Can you live slow in your 20s, or is burnout inevitable?

The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Brooke McAlary

Education, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.6 • 525 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Can you live slow in your 20s? Or is the hustle and burnout an inevitable part of finding your way in the world? Brooke chats with listener Lauren about redefining success and is then joined by Jocelyn Glei, who suggests we learn to let go of expectations - regardless of our age.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slow Home podcast.
0:10.7	This is the podcast all about slow living in a fast-paced world.
0:14.8	My name is Brooke McCallory.
0:16.0	And McCallory is my name.
0:17.4	And welcome to Season 4, episode 4.
0:19.7	We're halfway through.
0:22.9	Season already. We are. Wow. 4 squared. is my name and welcome to season four episode four we're halfway through season already we are wow four squared four over four yeah sure okay yeah in today's episode well the first half of today's
0:33.7	episode you talk with Lauren I do about slow living in your mid-20s.
0:41.0	Really wanted to do that. Well, there you go. Bucket list. Ticked. It is a really interesting
0:49.0	conversation, actually. So Lauren wrote to me and asked a question, I think, that has been asked sort of in a roundabout way before, but I love the way that she prefaced it.
1:01.3	Essentially, slow living is spoken about and written about by people who are probably more established in life, you know, in terms of, but also more burnt out and more, like,
1:12.7	you know, weighed down by...
1:14.5	What I call the big bees.
1:17.0	Okay.
1:20.3	They're burdened by debt.
1:24.4	They're...
1:25.6	I've got nothing.
1:27.8	Burnt out.
1:28.7	Burnt out, that's right.
1:30.2	They have big boobs.
1:34.1	And big boardages.
1:36.3	Oh my God.
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