Podcasts about discovered life

This episode interacts with the latest dispatch from The Embassy - here is an excerpt: ViewSharon Melzer, 24, has long believed in manifestation, or the idea that she can bring her hopes and dreams to life by visualizing them.Coming Soon: Your Beautiful, Successful, Confident Life - Ayson Krueger - NYT - 7/26/25Manifestation is one of the watchwords of our time. The idea is to take an idea, a preferred future, and manifest it, or put it into the universe in order to make it a reality. It is believing in a future that isn't here yet - and the belief that belief itself is a big part of turning a desired idea into reality. There is a part of this I accept, but the part I believe probably doesn't qualify as what people call manifesting an idea into reality. More on that in a bit, but first, let's look at the latest turn in manifestation, involving, of course, artificial intelligence. Sharon Melzer's AI generated videos are an example.Now, thanks to improved artificial intelligence technology, she can be — by putting herself, or an avatar that closely resembles her, in videos depicting her ideal future.These digital vision boards are a little like movie trailers showing coming attractions. In one, Ms. Melzer is flying on a private plane, giving a keynote address to a packed room and getting a notification on her computer that she reached 100,000 subscribers on YouTube.Coming Soon: Your Beautiful, Successful, Confident Life - Ayson Krueger - NYT - 7/26/25She says that she watches these videos, and there are about 20 of them now, when she wakes up in the morning and before she goes to bed - instead of, in her description, scrolling through Tik Tok or Instagram. She watches herself achieving her dreams instead of other people (supposedly) achieving theirs. Not a bad thing, certainly, if that is the alternative. This idea of making the right moves so you can live your best life now and into the future is not foreign to the Christian space. It is Joel Osteen's philosophy - living your best life now is thought a birthright, something the universe, or God, depending, gives us if we make the right moves or picture the right future or have the right kind of faith. It is a bit of the main character syndrome I talked about in my last dispatch - an invented life with an outcome within my control.Using A.I. for manifestation has taken off in the past year, said Catherine Goetze, the C.E.O. of CatGPT, an A.I. educational platform. … To Ms. Goetze …, the videos look real enough that she is compelled to remind users they are not “crystal balls,” she said. “The computer has been trained to reflect back at you what you tell it, so if it shows you as a billionaire, it doesn't mean you are going to be a billionaire. It just means you told it you want to be a billionaire.”Coming Soon: Your Beautiful, Successful, Confident Life - Ayson Krueger - NYT - 7/26/25Well, yes … right. Otherwise, there would be a lot of billionaires. I guess. I'm not a billionaire, maybe I just didn't manifest hard enough. Or have enough of the right kind of faith. Or have the right software. But I don't think so. I don't want to say a positive outlook on the future coupled with positive action toward that future isn't important, even vital. But it seems like we are talking about something else here. For one thing, using Ms. Krueger as our example, she has 20 or so videos, depicting her in various aspects of a preferred future, but some of these may not go together. If there are 20 pictures, different pictures, of your future, it is quite likely that the over/under on how many of these happen is about one half. It is quite likely, in fact, that accomplishing one of these things precludes accomplishing others.If one of these things happens, it will very likely require hard work, disappointment, redirection … it will be a journey. That journey may include a positive outlook, maybe even manifestation, and it may end with the desired outcome, but it will likely be hard earned. And here is the first thing that strikes me as I ponder this trend of manifestation. The destination of the journey is important, it isn't just any journey that will do - but, with these caveats in mind, it is the journey that is the point. Life is the journey, the outcome doesn't produce life, whatever outcome there may be is the fruit of a life. Or, I should say it is one fruit of a life. It isn't even the most important fruit. It is, as I spoke of Living a Discovered Life, part of life that is “under the sun”. It is fine, great even, but it can't be the point.I have spoken with many people who have had a difficult journey, or who are in a difficult stretch in their journey. I'm sure you have too. That might describe you right now. One of the things that I have said to others and have reminded myself of during these times is God does not promise us relief from these difficult parts of the journey. In fact, it is through these difficult parts that most of the real fruit is produced. This is the fruit we are not manifesting, partly because we don't have this fruit in mind, but mostly because we aren't sure what it looks like - at least not from here. AI can't help me make a video depicting a wiser future me. Or a more peaceful me, or more contented, kinder, more faithful, more humble, more joyful, or a more hopeful me. Or a more loving me. What would that even look like, exactly? As soon as I am the point of the manifestation, these things fade out of focus - they come indirectly, by God's grace, on an outward focused journey. If God is gracious, and if I act in the faith He gives me, and if I imperfectly persevere through the difficult parts of the journey - a measure of these fruits find their way to me, even though that wasn't the outcome I had in mind. Faithfulness in the journey is the point of a life that is more than good outcomes “under the sun”. …Read the whole thing here.The Embassy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to The Embassy at theembassy.substack.com/subscribe

