Prepared Enough

Natasha Mila
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Welcome to the Prepared Enough podcast—a podcast for the mom who wants to manage motherhood well and create a home where her family can thrive. I’m your host, Natasha Mila, former teacher, mom of four, and firm believer that a well-prepared home can do a lot of the heavy lifting for you. In this podcast, we’ll explore ways to design organized, intentional spaces and rhythms that build your child’s responsibility and bring more ease into your day. The smallest adjustments often make the biggest impact. If you’re ready for your home to work with you, not against you—you’re in the right place. Hit follow, and let’s get started. natashamila.substack.com

  1. FEB 4

    Creating A Bathroom Caddy For Littles (episode 21)

    🎙️ Creating A Bathroom Caddy For Littles Welcome to the Prepared Enough podcast, a space where we simplify motherhood, nurture our families, and design homes that help us raise independent and helpful children. Three things in this episode: 👍 Why make a kid basket / caddy full of essentials 🧺 What to include in your kid bathroom caddy 🏠 How to adapt your caddy for different family seasons and ages of children Resources & Links: * The three different rubber bands my daughters use for their hair that I swear by: Cotton bandsClear mini elastics Colorful mini elastics * Come say hi! I really like writing to you via my newsletter! Thank you for listening! 🎧 Subscribe on Substack or on Apple Podcasts! ⭐️ Leave a 5 star rating and/or a few quick words! Growing in motherhood alongside you, Website | Newsletter | Podcast Join P.E. Become a paid supporter of the Prepared Enough podcast. For the same price as your coffee, P.E. class will be added to your schedule and you will receive an exclusive audio or video resource each month. Get access to ALL previous paid content and future paid content AND support the podcast as a whole by signing up to be a paid supporter here! https://natashamila.substack.com/subscribe Thankfully no dodgeball is involved This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit natashamila.substack.com/subscribe

    21 min

  2. JAN 21

    How Your Daily Routines Can Help You Raise Helpful Children (episode 20)

    🎙️ How Your Daily Routines Can Help You Raise Helpful Children Welcome to the Prepared Enough podcast, a space where we simplify motherhood, nurture our families, and design homes that help us raise independent and helpful children. Three things in this episode: 🧺 Daily routines where kids can be helpful, not just independent 🗓 Predictable and routine help that doesn’t feel like “extra” 🙌 Helping the family team, owning your role Resources & Links: Become a paid supporter and receive monthly exclusive videos. Join me in my happy place—my newsletter! I love writing straight to your inbox! It feels a bit more personal than anything else online these days. Thank you for listening! 🎧 Subscribe on Substack or on Apple Podcasts! ⭐️ Leave a 5 star rating and a few quick words! Growing in motherhood alongside you, Tash Website | Newsletter | Podcast This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit natashamila.substack.com/subscribe

    30 min

  3. JAN 8

    How Your Home Might Be Contributing to Your Child’s Behavior (episode 19)

    🎙️ How Your Home Might Be Contributing to Your Child’s Behavior Welcome to the Prepared Enough podcast, a space where we simplify motherhood, nurture our families, and design homes that help us raise independent and helpful children. Three things in this episode: 🏠 Your home flow matters. Here’s why! 🛑 Kids follow access, friction, and flow. Here’s how you can use that knowledge! 👧 You can use accessibility to your advantage! Resources & Links: * Keep an eye out for a short and sweet audio course in March of 2026! * Join the internet fam over at my newsletter! Thank you for listening! 🎧 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts! ⭐️ Leave a 5 star rating and a few quick words! Growing in motherhood alongside you, Tash Website | Substack | Podcast Join P.E. The Prepared Enough podcast runs with no ads thanks to you! Become a paid supporter of the podcast and you’ll be enrolled in P.E. class! Members receive monthly videos with peeks into our home spaces and personal chit chats about changes in our home and why we are making those changes! You can sign up to be a paid supporter here! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit natashamila.substack.com/subscribe

    29 min

  4. 12/27/2025

    Do These 9 Things During Holiday Clean Up (episode 18)

