Hello Clutterbugs. Welcome back to the Clutterbug Podcast. Today is going to be one of the most inspiring

podcast that I've ever done and I am so honored to be interviewing the incredible Joshua Fields Milburn.

Joshua is half of the minimalist.

You've probably seen their documentary on Netflix. They have two documentaries now on Netflix. Their first one, minimalism, a documentary about the important things, and it was so inspiring, so incredible. They also have an very popular

podcast and multiple New York Times best-selling books. I think Joshua is probably the leader of the minimalist movement.

He has been a minimalist since 2009 and definitely brought it into the limelight and made it popular, made it what it is today.

So having him on this podcast is so inspiring and I really want to talk with him about the other side of decluttering. So we know the power of

letting go. We know how amazing it is to have less and living with less, but how do we stop continually acquiring more?

Let's talk to Joshua about that right now.

So welcome Joshua to the Clutterbug Podcast. I'm so honored to have you here. Thank you so much

It's a joy to speak with you. Thank you so much. I asked Joshua before we started recording if it was okay if we got weird and he was just like yeah let's go weird he

didn't even ask like what I meant by that you were just like yeah let's be weird yeah you know what I'm

open I'm an open book I'm happy to talk about anything I don't get hung up on on labels or

concepts and so if something's weird to someone else it might be perfectly normal

to us. I don't think you're going to think this is weird, but here's the reality of the situation. I've been decluttering for 12 years. I'm fully on board with like living with less, but for some reason the thought of being

a minimalist calling myself that I feel like a physical reaction to like but no I love my stuff

Do you hear this a lot? Sure. I mean I think when we declutter there are a couple ways to do it I think the easiest way to declutter your stuff is to get rid of most of it and that's what I mean when I talk about minimalism because the other way is what I did for a really long time when I was successful in the corporate world, I had amassed all the trophies of success, the big house in suburbs with more bedrooms than people and I had the cars in a two and a half car

garage which I don't even know what that means I had 70 dress shirts.

Now what the heck am I going to do with,

it's going to, I'm going to have to work really hard to wear 70 different dress shirts.

I had 12 different suits.

I had 10 pairs of dress shoes, not to mention my sneakers and

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