Good Life Project

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What's Good Life Project about?

What does it mean to live a good life? Is it about happiness, health, friendship, love, or meaning? What about work, wealth, purpose, service, or something else? Can you live a good life even when things are hard? These are the questions and topics we explore every week in conversation with leading voices from health, science, art, industry, mindset, and culture, like Brené Brown, Matthew McConaughey, Mel Robbins, Alex, Elle, Adam Grant, Elizabeth Gilbert, Yung Pueblo, Maya Shankar, Mitch Albom, Glennon Doyle & hundreds more. The New York Times says, "the show’s holistic approach to fulfillment is bound to resonate." Listen now! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The Truth About Manifesting...

06.05.2023

We've all experienced that magical feeling of something we've longed for becoming real - a creative project finally coming together, a new relationship blossoming, achieving a health goal we never thought possible. But have you ever wondered how those seemingly ...

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06.05.2023 The Truth About Manifesting \| Science, Myths & Practical Steps - Summer Series Pt.1 We've all experienced that magical feeling of something we've longed for becoming real - a creative project finally coming together, a new relationship blossoming, achieving a health goal we never thought possible. But have you ever wondered how those seemingly ...
06.01.2023 How to Talk About Sex, Let Go of Shame & Get What You Need \| Vanessa Marin Sex and relationship expert Vanessa Marin discusses the taboo nature of discussing sex and how it can lead to unmet needs and dissatisfaction in relationships. Her new book, Sex Talks: The Five Conversations That Will Transform Your Love Life, provides ...
05.29.2023 How to Stop Fighting And Start Talking (and Healing) \| Stan Tatkin We want to hear from YOU! Take our survey. Conflicts are inevitable in long-term relationships. But often we argue in ways that push our partners away instead of resolving issues. Dr. Stan Tatkin, a marriage and family therapist who has ...
05.25.2023 Embracing Change, Creativity & Play \| Manoush Zomorodi We want to hear from YOU! Take our survey. Ever wish you had the courage to try something entirely new? To create something that didn’t exist before? Even if you’re already successful at your career, and you enjoy much of ...
05.22.2023 How to Feel Significant (again?) \| Seth Godin We want to hear from YOU! Take our survey. Beyond money, what truly matters is meaning and purpose - feeling like your work and life make a difference. Studies show significance is key to satisfaction. Yet workplaces often keep us ...
05.18.2023 How to Get Unstuck (a scientific take) \| Adam Alter We want to hear from YOU! Take our survey. Have you ever felt stuck in any part of your life? Trapped in a soul-sucking job, an unfulfilling relationship, a health, fitness or performance plateau, or a creative rut? What if ...
05.15.2023 How to Be Unstoppable \| Oksana Masters We want to hear from YOU! Take our survey. Born in 1989 Ukraine with extensive physical challenges, missing bones and parts of limbs, muscle,s and organ tissue due to in-utero radiation poisoning from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Oksana Masters was ...
05.11.2023 7 Days to Unlock Your Best Sleep \| Dr. Aric Prather We want to hear from YOU! Take our survey. What if you could transform your sleep in just seven days? What if the key to unlocking your best rest lies within a simple yet powerful prescription, tailored by one of ...
05.08.2023 Nedra Glover Tawwab \| Better Boundaries, Better Life [Best of] We want to hear from YOU! Take our survey. These last few years have tested our boundaries on nearly every level. Work, friendship, family, community, geography, politics, religion, social issues, love, and well-being. It’s like we’re being asked to draw ...
05.04.2023 How to Regain Focus & Attention \| Gloria Mark, PhD We want to hear from YOU! Take our survey. Could Your Smartphone Be Destroying Your Focus? Have our attention spans, will power, mood and productivity just become hopelessly derailed for life? Answer is, it depends. What we do about our ...
05.01.2023 AI and Excellent Advice for Living \| Kevin Kelly We want to hear from YOU! Take our survey. You’ve heard about it everywhere, but what does AI have to do, if anything, with living a good life? With how you live and work and play? With the choices you ...
04.27.2023 The 6 Magic Words of Persuasion \| Jonah Berger We want to hear from YOU! Take our survey. Have you ever wondered why some people seem to have a magical way with words, effortlessly connecting with others, inspiring change, being able to share ideas in a way that seems ...
04.24.2023 Rainn Wilson \| Reimagining Spirituality We want to hear from YOU! Take our survey. Ever notice how, increasingly, spirituality, and especially, religion, have become these loaded terms? Let alone concepts. But, does that have to be the case? What might a new lens or approach ...
04.20.2023 The Surprising Science of Motivation (it’s not what you think) \| Emily Balcetis Have you ever wondered what sets successful people apart, and how they stay motivated to achieve their goals? What if you could discover the secrets to maximizing your own motivation and achieving the success you desire? In today's podcast, we ...
