PODCAST 053: ANGELA FOONG – DESIGNING A SIMPLE LIFE

The home is so important when it comes to living a simpler life as it depicts many of our daily habits.

My guest today is the lovely Angela Foong, one third of the sister trio behind the beautiful High Tea With Mrs Woo label. 

Angela and her architect husband Matt have built a small home on what used to be their neighbour’s garage plot. This deliberate home is more than a roof over their family’s head, it was a home built to create behavioural change.

Angela looked inward and asked the very important question, “What would you like to be doing every day?” Spending time with her family, exploring, camping, cooking, getting outside, creating. So she built a home to allow all that to happen.

Angela and I touch on so many topics in this chat; being thoughtful about money, family values and providing a better future for our kids, simple living and being thoughtfully frugal, and Angela’s wonderful empty pantry pot-luck dinner parties. I personally can’t wait for the next one.

Like many of us, Angela is on the journey to finding the simple life that works for her. The big takeaway here is that Angela has dedicated the time to think about what is important to her, what she values, and then has gone about designing a life, and a home, to complement it.

I hope you enjoy x

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SHOW NOTES

Book Launch Tickets SLOW by Brooke McAlary

CONNECT WITH ANGELA FOONG

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HIGH TEA WITH MRS WOO SOCIALS

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Thanks for stopping by and giving me some of your time.

Have fun & live immediately.

mike x

PODCAST 052: ELESHA PIPER – DECLUTTERING PERSONAL DEBT

Personal debt gradually tightens its grip around us, slowly building up and weighing us down emotionally.

This is exactly what happened to my guest today, Elesha Piper. It didn’t happen over night but she accumulated $15,000 in credit card and personal loans—a large amount of money, but an amount that is so easily achievable. 

In this episode Elesha describes how personal debt isn’t a topic we generally like talking about as there is so much shame attached to it. And she hopes that by talking about her debt and how she overcame it, she can help and encourage other people to do the same and free themselves from the emotional rollercoster that debt delivers.

Elesha talks about how she decluttered her finances first and then decluttered her stuff, tips when decluttering and where to start, and we discuss the notion of why women tend to be more affected by clutter than men.

Stuff and money go hand-in-hand. If you’re holding one you generally have less of the other.

I hope you enjoy x

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SHOW NOTES

Minimalist Bootcamp

Dave Ramsey

Marie Kondo

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The original Live Immediately theme music is by Timothy Mcphee. You can check out his music at www.firekites.bandcamp.com

If you enjoyed the show, had fun, and maybe even learnt something, then make sure you subscribe via iTunes and while you’re there, why not leave a rating and a review. You know it will make my day.

Thanks for stopping by and giving me some of your time.

Have fun & live immediately.

mike x

PODCAST 051: MATTHEW BATE – RECONNECTING WITH FOOD & FOLLOWING YOUR HEART

Our body is communicating to us all the time but too often we don’t listen.

My guest today, Matthew Bate, spent a decade playing Australian Rules Football at the top level for the Melbourne Football Club. For many years he tried to mask what his body was trying to communicate to him by using pharmaceutical drugs, painkillers and sleeping pills, which transformed into an addiction.

Life now looks and feels very different for Matthew, as he has reconnected with his body through food.

This episode is about holistic health and how being healthy allows you to do the things you love with the people you love. Matthew and I talk about seasonal eating, fitness, and being aware of what we eat. Along with anxiety and stress, vulnerability, shame, following your heart, and dealing with the unknown with big life decisions.

Matthew is a wealth of knowledge when is comes to health and food and how our body responds to what we put into it. 

I hope you enjoy x

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SHOW NOTES

365 Days of Wholeness (book)

Tom Brady

Rich Roll “Finding Ultra” (book)

Brendan Brazier

Mark Mattson’s Ted Talk on fasting -

Frances Trussell (podcast)

The Alchemist (book)

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THANK YOU

The original Live Immediately theme music is by Timothy Mcphee. You can check out his music at www.firekites.bandcamp.com

If you enjoyed the show, had fun, and maybe even learnt something, then make sure you subscribe via iTunes and while you’re there, why not leave a rating and a review. You know it will make my day.

Thanks for stopping by and giving me some of your time.

Have fun & live immediately.

mike x