Bruce Feiler

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802 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 8 Jun

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Good Life Project · Why Rituals Matter More Than You Know, And How to Design Your Own | Bruce Feiler · 8 Jun 2026 podcast

My dad had just died.

My mother was aging.

I had some conflict with my siblings.

My marriage needs to be renegotiated at this point, and my friendships need to be remade.

And my initial thought was, oh, I'm ready for this.

I mean, you and I met

Six years ago, as I recall, when I published Life is in the Transitions, and I have spent most of the last decade collecting and analyzing life stories of now 500 Americans all across the country, every circumstance and walk of life.

And I wrote everything.

A book on this topic called Life is in the Transitions.

I gave a TED talk.

I teach a TED course.

I'm like, oh, I'm the transition guy.

I should be ready for this moment.

And what I realized was that those events that I had spent so much of my life thinking and talking about, I call them lifequakes.

Because some of them are involuntary, like losing a loved one or losing your legs or a downsizing or a pandemic.

But some of them are voluntary, like starting over or having children, for example, right?

You know, it was joyful, but it was a lifequake, right?

Two kids in 32 minutes.

The difference...

is that this was not a lifequake.

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