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Podcast Ep. 525 | The Outliers

✇The Minimalists
The Minimalists
2026年2月2日 21:00

The Minimalists speak with Steve Patterson about being frustrated when people don’t understand us, the benefits and downsides of being abnormal, minimizing chaos at a cultural level, and more!

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Discussed in This Episode

  • Why do people frustrate me when they don’t understand my lifestyle?
  • In what ways are you abnormal? What are the benefits? What are the downsides?
  • Right Here, Right Now: The Minimalists’ Simplify Everything decluttering course.
  • Listener Tip: How might simplifying be an answer to the chaos?
  • How can I stop re-cluttering my house?
  • What tools can help you respond to people with intention rather than emotion?
  • How can I quit social media if I need it for my job or hobby?
  • Talkaboutable: Corporations don’t love you.
  • Added Value: A song about letting go of expectations and family identity.

Minimal Maxims

Joshua, Ryan, and T.K.’s pithy, shareable, less-than-140-character responses. Find more quotes from The Minimalists at MinimalMaxims.com.

  • Being understood is nice, but needing to be understood is a death sentence.
  • You care what other people think because there is an underlying dissatisfaction in your own life.
  • Needing less company doesn’t mean giving less love.
  • When consumerism is the norm, it pays to be flamboyantly abnormal.
  • You’re not good at decluttering if you’re also good at re-cluttering.
  • Every purchase has the potential to reduce your freedom.
  • A pause is the space for reflection, not reaction.
  • Choose patience over panic.
  • Scrolling is the new smoking.

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Podcast Ep. 524 | Divorce

✇The Minimalists
The Minimalists
2026年1月26日 21:00

The Minimalists speak with divorce lawyer James J. Sexton about all the nuances of divorce, including the courage it takes to walk away from a marriage, housing and financial advice for recently single mothers, lessons from spousal cheating, how to know when a relationship is over, and much more!

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Discussed in This Episode

  • What does it take for someone to find the courage to file for divorce?
  • What housing and financial advice do you have for a recently divorced single mother?
  • How do you know whether a relationship is worth staying in and fighting for?
  • Right Here, Right Now: A new free audiobook and ebook from The Minimalists
  • Listener Tip: Often, we aren’t clinging to the thing; we’re clinging to the story we’ve written in our minds.
  • Should I hold on to sentimental items that trigger bad memories?
  • Should a married couple ever keep separate bank accounts?
  • How would marriages benefit from term limits?
  • Some fascinating divorce statistics.
  • More About Less: What is microcheating, and is it a big deal?
  • Added Value: A song that recognizes that the most difficult times can also be the best times of our lives.

Minimal Maxims

Joshua, Ryan, and T.K.’s pithy, shareable, less-than-140-character responses. Find more quotes from The Minimalists at MinimalMaxims.com.

  • Courage is the saddle that rests atop your biggest monsters.
  • If the battle builds you, it’s worth it. If it breaks you, it’s not.
  • If it requires fighting, it’s not worth fighting for.
  • Everyone wants to know where to start, but people rarely ask where to stop.
  • There are no sentimental items—only sentimental people.
  • A marriage built on romance has a shaky foundation.
  • Obligatory love isn’t love—it’s a liability.

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Podcast Ep. 523 | Time to Let Go

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The Minimalists
2026年1月19日 21:00

The Minimalists talk about why you have trouble getting the clutter out of the house after you’ve organized, how to know when it’s time to let go, the Wouldn’t Replace It Rule, how to deal with all that boomer junk you’ve inherited, and more.

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Discussed in This Episode

  • Why do I have trouble letting go of the things I’ve already decluttered?
  • How do you know when it’s time to let go of a thing?
  • Right Here, Right Now: The Simplify Everything decluttering course.
  • Listener Tip: When you let go of the need for certainty, you often pick up some peace of mind.
  • Why does it feel like I have more things after I declutter?
  • Why am I keeping things that I know my kids don’t want to inherit?
  • Talkaboutable: You have a full closet, but nothing to wear.
  • Sucky Ad: What if every single one of your purchases followed you around?
  • More About Less: How to Organize All the Boomer Junk You’ve Inherited
  • Added Value: Train Dreams, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, and how to kill houseplants.

Minimal Maxims

Joshua, Ryan, and T.K.’s pithy, shareable, less-than-140-character responses. Find more quotes from The Minimalists at MinimalMaxims.com.

