Courtney Carver - Tackling Autoimmune Disease with Minimalism and Embracing JOMO (the Joy of Missing Out)

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🗓️ 5 September 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

After years in a fast-paced career as an ad executive, Courtney Carver was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), an autoimmune disease that forced her to rethink her whole life. Stress caused major flare-ups for her, so she went about eliminating as many sources of stress as she could. This led to a passion for minimalism, the creation of Project 333, and her book Soulful Simplicity.

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0:00.0	This episode features soulful simplicity author and Jomo The Joy of Missing Out
0:04.9	Advocate Courtney Carver.
0:08.9	Welcome to Wild Ideas Worth Living, an adventure podcast presented by REI co-op, the brand who helps get you
0:15.6	outside through gear, classes, and adventures. We talk to experts who have taken a wild
0:20.9	idea and made it a reality so you can too.
0:24.0	From people who have climbed the tallest peaks, started thriving businesses, and even broken
0:28.5	records, some of the wildest ideas can lead to the most rewarding adventures. I'm your host Shelby Stanger and I hope
0:35.8	you enjoy this show.
0:37.0	If you're an adventure or even a human, the chances are you've experienced
0:46.7	some FOMO or maybe you've experienced overwhelm or the feeling of being too
0:50.7	busy or you've had this deep desire to be more okay with just where you are now.
0:56.0	Maybe you've had a yearning to live more simply, and maybe you just want to adventure inside
1:01.0	as much as you do out.
1:02.0	Well, today's guest, Courtney Carver was a fast-paced ad exec living a little above her means
1:07.6	when she got diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, MS, or multiple sclerosis.
1:12.0	She says it forced her to remake her entire life. MS or multiple sclerosis.
1:12.8	She says it forced her to remake her entire life and she wrote a book about it called
1:16.4	Solful simplicity that hit me to the core when I read it.
1:19.9	There's some books that just really resonate and this was one of them and to get a little
1:24.1	deep and personal on you I've been struggling with an autoimmune disease called
1:27.4	Vidaligo it's also exacerbated by stress and I talk about it at the beginning of
1:32.4	the show.
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