351: Peter Walsh - Downsizing Your Way To A Richer, Happier Life
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Peter Walsh (IG: @peterwalshorganizer) is a New York Times bestselling author who has written seven previous books.
He appears regularly on The Rachael Ray Show and is a columnist for O, the Oprah Magazine. Peter has hosted several TV shows, including Clean Sweep and Extreme Clutter.
Today we're focusing in on his new book, Let It Go: Downsizing Your Way to a Richer, Happier Life.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Helping people downsize
- Time to re-evaluate what is important
- Are you using stuff as a diversionary tactic to avoid dealing with your feelings?
- Peter’s career journey
- What has caused society to lose a hierarchy of value?
- Establish rituals with your kids to remove items from your home
- Don’t let memory clutter hold you back
- What is malignant clutter?
- Passing on heirlooms
- Are you hoarding digital photos?
- Do you suffer from “I might need it one day" clutter?
- Creating zones in your home for storage
- Treat your space with honour & respect
- Give time to what you believe is important
- Living within your means is about more than money
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| 0:00.0 | It really wasn't a question of being organized. |
| 0:02.2 | It was more a question of respecting what you owned. |
| 0:06.0 | We didn't own a lot, but you were taught to respect what you did own. |
| 0:10.9 | That's kind of the lesson that I think a lot of people have lost and a lesson that a lot of kids haven't learned because with the acquisition of stuff, children and adults too, I don't have what I call a hierarchy of value. |
| 0:26.0 | Hello and welcome to the Alt-Med- |
| 0:31.0 | podcast episode 351. |
| 0:35.0 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman and we are here to take your health to the |
| 0:40.0 | next level. |
| 0:41.0 | Each week we will bring you inspiring and informative conversations about health and wellness, |
| 0:45.2 | covering topics of nutrition, lifestyle, fitness, mindset, and so much more. |
| 0:49.5 | And this week we're speaking with Peter Walsh. |
| 0:51.6 | He's the author of seven previous books including the New York Times bestsellers, |
| 0:55.4 | it's all too much, enough already, and most recently lose the clutter, lose the weight. |
| 1:05.0 | He appears regularly on the Rachel Ray Show and is a calmness for O, the Oprah magazine and Peter has hosted several TV shows including Clean Sweep and Extreme |
| 1:10.0 | Clutter. Today we're focusing in on his new book, Let It Go, Downsizing your way to a richer, happier life. |
| 1:16.0 | And when I first saw this book, it definitely jumped out to me because I'm so into minimalism and simplifying and downsizing just fits into that realm. |
| 1:26.0 | And downsizing something that all of us are going to have to face at some point in our life. |
| 1:31.0 | We're going to eventually get older and need to slow down and get rid of things and go into a smaller space. |
| 1:37.0 | And we're also going to have to help other family members as we go through life and friends downsize. |
| 1:42.0 | So as parents get older and things like that so |
| 1:45.8 | really interesting book great conversation I know you're gonna love this and there's so many |
| 1:50.1 | great things that Jesse and Peter talked about some of the things that they get into include helping people downsize. |
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