Last April, headlines used the word “extraordinary” to describe the results of a study made of a distant planet known as K2-18b.  Using the powerful James Webb telescope, it was suggested that it shows potential signs alien life! God told Abram to look at those same stars – not in the hope of finding possible life out there, with the certain promise of new life He would bring to us right here. And it's extraordinary! Episode art: NASA/dima_zel, CC BY 4.0

As always, we use the latest dispatch from The Embassy for our discussion - here is an excerpt:The debate concerning the origin or foundation of mathematics has been around for a very long time. Particularly, this question: Is mathematics invented or is it discovered? Because mathematics describes to an unreasonable level of accuracy how the physical world operates, is it something like a part of or an addendum to our universe? Or, is it something humans are inventing, which may be what it seems like in the moment of thinking up new mathematical ideas. For those who are interested in the question, here are a few (very non-technical) minutes from Roger Penrose, one of the most prominent physicists of the past number of decades, on the question. One of the arguments against mathematics being discovered is the unresolved, and probably scientifically and mathematically insolvable question: how did it get there? God doesn't often come up in these discussions, but that might be the beginning of an answer. I suspect this is one of the motivations of those who favor view that mathematics is invented.I have always been on the discovered end of the question, not that anyone cares. As Penrose points out, there are many examples, Einstein's theories being some of the most prominent, where the known mathematics was extended far beyond our knowledge of the physical universe, only to find, through experimentation, that this apparently invented mathematics predicts the outcome of these experiments to an incredible degree of precision. The mathematics, along with those aspects of the universe that the mathematics describes, was waiting, from the very beginning of the universe, for us to discover it. Some on the invented side of the question seem to believe that everything is invented, that nothing exists on its own, rather we make it up and live according to these invented rules. It is all in our heads because everything is. Okay, okay, enough about mathematics, or at least let us move from mathematics to life. This is our question: is our life invented or discovered? And what difference does that make?This is our question: is our life invented or discovered? And what difference does that make?I don't assume you have ever thought about the question, at least not in those terms. But our answer, or our assumed answer, whether we have reflected on it or not, impacts how we approach, think about, and live our lives. As Carl Trueman writes in The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self …… most of us do not self-consciously reflect on life and the world as we live in it but instead think and act intuitively in accordance with the way we instinctively imagine the world to be.Carl Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self, p.73As we reflect, with aid from Trueman and his book, we can draw on the work of philosophers Philip Rieff and Charles Taylor. Neither are religious, to my understanding, but both have wrestled with how we have thought about what life is over the course of Western Civilization. Rieff describes society's moral values as finding their foundation in a sacred order (at least until our current age). He describes three successive worlds, with the first two worlds justifying these moral values by appealing to something transcendent, to the sacred. The first world is pagan and is controlled by fate, based on the whims of capricious gods or spirits. The second world in the West is Judeo-Christian and is characterized by faith, and at it's moral foundation is a loving God who made us and everything else. We can move past fate because, in this second world, our lives have a purpose beyond ourselves, we are part of a larger story. The third world, by contrast, moves past belief in anything transcendent. It is only us, no larger purpose, nothing else to justify us, we have to justify ourselves. We have to invent our lives instead of discovering them in a larger story. Rieff writes,Culture and sacred order are inseparable, the former the registration of the latter as a systematic expression of the practical relation between humans and the shadow aspect of reality as it is lived. No culture has ever preserved itself where it is not a registration of a sacred order.Philip Rieff, Sacred Order / Social Order, Volume 1, p.13 - referenced by Trueman, p. 76What Rieff calls the third world, Charles Taylor in his work A Secular Age, calls the immanent frame. Previously, as Rieff describes as the first and second world, we operated in a transcendent frame. In this shift from the transcendent frame to the immanent frame, Taylor describes a shift in how we understand our lives. In the transcendent frame, we view our life as deeper than what is on the surface, the world we see is representative of a larger reality. In the immanent frame, there is no larger reality, there is no order or meaning to discover. We are the creators of the meaning of our lives, instead of the discoverers of the meaning our lives already have. I think it is important to note that Taylor is not arguing for the transcendent frame, I don't want to misrepresent him. He is simply noticing this shift and some of the impacts it has.I have summarized and oversimplified very large ideas - but it is clear we have moved from the idea that our lives are given to us, along with the meaning and purpose that is a part of this gift, to the idea that our lives are completely our own, that we enter in Act 1, Scene 1 of our stories and it is all about the play that we write. Which is pretty much what we are left with if we reject the transcendent frame.Many of us, perhaps most of us, ourselves, our friends, family, and neighbors experience life as chaotic, bewildering, maybe even apparently meaningless. That is true as well for Christians who have signed up for the transcendent frame, and a life of meaning - but who expect to understand the meaning at every step. At various times, I suspect, this describes all Christians, though we may not want to admit it to ourselves. We are impacted by the immanent frame all around us even as we believe in a transcendent frame. We seek to form our beliefs in this transcendent frame, but we feel the pull of a world that has largely rejected itRead the whole thing here.The Embassy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to The Embassy at theembassy.substack.com/subscribe

