Good Life Project

Dave Evans & Bill Burnett | Designing Your Work Life

20 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dave Evans is a Lecturer in the Product Design Program at Stanford, Management Consultant, and co-founder of iconic gaming company, Electronic Arts. H...

Arlan Hamilton | It's About Damn Time

17 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As a kid, Arlan Hamilton loved music and eventually found her way into the world of live concerts, working as a tour manager. Along the way, she also ...

Dan Tomasulo | Learned Hopefulness

13 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The incoming Academic Director and core faculty member at the Spirituality Mind Body Institute (SMBI), Teachers College, Columbia University, Dan Toma...

Marta Zaraska | Growing Young

10 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Marta Zaraska is a Polish-Canadian science journalist who has written everywhere from the Washington Post, and Scientific American to New Scientist, t...

Al Roker | Weathering Life

06 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Al Roker is a co-anchor of NBC’s Today, an Emmy-award winning journalist, and a New York Times bestselling author. He has been at NBC for 40 years a...

Nzinga A. Harrison, MD | Power, Recovery & Equity

03 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As a physician with specialties in addiction medicine and psychiatry who has spent her career focusing on stigma reduction and health equity, Nzinga H...

Nicholas Palmquist | Dance, Equity and Access

30 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This conversation is different, it’s actually two conversations recorded four-months apart. Be sure to keep listening after our guest, Nicholas Palm...

Gay Hendricks | Genius, Limits & Conscious Luck

27 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Gay Hendricks exploded onto the human potential scene in 2009 with his mega New York Times bestselling book, The Big Leap, where he introduced the con...

Lea Thau | The Art of Reinvention

23 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Starting as an unpaid intern at The Moth when it was still a local storytelling group in New York City, Lea Thau rose up to become the Executive &...

Joél Leon | Keeping Life Real

20 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Joél Leon is a storyteller, performer, poet, musician, and author. Born and raised in the Bronx, from the earliest age, art, performing and music be...

T Kira Madden | Making Work That's Felt in the Spine

16 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

T Kira Madden is a writer, photographer, amateur magician, and a powerful voice and editor, earning fellowships from the New York Foundation for the A...

Michael Gervais | Finding Mastery

13 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Gervais is a high-performance psychologist working in high-stakes environments with some of the best in the world, training the mindset skills...

Arielle Duhaime-Ross | Shining the Light

09 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Arielle Duhaime-Ross is the host of Reset, a podcast that re-evaluates the role of technology in our lives, from Stitcher and the Vox Media Podcast Ne...

Mia Birdsong | How We Show Up

06 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mia Birdsong is a pathfinder, community curator, and storyteller who engages the leadership and wisdom of people experiencing injustice to chart new v...

Dan Heath | Upstream Thinking & Moment Making

02 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Heath is the co-author, along with his brother, Chip, of four New York Times bestselling books: Made to Stick, Switch, Decisive, and The Power of ...

Milton Glaser | Make Things That Move People [Best Of]

29 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Iconic artist, designer, and New York Magazine cofounder, Milton Glaser's (http://www.miltonglaser.com/) work has been seen everywhere from the halls ...

Ann Patchett | On Solitude, Writing & Indie Bookstores

25 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Ann Patchett is the multi-award-winning and New York Times Bestselling author o...

Elaine Welteroth | More Than Enough

22 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Elaine Welteroth is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist and a producer and judge on the new Project Runway. She is k...

James McBride | A Life of Music, Words & Love

18 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

 James McBride is an accomplished musician and author whose books have been translated into 19 languages and sold millions of copies around the w...

Judge Victoria Pratt | On Restorative Justice [Best Of]

15 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Growing up outside Newark, NJ, Judge Victoria Pratt found herself in the role of translator, advocate, and champion at a very young age. That deep des...

John O'Leary | Choosing Awe

11 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In 1987, John O’Leary was a curious nine-year-old boy. Playing with fire and gasoline, he created a massive explosion in his home and was burned on ...

