Stephing Up

Decluttering sounds simple—until you’re standing in front of a bursting wardrobe or a drawer you can’t open without something falling out. Then the overwhelm hits, it all feels too hard, and you just… give up. The biggest mistake people make is trying to declutter everything at once, without a system or clear decision-making rules.
In this best-of episode I’m revisiting three of your favourite Stephing Up episodes, packed with simple decluttering strategies you can start using straight away.
In this episode I share:
3 steps from Chaos to Clarity
Why decluttering can feel so hard, and how to let go of your belongings.
Practical tips to maintain your organised home… and stay sane!
Your Decluttering Guide
Download your free decluttering workbook + 30-day Declutter Challenge here: https://www.stephpaseplanners.com.au/pages/30-day-declutter-challenge
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I’m Steph Pase, your (somewhat) organised bestie in your ears. This podcast is about growth that’s messy, building a life that actually fits you, and what happens when life doesn’t go to plan. We’ll talk mental health, motherhood, business, ADHD and how to stop being such an asshole to yourself.
New episodes drop every Monday morning.
So set your reminder. Pop in your headphones. Because we’re Stephing Up together.
If today's episode helped, leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify is honestly the best thing you can do to help us reach more women.
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Let’s Hang:
Stephing Up on Instagram: @stephing.up
Steph Pase on Instagram: @stephpase_
Steph Pase on Youtube: @stephpase.
Shop Planners + Organisation: Steph Pase Planners
Shop Steph’s book “Mastering my Messy Life”: Penguin Books Australia
Shop Steph’s Amazon shop
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I hate housework. I'm an absolute mess by nature, and I have been my entire life. The only reason my house functions is that somewhere along the way I stopped trying to fix myself and started building the house around the person I actually am.
Because everyone thinks organised people are disciplined. I'm not organised because I'm disciplined. I'm organised because I know exactly how useless I am at the tired end of the day... and I plan for her.
These are my actual top five home organisation hacks after ten years of being the organisation girl online. Every tip is Kmart-level cheap, fast to set up, and has survived two kids and an ADHD brain.
This episode is for you if:
You're convinced you just need "more discipline" and then your house will finally stay tidy
The floordrobe, the paper pile and the mystery fridge leftovers are all personally attacking you
You want systems that survive kids, work and an ADHD brain... not a Pinterest pantry
In this episode I break down:
The wear-again hook: end the floordrobe with a two-second home for worn-but-not-dirty clothes
Family documents organisation: the viral suspension file box (passports, birth certificates, insurance... one findable spot)
Kids artwork storage: one file per year per kid + the guilt-free artwork cull
The catch-all basket system: one per person + our BBB rule (bedrooms, bathrooms, basket)
Caddies for everything: morning, night, tan, makeup + the kids' hair caddy going 8 years strong
The ‘Use Me First’ fridge shelf: the food waste hack worth ~$1,500 a year
The 3 Doable Home rules: decide once · one motion · in sight or it doesn't exist
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Follow Stephing Up
I’m Steph Pase, your (somewhat) organised bestie in your ears. This podcast is about growth that’s messy, building a life that actually fits you, and what happens when life doesn’t go to plan. We’ll talk mental health, motherhood, business, ADHD and how to stop being such an asshole to yourself.
New episodes drop every Monday morning.
So set your reminder. Pop in your headphones. Because we’re Stephing Up together.
If today's episode helped, leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify is honestly the best thing you can do to help us reach more women.
…
Let’s Hang:
Submit your Hot Mess Hotline question here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeUnWTcPntVMCQrdu2wSFqFHEnQkggznr_23Ux9zDBNvlh78g/viewform?usp=publish-editor
Stephing Up on Instagram: @stephing.up
Steph Pase on Instagram: @stephpase_
Steph Pase on Youtube: @stephpase.
