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The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

40 Ways to Slow Your Holidays

The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Brooke McAlary

Education, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.6525 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

We've crowdsourced the best, sweetest, cleverest, most mindful tips from our listeners on how to create slow amidst the busy-ness of the holidays.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Slow Home Podcast.

0:02.9

This is the podcast all about slow living in a fast-paced world.

0:06.9

My name is Brooke McCallory.

0:08.5

And my name is Ben McCallory.

0:10.6

And welcome to episode 262, the last episode, we are bringing you the Christmas slash holiday special.

0:18.7

We are indeed.

0:19.9

So this is a crowdsourced episode a few weeks ago

0:23.9

when we asked you guys for your best slow holiday, slow Christmas tips. And you absolutely

0:33.2

delivered. I think we've got close to 50. Yeah. Came through.

0:45.8

And just really fantastic ways of kind of coping with and enjoying what is often a really stressful time of year.

0:47.2

You know, bringing the idea of slow and applying it to the holidays.

0:51.2

It's really cool.

0:52.5

Very, very cool.

0:53.3

And there's a few people that have contributed quite significantly to these tips. We've got 40 Christmas tips. Okay. I think I added a couple of my own after. I showed you that. We've got at least 40. There's probably going to be 50 by the end of it by the time. But at the time we've had our two cents with it as well. So yeah, here's like 50 tips. Now, we should say right at the beginning of the show, this is coming out in the first

1:15.2

week of December, and some of this will probably be too late to implement this year.

1:21.2

Yeah, and there's maybe two or three that you're probably going to want to apply maybe

1:26.2

in November next year.

1:27.7

Yep.

1:28.2

But we've wanted to keep them in because they had just solidly good tips.

1:32.1

And I'm sure that people will rediscover this episode next, like next November as well.

1:37.4

So that's why they're in there.

1:39.5

But also you may be able to adapt to them so that they still make sense for you.

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