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Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields

Deep conversations with remarkable people about meaning, purpose, and building a life that matters.

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Not All Pain Has a Purpose | Marisa Renee Lee
What if the kindest thing someone told you about your pain was that it didn't have to mean anything?Marisa Renee Lee has spent her career inside other people's grief and her own. She's the bestselling author of Grief Is Love, a former deputy director in the Obama White House, and
6 Aug 202653:04
Top Headache Doc: Migraine Is Not What You Think
For decades, migraine was explained to patients as a blood vessel problem: swelling, throbbing, treat it by shrinking things back down. That explanation is mostly a myth, and it may be part of why so many older treatments never worked.Dr. Fred Cohen is medical director of Headach
3 Aug 202662:50
Time Anxiety: Beating the Dread That You’ll Never Get Ahead | Chris Guillebeau
You know that feeling, like you’re forever running behind in work and life? That you’ll never finally be “there,” or be able to relax and enjoy things. Like the days are just collapsing into each other? Welcome to the wacky world of time anxiety. You are not alone. Chris Gui
30 Jul 202648:37
The 3 Things Every Room You Live In Must Have to Be Okay | Leidy Klotz
Most of us think the biggest decision about a room is whether it's functional. Leidy Klotz thinks that's the wrong question, and the right one changes how a desk, a kitchen, or an entire return-to-office policy actually lands on the person living inside it.Leidy Klotz is a behavi
27 Jul 202646:54
How Much Money Is Enough? Your Confusing Money Questions Answered. | Leisa Peterson
 By the age of 7, most of us have absorbed the rules that run our financial lives…forever. And almost none of us checked to see if they were true. Not the numbers. The rules. The slogans we heard around the kitchen table about what money means, who deserves it, and what it s
23 Jul 202651:35
Tapping: Surprising Science Behind Healing Claims (and how to do it) | Jessica Ortner
Your body already knows you're stressed before your brain finishes the thought. That tightness in your chest before a hard conversation. The way your stomach drops before you walk into a room full of people. Logic doesn't reach it. Telling yourself you're fine doesn't touch it. W
20 Jul 202657:50
Why Plans Fail, and What To Do Instead | Midyear Reset Pt 2
Share your midlife reinvention story with us HERE.You have a plan for how to succeed in the second half of the year, how to “get back on track.” And a plan, it turns out, is the most sophisticated way to actually stand still while feeling like you're moving.This is Part 2 of a sp
16 Jul 202653:45
Midyear Wake-Up Call | Part 1
You can hit every goal you set in January and still be running on empty in the parts of your life the list never thought to measure. That's not a failure story. That's a design flaw in the instrument most of us reach for at the midpoint of the year.Jonathan Fields has spent 14 ye
13 Jul 202651:47
Healing Family Estrangement: What To Say, And What Never to Say.
Between 10 and 15 percent of mothers and 1 in 4 fathers are currently estranged from a child. If those numbers feel shocking, the harder truth might be this: most of the moves parents instinctively make once estrangement begins are the exact moves that keep the door shut.Dr. Josh
9 Jul 202660:15
The Caregiving Conversation Everyone Postpones Until It's Too Late.
Here is something most people never see coming: the hardest part of caring for an aging parent is not the logistics. It is the grief. The grief for who your parent used to be, for the life you thought you would be living by now, and for the version of yourself that is quietly dis
6 Jul 202647:10
When You Can't Stop Thinking About Something, Here's What To Do. | Donna Jackson Nakazawa
There is something your brain is spinning right now, that you may never have been given a name for or a way out of. The thought you keep replaying. The conversation you keep recasting. The reel that loads up again and again without resolution, making you feel worse each time and
2 Jul 202654:07
Why More Choices Make You Less Happy | David Epstein
Most of us believe more options equals better outcomes. Research says no. In much of life, the opposite is true, and the gap between what we believe and what the data shows is one of the more quietly consequential misconceptions shaping how we live right now.David Epstein is the
29 Jun 202660:19