Shop Planners + Organisation: Steph Pase Planners
Shop Steph’s book “Mastering my Messy Life”: Penguin Books Australia
Steph’s Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com.au/shop/justanothermummyblog/list/17TTU785IMM53

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The mid-year reset for messy minds: a doable life audit, goals check-in + my 3-day reset plan. Potato day included.
It's July. I don't know how that happened either, and I'd like to lodge a formal complaint. I've been doing this reset for years, and the messy-minds version is deliberately simple. Because if you're anything like me (ADHD, seventeen tabs open in my brain, big plans in January), you've probably tried one of those intense mid-year overhauls before. You do step one and then you bail. This one is different. You can do the whole thing listening to the podcast in the car.
This is for you if:
It's somehow July and you can't point at what the first six months even were
Your January goals are sitting in a notes app, quietly judging you
Every mid-year reset you've tried was so intense you did step one and bailed
In this episode:
Mid-year review questions: the 7 questions I journal every July (including the one that stings... how much fun did you have?)
Life audit made easy: 6 areas rated 1 to 5 — no wheel of life, no colouring in
Start / Stop / Step / Stick With: the habits audit that actually changes something
Goals check-in: the sunk cost fallacy + why your brain keeps you "safe" from your own goals
The 3-day reset to book this month: mini reset day, get-shit-done day, potato day
Routine rebuild: the bookends rule + the high-energy / low-energy versions
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Episode links:
Download your Reset workbook: https://www.stephpaseplanners.com.au/blogs/news/stephing-up-podcast-is-back
Hear the 3-day Reset Itinerary in S2, Ep1, Master Your Mess In 3 Days: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/im-back-master-your-mess-in-3-days/id1713434054?i=1000755432196
Hear the Routine Review in S2, Ep 6: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/when-you-dont-even-recognise-yourself-how-i-got-my-spark-back/id1713434054?i=1000762279899
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Follow Stephing Up
I’m Steph Pase, your (somewhat) organised bestie in your ears. This podcast is about growth that’s messy, building a life that actually fits you, and what happens when life doesn’t go to plan. We’ll talk mental health, motherhood, business, ADHD and how to stop being such an asshole to yourself.
New episodes drop every Monday morning.
So set your reminder. Pop in your headphones. Because we’re Stephing Up together.
If today's episode helped, leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify is honestly the best thing you can do to help us reach more women.
…
Let’s Hang:
Submit your Hot Mess Hotline question here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeUnWTcPntVMCQrdu2wSFqFHEnQkggznr_23Ux9zDBNvlh78g/viewform?usp=publish-editor
Stephing Up on Instagram: @stephing.up
Steph Pase on Instagram: @stephpase_
Steph Pase on Youtube: @stephpase.
Shop Planners + Organisation: Steph Pase Planners
Shop Steph’s book “Mastering my Messy Life”: Penguin Books Australia
Steph’s Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com.au/shop/justanothermummyblog/list/17TTU785IMM53
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Your acne isn't a mystery or a moral failing. It's a stack of small fixable things. Stop asking what's causing it... ask what you changed.
I've struggled with adult acne for a decade. Deep, cystic, painful acne all over my cheeks and jaw. The kind you can't cover, because you can hide the redness but you can't hide the texture. I'd avoid certain lighting. Some mornings I'd go to put my makeup on and it hurt so much I'd just cry.
I've spent thousands trying to fix it. Skin clinics, facials, peels, antibiotics, Roaccutane, expensive skincare, cheap skincare. If someone promised me clear skin, I tried it.
And a few weeks ago I woke up, looked in the mirror, and went: hell no. Not this again. But this time I knew what to look for. And the fix was so simple I couldn't believe it.
This week's episode is everything I wish I'd known years ago. The biggest shift was realising adult acne is almost never one thing... it's a stack of small things pouring gasoline on the fire. So now, instead of asking "what's causing my acne," I ask: "what have I changed?"
