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Welcome back, everybody. I'm your host, Greg McEwen. And as you know on this show, we're interested in figuring out what's essential, but also how to make it effortless. And it's on that subject that this conversation finds a natural overlap. Today we have as our guest, Courtney Carver,

who among many other things has written a book called Gentle.

That is just gentle.

Gentle, rest more, stress less,

and live the life you actually want.

It comes out here February 18th, 2025, and there's so much that

one could pull from all of this, but for Courtney, simplification is an art, an obsession,

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