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Joining me for this episode is Ethan Waldman, a leading figure in the tiny house movement. Ethan's journey from a web designer to a tiny house expert is nothing short of inspiring, and his conversation here with me is definitely one for those of you who are seeking a shift in how you live and impact the planet. Not only does Ethan live in a tiny house, he's built an entire community around it! The founder of thetinyhouse.net, Ethan is also the author of the guidebook and online course Tiny House Decisions and host of Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast, which recently celebrated its 300th episode! Ethan recounts a transformative bike trip along the Pacific coast. Expecting the journey to be life-changing, he was surprised by his reaction upon returning home. The simplicity of living out of a few bags contrasted with the abundance of stuff he had accumulated, a revelation that pushed him towards tiny house living. Listen as Ethan explores the whys and hows of tiny house living, breaking down the process into actionable steps: understanding your motivation, deciding between a mobile or stationary tiny house, and whether to build it yourself or hire professionals. He also shares the challenges and rewards of DIY construction, providing a realistic perspective on what it takes to create your own tiny home. For those curious about minimalism, Ethan also offers practical tips on decluttering, starting with the easiest area: your wardrobe. He shares how small experiments, like packing lightly for a trip, can be a stepping stone towards embracing a simpler lifestyle. His advice is grounded in real experiences and interviews with minimalism experts, making it accessible for anyone interested in the philosophy. We also discuss the broader implications of the tiny house movement. While there are significant challenges in converting commercial spaces into residential ones, Ethan's optimism about the movement's growth is palpable, and he highlights how some states, like California, are already leading the way with progressive legislation that makes it easier to integrate tiny houses into urban landscapes. Ethan, in closing, reflects on his journey and what's next now for him. With the landscape of online education evolving, he's contemplating new directions for his business. Whether you're a tiny house enthusiast or just curious about alternative living, this episode offers a wealth of information and inspiration, so tune in, get inspired, and perhaps take your first step towards a more intentional way of living! Episode Highlights: [1:36] - Ethan reveals that he is a tiny house author, speaker, teacher, and creator of the Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast. [3:04] - Dissatisfied with corporate life, Ethan built a tiny house to pursue entrepreneurship after a sabbatical.[5:47] - I reflect on Ethan's clarity from biking, realizing possessions hinder life's true desires.[7:47] - Ethan suggests starting decluttering with clothes and recommends trying a minimalist trip for a reset. [10:47] - Ethan defines the tiny house movement as advocating for homes under 450ft² with efficient space use.[13:19] - Ethan notes that converting commercial buildings into housing is challenging due to interior space and construction differences.[15:38] - Ethan notes nonprofit tiny home projects for veterans. [18:56] - Start with why you want a tiny house, and then decide on mobility or permanence.[21:22] - Ethan notes a pandemic-driven surge in tiny house interest, now suggesting lower-priced used options. [24:47] - Ethan discusses options for moving tiny houses and challenges in financing them traditionally. [28:06] - Hear what's next now for Ethan. [30:07] - Ethan reveals where he can be found online. Links & Resources: Schedule Listening Time with https://www.garydanoff.com/contact Gary Danoff LinkedIn thetinyhouse.net Tiny House Decisions Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast

Welcome to the Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast, the show where you learn how to plan, build, and live the tiny lifestyle. I'm your host, Ethan Waldman, and I'm thrilled to have you join us for another adventure into the fascinating world of compact and conscious living. Today we're venturing off the beaten path and into the realm of off-grid living with our inspiring guest, Reesa, who has carved out her own piece of paradise on a multi-generational homestead. Throughout our conversation, we'll uncover the nuts and bolts of Reesa's journey, from the inspirations that sparked her transition to a scaled-down, sustainable lifestyle, to the practicalities of building an affordable tiny home from an Amish-built shed shell. We'll dive into her low-tech solutions for heating, water storage, and even delve into the world of humanure composting. Get ready to be enlightened and maybe even a bit envious of the simplicity and beauty that off-grid living can offer, as we explore how Reesa and her son make the most out of their tiny house and the land they call home.In This Episode:

Have you ever considered tiny home living? If so, this is the episode for you. I sit down with Ethan, a tiny home builder and expert, to talk about the lifestyle that comes along with tiny home living, the finances and tax complexities of tiny homes, and why a tiny home may just be the solution to living your ideal nomad lifestyle.Connect with EthanWebsite: thetinyhouse.netInstagram: @ethanwaldmanFacebook: buildingthetinyhouseConnect with Nicole⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠NomadNeeks on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @nomadneeks⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠NomadNeeks on YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @nomadneeks⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠NomadNeeks on Twitter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@nomadneeks⁠⁠Purchase the Income and Expense Tracker Now⁠⁠Sign up for 60+ Remote Work Job BoardsGive the Podcast a 5-Star Rating on Apple Podcasts - Thank you!

2022 was an incredibly busy and wonderful year! This week, I give you a recap of the Tiny House Summit, an update on my personal tiny house, and I also share some of my favorite episodes of the Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast. Thank you for listening to the show every week. Happy New Year!Full show notes and images at thetinyhouse.net/243In This Episode:My biggest business and teaching accomplishmentMoving and renting out my tiny houseUpcoming tiny house maintenanceHow is this podcast doing?My favorite episodes and why you should hear themShout out to my team!This week's sponsor: Tiny House ConsiderationsTiny House Considerations is an 8-week interactive course to plan your tiny house with Ethan Waldman and Lina Menard as your guides. Includes:Weekly Lessons and AssignmentsWeekly Live Zoom Q&A Sessions with Two Pro InstructorsComprehensive TemplatesAn Amazing CommunityLearn more and register: https://www.thetinyhouse.net/thcListen. Subscribe. Rate. Review. Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Google Podcasts More... Follow Ethan. Mastodon (my favorite!) Instagram Pinterest Facebook

Why are tiny house festivals important? My guest, Renee Seevers, is the creator of TinyFest Midwest, TinyFest California, and recently TinyFest Southwest. Renee tells me about switching from a tiny house to a skoolie, what it's like running the festivals, and what you can expect at one of her TinyFest events.Full show notes and images at thetinyhouse.net/242In This Episode:Terrifying tiny house mistakesWhat to expect at a TinyFestBuilding community for people on the moveUpcoming tiny house eventsWhy tiny house festivals are importantThis week's sponsor: Tiny House ConsiderationsTiny House Considerations is an 8-week interactive course to plan your tiny house with Ethan Waldman and Lina Menard as your guides. Includes:Weekly Lessons and AssignmentsWeekly Live Zoom Q&A Sessions with Two Pro InstructorsComprehensive TemplatesAn Amazing CommunityLearn more and register: https://www.thetinyhouse.net/thcListen. Subscribe. Rate. Review. Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Google Podcasts More... Follow Ethan. Mastodon (my favorite!) Instagram Pinterest Facebook

What is bioregional building? Steven Martyn got in touch with me when he released his latest book called The Roundhouse, which is all about bioregional building. It's essentially the idea of finding all of your building materials within a 100 mile radius of where you're building the house and it has a lot of interesting benefits and effects. Steven, a very philosophical and wonderful guest, has a lot of interesting ideas about living on this earth and I'm happy to share them with you.Full show notes and images at thetinyhouse.net/241In This Episode:What is bioregional building and the hundred-mile house?Building with creativity and funNot minimalist: anti-consumeristHow to get building experience without building your own houseGeomancy and your constantly moving homeHumanure compost systemThis week's sponsor: Tiny House ConsiderationsTiny House Considerations is an 8-week interactive course to plan your tiny house with Ethan Waldman and Lina Menard as your guides. Includes:Weekly Lessons and AssignmentsWeekly Live Zoom Q&A Sessions with Two Pro InstructorsComprehensive TemplatesAn Amazing CommunityLearn more and register: https://www.thetinyhouse.net/thc

This is a great real conversation about what it's like living tiny. Megan Lockhart doesn't try to hide the things that are struggles for her and her family and she's also great about advocating for the benefits of tiny living. We talk about the pros and cons, trials and tribulations, and the immense benefit Megan feels she and her family get from the tiny house lifestyle. Stick around after the credits to hear a bonus session where Megan shares how her builder forgot to install the furnace in her tiny house and how it wreaked havoc in their first winter!Full show notes and images at thetinyhouse.net/232In This Episode:Questions you should ask about your tiny homeThe never-ending process of tidying upPros and cons of compost toiletsCreating more spaces for childrenTips for working from home in a tiny houseHow did the builder forget to install the furnace?This week's Sponsor: Tiny House ConsiderationsTiny House Considerations is an 8-week interactive course to plan your tiny house with Ethan Waldman and Lina Menard as your guides. Includes:Weekly Lessons and AssignmentsWeekly Live Zoom Q&A Sessions with Two Pro InstructorsComprehensive TemplatesAn Amazing CommunityLearn more and register: https://www.thetinyhouse.net/thcTiny House Considerations is a 8-week interactive course to plan your tiny house with Ethan Waldman and Lina Menard as your guides. Includes:Weekly Lessons and AssignmentsWeekly Live Zoom Q&A Sessions with Two Pro InstructorsComprehensive TemplatesAn Amazing CommunityLearn more and register: https://www.thetinyhouse.net/thc

Ethan Waldman is a tiny house author, speaker, and teacher. He built his own tiny house on wheels in 2012 and has been passionately helping future tiny house dwellers on their own journeys ever since. Ethan's guide, Tiny House Decisions, has helped thousands of readers answer the big questions about tiny houses and plan each system in their future home. He's also the creator and host of the Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast, a show that brings you conversations with tiny house luminaries, builders, and DIYers. Ethan and his wife Ann live in their tiny house part-time in Northern Vermont.https://thetinyhouse.net/thlpSupport the show

This has to be the most unique tiny house living situation I've ever seen! Sarah, Brandon, and their dog Iko live in a 225-square-foot tiny home that floats on a lake in The Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina. They live fully off-grid with no cell service and they are only accessible by boat. In this conversation, Sarah and Brandon graciously and openly share why and how they live this way, plus how much it costs and some of the unique challenges that present when you live on a lake in a temperate rainforest.Full show notes and images at thetinyhouse.net/231In This Episode:How the floating house is set upWhat happens during storms?Legal requirements unique to floating homesRent and utility costsThe biggest logistical headache of this lifestyleHow they deal with gray water and sewagePositive changes that came from their lifestyleTiny House Considerations is a 8-week interactive course to plan your tiny house with Ethan Waldman and Lina Menard as your guides. Includes:Weekly Lessons and AssignmentsWeekly Live Zoom Q&A Sessions with Two Pro InstructorsComprehensive TemplatesAn Amazing CommunityLearn more and register: https://www.thetinyhouse.net/thc

 We're changing it up a little bit this week! Lucy Lich interviewed me on her podcast, Tiny House Conversations. We had an in-depth conversation about some of the most important decisions you need to make to plan and build a tiny house successfully. We also talked through my best-selling resource, Tiny House Decisions. Lucy is a great interviewer and it was a pleasure to be on her show!Full show notes and images at thetinyhouse.net/230 In This Episode:Ethan's tiny house-building experiencesA common misconception about living in a tiny houseWhich decisions are actually covered in Tiny House Decisions?Thinking of a tiny house as a puzzle of systemsTrailers, zoning regulations, and tiny house securityTiny House Considerations is a 8-week interactive course to plan your tiny house with Ethan Waldman and Lina Menard as your guides. Includes:Weekly Lessons and AssignmentsWeekly Live Zoom Q&A Sessions with Two Pro InstructorsComprehensive TemplatesAn Amazing CommunityLearn more and register: https://www.thetinyhouse.net/thc

