What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist

podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to

rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take

back your motherhood

and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show.

Hey there, welcome back to the show. I'm your host, Katie Wells, and I have a great episode

for you. Today, I have the absolute honor to interview someone I just

admire. He has made an impact on my life in millions of others. His name is Greg McEwen.

If you don't know Greg, which, yep, by the way, we're on a first name basis now.

Greg is a leadership strategist and author of the book Essentialism and also his brand new

book, which came out earlier this week, called Effortless. Greg also hosts the What's Essential

podcast. So do yourself a favor and go subscribe right now. I listen to it all the time. When I first

read Essentialism back in 2019, it gave me the perspective

shifts that I needed to propel me deeper toward a more purposeful life. And what I love about

essentialism is that it's not about how to get more things done, how to pack more into your

schedule and find some impossible

balance, like doing it all. Instead, it's much more about how to get the right things done.

And it also doesn't mean doing less for the sake of doing less. It's about making the wisest

possible investment of your time and energy in order to operate

at your highest point of contribution by doing only what is essential. And so in today's

episode, we're going to be diving into why essentialism is needed now, more than ever,

how to decide what is essential, and especially when we're living in survival mode,

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