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• 200. John Philip Newell – The Great Search: Turning to Earth and Soul in the Quest for Healing and Home 18.01.2025 50мин

  In this episode, John Philip Newell returns to the School for Good Living Podcast to discuss his latest book, The Great Search: Turning to Earth and Soul in the Search for Healing and Home. John Philip, a leading Celtic teacher and spiritual guide, offers deep insights into the spiritual longings of the modern world, especially in light of the growing sense of religious exile experienced by many today.John Philip speaks on the urgent need for healing in our relationship with the Earth and one another, as well as the quest for a deeper sense of home—not just in a physical sense, but in a profound spiritual connection with both the Earth and the human soul. His reflections on spiritual exile, the deep yearning for divine experience, and the wisdom of past teachers are woven throughout this thoughtful conversation.In this interview, John Philip and Brilliant discuss:The Great Search and its focus on spiritual yearnings during times of transitionThe concept of “religious exile” and how many people are spiritually disaffected, either by leaving or by staying in religious traditions that no longer resonateThe role of psychedelics in modern spiritual exploration and how they fit into the broader quest for a direct experience of the divineHealing and Home as the central themes of John Philip's book and how they address humanity’s brokenness and longing for rootednessThe teachers who shaped John Philip's journey and how they continue to transmit wisdom for today's spiritual seekersJohn Philip also shares personal reflections on his own spiritual journey, including his decision to "give back" his ordination as a Christian minister, and how this decision relates to the spiritual reawakening he sees happening worldwide.Resources Mentioned:John Philip Newell’s The Great Search: Turning to Earth and Soul in the Search for Healing and HomeConnect with the Guest:earthandsoul.org Social media handles or other ways to follow John Philip:John Philip Newell on FacebookJohn Philip Newell on InstagramSacred Earth Sacred Soul on FacebookSacred Earth Sacred Soul on InstagramThank you for listening to this week's episode of the School for Good Living Podcast!If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe and sign up for our email list at [goodliving.com] for exclusive content and special updates. Explore our website to learn more about the transformative programs we offer, including our Transformation Coaching Program, Coach Training Program, and our collection of inspirational quotes to help you live a good life!
• 198. Neal Allen – Better Days: Tame Your Inner Critic 03.01.2024 1ч 12мин

  Neal Allen is a spiritual coach and a speaker whose chief concern is removing obstacles of the ego. Neal has written a book called Better Days: Tame Your Inner Critic, the subject of most of our conversation here today. This is Neal’s second time on the School for Good Living podcast after our first conversation about his book called Shapes of Truth: Discover God Inside You.In this interview on the School for Good Living Podcast, Neal joins me to talk about our inner critic. Sometimes Neal refers to it as a parasite. You might call it your conscience or your superego. But Neal distinguishes that it is not you. It's a part of you. He talks about how it forms, what its purpose is, and how we can live healthier, happier lives when we learn to manage our inner critic and make space for our authentic self. We also talk about how we can live with less anxiety, have more fulfilling relationships, and be more content more often. In this conversation, Neal also shares what he learned from a six-month experiment he conducted in his own life where he said yes to every opportunity, invitation, and request that was made to him and what he learned from it.“It’s not necessary to seek for love, only to find and remove the obstacles we’ve built against it.”– Neal AllenThis week on the School for Good Living Podcast:·       Neal’s belief and practice that people are naturally respectful·       Saying yes to everything for 6 months and its lasting impact on Neal·       Defining and overcoming “the parasite”, “the gremlin”, and the superego·       Turning Win, Lose, or Draw into Yes, No, or MaybeResources Mentioned:·       Shapesoftruth.com·       goodliving.comConnect With The Guest:·       Neal AllenSubscribe and sign up for more!Thank you for listening to this week’s episode of the School For Good Living Podcast, I hope you found it as insightful as I did! If you enjoyed this episode, then be sure to head over to goodliving.com and sign up for our email list to receive special reminders and exclusive content sent right to your inbox. Explore our website to learn more about the many services I offer, like my Transformation Coaching Program, Coach Training Program, and my catalog of quotations to help you live a good life!
• 197. Colin Campbell – Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose 02.06.2023 1ч 35мин

