Jonathan Fields

Yeah, love that.

So let's say somebody's joining us for the conversation.

They're nodding along saying, yeah.

This feels interesting.

It feels right.

And they're moving through a transition, empty nest, parents who may be transitioning, friendship that needs to be repaired or ending, a career chapter, which a lot of people are moving through right now.

And they want to design a ritual for marriage.

The next week, like they're just they want something to happen quickly with what they have in their own home, in their own kitchen.

What's the very first thing that they should think about doing?

Not necessarily the whole framework, which you just laid out so beautifully, but like it's the first step in here.

Beautiful.

Feels like a good place for us to come full circle.

I have asked you this before.

I'm going to ask you again because some years have passed in this container of Good Life Project.

If I offer up the phrase to live a good life, what comes up?

Thank you.

So let's talk about some of the big ahas and actionable takeaways from this conversation.

The thing that I'm really sitting with from this conversation is how much of what we call loneliness, especially in the middle years of life, is actually a ritual deficit.

It's not that we do not have people.

It's that we don't have the ceremonies that tell our people, this matters.