  • A boundary is a highlighter that emphasizes the unacceptable.
  • The moment to let go arises when courage arrives.
  • ​​If it comforts at the cost of character, it’s clutter.
  • If clinging is disrespectful, letting go is a sign of self-respect.
  • Awareness is a spotlight that illuminates every problem.

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Podcast Ep. 522 | Change

✇The Minimalists
The Minimalists
2026年1月12日 21:00

The Minimalists speak with Dr. Maya Shankar about letting go of insecurities, the consequences of jealousy, why you’ve wasted so much money on things you don’t need (and what to do about it going forward), how clinging to just-in-case items negatively affects well-being, and more.

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Discussed in This Episode

  • How do you let go of insecurities that create mental clutter?
  • When’s the last time you felt jealous, and how did that change your behavior?
  • Right Here, Right Now: The Simple Newsletter and Simplify Everything
  • Listener Tip: When we finally let go, we discover the blockage those things had on our well-being.
  • How do I become a content creator if I’m paralyzed by fear?
  • Why do I feel melancholy after I share a peak experience with my closest friends?
  • How do I let go of the past hurts that haunt me?
  • Talkaboutable: You’ve wasted so much money on things you don’t need.
  • Talkaboutable: A well-organized prison cell is still a prison.
  • Added Value: “I can play it so cool, but there’s a storm raging in my mind.”

Minimal Maxims

Joshua, Ryan, and T.K.’s pithy, shareable, less-than-140-character responses. Find more quotes from The Minimalists at MinimalMaxims.com.

  • Every insecurity is a product of the ego.
  • Self-confidence appears when the finish line disappears.
  • Jealousy is a wasted emotion.
  • To be filled with jealousy is to be void of self-respect.
  • To worry is to pray for something bad to happen.
  • Mood follows experience, not the other way around.
  • There’s a direct relationship between your discontent and the number of shoulds you have in your life.
  • Sorrow is time traveling to the past in your mind; anxiety is time traveling to a future that doesn’t exist.
  • You’ve wasted so much money on things you don’t need. But you don’t get that money back if you cling to the clutter.
  • All that clutter used to be money.
  • Letting go feels hard, but clinging is much harder in the long run.

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Podcast Ep. 521 | One Day Less

✇The Minimalists
The Minimalists
2026年1月5日 21:00

The Minimalists talk about consumerism’s role in workplace overload, what it takes to work fewer hours, the hidden reason grocery prices have increased, why certain ‘Buy One, Get One Free’ deals have been outlawed, and much more.

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Discussed in This Episode

  • How does consumerism force us to work more hours each week, and what can we do about it?
  • What would it take for you to work one less day per week?
  • Right Here, Right Now: How to Write Better and the end of our Earthing grant.
  • Listener Tip: Book a Clutter Counseling session with T.K. Coleman.
  • How do I better manage anxiety, avoid resentment, and process past grief when interacting with my relatives?
  • How does one deal with the emotional clutter of feeling overwhelmed?
  • How can I reconnect to morning quiet time when my son is also an early riser?
  • Talkaboutable: The hidden reason your grocery prices have been going up so much.
  • Talkaboutable: Everything you own has a purpose.
  • More About Less: These ‘Buy One, Get One Free’ Deals Have Been Outlawed
  • Added Value: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

Minimal Maxims

Joshua, Ryan, and T.K.’s pithy, shareable, less-than-140-character responses. Find more quotes from The Minimalists at MinimalMaxims.com.

  • You encourage what you tolerate.
  • Only work less when less works better.
  • Eliminate the waste, not the work.
  • A good boundary highlights the unacceptable.
  • You can’t change the people around you, but you can change the people around you.
  • Minimalism is the art of addition through subtraction.
  • Going to bed early is the same thing as sleeping in.

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Podcast Ep. 520 | Uncommon Cold

✇The Minimalists
The Minimalists
2025年12月29日 21:00

The Minimalists speak with Professor Thomas Seager about using ice baths to help minimize pain and chronic illness, uncomfortable activities that get easier over time, a slew of questions JFM has about cold plunge therapy, and much more.

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Discussed in This Episode

  • How does a struggling person live a relatively productive life with chronic illness?
  • What’s a previously uncomfortable activity that you now regularly do with ease?
  • Right Here, Right Now: Joshua’s Top 10 Albums of 2025, Friday Afternoon Minimalist Zooms, and How to Write Better
  • Listener Tip: Does Kapil Gupta need a hug?
  • Rapid-fire questions about cold therapy
  • What are your favorite simple-eating tips?
  • Talkaboutable: iPad kids
  • Sucky Ad: The side effects are often worse than the disease
  • Added Value: A track from Joshua’s favorite album of 2025

Minimal Maxims

Joshua, Ryan, and T.K.’s pithy, shareable, less-than-140-character responses. Find more quotes from The Minimalists at MinimalMaxims.com.

