a teaspoon in for color purposes only. Yeah. I want my mimosa relatively clear. Yeah, like 96%. 100%. Well, no, I'm 96% 100% correct that I wanted a 96%. Like, I just want a dash of orange juice just so that I can call it a mimosa.

Yeah. I think it makes me feel a little bit better. My mom always told me like vodka OJ was a breakfast drink. Well, if you add orange juice to it, of course it is. But no one says how much you need to add to make it a breakfast drink. No, that's true. It decides that for herself. It's all about the color.

But that same thing when you're on airplanes. I feel like it's so acceptable to just like start drinking vodka. 7 a.m. Well, you know, an airport is a lawless land. It really is. Like, if you're hungry, food is $600. Yeah. If you're thirsty, drink a beer or vodka, whatever. You can do any, people sleep on the floor. Yeah. It's a show. Wild West. Yeah. You can do anything you want. And I think that, like, there's nothing that makes me more comfortable than walking into, like, a restaurant bar at an airport at like 7 a.m. And truly everyone's drinking. I'm like, yes. Except for your business partner. Well, but you sit with me. Joanna, make sure we get on the

plane on time. There you go. I'm at the bar with all the other people. I just feel like we all like can look at each other and just agree. And you give like this nod like of approval. We're all in acceptance here. Yeah. I totally understand that. Yeah. Like where else in the world does that exist? You can't go to a bar. Vegas. That's true. We're going back to Vegas here.

Vegas and Europe. Yes. That's right. That's true. I like both places. But and airports for us. That's what I don't even like fly sometimes. I just go to airports to like socially drink in the morning. It's happening. It's happening. Yeah. It's bumping. I'm like sitting here I'm like I haven't even like we haven't even got to like who you are people oh we're not

anyone that's easy no I get some tweets sometimes like I said earlier like I'm kind of unprofessional in this way and people will be like can you maybe do a better job at introducing your guests because I'm always like this is their name and let's talk about drinking I'm like oh yeah wait wait I do want to know like tell us about yourselves and who you are and how you got into this business that you that you have this weird world yeah no it's genius Clea has it down. I do. I have it down.

I have it to say it a few times. Give it to me. So we started our company three years ago, exactly. Literally started, well, we met in August of 2015, started working in September. So we are three years old as a company. But Joanna and I, it's like dog years. We've spent a lot of time together. Like millions of years together.

Yeah. Like millions of minutes. Yeah. So we have spent a lot of time together. And we went into business the day we met. Yeah. Did you really? Yeah.

We met through a mutual friend. is risky. Yeah. It's a terrible idea. Yeah. I wouldn't recommend it. If anyone's listening for business advice, please do not take this because we literally went to lunch together.

We started talking about what we wanted to do and the organizing company we wanted to independently create. We just got up as business partners and decided to do it together. And that was at lunchtime. And by 8 p.m. that night, we had our social handles, our name, our logo design. we got our website. We just went into business that day. Like fully into business. You really committed to that.

Yeah. And like open bank accounts like the next week. What? Yeah. It's the stupidest thing ever. But did you have, well, women have good intuition. We do. So I do feel like you probably got the good intuition of each other and thought like, okay, this. Again, I wouldn't advise it to anybody.

Right. We didn't even do a Google search. Like, why didn't we, like, in hindsight, it was stupid. And like, why are our husband's okay with it? They were just like, whatever. I mean, they just pick their battles. Our husbands are... This would be a battle that's worth picking, probably.

You know, and again, in hindsight, many everyone would have. But it's too late. But it was meant to be. It is meant to be. I don't know how it worked. I really don't. Against all that. Yeah.

And so you just, so you will go to people's homes and do you pick, like, do they pick specific rooms that they want? Yes. Okay, so like closets. I would love it if we could show up and be like, here's what you get. Totally. Somebody. Somebody actually, when I was asking if anyone had questions for you, someone was like, do they go to, like, friends and families, homes and be like, oh, gosh, when you walk in the door and like, privately. Yeah. Try not to be judgmental. I try.

Joanna tries not to be judgmental. I, no, she doesn't try. I don't really try to not be, but I also just end up being productive. I just start rearranging their stuff. I'm sure they appreciate it. Yeah. Well, some people would. I would. Yeah, I'm just like, let me just help you for a second. You know, again, I say, pour a glass of wine, let me take over here.

That sounds like heaven, if you ask me. I am, I'm not like a, I'm not disorganized, but I'm not organized. Like, I'm just kind of in the middle. Yeah. Like, I like things to be clean. Yeah. And I like things to be put in their place, but not everything has a place. Yeah.

Like, if I showed you a picture of our house right now, my fiancee is like, he's good compared to some men. Right. But we have a house. house that's like bigger than what we need and upstairs we don't even have furniture up there yet and it's just piles of his clothes everywhere in different corners well you fill the spaces that you have so if you have a shoebox you fill it if you have a mansion you fill it yeah so that's just I was we lived in a way smaller house and then an apartment before that but I'm like we didn't really get more stuff you just somehow you just spread it out it's it's a problem that everyone

has yeah it's kind of like you know when you have money in your wallet you spend it when you have space in your house, you fill it. I mean, that's just like the way it is. Yeah. And so, I mean, we always say that the size of the house does not dictate how organized or disorganized people are. Right. That's true. It just comes down to what you do with the space and how you segment it out and how you make it work. Yeah. We've seen 17,000 square foot homes that are disaster and we've seen like 900 square foot apartments in New York that are like running like clockwork. Right. I mean, it just totally depends. That's so true. I want, okay, you do like celebrities, right? Yes. Who's the craziest celebrity you've done?

Crazy meaning, like, most. I would say a tie between Gwyneth Paltrow and Kim Kardashian. Whoa, you guys did Gwyneth Paltrow and Kim Kardashian? Yes. That's huge. It's shocking for us also. It is shocking. It'll never not be shocking.

I mean, listen, all of, we love all of our celebrity clients. Of course. But I think that there's holy crap moments where you're like, I can't believe I'm here. Yeah. Yeah. And kind of like when you're on Off the Vine podcast, you're like, wow, wow. You know what? We've never done this kind of podcast before. No, this is a special day. Okay. I'll take it. We've done one other podcast ever. Two podcasts. What was the first? Young House Love. That's right. We actually, we, that was a remote podcast. We were on like Skype or FaceTime or whatever. Yeah. And then we did one with our friend Kelly in our financial business manager's office conference room. Right. And so now this is our first like grown. Up our Vegas studio. Yeah. Vegas studio.

This is our first Vegas podcast. This is your Vegas podcast. Yeah. That's so crazy that you've done. Were they there when you were doing it? I always wonder, I'm like, do they actually have say or do they have people even to say what they? You know what? I mean, they're actually, I don't think there's a single celebrity that we've worked with that hasn't been there and hasn't said exactly what they want to have done.

Yeah. Oh, that's amazing. Yeah. I mean, people have to go to work. You know, they have to leave and whatever. We actually prefer. we want to meet with whomever it is, whether it's a celebrity or a normal client. We want to meet with them.