  Colin Campbell is an author who knows a lot about grief. When Colin and his family were hit by a drunk and high driver that killed his two children, his life was sent into a whirlwind of grief, pain, and isolation. This grief led him to write “Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose” to help us understand what it takes to accompany people in their grieving process. His personal experiences has helped him to navigate the human tendencies that we all face when we experience loss or in our efforts to accompany others through their pain and grief. In this Interview on the School for Good Living Podcast, Colin joins me to talk about confronting pain to help us have good living. In this interview, we discuss the profound losses that we face in life and some techniques we can use more quickly and fully get to places of peace, joy, and love. We also discuss some of the hardest parts of helping others who are grieving and finding the words to help them through it. Colin believes that we can all find common ground in the ways that we grieve despite the individual ways that we all find to avoid it. Ultimately, this conversation with Colin can help us to navigate being with others who are grieving and how to open ourselves to others when we are the ones in that position. “A lot of the trouble in the world comes from avoiding pain.” – Colin Campbell This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: Understanding profound loss Colin’s motivation to write Finding the Words and the crash that killed his children Accompanying people in their grief Deciding to say yes when our pain guides us to say no How to be a friend to someone in grief Taking action on pain and grief Resources Mentioned: Colincampbellauthor.com goodliving.com Connect With The Guest: colincampbellauthor.com/contact/ Subscribe and sign up for more! Thank you for listening to this week’s episode of the School For Good Living Podcast, I hope you found it as insightful as I did! If you enjoyed this episode, then be sure to head over to goodliving.com and sign up for our email list to receive special reminders and exclusive content sent right to your inbox. Explore our website to learn more about the many services I offer, like my Transformation Coaching Program, Coach Training Program, and my catalog of quotations to help you live a good life!The post 197. Colin Campbell – Finding the Words: Working Through Profound Loss with Hope and Purpose first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.
• 196. The Sprout Book: Tap into the Power of the Planet’s Most Nutritious Food 27.03.2023 51мин

  Doug Evans has been a prominent figure in the natural food industry for over three decades, dedicating his life to promoting healthy eating habits and sustainable agriculture practices. As a devoted advocate of sprouting, he has inspired countless individuals to embrace a plant-based diet and lead a healthier lifestyle. Evans’ latest book, The Sprout Book: Tap into the Power of the Planet’s Most Nutritious Food, is a culmination of his lifelong passion for sprouts, and provides readers with a comprehensive guide to growing and consuming these tiny but mighty superfoods. In this book, he shares his knowledge and experience on the benefits of sprouts and how they can help us lead healthier, happier lives. In this special episode on the School for Good Living Podcast, Doug joins me in the studio in person today. In this interview, we talk about all kinds of things related to sprouting. Why to do it, how to do it, and even some insight into his favorite recipes. We also dive into what Doug’s health journey has been like and why he has made the health decisions he’s made. If you’re looking to improve the quality of your life, if you’re looking to feel better, if you’re looking to have more energy, or if you’re looking to have the capacity to give more of the gifts that are perhaps latent within you, join us in this conversation to find some help ways that sprouts can help you find good living. “Not everyone can be a farmer, not everyone could be a gardener, not everyone has a green thumb, But everyone can be a sprouter.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: The health risks involved in the 21-century American diet How Doug found veganism and how it has helped him find good living The well-being that can come through veganism What on earth is “sprouting?” The benefits of sprouting as a lifestyle or simply an addition to your diet Resources Mentioned: The Sprout Book Sproutman Connect With The Guest: Doug Evans on Instagram Goodliving.com Subscribe and sign up for more! Thank you for listening to this week’s episode of the School For Good Living Podcast, I hope you found it as insightful as I did! If you enjoyed this episode, then be sure to head over to goodliving.com and sign up for our email list to receive special reminders and exclusive content sent right to your inbox. Explore our website to learn more about the many services I offer, like my Transformation Coaching Program, Coach Training Program, and my catalog of quotations to help you live a good life!The post 196. The Sprout Book: Tap into the Power of the Planet’s Most Nutritious Food first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.
• 195. 2022 School for Good Living Podcast Highlights 27.12.2022 6мин