LandStories Live -- Episode 80!! The Ins and Outs of Tiny Houses with Ethan Waldman of Tiny House Lifestyle   Join us today, as Dave talks to Ethan Waldman of Tiny House Lifestyle. Ethan is going to share his experience on Tiny House living, and why he is so passionate about.    For more information on Ethan, please visit his website:  https://www.thetinyhouse.net/

How do you downsize and what part does community play in your aspirations? Brad and LL recap Tiny House expert, Ethan Waldman, and give their thoughts on the importance of community, how sharing your story leads to success, and what decluttering today may look like for you. If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co . And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:How you train people to treat youHow sharing your vision allows other people to be a part of it Taking what you know to “retool” it laterPracticing seeing yourself in others' stories leads to evidence you can do what you wantThe value of decluttering and leaving a smaller footprint Episode References/Links:AGENCY MINICADILLAC PILATES FLASHCARDSTINY HOUSE BLOG  If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox.Be It Till You See It Podcast SurveyResourcesWatch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable PilatesSocial MediaInstagramFacebookLinkedInEpisode Transcript:Lesley Logan  Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guests will bring Bold, Executable, Intrinsic and Targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.Welcome back to the Be It Till You See It interview recap where my co host in life, Brad and I are going to dig into the building convo I had with Ethan Waldman in our last episode. If you haven't yet listened to that interview, feel free to pause this now and go back and listen to that one and then come back and join us. You know what's really exciting, is we're getting surveys in. Thank you everyone beitpod.com/tellme is where you're gonna give me your opinion, if you haven't done that already. And what we're finding out is some of you love the recaps. Some of you love the interviews and some of you will love it both. And it's really exciting to find out why you liked that. So, you listen to both and tell us which ones you like and if you've listened to all of them like a few of you I know that's amazing. (Brad: Yeah) Thank you for staying up on top of every single episode.Brad Crowell  We love having you.Lesley Logan  I love having you. Okay, so today is the day.Brad Crowell  Okay, Cardi.Lesley Logan  The Cadillac decks are shipping. (Brad and Lesley laughs) Holy moly, I, you know I feel like I birthed an elephant, baby. Like this is how long, this has been in the womb. And (Brad: Yeah) we have had supply chain issues and other things that have just made this take a lot longer ...Brad Crowell  Design stuff, puzzle. I mean (Lesley: Yeah) the ... the puzzle of content itself.Lesley Logan  How do you get 110 cards in a box is like (Brad: Yeah) really a thing. So if you bought the Cadillac deck on presale, it shipping now. Thank you so much.Brad Crowell  Yeah. It will be shipping. And if it's not the exact day, it'll be like in the next day.Lesley Logan  Yeah, don't scare them. It's happening right now. We're putting into the universe. It's happening right now. The other thing is, if you haven't bought the Cadillac deck, and for like I have the tower Lesley, that's fine, most almost all the cards, except for teeny tiny handful can be on a tower. And we have, we have descriptions how to do that, and how to set yours up as well. You can buy the cards now. And (Brad: Yeah) for a very, very brief moment if you're listening to this not in real time, if just listening to the future, it's not happening now. But if you're listening to this in real time, go to onlinepilatesclasses.com because we will have special situation going on this week. Or if you buy a Cadillac deck, you get a deal on a Mat deck. (Brad: Yeah) That's just for you, very special, so ...Brad Crowell  You'll find that on the home page or maybe on a pop up. But you can also go to onlinepilatesclasses.com/flashcards.Lesley Logan  Oh, you could do that. That's where you can go. Okay, and we are exactly, today's a special date. (Brad: It is.) We are one month from the start of Agency Mini number seven. What does that mean? It's our seven day coaching program. It's the seventh time we've run it. So I can't think of another lucky number to get in on but Agency Mini number seven.Brad Crowell  Yeah. So this is obviously Profitable Pilates, and it's a week long snapshot of our ongoing coaching program. What's in it for you, you are going to walk away knowing exactly how much you should be charging your your clients. So figuring out your pricing, schedule, your product offerings, you are also going to understand, you know how your story can help you share. And we're going to, we're going to talk a little bit more about this today. But passionately sharing your story is going to help you connect with your future clients.Lesley Logan  Yeah, yeah. And we go for so much. And so we have a special webinar that we, that Brad has mentioned, we also have a Q&A call, where you can ask us anything. And then during the week, you're in a private group, where you can ask us anything. Brad and I turned into like total gamers, everything is delivered. Everyone takes care of us that we can take care of you and answer your questions about your business because I do believe that you are the only person who can do what you do the way that you do it. (Brad: Yeah) And you have to be reminded of that regularly. And I also know that coaching can seem like it's out of your league. It's for somebody else and not you yet your business isn't big enough. Who are you? But every single one of us needs someone we can ask advice from who's been there. And Brad and I have been there we've coached over 1200 businesses (Brad: Yeah) at this point, just in our minis alone.Brad Crowell  I mean, that's kind of insane. (Lesley: It's insane.) 1200 businesses. (Lesley: Yeah) That's that's actually that's pretty amazing. (Lesley: Yeah) I'm patting myself on the back. I'm actually more just shocked that that's that's the actual number. We went back and looked at it and I was like, "Oh (Lesley: Yeah) damn." (Lesley: Yeah) Anyway, we we would love to connect with you. The reality is, we can help you answer the questions that you have worked through the concerns, the fears, the anxiety. You know, we have built an amazing community of incredibly supportive teachers and studio owners around the world who are in the same exact boat as you are in the fitness business. Right. And when you have a chance to connect with other people who actually get it, you know, they actually know what you're going through. It is such it's such a relief. It's an incredible support system. And that's all part of Agency the ongoing thing we're going to have, like I said one week of that with Agency Mini. So come join us. Just go to profitablepilates.com/mini, profitablepilates.com/mini.Lesley Logan  Yep. Okay, we have an audience question to respond to.Brad Crowell  Yeah, we totally do. The, I know you got this in a DM. And this was a little bit more on the business side of things. But, is there a gray area for when you should you would not charge a late cancellation fee? Because as I'm sure you've all heard, Lesley talks about cancellation fees all the time.Lesley Logan  I do. And actually this came from because I've been talking about why you need a scheduling tool. And if you want to know more about why use a scheduling tool and how to find one for you make sure that you go to profitablepilates.com because we have a free webinar on that topic specifically. But first of all, here's what I say, I know that there are emergencies like legit emergencies, I've had a client get in a car accident on their way to a session. (Brad: Right) Obviously, I'm not an asshole. Like they were on their way to the session. Had someone not t boned their car, they would have been at the session, right? So and I have had a client who on her way into a session got a call that she lost her brother, like, those are some legit things, and I am I human being. So I get that. And here's the thing I charge every other late cancel, so that I can not charge those. (Brad: Right) So for me the gray area is that I am extremely firm on my cancellation policy, I make people sign off that they understand the cancellation policy. And I am very clear from the first time that they late cancel that, that I charge it. So you (Brad: Yeah) train people how to treat you. (Brad: Yeah) And then if they give me pushback, I say, "Look, you know the fact that you forgot you had a meeting today is not my emergency. That's your emergency. That's not a health thing. That's like that's a lack of planning. And it sucks. And (Brad: Yeah) I feel for you, I wish you could be here right now." But if I don't teach them to make sure they protect their time, that's for them to become the person that they want to be, then they will always like cancel on me because they will know that I'm the one that will bend over backwards over those two scenarios. (Brad: Yeah) Right. Guess what that person is able to do? Call that meeting and say, "Can we meet in 30 minutes? Or can we meet on the phone?" (Brad: Sure.) Yes, they could. Right. So I am helping people make time for themselves. So the gray area is simply like, like death ...Brad Crowell  Yeah, I mean, it's not even, it's not even that it's extenuating circumstances that are out of the control of the person that you're teaching that they didn't plan for it. It's an actual emergency kind of thing. Where like, I mean ...Lesley Logan  I mean people make up the flu, and I still charge them.Brad Crowell  Okay, so but but I think that I don't I don't hate that. (Lesley: Yeah) Okay. But my point is that, you know, it's about boundaries. (Lesley: Yeah) And it's about you understanding, when is a reasonable time for you to be gracious, you can't be gracious every time. You're not you, you're doing yourself a disservice if you're always excusing them, because you're teaching them that they can treat you that way.Lesley Logan  And also, like just so you know, I had a client who never ever, ever, ever, ever got sick, and one time she got the flu, and I was kind of at it, because they never done it before. And I met someone else who like every other session, they had some sort of like allergy season happening. (Brad Right) So like, I think you really do have to like, figure that out. But you have to first I would rather you err on the side of charging every late cancel than charging zero because it is so much easier to be the kind angel who doesn't charge when you've always charged (Brad: Yeah) versus retraining people that you always charge, you're going to have to have way more tough conversations. And the other thing is, when I am sick and I had to cancel, I owed them a session. That was the agreement. So I late canceled on them versus early canceled on them. I owed them a session.Brad Crowell  Which was like incredibly rare.Lesley Logan  Yeah, so we're incredibly rare and then also, what you can do is I put in my contracts that if I got them a sub, they didn't have to take the sub. But then I owe them a session. So then if I can (Brad: Right) get another teacher to cover me if I was sick, then if they didn't want to take the session, I didn't owe them one. So there's ways of working around this. But ...Brad Crowell  And the easiest way to handle late sessions and actually can't billing them for them is to use our scheduling tool. (Lesley: Yeah, because they ...) You can set it up automatically, where it's they sign the contract when they join, and in the contract that talks about your late cancellation policy. And you can make it 24 hours, 48 hours, whatever makes sense for you. And then in the app, you can literally set it up where like if they have a package, or if they booked a session at all, and they cancel during your you know, inside of your cancellation window. So if you've got 24 hour cancellation window and they cancel 23 hours in, automatically they're getting docked from, like a session dock from their package, or the session that they paid for is you know, they they're they've already paid for it.Lesley Logan  Yeah, and this came up because I want you to do the math for a second. If you only charge $75 for a session which I know some people charge 120, some people charge less than like, let's just say 75 and you let someone like cancel without paying one time a week. Out of 48 weeks a year. That's not like that's not even an unreasonable number it's going to happen. That's $3,600 that you have left on the table. For some of you, that's almost a month's worth of income if (Brad: Right) you're teaching about 15 hours a week. (Brad: Yeah) Right. Like, let's it's almost your entire month's income, the amount of money you, imagine things you could use that money for, to either propel your life forward or make the lives around you better, like you could literally I don't care if you're donating all the money away. It's still money that you're you're taking away from somebody, whether it's you, whether it's a charity, whether it's people you could hire to help with your business, like that is real, legit money. And it's important to me that you are making real legit money so you can do more of what you love. And you can take care of the people that you care about the most. (Brad: Yeah) And if this kind of question is something you are really like, "Oh, I wish I had more answers like this." That's how I do my coaching. This is what Brad and I do all day long every day in our coaching business. So join Agency Mini.Brad Crowell  All right, let's talk about Ethan Waldman. Let's jump straight in here. Tiny House author, speaker and teacher. Ethan Wallman has a built a business around educating people on how to plan and build tiny homes from testing and turning a dream idea into his business. He is an inspiration for what can happen when you finally put the foundation down and begin progressing towards your next big thing. Yeah.Lesley Logan  I actually really loved that we talked about sharing the vision, the importance of like, of like telling people around you of like what you're doing and sharing this vision that you have. It allows people to be part of the journey, but it allows people to also help you. And again, (Brad: Yeah) it gets you excited about it. Because every time you ...Brad Crowell  Yeah. You're selling yourself every time you're sharing your vision, you're reselling yourself. Totally.Lesley Logan  Yeah. So I was really into that. I mean, I think ...Brad Crowell  He talked about how people would like offer to help. He's like, "Yeah, I'm building this tiny home. It's so cool. Oh, this weekend, I'm going to tackle this thing." And he's like, "Yeah, when I was telling people about it." They were like, "I'm not doing anything on Saturday. I can help." And he's like, "What? Okay."Lesley Logan  Yeah. And you know what, here's the thing like a being it till you see it, everyone, when you share your aspirations, whether you saw yourself in building a tiny home, or just like building anything else, and people want to help you say, 'yes'. That's what they they that is them sharing their love with you. That is an act of service, love gesture, and like they want to help you. And it's so important that we say 'yes', unless it's a stalker, then maybe say 'no', but like, if it's a legit person that you actually enjoy spending time with, I'm just saying, because someone's ... listening by my stalker want to help me. I don't need your DM, I hear you. But my point is like to be it till you see it, you should take help from others. (Brad: Yeah) That's how we get anywhere.Brad Crowell  Yeah, totally. Each time that you share the vision, you get better at sharing the vision. Right. And even though you might not be selling someone on the idea, it you know, the more you, you will figure out what people connect with, right? This is actually, when I used to work in food, it my, I had a goal, my goal was to learn the menu upside down and backwards to learn everything about how it was prepared. I wanted a story behind each dish. Oh, yeah, this specific type of fish comes from blah, blah, blah, blah. And the way that chef prepares it is X Y Z and something really, and then we do this thing. And it's amazing. And it tastes so good and smells all the things. Right. And my whole goal was to have a story behind every single dish on the menu. And it allowed me to know how to sell it. So that just takes practice, it takes time, you know, the more that you are, the more that you're thinking about that and re re saying it a different way. Basically, just like I literally just did right there, because I couldn't come up with a word. (Brad and Lesley laughs) You are gonna get better at selling, at sharing that story. And your vision is something that you ultimately we always talking about elevator pitches and all the things you know, whether that's like just you talking about who you are, and what you do in life, or you actually going out and selling a product, the more often you share your vision, the better at it, you get.Lesley Logan  Yeah. Yeah. I mean, what's one thing you loved?Brad Crowell  Awesome. Well, okay, so I was really excited about his idea of taking something that he had figured out, and then effectively retooling it, and doing using that later. And he so it's ironic, because it's kind of what I just talked about with sharing your vision over and over again, I didn't actually realize that I was connecting these dots here. But basically, he had started a coaching business. And he said, the people that he really wanted to serve. Ultimately, he realized they can't pay me. And while I love doing what I'm doing, I can't pay the bills by bartering for, you know, for services. And what he so he decided to pause his coaching services and while he was still building and ultimately moved into his tiny home, and so it was at that time that he was like, "Wait a minute duh, I obviously can share my experience about the, you know, the tiny home process with other people." And that's when he really started to write a book. That was like 2013 2014, he released the book. And ... (Lesley: It's a good year to release books.) It was a good year ... (Lesley laughs) But it's also like 200 pages, it's not just like a (Lesley: Yeah) five page PDF. This is like a legit book, whole process. And he's he was excited to share about how it helps you ...Mostly, I was just talking about my book, because I release at the same time. That's why. (Brad: Oh, yes you did. Yeah.) But I, but here's the thing. (Brad: that's funny) I think that a lot of people listen to this episode and they be like, "Lesley brought on someone about tiny homes. Why did you do that?" Because it was a story, an example of someone who's doing something else who decided to do something he's never done before. (Brad: Yeah) Did the thing and then made a career out of the thing that he just did. (Brad: Yeah.) And I think we often think who am I to do something, and I needed you to hear a story of like, here's someone who probably could have had that same exact question. And instead, still did it and hit obstacles along the way, and then took what they were able to do and took it as a skill set of theirs and like, break it down and put it into a 200 page book. I know, it's coaching and create communities around that.Yeah. And that's exactly what he said, he said, you know, in 2014, his business was able to grow, survive based on selling the book. And he said, today, people really want more like courses, tutorial videos, training sessions, or whatever plus community. And so he's built a community around tiny homes. And he said, he has people in there from all stages, whether they're planning it, or they're building it, or they live in it, and they want to make changes or whatever. And it's very inspiring, because he was able to take it from his corporate job to his coaching business, which didn't go the way you want it, apply more of those things to, now business coaching people through tiny homes. (Lesley: Yeah) So I thought that was great.Lesley Logan  I think it's just like, the more we can practice seeing ourselves in someone else's story, the more we can start to see that there's evidence around you that you can do whatever the hell you want.Brad Crowell  I think it's amazing. I do think it's amazing that there's like an infinite number of ways to make money.Lesley Logan  There is an infinite number. Okay, BE IT action items.Brad Crowell  Yeah, let's talk about those BE IT action items. What bold, executable, intrinsic or targeted action items can we take away from your conversation with Ethan? So he had only one super clear and concise BE IT action item. And his assumption with that was that you're interested in tiny homes. So do you want to share?Lesley Logan  Yeah, it's so basically, if you're interested in tiny homes, like the and like, the one thing you could be doing is like start decluttering and downsizing in the current place that you're living. So like, how can you actually take up less of a footprint in your current space, so that you are ready to live in this tiny home. And I'll say this when I moved into my first tiny home, which was my apartment that Brad moved in a year later, I had nothing. I actually have a picture I showed, I showed Amanda, our producer, a picture of my apartment when I moved and it was just like 13 lego boxes, and a bowl, a bunch of those colorful balls, and a peace sign lamp. It's all I own. Right. And then I we like slowly built our way into it. But the point is, is like like, I don't care if you want to build a tiny home or not. If you are wanting to have more clarity, if you're wanting to feel less overwhelmed, declutter. Like Rachel Rogers says, "Millionaires don't have piles around." And I just every time I see a pile, I'm like, "Oh, is that's keeping me from being a millionaire." So like, it doesn't matter if you want to live in a tiny home or not. If you just want to, like have more abundance around you get rid of your piles.Brad Crowell  So, I while I was listening to you. He, I just decided what if I pulled up his site? I bet you he has information on how do you downsize? Right. And in fact, he does. If you search the tinyhouse.net and you search downsize, or how do you downsize to live in a tiny house, he has a post on this. And you know, he said the reason that he recommends that for you is because that's something you can do before you spend any money before you start pla... like laying out plans, any of these like big decision stuff. This is something you can begin to do now. Something you can take action on today and it will help you get into that mode of living in a decluttered downsized, you know space. And also it's very freeing. I know Lesley and I, like Lesley was just saying it was it was actually like really rejuvenating for me to get rid of almost all of my stuff. It was pretty much.Lesley Logan  Yeah. I think again, just like try it on. Just try it out to see what it's like to like, let go of some excess and see what it allows you to do in your life. I'm Lesley Logan.Brad Crowell  And, I'm Brad Crowell.Lesley Logan  Thank you so much for joining us today. We are so grateful for you to be here. Thank you. How are you going to use these tips in your life? Let us know by sending us a DM and tag at the pod and we'll catch you on the next episode.Brad Crowell  Bye for now.Lesley Logan  That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review. And follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcasts. