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The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

The Great Outdoors: Part 5 - A Slow Experiment

The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Brooke McAlary

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

4.6525 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This week Brooke and Ben wrap up the Great Outdoors Slow Experiment and chat about the mental health benefits of time spent in nature, as well as their own discoveries over the past month.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Slow Home Podcast.

0:03.7

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

0:07.7

I'm Brooke McCallory.

0:08.4

My name's Ben McCallery.

0:09.4

Welcome to episode 231, The Great Outdoors.

0:13.7

This is our last episode of the month, even though we've got, I don't know, a couple of days.

0:19.1

Three more days, including today to go.

0:23.4

How are you feeling?

0:24.9

Oh, amazing.

0:26.4

This experiment has blown my mind.

0:31.4

I obviously tried not to go into it with too many expectations

0:34.4

because that's the whole point of the experiment.

0:37.2

We just say, hey, what's going to happen if we spend an hour in nature every day?

0:41.8

But the, I think I've said the word profound every episode this month.

0:46.8

But the changes that I've felt and the things that I've noticed and the mindset shifts that

0:52.2

I've made have genuinely been profound. Like I really have felt this on a level that I did noticed and the mindset shifts that I've made have genuinely been profound.

0:55.5

Like I really have felt this on a level that I did not expect to.

0:59.2

And the thing that has blown me away is that I know I'm not the only one.

1:03.2

Out of any experiment we've ever done, this is the one that I have been contacted about the most.

1:09.0

And this is just while it's happening.

1:11.9

This is the one that people get emotional and passionate about.

1:16.7

There's something really powerful at play here.

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