Society & Culture

Smart and Simple Matters: Creating Community, Simplicity, and Authenticity with You

Joel Zaslofsky: Community Animator, Connector, Multipotentialite, and Spreadsheet Guy

Joel Zaslofsky – your community-building, convention-challenging show host – taps into all his powerful (and often quirky) strategies in a diverse mix of conversations and solo episodes. For...

Episodes

20 of 125 episodes

Facilitation in Small Groups: How to Have More Influence and Action with Less Stress and Conflict – SASM 130

This special solo episode features how to kick start any conversation, keep it humming, and leave people buzzing. Plus, how to have influenc...

55:09Apr 17, 2019

How to Be Human and Our 9 Core Needs with Ry Edwards – SASM 129

This episode features Ry Edwards to explore the nine core human needs that govern everything in life, simple questions that will help you un...

60:26Sep 27, 2018

My 12 Favorite Podcast Episodes Ever – SASM 128

This special solo episode features what wins the water wars: distilled, reverse osmosis, tap, or spring water. Plus why your light environme...

55:38Jun 20, 2018

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 cha...

61:27Jun 1, 2018

Dear Isolated, Detached, and Helpless Individual – SASM 126

This special solo episode features what the loneliness industry is rubbing your nose in (often successfully), some eye-opening stats about h...

21:18Mar 22, 2018

How the Modern Simplicity Movement Thrives with Dan Hayes – SASM 125

This episode features Dan Hayes on how to be a strong believer without an organized belief system, why a walk can be better for your head th...

52:24Feb 27, 2018

Full Life Integration, Non-Negotiables, and Your Powerful Lens with Kristoffer “KC” Carter – SASM 123

This episode features Kristoffer "KC" Carter on which sacred life ingredients are needed for full life integration, why self-care is about c...

51:20Dec 6, 2017

How to Give a Great Hug – SASM 122

This special solo episode features the subtle similarities and wild differences in how cultures greet each other, how to telegraph your hugg...

29:31Nov 6, 2017

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 competi...

48:17Oct 23, 2017

Delight is Right in Your Hands with Annie Raser-Rowland – SASM 120

This episode features Annie Raser-Rowland on how a frugal lifestyle can be the highest form of luxury, how to own your pleasure-seeking urge...

56:52Oct 9, 2017

A Path to Money, Meaning, and Variety for Multipotentialites with Emilie Wapnick – SASM 119

This episode features Emilie Wapnick on how to have the three pillars of a great multipotentialite work life – money, meaning, and variety –...

53:26Sep 25, 2017

Why I Vanished and What’s Next for the Show – SASM 118

This special solo episode features where I've been on my podcasting break and what's coming up now that the show is revived. The post Why I...

28:16Sep 11, 2017

The Not So Big Way to Have Useful Beauty Every Day with Sarah Susanka – SASM 117

This episode features Sarah Susanka on how to bring useful beauty to every room in your home, how to schedule your passions and actually act...

56:44Jan 9, 2017

Why the Future of Work Is Working for Yourself with Stephen Warley – SASM 116

This episode features Stephen Warley on how to make big changes without a major crisis forcing them on you, why we learn best when things ar...

57:29Dec 26, 2016

When “Being” Your Way into Action Is Better Than Thinking with Julie Gray – SASM 115

This episode features Julie Gray on how to create systems so you can work less and contribute more, why stress management seems so stressful...

50:36Dec 12, 2016

Death Literacy, Enoughness, and Why Life Is Long with Humaira Hamid (#CConDD) – SASM 114

This episode features Humaira Hamid on why just about everything in life comes back to death and dying, how and where to become death litera...

75:59Nov 28, 2016

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...

60:08Nov 14, 2016

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...

54:45Oct 31, 2016

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...

60:41Oct 17, 2016

Dear Mindless, Busy Consumer and Buyer of Fleeting Joy – SASM 110

This special solo episode features what the food industry is rubbing your nose in (often successfully), what Citizens against Quiet, Idle Ha...

27:12Oct 3, 2016