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Does next year bring career changes to your life? Are you tired of dealing with the corporate world? Here’s a chance for you to take a look at how you can re-invent the way you fit into your current job or take that big leap into being your own boss. Is it possible to satisfy your work obligations and dreams while staying motivated and true to your family? Of course it is! You just need to understand the expectations of today’s workplace and learn to use them to your advantage. This week on The Good Life career coach Jenn Lee teaches us how to approach a career change or a rededication to your current job, while author Sallie Felton, who’s co-written books with Deepak Chopra and Stephen Covey, guides us through the best practices of combining work life and home life to most effectively live the good life!

Is your relationship with your significant other suffering? Though you may not want to admit it, chances are it’s not just your partner’s fault. The fights, the frustration, the distance – you might be (partially) to blame. With USA Today advice columnist and psychologist Stacy Kaiser, celebrity relationship counselor Dr. Holly Hein, and sexologist Isadora Allman, discover the top relationship killers – and how to solve or avoid them!

Ever meet someone who has all the right things to say? “Communication Coach” Todd Reed talks about how to live The Good Life in love by using conversation to recreate passion and love beyond words.

Let’s face it. Most of us could stand to look a little better than we do. But achieving our aesthetic potential doesn’t have to take months at the gym or hours in the mirror. Really, all it takes is a little know-how and a few tricks of the beauty and fashion trade. On this episode of The Good Life, model and image consultant Kirin Christianson, AKA “Red Haute Mama,” chats about some easy ways to accentuate our natural hair, face and body features without spending much time or money and puts her theories into practice during an on-air phone consultation with our producer Tara Nurin. Then high-fashion boudoir photographer Jennifer Rozenbaum will teach us how to look stunning in pictures by adopting basic poses most women have never even heard of.

Do you ever feel out of sorts in your job or in your life as a stay-at-home mom? On this episode of The Good Life, you’ll have a chance to take a self-assessment quiz to find out what career best suits your personality. Next, “Success Doc” Dr. Jo Anne White presents specific questions to ask yourself if you’re ready to move on, and if so, where? This week we’ll be giving away a free career coaching session to one of our Good Lifers as well as some Dove Chocolate Tequila Lime Brittle and White Chocolate Mango Mojito Mix from a surprise guest. And let’s not forget about The Good News Segment where you’ll learn what to do with all that tax season paperwork. It’s all right here on The Good Life.

Are you depressed? We get it. Maybe you’re down about your weight, or you’ve recently ended a relationship. Forbes and Charlie urge you to say, “Enough.” Refuse to let yourself feel bad anymore. How? With some tough love from their guests: Dr. Frederic Vagnini, who gives you surefire ways to drop pounds and feel physically radiant, and Susan Elliott, a “breakup coach” and author who forces you to turn your breakup or your malaise into the best thing that’s ever happened to you. And in The Good News segment, administrative consultant Julie Perrine tells you why you shouldn’t release your social media passwords to potential employers, no matter how bad you need a job.

Does your TV-viewing schedule read like the description of an exclusive four-star restaurant, with shows like Top Chef, No Reservations, and Kitchen Nightmares tempting you to watch at all hours of the day and night? If so, you’re among millions of Americans who’ve become addicted to foodie TV. But what makes these shows so compelling? And how have they changed our restaurant landscape and our relationship to food? To answer these questions, Food Network host Marc Summers and recurring Diners, Drive-ins and Dives guest Mike Giunta explore what life is like on inside the world of food TV – from predictions on the next craze, to how a surprise invitation from Guy Fieri can change your life, and how show producers decide whether to serve you meat-and-potatoes fare or brain candy. And don’t miss The Good News segment, when Forbes and Charlie get the latest on migraine research and treatment from an acclaimed NYC migraine specialist.

Are you trying, really trying, to lose weight and get fit but find that your body just isn’t cooperating? JJ Virgin, certified nutritionist, author and personal trainer to the stars shares her strategies for working with – instead of against -- your physiology to get the body you want and deserve … in just three essential phases.

What does it take to rev up your engine and get into gear, so you can get out of that muddy rut you’re in? We’re talking about making MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS people, and the time is NOW! As challenging as it may seem, you CAN bring radical change to your life and you WILL live to tell the story (longer, happier and healthier, we might add). But how do you do it? Enter Doreen Rainey, Get Radical success coach, who channels powerful forces to launch you into the next phase of your professional and personal life, and Matt Monarch, who shed his old eating habits to go raw and vegan and forge the world’s largest raw foods empire in the process. And Momnificent mom coach Lori Radun joins us to talk about reality TV’s Snooki, who’ll have to part ways with partying to have a healthy baby. Don’t miss the radical enhancements we’ve made to the show’s structure – on this and future episodes of The Good Life.

Kathy Smith may be the most inspirational women in the wellness industry. As President of Kathy Smith Lifestyles, she has sold over $500 million in lifestyle products and fitness equipment, including the recently launched age-fighting DVD workout line Staying Strong and Total Body Turnaround. As one of the world’s leading experts on aging actively, Kathy practically drew the map to the fountain of youth. Don’t miss out on this amazing interview as she shares with Forbes and Charlie how she has brought truth to the saying “age is nothing but a number!”