Alix Spiegel | Telling Revelatory Stories

09 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Graduating Oberline, Alix Spiegel landed in Chicago and stumbled upon a help-wanted ad that would lead to an internship with soon-to-be-legendary radi...

Lance Allred | Masculinity Reimagined

05 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Lance Allred was born legally deaf in a polygamist commune in rural Montana. When he was 13, his family escaped and eventually came out of hiding in U...

Austin Channing Brown | I'm Still Here

03 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Austin Channing Brown is a writer, speaker and media producer providing inspired leadership on racial justice. She is the author of I’m Still Here: ...

James Nestor | The Power of Water and Breath

28 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

James Nestor has written for Outside, Scientific American, The Atlantic, Dwell, The New York Times, and more. His book Deep: Freediving, Renegade Scie...

Jameela Jamil | On Adversity, Celebrity and Activism

26 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jameela Jamil an actor, writer, podcaster, and activist. Leaving behind a high-profile life as a host and DJ on two of the UK's most iconic TV an...

Dani Shapiro | A Year of Secrets, Savoring and Sacrifice

21 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dani Shapiro is a New York Times bestselling author and gifted examiner of life, especially her own. Her latest book, Inheritance, (https://amzn.to/2W...

Stephanie Danler | The Road to Stray

19 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Stephanie Danler is a novelist, memoirist, and screenwriter. She is the author of the international bestseller, Sweetbitter, and the creator and execu...

Maya Shanbhag Lang | What We Carry

14 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Simultaneously parenting her daughter while caring for a mom who was vanishing into dementia, Maya Shanbhag Lang, found herself reexamining nearly eve...

John Caglione, Jr. | Academy Award-Winning Makeup Artist

12 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

John Caglione, Jr. is an Academy Award and Emmy Award-Winning Makeup Artist. Obsessed with monster movies as a kid, he began studying makeup and ...

Jacqueline Novogratz | Manifesto for a Moral Revolution

07 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jacqueline Novogratz co-founded Rwanda’s first microfinance institution, Duterimbere, before launching the groundbreaking impact-investment and acti...

Adam Cayton-Holland | Comedy in a Time of Darkness

05 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Acclaimed comic, Adam Cayton-Holland, has appeared on Conan, The Late Late Show with James Corden, Comedy Central Presents, @midnight, and was named o...

Macy Gray | Life Beyond "I Try."

30 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Macy Gray's unmistakable rasp, soul, and powerful spirit established as a 21st-century music icon with her triple-platinum album On How Life...

Brad Montague | Becoming Better Grownups

28 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Brad Montague is the co-creator of Kid President, the internet sensation featured on Soulpancake Youtube channel. As a writer and director his work ha...

Jennifer Louden | Rediscovering Desire and Meaning

23 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jennifer Louden is a personal growth pioneer who helped launch the concept of self-care with her first bestseller, The Woman’s Comfort Book. Since t...

Stephen Haff | Still Waters in a Storm

21 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Haff is the founder of Still Waters in a Storm, a one-room school serving mostly Spanish-speaking immigrant children in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Pr...

Pete Holmes | On Comedy, God, Power, and Life.

16 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Pete Holmes is a comedian, writer, cartoonist, spiritual seeker, and the host of the You Made It Weird (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you-made...

Dr. Sayantani DasGupta | A Foot in Three Worlds

14 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Sayantani Dasgupta has a foot in three worlds: medicine, teaching and writing. Growing up the daughter of Indian immigrants, she fell in love with...

Danny Koentopp | On Devotion to Craft

09 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Danny Koentopp wakes up every morning, gets dressed, has a bite to eat, kisses his wife and kids, and heads off to a garage in LA, often not coming ou...

Cooking as an Act of Love | Samin Nosrat [Best Of]

07 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For Samin Nosrat, cooking is love. A way to gather, delight and savor time with those you love. Maybe, at this time that finds more of us home and coo...

