132: Ryan Nicodemus - The Minimalists • Gift Giving... The Healthy Way • Give Yourself A Pay Raise By Spending Less
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2016
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Nicodemus is the more social half of The Minimalists and his deepest passion is mentoring other people.
After making it in the corporate world, he was living the American Dream... until he got laid off. This ended up being one of the best things that ever happened to Ryan.
A packing party in 2010 began his minimalist journey.
The Minimalists help people live more meaningful lives with less through their website, books, podcast, and documentary. They've been featured on: ABC, New York Times, TIME, and many more.
In this episode, we discuss:
- What is minimalism?
- Ryan's journey into the minimalist lifestyle
- Getting rid of your stuff doesn't make you happy, automatically
- The origin story of The Minimalists
- Your identity can get wrapped up in your stuff
- The just incase rule
- The memories are not in things, they are inside of us
- Holding on to too much stuff dilutes the meaning of everything
- Why your life may be better with less stuff
- Give yourself a pay raise by spending less
- The more debt we have, the less time we have
- Living off a barista's salary
- The average American sees around 5000 advertisements a day
- Gift giving... the healthy way
- Presence is the best present
- Living more minimalistic... how to get started
- Deciding what to keep and what to part with
- The dangerous side of organizing
- Love people and use things because the opposite never works
- The importance of daily exercise
- Spending your time with the right people
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| 0:00.0 | And the Hello and |
| 0:15.0 | welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 132. |
| 0:19.0 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman |
| 0:21.0 | and we are here each and every week to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:25.0 | Today our featured guest is Ryan Nicodemus. |
| 0:27.6 | He is the more social half of the minimalist duo and his deepest passion is mentoring other people. |
| 0:34.0 | After making it in the corporate world, he was living the American dream until he got laid off. |
| 0:39.9 | This ended up being one of the best things that ever happened to Ryan. A packing |
| 0:43.7 | party in 2010 began his minimalist journey which you're going to learn to what a |
| 0:47.8 | packing party is in today's show. The minimalist helped people live more meaningful |
| 0:52.2 | lives with less through their website, their books, |
| 0:55.2 | podcast, and their documentary. They've been featured on ABC, New York Times, Time, |
| 1:01.8 | and so many more. |
| 1:03.5 | We dive so deep into minimalism with Ryan, you guys are going to get a ton out of this. |
| 1:08.4 | And this has truly been perfect timing for Jesse and I because we've really been starting to declutter and reduce our stuff. |
| 1:16.6 | So if you've been following along in our group and even seen some of our pictures on Instagram |
| 1:20.3 | recently, you've seen that Jesse and I are in detox mode right now getting rid of the |
| 1:24.8 | extra it feels so good we're so excited for you guys to hear this episode so |
| 1:29.3 | before we get into the highlights of what we talk about today with Ryan I am going to give a |
| 1:33.4 | shout out to our show sponsor core chair and I'm excited to announce that today |
| 1:39.4 | and tomorrow only December 13th and 14th you have the chance to get 25% off your core chair. |
| 1:47.0 | So if you haven't gotten yourself a core chair, now is your |
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