Speaker 1: Minimalism and money, my personal story behind this incredible lifestyle
Speaker 1: movement and how it enabled me to find myself and
Speaker 1: to rebuild myself stronger, wiser.
Speaker 2: And far more resilient than ever before.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, everyone to another episode of Sugar Mama's Fireplay. Today,
Speaker 1: I want to share with you my story, my journey
Speaker 1: my self discovery. I guess you could say around minimalism.
Speaker 1: You may not know this, but the New York Times
Speaker 1: actually quoted me around this lifestyle movement. And I still
Speaker 1: have to pinch myself when I reread this quote, but
Speaker 1: this is what they wrote about me. Canna Campbell offers
Speaker 1: a glamorous version of a life of minimalism and savings
Speaker 1: not spending. Feels more like a creative challenge connected to
Speaker 1: a sense of purpose rather than deprivation. Now, whilst this
Speaker 1: sounds incredibly glamorous and feels incredibly glamorous to be quoted
Speaker 1: by the New York Times, the truth is behind milalism,
Speaker 1: and for me, my journey behind milism actually was born
Speaker 1: out of a really scary, frightening time in my life.
Speaker 1: It was born out of when I was in the
Speaker 1: thick of post natal depression, which was triggered by post
Speaker 1: traumatic stress syndrome.
Speaker 2: I was completely lost.
Speaker 1: I was so scared, and I was so scared of myself.
Speaker 1: And at the same time, I felt this like push
Speaker 1: pull because I was also desperate to try and get
Speaker 1: out of this darkness, but all I could see was darkness.
Speaker 1: So I felt incredibly trapped, overwhelmed and scared, frightened just
Speaker 1: to a horrific place. And I owe so much of
Speaker 1: my healing to discovering minimalism. So today I want to
Speaker 1: share with you my story behind minimalism. I do have
Speaker 1: other podcast episodes around this, but I want to sort
Speaker 1: of explain to you where it began and where it
Speaker 1: took me and where it sits in my life today,
Speaker 1: because I feel like it still adds so much value.
Speaker 1: It still is my go to. It is still my
Speaker 1: anchor that keeps me grounded, mindful, and intentional at so
Speaker 1: many times in my life, and I'm incredibly grateful for
Speaker 1: the way this literally fell in my lap. So I
Speaker 1: distinctively remember discovering minimalism.
Speaker 2: I was in my.
Speaker 1: Old house and I was just so depressed. I was
Speaker 1: so scared, and I was just having just this continuous
Speaker 1: horrible flashback that goes in hand in hand with post
Speaker 1: traumatic stress syndrome. And as I stood in the kitchen,
Speaker 1: around me was just so many items. Rocco was still
Speaker 1: a newborn baby, and so I had so many gadgets
Speaker 1: and gizmos out on display that I was told I
Speaker 1: had to have when I became a mother, and I
Speaker 1: willingly purchased absolutely everything, just wanting to be the best
Speaker 1: mother I could possibly be and be organized and you
Speaker 1: have it all together, but the truth is it was
Speaker 1: far from together. And looking at all these things, which
Speaker 1: were predominantly plastic, just made me feel like I was drowning.
Speaker 1: I was absolutely suffocated. There was this loud vibration of noise, distraction,
Speaker 1: and clutter around me, and I just couldn't see through
Speaker 1: the forest, and I just couldn't see any sense of
Speaker 1: hope in my life now. In that moment, I came
Speaker 1: across something online about minimalism and the Minimalists, which I
Speaker 1: know a lot of people have discovered milism through these
Speaker 1: two incredible people, And from there I went on a
Speaker 1: bit of a binge, discovering more people who had adopted
Speaker 1: this lifestyle change where you embrace less, you get rid
Speaker 1: of anything that doesn't offer value in your life, and
Speaker 1: you live a life that is more meaningful, more connected,
Speaker 1: and therefore gives you a deeper sense of authentic happiness.
Speaker 2: And I really do.
