Good Life Project

I'm rarely stunned. But this was one of those times... Lewis Howes is a radiant, towering hulk of a human being. Driven, energized, magnetic and successful. I've known Lewis for a number of years now and consider him a good friend. When he came to me earlier this year to share a dark, incredibly-painful secret from his childhood, I was floored. Did not see it coming. He'd been living with the pain...

This week’s episode is a replay of a powerful conversation I had with famed author and grounded theory researcher Brene Brown . Brene and I met a few years back while speaking at a conference together. We clicked immediately, grabbed lunch and laughed a lot. I asked her to come share a bit of her journey with our community. The conversation that unfolded left me changed. Brene’s fascination with w...

We spend a lot of time thinking about the legacy we're building. What is the thing that threads everything you've done together? What is the mark you're leaving on the world, both in the career or work you do and the way you live your life? These are big questions. And they're what we're exploring in this week's episode with Jocelyn Glei. From the time she was a kid, Jocelyn had been drawn to writ...

Fueling your body for optimal health, performance and vitality is an important part of living a good life. Question is, how? I don’t know about you, but it’s more than a bit maddening trying to keep up with the latest nutrition advice. High-fat, low-fat, paleo, vegan, gluten-free, grass-fed donuts, who knows what’s next. Despite the onslaught, though, one ingredient seems to be emerging as a a pot...

There’s this myth about being a grown-up, especially, being a parent, that it’s a time where the play ends and the serious work begins. That laughter and surprise and curiosity and spontaneity, very often the things that got you where you are, need to cede to more responsible behavior. But, what if the exact opposite was true? What if the real secret to a life well lived, was to never let them go....

There’s this legend about the sole creator. That person who goes into their creative cave, cloistered in solitude for days, months or even years, only to emerge with a work of genius. Exploding into the zeitgeist and changing everything. But what if that was story was just a myth? What if the whole of idea sole genius was really a fantasy, obscuring the truth that almost nothing truly profound was...

There a certain inertia that often takes hold of our lives when we hit a certain age. One that says “you know that dream, it’s just not that realistic, so why don’t you just buckle down and do the adult thing?” It’s the voice of the inner critic, sometimes bundled with a whole lot of outer critics. Together, they keep you from playing big. From refusing the call to do something that might lea...

When you hear the phrase “coming out,” what do you think about? For most people, it’s telling the world you’re gay. Truth is, we’ve all got closets. Deep thoughts, experiences, beliefs, often so painful they lay buried under piles of emotional laundry in the dark corner of our closets. Thing is, holding these things back is a source of pain. You can push it away, deny it, but it’s always there. Un...

Ever wonder why everything that happened during your teens has stayed with you for so long? And, for many, continues to control you to this day? In today's episode of Good Life Project, I'm sharing a fascinating conversation with acclaimed professor and adolescence expert, Laurence Steinberg, Ph. D.. We're talking about what new brain research is showing us about the "care and feeding" of the adol...

So, I’ve got something different for you today. It’s a bonus episode that features a 90-minute audiobook version of something I published last week called The Art of Revolution . It’s about an idea. Actually, something that started as my own personal geek-fest. I was trying to figure out if you could tap the power of movements and revolutions to build a career or business or body-of-work. What I d...

Sometimes you can do everything right in life. Give to others, live with compassion, love with every fiber of your being and fill your days with work you love. By all rights, the universe should be rallying to support you. And, most days it does. But then, one day, it seems to abandon you. It pushes you off a cliff and, instead of flying, it clips your wings and pulls the net out from under you. I...

10 years ago, Chris Guillebeau mounted a quest to do the impossible, to visit every country in the world. Along the way, he’s been hassled, deported, detained, harassed and threatened. But, far more often, he’s been welcomed and embraced, discovered the brilliance of a deeply connected world, built a global community of unconventional adventurers and, maybe more importantly, he experienced how an...

Big surprise and a huge announcement about the future of the project. First, the surprise. Today's guest is ME! You guys have been asking for two and a half years. So, I finally invited a good friend to turn the mic on me and explore this incredible journey of both life and GLP TV. We go deep into a number of topics I've never spoken about and share amazing moments, both in front of the camera and...

The odd thing about success. It often breeds failure. An interesting thing happens when you start with nothing, work like crazy, take big creative risks that pay off and then end up on top of the world. You discover that the fall from the top of the world hurts a whole lot more than the fall from the street-corner. And you don't want to take that fall. You had nothing to lose in the beginning, but...

Jesse Kornbluth is a force. Engaging, smart and deeply-invested in exploring life, ideas, people and art. Not just the art you hang on the wall, but the art of living. Full contact. Totally engaged. Life. If you ask him what he does, he may tell you he founded HeadButler.com . But that's really just a label that makes starting a conversation easier. In truth, he devours existence, curates conversa...

A few years back, sitting down with Brene Brown, I asked what living a good life meant to her. Her answer was that it was about acknowledging and exalting the little moments that so many of us steamroll over in the mad rush to get to the bigger moments. I know what she means. I've experienced so many small moments of grace that have added up to bigger moments of awakening. One happened a number of...

Every long-term creative endeavor requires you to cycle into "The Thrash." That window where everything you thought you knew gets thrown into the wind, everything certain becomes uncertain and the way you contribute to your art, business, career and life are all up for grabs. It's not about floundering or wallowing, it's about owning the fact that you've been going sideways for a while and it's ti...

Have you ever picked up, looked at or listened to something so beautiful, it left you in a state of awe? And then thought… I wonder what the person who made it is like? Is what I’m looking at just an extension of their heart and soul? And, if that soul is dark, will you […]The post Can You Feel a Maker’s Heart Through Their Art? appeared first on Good LifeProject. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...

So, we're having a bit of fun in August, calling it the "GLP Summer Jam." Instead of our longer interviews this month, we're doing a full month of short and sweet visual essay jam sessions. It's a great way to get you thinking about bigger questions as you shift your energy down a bit, slow down and take some time to explore the bigger ideas that'll let you set up the second half of the year...

What if the person you were looking for, the one with all the answers, the one who could help you feel better and give you direction was...you? We spend so much of life looking for someone to give us permission to live. To tell us what the right path is or verify that we're on it. Someone to give us permission to be ourselves and take action aligned with our essence. We just want someone to tell u...

You may recognize the last name of today's guest. Yes, Eve Branson is the mom of legendary entrepreneur, Virgin founder and adventurer, Richard Branson. But she's also very much a force of nature in her own right. In fact, it's easy to see where Richard got his legendary sense of possibility and adventure from. Eve is a multi-time entrepreneur, former ballet dancer, military gliding instructor for...

What if you weren't just a statistic? What if you were a single human being, with unique genes, biology, chemistry and needs? And what if the "generic" approach to "fixing" what ailed you didn't work? Over the last 10 years, there has been a groundswell around an idea known as biohacking. It's about rejecting the notion that your best possible state is exactly the same as everyone else's, owning t...

If the body is a whole, connected system, why does modern medicine so often treat it as a calamity of isolated causes, effects and symptoms? A blend of hippie herbalist, science prodigy, bestselling author and Yale-trained physician , functional medicine doc,  Aviva Romm, MD , sees medicine differently. She looks at each patient as a person, rather than a bundle of symptoms. A fully-integrate...