I Discovered LIFE CHANGING Secrets Driving a Truck! #cdl #lifelessons #professionaldevelopment #truckingmotivation #personalgrowth Are you ready to uncover the life-changing secrets I discovered while driving a truck? From the open road to a new perspective, I'm sharing my most surprising and inspiring moments that will leave you wondering how you ever lived without them! Whether you're a seasoned truck driver or just looking for a fresh outlook, get ready to shift your gears and upgrade your life. This episode is sponsored by Bison Transport with many opportunities for truck drivers in their fleet across Canada. At Bison – they put Safety First Bison's “Right to Decide” Policy gives every Driver their ultimate protection. Drivers make the final decision if it is safe to drive and Bison actively encourages Driver's use of this policy.    You can learn more about Bison and the opportunities available at www.bisondriving.com   or call 1-800-527-5781 @BisonTransport #bisontransport   This episode is also sponsored by Ontario Truck Driving School has a number of courses to help you be successful when starting a career in transportation from heavy equipment to over the road trucking. You can learn more about starting your career at www.otds.com   This episode is sponsored by Rosedale Transport offering career opportunities for truck drivers with their large network. You can learn more at www.rosedalegroup.com   About the Show LISTEN TO THE PODCAST- The show is available at www.theleadpedalpodcast.com  , ITunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Tunein, iHeartradio, SoundCloud, and other popular podcast platforms. Thanks for listening JOIN THE LEAD PEDAL PODCAST FAN CLUB  www.TheLeadPedalPodcastFanClub.com  LISTEN TO LEAD PEDAL RADIO at www.LeadPedalRadio.com  The Lead Pedal Podcast for Truck Drivers talks all things trucking for people in the transportation industry helping them improve their business and careers. Interviews with industry professionals and truck drivers, trucking information, and other features on the industry are meant to be helpful for truck drivers and those in transportation. The Lead Pedal Podcast for Truck Drivers has main episodes released every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday with bonus material on other days. You can learn more about the host and show on our website and make sure to SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favourite podcast platform. www.theleadpedalpodcast.com  What does The Lead Pedal Podcast mean? The Lead (pronounced - Led) stands for acceleration or fast-track of your career or business. It is a play on words and we certainly are not here promoting speeding in the industry. We are hoping this information will help you become a professional driver faster than if you didn't know about many of these topics. Are you enjoying the show? If so we would appreciate you leaving us a rating and review on iTunes or on your favourite podcast platform. www.theleadpedalpodcast.com  Join The Lead Pedal Podcast Fan Club where are loyal fans get first chance at specials, discounts on merchandise and much more.The club is free to join and you can learn more at www.theleadpedalpodcastfanclub.com   

Sam tackles the often misunderstood concept of work-life balance, replacing it with a more holistic and fulfilling approach to living. Discover the profound insights and practical strategies to manage and prioritise the critical aspects of your life: health, relationships, work performance, and finances, without neglecting any. Drawing from his transformative talk at the "Upgrade Your Life" event in 2020, Sam shares his personal journey and the defining moments that led him to create the eight areas of life framework. This episode isn't just about identifying what's wrong; it's about providing solutions. Sam offers a clear, actionable framework to achieve a balanced, fulfilling life. Engage in a thoughtful activity to prioritise the eight life areas and align your time and energy with your true priorities. Discover how setting goals and dreams in each area can lead to an explosion of energy, allowing you to live more holistically and abundantly. This episode promises to reshape your understanding of success and guide you towards a life of completeness and fulfillment. Don't miss this opportunity to transform your life.

