Less House More Moola
Welcome to the Less House, More Moola podcast, where we delve into the world of tiny and alternative living and its potential to transform your financial security. I'm your host, Laura Lynch, and together we'll embark on a journey of exploring alternative living arrangements, embracing a minimalistic lifestyle, and ultimately breaking free from societal expectations.
Through captivating interviews, invaluable industry resources, and personal insights, this podcast aims to guide you towards a life of financial independence, rich with downsizing tips and tiny house ideas, and a deeper connection to the things that truly matter. Join me in this tiny house movement as we redefine the meaning of success and challenge the status quo.
Laura Lynch, CFP® ABFP™ AAMS® CDFA® is the founder of The Tiny House Adviser, Host of Less House More Moola podcast and financial counselor at Alt American Dream. She writes and guides others along the path of tiny and alternative housing.
Laura's journey to tiny house living began with her own quest for financial freedom and a desire to live a life that aligned with her values. After experiencing the emotional and financial burdens of conventional home-ownership, Laura and her partner Eric embarked on a journey to build their own tiny house, finding peace and liberation in their alternative living arrangement.
Laura holds a Master of Education (M. Ed.) degree and is a Certified Financial Planner Practitioner, Accredited Behavioral Financial Professional, Certified Divorce Financial Analyst, and an Accredited Asset Management Specialist.
With years of experience in the financial planning industry, Laura has honed her expertise in helping clients navigate the complex world of personal finance. Her focus on alternative living arrangements, allows her to provide specialized guidance to those seeking financial freedom through downsizing and embracing a less conventional life.
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Less House More Moola
Episode 100 - I’m Away Doing the Thing
In this 100th episode of the Less House More Moola podcast, Laura reflects on the journey of alternative living, discussing the importance of building a strong foundation in life and the ongoing renovation project in Colorado. The conversation emphasizes resilience, sustainability, and the need to address core issues rather than opting for quick fixes. The host shares insights from the renovation process, drawing parallels to personal growth and the challenges of modern living.
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Full Episode Transcript
With Your Host
Laura Lynch
Less House More Moola Podcast (00:41)
Hey everybody. Welcome to Less House More Moola podcast. Thanks for joining me this week. This is episode 100. So a hundred episodes is a lot of great conversations. It's a lot of great concepts. It's been a really fun journey chatting about alternative living, talking about tiny living, talking about my experience and others, folks on wheels, folks permanently placed.
All kinds of great professionals in the space and the work that they're doing, creating an alternative to the American dream for all of us as an option. It's great to have options in life. Far too easily We are shoehorned into a single path that may not work well for us, especially in this moment in history when jobs are not including a lifetime pension and our institutions seem to be a little shaky. Things are more expensive, really a lot more expensive. And we're trying to figure out how we create resilience and sustainability for ourselves. To that end, this week we are in Colorado.
And so for those of you watching on YouTube, if you take a glance at your screen, you can see the scenery behind me. I feel a little bit like one of those folks on Safari reporting on the wild animals. In this case, since we've been here for a couple of days, the most wild animals that I have seen has been a rodent. Normally I see a lot of deer or elk on my walks, but we've been so far focused on working that I actually haven't been on quite enough walks since we've been here. Lots of beautiful birds though. It is spring and amazingly beautiful here in South Central Colorado.
If you missed it on episode 88, Eric and I talk about this property and our plans for it. We are here working on the existing structure, the cabin that was on the property when we purchased it. It had been, more or less uninhabited for 10 years. And so just a lot of work. We've been deconstructing and deconstructing and deconstructing. And every time we feel like we're at that place where we can turn around and start reconstructing, we have to deconstruct some more. We find another issue, another thing that needs to be resolved.
And so it's kind of an exercise in patience and an exercise in being in the journey because it's really easy to get impatient and want to move forward with the really fun parts like framing and finishes and lighting and all those things. But we have to get to the root of the problems and solve those problems before we can feel good that the structure is livable and going to be in a good position for the long term. And as I think about this, I realize this is kind of an analogy for many other parts of our life right now in these times that it's easy for us to band-aid or maybe, get to some sort of quick solution when we haven't really gotten at the heart of the issue.
And for many of us, the heart of the issue is having the capability to make sure that we can take care of ourselves and live a healthy and resilient life where we can navigate challenges, where we're in a good position to make sure that we have the basics that we need and that we're able to continue to have those basics no matter what happens, ups and downs. So creating a strong foundation for our life is really an important part of the work that I hope we're doing in our choosing of an alternative lifestyle.
So here I am, you can see the mountains behind me if you're watching on YouTube and the cottonwood trees in the creek bed and the beautiful, beautiful dirt that I'm super excited to put some seeds into and see with a little water what we can get to grow here in this beautiful soil in the Southern Rocky Mountains.
This week, this episode is going to be quite short. I don't have a guest lined up and we're here primarily focused on working on this project, but I didn't want to leave you hanging this week. Just wanted to give you a little insight into what's going on. Next week. I'll also be here continuing on with work. Hopefully there will be more progress to report than the last couple of days of deconstructing and deconstructing. Hopefully by next week, there will be some coming back from all of the problem sourcing and fixing of the heart of the problems here.
I hope that you will come back next week to hear what progress we have made. I didn't even want to show you what's going on in the cabin right now because it is really a serious mess. So I'm recording this from outside in the sunshine on the ranger where you can just see the beautiful nature because what's going on in the house is, kind of a hot mess.
So anyway, Thank you for joining me on Less House More Moola podcast, episode 100, continuing on with you on this journey to alternative and tiny living and considering all of the implications about how we create our safety for the future, our resilience for the future, our comfort and low risk lifestyle so that we can really just do the biggest and most impactful things while we're on this wild and precious journey that we're on.