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the @be_it_pod on Instagram. I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others BE IT TILL YOU SEE IT. 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A fun episode about an entrepreneur's journey with TINY HOUSES! Everything you want to know about quitting the 9-5 and the niche community of tiny house builders. Even better, place yourself in the story and get inspired to begin your next project, no matter what it is!  If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co . And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:The beginning of building a Tiny HomeDecluttering and creating space The switch from hobby to business Applying what you already know to create the next thing or a new bizThe bond shared through aspirationsThe market and audience of tiny homesThe Tiny House DecisionsEpisode References/Links:Tiny House Decisions courseFollow Ethan on IGFollow Ethan on TwitterGuest Bio:Ethan Waldman is a tiny house author, speaker, and teacher. He built his own tiny house on wheels in 2012, and has been passionately helping future tiny house dwellers on their own journeys ever since. Ethan's guide, Tiny House Decisions, has helped thousands of readers answer the big questions about tiny houses and plan each system in their future home. He's also the creator and host of the Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast, a show that brings you conversations with tiny house luminaries, builders, and DIYers.  If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox.Be It Till You See It Podcast SurveyResourcesWatch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable PilatesSocial MediaInstagramFacebookLinkedInEpisode Transcript:Lesley Logan  Hey Be It babe, what's up? Okay, so today's guest is very specific topic. Okay. It's a very specific topic, and I'll let him introduce what his specific topic is. But the reason I wanted to have him on whether or not you see yourself in this specific topic, doesn't matter. I want you to practice seeing your journey, seeing your dreams, seeing your visions, seeing your goal in someone else because that is how we learn. It is. So, sometimes we want like a roadmap, a blueprint of some kind, where we go, "Okay, step A, step B, step C." But some of the best ideas I've had have been from other industries, from other people's goals, other people's questions, from other people's ideas that had nothing to do with what I'm doing. Because often, we get a little stuck in where we are. And we're like, "Well, that everyone doesn't like this. That's how I have to do it." But some of the best inspirations you're gonna get are from seeing yourself in other people's situations. So I challenge you with this episode. If you are like, "Oh, Lesley, thanks so much. This isn't for me." Keep listening. Also, I freaking love his BE IT action item at the end. It is definitely towards what he is doing. But I think we all can do it. So like, it'll be really easy for you to see yourself in that. But again, challenge yourself. And if you're like, "Oh my God, yes, this is what I've been doing." Because I'm thinking of three listeners right now I know who are doing this. Great. Enjoy. He's a wealth of knowledge. And I'm so so excited. But I'm truly inspired by him. His perseverance, his authenticity and, and the journey that he's on. I think we can all learn and glean something from this, I can't hear wait to hear what you did with this interview, with this information. And so let us know at the @be_it_pod, tag us there, make sure to leave us a review. And if you really like our guest, he has a podcast too. So you can go ahead and listen to his and do a favor if you'd like his, leave a review. I know I say this a lot and then in every podcast, here's the deal. Reviews matter. I get to read every single one of them and they're so much fun. The team reads them all. And we share them around the whole office and it's well the virtual office and it is a lot of fun. So thank you for listening. Thank you for being you. And here is our guest, Ethan Waldman.Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast, where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guests will bring Bold, Executable, Intrinsic and Targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.Hey, Be It listener, I have the one and only Ethan Waldman here. I'm super excited to have him because I saw I saw what he was doing. And I thought, that's what a lot of people, think about doing, talk about doing and then maybe have a million reasons why they wouldn't do it. So I wanted to bring him on to maybe inspire you. And if you don't see yourself in his particular situation, you can use all these things for anything else you're putting obstacles in the way. So Ethan, thanks for being here on the Be It pod. Can you tell everyone who you are and what you're up to?Ethan Waldman  Sure. Hey, everyone. Thanks for having me, Lesley. I'm Ethan Waldman. And the thing that I am passionate about is tiny houses.Lesley Logan  Yeah. Okay. So because I've, before I got rid of a TV, many moons ago, they like had tiny houses on TV shows like people talk about tiny houses, like, did you grow up in a tiny house? Like, was it easy... I have so many questions. How did you get in the tiny house?Ethan Waldman  Yeah, I did not grow up in a tiny house. And it was not easy. I think it's kind of funny. Like, if I knew now how hard it was to build my own house, I probably never would have done it. So I'm almost glad that I didn't know. About 10 years ago now or actually more than 10 years ago, I was a couple of years into a corporate career, kind of the thing that I studied in college. I was doing the like living in a cubicle from nine to five kind of thing. And I just, I wasn't really happy. I just, I love the outdoors, I love, you know, skiing and being on the lake and just doing these things that require like the precise alignment of weather conditions. And it always really bothered me, when I had to be at my desk, doing work that really wasn't that time sensitive, when what I really wanted to be doing was like skiing that morning. And so I started to really become interested in entrepreneurship, interested in having my own business. And I had already started kind of a side hustle a side business. But I was still renting, you know, an expensive house with a friend. I hadn't really changed anything about my lifestyle and hadn't really taken many steps. Really big steps towards like leaving my job and like really changing things up. And so around, you know, sometime in 2011, I found a blog called Rowdy Kittens, written by Tammy Strobel and her and her husband, I know she has she likes cats. She has a bunch of kittens. ... her husband Logan had, they didn't build it themselves. But they had hired a company headed by this person named Dee Williams to build them a tiny house. And so I kind of just went down the rabbit hole reading about Tammy and Logan's Tiny House learning about Dee Williams who is kind of like the like the godmother of The Tiny House Movement. Learning about Tumbleweed Tiny homes, it's kind of this guy Jay Shafer, just like all these kind of OG tiny house people and learning about like, hey, like, these houses are small, they are, you know, DIYable, anybody can learn to build their own house, like there are workshops you can take, you can buy the plans. And I, I just realized that, you know, building a tiny house and living in one would drastically lower my, my monthly expenses. Like if I could own my own home outright with what I had in savings, and I had enough in savings at the time to take it on. That I'd be able to leave my corporate job, and did not have to come up with a business idea that would pay me what I was making in the corporate career because that's difficult to go from, you know, corporate career to ...Lesley Logan  Oh working for yourself and making (Ethan: working for yourself) the income (Ethan: Yeah) at the same time. Yeah. No, (Ethan: Yeah) there's, there's like, you can do a little as someone who's done it, you can do a little bit of like, bridging (Ethan: Yeah) a little bit. And then you're working seven days a week, most of the time all the time. (Ethan: Yeah) You're not doing your snow stuff that you want to do. (Ethan: Yeah. Exactly.) And then you still have to eventually make the leap and there's gonna be a gap.Ethan Waldman  Yeah, yeah. So the tiny house like was my gap, was my gap thing.Lesley Logan  I love it. So, (Ethan: Yeah) so you built it yourself, by yourself? Did you have help?Ethan Waldman  Yeah, so I started off. So my budget was such that like, I had to do it all myself. And like, when I was three months into the project, and like recognized that I was basically nowhere, I realized that I needed help. Because like the house really, it's it's I had at that point I had made like pretty significant investment in a trailer that's like several $1,000 and materials and I came to the realization that until it's an actual house, you invest all this time and money and it's not really worth anything, so you need to get it done. And so I actually put out an ad on Craigslist and found kind of a local jack of all trades type person who, who really worked with me the whole build, and, you know, I would hire him his name was Jason, like, one or two days a week, he would kind of get me started on the next step, whatever next thing it was kind of show me how to do it, and then kind of turned me loose.Lesley Logan  That's cool. I actually, thanks for sharing that part. Because I think no matter what a project is, like, do like we, I mean, the DIY is great, because you can have, you can stay in your budget, you can do things that (Ethan: Yeah) like, but then eventually, there's going to be things you don't know how to do. And it's either going to cost you more time, which is more money eventually on like silly things, saying that you can't move in because now you're paying rent at the other place, or it's gonna cost you money to sort in the timespan to hire someone. So that's really cool that you're able to find someone who can kind of like, do it with you.Ethan Waldman  Yeah, it was really helpful. And I, you know, I credit Jason with with helping make it happen. I don't know what would have happened if I didn't hire him. I mean, it still took 14 months.Lesley Logan  Okay, that was my next (Ethan: Yeah) 14 months. That's a that is a lot longer than you probably expected.Ethan Waldman  Oh, yeah. Like my housemate at the time was a woodworker who had done construction. And when I was talking to him about it, he was like, "Oh, yeah, you could build that in like three months, and I'll help." And not only didn't he help, it takes a lot longer than three months. You could do it in three months if you really, if you knew how to build already, and you work full time on it, like, (Lesley: Yeah, like that was your nine to five.) Yeah, I mean, I tell people in my training materials that it's it's like 1000 to 1400 hours of work to build a tiny house. So (Lesley: Yeah) you just have to divide, you have to divide that 1000 hours out over a period of time. (Lesley: Yeah.) Often when a couple builds a tiny house together on the weekends, it takes them about a year.Lesley Logan  Yeah. Okay. So now we're even living in your tiny house about 10 years now?Ethan Waldman  Well, we're 10 years down the road. I don't live in my tiny house anymore, actually. Now it is the cool thing about tiny houses, I knew that I might never live in it forever. Or I knew I wasn't gonna live in it forever. But I also knew that I like never wanted to get rid of it. Because it's, it's such an asset to me. You know, I built my whole business around educating people on how to plan and build tiny houses. But now also, I've I've found my way into this really sweet situation, I found a landlord who is open to letting us do Airbnb. So basically, I've turned the tiny house into, you know, another piece of my business in terms of income.Lesley Logan  That's so cool. So now people (Ethan: Yeah ...) staying in your tiny house.Ethan Waldman  Yeah. And it's fun, too, because I get so many messages from guests who are like, "Thank you, this helped us figure out like what we wanted in terms of our tiny house." And that's, uh, you know, I tell people, like, if you're thinking about living in a tiny house, and you've never been in one, first see if there's a tiny house festival happening in your area, because that's a great way to see a ton of tiny houses at once. But even better book, one on Airbnb for a night or a weekend and see what it feels like to live there.Lesley Logan  Yeah, that's, that's actually a genius tip. I think everyone should try everything on for size, whether it's a tiny house or a job or a school (Ethan: Yeah) or a relationship. You know, because some things like look really good on the outside and then like, then it's reality. So (Ethan: Yeah) so let's talk about like moving from the house, you were in into the tiny house. And we you alluded earlier, like it wasn't easy. So like, what was the hard, what were the harder parts of like moving into the tiny house?Ethan Waldman  Yeah, I mean, I would say that, that it was the building of the tiny house, that wasn't easy. It took so long that like, I had a lot of time to prepare, (Lesley: Okay) in terms of like, getting rid of clutter and possessions that I that I knew I didn't want. In fact, that was it was one of the very earliest things I could do. Even before I started building, when I was still in the planning phases and saving money. It's like, you can start decluttering and kind of getting rid of the stuff that you don't want right away. And that's makes it easier to move into the tiny house.Lesley Logan  I love that because it's like, it's like you got to live tiny before you were in your tiny house.Ethan Waldman  Definitely. And I think that there is an element of like living in a tiny house that that does make it easier to declutter and downsize. Like when you have the space, you will spread out into it. And so if you try to cram your your, you know, one bedroom apartment life into a tiny house, all of a sudden there's going to be stuff everywhere and it's going to be obvious to you what needs to go but as much as you can do beforehand, the better and and also just for me, it just gave me something to stay motivated about. Like it gave me some tangible things that I could do while I was waiting to start that were actually going to contribute to, to the project.Lesley Logan  Yeah, because you know, like, it doesn't matter what the goal is, right? There's always, it always takes a little longer than we want, or we think, we plan but being able to take little actions every day. So it feels like you're getting closer to the goal is (Ethan: Yeah) rewarding. And, and so I think I love that you pointed that out, I will say it because we went from a 500 square foot apartment with ... (Ethan: That's almost, that's a tiny house.) that's a tiny house. So we have this amazing tiny house. We live (Ethan: Yeah) in this great neighborhood in LA and it's a super super old studio apartment, which is not technically a studio because there wasn't ins... there was a door on the inside. There was a kitchen, full kitchen and then like a dressing room. And then the bathroom was behind the kitchen and had a door too, so there was like, technically you could call it a one bedroom, but the bedroom was in the kitchen as well. So that's why ... (Ethan: Okay) but it also had a back patio and a backyard with a tree. No apartments in LA had this so we could like sort of have an office outside because it's LA. But (Ethan: Yeah) we it was amazing when we moved out to a five bedroom house. Everything we owned, like I like, "Where are these boxes coming from? How did we like where were this packed away?" It was so crazy what we're able to hide even in 500 square feet with (Ethan: Yeah) two dogs. (Ethan: Yeah) We had like three, two guitar, three guitars underneath the bed. Like I didn't even know that we had a trombone under the bed as well. All of that under the bed. So it's kind of shocking. And now that we live in this house, we have spread out. You are correct. You just take up the space you're given.Ethan Waldman  Yeah. I mean, just like an empty room, you're like, "Okay, well, how about like a credenza or an end table or a dresser or something?" And then you're like, "Oh well, I have all these extra drawers? I gotta put stuff in them."Lesley Logan  Yeah. So okay, so you you, you have the corporate job. You've gotten to the tiny house, when (Ethan: Yeah) did you make your entrepreneurship about tiny homes? Was that it from the beginning? Or like, what were you, were you dabbling into some other things? How did that transition happen?Ethan Waldman  Yeah, great question. So, like, many I read The Four Hour Workweek, like back in 2003 or four and was like, you know, (Lesley: Yeah) I was always in the back of my head. Like, I want passive income. I want to like have a business online that makes money while I sleep, which like, isn't real. You have to do work.Lesley Logan  Well, there's a lot of work in the front end, like a lot (Ethan: Yeah, it's true.) more than four hours. (Ethan: Yeah) And then, and then if you like, figure out all the things someone is working more than four hours a week, it just (Ethan: It's true.) might not be you.Ethan Waldman  It's true. No, and I will admit, like, I do wake up and people have bought my eBooks and courses. And so yes, I made money while I slept. (Lesley: Yeah) So that was always in the back of my my head. And I actually started kind of online business, I guess you would call it now like a creator business, it was called Cloud Coach. And the motto was "Live and work in harmony with technology." I've always loved technology. I like teaching people and particularly helping, like small businesses kind of figure out their technology. And so I had this idea, I'll, I'll become a coach. I'll help people learn to use the technology around them. (Lesley: Yeah) And it was, it was going okay, I like I ran the blog and website for a few years, I had a couple, I had a several kinds of productized services. I was doing some web design for people, I even created like a, it was like an online course on how to like, get to inbox zero. And ...Lesley Logan  Oh, I can't wait for Brad to hear this because he is someone who has like always like 1000 emails ...Ethan Waldman  Just archive them all. Start to declare bankruptcy. (Lesley laughs) My advice, my advice now. But yeah, so it just like trucking along. But it wasn't like really making very much money. I was finding that the people who could afford to pay me wanted me to do it for them. And the people who wanted to be coached and learn themselves, which is what I was mostly interested in doing couldn't couldn't pay. (Ethan: Right) So like, I definitely had like lots of free yoga classes and massages and like, music lessons and like, you know I was like doing a lot of like barter, but you know, that doesn't pay the bills. (Lesley: No, you still gonna pay the bills.) Yeah. And so during the build, I was actually able to when I quit my corporate job, which was like somewhat specialized, I was able to negotiate essentially, like a consultancy. And so I like continued to do pieces of my job on a product or project by project basis. (Lesley: Oh great) And that yeah, that really helped to kind of pay the bills while you know, especially once I quit and also as I continued to build the tiny house and it went over budget ... we can talk about. Yeah, as most things do. So it was around, it was around 