Speaker 1: Believe it works and it helps, amongst obviously many other things,
Speaker 1: including professional help and that desire to help yourself with
Speaker 1: the backing and support of people who love you the most,
Speaker 1: such as family and friends. Now, in that exact moment
Speaker 1: I started to declutter the kitchen. I responsibly and respectfully
Speaker 1: released those items. And when I say responsibly, I'm talking
Speaker 1: about the planet. I didn't go and just dump things
Speaker 1: in the bin. I donated things. I gave things to
Speaker 1: family and friends, and of course I sold things through
Speaker 1: gum Tree.
Speaker 2: At the time, as.
Speaker 1: Each item left my home, as I released it, it
Speaker 1: felt like a layer was being peeled back, and it
Speaker 1: became addictive. My kitchen within a week looked and felt
Speaker 1: so different. There was a sense of tranquility and calm restored.
Speaker 1: It felt like a nice, safe place for me. It
Speaker 1: felt like I had some sense of control and order
Speaker 1: in my life, which for me, inside my head I
Speaker 1: had no control and no order. I could actually breathe again,
Speaker 1: and it felt really nice. It felt even a little
Speaker 1: bit liberating. So I continued on with this, and I
Speaker 1: let the idea and the concept and the practical cider
Speaker 1: millism just organically guide me.
Speaker 2: And where it took me to was my bedroom, in.
Speaker 1: Particular my wardrobe, and I found myself going through slowly
Speaker 1: and mindfully each draw, each cup, and discovering things about myself.
Speaker 1: As I went through an examined each individual item that
Speaker 1: I purchased, I discovered I had been buying things that
Speaker 1: actually didn't suit me. It was me trying to be
Speaker 1: something I wasn't or not upholding my values. And I
Speaker 1: could see things like fast fashion. I could see items
Speaker 1: that actually worked fast fashion but didn't actually match my
Speaker 1: value system of quality, or classic timeless style, or when
Speaker 1: actually my color palette. But this time, as I went
Speaker 1: through my wardrobe, I decided to do a little bit different.
Speaker 1: I wanted to learn more about this, So I went
Speaker 1: through very slowly, really examining the story behind each of
Speaker 1: those items. Where did I buy it from, what was
Speaker 1: my headspace at the time, what was going on in
Speaker 1: my life? What was the trigger for me to go
Speaker 1: and buy something? And I realized how I had lost myself,
Speaker 1: how I'd gone down this path of distractions and temptations
Speaker 1: and trying to be something that I wasn't. So I
Speaker 1: made myself really pay attention to each piece I was
Speaker 1: letting go, but also which piece in my wardrobe that
Speaker 1: I was choosing to keep. And I learned so much
Speaker 1: about myself. I learned so much about the items that
Speaker 1: I love in my wardrobe, the fabrics, how they make
Speaker 1: me feel, how they serve my life, how they serve
Speaker 1: my life style, what the style and taste that I
Speaker 1: really appreciate that I really respect, really admire. And from
Speaker 1: that it even allowed me to respect and admire other
Speaker 1: people's style and sense that were uniquely and individually their own.
Speaker 1: I could sit back and look at them from a
Speaker 1: fire and enjoy it and respect it without trying to
Speaker 1: copy them or be like them. Each item I looked at, touched, examined,
Speaker 1: allowed me to understand more about who I am and
Speaker 1: how I show up today, and how I want to
Speaker 1: show up differently in a better, moral, authentic version of myself. Now,
Speaker 1: this theory, this concept, this practical approach went into so
Speaker 1: many other areas of my life, including to a certain degree,
Speaker 1: my lifestyle and how I was to spend my time
Speaker 1: weekends started to be a little bit more different. They
Speaker 1: were spent with my true, authentic friends, my inner circle,
Speaker 1: and I realized that I actually love spending more time
Speaker 1: one on one with friends rather than with large groups
Speaker 1: of people. I also realized that I love having people
Speaker 1: in my home rather and in their home as well,
Speaker 1: rather than going to say, a loud, busy bar, or
Speaker 1: a pub.
Speaker 2: Or even a restaurant.