This was a first watch for both me and Jules. Objectively it's no Oscar winner but when you see it for what it is, there was something there. The casting was incredible and Tara Reid basically stole the show. We get into the realistic fashion, so many quotes we loved, a real-time deep dive on the director (eek), and just how this story was unbelievable and infuriating at times.Off-topic rants include: ghost rom-com casting, 'losing your V card' as a movie genre, our first musician crushes--- Get BONUS episodes on 90s TV and culture (Freaks & Geeks, My So Called Life, Buffy, 90s culture documentaries, and more...) and to support the show join the  Patreon! Hosts: Lauren @lauren_melanie & Jules @imdenmateFollow Fashion Grunge PodcastSubstack The Lo Down: a Fashion Grunge blog/newsletterInstagram @fashiongrungepodTwitter @fgrungepodLetterboxd Fashion Grunge PodcastTikTok @fashiongrungepod 

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Recorded June 9, 2023 Book Talk Starts at 26.03 Our annual Mother Bear KAL began June 1, 2023, but any bears you have knit or crocheted in 2023 are eligible as entries for prizes.  To find out all about this wonderful charity, please go to Mother Bear Project website.  Talk bears with us in the Mother Bear Chatter thread and post your finished bears in the FOs thread. We have a listener who has come up with 3 incentive prizes for increasing your bear count!  For more info, please check out the Mother Bear Incentive Prizes thread.   Virtual Knitting Group via Zoom EVENTS Tracie and Barb will be at: Lambtown - October 7-8, 2023 at the Dixon May Fairgrounds in Dixon, CA The TKGA Retreat 2023 - November 2-5, 2023 at the Hilton Charlotte University Place Hotel in Charlotte, North Carolina   Tracie will be in New Zealand and Sydney, Australia this summer!  If you are near Auckland, National Park, Wellington, or the Marlborough region in NZ, or Sydney, and you'd like to try to meet up, please message Tracie at 2knitlitchicks@gmail.com or alittleposy on Ravelry.   KNITTING Barb finished 3 bears (272, 273, 274)   Tracie finished: Summer Sorrel by Wood & Pine in Despondent Dyes OMG Glitter! in the Even My Attorney Says “Let It Go” colorway 4 Mother Bears - 307-310 Gnome 26 - Never Not Gnoming by Sarah Schira in Neighborhood Fiber Co Rustic Fingering in Rock Creek Park and Psych Ward Yarns Hecka Fingering in Cable Car Red   Barb is working on: Rock It Tee by Tanis Lavalee, using Anzula Breeze in the Fern and Gravity colorways WYS Vanilla Socks, using West Yorkshire Spinners Signature 4-ply Self-Striping in the Peacock colorway Razzle Dazzle Scarf in Leading Men Fiber Arts Show Stopper Gradient Set in the Razzle Dazzle #22 colorway 6600K (Striped Hoodie) by Barry Klein, using 4 colors of Lana Grossa Ecopuna Degradé   Barb has Cast On Mother Bear 275   Cast On: Rift by Jacqueline Cieslak in Juniper Moon Farm Zooey Experimental sweater - all mini skeins! Mother Bear 311   Working On: Marklee DK by Elizabeth Doherty in Knit Picks Comfy in Planetarium Socks in Tosh Merino Light Glitter in T'Challa colorway   BOOKS Barb and Tracie both enthusiastically recommend:  Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver - 5 stars   Barb read: The Liar's Club by Mary Karr - 4 stars The Year of Less : How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life is Worth More than Anything You can Buy in a Store by Cait Flanders - 3 stars   Tracie read: The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell - 4.5 stars Tracie recommends Onyx Professional Hard as Hoof Nail Strengthening Cream