2013 I knew that the tiny house had a very viable audience. I had started a Facebook page when I was building the house. And by the end of the build, it had something like four or 5000 likes. (Lesley: That's insane.) And like, yeah, this was back in 2012 before the algorithm, when just like posting decent content, like, got you a lot of exposure. (Lesley: Yeah) You didn't have to pay Facebook for that. (Lesley: Yeah) And so I was getting tons of questions like, you know, "Why did you choose that heater versus this heater? Like, what kind of insulation is that? Like, why did you use that?" And so I just decided to apply what I had already learned from doing Cloud Coach about email marketing, about, you know, building a WordPress website, how to put a product online, how to use PayPal, all these things. And, you know, I put up a landing page for, like, a concept of a book that was called and still is called Tiny House Decisions, and got to work writing it. And I launched that in 2014.Lesley Logan  That's so cool. (Ethan: Yeah) That's so cool. So then started with the book, you had the page or you write the book and then like (Ethan: Yeah) and then people started buying the book, or people started asking you for coaching advice, or what was the, how did you end up getting like a business out of it?Ethan Waldman  Well, basically, while I was writing the book, I was starting to do email marketing, starting to publish blog posts, and building up that interest list of people who were like, interested in potentially buying it. (Lesley: Yeah) And so then, I don't think I really made any money in the tiny house world until I self published the guide in, I think it was September of 2014. (Lesley: cool) And like it was, it was the right time. This it was before there were now you can go on to YouTube. And there are hundreds of people who have documented their their full build from start to finish. I would argue that that my book still gives you something that they don't, which is really helping you think through what goes into the house, like planning all the systems and putting it all together before you ever start to build, essentially.Lesley Logan  Oh, you are 100... So this is, so this is my thing. I'm on YouTube. I love it. It's great. We get paid on it. And you can go there and learn a bunch. But you aren't learning how to put things together. You're like watching it's, it's not voyeuristic per se because there can be a conversation, they'd be teaching something. But (Ethan: Yeah) you, there's only so much that free can do, you can have (Ethan: Yeah) all the information but putting the puzzle pieces together are a little difficult. And we have the van right. So before we hit record, my husband talking Ethan about our van. And we had all these like ideas we bought, like we got these we got we did buy some floor plans that were based off of our van. But as we're driving in it without having made any decisions, and we're seeing how the dogs are acting, what they need, what we need, when we're working in it. We're like, "You know, we don't actually want a kitchen on the inside, because I don't want to smell the food while I'm driving around." I'm not actually gonna live in my van, I'm just using it to like, road trip. So you I think you're right, like you're having that book or having any wherever your idea is like having something that helps you make the decisions that work for you is (Ethan: Yeah) going to be more valuable then you know, just getting the tips on where how to how to put it together.Ethan Waldman  Totally, totally. And that's that's essentially what I set out to do in for tiny houses.Lesley Logan  Yeah. So do you and do you have like, I feel like no matter what people's industry is, there's like this, like, boom, and then like, kind of like peters out in plateaus. Do you feel like the tiny house is still on a boom? Or do you feel like it's on and like, people are still intrigued by it? Like, where do you feel it's going for you?Ethan Waldman  I mean, I think for the tiny house industry as a whole it is still kind of on the up. There's there's a lot of new interest in tiny houses. Laws around the country are changing to be more favorable for building and living in tiny houses. And there are many, many, many more companies that are building tiny houses professionally for people, because as more people are attracted to the movement. Not everyone can build their own tiny home, nor should they. (Lesley laughs) It's a major, it's a major undertaking of time and energy. And for many people, their time might be better spent continuing to do whatever it is that they do to earn money and pay someone else to do the dirty work, (Lesley: Yeah) like building the house.Lesley Logan  Yeah, we were big fans of like, hire people whose strengths are your weaknesses. If you're not a builder, hire a builder. (Ethang: Yeah, yeah.) Go to your thing well. Go what do that as well.Ethan Waldman  I think for me and this I know yours, like, trends in online education in general, is that people are less interested in just like buying a PDF. They want community and they want really to be taught they want like a class. So my ebook still sells. And I think it's like in terms of like the dollar to value ratio, it's still like probably the best 40 bucks you can spend, just because it's like 200 pages long. And if you follow it through, you're gonna have a pretty solid plan for your tiny house at the end. But I've, several years ago, launched an online community called Tiny House Engage. And it's about 100 to 150 people, depending on where we are in in membership. And, you know, that's where I'm providing the like, support, and helping to create a community space for for people who are you know, I, anybody is welcome to join. But I think it's best for people who are like, really sure they want to do it, and on. So like, you're really sure that's like the starting point. We have people who are currently in the middle of their DIY builds, we have people who are working with builders, and we have many people who are living in tiny houses too. So it's a, it's a nice online community.Lesley Logan  That's really cool. And I love how like you keep evolving what your role is in the tiny house industry and how you (Ethan: Yeah) you're like seeing a problem. And you're like solving that problem with your next, your next thing. What, when someone is considering, like, when you consider the tiny house? What were your biggest worries and what were like some of the surprises that you had, because like, I feel like people are like, okay, even if it's not a tiny house, if they're like, "I'm gonna leave my job, or I'm gonna move here," like, people have worries and fears. And then there's like, like surprises. So what what were yours in your move?Ethan Waldman  Yeah, I mean, it's a great question. And I'm trying to put myself back in my, like, late 20s brain of like, 2012, thinking about what I was going to do. I think that I was definitely worried, I was always worried about making enough money, I think my biggest fears were around leaving my job. In a way the tiny house felt like the solution to that problem, not not something that I was worried about. I think that I and then once I started building, I definitely had those fears, like, am I going to be able to finish this? Like is this am I actually going to be able to pull it off. And I think that what has continued to surprise me, to this day is just like that tiny houses inspire kind of a kindness in people. And they kind of bring your community out of the woodwork. And even now with how much more common tiny houses are. If you tell people that you're building a tiny house, they just want to help. They're like, "That's so cool. I've always wanted to do that myself." You know, "Oh, I have a box of hardwood flooring in my basement that like that's leftover from the kitchen renovation? Do you want it? Or like, can I come by and help you one day." It's just like, it always surprises me how people are willing to kind of help when you share a vision like that, that is exciting. And kind of just something a little bit out of the ordinary. But that is an aspirational thing for a lot of people.Lesley Logan  I love that. I actually that, that is actually a wonderful surprise to still like, I love to be surprised by people like our neighborhood (Ethan: Yeah) is not a neighborhood of tiny houses, obviously, we a five bedroom, but their old houses, there are particular style house in a particular neighborhood, everything was built in the late 40s, early 50s. And, and so people will will literally say like, "Oh, hey, we have these pains from the 1960s. If anyone's house needs them, I don't want to throw them away." And I just I love that about people like who are prideful in those things. They want to make sure that those things continue on and go to a good spot. And they and they continue to have their their moments. So I think that's cool that people do that for a tiny house owner. What do you think it is that draws people into wanting to live in a tiny house? Like what's the, what's the awe? Because, you know, like that, it's very interesting how many people, "I wanna live in a tiny house." Like you, you saw it as like a way of solving the fear of money thing. Is it, do you think it's like they see it as solving a problem that they have or?Ethan Waldman  I would say that that the majority of people that I interact with in my community, and just on my email list, the the financial piece is probably the biggest driver for them. Whether it's not wanting to have a mortgage and not be in debt, or just wanting to be able to own a house outright or just own a house, period. You know, even with a loan that's that's more affordable. I think that's the biggest driver. I've been surprised. You know, I always thought when I started the business, that my customers were going to be people like me like 20 something, millennials basically who were, you know, I graduated from college in 2007 right as the like crazy real estate ...Lesley Logan  Oh yeah. I graduated in 2005 and I worked in retail. So ... (Lesley laughs)Ethan Waldman  Yeah ... The idea of, of mortgaging your future to buy a house seemed crazy to me. And so I was like, "This is gonna be all millennials," who are like, burnt and like, just scared to buy, you know, to spend more money. What I'm seeing now is that there are millennials and younger people building tiny houses. But we're not staying in our tiny houses, because like, we're kind of at the beginning stages of our lives, like, we're going to find partners and potentially have families, children, dogs, pets, all these things. It's surprising to me how many boomers are retiring into tiny houses, that's been like, the biggest area in terms of like, students in my courses, people who buy my stuff, people join my community, like, are are like older folks who are actually, like, if you think about it in a much better point in their lives to downsize because, (Lesley: Yeah) kids have grown up, they don't need the space anymore. They're on more of a fixed income, potentially, if they've retired. And so these are actually the people who are like, building tiny houses or buying tiny houses, and they're like, "I'm gonna stay in here until I can't live on my own anymore."Lesley Logan  I think that is, that makes so much sense. And it's, I think it's really cool, I think. Yes, I agree. The millennials probably saw the tiny home as an as an opportunity to have a home that was their own, and then they're like, okay, but yeah, partners and kids in a tiny home gets a little hard. (Ethan: Yeah, yeah) No matter how organized you are, although people in New York apparently do it all the time with their apartments, so (Ethan: Yeah) I must be able to be done. But um, but my Dad is 70 and he's not in a tiny home, but he has he has downsized. And he I can see how for his generation of people, how helpful it would be to have access to a tiny home because you can (Ethan: Yeah) still feel like you have a home. You have this space that's your own. You know, and still have your independence. I think that's really cool. I love that your your stuff is available to multiple generations of people.Ethan Waldman  Yeah, yeah. And I've like, I'm pretty like tech savvy, but I've also like, in my business had to like, sometimes tone it down. Like I there's no Discord community that you can join when you join my programs because like, we always don't know how to use Discord like, you know, that kind of thing.Lesley Logan  My listeners, I swear, half the listeners are like, "Discord?" (Lesley laughs)Ethan Waldman  Yeah. Or Slack. Like I was like, "Oh, create a private Slack group." Like ...Lesley Logan  Oh, well, same. I have my Agency group is on Slack. Because I didn't want to put them on Facebook because I don't want them doing, like going for business coaching. (Ethan: Yeah) And then also seeing like, what, their weird Uncle Rob also wrote on one of their posts. I wanted them to like have a space that like this is safe for you to go. And also no algorithm, right. And everyone is like we have to put them in like us. We put them in a little Slack mini where we train them on Slack and they actually learn how to use Slack.Ethan Waldman  That's awesome.Lesley Logan  Before they come into the main group, otherwise, it's like, waa. (Ethan: Yeah) Yeah, well, um, I think yeah, you'll I mean, with depending with your millennial peeps, you can obviously tone it up and then with the other people just tone it down. But I also just think, even though the world has got, finally gotten online, as like the one as one of the few benefits of the last couple of years, people are still hesitant right and are unsure. And so having your stuff be accessible for that the boomer generation who's like if they have an iPhone, but they're not, they don't consider themselves tech savvy. (Ethan: Yeah) Cool. So what is next for you? Like, what are you excited about now? What are you kind of toying with or kind of being it till you see it now?Ethan Waldman  Yeah, so in November of 21, I piloted kind of a live cohort based course that's based around Tiny House Decisions, like Tiny House Decisions is the framework for the course. But it's seven weeks long with a lot of exercises and worksheets and things and then a weekly, two hour Q&A call, essentially. And so we've run that twice now. I have a co instructor for that. And I'd really like to figure out how to scale that up and get more people into it and potentially create like a self paced version of it.Lesley Logan  Yeah, I I love hearing what people are working on next, because I think people need to hear like they've run it a couple times. And it's not like (Ethan: Yeah) you're like, "Oh, we know how to do it all." Like, it's always testing and tweaking and making (Ethan: Yeah) adjustments and figuring out like, how do we get and how does anything go from being for a small group which is very fun people loved being accessible to the many.Ethan Waldman  Yeah, yeah, (Lesley: Yeah) exactly. And you know the the even just the name of it sometimes you can't find the right name for for a course. And I think I like figured it out between this last one and before we do it the next time so I think I'm gonna rename it Tiny House Accelerator, because that's kind of what it is.Lesley Logan  Oh, it's kind of like what was, like, incubate, what's the accelerator situation in Silicon Valley? Do you know I'm talking about?Ethan Waldman  Oh, yeah, like incubators for (Lesley: Y com?) companies .Y Combinator.Lesley Logan  Y Combinator. There it is. Yeah. (Ethan: Yeah) So yeah, but I like the word accelerator. And it's true. Like, when you're naming anything, because I hate having to name things because things that are cute, like don't work or clever doesn't work. Like it has to be like, it has to be kind of like it has to be SEO friendly and make sense. And but the word accelerator is really great because people that's what people want. They want it to be, like they want the information downloaded fast. (Ethan: Yeah, yeah) I like it. Test it out. You'll have to keep us posted on how it goes.Ethan Waldman  Yeah. Yeah, I will.Lesley Logan  Yeah. All right, everyone. So we're gonna take a quick moment and you're gonna find out how you can take this Tiny House Accelerator course, to get the book. Find out more about Ethan, so one second.Okay, Ethan, where can people find you, follow you, learn more information from you?Ethan Waldman  Sure. Yeah. I'd say like, the best place is thetinyhouse.net. That's my website. I would love for your listeners, since they're already listening to a podcast and they, I presume, understand how to listen to a podcast. Check out my podcast. It's called Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast. And it's been going for over four years. There's 250 episodes, deep interviews with just all kinds of people, van life, sailboat, school buses, tiny houses, professional builders, DIYers, it's like all in there. So like the podcast back catalogue is is a goldmine of of tiny house inspiration and information.Lesley Logan   Oh, my God. Brad's gonna binge out on the next drive.Ethan Waldman  Well, he told me that he already started. So (Lesley laughs)Lesley Logan  Of course he did. (Ethan: Yeah) Of course he did. Sometimes he sees who's coming on the show. And he gets he gets a little. He's like (Ethan: Alright) on a rabbit trail. Yeah, awesome. Okay, well, are you on Instagram or anywhere else on any socials?Ethan Waldman  Yeah, I'm on Instagram and Twitter. Just at @ethanwaldman, my name, Facebook, I'm at Building the Tiny House. I've like I've really, in the last several years, kind of identified that that like using social media doesn't make me feel particularly great. And it also is is a bit of a content hamster wheel. And so I've I've really tried to kind of step away from the content hamster wheel. And, you know, if you follow me on social, you'll, you'll hear about the latest things, but like, the podcast and my email newsletter are like, where you'll kind of be getting the most direct like, word (Lesley: Yes) from from Ethan.Lesley Logan  I hear you on that. I think (Ethan: Yeah) even though I'm in the hamster wheel of content creation, for a lot of our other brands, (Ethan: Yeah) you get the most up to date and info sooner if you're listening to the pod or the newsletter. (Ethan: For sure, for sure.) Because like, I there's something about it that feels like I'm writing a letter or I'm on a phone call (Ethan: Yeah) versus like, I'm putting this thing together to hopefully get your attention and hopefully answer a question that you may not be asking yourself today but you might be asking me yesterday. Yeah, I hear you. Okay, before I let you go, Ethan, you've been a wealth of just inspiration. BE IT action items, so we'd like to leave our listeners with bold, executable, intrinsic or targeted steps they can take to being it till they see it, whether it's in a tiny home or anything else.Ethan Waldman  Yeah, I would say so I'll answer that question based on that you're interested in, in living in a tiny home. I challenge you to, to, you know, pick up a book or not about decluttering and downsizing and start start doing that. Because if you are feeling like a tiny home is far into your future in terms of saving up the money for it or just having the time to build it. Down, you know, lowering your footprint, just even in the house that you live in now is a great start to living tiny, and it's an actionable step that you can take now.Lesley Logan  Yeah. And I also think like, even if you don't want to live tiny, we can all use a little decluttering and lowering of our footprint (Ethan: Oh yeah.) on this planet. Yeah. Well, that is, I love that. Thank you so much.Ethan Waldman  You're welcome.Lesley Logan  All right. Well, everyone, how are you going to do this in your life? How are you going to use the tips, the things, the stories that Ethan has told you? Let us know by tagging the @be_it_pod on Instagram, you can tag @ethanwaldman. Obviously, if you're on his newsletter, you can actually just reply to an email and tell him there. And let us know because you know, whether or not you want to live in a tiny home, I hope you can see like the journey that Ethan went on and how it's taken him to where he wants to be. And then sometimes we want to know the entire design from start to finish. It doesn't always work. It doesn't work that way ever actually. So so I hope it was an inspiration for you and taking the steps that you want and being it till you see it.That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review. And follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcasts. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the @be_it_pod on Instagram. I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others Be It Till You See It. Have an awesome day! 'Be It Till You See It' is a production of 'As The Crows Fly Media'. Brad Crowell  It's written, produced, filmed and recorded by your host Lesley Logan and me, Brad Crowell. 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Tiny houses are becoming the wave of the future. More and more people are turning to the Tiny House experience because of the costs of housing, the adventure of the open road and just wanting to down size. In this episode, Ethan and I chat about the pros and cons of building and owning a Tiny House.  You can find more about Tiny Houses, plans, videos and his podcast at: https://thetinyhouse.net/thlp If you have any comments or ideas for future episodes, you can leave them at: www.thevintagecafepodcast.com or email me at avintagelady1817@gmail.com    

