Explore every episode of the podcast All About Journaling

*The instagram post I refer to is from 1 year ago not 5 years ago!

Here are the Family Journaling Reflection Questions:

Work: What family relationships do you value the most? How do you honor them with your time and energy? If you have children, what systems do you have in place to support them in their physical, spiritual, intellectual, social and financial needs?

Play: What are your favorite ways to play as a family? How do you incorporate that daily, weekly, and throughout the seasons?

Rest: Which days of the week are dedicated to resting and recharging as a family? What restful activities can you do as a family during moments of peace and rest throughout your day and week?

For a week of free Voxer with me, reach out on instagram: @krista.kirkyy.journals

Also reach out if you want to join the All About Journaling Girlies for free this month!

Dm me on instagram for one week of Voxer journaling + coaching for free!

Happy journaling cozy friends!

Looking for an evening where you can create with the other junk journaling girlies?  Come to our Junk Journaling Night!  Thursday, September 3rd, 2026 at 7:30 pm MDT.

Come organize all your side quest collections with us and take a peak into mine and Cassie’s junk journals + show us yours!

Can’t wait to junk journal with you <3

Here is the link to join us: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88979998733?pwd=pvQEUBnILbayUscppBwjlcywO21kTi.1 

Check out the Hormone Health Tracker + Journal Kiera and I created together: https://createdbykristakirky.com/products/coach-ks-hormone-health-journal-tracker 

Click here to schedule a free health + hormone consultation with Kiera: https://scheduler.zoom.us/wellnesscoachkkiera/free-health-consultation 

Connect with Kiera on instagram: @coachkwellness 

Reach out to me if you’d like to be a guest on the podcast and talk journaling together <3

Happy journaling everyone!

This, to me, feels like a real journaling geek out! But is that not all of my episodes?!

Reach out on instagram for a FREE custom planner + journal mock up @krista.kirkyy.journals

Check out My Creative Journal here: https://createdbykristakirky.com/products/my-creative-journal

Happy journaling friends!

Free Challenge for August: a22c94-4.myshopify.com/pages/august-challenge 

For support with your journaling/ hobby centered business: https://createdbykristakirky.com/products/2026-custom-bullet-journal-subscription?_pos=1&_psq=subsc&_psid=bcef415d6&_ss=e 

Free 1 week of voxer with me to chat about your business (dm me @krista.kirkyy.journals details :)

Reach out to me for a FREE custom bullet journal mock up <3

For 1:1 support with your journaling business, or adding more journaling into your business: https://createdbykristakirky.com/products/2026-custom-bullet-journal-subscription?_pos=1&_psq=subscription&_psid=b50ee9eac&_ss=e 

Embroidery tiger kit by @erikatuaart

Connect with me on instagram: @krista.kirkyy.journals

FREE beginner’s guide to bullet journaling: a22c94-4.myshopify.com/pages/journaling-girlies 

Organize your life through bullet journaling reflection questions: https://createdbykristakirky.com/products/journaling-prompts-organize-your-life-through-bullet-journaling?_pos=1&_sid=4b917012d&_ss=r 

Check out the journals on my website (or dm me for a free custom bullet journal mock up in July!) https://createdbykristakirky.com/collections/digital-bullet-journals 

Connect with me on instagram: @krista.kirkyy.journals

Come join the journaling community (we start Wednesday July 8th):  https://createdbykristakirky.com/products/organize-your-life-through-bullet-journaling?_pos=1&_psq=organize&_ss=e&_v=1.0&variant=55157490778403 

Free back to school custom bullet journal mock ups through July!  Message me on instagram for more info:  @krista.kirkyy.journals

+ little time challenges + it’s my bday week!

Get my Beginner’s Guide to Bullet Journaling FREE: https://createdbykristakirky.com/pages/journaling-girlies?_pos=1&_psq=journaling&_ss=e&_v=1.0 

Come join the journaling girlies!