We want to hear exactly what they want. We want to ask them a billion questions so that we know exactly what to do. And then we want them to leave. Because we make a huge mess when we work. And it's kind of like we want them to see it when it's done. It's like you don't want to see the sausage being made. No, no, never. And we make a humongous mess.

You don't even understand. Really? Oh, yeah. Do you ever showcase that side of it? Is that, because you guys have a show that's, is it out now? On the show, you'll see them. It premiered yesterday. Amazing. Congratulations.

Thank you. I just keep jumping all over the place. But, like, you guys are just, you've blown up in, what, three years? Like, did you start blowing up right? It was pretty quick, I guess. I just, it was, well, okay, so we started working in September of 2015. In October, we, I'm from Los Angeles. Yeah.

And so I kind of arranged for, like, a week of projects in L.A., working with some of the celebrities that I just have known from living there. Right. Growing up there. And we just arranged for, we'll do a project for you. can you post like the finish you know image at the end so not like will you just

regram like one of our pictures but like we'll do the work right like can you post the finish project and I think that really just kind of set us up for success and it just gave us I think the boost that we needed we got a bunch of press out of it I mean it's kind of just crazy

all of this stuff has happened very organically well that's a great thing it is oh we'll take it every single day I feel like we just can't believe. No, it's like, everything's like, is this real? Or you're like, I woke up in the morning and I was at, you know, it just all feels like it could be a total dream.

Yeah. Like, I had the weirdest dream. I was at Guineath-Paltrow's house. Like, I mean, it's just the whole thing is absurd. Well, I mean, equally as weird as that, I mean, we got a TV show because, like, Reese Witherspoon found us on Instagram. So it's her production company. It is.

Yes. It's her network. Cool. And production company. Hello Sunshine is a production company, but also a new channel on direct TV and direct TV now. Yeah. So, and it launched with her show Shine On with Reese, which is an unscripted docu-use.

It's amazing. I love Reese. She's beyond. Yeah. And the only reason why she isn't on our list of the most shocking, crazy, amazing celebrities that we've ever organized for is because we have yet to organize her house. Oh, really? Yes.

We are going to. She wants to get settled. She's, you know, is kind of in between L.A. and Nashville. Yeah. We're like, when can we organize her house? We want to do every nook and granite. And we will. But it's still the craziest, I think it's the craziest thing that's ever happened in our life that she found us on Instagram and gave you a TV show.

Gave us a TV show. But it's good. I watched the first and it's like it's so fun to watch because I think there's something about being organized that people like it's satisfying to watch that. Well, and it's doable. And it's approachable. Right. That's so true. It's approachable.

And you both are very like relatable people and you're fun and you've got the personalities to like carry a show as well, which really helps. And so it's just, I mean, I really enjoyed watching it. Oh, thank you. And it's cool that you guys can do that. Like, there's something to be said about things happening for a reason or things being meant to be. Like, I just think this is what you guys are supposed to be doing. Well, there's no question about that because we suck at everything else. So there's literally everyone's like, how did you become an organizer?

What a strange thing to be? And it's like, well, if you don't have any other talent, then that's what you should do. You really put like all of your energy into organizing. And this is, you know, when you put all of your energy into one thing, Reese Witherspoon will find you and give you a TV show. Yeah, that's, there's your business advice. Just do that. Just do that from you first. That's so cool. And have you ever had like, not that you would say it if you did, but like a bad experience with, with someone like a celebrity. People wanted to know that. I think we've been very, maybe we're just lucky or maybe we just bring out everyone's fun side.

I don't know. Because like, you know, it's a very. People have been amazing. We have the best clients. And like, it's just, it's always shocking how wonderful. Because you're really helping them. I don't know, but they're just wonderful. Like, always blow it away. Maybe we're just lucky. I really don't know. You guys both have horseshoes up your asses, what's going on.

You're just lucky people. Well, I just feel like we've had such a cross-section, too, of, like, people that we've worked with in celebrities in Nashville, in L.A. Actually, I mean, all over the country, really, but of course they're mostly based in Los Angeles. But, I mean, I don't know. Everyone's just been amazing and so kind. And we always feel like we're just, like, you know, glorified housekeepers. But they're so lovely to us. That's amazing.

It's been amazing. Everyone's always like, oh. The trip must be. If you're like in their underwear drawer, they're going to be nice to you. You know what I mean? Like you're like very up close and personal with like all their stuff. I think that they'll just be, you know, nice to you. That's fair.

That's a great point. Yeah. That's if I had to deduce something. Are your husbands both organized? In certain regards, yes. Mine actually is extremely organized with a lot of things. Well, no, both. So he's very, very, very neat.

Like I married a neat freak and I is the sexiest thing in the world to me. It's like the greatest thing that's ever happened in my life. I don't think we're celebrating 10 years of marriage this month. Oh my gosh. Congratulations. I don't think we would have made it. Cleo, we haven't been married for 10 years. My other spouse.

But he also, he is like the planner in the family. Like all the dates are in the calendar. He's the one who pays all the bills. Like he works like clockwork. He is so methodical. He knows exactly when pickup time is, when picture day is, when all these things. And I'm the mess in that regard. Right.

I don't like paper. I don't deal with any of that. He has files. If he's on the phone with like, you know, the Verizon or whatever and they're like, oh, I'm sorry, sir. Like, we're going to need your account number from six years ago to like be able to handle that. He's like, just give me one second and just goes right to the filing cabinet, pulls it up, has it in two minutes. He is like crazy in that regard. I'm terrible.

Yeah. That helps. Like, I get very overwhelmed with like bills and all that kind of stuff. And I feel like that's the same way with. My guy, Sean, he's the exact same way. Like, he's totally organized with that kind of stuff. Yeah. Oh, I'd be, like, in jail if I, like, had to, like, manage my own.

Yeah, you would be 100%. I would. I actually just got a call, like, two days ago about, like, tax. I'm like, oh, yeah. I just don't even, like, I just put it out of mind and I'm like, no, it's not happening. La, la, la. Right. No, the IRS is like, actually you're wrong.

Yeah. But I'll wait until they tell me that. Like, I'm just, I'm unorganized in that way. Like, I'm a mess. I mean, when I was in New York, I went to college there. and I thought jury duty was like optional and like they kept sending me like notices and stuff. Yeah, I got it. There was a warrant out for my arrest because I didn't go to.

I just didn't think. There's no time for confessions right now, Clea. That's not a confession. That's just like I would literally if there wasn't a person like managing the mail, I'd be in jail. Yeah. No, I totally feel you on that. Yeah, I like need people to take care of me. I'm helpless.

I always try and be like that girl that I'm like, I don't need someone to take care of me. No, I definitely need someone to take care of me. We all do. We all do. In different ways. Right. We all need something and someone in some way. Exactly.

We're lucky to have husbands that are so hands-on and, like, aware of what else is happening in our homes. They're amazing mothers. They are both of them. Aw. That's sweet. Oh, yeah. We're really, it's amazing. So lucky.

Yeah. That is a blessing. Yes. I can't people. One of the questions we get asked the most, we travel all the time for work. And people want to know what, like, who takes care of the kids. And we were like, oh, our kids are in much better hands. They're like in what.