Speaker 1: And then I found myself taking my love of millibalism
Speaker 1: to my wallet. Now ironically, today I can say I
Speaker 1: actually don't really have a wallet, but I went through
Speaker 1: my wallet. I decluttered my wallet, old receipts, cards that
Speaker 1: I no longer really needed or used. I then decided
Speaker 1: to then go from my wallet to my bank accounts,
Speaker 1: simplifying the number of savings accounts that I had. You know,
Speaker 1: those little tiny accounts. You think, all open that up
Speaker 1: and that will be my goal to save up for
Speaker 1: this item, but it kicks off with twenty dollars and
Speaker 1: then nothing really happens. I culled absolutely everything, looking to
Speaker 1: really simplify, but also to make my whole banking system efficient.
Speaker 1: I also got rid of any old pay accounts and
Speaker 1: bill codes that weren't actually relevant in my life and
Speaker 1: I didn't actually need to use. So suddenly my Internet
Speaker 1: banking just looked so much neater. I then, of course,
Speaker 1: went through my budget, looking at duplicates, looking at ways
Speaker 1: I was wasting money on things that I didn't actually
Speaker 1: really need in my life and didn't actually add any
Speaker 1: value whatsoever. I looked at my investments, my investments in
Speaker 1: my share portfolio, the investments in my entire portfolio, what
Speaker 1: actually worked, what was actually aligned to my goals, and
Speaker 1: what was just an idea or a bit of an
Speaker 1: experiment that had kind of just flatlined or sometimes even backfired.
Speaker 2: Everything got cleaned up.
Speaker 1: Anything that didn't serve me I just got rid of.
Speaker 1: I consolidated, and I just looked at making things nice
Speaker 1: and clean and simple. That is what I wanted in
Speaker 1: my life. My superinuation count that was actually already consolidated.
Speaker 1: But I looked at the underlying investments, what tweaks and
Speaker 1: changes did I need to make. And a classic example
Speaker 1: of this was leaning towards more listed investment companies and ETFs.
Speaker 1: Not having to burden myself with the stress and time
Speaker 1: of having to constantly pick individual stocks my share portfolio
Speaker 1: and my superannuation investment portfolio, and of course going through
Speaker 1: my insurances, I remember discovering that I had a couple
Speaker 1: of really minor, insignificant, to be honest, waste of value
Speaker 1: insurance policies that were accidental policies for accident death policies
Speaker 1: that attached to a credit card. I didn't actually need
Speaker 1: that because I had sufficient life cover. And no, that's
Speaker 1: not advice to go and do that, but for me,
Speaker 1: these were duplicates. They weren't costing huge amounts of money,
Speaker 1: something like six dollars a month, but it was a
Speaker 1: duplicate of something I didn't actually need and I had
Speaker 1: far better cover that served me elsewhere. So suddenly my
Speaker 1: finances felt lighter. I had so much more clarity, and
Speaker 1: my wallet suddenly became lighter as well. I didn't have
Speaker 1: just stuff in that I just didn't need, and I
Speaker 1: was able to downgrade to a much smaller wallet as well.
Speaker 1: And then of course it then led to my goals,
Speaker 1: my financial goals, that is, in my life, the goals
Speaker 1: that I was working on, And instead of having a
Speaker 1: long list of different goals for different things, I started
Speaker 1: to condense and make these goals concise, learning to rewrite
Speaker 1: my goals in a way that incorporated a couple of
Speaker 1: goals into one simple sentence, and it just suddenly felt different.
Speaker 1: It felt more me, it felt more empowering, and it
Speaker 1: felt far more exciting. I wanted to work on myself.
Speaker 1: I wanted to work on my personal growth. I wanted
Speaker 1: to work on finding my authentic self, even if I
Speaker 1: never actually had found it in the first place. I
Speaker 1: was determined to find myself again amongst all the distractions
Speaker 1: and all the heavy load of toxic things that were
Speaker 1: going on in my life at the time and had
Speaker 1: been bubbling away and boiling in the background that just
Speaker 1: needed to be dealt with and cleaned up and fixed
Speaker 1: for the final times that it no longer held me
Speaker 1: back in life. Now I can proudly say that minimalism
Speaker 1: gave me so much richness and wealth in my life.
