How to Ask Better Community Questions: It’s as Easy as ABCD with Cormac Russell – SASM 127

This episode features Cormac Russell to explore why our unexpressed gifts can do tremendous harm, how an institutionalized five-year-old changed his life direction, and why community makes a better verb than a noun.

4 “C”s That Make Sustainability Possible with Ma’ikwe Ludwig – SASM 121

This episode features Ma’ikwe Ludwig on how Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage happily uses 90% less resources than the average American, how competing cultures and classes can mix in beautiful ways, and why the economics, equality, or sustainability of resource-sharing works so well in intentional communities.

How to Be Social, Selective, and Simple with Ryan Nicodemus – SASM 113

This episode features Ryan Nicodemus on a surprising path from minimalism into environmentalism, why he doesn’t do anything for anyone else on the Internet before 12:30 p.m., and three circles of relationships to guide who to connect with.

Why and How to Run an Offers and Needs Market – SASM 112

This special solo episode features five simple, powerful benefits of an Offers and Needs Market, why your friends, family, and neighbors are counting on you to own your gifts, and how to elevate your own and other people’s gifts.

The Role of Slow in “No,” Letting Go, and Laziness with Brooke McAlary – SASM 111

This episode features Brooke McAlary on how to consistently question what’s necessary in your life, a surprising (and rare) hallmark of the slow-living community, and why the minimalism label can be limiting – even if you own it.

How to Mix Ingredients to Make the Minimalism Documentary with Joshua Fields Millburn – SASM 101

This episode features Joshua Fields Millburn on how you can have more meaning and less stuff with a slight pivot, why a ninety-something great-great grandma took five family generations to a book tour stop, and how to align your short-term actions with your long-term values.

6 Key Community Conversations and the Questions That Transform Them – SASM 100

This special solo episode features why community becomes a bigger deal the more you don’t have it, the 3 qualities of a great question for any community setting, and which of the 6 crucial conversations you need to have in your community.

Alexx Stuart: from World’s Best Bartender to Low Tox Life Champion – SASM 097

This episode features Alexx Stuart on why food as love can be unhealthy – especially for children, how to align what’s best for you with what’s best for our planet, and the #1 tip to give your kids ownership over what and how they eat.

The 5 Elements of Your Full Voice and Saying Yes to Our Biggest Fears with Barbara McAfee – SASM 095

This episode features Barbara McAfee on why fear is like an outfit that looks bad on everyone, the five distinct elements of your voice and how to use them, plus how innate talents are trained out of you (and how to get them back).

How to Be Alive and Embrace Your Personal Power with Colin Beavan – SASM 090

This episode features Colin Beavan on how to help people wake the heck up to their personal power (and what happens when we do), how the “monk and the merchant” paradox applies to you, and how to participate in an eco-Sabbath – No Impact Project style.

How Scott Dinsmore’s Connections, Passion, and Work Changed Our World (a Tribute) – SASM 087

This episode pays tribute to Live Your Legend’s founder and my friend, mentor, and hero – Scott Dinsmore. Remember his legacy with me and discover how to change the world by doing work you love, where to find the most amazing people in your local community, the fastest way to do things you don’t think can be done, and why life sometimes comes down to this: bring people together.

How 241 Post It Notes, Candid Stories, and Huggr Power Changed 55 Folks (#SimpleREV 2015 Recap) – SASM086

SimpleREV 2015 brought 55 simple-living enthusiasts together and the impact was big. Discover why we loved sticking 241 Post It Notes on a wall (and what we did with them), how one small clothes donation quickly changed a family’s life, why you can’t get a positive answer from a negative question, and the #1 thing that our participants wanted at SimpleREV 2015.

How to Grow Food Anywhere and Build Community Everywhere with Eugene Cooke – SASM083

This episode features Eugene Cooke on why you need a food abundance system more than abundant food, how to ease poverty with local solutions and NO legislation, how to make nature your church, and why the men who spoke the least influenced Eugene the most.

Want a Thriving Community? Share More, Own Less, and Join the Economy of Human Connection with Sash Milne – SASM 077

This episode features Sash Milne on how to break down the new, hidden barriers to human connection, why you have to act locally to be felt globally, what the “Economy of Human Connection” is (and how to participate), plus how the invisible walls of privilege can come crashing down.