About Us
Janet in Australia, picking out the perfect didgeridoo.
Janet Luhrs gave up a law career to simplify her life, and fell so much in love with simplicity that in 1992, she started a newsletter on the subject, Simple Living. She had tapped into a sweeping groundswell: her newsletter quickly grew to include a world-wide readership, and the Boston Globe called it “the nation’s premier newsletter on simplicity.” As technology has made it much easier to interact with people, Janet decided to stop writing the newsletter, so she could focus on more personal ways to help people simplify their lives.
Janet is also author of the best-selling classic book, The Simple Living Guide, called “the bible of the simplicity movement.” Her follow-up book, Simple Loving, tracks the connection between simplicity and loving relationships. Both books have been translated into several languages, including Korean, Polish, Japanese, Chinese and German.
Janet has appeared in nearly all the major media in the United States and Canada, including Oprah, Donahue, Maria Schriver, Peter Jennings World News Tonight, and NPR, as well as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time, U.S. News & World Report, the Washington Post, Yoga Journal, Vegetarian Times, Redbook, Family Circle, Ladies’ Home Journal and countless others.
She hosted her own radio show, The Simple Life, has been a national spokesperson for the Land O’ Lakes Company, is a sought-after keynote speaker, and produced a Simplify Your Life series of classes for Barnes & Noble. She is also a founding member of the Hilton Family of Hotels Leisure Advocacy Board, and is a member of Renaissance Weekend.
Janet has seen, lived through or heard about every complicating dilemma imaginable, and loves figuring out strategies to streamline, uncomplicate, and find time to enjoy and relish life.
“Now I get up in the morning and think about what I feel like doing that day.”
People come up to us and say ‘I don’t know how you folks can work only occasionally and go on all those trips to Norway,’ and then they go out and jump in their expensive car!”