Organize your life through Bullet Journaling:  https://createdbykristakirky.com/products/organize-your-life-through-bullet-journaling?_pos=1&_psq=organ&_ss=e&_v=1.0&variant=55157490778403 

Connect with me on instagram: @krista.kirkyy.journals

Organize your life through bullet journaling prompts ($5) + make money through content creation journaling prompts: https://createdbykristakirky.com/products/journaling-prompts-organize-your-life-through-bullet-journaling?_pos=1&_sid=43759faf4&_ss=r 

Sign up for the free workshop tomorrow 6/17/26 at 2pm MDT: https://a22c94-4.myshopify.com/products/2024-vision 

Join the journaling + business girlies: https://createdbykristakirky.com/products/organize-your-life-through-bullet-journaling?_pos=1&_psq=organize&_ss=e&_v=1.0&variant=55157490778403 

Reflection time:  My first half marathon!!

Come journal through my prompts with me for this month:  Physical Body and Beauty.pdf

Join me and the journaling girlies organizing our lives through bullet journaling now - December: https://createdbykristakirky.com/products/organize-your-life-through-bullet-journaling?_pos=1&_psq=organize&_ss=e&_v=1.0&variant=55157490778403 

Connect with me on instagram: @krista.kirkyy.journals

Check out my reflection questions for June: Physical Body and Beauty.pdf

Join me in my next Organize Your Life Through Bullet Journaling Class, Wednesday, June 17th at 2 pm MDT: a22c94-4.myshopify.com/pages/journaling-girlies

Join me in Organizing my Life through Bullet Journaling July - December: https://createdbykristakirky.com/products/organize-your-life-through-bullet-journaling?variant=55157490712867

Connect with me on instagram (my dm's are open! :) @krista.kirkyy.journals

Rebecca is a mom of 4, brand strategist, and a fellow bullet journaling girly like me!

She shares such great journaling inspiration and gives us a huge peak into her bullet journals.

It was a pleasure to chat journaling with Rebecca!

Read more about how Rebecca bullet journals in her blog post: How I Use My Bullet Journal as a Brand Strategist: https://www.rebeccapetersonstudio.com/blog/how-i-use-my-bullet-journal-as-a-brand-strategist 

Connect with Rebecca on instagram: @rebeccapetersonstudio

Reach out if you’d like to chat journaling with me on the podcast: @krista.kirkyy.journals

Come journaling the All About Journaling Girlies Community Meetings in May and June for FREE: ⁠a22c94-4.myshopify.com/pages/journaling-girlies⁠

Connect with me on instagram: @krista.kirkyy.journals

Get the link for the free journaling girly community meetings happening in May and June: a22c94-4.myshopify.com/pages/journaling-girlies

Connect on ig: @krista.kirkyy.journals

Enjoy the book recommendations we chatted about in the Journaling Book Club last week: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pv5xXg3rF1t8coOOZK-m26hiFVgCvoMCMC5dbIsRRyI/edit?usp=sharing
More info on the Park City Retreat: https://createdbykristakirky.com/products/journaling-retreat-park-city-utah-august-21st-23rd?_pos=1&_psq=retreat&_ss=e&_v=1.0

Connect with me on instagram: @krista.kirkyy.journals
Happy journaling cozy friends!

Welcome, Emily Cheney, to the podcast!!
Here on All About Journaling, I like to give you journaling inspo and give you a little taste of what my journals are like.  Today, we get to hear about how Emily journals and let me tell you, I am inspired!!
Connect with Emily on instagram: @emilycheneycoaching
Check out her podcast, The Art of Expansion with Emily Cheney
Happy journaling friend! If you want to chat journaling on the podcast with me, reach out on ig: @krista.kirkyy.journals

Enjoy my brain dump on habit trackers and habit stackers!!

