The Best Life Podcast

Have you ever wondered how every author seems to have a “#1 Bestselling” book? Or how some influencers seem to grow their accounts by thousands of followers in just a few days? We’ve all seen enough causal pictures of manicures in front of Mercedes Benz steering wheels to know something strange is happening. Danny and Jill want to expose the facades that so many Instagrammers sell to us. After all...

Due to social media, the state of things seems to be growing more grim by the minute. We have unlimited access to news from every part of the world, and much of it is designed to send us in to a panic. We are burdened by the misfortunes of others, and the thought of celebrating victories in our own lives fills us with guilt, shame, and even fear that goodness will be taken away. Danny and Jeff tal...

In order to live the Best Life, we have to take radical responsibility and trust ourselves, but just because we know these things, it doesn’t mean they’re easy to accomplish. What does “self-trust” even mean, and how do we begin the process of building that confidence in ourselves to handle whatever comes our way? In this episode, Jill teaches 4 ways we can practice trusting ourselves, so that we...

The time has finally come for The Best Life listeners to meet a very special guest… Danny’s boyfriend, Jeff T. Danny and Jeff sit down to tell us all about their relationship: how they met, how they travel together, and how they put the relationship on fast-forward with drunk confessions and radical honesty. Fate brought them together, but they know that to make a relationship work, communication...

Beyond the confines of traditional gender norms, there exist both “feminine” and “masculine” energies— and every single one of us contains both. We take these energies with us into the dating world, and from there it can get very messy, very quickly. By understanding our own “feminine” or “masculine” tendencies, we can better know the types of people and actions we are attracted to, and soon, impr...

Neghar Fonooni began her career as a fitness coach and personal trainer, but the universe had more plans for her. Always the nurturing spirit, she soon found her way to spiritual coaching, tarot reading, illustrating, writing, and helping womxn identifying humans liberate themselves in a society working to keep them down. Even after run-ins with countless narcissists, Neghar chooses the Best Life...

Danny and Jill are back together again and answering some of your pressing questions. When your partner says they need to be needed, to healing what lays beneath the surface of food obsession, and to the long process of getting over a breakup, Jill and Danny discuss it all, and hope to leave you with tools you can use to get through some of life’s stickiest situations.   thehappinessdiet.com   Ask...

With a hobby YouTube channel, Amy Young found herself with a lot to say on the subject of relationships, and with a dedicated following ready to listen. She quickly became a force to be reckoned with in the world of life and relationship coaching, with an approach that centers on becoming the best version of yourself before inviting anyone else in to your life. Amy may not be a relationship expert...

Josh Trent spent his youth eating everything he could get his hands on in order to deal with his emotions. Even after getting in to shape, Josh worked a job that he knew would never fulfilling his soul. Years of self-hate and spiritual death later, he decided enough was enough, and founded Wellness Force Radio, the top-ranked iTunes podcast about the discovery of physical and emotional intelligenc...

They say to become a master at something, you have to practice it for 10,000 hours. And while approximately 100 hours in 100 episodes doesn’t quite reach that mark, Danny and Jill are pretty damn close to being masters of talking about all the scary shit in life. When they first hit publish, they had no idea just how much talking about the Best Life would push them to live it 24/7. Celebrate with...

Jill and Danny have talked about the obsessions that have ruled their lives, but there is another piece to the equation that got left out: exercise. What started out as an innocent-enough enjoyment of exercising became a toxic control mechanism and a distraction technique with destructive effects. If you find your physical activity controls your life, it might be time to evaluate the hidden motive...

Everyone thinks that therapy is only for “crazy” people, that all it entails is lying down on a couch and complaining about life, occasionally being asked, “And how does that make you feel?” But this couldn’t be further from the truth. Therapy is for everyone, and it can help give you tools and understanding to live your life in a healthier and more productive way. Our mental health is just as imp...

Elizabeth DiAlto is known for her unconventional approach to personal development, self-discovery, and self-trust building. With her Wild Soul Movement program, Untame Yourself book, and Truth Telling podcast, Elizabeth helps women strip away the false narratives and fears that are holding them back from their most powerful and free selves. Find out how Elizabeth left behind a traditional path, an...

