Good Life Project

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August 11, 2016 Why the Best of the Best Always Have Teachers
What does it ACTUALLY take to be great? Over the last decades, we’ve learned that practice, alone, isn’t enough. You need to make your practice “deliberate,” with a fierce focus on assessing and improving. In this sense, becoming mesmerizingly good might have more to do with being purposeful than obsessed. Thing is, this type of […]The post Why the Best of the Best Always Have Teachers appeared first on Good LifeProject.
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11 min
August 07, 2016Jess Lively: What happens when you let intuition take the wheel?
When you think of masculine and feminine, do you naturally think "man" and "woman" respectively?
Our guest today believes everyone can harness both masculine and feminine energy to achieve greater success in business and, ultimately, life.
In this episode, Jess Lively unpacks how masculine and feminine, intuition and ego play together effectively. She explains why Oprah is the quintessential example of a woman who's exploited both the masculine and feminine energy and how we can replicate that approach.
Jess now helps people live from values-based intentions through LifeWithIntentionOnline.com and The Lively Show podcast. She began her entrepreneurial journey making jewelry at the side of the pool at the age of 15. Jess JC was born and cemented the notion that a business at its core is a process of creating something from nothing and finding customers who will buy it.
After completing her MBA from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business in 2007, Jess grew her accessory business into a successful full-time career in Chicago. Later, she transitioned into business coaching.
Knowing that her mission is to help people become more peacefully fulfilled by shifting their approach to life, she started her blog in 2009 to share that message and eventually a popular podcast, The Lively Show.
Jess Lively shares a simple process for liberating an astonishing source of guidance available to us all - our intuition. According to Jess, when we listen to and allow that intuition to guide our decisions, we'll experience opportunities for growth and adventure others will ignore.
In This Episode, You'll Learn:
What the basics of building a business entail.
How Jess’s “mess becomes your message” experience led to her current business success.
Societal changes that impact how women relate in the marketplace.
How entrepreneurs exist in a state of high ego and high intuition to create success in business.
How we can liberate and tap into our intuition to make better business decisions.
Jess’s step-by-step process for having a conversation between your ego and intuition.

Mentioned in This Episode:
Connect with Jess: LifeWithIntentionOnline.com | The Lively Show | Twitter
When Everything changed by Gail Collins
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56 min
August 04, 2016 How to be unmistakable (even when you’re falling apart): Srinivas Rao
Srinivas Rao was following the typical life path for an American kid. Raised in a family steeped in high-expectations of professional success, he ended up pursuing an MBA at Pepperdine. He figured, when he got out, like most MBA grads, he’d be minted. Except for two things. He graduated in the worst time in the […]The post How to be unmistakable (even when you’re falling apart): Srinivas Rao appeared first on Good LifeProject.
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55 min
July 31, 2016Mary Fons: she quilted her way to health, now it’s time to write.
Mary Fons knew she wanted to be a writer from a young age, and was pursuing that path when a catastrophic illness nearly took her life, leading to surgery and changing her future forever.
As she recovered and started to stitch her life back together, she began working with her mom, Maryann Fons, a legend in the world of quilting and author of what has become known as the "Quilter’s Bible."
Simultaneously rebuilding her health while building her own name as a leading voice in the massive quilting world, she began speaking, writing books, designing textiles and producing media and appearing regularly on television with her mother. Still, she knew deep down that quilting wasn't her dream. Writing and spoken-word began to call her back to a more deeply ingrained destiny.
We recorded this conversation at a major point of inflection for Mary. She was about to make a huge move, and in a way, this conversation is her announcement. As we wrap up, Mary also reads a powerful spoken word piece that landed her writing and poetry big attention and accolades. You don't want to miss this.
In This Episode, You'll Learn:
The mind-blowing statistics behind the world of quilting.
The catastrophic illness and events that changed Mary’s life forever.
How Mary has learned to handle the stress of living her life in her niche’s public eye.
How Mary navigated the tricky path to becoming a success in the shadow of a legendary woman and finding her way in the world of quilting.
How to be successful and earn a living in quilting.
How performing, improv and spoken word entered her life.
Why Mary has decided to make the leap from writing to writing.

Mentioned in This Episode:
Connect with Mary: Mary Fons | Blog | Quilty | Facebook | YouTube | Instagram
Fons & Porter
Make & Love Quilts: Scrap Quilts for the 21st Century by Mary Fons
Quilter’s Complete Guide by Marianne Porter & Liz Fons
Creative Mornings
QuiltCon West
The Modern Quilt Guild
The Neo-Futurists: Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind
Mark Twain
Write Club
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1 hr 3 min
July 28, 2016He left his life to bike 46,000 miles around the world in 4 years. But, why?
Have you ever thought about leaving everything behind and traveling the world? Of cashing out your savings to hit the road and create lifelong memories and new experiences?
This may sound like an impossible dream to most, but our guest today did just that. Alastair Humphreys was poised to accept his dream job when he made the decision to spend the next four years of his life biking 46,000 miles around the world.
Alastair lived for four years traveling on just under $10,000 without taking any other jobs or earning any other money. Sounds impossible, doesn’t it? That was just the beginning of an incredible life of adventures.
Alastair has become a documentary filmmaker, author, speaker, and blogger while continuing to pursue his passion for adventuring. Today, he shares why he continues to go on these adventures and what he gains from them. Alastair’s extraordinary experiences are some that I know many of you may envy and wish to emulate, and he shares the steps you can take to start your incredible journey.
In This Episode, You'll Learn:
How to live in the “ah” moment.
How Alastair went from a bookish kid to an adventurer.
The moment that started it all for Alastair.
The struggles Alastair faced in his trek.
Alastair’s tips for anyone wanting to start their own adventure.
The best way to fund an adventure.