If you haven’t already, come join my free journaling book club: https://createdbykristakirky.com/products/journaling-book-club

And here’s the details for my All About Journaling Girlies community May- June: https://createdbykristakirky.com/products/all-about-journaling-girlies-community

Connect with me on instagram: @krista.kirkyy.journals 

There's a chapter in my book about bullet journal parties soooo yeah, they are kind of my thing! And maybe they're you're thing too (if so, let me know!!!) but also if not, maybe you've got your own thing you could make a party out of!

I feel like the bullet journal party 2.0 is my Journaling Book Club!!! I'm really excited about it and some really awesome ladies have already signed up so if that sounds fun to you, come to the Journaling Book Club Thursday, April 30th 2026 :)

Details here:

Come connect and hang out on instagram: @krista.kirkyy.journals

Alternate episode title: all you really need in life is a vision and patience and you can get what you want

Enjoy my evening walk with me! (on an apparently pretty busy road there are lots of cars driving by woopsies!)

If you want to chat through your ideal week with me, dm me on instagram and let me know! @krista.kirkyy.journals

Come join my free journaling book club I'm hosting Thursday April 20th, 2026 at 8:30 pm MST.

Sign up here: https://createdbykristakirky.com/products/journaling-book-club?variant=54875312226595

Come JUNK JOURNAL with me ahhhhh!!

But also, sorry guys I got lost in the junk journaling and my audio is not great for part of it so please bear with me!!

Mark your calendars!!! Thursday, April 30th, 2026 at 8:30 pm MST my very first...

Journaling Book Club!!

We'll chat journaling, books, all the things and it's FREE!!

Check my ig and next epsiode for how to get the link to join :)

Happy journaling cozy friends!!

I’m just a little newborn artist over here helping all the artists bring out their inner artist! Writer, content creator, painter, doodler…. Let’s all be artists together!

If you want to learn how to master bullet journaling, come join me in my class! We start monday! (2/23/26)

Class details: https://createdbykristakirky.com/products/mastering-bullet-journaling-class

Happy journaling!

Come say hi on ig: @krista.kirkyy.journals 

Welcome to class in the cozy journaling spot!

Lately, I've felt so strongly that it's really important to set up a cozy journaling spot in your home if you want to get into the habit of journaling. So here's my class I prepared all about setting up a creative space just for you in your home!!

If you liked this class, check out the details for the net class I'm teaching: Mastering Bullet Journaling

Check it out here: https://createdbykristakirky.com/products/mastering-bullet-journaling-class?_pos=1&_psq=master&_ss=e&_v=1.0

Connect with me on ig! @krista.kirkyy.journals

Happy journaling everyone!

Welcome to my cozy journaling spot where I give you a lil journaling inspo + you get a peak of what my journals look like (this podcast feels like a journal to me :)

Today's topic that's been on my mind: Journaling as an Act of Faith <3

It's a good one, guys!

Let me know if you got any journaling inspo from this!

Connect with me on ig: @krista.kirkyy.journals

And alllll the wonderful benefits of journaling can't come if you don't have a cozy journaling spot. Check out the info on the free class I'm teaching Monday 3/9/26 at 2pm MST

Details: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WgJ8X77SHwJeSes3PEt78Joi-TFyJ2w9/view?usp=drive_link

Happy journaling!!

Will this be the 1000 piece puzzle I finally finish in my cozy journaling spot?!

Join me for puzzling, journaling inspo, and a taste of what's inside my journals.

Details for the free class I'm teaching, How to Set Up your Cozy Journaling Spot: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WgJ8X77SHwJeSes3PEt78Joi-TFyJ2w9/view?usp=sharing

Mastering Bullet Journaling Class for writers coming soon !! :)

Come journal and say hi: @krista.kirkyy.journals

Hi friends!

This week, I went live and hosted a free meet up to journal and discuss journaling and vision boards for 2026.  

If you want to designate time for journaling this year, meet up with other people who love to journal, and learn about how journaling can improve your health, wealth and relationships, come join us!  

All About Journaling Girlies Community: https://createdbykristakirky.com/products/all-about-journaling-girlies-community?_pos=2&_psq=all&_ss=e&_v=1.0

Follow on instagram for more journaling inspo: @krista.kirkyy.journals 

Happy journaling everyone!