Christian flew down to tell us his sugar dating stories in person. He discovered sugar dating while reading a magazine on an airplane. Do many women confuse generous with stupid? Find out if his Diamond Member status is worth it. Can you sugar date and look for a deep, emotional connection? You'll be surprised that many men appreciate when a Sugar Baby plans the date. What is your response when someone asks how you met? Find out how woman who are on multiple dating apps change their tune when you match with them on a sugar dating site. We discuss the much talked about subject of PPM vs Allowance. How do you show up to an initial meet and greet and should you pay for a meet and greet? Find out all this and more!   Share your stories, questions, and comments at www.secretsofasugardaddy.com   Follow us on Instagram at www.instagram.com/secretsofasugardaddy  

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On today's episode we have a special guest, Lindy! Lindy is a local friend and inspiration. Today we share our journeys to choosing to ditch drinking and discovering life on a new level. Podcast Resources: Increases in women's alcohol use: https://www.psychiatryadvisor.com/home/topics/addiction/alcohol-related-disorders/covid-19-pandemic-disproportionate-affect-on-women-led-to-increased-alcohol-use/ Mommy Wine Culture: https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/parenting/a34655653/wine-mom-jokes-danger/ We Are The Luckiest book on Amazon Find Lindy: Her Blog On Instagram --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coachsparkles/support

We start off telling Cait how excited and special we feel to have received an advance copy of her new book.  Cait shares a bit about herself, and then we dive into some discussion and reflections on her new book.  Here are the main topics we dig into with Cait:How Cait became a financial bloggerHow Cait paid off $30K+ in debtStarts, stops, and shame along the wayHappiness vs. Contentment Rambling vs. Adding ContextTaking things step by stepGiving yourself permission to try things vs. always requiring a long-term commitmentAdventure and accountability partnersJudgement Cait’s idea to organize the book around the hiking journey and hiking themesCait’s next adventureOur favorite takeaways and nuggets from our discussion with Cait:Cait has had a lot of starts and stops, some shame, and a lot of feelings.  This is normal and OK!  She used blogging as a tool, and looking back she wishes she had been kinder to herself and not deprived herself so much.  Cait says in her book that she doesn’t think happiness is a great way to measure our lives.  She instead measures her life through contentment.  She thinks happiness could be an unrealistic goal in life, vs. seeking to be content feels right.  She wants to make sure that her needs and wants are being met, and that she’s content with her choices.  Cait 100% validates that Maggie doesn’t ramble, but she instead adds a lot of context.  Giving yourself permission to just try something.  Don’t put too much pressure on yourself, and just be OK experimenting and trying things. And combine that with taking things step by step. Just take one initial step, then take another.  The importance of accountability or adventure partners.  And the importance of picking an accountability partner who knows what your best interests are and is going to reflect that back to you.  Someone who will help you dig deeper rather than enable things that may not be the best path for you.  You need the friend who’s going to tell you what you need to hear vs. what you want to hear.  A friend who would say, “I am not judging you, I am reflecting back to you what you’ve told me is important to you.”When others are judging you, it’s all about them and has nothing to do with you.   ---Show ReferencesBook: Adventures in Opting-Out: A Field Guide to Leading an Intentional LifeBook: The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a StoreCait Flanders website---Follow friends on FIRETwitterInstagramFacebookLinkedInLeave us a voicemail or text us: 404-981-3370eMail us at:  friendsonfiremm@gmail.comVisit our website: www.friendsonfire.org---Other LinksMaggie’s Blog: Mostly Minimal LifeMike’s Book: Your New Relationship with Money

