Well, hello there and welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian and you are listening to episode 213 of the Sustainable Minimalist Podcast.

On today's show, we are talking about going car-free or perhaps car-light and I am talking about this with

lifestyle optimization coach Meredith Keith Church.

Now if you are an avid listener of this podcast,

you listen every week without fail.

Maybe Meredith's name rings a bell,

and it should.

That's because Meredith was guest on episode 201 of this podcast which came out a few weeks back.

We talked about having fewer but better adult friendships and now she's here to talk about how on earth she lives a car-free life with her family.

Meredith, I'm so excited to talk to you for a second time. How are you?

I'm good, thank you. I'm super excited to be back and yeah really

excited to get into this topic for sure. Well for anybody who missed your first

appearance on this podcast.

Tell us who you are and what on earth a lifestyle

optimization coach does.

Yes, great question.

So I'm Meredith Keith Church and I am a coach a mom a dancer a vocalist advocate of many things

including pedestrian biking lifestyles as well as self-directed education.

So in terms of my coaching work, I work with people, women specifically,

on certain areas of lifestyle that I think tend to get forgotten when we're talking

about health and wellness and just being happy and joyful I think sometimes we get

into these modes of thinking oh well I think, oh, well, health and wellness is about what I eat and, you know, making

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