What is a Good Life?
By Mark McCartney
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Episodes: 159
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A project to help you realise you are enough, by noticing and inhabiting life more fully.
What Is a Good Life? is a long-form conversation project exploring how people actually live, feel, and make meaning of their lives. Over the past four years, I’ve sat with more than 300 people — artists, parents, executives, wanderers, therapists, and strangers and invited them into a simple but profound inquiry, "What is a good life for you?"
The conversations explore presence, paradox, uncertainty, and the moments that shape a life - love and loss, trust and fear, clarity and not knowing. It’s an invitations to slow down, to listen deeply, and to bring you into conversation with your own life. There are new episodes every Tuesday.
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What is a Good Life? #159 - Cultivating Interconnected Harmony with Cindy Forde
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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What is a Good Life? #158 - Finding Self-Love Beyond Achievement with Alan Wilson
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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What is a Good Life? #157 - How to Build Real Connection with Matt Zeigler
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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What is a Good Life #156 - Learning To Trust My Own Voice with Alejandra Guzmán González
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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What is a Good Life? #155 - Making Your Impact Count with Julian Kirchherr
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #154 - The Art of Making Meaning with Katie Elliott
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #153 - When Being Becomes Service with Ethan Hsieh
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #152 - Living a Life of Intimate Beauty with Tim Leberecht
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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What Is A Good Life? #151 - Seeing What We’ve Been Missing with Olaf Lewitz
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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What Is A Good Life? #150 - Moving From Fear To Love with Claire Goodey
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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What Is A Good Life? #149 - Finding Your Unique Role In The World with Adam Mastroianni
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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What Is A Good Life? #148 - Finding Silence In A World Full Of Noise with Leigh Marz
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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What Is A Good Life? #147 - Coming Home Through Movement with Karimu Samuels
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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What Is A Good Life? #146 - The Hidden Gifts Of The Shadow with Steven D'Souza
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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What Is A Good Life? #145 - The Courage To Listen To Yourself with Marc Cinanni
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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What Is A Good Life? #144 - The Quest For Balance In Life with George Thompson
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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What Is A Good Life? #143 - Embracing The Fullness Of Life with Kimbra
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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What Is A Good Life? #142 - Cultivating A Faith In Life Itself with Jim Palmer
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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What Is A Good Life? #141 - The Space To Truly Connect with Professor Megan Reitz
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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What Is A Good Life? #140 - A Life of Unfolding Possibility with Robert Poynton
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #139 - Beyond Problems & Solutions with Simon Höher
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #138 - Tending To What Emerges with Edie Pijpers
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #137 - Exploring What Matters Most with Diane Button
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #136 - Rootedness in a Changing World with Aadita Chaudhury
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #135 - Longing, Belonging, and Matrimony with Stephen Jenkinson
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #134 - The Beauty Of The Ordinary with Mike Moss
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #133 - Navigating Complexity in Leadership with Dr. Richard Claydon
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #132 - Navigating Life's Complexity with Kate Arms
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #131 - The Art of Aligning with Purpose with Dave Bingham
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #130 - Embracing The Unknown with Ella Fryer-Smith
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #129 - Conversing With God with Neale Donald Walsch
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #128 - The Cosmic Force of Questions with Shai Tubali
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #127 - Finding Balance in Life’s Chaos with Andrew B Brown
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #126 - The Wild Power of Imagination with Geneen Marie Haugen
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #125 - Reclaiming The Sacred In Business with Nikki Trott
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #124 - To Make a Difference for Another with Glenn Behenna
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May 27, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #123 - Philosophy as a Daily Practice with Jessica Böhme
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May 20, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #122 - When Our Messiness & Souls Meet with Felicity Reed
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May 13, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #121 - The Power of Enabling Dignity with Dave Gribben
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May 06, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #120 - Finding Meaning In Our Work with Mike James Ross
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #119 - The Art of Responding to Life with Tom Asacker
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #118 - Presence To The Moment & Humanity with Sue Heatherington
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #117 - The Power Of Living With Intention with Jamie Bristow
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #116 - Resting In The Arms Of Our Ancestors with Sue McDonnell
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #115 - To Fully Integrate Our Spiritual Lives with Ariane de Bonvoisin
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #114 - The Essence Of Freedom with Andrew Alexander
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #113 - Attentiveness: The Key To Living Fully with Minna Salami
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #112 - From Linear Paths to Experimental Journeys with Anne-Laure Le Cunff, PhD
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #111 - Sensing The Undercurrents Of Life with Dr. Senem Donatan Mohan
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #110 - Unlocking The Power Of Intuition with Paul Davis
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #109 - Awakening to a Life of Meaning with Fabrice Desmarescaux
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #108 - The Creative Power Of Attention with Ruth McCarthy
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #107 - Holding The Hand Of Love with Ben Bushill
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #106 - Exploring Meaning In The Universe with Mona Sobhani, Ph.D.