#025 - Ethan Waldman is an experienced tiny houser from Burlington, Vermont in the United States. He is also a tiny house author, speaker, and teacher. He built his own tiny house on wheels in 2012, and has been passionately helping future tiny house dwellers on their own journeys ever since. Ethan's guide, Tiny House Decisions, has helped thousands of readers answer the big questions about tiny houses and plan each system in their future home. He's also the creator and host of the Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast, a show that brings you conversations with tiny house luminaries, builders, and DIYers. Ethan and his wife Ann live in their tiny house part-time in Northern Vermont.Ethan's podcast and book have been such big inspirations and valuable resources in my own tiny journey, and since there are so many things to consider and decisions to make, especially when starting out, I thought Ethan would be perfect to join us on the show to talk you through some of those key decisions to make when building a tiny house and living the tiny lifestyle.In this conversation we talk about:Ethan's tiny house building experiencesA common misconception about living in a tiny houseEthan talks us through the different sections of his e-book, Tiny House Decisions, and how you can start to think about or consider different decisions along the way - big decisions, systems decisions, construction decisions and living the tiny lifeWe touched on tiny trailers, tiny regulations and security for your tiny house… and moreFind out more about the podcast and get the episode show notes & links here:https://tinyhouseconversations.com/025And make sure you subscribe so you'll know exactly when new episodes are live!You can follow Ethan's tiny adventures here:W: https://www.thetinyhouse.net/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/ethanwaldman/ Podcast: https://www.thetinyhouse.net/thlp/ebook: https://www.thetinyhouse.net/tiny-house-decisions/Course: https://www.thetinyhouse.net/considerations/Community: https://www.thetinyhouse.net/tiny-house-engage/You can follow my tiny adventures here:IG: https://www.instagram.com/tinyhouseconversationsFB: https://www.facebook.com/tinyhouseconversationsSupport the show

