064- Your Guide to Becoming a Minimalist & Simplifying Your Finances w/ Joshua Becker

Journey To Launch

Jamila Souffrant

Finances, Business, Realestateinvesting, Entrepreneurship, Earlyretirement, Investing, Budgeting, Wealth

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🗓️ 26 September 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Minimalism, the practice of simplifying your life by living with fewer possessions, is a lifestyle choice that fits perfectly within the journey to Financial Independence. The concept of "quality over quantity" and "less equals more" allows you to spend and consume in ways that are in alignment with your life and financial goals.

This week’s guest is Joshua Becker, a best-selling author and the Founder and Editor of Becoming Minimalist. Joshua has become one of the leading voices in the modern simplicity movement reaching over 1 million readers every month. Through the use of his platform, Joshua inspires others to pursue their greatest passions by owning fewer possessions.

In this episode we discuss:

Joshua’s epiphany moment of clearing out his garage
How he began to make the necessary adjustments to his life
How owning less stuff leads to more time, more energy, more freedom, etc.
The differences in decluttering, organizing, de-owning, simplifying
The importance of de-owning
How to simplify your time (let go of overwhelm)
How to implement being a minimalist if you have children
How thoughtful consumption and consumerism with the idea of owning less and the FIRE movement go hand in hand

Other related blog posts/links mentioned in this episode:

The 10 Most Important Things to Simplify In Your Life
15 Clutter Busting Routines for Any Family
Don't Just Declutter De-own
Simplify Magazine
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The More of Less: Finding the Life You Want Under Everything You Own
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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to episode 64 of the Journey to Launch Podcast, your guide to becoming a minimalist and simplifying your life so you can reach your financial goals.
0:13.0	goals.
0:14.0	T-minous 10 seconds.
0:16.0	Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast
0:18.0	with your host Janela Sufrant
0:21.0	as a money expert who walks her talk, she helps brave journeyers like you, get out of debt, save, invest, and build real wealth.
0:30.0	Join her on the journey to launch to Financial Freedom in five four three two one.
0:40.0	Hey hey hey juniors. Welcome back to another episode of the Journey to
0:47.2	launch podcast. In this week's episode I'm talking to Joshua Becker. Joshua is the founder and editor of
0:55.6	becoming Minimalist.com, its website dedicated to intentional living and it was named as one of the top 10 personal development sites on the internet by Success magazine
1:09.1	He's been featured in numerous areas and I'm really excited to talk to him because he has a thoughtful
1:16.8	and intentional approach to minimalism he's one of the leading voices in the space and he really urges everyone to just think more about how
1:27.1	they live, how they acquire, how they spend and I think it's going to be a perfect tool for your toolkit on the journey to financial independence because if we can understand how we spend, how that directly relates to the things we have in our life, what we accumulate, we can
1:46.3	really change how we have our relationship with things. And so you don't have to go all the
1:52.2	way to the other side of becoming a minimalist and thinking you need nothing or you can't have nice things.
1:58.5	This is not what this episode is about and you'll hear that really soon.
2:01.5	And with Joshua, we're gonna to go through really what started him on his journey
2:06.0	to become a minimalist, become more conscious about how he consumed and he had that moment clearing out his garage where he figured that out and we're
2:15.5	going to talk about so much more I really hope you'll enjoy this episode.
2:19.6	This is episode 64 by the way so if there is something you hear you want to check up on you can
2:24.2	go to the episode show notes at journey to launch.com.
2:29.9	episode 64 and actually if you're listening to this in real time it's going to be
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