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Episode 133 – Meet Kristin! What’s Keeping Us Busy Right Now

Meet Kristin! On this episode we try to convince her to get married at the Mall Of America. This is all the teaser you should need to listen to this episode sponsored by Whispering Angel 2018 Rose…ok maybe that was all you need to know.


You can find Kristin on Instagram at kristinannplans or in the facebook groups Planner Adventures & PLANimal Crossing. 

This episode was recorded April 23, 2020.

Show Highlights

What’s been sucking us in lately.

What we are planning

The best planner spread we’ve seen

Animal Crossing updates

What we’ve seen on IG

The casualness at this juncture

What we are feeling at the moment

Investing in ourselves during this time

How participating in this community helped us now.

AC blending with the real world

Meet Kristin

Colleen’s future career

Wedding planning RIGHT NOW

Our Birthday Wish

Whispering Angel 2018

The fucking chicken….

More Animal Crossing

Show Mentions
Tipsy Dog Designs
Paper-ish
Whispering Angel 2018 Rose – Not an actual sponsorship – Colleen is a fan, but we are totally open to it!!! 

Episode 131 – Chatting With Kim – Check On Your Multiple Planner Friends

Tic Tok, prepping, snacks, and what you do with your multiple planners…What more do you want in an episode! We are checking in with Kim to see what planning is like right now when you normally have multiples in rotation. We also speculate what life may be like when we are free to roam again. 

You can follow Kim on Instagram at KimiPlans.

This episode was recorded on 4/15/2020. 

Show Highlights

Relevant Info Right Now
Tic Tok
Kendra riding a bike
Meet KIM!
Kim shares her planners
Snacks
Colleen’s hikes
What happens when this is over
Consumerism right now
How our planners serve us right now
Colleen’s pen review
Toilet paper supply chain

Episode 130 – Chatting With Erika – Managing Life’s Transitions

Meet Erika! Settling into her home in Sierra Vista Arizona she shares how she found the community. Transitioning her military family back to the states has come with so many perks and opportunities to reflect on what she has to be grateful for right now. Also we chat about how we are managing.

You can find Erika at @armywifeplanner on Instagram.

This episode was recorded Sunday April 12th 2020.

Show Highlights

Meet Erika

How she found the community

Getting mail overseas

A few favorite shops from Europe

The ease of shopping in the US

School being out

Routine & Consistency

Getting the kids to try new things

Things we are trying out

Social time overload

What could we learn from this

Potentially finding our way with less

Slowing down and being less busy

What will we let back in?

Gratefulness right now

Show Mentions

Plannercon Europe – https://www.instagram.com/plannerconeurope/

Plum Paper Planner – https://www.instagram.com/plumpaper/

Erin Condren – https://www.instagram.com/erincondren/

Strawberry Lime – https://www.instagram.com/strawberrylimedesigns/

Harriet Wright – https://instagram.com/harrietwrightdesigns

Laura Jane Style – https://www.instagram.com/ljs_plans/

Gribulle Plans  – https://www.instagram.com/gribulle.plans/

Episode 129 – Chatting With Jade – Connecting In The Community

Meet Jade! Our first guest co-host on Planner Girl Chatter Jade! She’s the admin of the Alabama Happy Planners. In this episode we chat about connecting in the community and the getting started making connections in the community.

You can find Jade on Instagram at Planner Jade. Or connect with the Alabama Happy Planners on Facebook. 

Show Highlights

Jamie’s smelly problem

Meet Jade

What we love about Alabama

Getting Started With Happy Planner

Meetup with Heather Kell

Participating in the community 

Planning meetups and events

How to share your planner at a meetup

Episode 128 – Our April Plans

Spring 2020 is looking way different than either of us imagined back in January. We chat about what’s keeping us going, some upcoming podcast plans, and what our April planners are looking like.

This episode was recorded on March 28th 2020. 

Show Highlights

Our favorite things right now.

What’s coming up

Just so you know, here’s how to get in touch with us.

What our planners are looking like right now

April plans

Episode 127 – Managing Your Energy Right Now with guest Jessica Chung

Last year we had a “real talk about self care” with Jessica Chung. As we are sheltering in place we invited her back on to revisit the discussion, and chat about how we are managing during this time of sheltering in place. Also we give some advice on how to manage your energy, planner, and expectations during this time.

