Good Life Project

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 expert on Oprah. Dr. Shefali is the author of multiple books, including her latest, The Awakened Family. She is a clinical psychologist with an incredibly unique East-meets-West approach to helping adults become who they need to be through a relat...

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 looked, the state of your body and life? And, what if earning your living depended on it? That's the place today's guest, Petra Kolber , found herself in. A renowned teacher, speaker, athlete and spokesperson in the fitness industry for decades, she l...

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 models and imprints of what things “should” look like or what we’ve been told to see. And, we miss what's actually happening, along with all the critical details. As entrepreneurs or professionals, it’s extremely difficult to become extraordinary at a...

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, André Mack, took. And that was just the beginning. From there, André became the head sommelier at Per Se, Thomas Keller’s restaurant in New York, before becoming a winemaker and creating his own, provocative wine brand, Mouton Noir . In this episode of th...

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 nations with personal and community leadership skills through immersive travel, experiential self-learning, authentic self-expression, and global connectivity. Eileen was a successful digital marketing strategist for large tech startups in Silicon Val...

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 reconnect with wonder and also help people tell their their stories through books, businesses and beyond. As a kid, he became concerned about paying attention to life and ensuring that he'd never lose his imagination. That led him to become a poet, a te...

Today's  Good Life Project Roundtable™ features guests-in-residence Daniel Lerner and Gabra Zackman . This is session 3 in their three-week residency. Dan Lerner  is a leading expert on elite performance, excellence and the realization of unique potential, working with musicians, athletes, and numerous Fortune 500 companies and executives. He's on the faculty at both New York Univer...

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 research it was based on actually said something very different? Something that somehow got "lost in translation" when the data went mainstream. In today's conversation, we sit down with K. Anders Ericsson, PhD, Professor of Psychology at Florida State...

Today we're featuring a very special GLP Guest Riff with  Melissa Ambrosini . Melissa Ambrosini is the bestselling author of Mastering Your Mean Girl , an entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and self-love teacher. In her signature straight-talking style, Melissa teaches women how to master their inner Mean Girl, smash through limiting beliefs, and ditch the self-doubt so that they can start t...

Today, I’m excited to be talking to Emily Heyward, co-founder of white-hot, Brooklyn-based branding phenomenon,  Red Antler . While attending Harvard, Emily took a deep dive into the study of pop culture, ethical philosophy, and what drives people at the core. After college, she entered the advertising world where her career began to take off. After realizing she loved being in control, Emily...

This week's guest:  This week, our in-depth conversation features David Burkus , dad, author, speaker, researcher, and associate professor of management at Oral Roberts University. He teaches courses on organizational behavior, creativity and innovation, and strategic leadership and has made it his purpose to facilitate the transfer of good ideas. THe is the author The Myths of Creativit...

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 skilled, smarter, more established, more connected, better able to do the thing we most want to do. Except, it's almost always a lie. We're all in that same "looking at the person ahead of us and wishing" boat. Thinking someday we'll get there. Or, mayb...

Today's  Good Life Project Roundtable™ features guests-in-residence Daniel Lerner and Gabra Zackman . This is session 2 in their three-week residency. Dan Lerner  is a leading expert on elite performance, excellence and the realization of unique potential, working with musicians, athletes, and numerous Fortune 500 companies and executives. He's on the faculty at both New York Univer...

Today's guest,  Amy Koppelman , is a three-time novelist (so far), mom and an incredibly insightful human being. Her latest novel is  Hesitation Wounds . Amy's second book,  I SMILE BACK, was turned into a movie starring Sarah Silverman that premiered at the 2015 Sundance, Toronto and Deauville Film Festivals. I wanted to sit down with Amy, because I was drawn in by her im...

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 qualities that we might seek to both cultivate and then embody in the name of service. But, they're also known to have a profound affect on the way we experience challenge, stress, relationships, work and pretty much all of life. Wondering what they...

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 . He recently served for four years as Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Prior to his service in government, Alec was a social entrepreneur and served as convener from technology, media & telecommunications poli...

Caroline Paul is the New York Times best-selling author of four books, including her memoir about being a San Francisco firefighter, called Fighting Fire , and the illustrated Lost Cat, A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology.  In her latest book, The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure , she shares her greatest escapades—as well as those of other girls and wom...

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 entrepreneurship. And, sitting at the beach one day, I started to think about what surfing might teach you about launching and growing a venture. I distilled these ideas into a short essay, which I'm sharing as spoken word in today's short and sweet...

Today's  Good Life Project Roundtable™ features guests-in-residence Daniel Lerner and Gabra Zackman . This is session 1 in their three-week residency. Dan Lerner  is a leading expert on elite performance, excellence and the realization of unique potential, working with musicians, athletes, and numerous Fortune 500 companies and executives. He's on the faculty at both New York Univer...

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 in the hospital, underwent dozens of surgeries, lost all of his fingers to amputation and had to relearn to walk, write, and feed himself. He endured, persevered, and survived – largely because others emerged, served and inspired. He now lives to...

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 develop a positive image of their bodies by embracing their creativity and personality outside of their physicality. She’s on a mission to share journaling tools that invoke deeper authenticity and self-awareness. And, today's short and sweet GLP Riff i...

Today's  Good Life Project Roundtable™ features guests-in-residence Susan Piver  and Lodro Rinzler . This is the last session in their three-week residency. Susan is a New York Times bestselling  author , teacher, and founder of the international mindfulness community, The Open Heart Project . Working to create a good human world, one breath at a time. Lodro is a teacher in the...

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 May 2005, she launched The Huffington Post, a news and blog site that quickly became one of the most widely-read, linked to, and frequently-cited media brands on the Internet. In 2012, the site won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. Huffington ha...

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 somewhere along the way. It's all about character. Life's hard, things get hard, the people who survive and do great things in business and life are the ones who keep going, no matter what the road throws in our way. But, what if that was wro...

Today's  Good Life Project Roundtable™ features guests-in-residence Susan Piver  and Lodro Rinzler . This is session 2 in their three-week residency. Susan is a New York Times bestselling  author , teacher, and founder of the international mindfulness community, The Open Heart Project . Working to create a good human world, one breath at a time. Lodro is a teacher in the Shambh...