

The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler
Mystie Winckler
Christian homemakers need encouragement and motivation to stay the course. Homemaking and homeschooling can feel overwhelming, but they don’t have to be. If you’re a Christian mom longing for a well-ordered home, a peaceful homeschool, and a joyful heart—without the stress or burnout—you’re in the right place. Moms can be productive and peaceful when grounded in Scriptural truth.
I’m Mystie Winckler, homeschooling mom of five, founder of Simply Convivial, and your guide to managing both home and heart with faith and focus. Here, we talk about biblical homemaking, sustainable homeschooling, and cheerful productivity—all through the lens of organizing your attitude and embracing your God-given calling.
In each episode, you’ll find practical homemaking systems, homeschooling strategies, and mindset shifts that will help you manage your home without perfectionism or frustration. We’ll tackle topics like:
✔️ Christian homemaking routines that actually work
✔️ Productivity, mom-style
✔️ Homeschooling with peace—even when life gets messy
✔️ Time management for moms (without rigid schedules)
✔️ Decluttering your home & your attitude
✔️ How to be diligent, not just busy
Motherhood is a marathon, not a sprint. You don’t need more willpower—you need a grace-filled, biblical approach to managing life at home. Let’s cultivate faithfulness, embrace joy, and build habits that make home a place of peace and purpose.
👉 Subscribe now and start organizing your home and heart—cheerfully.
I’m Mystie Winckler, homeschooling mom of five, founder of Simply Convivial, and your guide to managing both home and heart with faith and focus. Here, we talk about biblical homemaking, sustainable homeschooling, and cheerful productivity—all through the lens of organizing your attitude and embracing your God-given calling.
In each episode, you’ll find practical homemaking systems, homeschooling strategies, and mindset shifts that will help you manage your home without perfectionism or frustration. We’ll tackle topics like:
✔️ Christian homemaking routines that actually work
✔️ Productivity, mom-style
✔️ Homeschooling with peace—even when life gets messy
✔️ Time management for moms (without rigid schedules)
✔️ Decluttering your home & your attitude
✔️ How to be diligent, not just busy
Motherhood is a marathon, not a sprint. You don’t need more willpower—you need a grace-filled, biblical approach to managing life at home. Let’s cultivate faithfulness, embrace joy, and build habits that make home a place of peace and purpose.
👉 Subscribe now and start organizing your home and heart—cheerfully.
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Apr 11, 2022 • 10min
What to do when you feel overwhelmed - with Leisa Moulton
Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.comFree Workshop: AnswerOverwhelm.comToday we're going to chat about feeling overwhelmed and about practical ways to organize your attitude.Leisa and her husband and three kids have built their own home in Southern Idaho, first living and homeschooling in a camper while the home was under construction. So she knows a thing or two about overwhelm.
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Apr 9, 2022 • 18min
Building better habits at home
Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.comWhy habits are hard workshop: https://youtu.be/dge2oieqJysI would stare and shake my head.My roommate in college made her bed - on the top bunk - every single morning.Over 100 miles away from her mom, she made her bed because *she* wanted to.I did not relate. I did not make my bed.The difference was in our habits - AND our habits formed our tastes and desires.Good home habits give peace of mind.“The way you keep your house, the way you organize your time, the care you take in your personal appearance, the things you spend your money on all speak loudly about what you believe. “The beauty of Thy peace,” shines forth in an ordered life. A disordered life speaks loudly of disorder in the soul” - Elisabeth ElliotThe more I do work on establishing order, the more I realize what a peace-giving thing it is.
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Apr 4, 2022 • 13min
Scripture Memory Tips with Amy Sloan
Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.comAmy's Bible Memory resources: https://humilityanddoxology.com/year-of-memory-work/The best way to keep our attitude under control and live out the fruit of the Spirit is to memorize and recite Scripture every day, all the time. Amy gives us some tips and helps to weave Bible memory work into our lives as homeschoolers and women.
