Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the show I'm Greg McEwan and I'm your host for

the What's Essential Podcast. I'm also the author of Essentialism, the discipline

pursuit of less and my goal is to decode exactly how to design a life that

really matters because if you don't prioritize your life, someone else will.

If you're new to the show take a deep breath. Almost everything is trivial. Only a

few things are essential and that's what this show is all about. My job is to

interview, get deep really with authors, entrepreneurs, psychologists and

everyday people to help explore what's essential so that we can eliminate

everything else. Through a process of listening, unpacking and going deep with

each guest we turn each episode into practical advice for intentionally

planning and living in order to move forward. If you enjoy this podcast, if it

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Podcast description. Running like a gold thread through this episode is the idea

that what we say yes to and what we say no to is not as simple as this moment.

There are deep stories, a deep narrative behind why we do what we do and as we

create space to explore where we've come from, what led us to make the decisions

we've been making we can start to be liberated and create a new story. Listen to

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