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The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

When slow becomes fast and no is hard to say

The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Brooke McAlary

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

4.6525 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

What does slow living look like in retirement? And what if it's not really slow at all? Brooke chats with listener Sara about learning to say no, and is then joined by Carl Honore to talk about the importance of re-evaluating our values as we get older.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the slow home podcast.

0:12.2

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

0:16.2

My name is Brooke McCallory.

0:17.5

My name is Ben McCallery.

0:18.5

Welcome to Season 4, Episode 5. Wow. I feel like you're... My name is Ben McCallory. My name is Ben McCallory. Welcome to Season 4, Episode 5.

0:22.1

Wow.

0:22.6

I feel like your, my name is Ben McCallory is getting so much closer to the end of my

0:27.0

Brooke McCallory.

0:28.1

It is.

0:28.7

It becomes one word.

0:29.9

It will run into one another.

0:31.3

You'll just speak over me by the end of the season.

0:33.6

Imagine a mash-up of all our our 200 plus episodes of that intro.

0:39.8

Oh, no, thanks.

0:41.5

That would be like a dance music track.

0:45.4

Yeah, we could do that.

0:47.4

All right.

0:48.4

That's our next project.

0:51.0

So this is a really cool episode because it follows directly on to the last one quite

0:56.6

nicely where you spoke to Lauren about slow living, slow living in mid-20s.

1:01.7

Good.

1:02.3

I wish people could see how you pretended to play that on your imaginary guitar.

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