  • Pain is a request for healing.
  • The hard way isn’t always the healthy way.
  • Discomfort is the cost of growth.
  • Peace is buried beneath the clutter.
  • Pleasure is not the point of our provisions.
  • Minimalism is the art of addition through subtraction.

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Podcast Ep. 519 | Begin Again

✇The Minimalists
The Minimalists
2025年12月22日 21:00

In this bonus episode, The Minimalists host Sunday Symposium in Orange County.

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Discussed in This Episode

  • Overplanning produces chaos.
  • No one on their deathbed says they regret not accumulating more stuff.
  • Hold on if it confers more benefits than letting go.
  • Anything can be clutter if it gets in the way.
  • Acceptance is nice, but needing acceptance is a prison.
  • How do you define success for yourself?
  • The fear and joy of missing out.
  • How does minimalism help people find the courage to live authentically?
  • How do I let go of the need to force my minimalism on others?
  • Good businesses make money. Great businesses make a difference.

Minimal Maxims

Joshua, Ryan, and T.K.’s pithy, shareable, less-than-140-character responses. Find more quotes from The Minimalists at MinimalMaxims.com.

  • Overplanning produces chaos.
  • No one on their deathbed says they regret not accumulating more stuff.
  • Hold on if it confers more benefits than letting go.
  • Anything can be clutter if it gets in the way.
  • Acceptance is nice, but needing acceptance is a prison.

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Podcast Ep. 518 | All Black Everything

✇The Minimalists
The Minimalists
2025年12月15日 21:00

The Minimalists speak with philosopher Peter Rollins about why minimalists often wear black clothes, a few examples of emotional decluttering, the concept of “dopamine dressing,” some tips for reducing social media scrolling, eight things Joshua’s favorite writer tried to warn us about, and more.

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Discussed in This Episode

  • What is an example of emotional decluttering?
  • What’s wrong with wearing all black?
  • Right Here, Right Now: The Minimalists’ 15th birthday and the final Sunday Symposium–for now.
  • Listener Tip: A unique way to reduce scrolling.
  • How often does a minimalist change underwear?
  • How can I make letting go feel more effortless?
  • Should I cut my friend off if her behavior gets in the way of my peace?
  • Talkaboutable: This behavior is unacceptable.
  • Talkaboutable: What would you do if your kids ordered $3,000 of stuff from Amazon?
  • More About Less: Eight Things David Foster Wallace Tried to Warn Us About
  • Added Value: Simple acoustic guitar beneath stunning lyrics.

Minimal Maxims

Joshua, Ryan, and T.K.’s pithy, shareable, less-than-140-character responses. Find more quotes from The Minimalists at MinimalMaxims.com.

  • Minimalism is an eraser for distractions.
  • The right outfit is the one that tells the truth about your values.
  • If you dress in all black, people can still find the color in your personality.
  • With the gift of perspective, a past weakness becomes a present superpower.
  • If you’re asking the question, there’s a good chance you already know the answer.
  • Beer buddies aren’t always battle brothers.
  • Going to bed early is the same thing as sleeping in.

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Sunday Symposium

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The Minimalists
2025年11月12日 21:00

By The Minimalists

A simple gathering for simple people. Join The Minimalists for our upcoming Sunday Symposiums in Southern California. Register soon because seats are limited:

Ventura – Oct 26, 2025 (tickets)

Orange County – Nov 30, 2025 (tickets)

Los Angeles – Dec 28, 2025 (tickets)

Each event includes free coffee, a sound bath, a talk from The Minimalists, an audience Q&A, and more. Together we’re creating a loving, dogma-free community—and we’d like you to be a part of it. All beliefs and non-beliefs are welcome. All ages. Free hugs!

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Everything Is Final

✇The Minimalists
The Minimalists
2025年5月7日 07:13

By The Minimalists

The tenth anniversary edition of our #1 bestselling book, Everything That Remains, enhanced with a beautiful new cover, is now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats.

Synopsis

What if everything you ever wanted isn’t what you actually want? Twenty-something, suit-clad, and upwardly mobile, Joshua Fields Millburn thought he had everything anyone could ever want. Until he didn’t anymore.

Blindsided by the loss of his mother and his marriage in the same month, Millburn started questioning every aspect of the life he had built for himself.