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #105 - Exploring The Depths Of Listening with Colin Smith
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #104 - Awareness Of Life's Fragility with Karen Maurice-O’Leary
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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What is a Good Life? #103 - Expressing The Whole Of You with Nathan Kinch
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #102 - Building Conscious Collectives with Nadjeschda Taranczewski
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #101 - Embracing The Season Of Life with Patrick Boland
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #100 - Living In Mutual Solidarity with Cormac Russell
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #99 - Helping Spirit Flow with Darcia Narvaez
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #98 - Embracing Ambiguity with Nora Bateson
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #97 - Rekindling Our Wild Nature with Diarmuid Lyng
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #96 - The Call Of Creativity with John Oliver
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #95 - Fully Embodying Your Life with Madelaine Ley
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #94 - Listening To The Story Of My Soul with Jennifer Murphy
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #93 - Building Collective Community with Kemo Camara
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #92 - Looking Beyond The Veil with Rachel Donald
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #91 - Navigating The Path of Curiosity with Andrea Hiott
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #90 - Exploring Your Own Truth with Seb Randle
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #89 - Connecting To The Web Of Life with Manda Scott
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #88 - Playing With The Edges Of Growth with Derek Sivers
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #87 - Seeing Yourself In The Other with Dr. Niobe Way
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #86 - Knowing That We Belong with Nic Askew
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #85 - Becoming Connected Citizens with Jon Alexander
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #84 - Engaging The Heart's Wisdom with Wakanyi Hoffman
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #83 - Realising You Are Loved with Tom Morgan
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #82 - Exploring True Health with Parneet Pal
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #81 - A Journey To The Heart with Patrick McAndrew
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #80 - Finding & Following Your Path with Jonny Thomson
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #79 - Seeking Truth & Reality with Jen Cohen
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #78 - Resting Into Being with Simon van der Els
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #77 - Living Out Your Soul Image with Tom Hirons
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #76 - Listening To Your Vocation with Parker J. Palmer
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #75 - Knowing Your Worth with Michael Bungay Stanier
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #74 - Holding The Light & The Shadow with Dee Mulrooney
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #73 - Embracing The Flow Of Life with Sunil Malhotra
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #72 - Feeling True To Who I Am with Reuben Christian
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May 28, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #71 - Holding The Tensions Of Life with Mariana Louis
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May 21, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #70 - Building & Supporting Community with Holly Penalver
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May 14, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #69 - A Life Of Purpose & Possibility with Dave Gray
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May 07, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #68 - Keeping Your Heart Open with Amy Elizabeth Fox
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #67 - Celebrating All Living Life with David Haskell
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #66 - A Life Led With Soul with Thomas Moore
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #65 - How People Actually Change with George & Linda Pransky
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #64 - Making Sense Of This Life with Johnnie Moore
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #63 - Being A Good Ancestor with Adah Parris
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #62 - Feeling A Sense Of Belonging with Julia Duthie
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #61 - Befriending What Is Here with Duncan Moss
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #60 - Healing Through Feeling with Matthew Zoltan
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #59 - Following Your Own Nature with Julie Zickefoose
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #58 - Exploring Soul with Dan Lawrence and Johann Botha
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #57 - Balancing Effort & Letting Go with Dr. Bettina Palazzo
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #56 - Living An Enchanted Life with Dr. Simon Western
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #55 - Finding Inner Stillness with Lauri Poldre
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #54 - Exploring Our Conditioning with Gab Ciminelli
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #53 - A Path To Conscious Parenting with Yvonne Smyth