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We all want to live better lives. In this special episode, host Keith McArthur brings back 10 of his favorite guests and asks them to share the most important life lesson they've ever learned. Feedback / Connect: Subscribe to My Instruction Manual on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else great podcast are found Visit MyInstructionManual.com for shownotes, more great content and to sign up the email newsletter Email: keith@myinstructionmanual.com Keith on Twitter: @KeithMcArthur Join our Facebook page and our Self-Help Book Club on Facebook Find us on Pinterest, Instagram and YouTube Download a free copy of 18 Steps to Own Your Life by clicking HERE Purchase Winning Resolutions HERE Episode 63 Show Notes [00:00] Welcome and Intro [1:35] Cait Flanders: Don't be Afraid to Fail Cait Flanders is the author of The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life is Worth More than Anything You Can Buy in a Store Cait also appears in Episode 62. Listen here. [4:51] Kristen Meinzer: Forgiveness is overrated Kristen is co-host of the By the Book podcast. Kristen works full-time in the podcast industry as a producer and host. Kristen also appears in Episode 45. Listen here. [8:19] Chris Browning: Bad things get better when you talk about them Chris Browning is the California-based accountant behind the popular Popcorn Finance podcast. He launched the podcast after he and his wife got out from under $27,000 in debt Chris also appears in Episode 41. Listen here. [11:54 ] Gretchen Rubin: The biggest failures teach the biggest lessons Gretchen Rubin is New York Times bestselling author of multiple books including The Happiness Project, Better Than Before, and The Four Tendencies. Gretchen also appears in Episodes 50 and 51. Listen here and here. [13:49] Laura Vanderkam: Hard work pays off Laura is author of several productivity and time management books. Her most recent book is Off the Clock: Feel Less Busy While Getting More Done. Her TED Talk on how to gain control of your free time has been viewed more than 10-million times. Laura is also the co-host of the Best of Both Worlds podcast. Laura also appears in Episode 44. Listen here. [18:00] Shawn Francis: Hold yourself accountable Shaun Francis is author of Eat Move Think: The Path to a Healthier, Stronger, Happier You. He is the CEO of Medcan, a Toronto-based company that provides holistic health services. Shawn also appears in Episode 42. Listen here. [21:45] Kerry Rowett: Trust Yourself Kerry is author of Align + Attract: Align Your Energy to Create a Business You Actually Love. She is a Holistic Kinesiologist living in Adelade, Australia. Kerry also appears in Episode 46. Listen here. [24:40] Mark Hamade: Don't be happy with second best Mark Hamade is a fitness enthusiast, an entrepreneur, a business coach, a Lebanese immigrant, a former Marine, and a cancer survivor. He set a resolution to lose more than 200 pounds. Mark also appears in Episode 58. Listen here. [26:55] Kathleen Trotter: Movement is non-negotiable Kathleen Trotter is author of Finding Your Fit and Your Fittest Future Self. She is My Instruction Manual's regular fitness contributor, and a Toronto-based personal trainer with a degree in exercise science. Kathleen also appears in Episode 61. Listen here. [32:00] Allison Melody: The body is designed to heal itself Allison Melody is host of the Food Heals podcast. By her 25th birthday, Allison lost both her parents to cancer. This led her to explore non-traditional healing methods, including nutrition. Allison also appears in Episode 43. Listen here.

Cait Flanders gave up shopping (and take out coffee) for a year. It turned out to be the most difficult year of her life - and not for the reasons you'd expect. Cait Flanders is the author of The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life is Worth More than Anything You Can Buy in a Store. She joins us today to talk about her shopping ban, and the important life lessons she learned along the way. Feedback / Connect: Subscribe to My Instruction Manual on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and anywhere else great podcast are found Visit MyInstructionManual.com for shownotes, more great content and to sign up the email newsletter Email: keith@myinstructionmanual.com Keith on Twitter: @KeithMcArthur Join our Facebook page and our Self-Help Book Club on Facebook Find us on Pinterest, Instagram and YouTube Download a free copy of 18 Steps to Own Your Life by clicking HERE Purchase Winning Resolutions HERE Episode 62 Show Notes [00:00] Welcome and Intro [1:53] Featured interview with Cait In this conversation, Keith and Cait discuss: How Cait got out of debt before the Year of Less The rules behind Cait's shopping ban How the shopping ban got harder as Cait's life got harder when Cait lerned her parents were getting divorced Cait's Black Friday slip What Cait learned from the shopping ban Why the shopping ban was more of a browsing ban [32:30] Cait's Instruction Manual 1. What are the habits you maintain every day to stay happy and healthy?  Go for a walk or hike every day Go to bed early and wake up naturally  2. What personal development book do you recommend?  Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig 3. Favorite personal mantra / inspirational quote    "We need much less than we think we need." attributed to Maya Angelou, but source not available "What consumes your mind controls your life." Cait adds "and your finances." 4. What's your one guilty pleasure?  Taking a long epson salt bath  5. When your time comes, how do you want to be remembered?  As someone who helped people to realize that it's possible to change your life, but it's not always going to be easy. [38:15] Where to find Cait Website: CaitFlanders.com Instagram: @caitflanders 

