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The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

De-own. Don't just declutter.

The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Brooke McAlary

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

4.6525 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2017

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

What does it mean to de-own? Isn't decluttering the same thing? Brooke and Ben talk about sharing, borrowing and letting go of the ego of ownership.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Slow Home Podcast.

0:02.6

This is the podcast all about slow living in a fast-paced world.

0:06.9

My name is Brooke McCallory and thank you for joining us.

0:10.2

Yes, thank you very much and welcome to episode 194 where we continue our book launch month.

0:18.0

We do.

0:18.8

We do.

0:19.2

You sounded very storytellerish then.

0:21.7

Oh, well, just wait.

0:24.8

Okay.

0:27.4

But yes, it is book launch month and in Australia and New Zealand.

0:32.7

The rest of the world, friends, it's coming.

0:34.7

It's just doing its thing.

0:35.9

It's taking it slow.

0:37.0

We're going to call it slow

0:38.1

publishing. There will be more news about that over the coming months. But I think, I just want to

0:44.7

say thank you for everyone who has bought the book, who has commented, left reviews. It's been

0:50.5

phenomenal so far. And it makes me feel incredibly happy and lucky that there's so many people who are interested in this stuff and wanting to slow down and wanting to simplify and find this level of slowness.

1:04.8

And I'd love to hear your thoughts.

1:06.8

Share the book on social media if you would like.

1:10.1

I think there's a couple of hashtags, slow book or live life simply.

1:15.4

Yeah, share them, let me know and keep doing your slow thing.

1:19.5

Yeah, it's available in all good bookshops.

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