Hello and welcome to the slow home podcast. This is the show that looks at the why and the what and the how of living a slower, simpler life in a very fast-paced world. My name is Brooke McCallory. Thank you very much for joining me. And my name is Ben McCallory. And welcome. Welcome to Monday.

Providing you're listening to this on a Monday, of course.

Otherwise, turn it off and wait until Monday.

Exactly.

Very direct of you.

Very, yeah, sorry about that.

This is the second episode in a series that looks at people's why.

A really important theme that comes up a lot, doesn't it, in our conversations?

It does come up a lot.

It's something I've written about even before the podcast started and have been slowly

kind of working out my why, but also why it's so important and all the different ways

that it actually affects and impacts

the choices that we make and the things that we do and the ways that we do them. And we figured

given that these Monday shows this year are really, we're really trying to help you either be inspired,

like deeply inspired or give you a very specific action to take. Because what we want you to do is not only go, yeah, slow living's great.

Don't know how to actually instigate any of it.

So we want you to be able to walk away from episodes with something to do, with something

that's going to make you move forward.

And I think the idea of why can sometimes be this nebulous kind of thing that we understand.

Yep, it's important, but it never really goes beyond that.

We don't know how to use it in our day-to-day lives.

So that's really what the next couple of episodes are about, starting to distill your Y down, which we spoke about last week, into something

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