If you or anybody you know and love is looking to buy and/or sell real estate in the near future, reach out HERE with your questions!.Ethan Waldman is a Tiny House enthusiast who has a podcast of his own called, Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast..I don't know about you, but the Netflix show Tiny House Nation really got me thinking a few years back in 2019 and I've been inspired ever since!.In this episode, Ethan and I discuss: Ethan's journey with his tiny home, how rules and regulations are slowly changing in regards to tiny houses, the evolution and benefits of going tiny, some of the cool projects Ethan's learned about over the course of having a podcast of his own where they discuss tiny houses in depth, as well as where we can find resources for more details of the tiny house movement..Links: Ethan's website where you can find his podcast and all of his other resources // Tiny House Engage on fb // Living Big in a Tiny House on YouTube // @ethanwaldman // Tiny Home Industry Association // Tiny House Alliance // Appendix Q Tiny Houses // @seasyourhome // @spirituallynutritious See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

If you or anybody you know and love is looking to buy and/or sell real estate in the near future, reach out HERE with your questions!Ethan Waldman is a Tiny House enthusiast who has a podcast of his own called, Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast.I don't know about you, but the Netflix show Tiny House Nation really got me thinking a few years back in 2019 and I've been inspired ever since!In this episode, Ethan and I discuss: Ethan's journey with his tiny home, how rules and regulations are slowly changing in regards to tiny houses, the evolution and benefits of going tiny, some of the cool projects Ethan's learned about over the course of having a podcast of his own where they discuss tiny houses in depth, as well as where we can find resources for more details of the tiny house movement.Links: Ethan's website where you can find his podcast and all of his other resources // Tiny House Engage on fb // Living Big in a Tiny House on YouTube // @ethanwaldman // Tiny Home Industry Association // Tiny House Alliance // Appendix Q Tiny Houses // @seasyourhome // @spirituallynutritious

Ethan Waldman tells us the pros/cons and what the expect by living in a tiny house and also how that compares to living in an RV, van, camper, or motor home.

In this special episode of THLP, your host Ethan Waldman joins forces with veteran tiny house designer, builder and instructor, Lina Menard, to chat about "what we wish we knew before we started".  Plus, we bring you a sneak peak of our upcoming LIVE course, Tiny House Considerations, an interactive, 8 week course with Lina and Ethan as your guides. To get on the waitlist for Tiny House Considerations, head over to: https://www.thetinyhouse.net/considerationsIn This Episode:Could we have built our houses faster?Better together: the positive effects of a good support systemHow your budget can get away from youAbout our new course and who it can helpThe importance of knowing the ins and outs of your systems before you begin building

Ethan Waldman is a tiny house author, speaker, and teacher. He built his own tiny house on wheels in 2012, and has been passionately helping future tiny house dwellers on their own journeys ever since. Ethan's guide, Tiny House Decisions, has helped thousands of readers answer the big questions about tiny houses and plan each system in their future home. He's also the creator and host of the Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast, a show that brings you weekly conversations with tiny house luminaries, builders, and DIYers. Ethan and his wife Ann live in their tiny house part-time in Northern Vermont. Lots more photos at https://www.thetinyhouse.net/professional-tiny-house-photos/ https://www.thetinyhouse.net/ More sites for plans: https://tinyhouseplans.com/ https://denoutdoors.com/ https://www.pinuphouses.com/ Please fill out a brief 5-question survey Let me know when you're done and I'll send you a coupon code for my online course, 8 Steps to Launch Your Dream Life.