The backstory and miracles behind writing my first book (in two months!)

Get first access here: https://createdbykristakirky.com/products/all-about-journaling-girlies-community?_pos=2&_psq=all&_ss=e&_v=1.0

Happy journaling everyone!

Follow along for more: @krista.kirkyy.journals

Come join us for the next class!

Check out more info here: https://createdbykristakirky.com/products/all-about-journaling-class?_pos=1&_sid=c3fb6a933&_ss=r 

Wrapping up Season 1 of my podcast

Recapping what I've learned these past 2 years in AZ

See you all in UT at my bullet journal party <3

What I Wish I Knew Before Becoming an Online Business Girlie | Creative Biz Tips for Content Creators

If you're thinking about starting an online business or becoming a content creator—this one’s for you.

And if you’re already in it but ready for some new ideas and motivation... this will hit home too. 💻🫶I’m sharing the 4 big things I really wish I knew before I became an online business girlie.

These tips will help you get clear on your purpose, ditch the perfectionism, and make room in your life (and your mind!) for a business that actually fits the season you're in.✨

In this episode:

Start by serving—research before rushing

Declutter your life to make space for your ideas (and maybe sell a few things on Marketplace!)

Perfectionism is not the vibe—scale your biz with grace

Your business isn’t just about making money—it’s shaping your lifestyle too

Whether you're selling journals, coaching, or creating content, these mindset shifts will help you grow with less pressure and more purpose.

📌 Subscribe so you don’t miss what’s next—and help me reach 100 subscribers so I can finally upgrade my black (yuck!) office chair 😅

📲 Want to work together? DM me on Instagram: @create.with.kristakirky

#onlinebusinessgirlie #contentcreatortips #creativebizcoach #journalingbusiness #smallbusinesssupport #onlinebusinessmindset #mombosslife #creativeentrepreneur #startyourbusiness

✨ How Journaling Boosts Clarity, Wellness, and Creativity | My 3-Journal Method

In this episode, I'm sharing how journaling has improved every area of my life—especially my clarity, wellness, and creative momentum. Whether you're feeling mentally foggy, creatively stuck, or just looking for a healthier daily habit, this is for you.

Here’s what I cover:

How journaling works as a brain dump to organize your thoughts and help you be honest with yourself

Why I believe a planner is a journal—and how that shift helps organize your time

The mental health boost journaling brings by helping you process emotions

How the simple act of writing is more nourishing than scrolling

Ways journaling supports your physical health through habit tracking and meal planning

How journaling fuels creativity by giving you space to think, sketch, and explore ideas

I use three separate journals to support these areas, and I’ll show you how each one plays a role in keeping me grounded and inspired.

✨ Want to start or deepen your own journaling practice?

DM me on instagram to get connected: @create.with.kristakirkyCheck out the journals I've created on my website:  https://createdbykristakirky.com/collections/digital-bullet-journals

As a stay at home mom and business owner who prioritizes being able to create what I want to create, when I want to create it, print on demand is the business model for me :)

And maybe it's for you too!

Listen here and see why I love using print on demand in my business!

Follow me on instagram for more: @create.with.kristakirky

If you're ever not motivated to do something, it's always good to connect back to why you're doing it.

Today, I share why I journal :)

+ 4 tips to make journaling fun and easy for you.

So grateful for you my podcast listeners!

Follow me on instagram to get connected: @create.with.kristakirky

As someone who loves work, and also has three kids three and under, my relationship with work has changed through each pregnancy.  In this episode, I walk through the bullet journal spread, my pregnancy tracker, that has helped me get in tuned with my body during pregnancy and better know my needs throughout my pregnancy and afterwards.Listen to my experience and I hope it helps you gain insight into why I think it's valuable to know how your body responds to pregnancy and how that can affect your relationship with work.Follow me on instagram for more: @create.with.kristakirky

In the past 6 years, I've gone through so much change!  Looking back there's been lots of transitions and changes for me in many aspects of my life but for the most part, I feel like I've done it in a calm way :)

So here's my thoughts on how to change your life in a chill way!