This is for you if:
You've tried everything for your adult acne and it still keeps coming back
You're sick of "just drink more water" advice
You want the real, unsexy stuff that actually clears skin
In this episode:
Adult acne is a stacking problem: ask "what have I changed?" not "what's causing it?"
Pore-clogging ingredients hiding in your skincare, haircare, and washing powder
Skin barrier damage: why burning your acne off makes it worse
Blood sugar and hormonal acne: the breakfast mistake that broke me out
My simple skincare routine and the one thing to start with today
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Follow Stephing Up
I’m Steph Pase, your (somewhat) organised bestie in your ears. This podcast is about growth that’s messy, building a life that actually fits you, and what happens when life doesn’t go to plan. We’ll talk mental health, motherhood, business, ADHD and how to stop being such an asshole to yourself.
New episodes drop every Monday morning.
So set your reminder. Pop in your headphones. Because we’re Stephing Up together.
If today's episode helped, leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify is honestly the best thing you can do to help us reach more women.
…
Let’s Hang:
Submit your Hot Mess Hotline question here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeUnWTcPntVMCQrdu2wSFqFHEnQkggznr_23Ux9zDBNvlh78g/viewform?usp=publish-editor
Stephing Up on Instagram: @stephing.up
Steph Pase on Instagram: @stephpase_
Steph Pase on Youtube: @stephpase.
Shop Planners + Organisation: Steph Pase Planners
Shop Steph’s book “Mastering my Messy Life”: Penguin Books Australia
Steph’s Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com.au/shop/justanothermummyblog/list/17TTU785IMM53


See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nobody knows what they’re doing, and that’s the good news. This is the story of how I started a business backwards. I launched Steph Pase Planners from a camp table with postnatal depression and no business plan.
If you'd told seven-year-old me, the one sewing Pokemon toys out of old bed sheets and selling them on the street, that she'd one day run a stationery brand, she'd have believed you (she had range). If you'd told twenty-five-year-old me, sitting in a one-bedroom unit covered in breast milk with postnatal depression, she'd have laughed in your face.
This is the story of how it actually happened. Not the highlights reel. The real one.
This episode is for you if:
You've ever had an idea but talked yourself out of it because you "didn't know how"
You're the multi-passionate one who's been called a jack of all trades like it's an insult
You're tired of business stories that skip the embarrassing, 3am, crying-over-spilt-ink bits
In this episode I break down:
Starting a business with no experience: why nobody, not even the founders you look up to, knows what they're doing
Doing it scared: how you achieve things by doing, not planning
Postnatal depression and the lounge-room blog that became Steph Pase Planners
The camp table, 10,000 planners, and 3am shipping labels printed one by one
ADHD, being a jack of all trades, and why the multi-passionate messes are winning now
Why the mess Steph spent her life hiding turned out to be the map
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Episode Links:
Shop Business Planners: https://www.stephpaseplanners.com.au/collections/financial-year-business-planners
Shop Steph’s book “Mastering my Messy Life”: Penguin Books Australia
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Follow Stephing Up
I’m Steph Pase, your (somewhat) organised bestie in your ears. This podcast is about growth that’s messy, building a life that actually fits you, and what happens when life doesn’t go to plan. We’ll talk mental health, motherhood, business, ADHD and how to stop being such an asshole to yourself.
New episodes drop every Monday morning.
So set your reminder. Pop in your headphones. Because we’re Stephing Up together.
If today's episode helped, leaving a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify is honestly the best thing you can do to help us reach more women.
…
Let’s Hang:
Submit your Hot Mess Hotline question here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeUnWTcPntVMCQrdu2wSFqFHEnQkggznr_23Ux9zDBNvlh78g/viewform?usp=publish-editor
Stephing Up on Instagram: @stephing.up
Steph Pase on Instagram: @stephpase_
Steph Pase on Youtube: @stephpase.
Shop Planners + Organisation: Steph Pase Planners
Steph’s Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com.au/shop/justanothermummyblog/list/17TTU785IMM53
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.