This is like a lot less therapy that we're saving. by us being gone. Like, like, imagine if we were home. Yeah. I remember one time John had to leave, and he has to travel all the time too. And he was gone on a work trip. And my daughter looked up at me and she was like, who's going to make his breakfast? And I was like, go get a freaking cereal bar. That's what you're going to have. And leave me alone. I mean, and they, I'm just so, like, trust me, my husband, he is the reason why our family still functions. Same. A hundred percent same. Yeah, they're amazing. That's really nice to hear.

Their kids. Our kids are really lucky to have them. Their kids are so. How old are your kids? We both have kids exact same age, seven and four. Oh, wow. I have a seven-year-old daughter. She has a seven-year-old son, and then four-year-old son for me and four-year-old daughter for Joanna.

Oh, nice. Yeah. And do you want them to get married when they grow up? They're cousins. Be a little incestuous. At this point, first of all, I feel like we wouldn't want that neuroses to inbreed. I feel like it should really, they should marry calmer people. I don't know.

Our younger ones don't have the neuroses. But can you imagine Stella, our older children are a real chip off goal block. The apple did not fall far from either of the trees. I love it. And like anxiety-ridden and like so stressed about everything. Yeah. I mean. Although my son did take after my entrepreneurial spirit and started an official like Lego business.

Oh. He makes Legos. and then sells the finished product so that he can then buy new. Like, he's like wakes up in the morning and he can't wait to tell me about the business. Wait, that's really sweet. He's very serious about it. He's a little go-getter. He's into it. Meanwhile, Stella had a lemonade stand where she was charging $11 for class.

You know what? That's cute. That's cute. Set up the stand inside the house. Oh. Because her mom will pay $11. Well, she knew that she could get her parents to pay the money and she is also indoorsy. She is not an outdoorsy kind of person.

And so I had to give it to her. That's hilarious. She also takes after me, sets up the business inside of the house. Yeah. Where she wants it to be. And just makes us pay her. Yeah. Yeah. Wow.

Genius. There you go. This is why we're better off not in the house and our husbands are better off raising our kids. I love that. I obviously love to live a healthy lifestyle. And I always try to be conscious of what's in my food, my makeup, and even cleaning supplies. And honestly, it's just the smart thing to do. I am not a mother yet, but I do have plenty and plenty of friends and family with babies.

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All right. All right. Yeah, you're up. Okay. So my mother told me I should not. You can change yours. Really? You probably have a lot of confessions.

Well, tell me the worst. All right. I'll tell you this only because. Even my husband doesn't know this. Like, he's, I don't know if I can have him listen to this podcast. Yes. So I will preface this by saying, I love my daughter so. I love both of my children equally.

I love them so much, all right? But in the moment, right after I gave birth. Yeah. Okay. Like Stella is out. Yeah. Finally after nine months. And I was so happy and relieved to just not be pregnant anymore.

That's the only thing I could think of. And I look up and my husband is over me hysterically crying. he's so moved by emotion and the only thing I could think of was to pretend cry because I didn't know what to do I felt so guilty for not I was so psyched to not be pregnant anymore I was like so happy I was like you know ready to fist pump and like dance around the hospital room and he's his so he's crying so hard so I just was like and I just fake cried anyway I'm sorry John I love you Stella I love you it's not that I was not also good to know you can fake cry like I need to remember I need to like I need to like Like, stop that away. That's good TV. Yeah. In the moment. Right.

I mean, listen, I don't know how successful I was. Maybe John knew. I don't even think he could see me. He was crying so hard. Like, he was so emotional. Can I somehow get in on your guys as well? I'm like, this sounds lovely. You know, you don't hear about that very often about how like, just like speaking so highly

one another and how great. Like, that's, I want in. Yeah, he's the greatest human being in the world and I am so lucky. But in that moment, I was like, I need to up my game. And I'm just going to pretend. to be as emotional as he has. I was, you know what, I was so excited to not be pregnant. Well, that's fair.

That is totally fair. Nine months is a long time. It's a long time. That's very fair. And he obviously did not carry the child for nine months, so he would never understand. No, he wouldn't. I think it's totally fair. I do too.

But I've never told him that I fake crime. But that's a great confession. I actually really enjoy that. Usually people are talking about like poop or like stuff like that. So that's a good one. I know, even though that's like part of my confession. But, well, I told Clea, she already laughed at me. So I'm, like, a little gun shy now.

Oh, no. No, you go there. This is the safe place. Oh, right. Yeah. Vegas confessional here. Yes. So when I moved to San Francisco after college, I worked at, like, a retail store and I had friends there.

And on my days off, I would buy a bag of jelly beans and sit with like my, what, it wasn't an iPod. It was a disc man. A disc man. Oh, wow. And ride the bus driver would be like, ma'am, this is a lot. I would be like, no, no. I'm just going around. Basically, Joanna was a loser and had nothing better to tell. I just rode the bus all day. I just think it's so funny that you rode like public transportation for just fun.

All day. But what about that did you find fun? I don't know. I just listened to like Simon and Garfunkel and ate jelly beans all day. I mean, that does sound pretty nice, but why not do that like inside the house or? No, I just wanted to drive around. I did. I walked a ton in San Francisco, but I just, it was my day off. I just wanted to seal the bus. I just think if I could think of all the things I would want to do on my day off, riding a bus. No, I know. Which, by the way, this is a confessional. This was also, she lived in a hate in San Francisco.

It's true. She was 100% on a bus with drugged out crazy people. It's true. Probably who were sleeping outside for periods of time. And she just thought that this was the best way to spend her day. Oh. That's a confession, right? Is it a bad confession?

No, it's a great confession. I mean, if you're telling me something that you're embarrassed about, I'm happy about it. But I'm just more like I have so many questions. Most of Joanna's confessions will revolve around candy. Yeah. Really? Oh, yeah.

Oh, you know what, actually? Speaking of, this isn't really a confession because I put it on Instagram, but right after Stella was born when I was fake crying, I also made my, was it John or my mom, I made them sneak me in a bottle of champagne to the hospital room. Oh, that's so on brand. So on brand. And you know what? All of Joanna's will revolve around candy.

All of mine will revolve around candy. around shamping. At least we're true to ourselves. Yeah, exactly. Through and through. Super authentic. Yes. I love it. Mine's like, I say this on every podcast. So the people listening are like, we get it. It's hard for you to come up with a confession every week. But it is. It's hard. So I'm like, okay, well, like, what's happened to me in the last little while? I was just in Italy for a week and I'm like trying to think of anything that happened there. And I'm like, no, it was just all glorious. But I came home and Sean and I haven't like seen each other

in five weeks. Wow. And so, yeah, it was a long time. And, and, And so I'm like, you know when you just get that like little spark again and you kind of want to be like sexy and like I'm like trying to be like hot again for him? And I plugged the toilet. And I forgot that I plugged it. And I was like I'll come back to this later. It actually isn't as bad as it sounds. So anyways, he saw an alarm going off on my phone that said like unplug the toilet. Oh my God. That's pretty good. That's amazing. Way to get worse. And then I was like, oh shoot. And then we were golf. And then we went out for dinner, so my alarm kept going off because I kept, like, putting it off. And I really wanted to remember to do it because I didn't want him to go in there and see that. And then so I was like, oh, do you have like a plunger when we got home? And I thought we were going to go home from this, like, nice, like, back at it. And I'm like, where's the plunge? Where's the plunger?