This is an episode that we can all benefit from! Cait Flanders is the best selling author of The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store.  Like so many of us, Cait found herself binge shopping and buying things she didn't need all too frequently.  She went into debt, pulled herself out of it, and then found herself returning to her old habits.  She took an extreme approach to change her financial situation: a shopping ban where she only allowed herself to buy essentials.  She also decluttered her house, changed her eating habits, and took the time to find out what really mattered in her life.  The book documents her year-long journey.  You can learn more about Cait on her website at caitflanders.com or check her out on Instagram (@caitflanders). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cait Flanders is an author, podcaster and traveler who writes about the intersection of mindfulness, minimalism, and money. We get to discuss her book "The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store."

With $27,000 in credit card debt, Chris Browning and his wife decided it was time to get serious about their finances. They cut cable, stopped going out to eat, and cancelled vacations. After they paid off their debt, Chris launched the popular Popcorn Finance podcast. He joins us in this episode to talk about how to budget, how to save, and how to get out of debt. And host Keith McArthur speaks with nutrition contributor Michelle Jaelin about iron in the first of a new series about minerals. Feedback / Connect: Subscribe to My Instruction Manual on Apple Podcasts or on Android Visit MyInstructionManual.com for shownotes, more great content and to sign up the email newsletter Email: keith@myinstructionmanual.com Keith on Twitter: @KeithMcArthur Join our Facebook page and our Self-Help Book Club on Facebook Find us on Pinterest, Instagram and YouTube Buy 18 Steps to Own Your Life: Simple Powers for a Healthier Happier You on Amazon Episode 41 Show Notes Chris Browning, host of the Popcorn Finance podcast, explains how he and his wife got out from under $27,000 in credit card debt. And host Keith McArthur speaks with nutrition contributor Michelle Jaelin about iron in the first of a new series about minerals. [00:00] Welcome and Intro [00:57] Featured interview with Chris Browning Chris Browning is the California-based accountant behind the popular Popcorn Finance podcast. He launched the podcast after he and his wife got out from under $27,000 in debt. In this conversation, Keith and Chris discuss: What is Popcorn Finance? [1:40] What do most people get wrong [2:53} How Chris and his wife lost track of their debts [4:59] How they got themselves out of debt [7:07] Chris mentions free website mint.com Is buying a house a good investment? [11:45] [15:00] Chris' Instruction Manual 1. What are the habits you maintain every day to stay happy and healthy? [15:16] Reading  2. What personal development book do you recommend? [16:06] The Year of Less: How I stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life is Worth More than Anything You Can Buy in a Store by Cait Flanders 3. Favorite personal mantra / inspirational quote [17:30]  "The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now" --- Chinese proverb 4. What's your one guilty pleasure? [18:50] Technology 5. When your time comes, how do you want to be remembered? [20:35] "As someone who was approachable and giving and someone people could come to as a resource." [21:29] Where to find Chris Website: PopcornFinance.com Twitter: @PopcornFinance Facebook: /PopcornFinance   [22:18] Nutrition contributor Michelle Jaelin on iron Michelle Jaelin is both a trained artist and a Registered Dietitian who is known as The NutritionArtist. She appears regularly as in newspapers, magazines and on television as an expert in healthy eating. In this conversation, Keith and Michelle discuss: How a math error led Popeye to each so much spinach in search of iron [22:46] Why do we need iron and how much do we need? [23:32] Where do get iron? [24:05] We need red meat for iron, but isn't it bad for us? [24:30] Why women need extra iron [26:40] Iron for vegans [28:34] Where to find Michelle: Twitter: @nutritionartist  Instagram: /nutritionartist Facebook: /nutritionartistRD [31:50] Closing words  

Could you go a year buying only consumables? You know, just the food, medicine and toiletries your family needed, replacing items like, say, outgrown snow pants, but otherwise opting out of those routine purchases many of us make without really thinking? Here's another question: Could you give away 70 per cent of your belongings, and if you could, how would it make you feel? My guest for this episode can answer those questions with a resounding yes. Cait Flanders is a freelance writer and personal finance blogger who has written a really compelling memoir called The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store. This ended up being a profound exercise for Cait that dramatically changed the way she lives. She shares advice on how we can shift our relationship with consuming in this compelling chat. Show Notes Love our work? Please check out our Patreon Campaign! Become a patron of the show for as little as $1 per month

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