LWM 19 - Photo Organizer Meets App Developer

February 06, 2026

In this episode of Live with Mollie, I’m excited to bring you something a little different—a conversation between a photo organizer and an app developer. My guest, Andrea Simpson, is the founder of an app called My Peeps, created to help families preserve memories, stories, and relationships in a more meaningful way.

We begin, as always, with a practical reminder to save last month’s photos. I walk through my monthly workflow step-by-step, deleting unnecessary photos, transferring images to a computer, separating family memories from “photos for information,” and backing everything up using the 3-2-1 strategy. If you’ve ever wondered how to keep up with the constant flow of pictures on your phone, this section alone will give you a simple system you can repeat every month.

Then we shift into a thoughtful and inspiring conversation with Andrea. She shares the story behind creating My Peeps, how her lifelong love of documenting people led her to build an app, and why so many memory projects from videos to photo albums end up forgotten unless they’re designed to be revisited and shared.

We talk about the challenges of building technology that truly helps families, what makes memories meaningful, and why preserving stories, not just photos, is becoming more important than ever.

If you’ve ever wished there were better tools to keep your family history alive, or wondered how new apps fit into a practical photo-organizing workflow, this episode offers both inspiration and real-world perspective.

Timestamps

0:00 Welcome, Live Chat & Introduction
1:45 Why Saving Family Memories Matters
3:16 Monthly Habit: Save Last Month’s Photos
4:05 Step 1 – Deleting Unnecessary Photos
5:08 How Many Photos We Really Take in a Month
6:04 Step 2 – Transferring Photos to a Computer
7:00 Step 3 – Separating Family Photos from Other Images
8:23 Step 4 – Backing Up with the 3-2-1 Strategy
9:19 Why Monthly Photo Saving Keeps You in Control
9:56 Introducing Guest Andrea Simpson
11:21 Andrea’s Background & Love of Preserving Memories
12:19 Early Projects Interviewing People & Creating Story Videos
13:20 The Problem: Meaningful Videos and Photos Getting Lost
13:46 Why Andrea Created the My Peeps App
14:30 Designing an App to Preserve Stories & Links Between People
17:00 Discussion: The Challenges of Building Memory Tools
22:00 How Apps Fit into a Real Photo-Organizing Workflow
30:00 Audience Questions & Reflections on Saving Stories
40:00 Final Thoughts, Encouragement & Wrap-Up

Links & Resources Mentioned

The Pix Plan – Photo Organizing System https://www.thepixplan.com
Forever Cloud Storage https://www.forever.com
My Peeps App (Andrea Simpson) https://mypeepsapp.com

Submit questions for future episodes email: [email protected]

Watch Episode 19 on YouTube - https://youtube.com/live/J9hmc0coVlo

Cheers!
Mollie

Episode Transcript

We're going to give our live show just a minute here to let people find us and join the stream. I'm always, you know, excited to be here. And tonight I am extra excited because I have a special guest that I think you guys will enjoy hearing from. So we'll just, give it another, you know, 30s or so.

But if you're here, please don't hesitate to say hi in the chat or the comments and tell us where you are watching from. We love to know where people are viewing us. So far, the farthest I think I've had someone is actually, from India. So I don't know if we'll reach international tonight, but it would be great to, see where people are from.

That's not Wisconsin where it is now like 30 degrees during the day. So it's been a nice warm up. I'll just say hello to Hannah. Hannah banana, my daughter's actually watching tonight, so she gets a point because she's in Sioux Falls. So. Thank you. Yeah. I'll talk to you later. And I know other people will be joining, eventually.

And you may catch it on the, the replay. So all is good. And I want to say welcome to the new people who are joining now. Feel free to say hi in the chat and where you are watching from. And of course, you know, if you have a burning question, we'll try to leave time for that at the end of our, our specific program we're going to share tonight and we'll go from there.

So, with that being said, I think we are going to go ahead and start this show. It is, gosh, it is February 5th. We are 1/12 of the way through 2026. It's amazing how time flies by fast. It's live with Mollie and I'm here to help motivate and inspire people to save their family memories before it's too late.

And one of the things that has come across my radar frequently over the years are, different people and companies who are developing apps to help people save their stories, their photos, and more. And tonight it is going to be a photo organizer. That's me meeting an app developer, and her name is Andrea Simpson, and we'll meet her in just a few minutes.

But I have some housekeeping details we need to cover. Okay, first of all, if you are catching this on the replay and you have a question, you just leave it in the comments and we'll answer it. Either there or on a future episode. And if you're listening on Spotify, I highly encourage you to head over to our YouTube channel and see it there, because we do have visuals that kind of help, explain what we're talking about now, because I believe strongly that people need a time to work on their pictures.

This time, live with Mollie at last. Usually, you know, no more than an hour is a great time to work a little bit on your photos, even if it's just deleting the ones you know you'll never need again on your phone. So please feel free to do that. And then I want to talk about January's photos. It is time to save last month's photos.

Those of you who've been following me a long time, you know I talk about this all the time. If you can do one thing every month, it's just save last month's photos because it it helps you keep up with what you have while the rest of it's just waiting for when you have time to deal with it. So I I'm going to go through the steps and I'm going to show you what I did for January 2025.

Okay. Here we go. One. The first thing you're going to do is you are going to delete photos off your phone from January 2026, the things you know you'll never need again. The screenshots, the accidental photos. And if you're not sure is you're swiping through your photos, just leave it and move it on to the next photo. If you have repetitive photos, this is a good time to try to delete the ones you know you don't like and keep it moving.

All right, so when I searched for January 2026 on my phone, I took an unbelievable amount of photos in January, 456 photos and I grayed out some that nobody needs to see. But I needed to have four records. All right, 456 photos in one month is unworkable. All right. And we know not all of this is family memories.

[Transcript continues exactly as spoken, with timestamps and speaker labels removed, paragraphs preserved for readability. Full text retained in entirety.]

LWM 19 - Photo Organizer Meets App Developer

Timestamps

Links & Resources Mentioned

Join Our Free Trial