    🎙️ Do These 9 Things During Holiday Clean Up Welcome to the Prepared Enough podcast, a space where we simplify motherhood, nurture our families, and design homes that help us raise independent and helpful children. Three notes about doing the reset now: * You got it out, you might as well do it. * Your later self will thank you. * If you don’t take care of it now, odds are you won’t take care of it in November. Episode Talking Points: 1. Write a list of any materials or decor you want to buy for next year so you can keep an eye out for products and sales throughout the year or early in the 2026 holiday season (decoration, hosting, etc.). 2. Rid of stuff you don’t want that never made it out of your Christmas bins or any broken decoration you don’t want cluttering your house and attic. 3. Clean basement or attic space where holiday bins will be put back. 4. Toss or fix broken ornaments. If you put them away broken, odds are that you will not fix them next year. 5. Put your ornaments away in the order you want to take them out next year (think: toddlers and other small grabby humans). 6. Wrap books. 7. Update / delete items from online gift lists OR move them to private. Create lists to add to for the upcoming year. 8. The first things you are going to have to think about for next year are holiday cards if you do them. Set a date in your calendar to start thinking about pictures, or DIY cards, or ordering cards, etc. 9. If you have any handmade items you want to make for next year, get serious about actually starting them earlier than November. Resources & Links: 1. Mini Podcast Course Coming Soon—Your First 5 KidSpace Fixes: Simple Home Tweaks That Change Everything 2. Join the newsletter! 3. Last podcast episode was on my favorite books of 2025. Thank you for listening! 🎧 Subscribe on Substack or on Apple Podcasts! ⭐️ Leave a 5 star rating and a few quick words! Growing in motherhood alongside you, Tash Website | Newsletter | Podcast This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit natashamila.substack.com/subscribe

    17 min

  5. 12/18/2025

    Favorite Books of 2025 (episode 17)

    🎙️ Favorite Books of 2025 Welcome to the Prepared Enough podcast, a space where we simplify motherhood, nurture our families, and design homes that help us raise independent and helpful children. Four things in this episode: ⭐️ Favorite book — The Frozen River 🚫 Hated — Jane Austen ⚓️ Wildest non fiction story — Endurance ❤️ Helpful marriage book — Love and Respect Resources & Links: Be my friend on Goodreads!! Let’s share book recs. Link to Amazon List — Books I Read in 2025 Hang out with me in my newsletter! Thank you for listening! 🎧 Subscribe on Substack or on Apple Podcasts! ⭐️ Leave a 5 star rating (and a few quick words if you are able)! Happy reading in 2025, Tash Website | Substack | Podcast Join P.E. Become a paid supporter of the Prepared Enough podcast. P.E. class will be added to your schedule. Last month P.E. members received a video of live toy decluttering. We are off for the month of December. We will be back in January. For monthly videos with peeks into our home spaces, you can sign up to be a paid supporter here! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit natashamila.substack.com/subscribe

    27 min

  6. 12/03/2025

    5 Prompts To Help Your Children Willingly Declutter Their Toys (episode 16)

    🎙️ 5 Prompts To Help Your Children Willingly Declutter Their Toys Three things in this episode: *Strategies for toddlers and preschoolers *Small language changes and why use them *How to get kids on board by thinking it’s their idea Thank you for listening! 🎧 Subscribe on Substack or on Apple Podcasts! ⭐️ Leave a 5 star rating and a few quick words! Growing in motherhood alongside you, Website | Substack | Podcast Join P.E. Class Become a paid supporter of the Prepared Enough podcast. P.E. class will be added to your schedule. This month P.E. members received a video of me doing a live declutter with our kids. Listen for some of the prompts! For monthly videos with peeks into our home spaces, you can sign up to be a paid supporter here! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit natashamila.substack.com/subscribe

    20 min

  7. 11/20/2025

    Alright, welp...7 Observations Since Saying Goodbye to Instagram 1.5 Years Ago (episode 15)

