Good Life Project
Episodes
What Story Is Your Life Telling?
17 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a line in the Good Life Project Living Creed: “Life is a story, if you wouldn’t read the one you’re telling, write a different ending....
Radhanath Swami: The Path of Devotion and Service
14 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Radhanath Swami, a Vaishnava sanyassin (a monk in a Krishna-bhakti lineage) and teacher of the devotional path of Bhakti-yoga.He...
A Good Life is a Practice, Not a Place.
10 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
So often, we look at life as a game to win, or a journey to get from where we are now to that magical, far-off destination where, finally, we get to l...
Orly Wahba: The Kindness Boomerang
07 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Orly Wahba is a teacher, entrepreneur, and community activist passionate about inspiring and motivating people to make the world a kinder place.Orly b...
Are You Measuring Your Success With the Wrong Metric?
03 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Are you measuring your success by the wrong metric? It’s so easy to get caught up in vanity metrics. To measure how full your Good Life Buckets are ...
Panache Desai: On Teachers, Triggers, Presence and Grace
31 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest, Panache Desai, is a contemporary spiritual teacher, author of Discovering Your Soul Signature, and recent guest of Oprah Winfr...
Our Podcast Setup: In the Studio and On the Road
27 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Order your copy of Jonathan Fields’ new book, How to Live a Good Life: Soulful Stories, Surprising Science and Practical Wisdom, today! It’s ava...
Glennon Doyle: On Love, Life, Leading and the Limelight
24 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Glennon Doyle Melton is an author, activist, and founder of Momastery.com and Together Rising, a non-profit that has raised close to fi...
Before You Can Choose Joy, You Have to Choose You.
20 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Ever know someone who just radiates light? Someone who is unapologetically joyful? Even under the most challenging circumstances, there’s this heart...
How to Live a Good Life [BONUS EPISODE]
18 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What if today was the day that changed everything? What if you didn’t have to wait to step into your good life and, instead, you could just start li...
Lori Harder: Transforming Anxiety Into Action and Elevation
17 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How does a fearful kid from the midwest with severe social anxiety and a struggling self-image end up on the cover of magazines and teaching women how...
Unbusy: A Manifesto
13 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Busyness. It’s a problem. But, what if there was something deeper happening? An epic battle between intention and surrender that is both a source of...
Beyond Coaching, What Really Matters: Michael Bungay Stanier
10 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest, Rhodes Scholar, Box of Crayons Senior Partner and bestselling author, Michael Bungay Stanier, has a bone to pick.It's about coachi...
Jocelyn Glei: Unsubscribing as an Act of Creation.
06 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Jocelyn Glei knows how to get the right stuff done. The founding editor and a key member of the team that built the massive 99u community, website and...
Refuge in Grief: How Megan Devine Came Back to Life
03 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The day Megan Devine's partner died started like any other.The sun was shining as they walked to a favorite spot by the river. Matt waded in, as ...
You Don’t Have to Go Big to Make a Big Difference.
29 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
There’s this idea out in the world that if you want to make a real difference, to make meaning, you have to go big. Be massively public. Take the gi...
Lisa Sugar: The Making of POPSUGAR (and a very good life)
26 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
A child of the 80s, Lisa Sugar grew up obsessed with pop-culture. Little did she know, her childhood fascination would become her career.Graduating co...
The Power of Personas: Unlock Your Inner Boldness
21 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What if we could tap into the hidden superhero, savant or performer that lays buried deep inside us to do things we could normally never do? Not as a ...
Ali Handal: Music, Mastery, Meaning and Money [live performance]
19 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Quick note - be sure to listen to the end, we've got a live, acoustic performance by this week's guest that will rock your world!Ali Handal grew up lo...
When Ethos Meets Ability, Magic Ensues.
15 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
When you’re looking to build something real, something that matters, from a family or community, to a business or any other mission-driven endeavor,...
Mark Manson: On Pain, Possibility and Profanity
12 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The first time I stumbled upon Mark Manson's writing, I didn't know what to do. It was a complete pattern interrupt.The issues were raw and real, the ...
The Making of a Book: How to Live a Good Life
08 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
You may have heard, I have a new book coming out. It’s called How to Live a Good Life: Soulful Stories, Surprising Science and Practical Wisdom. Yo...
