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 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. In today's episode I get the opportunity to speak with Matthias

Moro. Matthias is a most interesting individual. He lives in Brazil and he

reached out to me on LinkedIn to talk about his experience both before and

after reading Essentialism. This is an essential intervention of a different

kind because the intervention doesn't take place in this conversation. It

happened before. Two particularly painful experiences brought into focus

for Matthias, the costs of non-essentialism and the possibility and path and

promise of essentialism. Listen to this episode if you want to feel inspired to

actually make the changes you want to make in your life. If you don't want to

wait anymore, if you want to be able to see what life looks like if you let

non-essentialism continue but also what it can look like if you really embrace

this fully. Now here we go with Matthias Moro. Matthias are you there? Yeah, hi Greg.

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