04.17.2023 How Not to Be Defined by Your Worst Moment \| Shaka Senghor [Best of] I’m fascinated by the idea of snap decisions, how some can lead to amazing outcomes, and others can destroy lives. What you so often find is that nothing actually happens in a moment, there is no real snap, but rather ...
04.13.2023 Tap the 5 Senses for Happiness, Pleasure & Connection \| Gretchen Rubin What if there was a secret pathway that could dramatically expand the level of joy, creativity, pleasure, and connection you experienced in life, no matter what was happening? Turns out, there is, and that path takes us through the land ...
04.10.2023 How to Awaken Your Genius \| Ozan Varol Have you ever felt like you’ve got so much more potential inside you, but you have no idea how to unlock it and share it with the world? If so, you’re not alone. And it’s a question that today’s guest, ...
04.06.2023 Finding Strength in Surrender \| Laura Cathcart Robbins Have you ever felt like the only one in the room? That uneasy feeling of being different, isolated, or misunderstood, having to perform to a norm that is entirely misaligned with who you are can be jarring. But what if ...
04.03.2023 The Science of a Deeply-Connected Marriage \| Eli Finkel The science is crystal clear, deep, genuine, healthy and enduring relationships are at the center of a well-lived life. But, so often, it’s the long-term intimate partnerships that we take most for granted or give least attentiveness to. Just assuming ...
03.30.2023 Bridging the Divide: Lessons in Empathy \| Spotlight Convo One of our core values and beliefs here at Good Life Project is that every human being, regardless of how they identify, love, practice, or live is endowed with dignity and worth, and is entitled to be treated through this ...
03.27.2023 7 Habits to Dramatically Improve Focus \| Jonathan Fields We live in a world of near-constant distraction, making it harder and harder to focus, to be present and attentive in the activities, goals, pursuit and even relationships that mean the most to us. And, so often, the solution offered ...
03.23.2023 How to Come Home to Yourself \| Arielle Estoria Have you ever felt like you're living a life that isn't truly yours? Maybe you long to uncover the most authentic version of yourself, the one that’s laid hidden beneath layers of expectations and societal norms? Or, maybe you ever ...
03.20.2023 How to Connect Deeper & Love Better \| Rick Hanson, PhD What if there was a game-changing relationship practice or tool or strategy that was capable of not only transforming your personal relationships, even the really tense one, but also your relationship with yourself, and even with the way to respond ...
03.16.2023 The Power of International Education \| StudyUK [bonus episode] Are you living your best life? It's a question we've all asked ourselves, but have you considered the role that global exploration and cultural immersion can play in answering it? In a world that's more connected than ever before, it's ...
03.13.2023 Anne Lamott \| Finding Joy in the Journey My first exposure to Anne Lamott’s work was her iconic book, Bird By Bird, which as a writer, was transformative. Not just because it helped me better understand how and why to write, but also because her wonderfully wise and ...
03.09.2023 How to Make Better Decisions \| Daniel Kahneman So, you think you’re making good decisions, but are you really? And, what about the hidden scripts and noisy inputs that affect nearly every decision you make, without you being aware of any of it? How do we make better ...
03.06.2023 How to Break the Grip of Cravings \| Amy Shah, MD Are you tired of feeling like you’re powerless against your cravings, no matter how much you try to resist them? From unhealthy, yet irresistible snacks to binge-TV, we often feel helpless against the biochemical storm happening inside our bodies and ...
03.02.2023 A Radically Holistic Take on Greatness \| Lewis Howes When you hear the term “greatness,” what do you think? For most people, images of world-class athletes, innovators, performers, leaders or industry or arts come to mind. The best of the best in any field. Those who push harder than ...
02.27.2023 Microjoys: Finding Hope When Life’s Not Okay \| Cyndie Spiegel Have you ever had a moment or experience, maybe even an entire season of life that was so hard, so filled with struggle and, maybe even, grief, loss and uncertainty, that the very idea of feeling or accessing any kind ...
02.23.2023 How to Turn Anxiety Into a Superpower \| Dr. Wendy Suzuki Have you ever felt overwhelmed or helpless in the face of anxiety? Like the more you try to manage it, the more out of control it becomes? Maybe it’s in social situations where you’re surrounded by new people or work ...
02.20.2023 How to Finish What Matters & Get More Free Time \| Spotlight Convo How many times have you said yes to something, started it, gotten halfway through, then either been distracted, run out of time, energy, money, ideas, motivation, or all the above? And, just kind of walk away, leaving something that could’ve ...
02.16.2023 Cole Arthur Riley \| Reclaiming the Stories That Shape Us Cole Arthur Riley grew up in a house full of loud, funny, and loving personalities, but as a kid, she kept her voice from others, barely speaking at all until she was 7 years old. Still, her dad kept finding ...
