Come with me on an exploration of self-discovery.

On this podcast we decipher what really matters, as we unravel the chaos of day-to-day work

to learn how to build an essential life.

Thank you for being here. Thank you for joining me, Greg McEwan, your host for another episode

of the Pot to Central podcast. It really is such a pleasure to be able to speak with you,

to have a conversation today. I can see you. I'm sure as you're going through what is

almost certainly a day that's too busy, it almost certainly has too much in it, especially

at this time of year. I can see you trying to even do this podcast in the middle of other

things, and in a rare exception I welcome that. Maybe you're on a run today, maybe you're

on a walk today, maybe you're driving somewhere. Are you cleaning up and you're doing this to

make that otherwise chore something more of a ritual? I don't know, maybe it sounds

ridiculous, but thank you. Really, really thank you for taking the time to be part of this

conversation. The conversation that I have planned for you is on a really prescient important

subject, discernment. Discernment is at the very core of what differentiates a non-essentialist

from an essentialist. By the way, I'm struggling right now as a bit of a non-essentialist, because

there's just so much going on, especially this time of year. I've invited Anna, my wife, and

my most discerning thought partner. I've invited her here, one, to be able to help me and

help each other to be more discerning right now, but also to be able to riff a bit on this

subject that so is it the core of actually figuring out what's essential? With that, let's

get to the show. Anna, welcome to the What's Essential podcast. How are you? I'm great and

completely overwhelmed with life, but I'm good. We come into this conversation. It's an interesting

place to be having this conversation, because I think that the subject of the day is as much for

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