    A few observations since saying goodbye to IG: 1. I am entirely clueless on trends. Literally clueless. 2. I am totally clueless on “MUST have” products. 3. I am no longer angry at the world. 4. I don’t feel the need to speak up regardless of how much or how little I know about a topic. 5. Our personal privacy is more protected. 6. I don’t have to work through the emotional turmoil that comes with online trolls. 7. My kids don’t see me constantly on my phone. A few good things Two podcasts I’ve enjoyed lately— 🎙 #1 Secret to a Christian Marriage (It’s NOT What You Think) | Live Free with Josh Howerton — I really enjoyed this podcast. It’s an old one but I went back to listen to it. 🎙 How to Design a Christmas That ACTUALLY Centers on Jesus (12 Days Framework) — I’ve really been enjoying the Family Teams podcasts recently. 🎙 Subscribe to Prepared Enough on Apple Podcasts. Join P.E. Become a paid supporter of the Prepared Enough podcast. P.E. class will be added to your schedule. In the month of November, P.E. members will be receiving several videos of our live toy declutter + a walk through of our kids bedrooms and their toy set up. For monthly videos with peeks into our home spaces, you can sign up to be a paid supporter here! See ya nowhere except your inbox. Growing in motherhood alongside you, Tash Website | Substack | Podcast Show your support by following along! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit natashamila.substack.com/subscribe

    39 min

  8. 11/12/2025

    10 Questions to Ask Yourself When Decluttering Toys Before the Holiday Influx (episode 14)

    🎙️ 10 Questions to Ask Yourself When Decluttering Toys Before the Holiday Influx Three things in this episode: 🙀 Overcoming toy overwhelm 🪴 Gain a new mindset around your home’s play areas 💪 Encouragement for progress over perfection Episode Talking Points: 10 questions: 1. Is it broken or missing important (key word) pieces? Is it actually garbage? 2. Do my kids actually play with this — or just dump it out? 3. What does this toy spark in my kids and do I want this? Does this toy spark creativity? Cooperative play with siblings? Calm? You could also ask—How do you want your home to feel in this space? Does this item work toward that goal or against it? 4. Would my child even notice if this disappeared? 5. Would I buy this again today? 6. Is this age appropriate anymore? Is there something my child is ready to grow into that would replace this item instead? 7. Could this toy be replaced by something simpler? A follow up question here is— Is it a singular use toy or is it open ended? Can multiple toys be replaced by one more open ended toy? 8. Is this toy very similar or serving the same purpose as any other toy? Which can you keep, which can you get rid of? 9. Does this fit your values? 10. Could another child love this more right now? Three quick pieces of advice: * Start with the physically largest items. * Boxes for donate, garbage, & attic (maybe) * Involve kids over age 2 Remember: We are creating room for good play, a joy filled space, and a home that you can manage well. Your home doesn’t have to be perfect, but it should be peaceful enough for everyone to breathe. Resources & Links: * Nancy Ray’s Latest Podcast on Saturday Sabbath * Natasha’s Amazon Storefront * Email me for more info on being a kid home spaces coaching guinea pig! info.natashamila@gmail.com Thank you for listening! 🎧 Subscribe on Substack or on Apple Podcasts! ⭐️ Leave a 5 star rating and a few quick words! Growing in motherhood alongside you, Tash Website | Substack | Podcast This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit natashamila.substack.com/subscribe

    32 min
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About

Welcome to the Prepared Enough podcast—a podcast for the mom who wants to manage motherhood well and create a home where her family can thrive. I’m your host, Natasha Mila, former teacher, mom of four, and firm believer that a well-prepared home can do a lot of the heavy lifting for you. In this podcast, we’ll explore ways to design organized, intentional spaces and rhythms that build your child’s responsibility and bring more ease into your day. The smallest adjustments often make the biggest impact. If you’re ready for your home to work with you, not against you—you’re in the right place. Hit follow, and let’s get started. natashamila.substack.com

Information

  • Creator
    Natasha Mila
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    21
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Natasha Mila
  • Show Website
    Prepared Enough