Speaker 1: Minimalism gave me back time. I didn't have to spend
Speaker 1: time looking after things, running things to get fixed, replacing
Speaker 1: things all the time because I realized they didn't need
Speaker 1: all those things. It also gave me back so much
Speaker 1: more energy because I wasn't wasting any time, and with
Speaker 1: less things in my life, I had less distractions, less temptations,
Speaker 1: less noise. It just gave me a greater sense of purpose.
Speaker 1: And the space was just liberating and gave me even
Speaker 1: more lightness and energy and focus. You know, my brain
Speaker 1: finally had perspective again, which I think for me personally,
Speaker 1: when I was going through such a deep, dark, scary depression,
Speaker 1: I had no perspective. I couldn't see through the fog,
Speaker 1: the thickness. And when I got rid of the things
Speaker 1: in my life that weren't serving me, I was able
Speaker 1: to step back and see some light. Is that classic
Speaker 1: saying you can't read the label when you're inside the jar.
Speaker 1: Stepping out of the jar through millimism allowed me to
Speaker 1: be able to read the label and to make the
Speaker 1: adjustments in my life. And every time a little bit
Speaker 1: of lightness appeared, or a layer came back, or a
Speaker 1: space was opened up in my life, both physically and mentally,
Speaker 1: I kept going. I felt inspired to just allow this
Speaker 1: to just keep guiding me, almost like a trail. I
Speaker 1: was like a child picking up, you know, Easter eggs.
Speaker 1: I saw an Easter egg, picked it up, loved it,
Speaker 1: then saw another Easter egg and picked it up and
Speaker 1: put it in my basket, and before I knew it,
Speaker 1: I was actually starting to feel mentally better, mentally stronger,
Speaker 1: and of course, with the backing of professional help along
Speaker 1: the way, which I'm very open about sharing and ever
Speaker 1: so slowly, not only did I get that perspective back again,
Speaker 1: I actually found my motivation. And this for me was
Speaker 1: really important because I'm someone who is a highly motivated person.
Speaker 1: I am very easily inspired. I get a rush of
Speaker 1: energy and excitement to sink my teeth on something that
Speaker 1: ignites when I discover something that ignites within me. And
Speaker 1: because I had been drowning and so much stuff, I
Speaker 1: didn't have anything inside me that could possibly be ignited.
Speaker 1: So when my motivation returned, I knew that this was
Speaker 1: working and that actually I was going to be able
Speaker 1: to heal myself, even though it would take time. I
Speaker 1: had to be gentle with myself, learned to love myself
Speaker 1: along the way, but I could actually see myself being
Speaker 1: able to stand on my own two feet again, which
Speaker 1: was so important for me to be able.
Speaker 2: To keep going.
Speaker 1: And of course, as I declutted my life and started
Speaker 1: to release things, not just release things without paying attention,
Speaker 1: release things and gain valuable insights and wisdom about where
Speaker 1: I went wrong in the past, so that I could
Speaker 1: then redirect the way that I spent money and even
Speaker 1: invested money, so that it was done in a way
Speaker 1: that was actually intentional. It matched my goals, it matched
Speaker 1: my value system, It felt more me, and there was
Speaker 1: something I desperately needed, so the financial stress really started
Speaker 1: to subside in my life. It's a bit of a
Speaker 1: hard thing with depression and mental health is sometimes were
Speaker 1: depressed because of a lack of money or not understanding
Speaker 1: where we stand financially, so you can veryly get trapped.
Speaker 1: But mineralism added me to move those clouds so I
Speaker 1: could see what was going on and then of course
Speaker 1: do the necessary work to not necessarily fix my finances
Speaker 1: because there wasn't anything fundamentally wrong, but to I guess,
Speaker 1: create the environment in my head, in my personal physical finances,
Speaker 1: even in a mental capacity, so that I could then
Speaker 1: get back on with that financial improvement and financial health.