If you're looking for a tiny house, is it best to build your own, buy a pre-made house or find one to renovate? Are tiny home renovations a good idea? Ethan Waldman joins me to discuss these questions and more. About our guest: Ethan Waldman is a tiny house author, speaker, and teacher. He built his own tiny house on wheels in 2012, and has been passionately helping future tiny house dwellers on their own journeys ever since. Ethan’s guide, Tiny House Decisions, has helped thousands of readers answer the big questions about tiny houses and plan each system in their future home. He’s also the creator and host of the Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast, a show that brings you conversations with tiny house luminaries, builders, and DIYers. Ethan and his wife Ann live in their tiny house part-time in Northern Vermont. visit his website at https://www.thetinyhouse.net (www.thetinyhouse.net) ************************************************************************** Visit Talkinghomerenovations.com for episode enhancements, containing photos and more information about the episodes as well as transcripts. There you can leave a voice message through speak pipe that could be included in a future episode. Help me spread the word about this podcast! If you like this podcast, subscribe and tell your friends about it! Love a review or a rating! Thank you for your support. Follow me on instagram: @talkinghomerenovations Join me on TikTok: @The House Maven Sign up for the weekly newsletter I send out a weekly information with our episode enhancements and additional information, http://eepurl.com/gFJLlT (sign up here ) Thanks to Ray Bernoff, the editor of the show. http://www.raybernoff.com/ (www.RayBernoff.com) Music at the beginning and end of the episode is The House Maven's Jig by Neil Pearlman, performed by Troy MacGillivray and Neil Pearlman https://my.captivate.fm/www.neilpearlman.com (www.neilpearlman.com) Show Cover Art by Sam White http://www.samowhite.com/ (www.samowhite.com) This podcast is a production of dEmios Architects. http://www.demiosarchitects.com/ (www.demiosarchitects.com) Email questions, comments, suggestions for future episodes to thehousemaven@talkinghomerenovations.com Do you need a bit of design help? If you are in Massachusetts and need a second set of eyes on your design, my Ask an Architect design help-line can help. We meet on zoom for an hour to review your issues. Contact me for more information. This podcast is a member of the design network- http://designnetwork.org/ (www.designnetwork.org) Support this podcast

From micro toms (the world’s smallest tomato plant) to miniature orchids, tiny gardens and miniature plants are right up there on the trend list with tiny homes. LA Times predicts that mini plants and tiny trees will be one of the biggest gardening trends of 2021. And this isn’t surprising, because the internet loves miniatures.   Join Mangesh as he learns about why we love tiny plants so much from the person who wrote the book on them, Leslie F. Halleck (Certified Pro Horticulturist and author of the book “Tiny Plants”). Mangesh also discovers the connection between tiny houses and tiny plants with brothers, Jesse and Ethan Waldman. And we catch up with comedian Anjelah Johnson-Reyes and learn about her own growing obsession and her thoughts on these adorable mini plants and their hilarious names.   For more helpful tips on gardening, check out the Miracle-Gro Website and learn about How to Care for Air Plants. Your friends at Miracle-Gro are collaboration partners with iHeart Radio for "Humans Growing Stuff."  Follow Humans Growing Stuff on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. You can follow The Tiny Chef on Instagram and find all of the videos referenced in this episode.

This episode’s expert guest joins us to discuss how tiny house living can possibly help you leave California. Ethan Waldman is the author of two books; Tiny House Decisions and Tiny House Parking. He is also the host of the podcast, Tiny House Lifestyle, a show that brings you conversations with tiny house luminaries, builders, and DIYers.   A tiny house is generally thought of as a small house, typically sized under 600 square feet. While they can be built on foundations, most tiny homes are built on trailers. This makes them very versatile when it comes to where you live. It’s a great way to keep costs down and your environmental footprint small.   We cover a few details of tiny living like how to consider state laws, how to make the most out of a small space and where you can go to join engaged communities to meet and talk to tiny house communities to help you decide if leaving California in a tiny house is right for you.   [1:12] How did you get into tiny house living? [3:22] Is the tiny house lifestyle as easy as it looks? [7:19] Ways to leave California in a tiny home [9:42] Where does someone start with tiny house living? [11:52] Things to consider about living tiny [15:43] Expert tips on designing a tiny house [18:30] The latest trends in tiny house living [20:11] What's the tiny house community like? [24:09] The cost of tiny house living   To connect with Ethan:   Website: https://www.thetinyhouse.net/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ethanwaldman  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/buildingthetinyhouse  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ethanwaldman/  Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/tiny-house-lifestyle-podcast    To Connect with Shell Pavlis:   Are you ready to leave California? Have questions or want Exit Orange County’s help? Call, text or email Shell Pavlis, REALTOR®,Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties,   DRE #01340071 http://www.LeaveCaliforniaNow.org https://www.facebook.com/byebyeoc/ http://www.instagram.com/shellseeshell 949-433-8804 Shell@byebyeoc.com

Get ready for THE TRUE NORTH COLLECTIVE℠ PODCAST: SEASON 4! With co-hosts Rachel Bellotti (she/her) and Jenell Riesner (she/her), this is a gathering of un-sugar-coated conversations celebrating the untold stories of everyday people fearlessly finding and living their true north.  In our own search to discover and live from our TRUE NORTH, we continue to meet many interesting, courageous people from all walks of life, doing all sorts of amazing things to live life in their own unique way. Stories from all over the world. Stories with heart. Stories with grit. Stories with plot twists. Stories going untold - until now. This season, we continue to celebrate these untold stories of everyday people who are fearlessly living their true north and inspiring each of us to do the same. Today, we’re talking to Ethan Waldman, tiny house author, speaker, and teacher, who built his own tiny house on wheels in 2012 and has been passionately helping future tiny home dwellers on their own tiny home journeys every since. He has a guide called Tiny House Decisions, is the creator and host of the Tiny House Lifestyle podcast - conversations with tiny house luminaries, builders, and DIYers, and currently lives part-time in his tiny home with his wife in Vermont. We talk about being in the suck parts of your dream life, Type 1 vs Type 2 fun, making time to see what’s around you, creating a free form lifestyle, learning as you go, not knowing what to do with your life, dealing with shame, linear + templated living, and the realities of being an entrepreneur and generalist. This is a curious conversation that takes you on a journey through the mindset of tiny house living and will leave you questioning what things are truly needed to make you feel at home?   *note: this episode includes explicit language appropriate for those ages 16+   RESOURCES MENTIONED: #amplifymelanatedvoices @nanggaahlaangstangs #amplifymelanatedvoices @napministry #amplifymelanatedvoices @healyourliving Travels with Willie by Willie Weir Gran Fondo Whistler Couchsurfing True Hue Stargazing candle Music from: https://www.jukedeck.com/   3 KEY TAKEAWAYS: Sometimes when you are in the middle of a hard “thing” - a project, a trip, a goal, a conversation, an experience - it can feel grueling and hard and like, “why did I decide to do this?!” It can be easy to get lost in the short-term pain/uncertainty/discomfort and lose sight of the long-term gains/outcomes/consequences. And when we are able to look back on a thing and see it for all that it is, in context to the whole of our lives, the pain might actually end up seeming small compared to the gains. Where in your life are you in “it” and it’s hard to see the long-term impact that this current discomfort might actually serve + inspire? Can you allow yourself to reconnect to the possibility of the longer term gains, while still acknowledging the parts you’re in that might still suck in the present moment? You’ve got this. It’ll be worth it. Learn as you go. Chunk that thing down that you really want into smaller steps and learn as you go. What are you waiting on because you don’t know how to do it all yet? What if you just got started and trusted that you would figure it out along the way? You will never know everything or be able to be fully ready for all that will come up, so just begin and meet each moment, each step of the process where you are and where it’s at, and figure it out one thing at a time. Until soon enough you have written a book, built a house, started a podcast, created a profitable business, had the conversation, made the dream a reality. What’s your mindset right now? What’s your mindset when you do anything? What’s your mindset most of the time as you’re living? What’s your mindset when you’re going after a dream or NOT going after a dream? Pay attention to what your mindsets are and how they are supporting or not supporting you. Sometimes we think that the way to get what we want is only through how the outside world shows up for us. But in reality, we have a lot of power in experiencing what we want through the mindset that we have. For example, you can have a tiny house mindset without actually living in a tiny house. It’s more of a state of mind vs just a set of external things that look a certain way. It’s both! And sometimes we don’t have control over the external world, but we do have control over our mindset, so why not check-in + start there?   TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [1:10] Biking from Seattle to Vancouver [3:20] Couch surfing [6:00] Type 1 vs Type 2 fun  [9:00] Making time to see what’s around [10:40] AD:  In 2021, we’re so excited to be offering live zoom workshops, every month, to support you in the journey of reconnecting to your TRUE NORTH. Join us on Jan 28th, as we kick-off the series with an INTENTION SETTING WORKSHOP - inviting you to reflect, unpack, + get clear on who you want to be + how you want to show up this year. AND, if you want to play with us all year, we are offering a deal to get all 11 workshops for only $99! Learn more + sign up here. [12:30] Welcome, Ethan! [14:00] Creating a free form lifestyle [17:00] Leaving a corporate job [24:00] Being scared of not knowing what to do [25:30] Dealing with shame [30:00] hustle lifestyle [38:00] Feeling unemployable [39:00] The difficulties of being a jack of all trades [41:45] Imposter Syndrome  [45:25] AD: Right now, Soul Care Collective, a Black woman-run virtual wellness center, is taking donations for their Affordable Wellness Initiative, where you can sponsor healing sessions for Black, Indigenous, NB, and Femme people who aren’t able to afford mental health + wellness services right now. Follow @soulcarecollective, spread the word about this initiative, and/or donate if inspired here. [48:00] Linear + templated living [50:00] Tiny house state of mind [53:00] Our relationship to stuff [56:00] What do you REALLY need? [1:00:00] Home [1:07:00] Resources for Tiny Home living [1:08:10] How do you live your TRUE NORTH in 1 word? [1:08:30] Connect with Ethan via thetinyhouse.net, listen to his Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast, or follow him on IG @ethanwaldman

This week I chat with Tiny House living expertEthan Waldman, as he shares his story of how he swapped his regular home for a Tiny house on wheels and how he has created a successful business helping others to build and create their dream tiny homeGuest :www.thetinyhouse.net Sponsor: To take advantage of the generous 15% discount from my sponsor Thorndown, please visit http://bit.ly/TVCarpenter. Discount code: TVCarpenterContact me: www.theTVcarpenter.com Music: "What's the Angle" by Shane Ivers

This weeks guest on Evolve with Brandon Stover is founder, entrepreneur, author, speaker, and teacher Ethan Waldman. Ethan is a leading voice in the tiny house movement and with a  combined social community following of over 78.1 thousand people, it’s not hard to see why he is widely recommended by tiny house experts as a go-to source for planning a successful tiny house. Finding himself in his late 20’s, working in 9-5 in corporate america, unfulfilled by life, he craved a more flexible lifestyle where he was not chained to a cubicle desk all day. After taking a month long sabbatical from work, going on over 800+ mile bicycle tour across multiple states, and couch surfing, tent pitching, and crashing in a few tiny homes along the way, he made a decision to embrace the tiny house lifestyle, quit his job, and built his own tiny house on wheels. In this episode he shares how you a tiny home helped him reach financial freedom, how her built a community and business, and what the future of housing in the world looks like.

Have you heard of the Tiny House Movement? What do tiny houses have to do with travel? Tune in today to see how many tactics and tips from the tiny house movement can help you travel the world. You are going to get 7 powerful lessons in today’s show. Please welcome back Ethan Waldman for his third appearance on the show. He is the host of the Tinyhouse Lifestyle Podcast and founder of The Tiny House where you can learn about all things tiny house related. You'll Learn: How to keep yourself excited about a project. One of the biggest lessons from traveling. A life hack that forces you to make bigger decisions. How to free up your time to travel and do more. Why it's a good idea to DIY (do it yourself). How to know when your soul is speaking to you. One interesting thing that can lead to huge lifestyle changes. And so much more. Resources: AeroPress. Tortuga Backpacks. Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast. The Tiny House. How To Build A Tiny House. Adventure Cycle Touring Guide. YNAB. Location Indie. Heady Topper - Wikipedia. Please head over to the archives for more Zero To Travel podcasts.

