277 | Unusual Living Arrangements

Joshua and Ryan talk about alternative living options—communal living, throuples, combined families, long-term singlehood, nomadic living—with the CEO and cofounder of Nourish Balance Thrive, Christopher Kelly, and they answer the following questions:
What is ancestral health? (03:20)
What has likely caused our overall decline in health? (05:08)
Is our current status quo of living arrangements in detrimental conflict with the natural order? (07:28)
How do people continue to help the paradigm of the nuclear family work? (10:40)
How do we set appropriate boundaries with roommates and ensure those boundaries are not crossed to prevent theft, property damage, and tense co-living environments? (11:59)
What is Christopher’s communal living arrangement? (12:38)
Why did Christopher adopt his communal living arrangement? (13:53)
How does Christopher manage living with several different families? (15:34)
What is ‘helicopter parenting’? (20:53)
What is your definition of “commune”? (22:59)
What are the pros and cons of unusual living arrangements in cultures that wholly embrace them? (28:36)
What does the “WEIRD” acronym represent? (30:56)
How do you define “solitude”? (32:40)
What is Joshua’s living arrangement? (33:51)
What is the ‘sweet spot’ regarding how many people you can live with? (35:25)
Who created the monogamous nuclear family? (38:40)
At what point does a group become a cult? (48:50)
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