Speaker 1: As someone said to me the other day, it's actually
Speaker 1: really about financial fitness when it comes to looking after
Speaker 1: your money, not necessarily financial wellbeing. So where am I
Speaker 1: today with my journey around minimalism, Well, it's definitely evolved.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: When I fell into millism, Roco was a newborn baby
Speaker 1: and he's going to be turning twelve in late June.
Speaker 1: So I have definitely still lived a life of minimalism.
Speaker 1: It is my anchor, It is my go to whenever
Speaker 1: I'm feeling stressed or overwhelmed or even exhausted. Coming back
Speaker 1: and re exploring and reconnecting with what minimalism means to
Speaker 1: me is how I always quickly find myself again and
Speaker 1: I bounce back on my feet in a very efficient way.
Speaker 1: I have had to let myself, I guess, release the
Speaker 1: sense of control that comes with minism, because sometimes that
Speaker 1: can be the dark side of minialism. It can often
Speaker 1: be really sense of control and aggression to a certain degree.
Speaker 1: And having three children and Tom is far from a minimalist,
Speaker 1: I've had to learn to make peace with what I
Speaker 1: can control and what I can't, and where I can
Speaker 1: inspire my children, even Tom, to see that the beautiful
Speaker 1: value of minialism is something I've had to really learn,
Speaker 1: because you can't force minimalism upon anyone, even if you
Speaker 1: think it's the best thing in the world. You can't
Speaker 1: dictate or demand other people live a life like that. However,
Speaker 1: what I have learned is I can lead by example,
Speaker 1: and I can subtly and gently inspire my family members
Speaker 1: in my home and see if it rubs off on them.
Speaker 1: But at no times do I ever dictate or control.
Speaker 1: I have learned to let go of certain areas, and
Speaker 1: I think, as I mentioned just a second ago, that
Speaker 1: sometimes can be a bit of a toxic side of minimalism.
Speaker 1: The underlying can control that you can build. However, there
Speaker 1: are definitely areas in my life where I still live
Speaker 1: a life of millalism, and I have to say that
Speaker 1: is number one.
Speaker 2: Furnishings. I have really.
Speaker 1: Been careful not to fill my home with lots of furniture,
Speaker 1: lots of decorative pieces, because it's expensive. But more importantly,
Speaker 1: it adds up being clutter. It makes it harder to
Speaker 1: clean my home. It makes it takes so much longer
Speaker 1: to clean my home. Also, when it comes to food,
Speaker 1: I only buy what we need. Yes, that means frustratingly
Speaker 1: more trips to the supermarket, but it means far less waste.
Speaker 1: We eat up everything we've got before I head to
Speaker 1: the supermarket. And I also have found that since incorporating
Speaker 1: mellals in my life, I eat better, I eat more
Speaker 1: whole foods, I cook meals that are simple, and because
Speaker 1: of that, I'm less tempted to go out and spend
Speaker 1: money on meals that have been pre prepared and often
Speaker 1: quite unhealthy.
Speaker 2: But the one area that has stuck with me.
Speaker 1: With Millalism is in my finances. You see, my goals
Speaker 1: have still remained to be simple, effective and efficient. My investments,
Speaker 1: both in my investment portfolio and my superannuation portfolio, still remain.
Speaker 2: In a minimistic way.
Speaker 1: I have a strong bias towards listed investment companies and ETFs.
Speaker 1: I value what it gives me that I'm not stuck
Speaker 1: in front of a computer screen or reading long research
Speaker 1: reports trying to work out whether I should buy that
Speaker 1: particular stock, and is now the right time to buy
Speaker 1: this stock? And how much money should I be putting
Speaker 1: into that particular stock. That is what overwhelming consumed me
Speaker 1: and I am either have in a financial planet that
Speaker 1: does for a living, but when it came to my
Speaker 1: own personal finances, I wanted to be able to reduce
Speaker 1: the stress and to free up my time for the
Speaker 1: more important things, which is obviously helping other people with
Speaker 1: their finances. And finally, of course the minimalism and my
Speaker 1: finances has definitely stayed true to our budget, our family budget.
