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The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Slow travel, fast kids and making counter-cultural choices

The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Brooke McAlary

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

4.6525 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

He-yo, it's hostful time again! In today's episode Brooke and Ben talk about their trip so far, life on the road, the upcoming book tour and answer some cracking listener questions about kids and living counter-cultural lives.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.9

world. I'm Brooke McCallory. My name is Ben McCallery and welcome to episode 235, a hostful episode.

0:13.9

Hostful. Not only a hostful episode, but a Q&A episode as well. Which has been a while.

0:20.7

It's been a while. It's been a while.

0:22.1

It has been a while.

0:23.5

I think that the last Q&A host we did would have been back in like October, November.

0:29.5

2017.

0:30.9

Because there was that whole, you know, heading off, like figuring out this trip and selling our house kind of business, which feels like simultaneously yesterday and five years ago. And a lot of our hostfuls were kind

0:43.7

of taken up with talking through that and answering those specific questions. So yeah,

0:47.7

when I put the call out on Facebook for more questions for this month's hostful, it was really

0:53.6

nice to kind of get a sense of what people still want to know about.

0:57.2

And boy, do we have a lot of Q&As to get through.

0:59.9

We do. We've got some really good questions.

1:01.7

And it was interesting to see, actually.

1:03.3

A lot of them sort of fell into the same couple of categories or themes of things that people are curious about,

1:10.0

both in terms of you and I and the way we do

1:12.1

slow living, but also how it can apply for them personally and how it can be different, I guess.

1:17.8

And we've got some other stuff that we want to update people on, namely where we are in the

1:22.5

world.

1:23.2

So we might dive straight into that.

1:25.7

But also, at the end of the episode, we'll also talk about next month's experiment. We will. It is time. It's that time. All right. Let's get into it. Okay. Thank you. So first things first, how you going?

1:56.2

I'm good.

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