The Science of Age Reversal | David A. Sinclair, Ph.D.

02 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What if you could reverse the aging process? Sounds like science fiction, but the new science of aging is turning it into science fact. Today, we lear...

Powered by Kombucha | Daina Trout

31 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Daina Trout thought she was starting a hair-growth company with her husband and best friend, before pivoting to become Health-Ade Kombucha, ...

The Art and Science of Listening | Kate Murphy

26 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Murphy is a Houston, TX-based reporter whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Economist, Agence France-Presse, and Texas Monthly. ...

20 Tools to Tame Anxiety | Emiliya Zhivotovskaya

24 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Anxiety is at an all-time high right now, and there are valid reasons for concern. At the same time, most of us have more control over how we experien...

Awakening to Your Dream | Dr. Tererai Trent [Best Of]

19 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Born in a small village with no electricity or running water in Zimbabwe, Dr. Tererai Trent was married in her early teens as was the custom, had four...

IN-Q | Poetry Rising

17 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

IN-Q is a National Poetry Slam champion, award-winning poet, and multi-platinum songwriter. His groundbreaking achievements include being named to Opr...

John Hodgman | An Unlikely Life

12 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

John Hodgman started his career as a literary agent, but found himself launched into TV when, after an appearance to promote a book on “The Daily Sh...

Glennon Doyle | Untamed

10 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Glennon Doyle is the author of New York Times bestselling memoirs Love Warrior and Carry On, Warrior, and the powerful new book, Untamed. An acti...

Morgan Harper Nichols | The Ultimate Love Letter

05 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Morgan Harper Nichols is a writer, artist, and musician. While on the road performing, she cultivated her passion for writing and art, and began to sh...

David Heinemeier Hansson | A Different Lens on Work

03 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Living in Malibu, by way of Denmark, David Heinemeier Hansson is the co-founder & CTO at Basecamp and the New York Times bestselling coauthor...

The Things We Do For Money | Jill Schlesinger

27 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jill Schlesinger is an Emmy-nominated and Gracie Award-Winning Business Analyst for CBS News. She covers the economy, markets, investing and anything ...

Nontraditional Fatherhood & Family | Trystan Reese

25 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

After years of on-the-ground advocacy work, Trystan Reese burst into the public consciousness on a global scale in 2017 when he and his partner told t...

A Life of Activism and Writing | Jamia Wilson

20 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jamia Wilson is an activist, writer, and speaker. As director of The Feminist Press at the City University of New York and the former VP of programs a...

The Evolution of an Artist | Cey Adams

18 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Cey Adams, a New York City native, emerged from the legendary downtown street art movement to eventually exhibit alongside fellow artists Jean-Michel ...

The 4 Noble Truths of Love | Susan Piver [Best Of]

13 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Susan Piver is the New York Times best-selling author of 9 books, a speaker, and founder of the largest virtual mindfulness community in the worl...

Making Music that Bridges Worlds | Elisapie

11 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Raised in the small, rugged town of Salluit at the edge of the Arctic Circle, Elisapie fell in love with music at a young age, began singing and ...

A Liberated Mind | Steven C. Hayes, PhD

06 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Steven Hayes was a young psychology professor when he started having debilitating anxiety and panic attacks. Let down by conventional wisdom, he devel...

Ophira Eisenberg | A Well-Storied Life

04 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ophira Eisenberg hosts NPR’s nationally syndicated comedy, trivia show Ask Me Another where she interviews and plays silly games with the show's fam...

Make Things That Move People | Milton Glaser [Best Of]

30 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Iconic designer and New York Magazine cofounder, Milton Glaser's work has been seen everywhere from the halls of global industry to, social movements ...

Success Interrupted [and reimagined] | Sharon Epperson

28 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sharon Epperson is CNBC's senior personal finance correspondent, appears regularly on the syndicated program On the Money and Public Television's Nigh...