Speaker 1: When I started minimalism, I was on the cast of
Speaker 1: becoming a single mother, and obviously today we have a
Speaker 1: family budget. But again we have kept our budgets pretty minimal.
Speaker 1: There is nothing there that we don't value. There is
Speaker 1: nothing there that we see as a waste, and because
Speaker 1: we review it on a regular basis, we are right
Speaker 1: on top of that way, so we can catch it
Speaker 1: quickly and let it go.
Speaker 2: We also don't beat ourselves up.
Speaker 1: When natural temptation distractions come away, which is another toxic side.
Speaker 1: I think of minimalism where you can beat yourself up
Speaker 1: for letting old habits die hard. By regularly checking in
Speaker 1: on yourself as to how your journey with minimalism is
Speaker 1: going is something I highly recommend and I will share
Speaker 1: with you if you want to start applying this in
Speaker 1: your life. In just one second, so as I get
Speaker 1: close to wrapping up today's episode, I want to just
Speaker 1: quickly summarize how minimalism has added value in my life
Speaker 1: from a financial point of view. So number one clarity,
Speaker 1: I know exactly where we stand financially.
Speaker 2: Because I have gotten.
Speaker 1: Rid of the excess, the clutter, the noise, the distractions,
Speaker 1: the temptations. From that, I can then see what is
Speaker 1: a priority in our life. If our mortgage isn't reducing
Speaker 1: like I would normally like it to be, I can
Speaker 1: quickly see that because I have that clarity. And because
Speaker 1: I have that clarity, I can see what is actually
Speaker 1: working in our lives. We're sticking to our budget, We're
Speaker 1: sticking to our budget through our pay cycles. I can
Speaker 1: also then to see what's not working, you know, looking
Speaker 1: at our insurance prems that have gone up, I can
Speaker 1: quickly go in and check do we have the right
Speaker 1: amount of cover, perhaps we're over insured, or perhaps changes
Speaker 1: we can make. I have that clarity allows me to
Speaker 1: see what to get onto and what to get on quickly.
Speaker 1: But best of all, because I have clarity, I can
Speaker 1: see how we are progressing. How are we progressing towards
Speaker 1: those clear, exciting, empowering goals that we have in our lives.
Speaker 1: And that sense of progression is really important because it
Speaker 1: gives me a sense of relief, which I'll come to
Speaker 1: in a second as well. The second benefit of minimism
Speaker 1: and money in My life is purpose because our goals
Speaker 1: are really simple, they have been combined, and they are concise.
Speaker 1: They really inspire us. They fuel us with energy and motivation,
Speaker 1: as well as the required determination and commitment to help
Speaker 1: make these happen. I don't live in lalla land. I'm
Speaker 1: not delirious. I don't live in a fantasy land. I
Speaker 1: think we're going to create financial freedom overnight. I know
Speaker 1: where we stand financially, I know exactly how long it's
Speaker 1: going to take us to get there. And because of
Speaker 1: that clarity and that understanding as to what we're working on,
Speaker 1: what's working, what's not, it's given me a huge sense
Speaker 1: of purpose, which I love to then fuel with everyone
Speaker 1: else around me. As I say, energy is contagious, I
Speaker 1: hope you're catching mine. And then, as I said I
Speaker 1: mentioned relief, I can see all the hard work coming
Speaker 1: from seeing that progress. I can see that the hard
Speaker 1: work is paying off. I can see that the sacrifices
Speaker 1: are worth it. And yes, of course it feels painfully
Speaker 1: slow at times, and that is often because it is
Speaker 1: painfully slow. But I know that each bit of progress
Speaker 1: is building my mental and financial fitness and resilience. So
Speaker 1: when setbacks happen, which happened in my life. I promise
Speaker 1: you because I have been able to make progress in
Speaker 1: the past, and I know that progress because I've got
Speaker 1: that clarity. I know that if we have a setback
Speaker 1: or a challenge, or a block or an obstacle, I
Speaker 1: know that I can do it again because I've done
Speaker 1: it before. And that is really important. Now, if you're
Speaker 1: listening to this and go okay, I need to learn
Speaker 1: more about minimalism, and I really want to look applying
Speaker 1: minialism in my financial life for a more efficiency, for
Speaker 1: more clarity, for more purpose, and to be able to
Speaker 1: gain that relief, that financial relief that can is talking
Speaker 1: about right now. This is where I recommend you start.