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Apr 1, 2022 • 29min
Get Organized #5: Planning without wasting time or feeling like a failure
Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.comOrganization is a SNAP Quiz: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/quizDaily Card Workshop: https://youtu.be/XQ81AJz5_ZMExample planning pages: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/2021/planners-for-moms/#1 - Look at your planner multiple times a day.#2 - Do something from your planner after you look at it; let it guide your choices.#3 - Keep your planner clear and simple.It’s so tempting to think that the only thing keeping us from being organized is the layout of the planner page. If we just had that planner, then we’d finally have it all put together.We spend time setting up or even creating from scratch what we hope will be our perfect planner that will finally work for us, but then it doesn’t.No matter what planner you have, it won’t make your plans happen automatically. That will always take effort, time, attention, and intention – every day.We need to not only have a plan, we need to look at it multiple times a day and we need to then do what it says.
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Mar 31, 2022 • 32min
Get Organized #4: Put your attitude in order
Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.comTake the Get Organized quiz: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/quiz
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Mar 31, 2022 • 13min
Dealing with perfectionism with Amy Sloan
Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.comNo More Perfectionism Workshop! https://www.nomoreperfectionism.comPerfectionism trips us all up and sometimes we don't even realize it's our problem. We don't have to do things perfectly to be fulfilling our responsibilities well. Perfectionism is really just a guise for self-centeredness. Listen to Amy Sloan of Humility and Doxology remind us how to give up identifying as a perfectionist.
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Mar 30, 2022 • 36min
Get Organized #3: A planner that isn't clunky, that works - even when messy
Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.comDaily Card Workshop: https://youtu.be/XQ81AJz5_ZMFree Brain Dump Guide: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/braindumpYoutube version: https://youtu.be/osTM2j8dCLwWe have so many tasks, thoughts, ideas, and appointments we need to keep track of, but sometimes the more we try to get the perfect system in place, the harder it seems to be to stay on top of things. Let's do a working but messy planner and actually accomplish the most important things without getting distracted and overwhelmed.
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Mar 29, 2022 • 33min
Get Organized #2: Organizing Spaces Effectively
Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.comGet the free EHAP guide: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/ehap and discover how to keep your house mostly tidy most of the time, even with kids.We think of our spaces when we think of getting organized, but we try to make our spaces and lives into things they are not rather than try to make the spaces facilitate more life, more living - not more expression of personal style. Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/RpRprsEUhLoDon't forget to listen to part 1 and subscribe so you don't miss a single episode in the series!
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Mar 28, 2022 • 30min
Get Organized: Why organization never sticks
Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.comWatch the YouTube version with slides: https://youtu.be/0LutEE_zI14Take the quiz: https://www.simplyconvivial.com/quizShare this episode and get the workbook for the series for free! Tell us how and where you shared at support@simplifiedorganization.com and we'll reply with the download link.
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Mar 23, 2022 • 9min
Create an island of sanity.
Take Sweep & Smile with us now! convivialcircle.comWe must remember that the point of organizing is not so everything is neat and tidy and clear all the time. The point is that we are ready to do the right next thing; that we are maintaining an atmosphere of love and order in our home; and that our environment supports not only our work, but also the work of our children – the work of learning and growing and thriving.That work is messy.Enter: the island of sanity.To help maintain your calm equilibrium in the midst of the chaotic, messy day-to-day, designate one small area as your own personal island of sanity.When you don’t know where to start, start here.So often, there’s so much out and so much clutter and so much to do that we don’t even know where to start.When you have chosen an island of sanity, you always know where to start. And starting is always the hardest part.Knowing where to start helps you get going and build momentum. Knowing where to start helps you build your habits and appreciate a clear space – even one clear space in the midst of chaotic clutter.Build the habit of keeping it clear.When I was learning to care about cleanliness and neatness, choosing one island of sanity and appreciating this one small spot in a sea of “need to do” around the house helped me so much.
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