Good Life Project

Have you ever done something because you thought it would look good on your resume? Studied at a particular school or with a particular person? What if, instead of trying to pile on credentials from esteemed people and institutions in the name of building a resume, you based your choices on what would let you […]

Janice Kaplan is filled with gratitude. But, it wasn’t always that way. Her career in the media has taken her from the TV sportscasting desk to producing dozens of shows, writing more than a dozen books and eventually serving as editor-in-chief of Parade Magazine, which at it’s height, boasted a circulation of about 30 million readers. […]

There’s been a lot of pushback lately against the idea of mastery, choosing one thing and putting everything you’ve got into it. Mastery, it seems, has become almost a dirty word. Why choose just one or two things to master, when your interests span four or five or 10 or 20? Why not just do […]

There’s that old line. When you’re thinking about opening a restaurant, the three most important things are location, location and location. Edward Barnett agrees, but the way he chose the location for his first restaurant in what is now becoming a chain goes against nearly every bit of conventional wisdom and advice. Edward was on a […]

We spend so much time trying to “acquire” people and things. In business, we talk about “acquiring a customer,” like they’re a commodity we’re buying at the corner store and we even associate a price with each new person. In our personal lives, we often do the same, thinking about the effort it takes to […]

Born and raised in a family of Irish surfers, and named after a surf break, Easkey Britton is a renowned Irish pro surfer, five-time National Surfing Champion and one of the top female big-wave surfers in the world. She’s also an explorer, artist and scientist with a PhD in Environment and Society.   On any given […]

Ever wonder how to know when it’s time to hold, fold or change? At some point, we all end up walking into the fire. We feel the fierce heat of intense pressure, anxiety, uncertainty, challenge and frustration. Often, it’s self-generated, sparked by a project, company, quest or venture we’ve launched ourselves into. It’s not fun. But, […]

Mark Nepo is a renowned poet, philosopher, author, master storyteller and spiritual teacher. He has appeared numerous times on Oprah, his Book of Awakening was a #1 New York Times bestseller and his newest book, Inside the Miracle, explores how we can move through suffering with grace and resilience. As Mark shares in this wide-ranging conversation, his darkest […]

We are wired to run from the unknown, to flee anything that leaves us in that raw, exposed place of uncertainty. When our ideas take us to this place, we feel it and many of us shut down. It stops our true genius from emerging and turning into breakthrough discoveries, products, experiences, brands, businesses and […]

In November, 2009, Bronnie Ware published a short essay entitled, Regrets of the Dying. It was a reflection on the years she worked in palliative care, taking care of people in the final days of their lives. She had noticed that the same basic set of profound regrets kept coming up, over and over again, […]

You know the old question, “if a tree falls in the woods and nobody is around to hear it, did it make a sound?” What if we asked a similar question about pain, suffering, anxiety or any other “experience or emotion” that exists only in the space between our ears? What if many of the […]

Lodro Rinzler is that increasingly rare Westerner who didn’t find Buddhism through a later-in-life quest for answers, he was brought up in the tradition of Shambhala Buddhism and has lived its teachings since he was a child, at one point even exploring the monastic path. That said, he’s very much “of this world,” deeply connected […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]