Welcome to UnFuck Your Brain. The only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain

and get what you want in life.

And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach,

Kara Loyenthyle.

Hello my chickens, how are you? I am amusing myself with the title of this

podcast because it's so extra kind of. But that's exactly what I want to talk to you about today on the

podcast because I think that in the life coaching and influencer and online

lifestyle worlds which are obviously and minimalism. And you know I have given it a try. I've tried being a minimalist, but the

truth is I'm not a minimalist and I don't think that's a problem. So today I want to

talk about some of the pitfalls that I see with minimalism and why it's worth

experimenting with embracing maximalism instead. And even if you feel like you're an avowed

minimalist, I want you to listen to this episode because it's always useful to understand why and how we're choosing something and see what results we're getting.

So let's start with minimalism and then I'll explain what

maximalism is. I will be totally transparent. I just kind of made that word up.

It may exist as a whole movement that I just don't even know about. It's possible.

I did not research it because I just want to use it the way that I just don't even know about. It's possible. I did not research it because I just want to use it the way that I am using it in this episode.

So let's start with minimalism. What is minimalism?

Minimalism actually started as an art movement in post World War II America,

so it has a term if they're like art historians listening to this,

but the way that I'm talking about it, today we use the term to mean kind of anything that is

stripped down to the essentials. All right and minimalism is a lifestyle which again is a

super loose term can mean anything from like a simplified aesthetic, you know, of like no clutter and

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