Where's the plunger is not a romantic end to that. No. That's just not how it was. It was just like the least sexiest thing I could have asked him. Yeah, where's the plunger? And so he got me one and I'm just plunging away over. And he's outside the door being like, are you okay? And I'm like, and the plunger was like flipping up, like inside out.

God, why hasn't anyone reinvented the plunger? This is exactly what I said to him. I was like, why is this so. Archaic. Like, it was just a disaster. No, Dyson needs to make a plunder. No. Okay.

Like, this is unbelievable. It really is. And it's like. Like, really, that's the best that anybody's ever come up with? And it's also like kind of humiliating. Like, you're almost like, like, I have like secondhand embarrassment for myself, like doing that being like, on gone. Yeah.

And then I couldn't get it. And so he had to come in and do it. I'm dying right now for you. I know. I have hives. I am so uncomfortable. See, and like you've been married for 10 years and that still makes you uncomfortable. Yeah.

Because I don't poop. Oh, I do a lot. I'm like totally open with my poop talk. No, I know. So many girls are like, oh, no, we don't poop. And I'm like, I sure do. Yeah. No, I just would, I would think I would just die.

I would probably just pack up and move. Yeah. I was not like I was pretty embarrassed about it and it takes a lot to embarrass me and that I was like I wasn't like oh my gosh like can't look at them like I'm pretty sure we still did it after but at the same time like I was like you're going to have to come in here and help me out and he was like no like he's more embarrassed than I was embarrassed for you yeah yeah he got embarrassed for me that's actually romantic see that is romantic and that's why we did it after I was like you are my hero That's hilarious That's pretty gross But that's my confession For you guys I think that's a pretty good one

Yeah that counts That definitely got Maybe that's better than riding around the bus And the hate I bet you could do better I bet you could think of something more embarrassing I bet I could think of something more embarrassing I'm sure for you

I'll give it some thought Yeah thank you I'm so glad Leah thanks That's funny Okay I came up with a drinking game Okay great Love it It's called most likely

Okay It's basically It's not a drinking game I'll just drink with you guys while we play the game. Okay. That's how I play most games. Yeah, that's really any drinking game. So you guys decide on who it is that's most likely to do the thing that I say between the two of you.

For all of them. Really? Not necessarily. Okay. To eat jelly beans. Yeah, I was going to say have a like binge candy. Right. Okay.

Most likely to fan girl over a celebrity. Ooh, that's interesting. It depends on the person. Joanna and I fan girl over really strange. people like people like Joanna would fan girl over like some I don't know some CEO of a company that she right you know totally like somebody really nerdy um one of the sharks oh all the sharks mark Cuban oh all the sharks okay yeah I would have a nervous oh wait I know your confession oh no yes no no I forgot about it yes yes wait I need to you I'm ever am I going to tell her are you

I have both this in the air right now celebrating it's so good okay tell me oh it's It's so good, and I can't believe I can't believe I can't. I'm like embarrassed for... Joanna's going to go kill herself, and I'm going to tell you. So, Joanna's husband works for Warner Brothers. Yeah. And... He wasn't at the time.

Okay, whatever. Who cares? Irrelevant to the story. Yeah. Anyway, but he was in charge of doing some, like, meet and greet for John Mayer. Yeah. Joanna doesn't really care... Like, honestly, we work with celebrities all the time.

Yeah. She doesn't really care about celebrities. And I don't even think she really cared about John Mayer. Right. But she had, like, just... I think it was, like, right after the Jennifer Aniston split or something. And she had, like, just read. all the scandalous stuff about him.

And she was genuinely nervous about what was going to come out of her mouth, I think. Yeah. And so she thought the most appropriate thing to do in that moment was to stand in the corner of the room by herself facing the wall. No. And then all the meet and greet people

started like, you know, filtering out of the room. And all of a sudden, the only person left in the room was Joanna facing the corner of the wall. And John Mayer turned to Jeremy and was like, what about that girl over there? And Jeremy was like, that's just my wife. And Joanna literally, so she just shut down.

I'm like sweating. She shut down. She physically could not say anything or look at him. Not because she was so enamored with John Mayer. She was afraid that she was going to like have this moment where like she would verbally assault him about how he treated Jennifer Aniston. She genuinely didn't think she could stop herself, which is the weirdest thing in the world. Like who can't stop themselves from saying him?

I don't know. it was like a weird it was just a weird her whole body shut down like an iPhone I'm crying laughing to the point where you had to turn your head into the corner facing a wall you didn't care how stupid you love to she couldn't physically function you standing in the corner with your face of the wall

was more like acceptable to you than just saying something to John Mayer 100% she couldn't she genuinely didn't trust her own self that is amazing but the funniest thing to me is she doesn't care about John Mayer right it's not like she was about you. No, it was my

issue. It's not like, she was like, oh my God, oh my God, my God, I can't believe him about to meet

John Mayer. I love him so much. She was like, man, he wronged, Jennifer Aniston. I am really worried about how I'm going to respond.

So yeah, so she tucked herself into the corner, but the funniest is the room was then empty and it was just John Mary. And he's like,

what about this girl? And then my poor husband you have to work with him is like, who weirdo did he marry? But right, John's like, what about that weirdo?

And Jeremy's like, That's my wife. Damn it, that's my wife. Anyway. So that's a good one. We're still married. We're married for 10 years. We're okay.

You guys are like the same person. I know. It's disgusting. Also, like, look what we're wearing. We literally ended up in the same outfit today, which is very embarrassing. I do that with my fiancé. He wears tighter clothes than I do, and we always end up matching somehow. Well, my husband also wears super tight clothes.

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Maybe I was just trying to project. I think that you're the most likely for that. That's me. I don't think. I wouldn't be able to go if I were in public. Oh, I'm like, I grew up in the prairies and like we just peed in bushes all the time. I genuinely don't think I could do it. That could be one of my confessions.

Like I remember, this is actually quite embarrassing. like being 20 I don't know probably like 25 and like just going out to the bars and I lived in Vancouver and I would be like I really have to pee but I wouldn't I'd have such bad fomo I wouldn't want to miss a moment at the club with my friends so I just wouldn't serious fomo yeah and then so I'd be like okay and then my my house or my house my 420 square foot apartment was like just like a couple blocks away from the like busy street of Vancouver and so I'd be like I'll make it to the house but every time I'd just go pee in the bushes before I went up the elevator Why didn't you just go in the bathroom? I don't know. She didn't want to miss anything. I didn't want to miss anything. But I mean, wouldn't it be easy? Oh, you mean you would wait until the end of the night?

Yeah. Oh, I thought you were like running home to you because that's what I would do. I would be like so disgusted by the bar bathroom. I would be like, I'll be right back. Right. And go home. Yeah, no, no, I just would wait until the end of the night. And then I'd be like, why didn't I just go?