Mentioned in This Episode:
Connect with Alastair: Alastair Humphreys | Facebook | Twitter | Pinterest | Instagram | YouTube
Ernest Shackleton
Investment Biker: Around the World with Jim Roger by Jim Rogers
Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip by Jim Rogers
A Journey Around My Room by Xavier de Maistre
Mindset
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58 min
July 25, 2016Chris “Daze” Ellis: From Street Artist to Museum Collections
Today’s guest, Chris Daze Ellis, is a born-and-bred New York artist with a fascinating origin story. Although he began his prolific painting career in the gritty New York subways of the mid-70s, Daze is one of the few artists from that initial group to have successfully transitioned from the underground to the studio, then the galleries and […] The post Chris “Daze” Ellis: From Street Artist to Museum Collections appeared first on Good LifeProject.

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51 min
July 21, 2016 The Untold Story Behind GPS Girl and the Voice of Siri.
How did an Australian woman who wanted to be the next Olivia Newton-John become the voice of SIRI and the confident giver of directions in than 400 million GPS and smart-enabled devices?
Also known as “GPS Girl,” today’s guest, Karen Jacobsen, never saw her device-enabled voice-future coming. It happened entirely under a shroud of secrecy, when Karen took a job that required spending days cloistered in a studio, reading tons of phrases, but never being told why. It wasn’t until a friend called years later and said “you’re on our GPS” that she finally learned what’d happened!
Behind her golden voice, though, is a much bigger story. At heart, Karen is a songwriter and singer. Her dream was always to become the next Olivia Newton-John in the United States. To take the pop music world by storm.
That dream has since led to a career not just as the voice of SIRI and GPS devices, but in music, including gigs singing the national anthem in front of massive stadiums on TV, having songs featured on hit shows, and a career as a featured keynote speaker. But, it’s also been, at times, a brutally hard road, that’s taken humility and a willingness to “get real” and even head home to recover and recalculate, then rebuild.
And, funny enough, Karen and GLP founder, Jonathan Fields, have a fun, intertwined back story that led them both to appear together on the front page of the New York Times Jobs section back in the early 2,000s.
Today, Karen takes us on her incredible journey. She shares how taking the voice-over gig completely changed her life and how it eventually reflected back on her life and her career in an entirely different way than she ever expected. And, she also ends up singing us a little something about a good, good life!
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54 min
July 17, 2016 The Mind Club: Who Is In, Who Is Out and Why It Matters
This week on The Good Life Project, our guest is social psychologist and professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Kurt Gray. Kurt studies mind perception and morality. In his research, Kurt is trying to answer questions about the true nature of human beings, from good and evil to why we attribute human-like qualities […]The post The Mind Club: Who Is In, Who Is Out and Why It Matters appeared first on Good LifeProject.
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57 min
July 14, 2016 How One Woman Built a Renegade Craft Movement.
How do you go from studying psychology and religion to founding the world’s largest outdoor renegade craft fair, with outposts in nine cities. This week on Good Life Project, my guest is Susie Daly, the founder of Renegade Craft Fair. Susie’s journey was anything but planned. Through a series of exciting turns, she went from being a crafter herself […]The post How One Woman Built a Renegade Craft Movement. appeared first on Good LifeProject.
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57 min
July 11, 2016How Touch Can Make or Break Your Life, with David Linden
Ever wonder why the exact same touch by one person will give you the creeps, but by another will make you yearn for more?
On this episode of The Good Life, I am excited to bring you David Linden, a Johns Hopkins Neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author of Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind.
The research that David has been conducting on the effects of touch on the human mind is a powerful reminder of the role touch plays in nearly every aspect of human development. Everything from love to intelligence, sex to attachment, orgasm or itch and beyond... basically, anything we touch or get touched by profoundly influences our personality, perception of people and the world.
Whether touch is given or withheld at any age can shape the entirety of our beings. Our neurology, psychology and our ability to live functional, good lives is dependent on touch.
If you have ever wondered why touch is so important to the development of infants, or why we find touch so vital to our own mental well-being, you are going to want to turn up the volume and listen in. David answers all of these questions and so many more.
In This Episode, You'll Learn:
The events that led David to write three books on touch.
The catastrophic results when loving touch is withheld from infants.
How appropriate touch can change the way a patient views a doctor’s effectiveness and care.
How incidental sensory experiences can influence our impressions of others.
What touch actually is and how we've adapted different mechanisms to experience it.
How touch is involved with everything from orgasm to reading Braille.
How touch varies across cultures.
Why sexual touch is so powerful.

Mentioned in This Episode:
Connect with David: David Linden | Blog
Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind by David Linden
Dacher Keltner | Greater Good Science Center
John Bargh
Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges by Amy Cuddy
National Institutes of Health
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48 min

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Good Life Project is a podcast and video series for people navigating midlife with intention. Hosted by Jonathan Fields, each episode is a deep, honest conversation about what it actually takes to…