Good Life Project

What's more important for people to know, your face or your work? This question came up at a recent dinner with a few author/founder types. We were talking, in particular, about whether you should have your picture on the cover of your book, or something else. But, the conversation is really about something much bigger. It's about how you want to bring yourself and your work to the world. It's abo...

Jadah Sellner and Jen Hansard are the founders of Simple Green Smoothies , a quest-driven company that has grown into a massive global community in an astonishingly short amount of time. They're also the co-authors the new book  Simple Green Smoothies: 100+ Tasty Recipes to Lose Weight, Gain Energy, and Feel Great in Your Body . Just a few years ago, though, they were two young moms, struggli...

Today we're featuring a very special GLP Guest Riff with Lewis Howes . Lewis is the founder of the School of Greatness podcast and author of the new book,  The School of Greatness: A Real-World Guide to Living Bigger, Loving Deeper, and Leaving a Legacy , At various stages in his life, Lewis has been an All-American, collegiate and pro athlete, an entrepreneur focusing on business development...

Tom Kelley is a partner at renowned design and innovation consultancy IDEO . He's also a best-selling author, along with his brother, IDEO founder and Stanford d.school creator David Kelley, of a fantastic book called  Creative Confidence .  Beyond that, he is an Executive Fellow at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and the University of Tokyo. As a leading voice on innovat...

We do the weirdest things to make people think we're worthy of their attention, or money. No matter what you do or where you come from, there's this little voice in most of us that just wants to be wanted. We want people to think we're worthy, we've got something really good to offer. For many of us, part of that equation is that we want others to see us as smart. If you're building a career aroun...

Ever wonder what your mobile device is  really doing to your relationships, your happiness...your life? Today's guest, famed MIT Professor, bestselling author and researcher on how technology affects the human condition, Sherry Turkle , has been studying questions like this for decades. In her new book, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age , she looks at what phones and...

We love to judge. To gossip. To belittle. Not everyone, and not all the time, but enough for these feelings to fuel multi-billion dollar industries. Even if we never say it out loud, we derive a certain pleasure from others' misfortune. There's even a name for the phenomenon—Schadenfreude. We do it partly, because our brains are wired for comparison and social currency. And in part, because we're...

At first glance, you might think Amy Stewart had an obsession with gardens and bugs. She's written a series of bestselling books on the topic and had her garden of poison plants hailed as one of the 18 strangest gardens in the world by  Popular Mechanics. Underneath that, though, lies a far deeper devotion, one that's fueled her since she was a kid. Amy Stewart is possessed by the craft of wr...

What if one of the biggest pieces of "success advice" was wrong? There's a particular strategy that's become hot in the world of success and personal development. It's been hailed as the secret to accelerated results and success on a level and at a pace, that'd be near impossible without it. It's called "modeling." On the most basic level, the advice is to find someone who has done what you want t...

So often, the way the world perceives us conflicts with the what we "think" we're saying and the way we want to be seen and heard. Truth is, so much of what we communicate all day long has nothing to do with the words that come out of our mouths. In fact, often the things we do, the way we move, the things we telegraph contradict the words we offer, leaving people with a sense of cognitive dissona...

If you've been to the movies or watched cartoons, you've seen the word "Avatar" before. But, when we talk about building a career or company, it has a very special meaning. Your avatar is the person you're looking to help. The one you want and need to serve and elevate. It's your potential customer, client, diner, patient, participant, camper or student. If you want to build a successful...

The thing most people fear more than spiders and death is the very thing this week's guest,  Michael Port , loves with every fiber of his being. What am I talking about? Public speaking. Port began his career as an actor, featured often on screens of all sizes, before jumping into the fitness world and then creating the Book Yourself Solid business development juggernaut and a string of...

Pam Slim  is one of those people. You know, the ones who see the best in everyone. In everything. In every seeming barrier, she sees the lesson. The good. The opportunity to learn. To grow. To create. To collaborate. The one whose lens I aspire to embrace, but still find myself failing more often succeeding (someday, lol). She's also just an amazing human, dear friend and award-winning author...