Jenny Blake: Pivot Your Life (It’s no longer optional)
05 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Is it possible to optimize your career for money and meaning simultaneously? Or does one always take the lead?We explore this and more in today's conv...
Work as an Act of Devotion and Expression (and, gulp, love).
01 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How does someone spend over five decades of their life fundamentally doing the same thing and still be so madly devoted and passionate and in love wit...
Sir Ken Robinson: On the Power of Creativity and Will [Best Of]
29 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In February 2006, Sir Ken Robinson stepped onto the TED stage and delivered a scathing indictment of the modern educational system, entitled "How Scho...
There is no perfect moment beyond the one you create.
25 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We are constantly surrounded by imperfect circumstances that we perceive as barriers to our ability to act at the highest level. So, what do we do? W...
Elizabeth Gilbert: Creating Your Life In Real Time [Best Of]
22 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
As we move into these final weeks of August, we'll be airing two extraordinary "Best Of" episodes, featuring powerful conversations from the last year...
The Tyranny of Always
18 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
*** Camp GLP Final Call: Come join us next week! *** Why do we hammer ourselves with life-stifling, defeatist absolutes attached to negative expec...
Think Grow Prosper: How Ruben Chavez Turned Struggle Into Success
14 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Facing a tough period in his life, this week's guest, Ruben Chavez, turned to books to both reconnect with curiosity and rekindle the spark of possibi...
Why the Best of the Best Always Have Teachers
11 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 “...
Jess Lively: What happens when you let intuition take the wheel?
07 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
When you think of masculine and feminine, do you naturally think "man" and "woman" respectively?Our guest today believes everyone can harness both mas...
How to be unmistakable (even when you’re falling apart): Srinivas Rao
04 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Srinivas Rao was following the typical life path for an American kid. Raised in a family steeped in high-expectations of professional success, he ende...
Mary Fons: she quilted her way to health, now it’s time to write.
31 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 sur...
He left his life to bike 46,000 miles around the world in 4 years. But, why?
28 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever thought about leaving everything behind and traveling the world? Of cashing out your savings to hit the road and create lifelong memorie...
Chris “Daze” Ellis: From Street Artist to Museum Collections
25 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
The Untold Story Behind GPS Girl and the Voice of Siri.
21 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 mi...
The Mind Club: Who Is In, Who Is Out and Why It Matters
17 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 st...
How One Woman Built a Renegade Craft Movement.
14 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How do you go from studying psychology and religion to founding the world’s largest outdoor renegade craft fair, with outposts in nine cities. Thi...
How Touch Can Make or Break Your Life, with David Linden
11 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 L...
When Life Partners Become Business Partners: Linda & Charlie Bloom
07 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
+++Come to Camp GLP: The Ultimate blend of learning and play! +++ Today, on Good Life Project, I have two very special guests joining me. Linda and Ch...
The Minimalists: Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus
06 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine having just about everything you wanted – a great job, making a lot of money, being able to get as much “stuff” as you want – and then...
Jadah Sellner and Jeffrey Davis: On Legacy, Life and Laughter
30 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This time on The Good Life Project, I am joined by Jadah Sellner and Jeffrey Davis for a roundtable-style discussion of a few of the burning issues an...
How to Be Funny (Even When You’re Not): David Nihill
26 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week, our in-depth conversation features David Nihill. Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, David, like so man of us, had a deep fear of public sp...
Jesse Browner: What If I’d Taken a Different Path?
23 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever wondered what your life would be like if you had chosen another path? Would you have been more successful in your craft? A better writer...
Rev. angel Kyodo williams: On Liberation, Justice and Love
19 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
"Love and Justice are not two. Without inner change, there can be no outer chang...
Karan Bajaj: On Yearlong Sabbaticals and Real Jobs
16 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week, my special guest is Karan Bajaj. Karan is a #1 bestselling Indian novelist with a full-time corporate job and a rather unique approach...
Sharon Salzberg: Insight, Meditation and Lovingkindness
12 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Good Life Project, we welcome Sharon Salzberg, a renowned meditation and lovingkindness teacher and founder of Insight Medi...
