493 | Family Matters
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
4.7 • 11.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The Minimalists talk about letting go of family clutter, making a distinction between family and friends, surrendering broken things, how to stop being a “yes man,” the link between closet clutter and past trauma, punishing kids for bad behavior, minimizing old moving boxes, and much more!
Discussed in this episode:
I found out my deceased wife was having an affair before she died. Consequently, I might not be the biological father of our daughter. What should I do to let go? (2:09)
How do you differentiate between friends and family? (21:22)
Right Here, Right Now: Our next FAMZ is June 6 at 3 PM ET for Audio+ subscribers on Patreon. (42:09)
Listener tip: How to let go of broken things. (43:22)
Listen to the full Maximal episode on Patreon: patreon.com/theminimalists
Detailed show notes: minimalists.com/podcast
Recorded at Earthing Studios.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Every little thing that you think that you think that you need. |
| 0:23.6 | Every little thing you think that you need. |
| 0:28.6 | Every little thing that's just feeding your greed. |
| 0:33.6 | Oh, I bet that you be fine without it. |
| 0:41.3 | Yes, hello everybody. Welcome to the Minimalist Podcast, where we discuss what it means to live a meaningful life with less. |
| 0:47.3 | My name is Joshua Fields Milburn and joining me here at Earthing Studios in beautiful West Hollywood, California, |
| 0:53.3 | is my good friend T.K. Coleman. |
| 0:55.6 | Coming up on this free public minimal episode, a caller has a question about letting go after he |
| 1:00.9 | found out that his deceased wife was having a fair before she died. And we should save these |
| 1:06.8 | juicy discussions for the private podcast, but we thought this would be perfect for page one. |
| 1:12.3 | But then we have a lightning round question about the best ways to differentiate between friends and family, |
| 1:17.5 | and that's followed by our right here, right now segment, and a listener tip. |
| 1:21.4 | You can check out the maximal edition of episode 493. |
| 1:25.1 | That's the full two-hour episode where we answer three times as many questions |
| 1:28.8 | on Patreon. The link is in the description. When you subscribe, you can listen to our private |
| 1:33.7 | podcast episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. Plus, you'll gain access |
| 1:39.7 | to all of our podcast archives all the way back to the very first episode. That's a full decade of archives. |
| 1:46.3 | By the way, big thanks to our patrons. Your support keeps our podcast 100% advertisement free, |
| 1:52.9 | because sing along at home, y'all. Advertisement suck. Let's start with our callers. If you |
| 1:58.3 | have a question or comment for our show, we'd love to hear from you. |
| 2:01.2 | Our phone number is 406-219, 7-839, or you can email a voice recording to podcast at theminimalists.com. |
| 2:09.6 | Our first question today is from Lockie. |
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