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Best-selling author Joshua Becker joins me for a chat on minimalism and learning to live life with less. 

Joshua has shared his story on top podcasts like Entrepreneur On Fire as well as, CBS Evening News, NPR, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal and countless media interviews around the world.

I've wanted to have Joshua on since we begin the Loser journey in August 2015. Ever since we met, his words and story stuck with me.

We're both former pastors, so we may get a little more "churchy" sounding than some of you are used to. But don't let that stop you from hearing the quality stuff he shares here.

In a world of consumerism and lust of continual accumulation we've learned that there's nothing to find in it. I love the lyrics of the Crass song, Pay As You Go...

You can put a mortgage on your life
To enter Shoppers' Paradise.
A trade-in for your dignity.
A lovely colour console TV.
To watch and cherish as the days slip by,
And dream of the things that money can buy.
Brushed chrome shit, plastic crap,
My life and my vision is worth more than that.
Plate glass ghetto, shopping spree,
I'm no fucking commodity. 

I've battled with an addiction of wanting more, better car, bigger house, more electronics. But after losing the big dollars of corporate, institutional religion in America, I've now seen the beauty of having less. But don't assume this episode is about money, cause it's not.

"I was always frustrated that I continued to have significant pay increases but never seemed to be able to get ahead financially." - @Joshua_Becker on @LosingRReligion

"Minimalism and frugality are not the same things." - @Joshua_Becker on @LosingRReligion

"It's almost like society highjacks our passions and redirects them towards things that they what our lives to matter for." - @Joshua_Becker on @LosingRReligion

"My goal has always been that my possessions would not be a burden to me whether in excess or in lack." - @Joshua_Becker on @LosingRReligion

"The goal of minimalism is to free yourself up to focus on the things in life that are most important to you." - @Joshua_Becker on @LosingRReligion

"Minimalism isn't about money; it's about intentionality." - @Joshua_Becker on @LosingRReligion

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