Loving Yourself (the truth) | Kamal Ravikant

23 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kamal Ravikant has meditated with monks in the Himalayas, served as a US Army Infantry soldier, cofounded several tech-companies and a Venture Capital...

Ambassador Samantha Power | Education of an Idealist

21 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Samantha Power served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, as well as a member of President Obama’s cabinet. In this role, Power became the pub...

Reimagining Work | A Path to Meaning & Joy

16 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What if your work could make you come alive? What if it could fill you with meaning, purpose, and excitement like you're fully accessing and expressin...

Scientist, Astronaut, Explorer | Kathryn Sullivan

14 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Kathryn Sullivan is a distinguished scientist, astronaut, leader and teacher. She was one of the first six women to join the NASA astronaut corps ...

How to Live a Good Life

09 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What is a good life and how do we live it? In today's special episode, Jonathan Fields debunks the three Good Life Lies, then shares a simple, yet pow...

Ben Folds | Music, Creativity & Nonconformity

07 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Acclaimed musician, composer and creative visionary, Ben Folds, has created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes mega-hit pop albums ...

To Succeed at Anything, Do This. (2020)

02 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Success is not just about knowing what to do. It's about doing it. Information, plans and goals, alone, will not get you where you want to go. Nor wil...

You Don’t Need to be Fixed | Geneen Roth [Best Of]

30 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Geneen Roth is a New York Times bestselling author of books like When Food Is Love and Women Food and God, has taught groundbreaking worksho...

The 6 Keys to a Happy, Healthy Life | Dr. Frank Lipman [Best Of].

26 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Frank Lipman, a pioneer in both integrative and functional medicine, the founder and director of Eleven Eleven Wellness Center in New York City, a...

Love in the Age of Difference | Mira Jacob

23 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Mira Jacob is an author, illustrator, contributor to The New York Times, Vogue, BuzzFeed, Shondaland and many others, and writing professor at Th...

Questioning Masculinity | Thomas Page McBee

19 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The first transgender man to box in Madison Square Garden, Thomas Page McBee is an author, journalist, and television writer who explores the intersec...

Wu-Tang, Power & Possibility | Sophia Chang

17 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Sophia Chang is a force to be reckoned with. A soft-spoken French-lit major in college and the child of Korean immigrants raised in Vancouver, when sh...

Two Cultures, One World | Tarek Mounib

12 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Tech-founder turned filmmaker, Tarek Mounib, had a crazy thought: what would happen if you brought together people from two radically different cultur...

Marin Hinkle | A Marvelously Real Life

10 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Marin Hinkle plays matriarch, Rose Weissman, on the Amazon Original series, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which just released its third season. You may a...

Here Lies Magic | Nate Staniforth

05 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

From the moment he drove his classmates into a screaming frenzy with a coin trick at age 9, Nate Staniforth has been hooked on creating experiences th...

Life In Seasons | Kate Fagan

03 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Former ESPN on-air personality, writer and New York Times bestselling author of What Made Maddy Run, Kate Fagan, has lived many seasons. A fiercely-co...

Art, Work & Life | Lisa Congdon

28 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Lisa Congdon is an acclaimed illustrator, author, speaker, and teacher, known for her colorful graphic drawings and hand lettering, her many books, st...

Queen Bees, Wannabees & Cultures of Dignity | Rosalind Wiseman

26 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Teaching self-defense to young women in her late twenties, Rosalind Wiseman saw a world she never expected; one where girls and young women would dest...

You Are Worth It | Kyle Carpenter

21 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

When a stranger thanks Kyle Carpenter for his service as a U.S. Marine, his automatic reply is, "you are worth it." Enlisting in the Marine Corps in 2...

The Story Behind the Voice | Lisa Fischer

19 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Even if you don't know Lisa Fischer's name, you do know her voice. A mesmerizing vocalist, Fischer spent decades touring and recording with The Rollin...