Emily and Ethan Waldman are two tiny house enthusiasts. Ethan wrote a book "Tiny House Decisions" that is helping people in their research for their own tiny house build. If you are even just a little bit thinking about tiny houses- either to live in or to have as an extra space - you want to listen to this show.   We love your support! Please visit our Patreon page and pledge as little as $1 to help create that world we all want to live in. Find us here: Website: http://www.sustainablelivingpodcast.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2723500 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sustainablelivingpodcast/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sustainablelivingpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarianneEWest YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA73SuaMBnBIaB5OdiL_y6Q     Emily wrote:   I had a wonderful interview with the tiny house author, dweller, podcast owner, teacher, speaker and tiny house pioneer, Ethan Waldman. He build his own tiny house on wheel in 2012, and has been passionately helping future tiny house dwellers on their journey ever since. Ethan's guide, Tiny House Decisions, has helped thousands of readers answer the big questions about tiny houses and plan each system in their future home. He's also the creator and host of Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast, a show that brings you conversations with tiny house luminaries, builders, and DIYers. Ethan and his wife Ann live in their tiny house part-time in Northern Vermont.    In our discussion we go over all the amazing aspects of Ethan's book, podcast and how he enjoys tiny house dwelling. We go over the important role research is in designing and planning your tiny house, which is why he wrote Tiny House Decisions. When he was looking for information during his build, he couldn't find much of anything, so his book was born. I am excited to say his new book on tiny house parking is coming out so definitely check his website for updates. Ethan has truly enjoyed living in a tiny house and thankful for the sustainability it offers, the financial freedom and community of people it brings. His words of wisdom is to surround yourself with those who have been on this journey to help you on your tiny house journey.            Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast: https://thetinyhouse.net/thlp   Tiny House Decisions: https://www.thetinyhouse.net/tiny-house-decisions/   facebook.com/buildingthetinyhouse   instagram.com/ethan.waldman   instagram.com/ethanwaldman

Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus write about living a meaningful life with less stuff for 4 million readers. As featured on: ABC, CBS, NBC, BBC, TODAY, NPR, TIME, Forbes, The Atlantic, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and National Post. They live in Missoula, Montana. Episode 423: Inbox Minimalism by Ethan Waldman with The Minimalists (Simplicity & Letting Go). The original post is located here: http://www.theminimalists.com/inbox Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus write about living a meaningful life with less stuff for 4 million readers. As featured on: ABC, CBS, NBC, BBC, TODAY, NPR, TIME, Forbes, The Atlantic, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and National Post. They live in Missoula, Montana. Episode 423: Inbox Minimalism by Ethan Waldman with The Minimalists (Simplicity & Letting Go). The original post is located here: http://www.theminimalists.com/inbox Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/optimal-living-daily/support

Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus write about living a meaningful life with less stuff for 4 million readers. As featured on: ABC, CBS, NBC, BBC, TODAY, NPR, TIME, Forbes, The Atlantic, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and National Post. They live in Missoula, Montana. Episode 423: Inbox Minimalism by Ethan Waldman with The Minimalists (Simplicity & Letting Go). The original post is located here: http://www.theminimalists.com/inbox Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts!

Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus write about living a meaningful life with less stuff for 4 million readers. As featured on: ABC, CBS, NBC, BBC, TODAY, NPR, TIME, Forbes, The Atlantic, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and National Post. They live in Missoula, Montana. Episode 423: Inbox Minimalism by Ethan Waldman with The Minimalists (Simplicity & Letting Go). The original post is located here: http://www.theminimalists.com/inbox Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts!

It was bound to happen. Michelle traveled to Tiny House Summer Camp in Vermont and met a few new friends? Say it ain’t so!? And, since she was there “on assignment” the podcast crew was pretty happy that she came back with more than just a few souvenirs. This week we’re interviewing Ethan Waldman, a cool and funny speaker at that now infamous backwoods event (and many other events) and a pioneer in the tiny house movement. Even if you’ve never met him, however, you most certainly know about his very famous e-book “Tiny House Decisions”. In it, he not only explains all of the various “decisions” and options a tiny house builder faces, but which ones he chose, and (surprising to us) which ones’ he regrets. We can’t imagine tiny living in the frigid temperatures of Vermont in Winter but he not only does, he teaches others how to! Ear candy is a given, this week, when you listen to Ethan tell us how he balances tiny country life, condo city life, working from home, and all about his latest life addition; his adoring wife. Awwww….. We really do love a good tiny house story with such a happy and romantic twist. Want to read more? Ethan has generously given our listeners a 15% discount code to purchase his book "Tiny House Decisions": And the discount code is: tinypodcast We love our guests. We really do. http://www.thetinyhouse.net/

On this episode of the podcast, Patrick Rhone returns for another great conversation with Mike. This time around they focus on reading more (and better), mindfulness (and Patrick's new book Mindfulness for Mere Mortals), and much more. Relevant Links http://patrickrhone.com/ (PatrickRhone.com) http://nathanbarry.com/2015-review/ (2015 in review — 1 year after I quit blogging | Nathan Barry) http://ethanwaldman.flavors.me/ (Ethan Waldman at Flavors.me) http://bemorewithless.com/whole30/ (10 Simple Rules for a Successful Whole30 (or any diet change) | Courtney Carver) http://austinkleon.com/ (Austin Kleon) http://www.thnkclrly.com/ (Think Clearly.) https://garrickvanburen.com/ (Garrick van Buren – 612 325 9110) http://jamesshelley.com/ (James Shelley · Knowledge Translation) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525429565/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0525429565&linkCode=as2&tag=vardyme-20&linkId=63HZHI4V6F5EPFVO (Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant) http://productivityist.com/podcast-read-more-read-better/ (How to Read More (and Read Better) | Productivityist) https://vimeo.com/68855377 (This is Water | Vimeo) http://patrickrhone.com/2015/12/30/mindfulness-is-for-mere-mortals/ (Mindfulness for Mere Mortals | PatrickRhone.com) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1482005093/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1482005093&linkCode=as2&tag=vardyme-20&linkId=K2O542IYCK7CSYII (137 Books in One Year: How to Fall in Love With Reading by Kevin D. Hendricks | Amazon) http://patrickrhone.net/ (PatrickRhone.net) https://twitter.com/patrickrhone?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor (patrickrhone (@patrickrhone) | Twitter) Thanks for listening - and don't forget to subscribe and share if you enjoyed this episode!

Rob Greenfield is an adventurer and environmentalist who’s mission is to teach people to be happier with less and to make yourself and the earth happier. Rob recently biked from Madison, Wisconsin to New York City with no money.  His journey really started three years ago when he started to notice the impact his actions had on the world around him.  He started educating himself and learned he was unknowingly creating a lot of destruction.  But it didn’t have to be that way. Money can be used for good or evil.  But it takes more time to do good than to throw money at a problem and that’s what many of us do.  America has 2% of the world’s population and consumes 25% of it’s resources. You can’t change this overnight but you can take small steps every day.  Rob made a list of things he wanted to change.  Only shopping with reusable bags, buying locally rather than at a big box store.  Rob started easy but as he progressed, the bigger changes didn’t seem that hard. Yes, Rob is a dumpster diver. He set two rules for himself, he could only eat locally grown food or food that was going to go to waste.  And the waste food goes into dumpsters.  Two thirds of his diet came from dumpsters during the trip.  He never went hungry.  One day he drank $100 worth of unopened, not expired juice from Whole Foods. Because such a large portion of our tax dollars goes to war, Rob advocates living a more “moneyless life.”  Enjoy the things in life that are free, nature (for now), friends, family.  Ride a bike rather than drive a car. Rob indeed walks the walk.  His next project is building an tiny house from trash.  We’ll have to introduce him to Ethan Waldman!  Show Notes Rob Greenfield:  Rob’s blog about making yourself and the earth a happier through minimalism and sustainability. Tethered:  Rob’s upcoming show on Discovery.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Afraid you’ll never get a foot on the property ladder?  Why not build your own tiny house?  Ethan Waldman did just that and tells us how we can too. In 2012, fed up with his job, Ethan quit, bought $1000 worth of lumber and began constructing his own two hundred square foot tiny house on wheels.  He has been living in it for a year and it has everything you would find in a regular sized house, just smaller. Tiny houses are becoming quite the phenomenon due to a perfect storm of events.  The financial crisis scared a lot of people away from the housing market, those not dissuaded couldn’t get a loan.  Kids coming out of college with tens of thousands of dollars worth of debt, saw that home ownership would be forever out of reach and weren’t sure they wanted that part of the American dream anyway. Ethan learned as he went along.  The only experience he had was from a tiny house workshop, he hadn’t built anything prior to the tiny house.  He did hire some help when construction was taking longer than he had planned for.  By the end of the project, the tiny house cost about $45,000, $33,000 for materials and $12,000 for labor.  Ethan had about $30,000 saved before quitting his job and still did some consulting work after leaving. To build a tiny house takes about eight hundred people hours, Ethan finished his in about fifteen months, working on it about half time.  There are some legal issues regarding this type of housing and the laws vary by state so be sure to check them out before starting your own tiny house. Ethan has unexpectedly become the poster boy for tiny houses.  He recently published a book, Tiny House Decisions to help people design their own tiny house. Not everyone has to take out a mortgage and buy a big ugly McMansion, you could build your own tiny house and tell the banks to shove it! Show Notes Cloud Coach:  The story of Ethan’s tiny house from start to finish. Tumbleweed Tiny House Company:  A California based company that designs and builds tiny houses. Betterment:  Start your tiny house fund today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today I'm joined by Ethan Waldman of TheTinyHouse.net where he talks about his experiences building and living in a tiny house. We chat about what made him decide to build a tiny house, how much it cost him, and the great rewards of living small. For more information and links to resources on tiny houses please join the conversation over at www.ExtraPackofPeanuts.com/tinyhouse.

Want to learn how to build a tiny house like this?...Do you wonder if having a tiny house is right for you?Are you looking for some inspiration and advice from an experienced tiny house owner?In June 2012, Ethan Waldman built his beautiful tiny house on wheels in his home state of Vermont.In this travel podcast he shares his compelling story, reveals how this unique lifestyle can create more travel and freedom in your life and will help you to decide if building a tiny house is right for you.Subscribe To The Zero To Travel Podcast on iTunesEthan's wrote his book "Tiny House Decisions" to help others struggling with the common questions surrounding tiny houses.Give this show a listen by hitting play on the bar underneath the picture at the top of this article.In this show you will learn:How to decide if having a tiny house is right for youWhat the tiny house lifestyle is likeThe #1 mistake people make when they are learning how to build a tiny house and how you can avoid itWhat types of tiny houses exist and how to pick the one to match your lifestlyeInsurance issues around tiny housesWhy the current lack of regulations around tiny houses helps youHow many hours it takes to build a tiny houseWhy Ethan built his tiny house on wheelsHow much Ethan's house costHow much Ethan pays monthly in bills now that his house is builtAnd so much more!Leave a comment below now and share your thoughts on the show, your tiny house story or what you are think about tiny houses.More Pictures of Ethan's HomeResource from this showEthan's Tiny House WebsiteEthan's Tiny House Community on FacebookTumbleweed HousesChris and Malissa TackThe post How To Build A Tiny House appeared first on Zero to Travel.