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #52 - A Journey Toward Co-Flourishing with Martin Ebeling
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #51 - Space For The Unknown with Richard Merrick
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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What is a Good Life? #50 - Parenting, Meaning & Community with Claire McQuillan
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #49 - Creating More Headspace with Dean Boland
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #48 - Making Space For Meaning with Dr. Brennan Jacoby
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #47 - Exploring Loneliness & Community with Monika Jiang
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #46 - Love, Attention & Creativity with Dave Zaboski
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #45 - Developing Emotional Intelligence with Teresa Quinlan
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #44 - Living A Connected Life with Danielle Donnelly Smyth
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #43 - Reclaiming Who You Are with Pat Divilly
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #42 - Embracing The Mess Of Life with Pranay Sanklecha
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #41 - Lessons From The Wild with Mark Smith
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #40 - Congruence With Yourself with Ladybird Morgan
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #39 - Listening To Life's Feedback with Aidan McCullen
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #38 - Breath, Death & Spirit with Anthea Grimason
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #37 - Exploring Before Psychology with Piers Thurston
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #36 - Engaging With Society with Dr. Susie Orbach
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #35 - Exploring Forgiveness with Marina Cantacuzino MBE
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #34 - Exploring New Ways Of Relating with Pablo Escorcia
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #33 - Be The Change You Wish To See with David Dunn
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #32 - Seeing Many Sides Of The Story with Bassey Ikpi
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #31 - Being Intimate With Life with Alex Carabi
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #30 - Stepping Into The Unknown with Lin Cassie Zhen
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #29 - The Freedom To Be You with Cortney McDermott
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #28 - Creating A New Narrative with Guido Palazzo
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #27 - Exploring The Nature Of Reality with Julian Voss-Andreae
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #26 - Comfort In My Own Skin with Angela Kirwin
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #25 - Mountains And Valleys with Jamie Crawford
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #24 - The Paradox Of Life with Robbie Stamp
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #23 - Calling & Courage with Robyn O'Brien
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #22 - Other Ways Of Existing with Craig Slee
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #21 - Beyond The Illusion of Self with Katrijn van Oudheusden
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #20 - Living A Creative Life with Pejman (PJ) Milani
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May 30, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #19 - Is It All A Dream? with Dan Lawrence
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May 23, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #18 - A Values-Driven Life with Hannah Genton
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May 16, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #17 - Leaving Utopia with Bayo Akomolafe
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May 09, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #16 - Finding Meaning in Life with Diane Button
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May 02, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #15 - Letting Go of Attachments with Benjamin Western
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #14 - What is a Good Death? with Charlotte Wiedemann
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #13 - Building A Life With Compassion with David McQueen
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #12 - Going Your Own Way with Alison Taylor
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #11 - Being Wisdom with Darragh Power
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #10 - Seize the Day with Baiba Rubesa
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #9 - Expressing and Being Yourself with Jonny Camara
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #8 - Science (& Nature) meets Art with Dr. Daria Chrobok
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #7 - Purpose & Men's Mental Health with Alex Holmes
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #6 - Building an expedition mindset with Paul Gleeson
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #5 - Building a personal life philosophy with James Cussen
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #4 - Two Men's Tales of Therapy with Jindy Mann
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #3 - Celebrating its Simplicity & Challenge with Tom Goodwin
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #2 - Breaking Mental Health Taboos with Nora Dietrich
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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What is a Good Life? #1 - A Jungian Approach to Life with Laurence Barrett
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Jan 08, 2023 |