02.13.2023 How to Identify & Heal Your Origin Wound (we all have them) \| Vienna Pharaon What if you were, unknowingly being controlled by unresolved pain from your past, even minor, or momentary experiences, ones that took root and, from that moment on, without you having any idea, limited everything from your relationships to your health, ...
02.09.2023 Is Entrepreneurship Right for You? \| Amy Porterfield Ever wonder if entrepreneurship is for you? Whether starting a personal business like coaching or consulting, building around an idea, platform, technology or product, teaching others what you know, either in person or through books, courses and talks, heading out ...
02.06.2023 The Truth About Paradise (It's Not What You Think) \| Pico Iyer What if paradise was real? But, instead of searching and traveling a journey to the far ends of the earth to find it, you could touch it at any moment, in any place, no matter how amazing or awful the ...
02.02.2023 How to Stop Pleasing Everyone But Yourself \| Natalie Lue How might your life be different if you’d gotten comfortable saying no in your earliest days? No to other people’s opinions about everything from education to careers to relationships. No to someone else telling you what to prioritize and how ...
01.30.2023 Love, Heartbreak & Healing, an Artist’s Journey \| Timothy Goodman What if you didn’t have to keep everything bottled up? Or show up a certain way? Or deny what you’re going through or feeling? What if you could just sit with it, feel it fully, then find a way to ...
01.26.2023 How to Thrive in a Rapidly-Changing Work World \| Gabriella Rosen Kellerman How do you get through each day, let alone build a meaningful, connected and rewarding career when rapid-fire, constant change, groundlessness, unrelenting pace, overwhelm, and even workplace toxicity have become the norm? That’s where we’re headed with my guest today, ...
01.23.2023 7 Ways to Find Calm \| Kickstart 2023 In a world that seems to be constantly in motion, it can be difficult to find calm. Whether it's the never-ending stream of news notifications on our phones or the constant pressure to be doing, it can feel like we're ...
01.19.2023 A Groundbreaking Approach to Health \| Dr. Casey Means If you weren’t paying attention to your health before the last few years, you are now. Question is, what should we actually be paying attention to? And, are there major things, early or even real-time indicators that could tell us ...
01.16.2023 What Should I Do With My Life? Start Here \| Kickstart 2023 What should I do with my life? How can we actually make different choices that just might let us figure out what to devote our working lives to in a way that is more likely to make us come alive ...
01.12.2023 The Surprising Science About Relationships & Happiness \| Robert Waldinger What if the key to living a good life is actually a lot closer than we all realize? Whether you're a long-time listener of the podcast or this is your first time tuning in, I bet some part of you ...
01.09.2023 A Simple Model for a Really Good Life \| 2023 Kickstart So as we all step into this year together, there's a big question that I think is on everybody's mind. And that question is, "What does it actually take to live a good Life?" Is it about health or wealth, ...
01.05.2023 How to Expand Time & Increase Happiness \| Cassie Holmes What does it mean to be time-poor? We've all heard the old phrase, "time is money," usually in the context of work and productivity. But, time isn’t just about money, it’s about happiness, health, and life. How we use it ...
01.02.2023 How to Succeed at Anything Worth Doing \| 2023 Kickstart What if this was the year you actually did the thing that you have dreamed of doing, the thing that's been in the back of your mind for months or years, maybe even decades? The thing that when you think ...
12.29.2022 The Hug \| Stories. Kindness. Love. And connection. As we bring this year to a close, we wanted to reflect on human beings. Stories. Kindness. Love. And connection. And, more than anything, you. Our community. Stories that allow us to see more of the goodness in each other, ...
12.26.2022 On Openness and Equality in the Workplace \| Deborah Owens We’re in a moment where more people are awakening to the reality that there is no such thing as a universal experience. Especially in the world of work. And often, some blend of our identities, history, biases, gender, race, age, ...
12.22.2022 Parker J. Palmer \| How to Let Your Life Speak So, what might happen if you let go of what you thought your life would or should be, and created the space to let it show you what it truly yearns to be? Then, followed that thread. That’s been the ...
12.19.2022 On The Power of Hope & Action \| Father Greg Boyle & Fabian Debora When you’re in your darkest hour, dealing with tough circumstances that don’t seem to have an end in sight, it can be easy to lose hope. And, have those around you give up on you, even abandon you. But, in ...
12.15.2022 How to Age-Proof Your Brain \| Dr. Marc Milstein If a magic pill existed that could transform the health of your brain and keep it from aging as you got older, would you take it? We all know that as we age, so does our brain. And with it ...

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