009. How to Rightsize Your Life and Retire to a Tiny House

Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast

This episode features Jody Brady. In 2014, after living in a series of traditionally scaled houses, Jody and her husband Bill decided it was time to "right-size" their living space. They designed and built their tiny home in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia, and they've been living tiny for two and a half years.

In this interview, we get into what it’s like to go tiny as a couple at retirement age, but who certainly aren’t “retired” in the traditional sense. We’ll talk about what “rightsizing” is and how you can get rid of things that you no longer need that are standing in your way.
For complete show notes, transcript and images, visit https://www.thetinyhouse.net/jody
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Chapters

1. 009. How to Rightsize Your Life and Retire to a Tiny House (00:00:00)

2. What is "Rightsizing"? (00:01:48)

3. What catalyzed your decision to go tiny? (00:04:07)

4. What "made the cut" that you keep in your tiny house? (00:10:58)

5. How has tiny house living enabled you to live more sustainably? (00:13:38)

6. The paradox of Propane (00:17:09)

7. Do you feel judged for choosing tiny living and how do you deal with that social pressure? (00:18:50)

8. On the concept of "retirement" (00:21:57)

9. The scoop on poop (00:24:32)

10. Was it difficult to find land to park your tiny house? (00:26:49)

11. Living in a "prelegal" state of existence (00:29:31)

12. On designing a tiny house without a loft (00:30:54)

13. How do you host your family? (00:32:19)