When I first decided to launch the Essentialism Podcast, I asked you the Essentialist Community, what kind of episodes you wanted.

And the majority of you asked for interviews where I showed how people in ordinary situations can really apply essentialism.

So here is the first essential intervention.

It's with Emily Stewart, a nurse who works for the

National Health Service in the United Kingdom, which is to say she is on the

front lines of the COVID outbreak. In this conversation I coach her through a process that may be familiar to some of you from the essentialism book.

We explore, eliminate, and execute.

One, we explore what's essential to Emily that she's under investing in.

Two, we identify together what's getting in the way so that she can eliminate those things.

And three, we translate these insights into small actionable steps she

can immediately execute. So as you listen to this if you think of anyone who you'd like to nominate for a future essential intervention,

please go to essentialism.com and email me their name and why you think they need an intervention. Enjoy.

I'm sorry to be so incredibly late.

I've just been a few things,

it's just been one of those evenings

and then it took me ages to truly figure it all out but anyway I got there in the end but I'm so sorry that it's so late

No, it's late for you. It's early for me and I remember talking with Thomas Friedman who writes for the New York Times and he told me that whenever people are late for him he always begins by saying thank you for being late.

Because it's the only time in his day

that he gets to pause and think.

Right, yeah true.

And reflect, so you might have done me a favor.

So Emily, tell me about you.

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