Let's just start off, introduce yourselves to me. Tell me about you.

Okay, so we are Lisa and Brigori Haritidis. We are in our mid-30s and early 40s.

We live in Finland and actually we come from Russia but we moved to Finland about five years ago.

We used to live in St. Petersburg, quite a big city in

Russia, five million city and we moved to a smaller town in Finland to be closer

to nature and also we have a six year old son. His name is

Nikita. He will be going to school this August. We are a family of three.

And I want to add that Gregotti works in city marketing and I'm currently staying at home with our son and we are actually an family of immigrants, so we have a bit of our own set of challenges here.

And we were very excited to have this opportunity to talk to you and to understand better where do we move forward from where we are now

For those that don't know tell us how did we get to this moment? Well, actually, I first came across your book, I think five years ago in Russia,

when it was first translated, but I never got to read it because my son was one year old at that time. I remember today that the only book I read that year was a big blue volume about baby sleep.

You were focused on what was really essential.

Yeah, like, no, I didn't read any pregnancy book or any early years book, but the book on baby sleep.

I did it.

And I remember the cover of your book and this note of lines, you know, the entangement and then the

lines were all put in a nice circle and I thought, oh yeah, I get it so the cover really spoke to me and the title and so I think I took something out of this cover

Five years later. I was doing the spring cleaning and washing the windows and I was listening to your interview with Tim Ferris. I listened to it several times and it really impacted me. And you came up to me and said,

hey you've got to listen to this interview. There are really great insights there and so I listened to the interview and I said yeah that's amazing and so we we bought the book and both the audio version and then later we ordered the paperback version and now we are

aspiring essentialists. Me too. I'm in this with you and you were bold enough and interested enough that Gregori I think you were on the email.

Yeah I was the one to email and I thought well this is a great opportunity and let's just do that and I asked Lisa how do you feel about that and she said yeah let's let's do that. So we were all excited.

And then you answered.

No, I really, I do read these requests

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