Hey guys, so this episode's going to be a little bit different. I don't have a guest with me on the show,

but what I do have are some pretty good questions. I'm going to be answering a bunch of questions

about our documentary minimalism that we released last December to Netflix. I got a lot of really

great questions in from this previous project. I'll get into that, talk a little bit about the backstory there, as well as a couple of the latest projects that I've been working on and some recent developments that are pretty exciting and pretty terrifying at the same time.

Let's do it.

This is The Ground Up Show.

Music and pretty terrifying at the same time. Let's do it. This is the Ground Up Show. All righty, so welcome back to the Ground Up show,

where normally I interview guests about how they got

started from the ground up, kind of some of their struggles and their tips that they would give

people just getting started out or people who are maybe at a point of transition. I myself right now,

I'm actually at a point of transition that's pretty, pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty scary.

It's terrifying. It's not pretty at all, to be honest. So, you know, I've been doing client work where I've been working one-on-one with some pretty amazing companies for a long time now.

And minimalism was the first real project that I devoted myself to outside of that. I had gotten a little bit of success

through the client work. And to me, success meant paying rent, not living at home with my

parents, being able to pay down some of my

debt. These were some of my parameters for what success meant. And I got to this point and it was

great, but I knew I wanted to contribute more. I knew I wanted to step outside of my comfort

zone again and do something even

bigger. So that came in the form of a feature-length documentary. This was back in 2010,

Joshua Fields Milburn from The Minimalist.com. He actually started out as a client, and then within six months, he shot me an email.

And the subject line simply said idea.

And the email detailed this project that he wanted to start about this movement of minimalism

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