You're listening to the feel-good effect.

What if you could make more of what matters effortless?

If you could transform tedious tasks into enjoyable rituals or set a sustainable pace instead of powering through, that is exactly what we're talking about today. Let's make it happen.

Radically simple and ridiculously doable, the feel-good effect will help you redefine wellness on

your terms. Hi, I'm your host, Robin Conley Downs, and I believe that wellness isn't about

achieving another set of impossible standards,

but instead finding what works for you. Drawing from cutting edge science on mindfulness,

habit, and behavior change, this podcast offers a collection of small mindset shifts that allow

for more calm, clarity, and joy in everyday life and allows you to embrace the idea that gentle is the new

perfect. I invite you to listen in as we cut through the clutter and find the small shifts that

create huge changes in your life. Thus striving, more ease. It's time to feel good.

Well, hey, feel good, fam.

I am so glad you're here for a conversation about how to make things that matter effortless.

Our guest today is Greg McEwen.

Greg is the author of the wildly, wildly popular New York Times bestselling book, Essentialism, as well as the author of the brand new book, Effortless,

which is what we're talking about today. We're actually talking about both. In this conversation,

we talk about the simple

yet powerful idea of essentialism or the disciplined pursuit of less. And then into his new book,

effortless, why he waited so long to write a second book, why he felt the need to add this second sort of chapter

to essentialism to get people a little more step by step into, once you have focused on

less, how to make that more effortless, to make the things that matter easier or with ease

so that they become just more part of life.

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