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The Minimalists

537 | Jerome

The Minimalists

Joshua Fields Millburn

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Leisure, Home & Garden

4.711.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

The Minimalists discuss the passing of Joshua's brother, Jerome, and they talk about confronting loss, the difficult road to acceptance, the difference between processing and complaining, finding meaning in tragedy, and much, much more. Contribute to the GoFundMe for Jerome's family.

Discussed in this episode:

Is it better to confront loss with replacement or acceptance? (00:57)

What's the difference between processing and complaining? (15:23)

What would Jerome say? (53:27)

How did Jerome view material things? (1:02:05)

How can we find meaning in loss? (1:23:29)

Added Value: One of Jerome's favorite songs. (1:29:08)

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Detailed show notes: minimalists.com/podcast

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'll be fine without it.

0:38.3

Yes, the minimum was.

0:43.3

Man, TK's been a difficult week, so I think we'll go.

0:50.3

This will be a bit different than the normal.

0:53.3

Where do you want to start?

0:57.9

I think we start where we always have with the call from one of our listeners.

1:02.5

Yeah, we had some people write in.

1:05.3

Dustin wrote this in.

1:06.4

He said, is it better to confront loss with replacement or acceptance? And TK., I got to be honest with

1:16.8

you here, I'm still struggling with the acceptance piece of it, which is really strange

1:23.6

for me, man. I'm usually pretty good at accepting things.

1:29.3

And so I've sort of been going through the five stages of grief.

1:34.9

I'm pretty good of cycling through those first four, right?

1:39.0

I wrote this essay about it.

1:41.8

But it kind of starts with denial.

1:50.6

I got the phone call the day that it happened.

1:59.8

It was Ryan who called me, Nicodemus. And a friend had called him, another friend had called that friend, and then Jerome's wife had called

2:03.3

that friend. And so it was like this game of tag. And a lot of people apparently were trying

2:07.9

to get a hold of me, and they didn't have my new number, and Sarah couldn't get in Jerome's

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