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. If you don't do anything else, just ask what's essential and eliminate

as much as possible everything else. How are you? Yeah I'm doing pretty

doing good. You know I have six kids which maybe you knew maybe you didn't

be I have six kids we we adopted three we have two we've got three kids we

adopted and then we've got three younger kids we got a two-month-old so with

the three so you adopted three at first. We adopted three when I was doing my

PhD I did a PhD at Clemson in organizational psychology and then yeah we

adopted three from the foster system and then literally a month after the

adoption my wife got pregnant with twins so we we actually in 2018 we've

adopted three and we had twins so I went from zero to five that year. Oh my

goodness 2018 was the year. My first major book came out that year as well called

Willpower doesn't work so that was a that was an interesting year. What was it

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