David Krumholtz | Taking Life As It Comes

14 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Growing up in Queens, NY, at the age of 13, David Krumholtz, stumbled into the world of acting when he followed friends to an open audition on a lark,...

Finding Grace | Samira Rajabi

12 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What if social media and tech could be a powerful ally in the process of recovering from trauma? That's exactly what today's guest, Samira Rajabi (@sr...

Thomas Sadoski | Acting, Love & Service.

07 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

For Thomas Sadoski, acting has been in his DNA for as long as he can remember. With a decades-long love of the stage, he's landed award-winning perfor...

Taboo, Power & Possibility | Nadya Okamoto

05 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Nadya Okamoto is a 21-year-old activist (https://www.instagram.com/nadyaokamoto), Harvard student, Founder and Executive Director of PERIOD (https://w...

Adam Rippon | Olympic Figure Skater & Media Phenom

31 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Olympic figure skater, Adam Rippon, won the world over not only with a medal-winning performance at the 2018 games, but also with his disarmingly hone...

Tracking Your Life | Boyd Varty

29 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Born into a family of conservationists and trackers in South Africa, Boyd Varty (https://boydvarty.com/) began learning the art of tracking lions at a...

Life Beyond Exile | Liz Phair

24 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Liz Phair took the music world by storm (https://www.lizphairofficial.com/) in the early 90s with the release of her iconic album Exile in Guyville. T...

Trauma & Transformation | James S. Gordon, MD

22 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

James S. Gordon, MD is a Harvard-educated psychiatrist internationally recognized for using self-awareness, self-care, and group support to heal popul...

One Last Secret | Augusten Burroughs

17 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Augusten Burroughs knows how to keep a secret. An autodidact with no formal education (https://www.augusten.com/) beyond elementary school, he began w...

Brave, Not Perfect | Reshma Saujani

15 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Reshma Saujani is the Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code (https://girlswhocode.com/), the nonprofit organization working to close the gender gap in tec...

Reclaiming Your Path | Cyndie Spiegel

10 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Cyndie Spiegel was a rising star in the fashion industry. Fifteen years in, living the life so many dream of, she made a bold decision. To walk-away f...

On Happiness, Morality & Fragility | Jonathan Haidt

08 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist and professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business (https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonat...

Don't Worry, Be True to You | Madison McFerrin

03 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Madison McFerrin is an independent singer-songwriter (http://madisonmcferrin.com/) based in Brooklyn, NY, who's lit up the world with her distinctivel...

Love, Music, Images & Icons | Danny Clinch

01 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Danny Clinch has played with, photographed, and filmed some of the most iconic musicians in modern history, including Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Tupac ...

How a Secret Business Built a Life | Bridgett M. Davis

26 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Bridgett M. Davis (http://bridgettdavis.com/)grew up in the high-stakes mix of Motown, motor-city unions, and racial tension that was Detroit in the 1...

Creative Trespassing | Tania Katan

24 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Tania Katan (https://taniakatan.com/)is a speaker, bestselling author, and co-creator of globally viral empowerment campaign #ItWasNeverADress. Her in...

How to Finish What Matters | Charlie Gilkey

19 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Productivity - not a fun word for most people. Well, what if there was a way to quickly figure out what matters most, focus in on that, let go of ever...

Redefining Possibility | Kyle Bryant

17 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Growing up in northern California, Kyle Bryant (https://kyleabryant.com/) loved being outside and being active. But, his late teens would change every...

Called to Create | Chase Jarvis

12 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Chase Jarvis wants you to know...YOU ARE CREATIVE! An award-winning artist, entrepreneur, and one of the most influential photographers of the past de...

The Neuroscientist Novelist | Lisa Genova

10 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Lisa Genova (https://www.lisagenova.com/) graduated valedictorian, summa cum laude from Bates College with a degree in Biopsychology, before pursuing ...