50 episodes
Smart and Simple Matters: Creating Community, Simplicity, and Authenticity with You Joel Zaslofsky: Community Animator, Connector, Multipotentialite, Podcaster, and Spreadsheet Guy
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4.6 • 8 Ratings
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Joel Zaslofsky – your community-animating, convention-challenging show host – taps into all his powerful (and often quirky) strategies in a diverse mix of conversations and solo episodes. For example, you'll get chats with TED Talk hotshots like Andy Puddicombe on meditation, experts like Tsh Oxenreider on gratitude, humble influencers like Joshua Becker on minimalism, or Paleo superstars like Mark Sisson on Primal-living. The show has 100,000s of downloads because listeners love to deeply explore the slower side of life, simplicity through mindfulness, and intentional living … among other things. Do you need help with your "stuff," personal relationships, or your relationship with money? Do you enjoy nerdy riffs about spreadsheets or casual references to 1990s music? Subscribe to Smart and Simple Matters now and download this popular, groovy show.
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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 influence without the need for power or control and the key qualities of great facilitators.
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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 understand why you do what you do, and why love is helping others meet their core human needs.
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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 environment is more important than food, exercise, and sleep. AND how grief is culturally learned and when empathy isn’t serving anyone.
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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 changed his life direction, and why community makes a better verb than a noun.
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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 how much our isolation costs us, and what the President of the Rugged Individualists Society needs you to know.
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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 than your body, how the origins of our modern simplicity movement started with the Industrial Revolution,
Customer Reviews
Grounded and Genuine
SASM is one of those podcasts that I came to check out with the intention of just staying for a few episodes, but Joel does such a fine job with it that it's now one of the 6 that I listen to like clockwork. I first met Joel on a cool multipotentialite platform and instantly thought to myself "I want to know more about this guy!" Now a few dozen episodes later I can attest that Joel brings a great sense of genuinity, compassion, and good ol fashioned social interest to each episode. He is one of only a few guys I know brave enough to publicly put his own failings and emotions out on stage without defending them or seeking sympathy. If you like podcasters like Jeff Goins and Shane Blackshear, you'll love this huggable guy, Joel!
Ground and Center
I recently went through a huge life shift and discovered Joel's podcast while I was sifting through the ashes. I've since downloaded almost every episode and I can honestly say he has helped me find my direction and enabled me to tap into my inner resources. It's not only the topics and guests - it's his unfailing honesty and optimism. Thanks Joel.
Living the Dream!
What a great podcast! And Joel - man alive is this guy a pro! He is living the dream and he's not afraid to bring everyone along for the ride. He researches each guest in depth and manages to pull out insightful answers and awesome stories at every turn. This podcast is fast-paced, energy-filled, and a real delight to listen to. Rock on!