Then, he accidentally discovered a lifestyle known as minimalism … and everything started to change.

In the pursuit of looking for something more substantial than compulsory consumption and the broken American Dream, Millburn jettisoned most of his material possessions, paid off loads of crippling debt, and walked away from his six-figure career.

So, when everything was gone, what was left? Everything That Remains is the touching, surprising story of what happened when one young man decided to let go of everything and begin living more deliberately. Heartrending, uplifting, and deeply personal, this engrossing memoir is peppered with insightful (and often hilarious) interruptions by Ryan Nicodemus, Millburn’s best friend of twenty years.

Available formats: Paperback · Kindle · Audiobook

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The Minimalists Show Judah Smith Why More Is Not Better

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The Minimalists
2025年12月9日 22:00

The Minimalists speak with Judah Smith about what it takes to recognize enough and walk away from the rest.

What was the last thing you walked away from? Let us know in the YouTube comments.

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Podcast Ep. 517 | Bad Thoughts

✇The Minimalists
The Minimalists
2025年12月8日 21:00

The Minimalists speak with Judah Smith about how other people’s perception of us can be upsetting, the biggest things that send people into a mental spiral, advice for minimizing when you’re stressed out, and much more.

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Discussed in This Episode

  • Should I read my mother’s diary after she dies?
  • What sends you into a mental spiral?
  • Right Here, Right Now: The Minimalist’s new TEDx Talk, “Scrolling Is the New Smoking,” is live!
  • Listener Tip: Clearing the external clutter often helps with the mental clutter.
  • What does it take to recognize enough and walk away from the rest?
  • Where’s the line difference between “body positivity” and thickheaded delusion?
  • How do you deal with people who possess contrary political, religious, and ideological beliefs?
  • How do you minimize when you’re stressed and under pressure?
  • Talkaboutable: No matter how hard you try, you cannot buy happiness for your child.
  • Added Value: A Christmas classic.

Minimal Maxims

Joshua, Ryan, and T.K.’s pithy, shareable, less-than-140-character responses. Find more quotes from The Minimalists at MinimalMaxims.com.

  • No one has the power to upset you, unless you give them the keys to your heart.
  • Stillness isn’t optional—it’s oxygen.
  • To worry is to pray for something bad to happen.
  • To accept the things you can change is a recipe for dissatisfaction.
  • Every opinion is an opportunity to let go.
  • The first step in letting go is to loosen your grip.

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5 Sneaky Ways Stores Get You to Spend Money on Stuff You Don’t Need

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The Minimalists
2025年12月3日 22:00

The Minimalists discuss sneaky tricks retail stores use to get people to spend money.

What’s the last purchase you made that you didn’t need? Let us know in the YouTube comments.

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Podcast Ep. 516 | Hoarder Moms

✇The Minimalists
The Minimalists
2025年12月1日 21:00

The Minimalists talk about being overwhelmed by other people’s clutter, dealing with hoarder family members, why a pound of experiences is worth more than a pound of Christmas gifts, five sneaky ways stores get you to spend money on stuff you don’t need, and much more.

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Discussed in This Episode

  • Why are T.K. and Joshua opening fortune cookies on the podcast?
  • How can I deal with my hoarder mom’s cluttered house?
  • Who’s the biggest hoarder in your family?
  • Right Here, Right Now: the 30-Day Minimalism Game, Sunday Symposium, and Zoom calls with The Minimalists
  • Listener Tip: Getting into the school spirit.
  • When is discipline helpful for decluttering, and when does it get in the way?
  • Why do people buy so many gifts that their loved ones don’t actually enjoy?
  • Talkaboutable: You have been tricked into consumerism by Starbucks.
  • Talkaboutable: A pound of experiences is worth more than a pound of Christmas gifts.
  • Sucky Ad: YouTube started putting ads on our videos…
  • Obsolete Object: Tossing our fancy bed set.
  • More About Less:  Sneaky Ways Stores Get You to Spend More Money on Stuff You Don’t Need.
  • Added Value: “Last Christmas”

Minimal Maxims

Joshua, Ryan, and T.K.’s pithy, shareable, less-than-140-character responses. Find more quotes from The Minimalists at MinimalMaxims.com.

  • If the cost of admission is misery, the price is too high.
  • It’s not what you notice—it’s what you do with what you notice.
  • Discipline flows through your boundaries.
  • Obligation is the most ambitious partypooper.
  • A pound of experiences is worth more than a pound of Christmas gifts.

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