Permission to Be Messy is Back

October 06, 2026

After nearly two years away, Permission to Be Messy is back! In this short comeback episode, I’m reintroducing the podcast, sharing a little about why I stepped away, and talking about what you can expect as we move forward.

One of the biggest changes? Permission to Be Messy is now coming to YouTube, too. I’ve wanted to bring the podcast into video for a while, especially because I’m planning to have more conversations with guests.

Of course, adding video also means embracing a little more of the “messy” part. There’s less hiding the mistakes, pauses, and imperfect moments when the camera is rolling, which feels pretty appropriate for this podcast.

Going forward, you can expect weekly episodes, many of them featuring guests, along with some solo episodes from me. We’ll explore organization from lots of different angles, including business, finances, legal topics, personal organization, and wherever else the conversations take us.

And I’d love your input. Are there topics you’d like me to talk about? People you’d love to hear me interview? Industries or areas of business and life you think we should explore? I’m excited to see where this next chapter of Permission to Be Messy goes.

As always, I’m wishing you much progress, peace, purpose, and the permission to be messy.

Episode Transcript

Episode 68 - Welcome Back
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Welcome to episode 68 of Permission to Be Messy. I'm your host JoAnn Krall, and I'm back. I have taken a major break from the podcast for a few reasons. I want to bring it back in video format, so that was something that I had to really logistically think through for myself because when I record, I can make a lot of mistakes, and you don't notice it on video.

Um, but hey, we're here giving ourselves permission to be messy. I also wanted to bring you guests. So my last episode, which was, phew, almost two years ago, I did have a guest, and it went well, and I was like, "Yes, I'm back." And then life got in the way and the podcast had to take a backseat. So I'm back. I'm bringing you this episode with just me, but I already have one episode recorded that I'm working on editing for next week.

I think you'll really enjoy the conversation, and I have a lineup of people. So,phew, I gotta take a deep breath because it is, it is a lot. I record and edit and do all the stuff for myself, and I know eventually I'd like to hire somebody. My own daughter actually edits podcasts, but she's busy.

So I don't have any topic that I wanted to discuss today. I really just wanted to reintroduce the podcast. if you're new to the podcast, I have, mm, 67 other episodes that aren't in video format. I'd like to get them over here on YouTube, eventually, but I'm gonna have to hire someone to do all of that for me.

so for now, we've, we're on Spotify, we're on, uh, Apple Podcasts, actually probably wherever you listen to your podcasts, and I'm now also going to be on YouTube, because I find that when you do an interview, it's really nice to have that video format. so I hope that you've been well, and I look forward to getting back to bringing you a weekly episode.

Most of them will be with guests, but I imagine I'll do, still do some solo ones, um, depending on my schedule. But, let me know if there's any topics that you'd like for me to go over or any people that you would like me to interview. I may already have those people lined up and that will be a great confirmation, but you may come up with some people, industries, you know, maybe there's some legal people that I might bring in or financial, business, personal, whatever it is, I'm really happy to explore it as long as it ties around somewhere in the organization realm.

So this is me coming back to you saying the podcast is coming back, and as always, I'm wishing you much progress, peace, purpose, and the permission to be messy. Thanks for listening.

Permission to Be Messy is Back

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