  What is life about? What is something about which you have changed your mind in recent years? What have you started or stopped doing to live or age well? These are some of the questions that I have asked many of my guests this year and their responses have been both insightful and entertaining. Join me for this final episode of 2022 as we look back at many of the guests I have interviewed and their take on many things including getting creative work done and living a good life. This year on the School for Good Living Podcast: 168. Suzanne McConnell – Pity the Reader: On Writing With Style 169. David Henkin – The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are 170. Ron Lieber – The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded and Smart About Money 171. Phil M Jones – Exactly What to Say: The Magic Words for Influence and Impact 172. John Philip Newell – Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening 173. Kim Scott – Just Work: How to Root Out Bias, Prejudice, and Bullying 174.  David J Helfand – A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age: Scientific Habits of Mind 175. Raymond Moody – Life After Life: The Original Investigation Revealing Near Death Experiences 176. Coaches Commonplace Book #1 177. Bernd Heinrich – Racing the Clock: Running Across a Lifetime 178. Britt Frank – The Science of Stuck: Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward 179. Coaches Commonplace Book #2 180.  David McRaney – How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion 181. Steven Kotler – The Devil’s Dictionary 182. Coaches Commonplace Book #3 183. Gary Ferguson – The Eight Master Lessons of Nature: What Nature Teaches Us About Living Well 184. Leah Weiss – How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace the Daily Grind 185. Tamar Haspel – To Boldly Grow: Finding Joy, Adventure, and Dinner in Your Own Backyard 186. Coaches Commonplace Book #4 187. Ralph De La Rosa – Don’t Tell Me to Relax: Emotional Resilience in the Age of Rage 188. AJ Jacobs – The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever 189. Sam Carpenter – Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less 190. Coaches Commonplace Book #5 191. David Kadavy – Mind Management, Not Time Management: Productivity When Creativity Matters 192. David Bradford – Connect: Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends, & Colleagues 193. Diane Dreher – The Tao of Inner Peace 194. Ryland Engelhart – Kiss the Ground Resources Mentioned: http://goodliving.com Subscribe and sign up for more! Thank you for listening to this week’s episode of the School For Good Living Podcast, I hope you found it as insightful as I did! If you enjoyed this episode, then be sure to head over to goodliving.com and sign up for our email list to receive special reminders and exclusive content sent right to your inbox. Explore our website to learn more about the many services I offer, like my Transformation Coaching Program, Coach Training Program, and my catalog of quotations to help you live a good life! The post 195. 2022 School for Good Living Podcast Highlights first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.
• 194. Ryland Engelhart – Kiss the Ground 22.11.2022 1ч 42мин

  Ryland Engelhart is a philanthropist. He’s a lover of people and of life. Ryland co-founded Kiss the Ground in his living room with a friend ten years ago. It’s a nonprofit organization that he leads today as executive director. Ryland is also the producer of The Kiss the Ground documentary and the co-creator of the documentary film “May I Be Frank?” He’s also co-owner and formerly served as Mission Fulfillment Officer of the nationally recognized plant-based restaurants Café Gratitude and Gracias Madre, located in Southern California. In this interview, Ryland joins me to discuss sacred commerce, using business as a force for good, the possibility of restoration and regeneration, and gaining a sense of optimism toward the future of the Earth and humanity. We also discuss one of Ryland’s strategies to deal with challenging moments and to avoid closing down or shrinking from difficulties. We talk about finding our thing, whatever it may be, and creating ways to express what we value. We also talk about building and solidifying habits related to creativity and writing, and a lot about Ryland’s sustainability efforts. “Regeneration is playing a role in reversing or balancing the climate.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: Gaining a sense of optimism towards the future of the Earth and of humanity Finding our thing and creating ways to express what we value Striking inspiration and turning it into something that can grow Ryland’s sustainability efforts through “Regenerate America” Building and solidifying writing habits Resources Mentioned: Kisstheground.com CafeGratitude.com Regenerateamerica.com goodliving.com Connect With The Guest: Ryland Engelhart Subscribe and sign up for more! Thank you for listening to this week’s episode of the School For Good Living Podcast, I hope you found it as insightful as I did! If you enjoyed this episode, then be sure to head over to goodliving.com and sign up for our email list to receive special reminders and exclusive content sent right to your inbox. Explore our website to learn more about the many services I offer, like my Transformation Coaching Program, Coach Training Program, and my catalog of quotations to help you live a good life!The post 194. Ryland Engelhart – Kiss the Ground first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.
• 193. Diane Dreher – The Tao of Inner Peace 31.10.2022 2ч 1мин

