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Well, hello there, listeners, and welcome back.

My name is Stephanie Safarian, and you're listening to episode 351 of sustainable minimalists,

a twice-weekly show about intentional and eco-minimalist living.

On today's show, we are discussing the scarcity mindset, what it is, why so many of us have it, and how we can leave it in the dust because at the end of the day

a scarcity mindset is not serving us it's not helping us it's not making our days any brighter.

Oprah Winfrey once said, and I quote,

be thankful for what you have, you'll end up having more.

If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never ever have enough.

And that may sound a bit pie in the sky to some of you, a little fluffy, a little,

intangible perhaps. But the reality is that we live in a world in which

companies and corporations make money off of our feelings of scarcity, of our feelings of inadequacy.

Advertisements are meant to deepen our feelings of scarcity,

and so if we don't already have a scarcity mindset, advertisements do their

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