Elizabeth Gilbert exploded into the public's consciousness in 2006 with the release of her mega-bestselling memoir, Eat Pray Love. Since then, she's published a series of books, given a TED talk on creative genius that's been viewed more than 10 million times, become a leading voice on the pursuit of a creative, connected and vital life. Liz's latest book, Big Magic , takes you deeper into wh...

This is the first episode I've ever wished I didn't have a reason to air... On Sunday, a good friend of mine, an amazing man, husband, brother and son, founder of Live Your Legend and beloved member of the Good Life Project family, Scott Dinsmore , lost his life. Hiking Kilimanjaro with another amazing soul, his wife Chelsea, Scott was killed in a rockfall. He was only 33. I've shared more thought...

The story of a lifetime only comes around once... Dale Russakoff spent more than three decades as a top news journalist, reporting for The Washington Post for more than 28 years. When Facebook co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg, announced a $100 million grant, teaming with then rock-start mayor, Cory Booker, to revolutionize the Newark schools and create a model for national education reform, she'd found...

You want to be known as someone who changes the game. Someone who brings amazing ideas, solutions, insights and potential to everything you do. You want to make real things happen. Things that matter. So you plug in. You mainline digital information, entertainment, pretty much any and all forms of data. You squeeze every possible moment out of the time you have, consuming, creating, connectin...

Most people look at meditation as a practice. Something you do daily, most often seated on a cushion. New York Times bestselling author of eight books, and Shambhala Buddhist meditation teacher,  Susan Piver , has a different take. What if it's not just a practice, she offers, but a path? A way of life. An approach to seeing and being in the world that plants the seeds of awareness, compassio...

Is creativity tied to your biological clock? A 2010 Global Chief Executive Officer study by IBM revealed the most sought after trait in emerging leaders. It’s not work-ethic or efficiency. It’s not motivation or productivity. Creativity is the trait most desired by those in charge. Understandably so. Because the ability to come up with new ideas, […]The post Unlock Creativity: Time of Day Matters...

Today's episode is our second experiment, with a new show format, we're calling 9Things™ . What is it? A three-person roundtable, where each person shows up with three topics to jam on. And, the thing is, nobody knows what the other person's topics will be until they hit the conversation. My guests for today's episode of the 9Things format are two good friends, Gabra Zackman and  Dan Ler...

What if you spent more time making? We tend to spend our work lives dancing between two modes: maker mode and manager mode. The idea first came to me through a friend, Brad Feld. Maker mode is where we are immersed in the process of creation, innovation, problem-solving, artistry. It's a powerfully generative state that often creates the giant leaps forward, the big ideas and awakenings that prope...

Dale Partridge was riding high, or so it seemed. A serial entrepreneur and founder of the cause-driven venture, Sevenly , the media loved him and thrust him into the spotlight. Sevenly venture was not only making money, it had also raised more than $4 million for hundreds of causes and more than a million people. From the outside looking in, everything was fantastic. But, inside, he was dying...

What if you didn't have to change? What if everything you wanted, everything you needed, everything you aspired to become, you already had and were. What if living a good life was more about liberating and revealing than changing and becoming? The words transformation and evolution have become buzz-words across the landscape of personal development. The implication is that you, on the deepest leve...

When people talk about Seth Godin , they often attach a variety of labels. Entrepreneur, marketer, mega-bestselling author, acclaimed speaker, trusted-advisor, provocateur, raconteur extraordinaire and ruckus-maker. He is all those. But, when I think of Seth, the first word that comes to me is generous. Seth is a stunningly insightful thinker and doer. But beyond that, he is kind, compassionate an...

What if entrepreneurship wasn't just about what you create, but who you become along the way? Most people look at entrepreneurship as a quest, a desire to create something from nothing. The goal, to get to a substantial, viable, impact and revenue generating place as fast as humanly possible. Problem is, with rare exception, the path to success in the world of entrepreneurial dream manifestation j...