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I recently spoke to Business Insider for an article about “The hidden emotional cost of carrying debt.” They asked probing questions about debt I took on during a manic episode and what happened afterward. It wasn’t easy to talk about. But I answered them anyway because this isn’t talked about enough.

Money is still considered “off limits.” When you take out debt, even if it is during a manic episode, it can carry a lot of shame.

For me, dealing with debt became part of recovering from mania. The anxiety, the regret, and the reality of having to deal with decisions I made when I wasn’t well didn’t disappear when my mood stabilized.

Has mania ever affected your relationship with money? Let’s talk about it in the comments. You don’t have to share numbers or personal financial details. ❤️

I talked more about this in the Business Insider article. It’s linked in my bio and story if you’d like to read.

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thank you Business Insider! such an honor 🤝☀️
@writingburch @businessinsider @peterkallinterisagency

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Thank you @businessinsider for featuring our family 💙 Full article available on their website!

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This week is episode #3 with Kelly Burch! So excited!

LINK IN BIO

Thank you to Kelly for joining me.

And, as always, thanks to producers Ria Carrogan and Paul McGuigan for making this podcast possible.

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Amazing article on my journey to becoming a professional declutterer by Kelly Burch (@writingburch) for @businessinsider.

Here’s a snippet:

“I was in my 20s when people first started talking about hoarding. Before that, no one really used the word, and hoarding disorder certainly wasn’t considered a medical condition. Instead, people used words like “packrat” or “eccentric.”

I had two family members — one close to me — who fit that description. After seeing a newspaper article about a professional who helped hoarders, I reached out. He came to help my family member, and he also said to me “You should do this as a living.”

I had been working as a personal assistant, and I continued to do that for years. I would organize homes and businesses on the side. When I was about 40 I reached a fork in the road of my career, and a friend
encouraged me to make decluttering my full-time job. I thought, this isn’t a job, it’s just what I do to help people.”

Check out the full article. Link in my bio.

#professionalorganizer #decluttering #businessjourney #womenowned #hoardingdisorder #franchising

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Link in bio for my convo with @writingburch about keeping your nervous system as regulated as possible with everything around you is BANANAS. Keep doing your best to take care of yourself babes.

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Thank you @writingburch for the amazing interview and write up for @businessinsider. To all the parents out there, generational wealth without the wisdom to manage it is playing the lottery. Don’t leave your legacy to chance. I’m on a mission to make #generationalwisdom a household term!

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Want to know what it feels like to see your name in print? ✍️

(It’s pretty cool, not gonna lie)

Learn how to make this goal a reality in Magazine Writing 101, a comprehensive course that covers everything you need to know about freelance writing. Classes start Monday, October 14th and spots are almost sold out. So if you’re interested, don’t wait!

You’ll learn how to:

⭕️ Find editor emails and figure out who to pitch
⭕️ Craft captivating pitches that get you published
⭕️ Avoid newbie mistakes and get great bylines
⭕️ Stay organized and productive as a freelancer
⭕️ Leverage magazine writing for book proposals

I will be joined by amazing professional freelance writers sharing their experience in the field, from the NYT’s friendship correspondent to a 6-figure freelancer living the financially free dream.

Come learn how to pitch your writing to bigger and better outlets. You can find enrollment info @writingworkshopsofficial under October classes or through my bio.

#writingworkshops #magazinewriting #feelancewriting #authorcommunity #writermoms

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The Haggadah is shaking!! New 4 Questions just dropped!!!

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Incredibly grateful for the opportunity to attend #namicon2024 with these amazing folks. You inspired me, made me laugh, and brought me to tears with your bravery and vulnerability — and showed up every night ready to dance! #NAMINH #HopeStartsWithYou

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Happy First Birthday!

PART 1 of 2

This weekend, the Where I’m From IG live series, had its first birthday. I celebrated by doing absolutely nothing and almost ignoring it. I’m trying to get better at acknowledging successes and pausing if only for a moment to say, “Hey, nice work.” Insert pat on back here.

Over the weekend someone asked me how, “My podcast or whatever” is going. Which is an accurate description. I said, “It’s going great. I’ve had 57 people join me and many more to come and I enjoy it. I don’t know what it means or if it adds up to anything but I enjoy it, so that’s enough.”

Yes, I’m a wordsmith.

I’m grateful to each person who’s joined me. I do enjoy it. A whole lot. Hearing the poems, chatting, listening to peoples’ stories and feeling connected to people by the most surprising things we might share.

I feel more connected than I did a year ago.

I feel closer to poetry than I did a year ago.

I feel closer to my voice than I did a year ago.

And I credit this series for part of it. It’s validated this seed of thought I am doing my best to water and grow. Putting my energy into things I love and enjoy is beneficial, if only to me, great, but it might be good for other folks too. You never know.

Thank you to everyone who’s joined me, watched, commented, engaged, thought nice thoughts, etc. I’m learning a bigger lesson here. I gave up my relationship to poetry cause some poet, a real fancy one, told me I lacked the intellectual rigor required to be a poet. And I agreed. I mean, duh, I was twenty, I was incredibly suseptible to people in power guiding my life.

And the biggest, most enthusiastic thanks to George Ella Lyon herself. For her poem, yes, and for the supportive and inspiring person that she is. Talking to her was a highlight of my year. Some people say “Don’t meet your heroes.” Obviously, they’ve never met her. But I have! And it was the best!

Thanks for helping me take back poetry. I love it and it loves me. And it loves you too!

Looking forward to another wonderful year!

To see and read the poems - link in bio💗

#whereimfrom
#georgeellalyon
@georgeellalyon
#micromemoir
#citizenpoetry

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Where I’m From #3

By Kelly Burch
2021

I am from books
From cardboard boxes of them, piled in the attic and garage
I am from the hedges
Wild, unruly, sheltering kids and wasps
I am from a towering pine tree,
Rope swing whipping through the air, kids screeching with joy, or terror
I’m from impulses and big dreams
From William and Walter
I’m from insistent opinions and passionate arguments over the perfect Christmas tree
From Taylor Rabbit and Painted Horse
I’m from pre-bed prayer circles and early-morning meditations
I’m from The Lake
Smore’s, and Ziti (always with lines)
From my grandmother’s yearbook wish for a dozen children,
My mother’s courage to protect her four,
Boxes turned to crates, unfinished manuscripts
Brushing off the stains and picking up the pen.

Thank you to Kelly for sharing her words.💛

If you’d love to watch our IG Live you can find it on my grid or my website.

LINK IN BIO

#citizenpoetry
#micromemoir
#yourvoicematters
#whereimfrom
#whereimfrompoem
#poetryprompts
#binders
#poetryasmemoir
#georgeellalyon
#writingprompts
#writingprompt
#memoirwriting
#poetryasmemory
#poetryispersonal

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