+ 3 ways to audit yourself to make sure the change you're seeking in your life is actually worth pursuing.
Follow me on instagram for more!  @create.with.kristakirky

I've been consistently journaling each morning and have a specific way I like to plan my day that I wanted to share with all of you! Some of the key points from this episode :)

- Creating you ideal day (this is where the work is!)

- How your ideal day + week are like a horizon line

- Using my Morning Pages to be open to inspiring ideas for my day

- How using a media break to help you tune into what you want

- Releasing tying the plans that are important to us to a specific time

Follow me on instagram @create.with.kristakirky for more!

At the start of my bullet journals, I like to include a page for my vision board.  Last year I made a vision board to fill that spot and honestly, it was useless! (Ha!)

I did not want my vision board to be useless this year so I made sure to come up with a way to make my vision board that is super valuable to me that has made the vision of the life I want to live so clear in my head!!

Because I loved it so much, I decided to do a monthly vision board.  

Listen in as I go over how I made my 2025 vision board, a little reflection on the things I tried in January, and an update on new things I'm trying in my business for February.

For more support creating your vision board, head to my website (createdbykristakirky.com) for a vision board 1:1 voxer experience with me.

Happy journaling and vision boarding!!

I wanted to make a morning vlog (video journal) so here it is! 

You can listen to what a typical morning is like for me and my kiddos + get a little update of what I've been up to the past few weeks :)

I have a goal to reach 1K subscribers on youtube so if you want to actually SEE my morning routine head to my youtube channel: Create with Krista Kirky and be sure to subscribe!

Thanks for listening :)

Join me for a chatty episode with my friend, Kathrine Fraley!

Kathrine has been a content creator and business owner for years!! Plus a fellow stay at home/ WFH mom :) Listen to our conversation and hear everything from wholesale tips, to motherhood and pregnancy transitions, her love of JUNK journaling (something I'm wanting to try more of this year) and content creation tips.

Be sure to follow her account: @thingskatloves to connect and see more from Kathrine

Plus a special thank you to Kat for designing the cover of My 2025 Bullet Journal!  

You can check it out on my website: createdbykristakirky.com

Anne and I created a custom journal together that Anne uses as a Daily Debrief before bed each night that helps her fall asleep.  We got together to record this podcast (we both love a good chat!) and here are some of the key points:

- What's the difference between a teacher and a coach?

- Leaning into a niche (sahm's!) I'm excited to serve

- How Anne's Daily Debrief helps her sleep at night

- Training our brains to see the wins

Follow Anne on Instagram: @rethinkingfitnesswithanne to learn more about how to purchase her Daily Debrief Journal 

Wow :) I love talking about journals :))) In this episode I chat about what journals I'll be using for 2025 starting with...

-Morning Pages - to get my creativity flowing

-My Bullet Journal - a way to plan and journal in one and how I incorporate my business and mom plans and journaling thoughts in it

-A Hard Cover Flat Lay Blank Dot Grid Journal (that I made by hand myself!) to use for business ideas and more journaling ideas :)

I also chat about:

• How I view money lately (bees!!)
• All the different ways to journal (my mind is blown!) And how I plan to do lots of research about it this year :)

Thanks for listening!  Please share with your friends that are also moms of littles looking to increase their value :)

Video I used to help me learn how to bind my flat lay journal:    • Bookbinding Tools & Materials - begin...  

Coptic stitch:    • How to Make a Sketchbook | DIY Coptic...  

Check out the journals I've created on my website: createbykristakirky.com

Follow me on instagram to get connected: @create.with.kristakirky

The most special guest joined us today: my husband, Spencer!

Today Spencer tells us his favorite ways he likes to create... cooking!

In this episode you'll hear...

