26. What's Essential: Dana Biberston on Emptiness and the 100-Year Vision

The Greg McKeown Podcast

Greg McKeown

Self-improvement, Business, Education

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In this episode, Dana Biberston shares her deeply painful experience balancing health concerns, raising a large family, and maintaining life at home. She and Greg discuss the influence of spirituality in navigating the journey from emptiness to fulfillment, and the importance of Essentialism, perspective, and intergenerational awareness along the way. Share the What’s Essential podcast with your co-workers & friends and earn rewards: https://refer.fm/essential 1 Referral - Access the exclusive "Tim Ferris" episode 3 Referrals - 21-day Challenge PDF 15 Referrals - $10 digital gift card you can use at stores like Real Simple, Container Store, etc. What's Essential Podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/essentialismpod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/essentialismpodcast Greg McKeown Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregorymckeown LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregmckeown Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gregorymckeown/ Scratch Audiohouse Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wheelhousegroup/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wheelhouse-group-llc/ Credits: Hosted by Greg McKeown Produced by Greg McKeown and Scratch Audiohouse Executive Produced by Greg McKeown, Avi Gandhi, Brent Montgomery, and Ed Simpson Co-Produced by Paul Dizon

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0:00.0	Dana Biviston, welcome to the What's A Central Podcast.
0:04.5	Thank you.
0:05.5	I truly am so grateful and honored to be able to speak with you today.
0:10.0	And why is that?
0:11.0	What is it that makes you feel good to be here?
0:15.6	You have had a profound influence in my life and the work of essentialism truly has played
0:23.2	a remarkable role, especially in this last, what for the last few years, but I would say
0:29.6	even more, essentially, in these last few months during COVID.
0:35.2	And tell me about that story from a few years ago, and then we can move to the last few
0:41.0	months.
0:42.0	What was the impact back then?
0:44.3	So back then, I think it was just helping me get clear on what's important.
0:49.7	And at the time, it would have been things like, oh, this week, these are the things
0:56.3	that need to get done.
0:57.8	My husband and I have six children.
0:59.6	So we're pretty busy with them.
1:02.4	We have four that have launched into adulthood and two teenagers that are going to get ready
1:08.3	here to launch in the next couple of years.
1:10.7	So you're in a real transition period anyway right now, very much so.
1:16.1	With what the home dynamic is and what the dynamic is with those children being left in
1:21.8	a much quieter home than the one that they were raised in.
1:25.6	But this is all right now, back then, you've got six children at home, you've got the
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