Dr. Shefali Tsabary: Parenting as a Vehicle for Liberation
09 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week, my special guest is Dr. Shefali Tsabary. If her name sounds familiar, you may have seen one of her appearances as the resident parenting ex...
Petra Kolber: The Perfection Detox
06 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What if you had to live your life in the spotlight. With thousands of people watching not just your every move, but the things you said, the way you l...
The Art of Perception: How to See and Say What Really Matters
02 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
What if success was less about mastery and more about sight?Simple truth: Most of us don’t see what is right in front of us.Instead, we see mental m...
André Mack: Military Kid Turned Rebel Winemaker
30 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How do you go from being a wine newbie to a sommelier at Thomas Keller’s famed French Laundry?That was the journey that our today’s guest, An...
Broken Open: From Silicon Valley to Street Kids in India
26 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Eileen Flannigan, the Founder and Managing Director of Girls on Fire Leaders, a non-profit that provides young girls in developing na...
Jeffrey Davis: Tracking Wonder and Loving Life
22 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is obsessed with wonder. In fact, it's his vocation.Jeffery Davis is the founder of Tracking Wonder, where he explores how to recon...
How Do You Craft Transcendent Collaborations?
18 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Good Life Project Roundtable™ features guests-in-residence Daniel Lerner and Gabra Zackman. This is session 3 in their three-week ...
Anders Ericsson: Dismantling the 10,000 Hour Rule
16 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Ever hear of the 10,000 rule? The idea that it takes 10,000 hours to become world-class at anything?Well, what if it wasn't true?And, what if the rese...
Melissa Ambrosini: The Joy of Missing Out
13 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're featuring a very special GLP Guest Riff with Melissa Ambrosini.Melissa Ambrosini is the bestselling author of Mastering Your Mean Gir...
Emily Heyward: On Building Brands That Shake the World
11 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m excited to be talking to Emily Heyward, co-founder of white-hot, Brooklyn-based branding phenomenon, Red Antler.While attending Harv...
David Burkus: Upending Everything You Knew About Business
09 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest: This week, our in-depth conversation features David Burkus, dad, author, speaker, researcher, and associate professor of manag...
You Are Enough
06 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Funny thing about competence. With rare exception, we so often look at others and think they've got it so much more together than us.They're more skil...
Salacious Soundbites, Online Con-artists and Legacy Work
04 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Good Life Project Roundtable™ features guests-in-residence Daniel Lerner and Gabra Zackman. This is session 2 in their three-week ...
Amy Koppelman: On Writing, Darkness, Love and Life
02 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest, Amy Koppelman, is a three-time novelist (so far), mom and an incredibly insightful human being. Her latest novel is Hesi...
Loving-Kindness and Compassion in Business? Really?!
29 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In Buddhism as well as in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, you'll find a conversation about four virtues known as the four immeasurables.These are q...
Alec Ross: Middle School Teacher Turned Global Innovator
27 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Alec Ross is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and the author of The New York Times bestseller The Industries of the Future....
Caroline Paul: Fighting Fires, Writing Books and Gutsy Girls
25 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Caroline Paul is the New York Times best-selling author of four books, including her memoir about being a San Francisco firefighter, called Fighting F...
The Surfer’s Guide to Entrepreneurship
22 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
I'm not a big surfer, but I grew up on the water and around the water.Over the years, I've noticed a number of powerful parallels between surfing and ...
Roundtable: Gabra Zackman & Daniel Lerner
20 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Good Life Project Roundtable™ features guests-in-residence Daniel Lerner and Gabra Zackman. This is session 1 in their three-week ...
John O’Leary: Forged By Fire
18 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest, John O'Leary, has lived through worse than most can imagine.At age nine, a fire burned 100% of his body. He spent five months...
Katie Dalebout: Why Journal?
15 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Guest Riff is brought to you by Katie Dalebout.She’s the author of the book Let It Out: A Journey Through Journaling.Katie helps people deve...
Roundtable: Susan Piver & Lodro Rinzler – Part 3
13 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Good Life Project Roundtable™ features guests-in-residence Susan Piver and Lodro Rinzler. This is the last session in their t...
Arianna Huffington: On Family, Success and Sleep
11 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest is Arianna Huffington, co-founder, president, and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, and author of fifteen books. In Ma...
