Best of With Love, Danielle: Downsizing as a spiritual practice and how to make the best decision

WITH LOVE, DANIELLE

Danielle LaPorte

Self-improvement, Education

4.9 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This episode originally aired as Episode 169 on March 7, 2025, and became one of your favourites of the year. We're bringing it back because this conversation on letting go and making aligned decisions really resonated. If you missed it the first time or want to revisit, here we go…

Loves,

I'm attempting to be useful in two ways today. BONUS.

1) Let's talk about decision making, how to know when it's right or wrong.

2) And how the ego loves to look good. And thus! how letting go of status concepts can be radically liberating and HEALING.

I once traded a status symbol (sexy Audi, FAST) for a soul symbol (pre-owned VW, FREE). Turns out, less status = more me. More LIFE.

In this episode:

How the ego masks self-worth struggles with status symbols
The surprising freedom in less (and why "downgrade to upgrade" is real)
The three red flags that signal a misaligned decision
A spiritual approach to right-sizing your life—beyond logic, beyond labels

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0:00.0	Hello, my loves. This is a flashback episode, but not the traumatizing kind. This is a best of series.
0:09.7	In this episode, which apparently was one of my most popular of the year, I am talking about
0:15.5	decision making and how to know when it's right or when it's wrong. If you're going to talk about decision making, we have to talk about the ego and status
0:26.7	symbols and heart-centered choices.
0:30.0	And I'm going to tell you about some status symbols that I let go of and some soul
0:35.1	symbols that I let into my life and the three red flags that signal a misaligned
0:41.2	decision and a spiritual approach, always spiritual approach to, you could say, right sizing your life,
0:49.3	your life beyond logic, your life beyond labels. So welcome to downsizing as a spiritual practice and how to make
0:57.3	the best decision.
1:02.8	All right, my loves, in today's episode of With Love, Danielle, I am offering some inspiration
1:10.4	from my Friday newsletter that is now called
1:15.4	The Sacred. If you want to go read it, you can go to Danielle Laporte.com slash the sacred
1:20.8	and you get all the linky-dos and the linky poos. I have two stories for you today. This is my attempt. I'm attempting to be useful in two ways.
1:34.3	Normally, I think about how I want to begin something, how I want to end something, and just
1:39.0	what's the one point? Like, if I can just successfully get one thing across to somebody that's useful, help you be
1:46.1	more loving towards yourself and others, regulate your nervous system, all those things, then I feel
1:50.1	like a success, but I'm going, I'm going for a double play today. And I have two stories. So this is
1:58.2	the attempt. The attempt is I want to talk about decision making and how to know when it's right or very
2:04.5	wrong, as I'm going to unpack, and how the ego just loves to look good.
2:11.6	And thus, how letting go of what I would call status concepts because sometimes we're seeking status not through
2:23.1	stuff and symbols, but through our roles and jobs and ideas of who we are, you know?
2:30.6	How when we let go of those status concepts, it can lead to obviously radical liberation,
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