89. Divine Trade-Offs and the Sacred Yes: A Conversation with Greg McKeown

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🗓️ 17 October 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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For this conversation, we spoke with Greg McKeown, the New York Times-bestselling author of the books Essentialism and Effortless, the latter of which was just released earlier this year. When we read both Essentialism and Effortless, we knew we wanted to have Greg on the podcast. Everything he wrote in these books seemed immediately applicable; not just in our lives or careers, but even towards our membership in the Church.

Greg is also a Latter-day Saint, and he was able to talk with us about how the concepts of his books apply to issues that are often on the minds of fellow church members—things like callings, raising families, and managing work/life balance.

Greg’s writing has appeared or been covered by The New York Times, Fast Company, Fortune, HuffPost, Politico, Inc. Magazine, and the Harvard Business Review. He’s also appeared on many television and radio programs, including NPR, NBC, and Fox. Greg is originally from London, England, and now lives in Calabasas, California with his wife, Anna, and their four children. He did his graduate work at Stanford University.

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0:31.8	We're really excited to share this episode with you today.
0:34.1	We spoke with Greg McEwan, who is the New York Times best-selling author of the book's
0:37.9	Multipliers, Essentialism and Effort List, which was just released earlier this year.
0:42.6	We read Essentialism and Effort List and we knew that we wanted to have Greg on the podcast.
0:46.6	Everything he writes in these books seems so immediately applicable, not just in our
0:49.9	lives and careers, but even with our church membership.
0:52.8	Greg is also a Latter-day Saint, and he was able to talk with us about concepts in his
0:56.3	books that apply to issues that are often on church members' minds, things like callings,
1:00.4	raising families, and managing work-life balance.
1:03.2	Greg's writing has appeared or been covered by the New York Times, Fast Company, Fortune,
1:07.7	HuffPost, Politico, Inc. magazine, and the Harvard Business Review.
1:11.2	He's also appeared on many television and radio programs, including MPR, NBC, and Fox.
1:16.3	Greg is originally from London, England, and he now lives in Calabasas, California with
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