  Diane Dreher is the writer of The Tao of Inner Peace as well as other nonfiction books, and her work has been translated into ten languages. She is an award-winning positive psychology researcher and her work blends wisdom from the past with contemporary psychology and neuroscience. Her work combines knowledge of the western world with traditions of the eastern world including many insights from the Tao Te Ching. Her work helps teach people to live with the pains of life without also suffering. In this interview, Diane joins me to discuss how to better understand and cultivate your unique strengths, how to understand and cultivate a relationship to your intuition, and the power of stillness. We also discuss the four stages of discovering your purpose or calling, recognizing, and resolving false dilemmas, and finding paths through “either / or” situations that seem unwinnable. Another interesting thing we talk about is the wisdom of bamboo, what we can learn from it about strength, flexibility, and resilience; How we can use our differences to help us work together to find solutions. “There are times when to be strong is to be flexible.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: Being aware of and using our strengthsCombining eastern and western philosophyThe false dilemma and Seeing through “either / or” situationsThe wisdom of bamboo, learning to be flexibleAllowing our differences to help us work together to find solutionsResources Mentioned: Dianedreher.comViacharacter.orgConnect With The Guest: DianeDreher.com/contactSubscribe and sign up for more! Thank you for listening to this week’s episode of the School For Good Living Podcast, I hope you found it as insightful as I did! If you enjoyed this episode, then be sure to head over to goodliving.com and sign up for our email list to receive special reminders and exclusive content sent right to your inbox. Explore our website to learn more about the many services I offer, like my Transformation Coaching Program, Coach Training Program, and my catalog of quotations to help you live a good life!The post 193. Diane Dreher – The Tao of Inner Peace first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.
• 192. David Bradford  – Connect: Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends, and Colleagues 17.10.2022 1ч 41мин

  David Bradford is the author of Connect: Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends, and Colleagues. He has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business for over 50 years and helped to cultivate a course affectionately known as “touchy-feely” where he has coached and consulted with hundreds of people to help them cultivate excellent relationships. Join us in this interview on the School for Good Living Podcast as David and I discuss how we can better deal with conflict, the three realities in any situation and how to leverage them to strengthen relationships, and how to differentiate between thoughts and feelings. We also discuss how we can give better feedback and productively address pain points in relationships. “Emotions are important because they give meaning to facts.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: The “Touchy-feely” course David helped develop at the Stanford Graduate School of BusinessThe keys to exceptional relationshipsThe tennis court model and the three realities in any interactionFeedback as information rather than a requirement for changeBreaking away from feedback sandwiches to create more actionable feedbackHow to correctly identify feelings and cognitionsBreaking through fear by understanding their limitationsFeeling pinched rather than hurtResources Mentioned: ConnectAndRelate.comgoodliving.comConnect With The Guest: David BradfordSubscribe and sign up for more! Thank you for listening to this week’s episode of the School For Good Living Podcast, I hope you found it as insightful as I did! If you enjoyed this episode, then be sure to head over to goodliving.com and sign up for our email list to receive special reminders and exclusive content sent right to your inbox. Explore our website to learn more about the many services I offer, like my Transformation Coaching Program, Coach Training Program, and my catalog of quotations to help you live a good life!The post 192. David Bradford  – Connect: Building Exceptional Relationships with Family, Friends, and Colleagues first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.
• 191. David Kadavy – Mind Management, Not Time Management: Productivity When Creativity Matters 03.10.2022 1ч 53мин

  David Kadavy is the author of multiple books, including Mind Management, Not Time Management: Productivity when Creativity Matters and The Heart to Start: Stop Procrastinating and Start Creating, and a book called Design for Hackers. David has spoken at South by Southwest, TEDx and his writings have been featured in The Observer, The Huffington Post, Ink Magazine, Quartz, McSweeney’s, Upworthy, Lifehacker, and many other places. In addition to his writing and publications, he is also the creator and host of the Love Your Work podcast. In this episode on the School for Good Living Podcast, David joins me to discuss creativity, productivity, and living a meaningful life. We discuss creating something David calls a curiosity management system and how he uses “crumb time” to learn and to create more than you otherwise might. We explore how David escaped being born in the wrong place, a suburban area in Nebraska, surrounded by people who didn’t understand him and with whom he didn’t really connect, and how he managed to create a fulfilling life of creativity and contribution and create a life in Columbia where he lives now. We also discussed the struggle that many artists and creators have of figuring out what their unique message is, exactly what their voice is, who their audience is, and how David has approached these things. Join us to explore these ideas of writing as a process of teaching ourselves and learning what we need to know and the fact that writing is often not a linear process and how to use that fact to your advantage. “That’s kind of the secret of anything, being okay at being bad at it.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: Looking past money, knowledge, and experiences to find meaningUsing “crumb time” as a curiosity management systemDavid’s “beige period” and how he found his way out of itHow to finally just get startedWhat happens if the human race goes extinct – and is it really a bad thing?Resources Mentioned: kadavy.netMind Management, Not Time Management: Productivity When Creativity Matters100wordhabit.comConnect With The Guest: David KadavySubscribe and sign up for more! Thank you for listening to this week’s episode of the School For Good Living Podcast, I hope you found it as insightful as I did! If you enjoyed this episode, then be sure to head over to goodliving.com and sign up for our email list to receive special reminders and exclusive content sent right to your inbox. Explore our website to learn more about the many services I offer, like my Transformation Coaching Program, Coach Training Program, and my catalog of quotations to help you live a good life!The post 191. David Kadavy – Mind Management, Not Time Management: Productivity When Creativity Matters first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.
• 190. Coaches Commonplace Book – #5 19.09.2022 1ч

