How to Create Power, Intention, and Focus with Morning Rituals – SASM 068

Do you know the misunderstood – but essential – difference between routine and rituals? What do morning rituals have to do with sharing my complete, unedited, and previously private daily promises? You’re about to get some answers … and learn even more (like why maintenance is for gardens and machines, not humans.)

5 Simple Tips to Shift from “Go! Go! Go!” to “Slow, Slow, Slow” – SASM 066

What are the surprising social norms of the most intentional, grateful, and inspiring people? Why is simplicity ready for you – right here and right now? Get answers to these questions and other practical, counter-intuitive tips like the “simplify by being a jerk” principle and how to reduce the stress of texts, tweets, blips, and bleeps.

How to Slow Down Your Life, Quiet the City, and Revive Our World with Bill Powers – SASM 065

This episode features Bill Powers on how to slow down, living tiny (and off-grid), why most world cultures are ecocidal, and where you’ll find urban oases … in any city.

How to Erase Global Poverty with Tiny Teaspoons of Change (via d’Arcy Lunn) – SASM 064

This episode features d’Arcy Lunn living on $1.50 a day for five weeks, the Happy Simply tiny house, how to hone your “attention to intention,” why global citizens are so content, and why crazy is the new normal.

Hear That? It’s Simple and Better Quality Time with Your Kids from Chris and Sarah Wehkamp – SASM062

This episode features Chris and Sarah Wehkamp talking simple living, their quality Imagining Aloud audio stories for kids (and parents), plus invisible gifts you can give the child in your life … at any time.

Raw and Rocking Stories to Help You Simplify (SimpleREV 2014 Part 2) – SASM 061

Go behind-the-scenes of SimpleREV 2014 from an event organizer’s unique perspective. You’ll hear stories about tornado destruction, $11,000 Amazon bills, becoming “enoughist,” and overcoming the social stigma linked to intentional down-sizing.

How Simple and Primal Living “Grok” a Ton with Mark Sisson – SASM 060

This episode features Mark Sisson discussing the single most undervalued, overlooked aspect of your health. Mix in some mindfulness, gratitude, and primal living tips … and you’ll be ready to “Grok” on in no-time.

How 55 People Got Simple, Became Friends, and Owned Huggr (SimpleREV 2014 Part 1) – SASM 059

This episode takes you behind-the-scenes of SimpleREV 2014 from an event organizer’s unique perspective. Discover how 264 Post It Notes, three specific questions, a two-day bootstrapped event, and Huggr can help you be more simple and build community.

How to Be a Giving Tree – SASM 058

This episode features Joel channeling raw emotion into ways that you can be your own giving tree. Abundance is everywhere … regardless of whether or not you’ve been inspired by Shel Silverstein’s book, The Giving Tree. Here’s how you can spread it.

How to Get the Big Tiny House Life with Dee Williams – SASM 057

This episode features Dee Williams discussing the “bigness” of tiny house life, the profound freedom she’s found by downsizing, what a “perfect storm of awakening” looks like, and how she reshaped her life by confronting death (over and over).

3 Simple Tools to Unstuff Your Life with Andrew Mellen – SASM 056

This episode features Andrew Mellen discussing the three simple rules of Unstuff Your Life, removing your physical obstacles to sustainable joy, using organizing to connect with what matters most to you, and the “stuff behind the stuff.”

4 “C”s of Gross National Happiness and Study Circles with Cecile Andrews – SASM 055

This episode features Cecile Andrews as we discuss a move toward Gross National Happiness, the crossroads of simplicity and study circles, how you can have a joyful community, plus how to live a slow and examined life.

SASM 052 – Why Simple is So Complex with Duane Elgin, Vicki Robin, John de Graaf, Cecile Andrews, and Jerome Segal

This episode features Vicki Robin, Duane Elgin, John de Graaf, Cecile Andrews, and Jerome Segal discussing the nature of simple living and whether we should embrace simplicity … or complexity. It’s five former or current simple living all-stars at once, all lined up just for you.

SASM 051 – Collaborative Consumption: How to Tap Idle Time and Resources with Lauren Anderson

This episode features Lauren Anderson as we discuss Collaborative Consumption, what an economy is for, how to tap into your idle time and skills (even if they’re crazy), and why you want to live in a “sharable city.”

SASM 050 – A Curated Recap of Episodes 1-49

This episode features Joel Zaslofsky giving a curated recap of the first 49 Smart and Simple Matters episodes. Hold on to your hats (and headphones)!

SASM 049 – How to Have Plenty of Anything (Including Wild Money) with Luna Jaffe

This episode features Luna Jaffe as we discuss Wild Money, the debate between “enough” and “plenty,” and what the voice of money sounds like (seriously).