070- Tiny Home Living w/ Jewel Pearson & Why You Don't Have To Give Up Luxury To Go Tiny
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Simplicity and the concept of 'less is more' can be beneficial in much more than finance. The new tiny home movement has proved to be a great new option for a lot of families that are looking to live a simpler, more abundant life. This week's guest, Jewel Pearson, is not only a tiny homeowner but she is also an advocate and community leader that shares her tiny living experiences and assists others in achieving their tiny living dreams.
Over the course of a decade, Jewel worked toward downsizing her life and in 2015 she built the tiny home of her dreams in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her 360 sq ft home has been featured on HGTV's shows "Tiny House, Big Living" and "How Are They Now" and has been featured in several other media outlets. As a proud supporter of tiny living and the simpler lifestyle that it offers, she provides support through her consulting services and workshops that she teaches around the country. Jewel has also founded the Tiny House Trailblazers; a duo collaboration of powerful and uniquely talented women of color who together are a strong representation and voice for diversity and inclusion within the tiny house movement.
In this episode we discuss:
- Why everyone should redefine or rather choose for themselves what tiny living means
- The misconception some people have that living in a tiny home means you sacrifice quality, luxury, and design & why tiny living does not mean "small living"
- How downsizing and living this life helped Jewel to live her life fully and abundantly
- What Jewel's life was like before the tiny home and what prompted the change
- The mental and physical steps it took to actually make the changes she needed to move into her home
- Tiny living with a family
- How to start the tiny living process
- Jewel's mission to bring the tiny home movement to more people of color and some of the racism she has experienced in the community
- The different tiny home options
- Factors to consider in making the transition to tiny home living
- Range in cost for tiny homes?
- Jewel's thoughts on the FIRE (Financially Independent, Retire Early) movement
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to episode 70 of the Journey to Launch Podcast. Tiny Home Living with |
| 0:06.7 | Jewel Pearson and why you don't have to give up luxury to go tiny. |
| 0:11.4 | T-minous 10 seconds. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast with your host Jamila Sufrant, as a muddy expert who walks her talk. |
| 0:21.5 | She helps brave journeyers like you, get out of debt, save, invest, and build real well. |
| 0:28.0 | Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in... |
| 0:32.0 | Five, four, three... to financial freedom in five four three two one |
| 0:38.7 | hey hey journeys welcome back to another episode of the Journey to Launch |
| 0:45.8 | Podcast. I'm super excited to have you tuning in with me, joining me, getting in |
| 0:50.8 | this rocket. We're in this rocket together. We're blasting off to |
| 0:54.4 | financial freedom to living our best lives and the way I'm doing that is I'm |
| 0:59.0 | helping you. I'm bringing you inspiration, information, tools, tips, things that help you feel like one, you can |
| 1:07.0 | accomplish all your financial goals and life goals. Let's be clear, I know this is |
| 1:11.5 | based out of finances mostly like I'm talking about |
| 1:14.4 | money but really my ultimate goal is for you to live your best life. I want to |
| 1:19.1 | live my best life. We all want to live our best lives, have the option to do the things we love. |
| 1:24.8 | So whether that's working in a 9 to 5, because that brings you joy and you're doing good work, |
| 1:29.9 | or whether that's you starting your own business and or traveling and or having kids and or having kids and being a stay-at-home mom or dad. |
| 1:36.8 | I really don't actually care what you intend to do with your life as long as you're enjoying |
| 1:40.8 | it and you feel like you're living it fully. But the way that we do that is by |
| 1:45.2 | optimizing our finances, understanding our money, realizing how we can use it to our benefit to give us |
| 1:52.4 | the life we want is what it's all about and |
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