You're listening to episode 19 of the Sustainable Minimalists podcast.

You are listening to the Sustainable Minimalists podcast, a show about living simply and

sustainably with your family. Here's your host, Stephanie Safarian.

Hello there and welcome back.

Today I am bringing you an interview

with a tiny home dweller and an advocate of the tiny home movement.

By definition, a tiny home is a home that is no bigger than 400 square feet.

It sounds a little crazy, right?

By now, you've probably realized that the tiny home movement is not going away.

In fact, it's a trend that's rapidly catching on with the young-ins of Generation Z, with millennials, and even with baby boomers looking

to retire and downsize.

Now I love H.G. TV and it is my guilty pleasure. I was first

introduced to the concept of Tiny Homes through H.G. T.v. franchise Tiny House Hunters.

I first watched the show in both equal parts, amazement and horror.

The amazement came from the fact that I just couldn't

understand the logistics behind multiple people living in such close quarters.

The horror came from the fact that something intuitively just didn't feel right because the families on the show were going directly against the life script their're quote-unquote supposed to follow.

Since first watching Tiny House Hunters, I've really examined my reluctance about Tiny Home

Living and I've actually made a complete

turnaround with my opinions. Homeownership and the American Dream are synonymous, right? Home ownership represents success, it

represents putting down roots, and there's something metaphorically contradictory about living in a home with wheels, right?

Home is supposed to provide stability and the literal and figurative foundation of the American

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