Chris Guillebeau: The Upside of Giving Up
08 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Finish what you start.Don't be a quitter.When the going gets tough, the tough get going.It's a lesson we all learned from well-intended advice-givers ...
Susan Piver, Lodro Rinzler: Soulmates, Rejection and Big Wins
06 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Good Life Project Roundtable™ features guests-in-residence Susan Piver and Lodro Rinzler. This is session 2 in their three-we...
Krista Tippett: Becoming Wise
04 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today's conversation features Krista Tippett, a Peabody-award-winning broadcaster, New York Times bestselling author, and National Humanities Med...
Charlie Gilkey: On Service, Hard Work and Freedom
01 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Spend 3 ½ days with us at the end of August at our "summer camp for grown-ups." Drop the facade, revel in new friendships, play, create, move, r...
Roundtable: Susan Piver & Lodro Rinzler – Part 1
30 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Good Life Project Roundtable™ features guests-in-residence Susan Piver and Lodro Rinzler. This is session 1 in their three-we...
Neil Pasricha: From Awesome Hunter to Happiness Crusader
28 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today's conversation features Neil Pasricha, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awesome series, three time Webby Award winner, Harv...
The Content Marketing Delusion: Work Still Matters
25 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
There’s this unfortunate delusion that’s gaining credibility in the world of entrepreneurship and careers.The road to growth is paved with "conten...
Divine Feminine, Creative Suffering and Word Traps?
23 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Good Life Project Roundtable™ is the third and final week for our current guests-in-residence Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, MAPP&nbs...
From Club Kid to CEO and World Hunger Activist
21 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
This week, our in-depth conversation features Cathy Burke, speaker, author, and global change maker has served as CEO of The Hunger Project Austr...
A Faster Path to Peak Performance: Optimize the Core
17 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
There are times it makes sense to throw money at a problem, and times when that's not only the worst thing you can do, it's also the least effective.W...
Hack Your Best Self, Fly Your Freak Flag, Get Serious About Play
16 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Good Life Project Roundtable™ features guests-in-residence Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, MAPP and and Bob Gower.Emili...
Eric Zimmer: Feeding Your Good Wolf
14 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 ou...
The First Step to a More Meaningful Career
11 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Roundtable: On Anger, Vibrations and Competence
09 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today's Good Life Project Roundtable™ features guests-in-residence Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, MAPP and and Bob Gower.Emili...
Nancy Duarte and Patti Sanchez: Leading Through The Abyss
07 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
How Thinking Kills Willpower (and what to do about it)
04 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Roundtable: Bad Things, Biased Media and Crazy Cons
02 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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...
MindBodyGreen Founder, Jason Wachob: What Really Matters
29 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 wh...
The Power of Following Before You Lead
26 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Roundtable: Tara Mohr and Erin Moon – Session 2
24 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Adam Grant: What It Takes to Be An Original (and why you care)
22 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Originals are the non-conformists who drive creativity and change forward—the ones who help us progress as both independent cultures and a unified s...
Hacking Momentum: Stop When You Most Want to Go
19 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 e...
Roundtable: Erin Moon and Tara Mohr
17 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 rep...
Jon Acuff: On the Power of Truth, Humor and Craft
15 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
Conveying the Cool: How to Sell an Idea That’s Ahead of it’s Time
10 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
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 h...
Choosing Love Over Work: Erika Napoletano
08 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine you're an actor. You work your entire life to generate a magic moment. A call, offering you the role that could open the door to your dreams. ...
How Prioritize Your Projects: A different Approach
03 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, Jonathan shared a GLP Riff about how he prioritizes major projects.He talked about his move away from "batching" tasks and parallel creatio...
Elena Brower: On Yoga, Love, Addiction and Grace
01 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s guest, Elena Brower, dedicated her life to the practice and teaching of yoga nearly 20 years ago. She rose to acclaim, becoming known f...
Serial Creation: Make Better Stuff Faster and Easier
27 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The process of creation breathes me. Always has, always will. I wake up every day thinking about what I am going to create, from business to art and h...
Chase Jarvis: Acclaimed Photographer and CreativeLIVE Founder
25 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine a career...no…Imagine a life where you travel the world earning your living by taking jaw-dropping photos of some of the most astounding ath...