350: Courtney Carver - Simplify Your Life & Closet
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Courtney Carver writes about dressing and living with less on bemorewithless.com & @bemorewithless on Instagram.
Her new book is Project 333: The Minimalist Fashion Challenge That Proves Less Really Is So Much More.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The idea of simple living
- Courtney's MS diagnosis in 2006
- How Courtney started reducing the stress in her life
- Paying attention to how your body responds to food
- Debt = stress
- Changing your behaviour around money
- Decluttering your home
- Downsizing your life is very freeing, not fearful
- Finding ways to connect with others without spending money
- Replace shopping with self-care practices
- Blogging is a powerful way to connect
- The origin of Project 333
- Choosing 33 clothing items for 3 months
- How a simple closet challenge can impact your mental health
- Simplicity makes your life more enjoyable
- Managing digital clutter
- Planning digital free time in your day
- Transitioning out of the advertising world
- Simplicity is the way back to love
- Letting go of alcohol
- What is the slowdown filter?
- Show up for yourself
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Related links:
Courtney Carver - Project 333 (book)
Courtney Carver's website (Be More with Less)
Follow Courtney Carver on Facebook and Instagram
Courtney Carver - Soulful Simplicity (book)
Soul and Wit Podcast (Courtney & Bailey Carver)
Dave Ramsey - Total Money Makeover (book)
Related episodes:
344: Rob Greenfield – Living A Simple & Sustainable Life
343: Bea Johnson – Zero Waste Home, Experiences Over Stuff, Minimizing Junk Mail
307: Elizabeth Willard Thames aka Mrs. Frugalwoods – Financial Independence Through Simple Living
286: Cal Newport – Digital Minimalism • Create Time For Solitude • Stop Socializing On Social Media
268: Sarah Wilson – Zero Waste Cooking • Minimal Consumption • Start Thinking Differently
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| 0:00.0 | This journey has always been a journey of love for me. |
| 0:04.4 | And while I labeled it as a health thing in the very beginning, |
| 0:09.0 | I realized it was even bigger than that. |
| 0:11.8 | It was about learning how to remember who I was, love myself, love my family, love my work, love my community. |
| 0:20.0 | But it was so buried under my debt, my clutter, my stress, my job, everything. |
| 0:26.4 | The more that I peeled back and let go of, the more room there was for this really deep loving connection that I was looking for. Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 350. |
| 0:45.0 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman and we are here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:50.0 | Each week we will bring you inspiring and informative conversations about health and wellness, |
| 0:55.0 | covering topics of nutrition, lifestyle, fitness, mindset, and so much more. |
| 1:00.0 | And this week we're speaking with Courtney Carver. |
| 1:02.0 | She writes about dressing and living with less on be more with less.com |
| 1:06.2 | and be more with less on Instagram. |
| 1:08.4 | Her new book is Project 333, |
| 1:10.7 | The Minimalist Fashion Challenge that proves less really is so much more. |
| 1:15.0 | And minimalism is a topic I've been fascinated and for quite some time. |
| 1:18.7 | I don't consider myself a minimalist, but I'm interested in learning more and more |
| 1:22.4 | and applying some of the principles into my lifestyle |
| 1:25.1 | so I really enjoyed preparing for this one and chatting with Courtney. |
| 1:29.3 | Some of the highlights of today's show are Courtney's. diagnosis in 2006, |
| 1:34.0 | how debt equals stress, |
| 1:36.0 | how downsizing your life is very freeing, not fearful, |
| 1:39.0 | the origin of Project 333, |
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