If you focus on what you lack you lose what you have.

If you focus on what you have you lose what you lack.

Essentialists, I'm Greg McEwen and welcome to the

Essentialism Podcast. This is it, the very first episode and I am so

thrilled about that, to be able to come directly to you to share a message that I think can be inspiring but also practical in helping you to

live an essentialist lifestyle.

If you don't know about essentialism, there's no better place to start than checking out my book.

Essentialism for discipline pursuit of less.

Understanding what essentialism is is looking at the title. It's the word essential. It's to look at your life

through the lens of that single criteria. Is this essential? And if it's not, you at least question it and maybe eliminate it altogether.

For this first episode, I asked my followers on Twitter and LinkedIn who I should have a conversation with. I also wanted to talk with someone

who has really had an impact on my life. So that's why I was absolutely delighted that when I asked all of you on social media, who should I interview the most frequent answer, the most popular answer, was my wife Anna.

A particular thanks to Justin Strong who made this suggestion,

also Jason Moore at J.S. Moore outdoors, and the many people that then participated in that

conversation as well supporting it. People wanted to hear from Anna and I'm

delighted with that because she's the most important person to me. She epitomizes

everything that's essential to me. And also as you will see, she's absolutely

key to the birth of essentialism. Without her, there wouldn't be the book and there wouldn't be this podcast.

There couldn't be this podcast.

So I'm going to be interviewing Anna as we take you to the very beginning, the birth of essentialism, and also discuss how

essentialism has shaped and continues to shape our everyday lives and our

everyday decisions. So by all means, subscribe to the podcast and leave a review.

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