And I would have to like, I couldn't even make it in my front entrance of the building. I'd go like run and pee in the bushes. I mean, I've never done that. but I can see how I would need to. Thank you for understanding that. I have, I'm like a nervous peer. Yeah. So like I have to pee.

I almost have like an OCD thing about how many times. I have an OCD thing about how many times I have to pee before I go to bed and before I get on an airplane because I'm so nervous about not being able to. Oh, I just had another confessional that I don't, that I, they're all coming to me. They're all coming to you now. Yeah, that I don't, well, now I do because I've gotten a little bit better. I love that you've taken off your jacket because you've. She was sweaty from your last story. Clea's telling of the story.

Yeah. No, on airplanes, how I don't like to lock the bathroom door because I get nervous I'm going to get stuck in there. So I'd rather it flew open than the fear getting stuck. Really? Yeah. Has that obviously happened? No. Has that obviously?

But it's obviously like she makes me like man the door. Yeah. Or the flight attendants. I'll have to ask. Oh, that's. I'm sure that's actually a thing. Like I got locked in a bathroom before my life and I'm like a little bit traumatized from and I was probably seven.

And it's still, I think about that every time I lock a bathroom door. So I kind of understand. No, it's traumatizing. I mean, I haven't had an airplane before. But I wouldn't rather have someone fly in. No pun intended. I was just going to say, wait. And see me.

And like nobody can look, like everybody's just the most awkward. Yeah. Somebody on an airplane, a flight attendant told me once that he had a Japanese man. Maybe, yeah, he stood. He accidentally opened the bathroom door. And the Japanese guy was standing. Because I think it was like something to do with where he came from or like how he usually pees. And he walked in and he was standing on top of the toilet peeing.

Oh. That's amazing. That's amazing. And a visual now that I have. I know. Sorry. We have a lot of, we could do a whole series of confessions on an airplane because we have a lot. We have a lot of issues.

Like Joanna also, if she sees anyone on their phone, not in airplane mode, she rings the flight attendant button. Oh, I will. Oh, you don't. Oh, I was on them. Confession. That's me. Oh, no, Caitlin, I would bring it all over you. Really?

No problem. Yeah. Ding, ding, ding, ding. I keep it on till, like, I just don't have service anymore. No. Joanna is literally, like, called on me. Like, she's literally, like, escort this woman off the plane. Why?

Is it actually a fact? What if something happened? Because of the, like, cross? Just anything, there's a reason. Like, well, then you'd be dead, so it doesn't matter. No, thank you. At least she texted. goodbye or something.

Oh, thank you. Oh, my God. Joanna is so psycho about that. Oh, I'm psycho about a lot of things. Yeah. I wish I knew you guys better before I did these most likely twos. Oh, my God. It's fine.

We can just come up with new most likely. Or I'll just join in because I think a lot of these I would be most likely to do. Most likely to get a tattoo. Me. I actually want one. By the way, people, that was Clea. Oh, Clea. I actually want one, but my husband really feels strongly about me not getting it.

Because the Jewish cemetery? He's not Jewish. I know, but maybe he cares about it for you or your mom. No. My mom has a tattoo. This is not her confession. Wait, can I give me? No, you can't.

No, I'm sorry, I can't. What? I can't give my mom's confession about her tattoo. Okay. Because a hitman will be at the door. Yeah, please don't. I don't want to be the cause. You know what?

I don't think she knows how to, like, work a podcast. Yeah, there you go. My brother does. Yeah, but I don't want a hitman showing up to her. My mother would sniper fire me if I ever... All right, changing the subject. But, yeah. I need a business partner, so, like, let's not go down with that.

But I would get a tattoo. I would love to get a tattoo. I've always wanted to get a tattoo. Of what? Okay, well, when I was younger, like, of stupid... You know, but now my grandmother, I'll show you a picture of her, and you'll understand. My grandmother had these gigantic glasses that were, like, like super iconic that she would wear. Yeah, was she like a fashionista? She was amazing.

Were they black? Yes, huge black glasses. Yes, I love. I love what old women wear those. She was so fabulous. And anyway, I really wanted to get those glasses tattooed like on my wrist or something. You're so on your face. Yeah, that's what I was going to do. Just get the glasses. I thought just like, go for it, Clea. I thought that that would be a super good look. Here's the picture of my grandma. Oh, that is exactly what I pictured. Yeah. Yeah. She's wearing a rag and bone leather. skirt so I oh I'm obsessed no I know what is her name ruthie she's passed away but ruthie and um and I just loved her she was such an icon to me yeah so funny she had like so funny she had like like a couple strokes back when she was younger so she had no filter right and like Joanna and I walked in have you had strokes yeah I said have you had any because you

don't usually have a filter either oh no that's just me um right maybe maybe it was just her too. But like as she got older, she just gave zero apps about everything. Wait, tell her about when we came in with her. We were close. We had just started our business. We were in L.A. It was probably that very first trip. Yeah. And we were in L.A. And we were having dinner. We actually were staying at my parents' house because they live in L.A. And my grandmother was coming over for dinner and we were all having dinner. And so we were really proud of like, we had our cute little, like, Lulu Lemon leggings. And we had these work shirts made that are these cute muscle tanks with our logo. And we walk in the house, like, thinking like, look how fashion. we are for a work outfit, you know, and my grandmother looked at us and she goes, oh, you're not wearing that out in public, are you? And she was so horrified by like our appearance. And we were like, oh, I mean, we just had paid all this money to actually be wearing just this exact out. This is not an accident, not pajamas. This was a very intentional thing. We ordered, waited three weeks. Yeah. Anyway, but she was just, you know, she was just one of those women who, like, to her last dying day wore, like, you know, her strand of pearls and the bouclays. Oh, I love that. She's amazing. She sounds fabulous. She's a New Yorker or was a New Yorker. She's amazing. Yeah. She sounds like she was a New Yorker. Oh, yes. Yeah. I love it. Well, let's toast to her. Yes. Ruthie. Ruthie. Yay. To Ruthie. Joanna's crumpled up water bottle. Your mom would approve of my water. That's true. That's true. Most likely to have a secret messy closet. it. Joanna. Yeah, but it's really immaculate right now. Right now. No, but in this house it's really immaculate. I haven't ever. It's never not been. You've lived in your house for two months.

No, I haven't. More than that. Three months? No, more than that. Okay. But who is most likely? Okay. I'm most likely. Thank you. You know, on friends when Monica's like super like got her shit together and then she has that one closet that's just like so messy and it's like her big secret. No, my house is, it's very organized. Yeah. Give it time. No. No, she's pretty organized, but she would be the one to have messed. I would be. the ones I have a messy closet. Okay. I'm going to end it on that one. I've got like a million, but I'm like, I want to get to the questions from listeners because they have a lot of good questions for you. And also, a question that I had, two, I have two. Can you come organize my closet?

