Hello and welcome to the Slow Home Podcast. This is the podcast all about slow living in a fast-paced world.

My name is Brooke McCallory. Ben McCallery is my name. And this is episode 259.

So this episode, it marks the end of the American book tour. Yeah, the US book tour.

So this episode was recorded in Minneapolis, in Minnesota. the end of the American book tour. Yeah, the US book tour.

So this episode was recorded in Minneapolis, in Minnesota.

And you had a guest of the show who's been on before a couple of times, and it's another live event.

Yes, so this is the final live event.

I sit down with Joel Zoslovsky, who you would know from, I'm sure,

two episodes of the show. At least two episodes, yeah. So Joel has been a friend, probably one of

the first sort of online friends in the simple living sphere. So I've known him for a number of years,

and he's always been someone who is willing to help out and connect.

And he was one of the first people to put his hand up to do an event or help in any way possible on this tour.

And it was really nice that I was able to finish the tour with him.

So we sat down to have a conversation at Modern Well, which is a

wellness collective in Minneapolis. And there were a few familiar faces in the crowd. It was really

wonderful to have people from the podcast community turn up. Also a lot of people that were new to the

whole sort of living movement. But it was just a really lovely way to round out the US book tour.

Joel is a champion of connection, isn't he? That's exactly what he is. Yeah. I think he really,

that's one of his gifts. He puts people in touch with others and seems to enjoy watching those

relationships blossom. So it's another live recording. So it's going to be similar to last

week, but every event is a little bit different, but you might hear a little bit of double up during

this. Yeah, again, look, it's, as I said, there's people who are new to the whole idea of Slow,

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