Cohesive Home Podcast : Minimalism | Families | Adventure | Intentional Living

About Cohesive Home Podcast : Minimalism | Families | Adventure | Intentional Living

Melissa and Kate, two laid-back moms, explore the topics you most want to hear about it--family minimalism, adventuring with your kids, balancing family and work, and more--all in the time it takes you to brew your morning coffee. Sometimes ridiculous, always on point, these two best friends put the fun back in parenting and creating your happier, simpler home.

Publisher

Kate Saffle and Melissa Risenhoover

Category

kids & family · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Jan 2016

Latest episode

4 Oct 2025

Latest episodes

2 of 79 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   4 Oct 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Reflections on Motherhood

   Please listen in, subscribe, and take 2 minutes to leave us a review on Apple or your favorite podcast app. It means so much to us! We would love to hear from you: send us an email at cohesivehome@gmail.com (mailto:cohesivehome@gmail.com) Find Kate on her website: Happier in Motherhood Find Melissa on Youtube: Bookish Melissa

2. 

   13 Sept 2025

   Did Minimalism Burn Us Out? A 10-Year Reflection

   Have you ever felt that urge to just get rid off everything you own and completely simplify? The things in your home seem to take over, it’s constantly messy, and it would be so nice to have a clean slate. That was us a decade ago when we first started Cohesive Home. We were both reading alllllll the blogs and books on minimalism and applying it to our homes. In a movement led primarily by childless males, we wanted to show other families it was doable to live minimally. But time has passed. We’re older. We’ve moved. Our kids are older. Our lives has shifted tremendously. Are we still minimalists? Listen to this episode to find out! We would love to hear from you, send us an email at cohesivehome@gmail.com (mailto:cohesivehome@gmail.com) Find Kate on her website Find Melissa on Youtube:her vlog channel

3. 

   30 Aug 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Near Death and New Beginnings

   Welcome to Episode 5 of the NEW season of Cohesive Home! We are back with the craziest of updates on where we've been since last summer's episodes and what really happened. Promise you, we can't make this stuff up! In this episode, you'll hear about: Melissa's near death experience in France Kate's big dream coming true and the epic surprise she gave her hubs for Father's Day Where Melissa and her family are heading to next Plus more of the real mom talk you expect Please listen in, subscribe, and take 2 minutes to leave us a review on Apple or your favorite podcast app. It means so much to us! We would love to hear from you: send us an email at cohesivehome@gmail.com (mailto:cohesivehome@gmail.com) Find Kate on her website: Happier in Motherhood Find Melissa on Youtube: Bookish Melissa or her vlog channel

Inside a recent episode

Reflections on Motherhood

Published 4 Oct 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Like my kids are teens now. There's been a lot, a lot of self work. I know you as well have had that. Right. I'm interested to know, you know, doing that work and then adding a baby again. What does that look like? How has that been for you? Yeah, it's been really cool actually. So, you know, Melissa and I were talking about this before the episode. So just to kind of catch some of you up, like when I first became a mom, what 14 years ago at this point, I was very anxious, kind of type A. I want to control all the things. And at the same time, I hadn't done any personal growth work. So I externalized a lot of my issues. […]

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