Yes. Okay, perfect. And two, if people are on a budget, what is like a budget-friendly tip that you have? Perfect, Joanna Scotland. Because I think a lot of like- You need to get rid of things. That's the first step. And that makes the biggest difference. out of everything and it costs zero dollars so true and what do you like I always feel so guilty getting rid of things and not knowing where to donate it yeah sell it where do you like donate it where like goodwill yeah goodwill or like a women's you know a women shelter oh that's a good idea there are a lot of organizations too that help like rehabilitate women who have gotten out of prison or from domestic abuse whatever to find new jobs like set them up for you know and they they need clothing you know like it's really important Well, I go through my closet, at least. I get sent stuff all the time. So I like to always, like, I don't know how many times a month I actually just give clothes to Goodwill. But I'm thinking, like, even other things.

Like, people send me like, I'll have, like, a company that I love has planners. And I'll be like, oh, you just send like one planner. But then they want to, like, be super generous. And they send a lot of things. Schools, libraries. Yeah. Yeah. Schools.

And if you get a lot of, like, beauty products, bath products, all that stuff. a great thing to do is fill them, put like Ziploc bags, like full of like all those kind of products. Keep a bunch in your back seat. And when you see homeless people, Oh, that's such a good idea. It's so much better than giving money. That's such a great idea. Yeah. And even if it's like socks, a sweater, whatever it is, like shampoo, soap, you know, anything. People are need so much. I have so many shampoos and soaps. I know, right? Yeah. A million. Like we get sent a ton of stuff to. And samples, whatever it is, like, I mean, other people, would love that, you know? And so, I mean, we always say, again, like, Goodwill's great.

Veterans organizations, women's shelters. There's an organization in L.A. that we love. Well, two of them. One is Homegirl Industries, which, again, rehabilitates women coming out of the prison system so that they can, like, get jobs and function. And then, you know, donate to schools, libraries, especially schools, like, in kind of, you know, impoverished areas. Yeah. You know, these kids have, like, nothing. So true. Anything can help. Anything.

And that's the thing, too, is not, like, not only are you, like, reducing your clutter and making yourself feel better, you're helping others at the same time. So, you don't have to feel bad about it. A lot of these organizations will pick up. So, like, if you have big donations. Oh, wow. Really? Yeah, like the other company that we work with, and they actually are a national program now, but they're based in L.A. It's called baby to baby. And it's for kids and their families in low-income neighborhoods.

And there's a, in Nashville, it's called mother-to-mother. That's their affiliate. And they have drop-off locations, you know, like you can be. Oh, that's so good to know. I'm going to look into that. It's so easy. It's so easy. Mother to mother is in a Belmead, like, shopping plaza.

That's where their offices. But they have, and they'll pick up, too. I mean, a lot of these organizations will pick up. Yeah. So, you know, I mean, I make a pile in my garage. I add to it and add to it. And then it's like either time to drop off or get it picked up. But the key is to get it out of the house immediately.

Otherwise, it finds us way back in somehow. Don't flag it in your mind. Right. Don't set an alarm to plunge the toilet. Right. Like, don't set an alarm to get. your closet. Just do it. When you see something and you're like, I'm never going to wear this again, you know? Put it in a bag, put it in the garage. And you won't miss it. Put it in your trunk of your car. Don't. Put it some, just get it out of your space. Because once it's out, you will literally like never think about it or need it again. Yeah. And then you've taken care of the chore. Yeah. And it's just, it's already out. And the best way to make the decision, like we always say is either you get the item or you get the space. Like you get the breathing room or you get the item. Sometimes you'd rather have the item or sometimes you'd rather have the item or sometimes you want the breathing room. Right. So you don't get both. Even in a huge house, you don't get both.

At a certain point, you run. I mean, we always say that, like, organizing and the amount of stuff you store in your home should be kind of like the way you eat. Like, keep it, you know, 80% capacity and 20% clear. You don't want to overstuff anything, you know, it's like that's not a fun feeling to have, whether it's overeating or overstuffing your home. Like, you want to be able to only have the things in your closet that you love and that you'll wear. Like, why even bother with things that are taking up space? Like, we, like, literally can't understand it. We're like, why in the world?

We're, like, doubling down on something you don't even want. Right. So, anyway, guilt to us is not a fact of the whatsoever. Right. We take guilt away from everyone. And also, like, who cares if your mother-in-law gave it to you or whatever? Like, who cares? That's what's tough.

That's very sentimental. So then you have sentimental boxes. Sentimental boxes. We have three sentimental jars. Oh, a drawer. Yeah, jar. No, no, no. You need, like, boxes and they go up.

And they're, like, cluttery jars filled with just, like, hotel keys. keep like... Oh, dear God. Okay. You know, everyone in my family, every kid, my husband, myself, we have sentimental boxes. They're like pretty white storage boxes. You can get plastic ones too if you want, you know, if you need like big tubs or something. But I like them so that they can be on a top shelf and displayed, you know, but they're like,

you know, white document boxes. Yeah. And whether it's, you know, a special birthday card or kids artwork or a concert ticket that for some reason you feel like you can't throw away the stub, whatever it is, or you're done hotel keys, son of a bitch. You know, I mean, right, whatever it is, you just slip it in there. Yeah. And that's it. Yeah. And you don't need to like, and that even works, some people depending on your level of sentiment, sentimentality. That's it. Thank you. That's the one. That's it. Yeah. You know, you can have like larger storage bands, like maybe for like a garage, let's say, or even the top of your

closet or something. And some people feel like, oh, this is like the shirt that I met my husband. been in or whatever. That's great. Keep it. Put it in there, but you don't need, you're not going to wear it. You know, if you're not going to wear it, why is it taking up space in your closet? Right. When you're tight on space. Right. It's even when you're not, it's like just leave the things in there that you're actually going to use. And there's nothing wrong with just storing something that you don't want to get rid of because it's special to you. It's like a wedding dress, but like on a smaller scale. You know, you don't want to just dump it. You know, you're going to keep it and it's going to stay in a box for the rest of its life. But like, you need to own it. Right. And I have

that with, I donate kids clothes on like a weekly basis. Like the second my kids even look like they're growing out of it or don't want it, I'm like someone else is getting this. Right. You know, I'm not letting this clutter up your space. Yeah. And kids need clothes. You know, kids need things much more desperately than mine do. I spoiled children. So I clean their stuff out and donate all the time. But there are a few things that are just like, you know, my daughter's first little winter jacket that she looked so cute in or you have things like that that go in a sentimental bin yeah you know and that's fine sentimental bin that's what i need yeah you sound like you need a few i i i do i honestly wish i could have or i should have taken photos of just like certain rooms

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Some features are not available in all states. Okay, Monica asks, what's the best way to find a professional organizer near her, like if she can't get to you guys or if you can't get to her, Google? There's a service called NAPO. I guess it's not a service. It's not a service. It's an organization.

NAPO is like the National Association of Professional Organizers or something. But the thing is, is like not everyone belongs to it, and it's a little bit of an old school affiliation. I would definitely try Google. Another option, we have a virtual DIY program. So we can organize anyone anywhere, and we do it through email. So it's a really, yeah. It's a really inexpensive, really cool service that we have people dedicated to it, and people love it.

