Welcome to the Normal to Nomad podcast where we share stories, thoughts, ideas, and conversations

on our journey to find balance with nature in a technologically advanced world.

My name is Barron.

And I'm Elsa.

We live together in a 13-foot scamp trailer with our dog camp in the American wilderness.

Welcome back to another podcast episode.

Today we are in the scamp,

and we're going to be talking about the virtues of simple solutions and how simplicity has improved our lives.

This is something we have been wanting to talk about for a long time, but it's almost as though

we've been making the script too complex to even talk about simplicity. It's so integral to our lives

that we have a hard time articulating how we think and how we sort of employ simplicity because it's so close to us now.

But we're going to try.

We're going to try to explain it.

Generally, people tend to resist simplicity, us included.

And we are trying to get to the bottom of why that may be.

And in doing so, we realize that it is super

easy to hide in complexity, which is sort of not intuitive. But the idea of hiding in

reasons why you can or can't do something or should or shouldn't do something is really easy

to like talk yourself into or out of something even especially if you're super analytical like

what is an example coming up with reasons as to why you couldn't start your own YouTube channel

or why you couldn't start a podcast or because I have to have this or that.

I have to have a separate YouTube channel for my new subject.

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