513 | The Sound of Life
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
4.7 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The Minimalists talk about making time for frivolous pursuits, what we're willing to sacrifice for the important things, clutter that shows up unexpectedly, five easy decluttering tips you can apply to every space this winter, and more!
Discussed in this episode:
How can we justify making time for seemingly frivolous pursuits? (2:33)
Solve this equation: X is so important to me that I'm willing to sacrifice Y to spend time on it. (22:13)
Right Here, Right Now: T.K.'s Clutter Counseling videos. (34:24)
Listener Tip: Clutter can show up in the strangest ways. (37:47)
Have a question for the show? Call 406-219-7839 or email a voice memo to podcast@themins.com.
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 you be fine without it. |
| 0:39.4 | Yes, yes, yes, yes. |
| 0:41.6 | Hello, simpletons. |
| 0:43.1 | Welcome to The Minimals podcast. |
| 0:45.1 | We discuss what it means to live a meaningful life with less. |
| 0:49.0 | My name is Joshua Fields, Milburn. |
| 0:50.5 | If I look different to you on camera, I've got these, |
| 0:52.6 | Pika, I've been trying these glasses during the day. They're like blue light blocking and it's supposed to help my sleep and it's |
| 1:00.7 | not working yet, but who knows, maybe it will. You look like Van Diesel from pitch black, man. |
| 1:06.2 | That's what they all say. They've told me that for years. That other voice you hear right next to me is my good friend. He's joining me here at Earthing Studios in West Hollywood, California. That's T.K. Coleman. Hey, hey. Hey, thanks for being here today. You ready to have some fun? I'm ready to have fun. I wish I would have brought my shades, but it's all good. Well, let's be frivolous today. Coming up on this episode, we're talking |
| 1:28.4 | about making time for frivolous pursuits. We're going to talk about what we're willing to sacrifice |
| 1:33.7 | for the important things in life. Also, we'll talk about clutter that shows up unexpectedly. |
| 1:39.8 | That was supposed to, we were supposed to get to that last week but you know with uh with guy in here how |
| 1:45.3 | amazing was that there were some things we couldn't get to and thank god we couldn't because what a |
| 1:49.4 | beautiful episode that was with guy finley we got much more to talk about also on page three we're |
| 1:54.7 | to talk about five easy decluttering tips you can apply to every space this winter. What do you say? Let's start with our |
| 2:02.6 | callers. Yeah, it sounds good. If you have a question or comment for our show, we'd love to hear from you. |
| 2:07.1 | 406-219-7-839. That's our phone number if you want to be on the program, or you can just send a voice memo right from your phone to podcast at theminimalists.com. |
| 2:18.2 | Let us know if you're a Patreon subscriber so we can prioritize your message. |
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