How we help each other in our creative endeavors 

Insights on how all things are coming together for me since starting my business

Learning new skills is a creative process

Creating our dream life :)

If you want to get connected with Spencer, reach out to me on instagram: @create.with.kristakirky (he does not have any social media)

Find his recipe journal on my website: createdbykristakirky.com

I love this time of year!

This time of year is perfect for serving, creating and reflecting.

In today's episode, I share how I've learned that raising my value has helped me better serve those around me - even strangers.

+ an invitation to reflect on the year as we enjoy the holidays and getting ready for the new year.

Connect with me on instagram: @create.with.kristakirky

Ever since I first heard Meagan as a guest on another podcast talking all about goals, I knew I would love a change to sit down and talk goals with her!

Here are some of the highlights from a fun chat with two goals girlies:

- Start experimenting your 2025 goals right now!

- The importance of breaking your yearly goals down to monthly goals

- Set specific measurable goals, but attach an affirmation and reason

- A walk through of Meagan's nonnegotiable routine (not a schedule)

- How Meagan Power Journals

Get connected with Meagan on instagram: @goal.getter.girl

So grateful I got to chat goals with the routine queen and goals girl! Thank you Meagan!!

Last week on instagram I posted that I was going through a mini rebrand. This week I sat down to brain dump + share all my thoughts about it.

Here are some of the highlights from this episode:

-Establishing my brand by identifying all of the things I enjoy doing and creating

- Tapping into my zone(s) of genius

-How organizing + creating are related

-Update on my 3 pillars: Relationships, Freedom, + Body

-Honesty update/ follow up on previous podcast updates: online course and community

-Look out for all the cool people coming on my podcast soon!

Follow me on instagram to stay up to date and see more about how you can work with me: @create.with.kristakirky

Check out my journals on my website: createdbykristakirky.com

Kristyn has the cutest craft room that she sells all of my favorite things from :) and I was dying to hear how it all started.  Listen in to hear all about how she started and grew her shop, how we create and find time to grow our businesses in the throws of motherhood, and how you can find stationary goodies in her shop.

Some of the things Kristyn and I talk about:

-Trying new things when the current path isn't "tickling" (love that word!)

-How she found her value as an artist after selling 20+ paintings at $12 an hour

- The importance of just starting and not feeling like you have to be set in stone whenever you start something new

-Navigating post partum and growing a business

- Keeping our sanity in motherhood by being creative ALONE

- Creating just to create (without putting it on the internet)

Follow Kristyn on instagram to get connected and see all of the awesome things in her shop:@kristyns.craft.room

Use my code BULLET20 for a discount on anything from her shop!

Lately I’ve felt the desire to share with you all what I’ve learned about selling the things I’ve created.  Many of us have super cool things we’ve created that people would want to buy from us, we just have to start selling them!!

In this episode, I break down my tips for selling (get your reps in!!) through instagram, email, podcast and YouTube

How selling really is an act of service!!

And really how it’s all about connecting with another human by sharing with them something that’s brought value and joy to your life.

Follow me on instagram to see and hear more from me 
@createdbykristakirky

Through Morning Pages, I've learned that I love content creating - I am a content creator!! Here's what I share during this week's episode:

- How being honest with myself (through Morning Pages) has helped my content creation

- Finding myself through content creation

- Applying Be Do Have to my content creation

- A run through of all of my platforms: Instagram, Youtube, and Podcasting

-Being ruthless about what I actually want to create

Connect with me on instagram: @createdbykristakirky

Check out my website for some of the cool journals I've created with other creators: createdbykristakirky.com

Key points from this episode:

-What it even means to build a community

-Taking "build a community" and starting small

-Deciding who you want to be inspired by and look for ways to be around those people

-Auditing the media you surround yourself with

-Investing in the communities that you want to be a part of

-Seeking out valuable free content by people that inspire you

Follow me instagram: @createdbykristakirky to learn more about the community I am created at the start of next year :)

Check out some of my journals: createdbykristakirky.com