Good Life Project

Today’s Good Life Project Roundtable™ features guests-in-residence Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, MAPP and and Bob Gower. Emiliya is a leading voice in the world of positive psychology and the science of flourishing, and is the founder of the Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology program, which is the largest in the world. In a past life she was a party entertainer and knows pretty much every […]

Today’s guest, Eric Zimmer, is the host of the wonderful The One You Feed podcast. Growing up in Ohio, his life took a hard turn and began to spin out of control. He eventually found himself addicted to heroin and alcohol, living in a van and struggling to make sense of the world. After years […]

This week’s Good Life Project Riff is a reply to a question from one of our wonderful listeners. You’ve spent your whole life working at something that pays the bills, something that gives you time to be with family. Life, on the whole, is pretty good. But the thing you’re doing to put food on […]

Today’s Good Life Project Roundtable™ features guests-in-residence Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, MAPP and and Bob Gower. Emiliya is a leading voice in the world of positive psychology and the science of flourishing, and is the founder of the Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology program, which is the largest in the world. In a past life she was a party entertainer and knows pretty much every […]

For most of us, dealing with change is tough. We’re wired to avoid wading into the abyss where we don’t know how things are going to end. Even tougher, though, is leading others through change. Today’s guests, Nancy Duarte and Patti Sanchez know this. Nancy is the co-founder of her eponymous firm, Duarte, the top […]

There’s a somewhat ironic relationship between willpower and thinking. They don’t play nicely with each other. The more you tax your brain with what we’d call a “cognitive load,” the more your ability to regulate your behaviors craters. So, if you’re working on a complex problem under deadline or trying to innovate or create, there’s […]

Today’s episode is part 3 of our latest experiment, a new show format we’re calling Good Life Project Roundtable™. What is it? A new weekly show that won’t replace, but will be added to our long-form conversations and short riffs. Two “guests-in-residence” and I will be hanging out for the better part of a month, […]

What if you could take an idea and turn it into a website with more than 12 million visitors a month and a powerful global community? That’s exactly what today’s guest, Jason Wachob, did. He is the founder of Mind Body Green, one the web’s top wellness websites, featuring thousands of articles, a growing catalog of courses, […]

I don’t like following, never have. Other peoples’ rules and procedures and constraints and processes often don’t sit quite right with me. I prefer to take my own path, follow my own rules. It’s why I was the “Lemonade Stand Kid” in my neighborhood—I wanted my own money, own responsibility. It’s why I’ve been an […]

Today’s episode is part 2 of our latest experiment, a new show format we’re calling Good Life Project Roundtable™. What is it? A new weekly show that won’t replace, but will be added to our long-form conversations and short riffs. Two “guests-in-residence” and I will be hanging out for the better part of a month, […]

Originals are the non-conformists who drive creativity and change forward—the ones who help us progress as both independent cultures and a unified species. They’re Steve Jobs’ “crazy ones.” Yet in spite of this, humanity has always had a fascinatingly dysfunctional relationship with originality—we simultaneously venerate and scorn it, particularly in the workplace. Originals may eventually […]

Every large scale creative endeavor, from writing a book to building a body of work, creating a collection or a company, is made up of dozens, maybe even hundreds or even thousands of smaller scale benchmarks, along with the “pushes” it takes to hit each. Every time you hit a benchmark, it feels great. You […]

Today’s episode is our latest experiment, a new show format we’re calling Good Life Project Roundtable™. What is it? A new weekly show that won’t replace, but will be added to our long-form conversations and short riffs. Two “guests-in-residence” and I will be hanging out for the better part of a month, usually 3 or […]

Imagine you’re on stage, charged with holding the attention of a thousand people. Knowing that, as soon as you stop talking the free cocktails begin. Your job is to keep the audience rapt for a solid 60-minutes. It’s you against the taunt of free partying. That’s often the speaker’s worst nightmare. But, this week’s guest,Jon […]

Here’s a great question from one of our listeners, David: If your work is truly cutting edge, how do you effectively market if people don’t even have the distinctions yet to “get it,” and you need to get their attention AND it takes a longer conversation to really open it up? The art of conveying […]