Throughout all of our lives, we go through seasons of stress. But if everything feels stressful all the time, could it be our own tendencies to intensify stress that’s holding us back? What techniques can we use to bring down our immediate stress response? And what tools are available for dealing with longer-term stressful situations? Danny and Jill have learned to control the stressors in their l...

A single text destroyed Sarah Centrella’s life in an instant. Her marriage of 8 years was over, and half her life had been seemingly rendered useless. That was, until, she started to share her story. Blogging gave Sarah an audience and a voice, and soon she started to live the life she always dreamed of as a little girl. Now Sarah is a best-selling author, a speaker, a coach, and an expert on the...

When Danny J and Jill were asked to give a talk to a group of women about health and fitness and to provide a “meal plan,” they just couldn’t do it. Every day, we are bombarded with toxic messages about food and diet culture; luckily, Jill and Danny know the way out of this vicious food obsession cycle. In this episode, the hosts recount the lessons they have taught about how to control your eatin...

Kelsey Heenan, aka TheDailyKelsey, is a fitness and nutrition coach, as well as a co-founder of HIITMAX. Kelsey has dedicated her life to improving peoples’ lives in the fitness space. But before she could help others, she first had to help herself recover first—from an eating disorder that sent her life spinning. With patience and dedication, Kelsey developed a healthy relationship with food, exe...

Now that its summer, everyone is in vacation-mode. But without rigid and dependable structure, it can often be paralyzing to keep making positive choices for ourselves. Whether your instinct is to lean in to your disciplined routine, or to let everything go entirely, there is often a happier, healthier middle ground. Jill and Danny share their routines and tips for living their best, most balanced...

Natalie Jill is in the business of killing FAT: the kind we see on the scale, and the FAT she calls, “False Assumed Truths.” When we allow FAT to stop us living full-out, we fail to see results and quickly give up. With her online empire and her new book, Aging in Reverse, Natalie Jill teaches us how to trim the excess and shift our mindsets so that what we feel on the inside can be reflected outw...

Let’s face it: getting older is a total mind-fuck. Even though our minds feel youthful, our bodies tell a different story. Society says our value is determined by how young we look, and even though we know it’s complete bullshit, we can’t help but pinch and prod at the wrinkles. Danny J and Jill talk about aging, and how we can’t rely on the outer work to make us happy without doing the inner work...

Communication can be difficult. Curating your responses in return can be even harder. But in order to live the Best Life, healthy communication is a necessity. Jill and Danny talk about what it means to communicate effectively and healthily by knowing your triggers, how not to assign judgements to your feelings, and how even the most difficult of conversations can deepen the bonds of a relationshi...

Danny and Jill are back together again, and in this episode we get to hear all about Danny J’s new man. Being in a new relationship can be scary, and especially so after a marriage ended due to infidelity. Learning how to manage expectations and radical acceptance of whatever the outcome might be are all a part of learning to love again, and Danny is up for the experience.   Being afraid to let yo...

Jill is joined by a very special guest in this week’s episode: her boyfriend,Keith Lockwood! Keith tells us all about growing up in sports, finding firefighting, and parental relationships. He and Jill also discuss the beginnings of their relationship, how it has changed and challenged them, and their favorite things about being together.   @woodyqb4   Keith’s background and identity in sports [1:...

Danny and Jill bare it all today in this sexy, sexy episode. The worlds of dating and sex can be a total mind-fuck for women today, and things only seem to get more complicated as we age. But should it? What could be more basic than allowing ourselves to receive pleasure when, and how we choose. After all, great sex is an integral element to living the Best Life.   Why does it sometimes feel like...

Bumble is so much more than just a dating app. With additional features like BumbleBizz and BumbleBFF, ending toxic relationships is the goal. Bumble strives to empower women, and to create a more harmonious dating, networking, and friend-making place as possible. Alex Williamson, Bumble’s Chief Brand Officer, joins us today for a chat about authenticity, rejection, and how clear communication can...