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Clear Intentions with Diane Boden

No New Things | Ashlee Piper (EP26)

Clear Intentions with Diane Boden

Diane Boden

Self-improvement, How To, Kids & Family, Mental Health, Education, Parenting, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 952 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

For nearly two years, Ashlee Piper challenged herself to buy nothing new. And in the process, she got out of debt, cut clutter, crushed her goals, and became healthier and happier than ever―all the things she’d always wanted to do but “never had time to” (because she was mindlessly scrolling, shopping, spending, and stressing). Today we specifically talk about: Whether you’re a bona fide shopaholic or someone who just wants to buy less and live more, this episode will encourage you to conquer today's overwhelm.

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About Ashlee|

Ashlee Piper is a sustainability expert, commentator and speaker whose work has been featured on 300+ television segments, including The TODAY Show, Good Morning America and CNN, and in VOGUE, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Newsweek. Piper's book, Give A Sh*t: Do Good. Live Better. Save the Planet., has been hailed as a 'sustainability Bible' by celebrities and reviewers. Piper has spoken at the United Nations, SXSW and has a popular TED Talk. She is also the creator of the #NoNewThings Challenge, which received a Silver Stevie Award for Best Non-profit Innovation, and a Professor of Sustainability Marketing. She holds a BA from Brown University and a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford, UK. She lives in Chicago in a home that’s 98% secondhand, and can often be found singing Seal's 'Kiss From A Rose' at any not-so-fine karaoke establishment.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Why is eco-friendly living made to be so heady and cerebral and difficult as far as accessing that?

0:08.3

Or it looks really crunchy or it looks expensive or inconvenient?

0:12.1

And I really only was going to do it for one month.

0:14.9

I just kind of wanted to see if I could do it.

0:17.6

And the first week was kind of painful, I would say, just because it was a shifting of how I thought about things.

0:24.8

The things that we have, you know, the things we own, own us, and we're like the inventory manager of those things.

0:31.1

How did we go from being people who bought things very intentionally repaired those things, kept them for a really long time

0:40.0

in pretty good repair, to people who literally go online and impulse shop crap that is

0:46.6

shoddly made, can never be repaired and will hit the landfill. And specifically as women,

0:52.2

we have long been the dream population to market to.

0:56.8

We hold a significant amount of consumer purchasing power, not just in the United States, but globally.

1:03.9

I call it conditioned consumerism and in some cases coerced consumerism because it is such an insidious part of the operating system.

1:13.0

I need this.

1:13.8

And it's like, girl, what?

1:14.8

I temporarily joke myself into thinking I need things or that things are necessities

1:19.7

when they are actually not.

1:22.7

For nearly two years, Ashley Piper challenged herself to buy nothing new.

1:28.4

And in the process,

1:33.9

she got out of debt, cut clutter, crushed her goals, and became healthier and happier than ever. All the things she'd always wanted to do, but never had time to, because she was mindlessly

1:38.8

scrolling, shopping, spending, and stressing. Ashley is here to share about her new book, No New Things, a 30-day guide to sustainable

1:47.2

living that's radically practical and refreshingly doable.

1:50.4

We also explore the roots of consumerism, the psychology behind our spending habits,

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