Oh, that's great. Yeah, so it's basically like getting it. It's like getting us, you know, a personal, professional organizer to organize. I mean, some people do their entire house through it. Wait, and how do you find that? So if you go to our website, it's listed out. We have local services, travel services, and virtual services. So this is our virtual option.

And you can also just email us hello at the home edit.com. Hello at the home edit.com. And what's your website? The home edit. But make sure to have two E's back to back, home and then edit. Oh, okay, gotcha. Yeah, okay. And Taterazi, apparently, on Instagram.

What's the best way to organize makeup and samples? I mean. Do you just go to like, I just don't know what to buy to organize things. That's most people's brows. Right. They get like the shopping process. Yeah. It depends on where your makeup's going.

Like if it's going in a drawer, if it's going under the bathroom sink, if it's going in a closet. And as a trial, are using it every day? Like, what's the frequency of it? We have a lot of questions. Right. This is a loaded question. This is why we, you know, whenever we, it's very hard to give blanket tips because we really like to customize things so specifically to the person in the space. But I will say that if your makeup is going in a drawer, then we love to use acrylic drawer organizers to kind of divide everything out. You know, there's definitely not a one-size-fits-all, but these drawer organizers come in such a modular way that if you just take drawer measurements and go to the container store, or we have an,

On our shop page, we just, like, link out to all of our favorite things. Okay. And in the drawer section, you know, you can find these acrylic drawer organizers that are amazing. What I personally do for, like, all of my, like, daily nighttime and daytime routines is I have two bins that I keep under my bathroom sink. And I just pull it out in the daytime. It has all of my, like, serums and face creams and all that. And I put it back down when I'm done. And I take out the nighttime one when I'm ready for that.

And, you know, I can just keep all of the jars and bottles standing upright, you know, and not laying down in a drawer. So that's how I do that. And I have my makeup in my bathroom drawer and in the drawer organizers. I feel like I'm learning a lot. I have like this, actually, it's quite handy. This huge like makeup organizer actually. It's like little drawers and it like for certain like eyeshadows.

And that's cool though. You guys have like a link that you can go to your, okay, and just get it from there. Because that's where I always struggle is like I don't even know where to start with what to buy for organizing. That's people's biggest. I'm sure. Like where to start. That's why our virtual. program is so great because what we again like what people tend to need the most help with is what to

buy right and so we'll go through like through the room and then give very specific shopping instructions and placement instructions yeah so it's like oh here's what you need you need this product yeah this is what you put in it this is where it goes yeah and then most people if you give them that instruction they can do that work themselves it's just like they have paralysis and in it's like a trainer telling you what to do and then you have the list so you know they they train you once but then you did it once and now you know what to do. Well, that's the whole, my next question was from Shelby. She said, organizing is the fun part for me, but how do you stay organized?

I lack motivation to keep things tidy. So you need a good system. Once you have a good system, you are inherently motivated to put things back. Yeah. Honestly, not only are you motivated. I'd say that like with kids, you need the motivation to put it back because they take it all out. But once you actually, as adults, like once you do the work of like, again, like organizing

your closet properly or whatever it is, it's not hard. You know, you just, when you wear a shirt and it comes out of the laundry, you put it back. Like, it's just, you know what I mean? Like, it's not that difficult to maintain. I think you need the right systems and you need labels. Yeah. Like in a pantry, for instance, like if you have a bin labeled breakfast and you take a box of cereal out, I mean, you know to put it back in the breakfast bin. Like, it's not like it's difficult.

Yeah. But if you need that label to assign it. It's that way when like your fiancé comes home, he knows exactly where to put it to. Yeah. If you don't have a label, you take things out and it's like, well, you know. See, we don't have a pantry. Well, but you have a cupboard. You have something for food.

Yeah, but it's not functional. Well, we'll come over. Yeah. I'll tell you what to do. I can't wait for this. Katie Walters said, what brought Clea and Joanna to Nashville? And who's your number one person you'd love to help organize? Okay.

Well, what brought us both to Nashville would be our husband's jobs. Okay. My husband's an entertainment photographer. He works in Nashville, mostly in music. Yeah. He works all over the country. And Joanna's husband works in music. He works for Warner Brothers.

So we moved to Nashville both sight unseen. I had never stepped foot in Tennessee before. Same. That's how I moved to do it. I was like, I'm sure. My fiance is. Oh, actually, I'd been to Memphis once, but I never went to Nashville. Okay.

Well, I had never ever been. I hadn't even been in a state bordering Tennessee. Right. I have not at all. Actually, I think Illinois at one point borders Tennessee. But don't ask me I'm Canadian. Right. That's my extent.

So for me, I mean, I was like. Like, I don't know why I said yes. I just did. And Joanna did too. I think we went with that gut impulse, the same gut impulse that said we should go into business together. So things have worked out. Yeah. But it is kind of crazy that we both just said yes and moved here.

Yeah. And like six weeks. Yeah. Wow. So for the people that we would want to organize for the most. The queen. Oh, yeah. That's a good one.

We're very interested in the Royals. Yes. We would really appreciate it. Do you have a good listening like contingency in England by you? chance. Really trying to do a palace of sorts. I would love that. I also, I mean, Oprah, obviously.

Ellen would be a good one too. That's what I was going to say Ellen. She's like my everything. I would say Oprah, Ellen, Royals, and Beyonce. Because like, because it's Beyonce. Yeah. All right. I would agree with that.

Oh, whoa. I have a dream. I too have a dream. I too have a dream. Yes. My ideal ideal. Do you watch Shits Creek? You're Canadians.

You should. I know of it, but I haven't watched it. Oh, my God. You need to leave right now and watch that. I've heard amazing things. I am obsessed with Schitts Creek. They film in Canada. They're Canadian.

It's a Canadian network. And I mean, I would just, I want to do Moira. She's Catherine O'Hara. She's the mom on the show. And she has an insane wig collection. And I would love to organize her wigs. Oh, that's cool. I've offered many times.

It'll happen. You've got to be persistent. That's awesome. And not Laura Dolan. Question for the Home Edit. What do they recommend for studio apartment living. I live in one with my husband and four pets. I know that's crazy, but a huge money saver while we save up for a house. Well, just you love your pets. That's hard. I would donate a

pet. No, I'm just kidding. No, I love my dog very much, so I understand. You just have to respect your space, no matter how big it is. Right. You have to really go through and just say, is this really providing me either value or something sentimental and then make that decision. My girlfriend always says she is very like she's obsessed with your guys. Page loves it and she's, she's all about the organizing and everything has its place and she loves that kind of stuff. And she always says goodbye to her things that she lets go up. Yeah. The life-changing magic of tidying up is kind of like a famous organizing book, probably the only. Marie Condo is. That's your next venture. Oh, our book comes out in March. Oh, yeah. We're not. Of course it does. She's...

Marie Condo is amazing, but she's a Japanese organizer. Yeah. And she now has, you know, a team of affiliates or affiliate organizers who are like part of like the condo method. Yeah. And or it's called the Con Marie method, I think is what it's called. Anyway, she's amazing. But her, you know, philosophy and methodology is you thank each of your items for its service and like what it did for you and then you pass it on and whatever. That's very sweet.

