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Speaker 1: Minimalism and money, my personal story behind this incredible lifestyle

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Speaker 1: movement and how it enabled me to find myself and

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Speaker 1: to rebuild myself stronger, wiser.

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Speaker 2: And far more resilient than ever before.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, everyone to another episode of Sugar Mama's Fireplay. Today,

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Speaker 1: I want to share with you my story, my journey

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Speaker 1: my self discovery. I guess you could say around minimalism.

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Speaker 1: You may not know this, but the New York Times

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Speaker 1: actually quoted me around this lifestyle movement. And I still

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Speaker 1: have to pinch myself when I reread this quote, but

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Speaker 1: this is what they wrote about me. Canna Campbell offers

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Speaker 1: a glamorous version of a life of minimalism and savings

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Speaker 1: not spending. Feels more like a creative challenge connected to

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Speaker 1: a sense of purpose rather than deprivation. Now, whilst this

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Speaker 1: by the New York Times, the truth is behind milalism,

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Speaker 1: and for me, my journey behind milism actually was born

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Speaker 1: out of a really scary, frightening time in my life.

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Speaker 1: It was born out of when I was in the

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Speaker 1: thick of post natal depression, which was triggered by post

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Speaker 1: traumatic stress syndrome.

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Speaker 2: I was completely lost.

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Speaker 1: I was so scared, and I was so scared of myself.

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Speaker 1: And at the same time, I felt this like push

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Speaker 1: out of this darkness, but all I could see was darkness.

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Speaker 1: So I felt incredibly trapped, overwhelmed and scared, frightened just

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Speaker 1: to a horrific place. And I owe so much of

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Speaker 1: my healing to discovering minimalism. So today I want to

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Speaker 1: share with you my story behind minimalism. I do have

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Speaker 1: other podcast episodes around this, but I want to sort

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Speaker 1: of explain to you where it began and where it

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Speaker 1: took me and where it sits in my life today,

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Speaker 1: because I feel like it still adds so much value.

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Speaker 1: It still is my go to. It is still my

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Speaker 1: many times in my life, and I'm incredibly grateful for

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Speaker 1: the way this literally fell in my lap. So I

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Speaker 1: horrible flashback that goes in hand in hand with post

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Speaker 1: I was absolutely suffocated. There was this loud vibration of noise, distraction,

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Speaker 1: hope in my life now. In that moment, I came

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Speaker 1: across something online about minimalism and the Minimalists, which I

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Speaker 1: two incredible people, And from there I went on a

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Speaker 1: bit of a binge, discovering more people who had adopted

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Speaker 2: And I really do.

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Speaker 1: Believe it works and it helps, amongst obviously many other things,

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Speaker 1: including professional help and that desire to help yourself with

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Speaker 1: Each item left my home, as I released it, it

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Speaker 2: And where it took me to was my bedroom, in.

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Speaker 1: As I went through an examined each individual item that

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Speaker 1: Anything that didn't serve me I just got rid of.

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Speaker 1: Number one is really lean into where you feel inspired

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Speaker 1: your life. What is it that I love about this?

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Speaker 1: Why would I never ever get rid of this? Why

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Speaker 1: is it so special? What's the story behind it? How

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Speaker 1: that I can keep it in my life? These are

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Speaker 1: the nuggets of gold that will help make your journey

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Speaker 1: of millimism richer and fuel your personal growth and development,

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Speaker 1: as well as help find deeper, more authentic happiness. Now

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Speaker 1: start small, start simple, and as I said, you could

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Speaker 1: start with your wardrobe, your kitchen, or maybe something even

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Speaker 1: smaller like one draw or one cupboard. But as you

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Speaker 1: are going, notice how you're feeling, Notice what your body

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Speaker 1: and your mind and your soul is trying to tell you,

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Speaker 1: and think about where you want to go next, what

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Speaker 1: other area do you want to tackle in your life?

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Speaker 1: As I said, I started in my kitchen, and then

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Speaker 1: I felt a calling to my wardrobe, and then I

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Speaker 1: felt a calling from my wardrobe to my wallet, and

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Speaker 2: Allow it to.

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Speaker 1: Organically take you, to lead you, to guide you, and

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Speaker 1: I promise you this you will see a profound change

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Speaker 1: in both your home, your headspace, and your health, which

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Speaker 1: of course includes your financial health.

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Speaker 2: So there you have it.

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Speaker 1: My story behind how and why I discovered millalism and

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Speaker 1: why it is so important to me today just as

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Speaker 1: much as when I first lent into this incredible lifestyle movement.

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Speaker 1: Whilst at times I naturally get distracted like any other

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Speaker 1: normal person, I always come back to minimalism as my anchor,

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Speaker 1: like a trusted friend. It always helps ground me, recalibrate me,

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Speaker 1: and reset me so I can find myself again and

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Speaker 1: get back on track with whatever I'm working on in

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Speaker 1: my life. So please let me know if you have

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Speaker 1: any questions at all about minalism or about minimalism and money.

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Speaker 1: Feel free to send any of your questions to me

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Speaker 1: on Instagram, or of course, please leave a rating and

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Speaker 1: review and I'll come back to you as soon as possible,

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Speaker 1: and if you have any particular topic requests, please don't

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Speaker 1: be shy. Feel free to send me a message or again,

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Speaker 1: as I said, put them in their ratings and review.

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Speaker 1: All right, thank you so much for listening to this

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Speaker 1: person story of mine. If anyone is listening to this

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Speaker 1: and it's in a dark space, please always put your

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Speaker 1: hand up and ask for help, but at the same time,

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Speaker 1: also learn to help yourself so that you can experience

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Speaker 1: your own beautiful growth, development and adventure ahead of you

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Speaker 1: where you learn so much about yourself and learn that

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Speaker 1: the darkness can actually help you find a unique, beauty

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Speaker 1: and sacred space within yourself.

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Speaker 2: Thank you everyone. This is sugar Mamma's Fire Belie