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.

I have two words for you, friend, minimalist prepper. Kind of sounds like an oxymoron, right?

I am totally stoked to talk about this topic today. Why?

Because it's never really talked about. And I think, you know, most people, when they think of both

minimalist and preppers, we tend to think for both of these types of people that come to mind,

these visuals that come to mind, these visuals that come to mind

of one extreme end of the spectrum. Maybe if you think of someone who considers himself a prepper,

you might think of someone who has like a bunker or they live off the grid or they have three

years worth of food or they have a getaway vehicle and are ready for any possible situation,

including knocking on wood,

you know, hopefully this doesn't happen, those zombie apocalypsees, right? And oh, by the way,

Andrew, who's my guest on the show today, my wonderful husband, he and I are going to be

talking about maybe some heavier topics aligned with prepping. So this is a great episode

to put some earbuds in for or tune in while the kids are a slate.

All right. And so same thing goes for minimalist, right? If you think of someone who's a

minimalist, although hopefully your definitions evolved and changed over time, most people,

their knee-jerk reaction, unless they know much about minimalism. They think of one end,

one extreme end of the spectrum,

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