Yeah. I just don't have time to do that. I'd forget. Yeah. I'd be like, it's gone. I literally just, and also sometimes, like, it didn't do me any service. Right. You know what I mean?

Like, I don't need to thank it because I never liked it. I think she thanks it only if it, like, brought her, like, joy and, like, it was something very sentimental that she is letting go of. Well, I think that I understand that. I really understand that. Oh, wait. I just thought of another confession. Oh, God.

For me. For me. Oh, good. Perfect. No, but it's really psycho. Perfect. Oh, I know what it is. Yeah, I do.

Okay. I am not a sentimental person. Yeah. That's not true. I am in certain respects, but I don't necessarily need to hold on to things. I don't keep paper. I don't keep birthday cards. I throw out everything or donate it.

But my childhood stuffed animal from when I was born, his name's Gorilla, even though he's a monkey, don't ask. I am so stressed out at the thought of storing him in a box because I'm afraid he can't breathe. Stop. And so I let him sit on a shelf in my closet because I'm afraid that he won't be able to breathe. That's really cute. That's not really a confession. It is a confession. That's a crazy person thing.

It's a surprising thing about you. It is surprising, but it's also, like, I need medical attention. Because, like, we don't live in Toy Story. Like, this is not a real thing. But I'm so worried about it. I'm so worried about it. It just shows that you have a warm heart. I've moved many times.

And gorilla, like, I don't even think I put them in a box. That's adorable. That's like, there's like a little magic in your heart. Just a little. Tiny, tiny. It's only a space for that one little thing. Only for gorilla. Yeah.

Oh, that's really sweet. Yeah. That's my girlfriend has a blanket called Blonkey that she's, it's like in strings and she like can't live without it. She's got two kids. She's a grown adult can't live without her Blonkey. I understand. My boyfriend and I have been living together for about six months now and I love him to death, but the guy couldn't be less organized. Any advice on how I can convince him that it's something he should try contributing to. I've completely taken over the apartment because I had no choice. How do you like convince somebody else? It's like convincing someone to lose weight. They have to want to do. You can't. I mean, you just. I mean, you just. I would just break up with them. Jen, just break up with them. Yeah. I mean, it's hard. And you, and if it matters to you, maybe you can help them do their stuff and maintain their stuff. But that's your issue, not their issue.

Right. Right. You really have to live with the person that you're living with. You know, it's like, this is who they are. That's true. And I think that maybe you could present it as, look, I'm going to do all this work to get us to this point. And if you care for me, could you work with me to maintain what I've done? Or you just say, I'm going to take care of it because it matters to me.

Right. I mean, the truth is, like, it's like living with kids. I mean, you can't force them to keep up everything that you do. You can have them contribute and help, and I make my kids. What's the saying, like, you can drag a horse to water or something? Lead a horse. We don't drag them. We don't drag horses, Joanna.

I don't want any of the animal rights people getting on it. Yeah, we take it gently to water. but we can't make it drink. Oh, I see. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, but it's just the mentality of like, you can only do so much. You can't, like, stand there with a baseball bat

and make everybody in your house. You're right. Well, again, I said we can't. You're like, let's drag a baseball bat over. And I'm like, no, you can't do that. So, but, you know, I mean, it's important to me that my house is perfect. Yeah.

And I know it can be a. annoying to my family members, but, like, this is the life they have chosen to live with me. And I'm sure there's compromise that you make for what makes them happy. Probably not. I'm not like... Just kidding. I'm not like super compromising. But, I mean, yeah, I'm sure I can't sound something.

I'll let you know what it is. Okay, well, we have to wrap up, unfortunately. But tell everybody where they can find you. I know we said the website is the, it's not home edit. It's the home edit. Which is really important because when we were coming up with the name of the company, we really wanted our acronym to be the. So T-H-E, we use it for everything.

So when we get abbreviated to just home edit, we're like, we're not a he, we're a the. It's much more important. It stands for a lot more. Yes. But it's the home edit on Instagram. All of our handles are the home edit. The Home Edit.com. And our TV show is on The Hello Sunshine.

Network on DirecTV and DirecTV now for channel 1112 channel 1112 on direct TV and direct TV now streaming and I guess that's any of a book coming out in March and we have a book coming out in March and you can probably just find us like being crazy people on the bus we do not do not anymore but you can if you ever are at BNA at the national airport find us walking around Joanna will be buying candy at Hudson News and I'll be at Vinovolo. I actually I bet we've like been in the airport so many times at the same time. I feel like I'm there all the time. It's truly like the number one. If anybody ever wants to hang out. Do you ever get massages at the, oh, what airline do you fly? Um, Southwest or American or Delta. I'm always Delta. And I always

get massages. Here's the thing, though, we now prefer, we have a specific flight that we like from Delta on Delta from Nashville to L.A. Yeah. 4 p.m. flight. It's really good. Highly recommend it. Oh, yeah. Nice new planes. We've had some unfortunate experiences on American as of late. But we go to the lounge in American Airlines. Yes. Because the lounge at Delta at V&A sucks. It's terrible.

It's like three folding chairs. It is terrible. Yeah. So we end up staying hanging out. We like to get to the airport very early because we're both nervous flyers. I am like the opposite of that. Well, I also need to drink heavily before I get on a party. And I need to be there very early.

Heavily. Oh. See, I just go like at the last. second I could possibly get my bags checked in and then we definitely haven't seen you there then and then as soon as I get on the plane I order drinks I do that too I've just been drinking for the last we like to if our flight is whatever time we leave three hours early wow I'm like 45 minutes on the dot oh we like three hours and hopefully still have time for a quick 15 minute massage oh my god no never fly no okay never fly well maybe I'll that'll open

open my eyes to a whole new world of traveling. We could still, we could hang on the airplane, but you won't see us at the airport. No, you will not. Gotcha. Okay. And then I always end my podcast with a joke, so I've got a good one for you. Okay. Great.

What do you call Batman when he leaves church early? I don't know. I'm Jewish. Me too. Choose your audience, Caitlin. Christian Bale. Oh, that's a good one. That's good.

That's good. That's good. I haven't heard it before until today. I like it. That is a good one. I like it. I need more jokes. My kids ask me to tell them jokes all the time, and I have like zero. I'll send you a link. Okay. I usually have a joke book. Like I'm all about the jokes. So I'll send you some. All right. Jamie is too. She's out there. She like is the one responsible. She has to come up with jokes for my kids for my kids for my kids. You guys can come organize and I'll give you jokes. Perfect. Totally fair trade. There you go. Just get some candy and champagne. Yeah, we're good. Oh, yeah. I'm stuck. We'll work for candy and champagne. Perfect. Well, thank you guys both for being here. Thank you. You're very entertaining and I love your show. And you're just. Thank you. Thank you.

So fun. Two little peas in a pod. Oh, God. Two little crazy peas in a dysfunctional pod. I love it. That's the best kind of pod. I'm Caitlin Bristow and I'll see you next Tuesday. Thanks for listening to Off the Vine with Caitlin Briscoe.

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