Jessica is a brilliant artist and self care advocate, you can follow her on Instagram to see all she has going on!  https://www.instagram.com/prettyprintsandpaper/


If you’d like to hear the previous episode Jessica was on your can find it here. https://plannergirlchatter.com/episode-88-a-real-talk-about-self-care/

**Show Highlights**

Managing the days

Documenting the days

Managing your energy

Should you try to be more productive?

What will change in the world after this

What we are doing in our planners now


**Show Mentions**
Brene Brown’s New Podcast – https://brenebrown.com/podcast/brene-on-ffts/

Episode 126 – Getting Started Memory Keeping – Because We Know You Have Time To Start!

Recently we asked Chatterers in our Facebook community what topics they’d like us to discuss and Memory Keeping came up again and again. Amid the tremendous uncertainty we are all living with at the moment we share how we use our planners to document the things that are important to us. We also share what we are watching, working on, and what’s making us laugh right now. 

Show Highlights

What feels most relatable right now

Projects we are going to tackle

Things making us laugh

Why Colleen loves this process

Jamie’s 1 process

What we are watching

Keep up with memory keeping

Show Mentions

Tucker and Taylor

Caffeine & Ink

Moore Avenue

Episode 124 – What Would You Do With An Extra Day?

Every 4 years we get an extra day. On February 29th we attended Chicago Planner Conference with nearly 500 other planner friends. In this after dark session we asked our attendee’s this question and got a wide variety of answers.

Join our Facebook Group to tell us what you would do with an extra day. https://www.facebook.com/groups/plannergirlchatter/


Show Highlights

Hanging out in my onesie and have no responsibilities for the day.

Attend a Disney Wedding

Use Facebook to share the good things I’m doing so I will see them in 4 years.

Live my best life by traveling

Spent the day with great friends.

Ask for and do what you want.

Drink more wine

Snuggle more dogs

Spend a day at Disneyland

Do what I think is most important

Have fun!

Catch up on reading. 

Sit by the pool eating tacos. 

Show Mentions

Chicago Planner Conference – https://chicagoplannerconference.com/

Moore Avenue – https://www.instagram.com/moore.avenue/

Type A For Alexa – https://www.instagram.com/typeaforalexa/

1407 – https://www.instagram.com/the1407planners/

An Actor Plans – https://www.instagram.com/an_actor_plans/

River & Ink – https://www.instagram.com/river.and.ink/

Tucker and Taylor – https://www.instagram.com/taylorandtucker/

Little Pittie Paper – https://www.instagram.com/little.pittie.paper/

Tipsy Dog Designs – https://www.instagram.com/tipsydogdesigns/

Makse Life

VillaBeautiful

Placation – https://plancation.events/

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Episode 121 – Wellness & Goal Setting

We have our first solo workshops in the planner community at Chicago Planner Conference in 3 weeks. Colleen is speaking on Wellness and Jamie is speaking on Goal Setting. We share how this all came about, and why we’ve not shared in this way. If you happen to attend, we do our best to level set your expectations too. 

Can’t wait to see so many of you in Chicago! 

Episode 120 – Well Well Well January 2020 Update

Jamie & Mary Beth check in with a Well Well Well status update. As expected, we haven’t gotten far, but surprisingly we’ve already had a few breakthroughs. 

Listen to the introduction of the Well Well Well here.

Jamie’s February Challenge Goals
Finish JOMO
Finish Season 3 Of Productivity Podcast

Mary Beth’s February Challenge Goals
Listen to 10 Episodes of Productivity Podcast

4 Tendencies Quiz

Myers-Briggs Personality Type

Show Notes
Apology for questionable comments 
Mary Beth’s Well Well Well Update
Taking Care Of Ourselves
Being Obligers
Mary Beth Is Offered an out 
Jame get’s rid of one planner 
Adding Google Calendar
Where we are at consuming the content
Hitting the pause button
Consuming the content
Goals for February
I’m doing the work
Benefit found in dedicating to 1 planner
Consolidating stickers

Show Mentions

Productivity Paradox

Well Well Well Group

Inkwell Press Planner

Gretchen Ruben 

Happiness Project

Maske Life Planner

Villa Beautiful Sticker Book 

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