You are carrying the invisible list
The appointments, the snacks, the permission slips, the birthday gift for a kid you have never met. You are tired of being the only one who remembers.
About the show
Two experts who are not doing it perfectly either
Hey Monica is a weekly conversation for the recovering perfectionist, the chronic organizer, and anyone tired of diet culture. A professional home organizer and a weight-inclusive nutritionist talking about the mental load, the systems that fall apart by Wednesday, and the food rules nobody actually needs.
Dropping perfectionism to make space for what really matters.
Tia Toso
Professional home organizer for families in the Twin Cities
roomforserenity.com
Amber Hanson
Weight-inclusive licensed nutritionist
wholeyounutrition.com
Why this exists
It started as a lunch that ran two hours long
We met at a women's networking conference in the Twin Cities — except we didn't actually meet. Amber sat in a session where someone described Tia's organizing work and thought, that sounds exactly like the people I work with. She tracked Tia down at the end of the day, swapped business cards, and suggested lunch.
Lunch was scheduled for an hour. It ran two and a half. Amber spent the entire drive coaching herself not to ask a near-stranger to start a podcast with her, held out for about forty minutes, then asked anyway. Tia said yes before she finished the sentence. We describe ourselves as the couple who got engaged on the first date.
What we kept hearing was the same thing from both sides of the table. Tia's clients had brilliant systems at work and nothing left for home. Amber's clients were exhausted by years of food rules that never delivered what they promised. Nobody needed another planner, another plan, or another set of bins. They needed permission.
We are not after perfection. We are after progress, with room for the imperfect parts.
Who it's for
If any of this sounds like your Tuesday
You have started over a lot
New planner, new bins, new plan. It works for nine days. This is a show about what happens on day ten.
You are done with diet culture
You want to eat without earning it, tracking it, or apologizing for it.
What to expect
Every episode, without fail
Confessions
Every episode opens here. We each name something we let slide — the Easter baskets that sat on top of the fridge until June, the dinner dishes that wait until morning.
Reducing Overwhelm
Dropping perfectionism to make space for what really matters — in your home, in your food, and in your life. Plus regular FRIENDS references. She's the "Monica". ;)
What's Working Now
We close by naming one thing genuinely working in our lives right now. Practical to ridiculous. No promises it will still be working next month.
What we believe
Good enough & done
- Done beats perfect, and done-badly beats not-at-all.
- Your worth is not a productivity metric or a body size.
- Systems should survive a real Tuesday, or they are decorations.
- No shame, no before-and-afters, no shopping your way out of overwhelm.
Who's talking
Real people, zero pedestal
Tia Toso
Professional home organizer for families in the Twin Cities
Founder of Room for Serenity, offering judgement-free home organization to Twin Cities, MN residents.
She builds systems that survive a real Tuesday — then admits which of hers fell apart this week.
Tia helps busy professionals with kids who have amazing systems at work but no energy left to build organized systems at home. She works alongside clients rather than for them: sorting what stays, mapping where things live, and building systems that hold up on an ordinary Tuesday. At home it's two kids, two dogs, and a husband, and she has made peace with reorganizing one room at a time — it's a marathon, not a sprint, even for the person who does this professionally.
Amber Hanson
Weight-inclusive licensed nutritionist
Founder of Whole You Nutrition and the Meal Planning Collective.
She helps you keep the dinner and ditch the food rules. No plans, no shame, no before-and-after.
Amber supports people exhausted by dieting who want a better relationship with food and their bodies. She also runs a virtual community and coworking space for planning meals that are realistic, satisfying, and actually taste good. She has read a book before bed every single night since November 2019, which is the only streak she is willing to defend.
Start here
Episodes launch weekly, starting 9/1/26
Season 1Trailer3 min
The One About "Hey Monica" (Official Trailer)
Welcome to Hey Monica! Named as a loving nod to TV’s favorite competitive, bossy neat-freak Monica Geller, Hey Monica is the podcast for the recovering perfectionist, the chronic organizer, and anyone tired of diet…
Season 1Ep. 141 min
The One About Why We're Here
Your closet and your fridge both seem to have opinions about whether you’re doing life right. We get into why we started this show and who exactly Monica is, plus the confession that started this whole thing and one…
Season 1Ep. 244 min
The One About Permission
One of us doesn’t wash the dishes after dinner. The other doesn’t fold laundry. Neither of us feels bad about it anymore, and this episode is about how we got there, plus an honest conversation about the clothes we hang…
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