Planner Girl Chatter – Details, episodes & analysis

We wonder a lot of things. It is possible for Colleen to take a break from dating for a year? Were our parents just as smart as us? Is it insane that Jamie already ordered her 2024 planner? We also chat about our new effort called the Intentional Reset Project, listen in and join here if you'd like to learn more about it! 

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Busy Summer

Reconnecting with our creativity

Colleen’s Dating Life

Intentional Reset Project

Is time speeding up?

What we hope to see from this project

The things we’ve been working on

Feeling like I’m an adult - but getting nothing done

Starting this project

Jamie Pre-orders her planner

Memory keeping planner

Lastly…how are the 90’s back?

Reminding us how unusual of a time we live in Jamie shares a long overdue update on the Texas Planner Babes event she attended called Planners At Tiffany's while Colleen is recovering from COVID. Join us for a long-overdue episode that reminds you of the inspiration, comradery, and friend adventures that come along with the planner community. 

This episode was recorded on May 28th, 2022. 

Oh boy, we have missed making an episode like this one!

Guess what!?! Jamie & Colleen are sharing plans for a Wicked Fun Weekend with the Planner Girls of Southern Maine this October! The host of the event Shannon Bouchard is our very special guest telling us a bit about the history of the group, what to expect, and even teaching us some of the lingo we may need when traveling to Maine. 

Get all the details on the Wicked Fun Weekend event join Planner Girls Of Southern Maine.

This episode was recorded on May 17th, 2022.

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Meet Shannon with Planner Girls Of Southern Maine

The food we must eat!

How Colleen & Shannon met

Why this event was started

What to expect for the weekend

Things we are looking forward to most

Fulfilling Jamie’s childhood dreams

Learning a bit of Maine words

Planning out our adventure 

Like the title says we’ve been managing a lot of change in our lives. Jamie shares the loss of family members and Colleen shares the new beginnings as a single lady. Plus we tell you all about our unplanned Shreveport adventure together this month! 

This episode was recorded on April 16th, 2022.

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Managing grief

Feeling the sadness & enjoying the memories

Taking downtime

Target and massages vs flowers?

Shreveport adventure the hotel

The flight debacle

The sadness of what Target is right now

Full hotel meltdown

Catfish or just an awkward meeting?

Cuffing season is over

Not so non-smoking room

How bad is the supply chain right now?

Jamie is close to getting mail again! 

The ridiculous feelings around upgrading your life.

Canceling plans

All this change means a new planner

Finding the silver lining

Managing friends during this time

Colleen’s been working on updating your planners and Jamie’s been drinking like she’s retired in Florida. With some new stationery in hand, we chat about recent stationery purchases, books we are reading. Also, Jamie shares how she avoided a huge financial blunder 2 years ago this week. 

This episode was recorded on March 3th, 2022.

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Colleen needs more time with her planners

Jamie’s winery adventure

If the to-do list is light, what do you do?

Book stuff - How do you handle DNF

How Florida is going for Jamie

White Deer Stationary review

Missing our CPC peeps

Why Jamie will always hire an event coordinator!

Shop Mentions
White Deer Stationary

Sweet I Do's

Trying new things and we hope you will too! In this episode, we did a Favorite Shop Friend Swap! Colleen placed an order for Jamie with Bubba Bear Studios. Jamie placed an order for Colleen with The Fox and Pip. Listen in to hear how it went. You can decide for yourself if you and your planner friends for Galantines day! 

This episode was recorded on January 25th, 2022.

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Colleen’s craft room closet! 

Jamie concludes the “truck saga” 

How Disneyland went with the family

HoCo update!

Good lord these new crafts

First impressions of our swap orders 

Why Jamie has never ordered

Bubba bear verdict

Colleens first Fox & Pip

We hope you’ll give this a try

Are you tip-toeing into the new year and feeling the room before getting settled? Yeah us too! Enjoy this early year catch-up session with Jamie & Colleen. New year, same planner people. 

This episode was recorded on January 4th, 2022.

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Colleen’s vision for 2022

What Jamie’s daily is feeling like so far

How Colleen’s lineup and book tracker is coming together

Jamie’s truck update (Spoiler: Still in Alabama)

Reflecting on 2021 planners 

Why we haven't settled on words of the year yet.

When does it feel like a new year? 

Colleen’s hot take on monthly re-mixes

Upcoming episodes to look forward to 

Catch up with us for a quick holiday episode. We chat about the awkward time of year in your planner where it’s nearly time, but not quite time to move into your new planner. We also chat about Holiday sticker sets and our ongoing debate about 2022 potential planners. 

Recorded Saturday, December 18th, 2021

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Holiday catch up

Colleen’s croc’s

Quick holiday run down

Jamie’s annoyed her NYE kit’s missing

Our New Years plan

Tracking our book plans for 2022

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Theoretical Designs

Bookworm Life Planner

Our plan to refill our empty planner binders was a success. In this episode, we talk about what we plan to do with what we bought. We also share an experiment we think you might want to try with a planner friend. We do a chatterer vibe check on our tone and share some personal thoughts on the planner community and making this podcast. We wrap up this episode talking about our reading habits featuring book recommendations from Jamie's reading list, a segment you will probably never hear again because Colleen dominates at all things bookish.

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Advent Calendar season has begun

Our fun experiment that you should try too!

How we’ll be sharing our post-holiday shopping

Notebooks we don’t need but bought anyway. 

Feedback and a vibe check 

Our yearly book update & recommends 

A few things to remember about planning

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Fox & Pip - https://www.instagram.com/foxandpip/

Bubba Bear - https://www.instagram.com/bubbabearstudios/

Archer & Olive - https://www.instagram.com/archerandolive/