Speaker 1: Number one is really lean into where you feel inspired
Speaker 1: to just kick off. For me, it was my kitchen,
Speaker 1: but if you it might be your wardrobe, or it
Speaker 1: might be something like your car. Go through and start
Speaker 1: physically decluttering. Look at each item, but don't just mindlessly
Speaker 1: discard items, mindfully release them. Of course, always uphold the planets.
Speaker 1: This is not about throwing a whole pile of stuff
Speaker 1: in the bin and ending up in landfill.
Speaker 2: Absolutely not. You want to make sure that minialism.
Speaker 1: Changes you for your higher good and with long term
Speaker 1: growth and development. So as you look at something that
Speaker 1: is not serving you purpose, stop question yourself. Why did
Speaker 1: I buy this? What was the catalyst who recommended this?
Speaker 1: What is it that I don't like about this? How
Speaker 1: am I going to stop myself falling into this trap?
Speaker 2: Again?
Speaker 1: Pay attention and be intentional. And the same goes when
Speaker 1: you discos other things that you want to keep in
Speaker 1: your life. What is it that I love about this?
Speaker 1: Why would I never ever get rid of this? Why
Speaker 1: is it so special? What's the story behind it? How
Speaker 1: am I going to take better care of it so
Speaker 1: that I can keep it in my life? These are
Speaker 1: the nuggets of gold that will help make your journey
Speaker 1: of millimism richer and fuel your personal growth and development,
Speaker 1: as well as help find deeper, more authentic happiness. Now
Speaker 1: start small, start simple, and as I said, you could
Speaker 1: start with your wardrobe, your kitchen, or maybe something even
Speaker 1: smaller like one draw or one cupboard. But as you
Speaker 1: are going, notice how you're feeling, Notice what your body
Speaker 1: and your mind and your soul is trying to tell you,
Speaker 1: and think about where you want to go next, what
Speaker 1: other area do you want to tackle in your life?
Speaker 1: As I said, I started in my kitchen, and then
Speaker 1: I felt a calling to my wardrobe, and then I
Speaker 1: felt a calling from my wardrobe to my wallet, and
Speaker 1: then my personal finances and then my lifestyle.
Speaker 2: Allow it to.
Speaker 1: Organically take you, to lead you, to guide you, and
Speaker 1: I promise you this you will see a profound change
Speaker 1: in both your home, your headspace, and your health, which
Speaker 1: of course includes your financial health.
Speaker 2: So there you have it.
Speaker 1: My story behind how and why I discovered millalism and
Speaker 1: why it is so important to me today just as
Speaker 1: much as when I first lent into this incredible lifestyle movement.
Speaker 1: Whilst at times I naturally get distracted like any other
Speaker 1: normal person, I always come back to minimalism as my anchor,
Speaker 1: like a trusted friend. It always helps ground me, recalibrate me,
Speaker 1: and reset me so I can find myself again and
Speaker 1: get back on track with whatever I'm working on in
Speaker 1: my life. So please let me know if you have
Speaker 1: any questions at all about minalism or about minimalism and money.
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Speaker 1: All right, thank you so much for listening to this
Speaker 1: person story of mine. If anyone is listening to this
Speaker 1: and it's in a dark space, please always put your
Speaker 1: hand up and ask for help, but at the same time,
Speaker 1: also learn to help yourself so that you can experience
Speaker 1: your own beautiful growth, development and adventure ahead of you
Speaker 1: where you learn so much about yourself and learn that
Speaker 1: the darkness can actually help you find a unique, beauty
Speaker 1: and sacred space within yourself.
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