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Hello everybody, welcome to the Minimalist Podcast where we discuss what it means to live a meaningful life with less.

My name is Joshua Fields-Millburn and I'm Ryan Nicodemus and together we are the minimalists.

Today we're going to talk about what minimalism looks like when it's taken to its extremes.

And we're going to do that with today's guest.

You will be in the studio as you'll notice I'm actually not...

Next door for being here you will be here.

You'll notice I'm actually not in the studio today and it's because I am self-quarantining.

I have a few cold-like symptoms and I don't know whether or not that is the coronavirus but I want everyone to be safe.

And so I am here at home if you're watching this on YouTube you can see that I'm seated in my living room where we're having this conversation.

So you may not get the same pristine sort of audio that you would usually get but we're doing our best to make it as high quality as possible.

Now you are... Thank you so much for being in the studio with us.

You have an amazing YouTube channel. We'll put a link to it in the show notes. It's called Heal Your Living.

And people often hear it Ryan and I talk about minimalism not being a radical lifestyle.

It's often a practical lifestyle except sometimes you can get extreme.

It is a spectrum and the thing that I really like about minimalism is it's malleable for people who have multiple lives.

But it's also malleable for people who want to take it a bit farther and let go of even more and sort of test their limits.

And I think you do a great job of communicating that on your YouTube channel. You sort of bring an extreme approach.

And I'm using that word because you use that word.

What propelled you or what convinced you that extreme minimalism was a meaningful way to live?

Well first of all, thanks for having me here. It's so nice to be in your presence.

And so I started minimalism five years ago back in New York.

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