  The Coaches Commonplace Book is a candid extention to the School for Good Living Podcast. My co-host and fellow member of the Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches group, Dean Miles, joins me to dive deeper into what it means to be a coach, find fulfillment, and ultimately to live good lives. This series includes several fun thinking activities where we explore quotations and news articles.  Join me this week as Dean and I discuss our recent information diet and what it takes to be a coach. In this discussion, we talk a lot about where we find out motivation, our purpose, and ultimately how we seek for good living. “On the other side of any emotion felt fully is peace.” – John Wineland This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: Brilliant and Dean’s information dietTraining versus fight training; what it takes to really be greatMasculine and feminine energyThe wisdom of the pagesDean’s article: Six Signs You’re Lying to Yourself: How to Recognize When Your Confidence is Covering up Your Self-Deception – Dr. Evan ParksBuilding a Personal Brand – Success MagazineFinding and following your purposeResources Mentioned: From the Core: A New Masculine Paradigm for Leading with Love, Living Your Truth, and Healing the WorldPickmybrain.worldConnect With The Guests: Bridgepointcsg.comGoodliving.comSubscribe and sign up for more! Thank you for listening to this week’s episode of the School For Good Living Podcast, I hope you found it as insightful as I did! If you enjoyed this episode, then be sure to head over to goodliving.com and sign up for our email list to receive special reminders and exclusive content sent right to your inbox. Explore our website to learn more about the many services I offer, like my Transformation Coaching Program, Coach Training Program, and my catalog of quotations to help you live a good life!The post 190. Coaches Commonplace Book – #5 first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.
• 189. Sam Carpenter – Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less 05.09.2022 2ч 12мин

  Sam Carpenter is the author of Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less. Sam is an author, an entrepreneur, and has extensive experience in a variety of fields, including engineering, journalism, publishing, surveying, forestry, construction management, telecommunications, and a myriad of other blue- and white-collar enterprises and jobs. Sam has owned and operated Centratel, the leading telephone answering service in the United States, for nearly 40 years. In this Interview on the School for Good Living Podcast, Sam joins me to discuss how we can find good living through the good results of managing our systems. We all deal with systems and processes and Sam is someone who helps us learn to deal with recurring systems and processes to make our lives easier, free ourselves up, reduce our stress levels, earn more money, and have more free time. “Unhappy people’s lives are out of control because they spend their days coping with the random bad results of their unmanaged systems.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: Which way should the toilet paper roll face?How we can avoid ‘fire fighting’ against our tasks and challengesFinding the organic processes in a business and making them mechanicalThe documents required to guide a business’s goals and principlesSam’s systems for writing books that make a differenceResources Mentioned: Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working LessWorkthesystem.comConnect With The Guest: Sam CarpenterSubscribe and sign up for more! Thank you for listening to this week’s episode of the School For Good Living Podcast, I hope you found it as insightful as I did! If you enjoyed this episode, then be sure to head over to goodliving.com and sign up for our email list to receive special reminders and exclusive content sent right to your inbox. Explore our website to learn more about the many services I offer, like my Transformation Coaching Program, Coach Training Program, and my catalog of quotations to help you live a good life!The post 189. Sam Carpenter – Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.
• 188. AJ Jacobs – The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life 29.08.2022 1ч 14мин

  My guest today, AJ Jacobs, is a man who’s in the puzzle business. He can help you solve puzzles. He can help you live a more meaningful, happier, healthier life by cultivating something he calls the puzzle mindset. His most recent book is called The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from crosswords to jigsaw puzzles to the meaning of life. AJ sees his life as a series of experiments in which he immerses himself in a project or lifestyle, for better or for worse. And then he writes about what he’s learned. The puzzler helps us to live with more curiosity, and more flexibility. In this interview, AJ joins me to talk about how we can become more curious and less furious. We talk a lot about riddles, questions, puzzles, and new ways of looking at things in our lives that can help us not be so frustrated by them. We also talk about his work before The Puzzler. When he was a guest on this show back in 2019, he had written a book called Thanks A Thousand, in which he wanted to thank, and he embarked on a quest to thank every person who had a hand in making his morning cup of coffee, from the barista to the roaster to the truck driver to the warehouse operators to the grower. “Curiosity is the only thing that can save the human species.” Bonus Riddle From the Interview: What is greater than God, but worse than the devil? Poor men have it, and rich men need it. Dead men eat it, but if you eat it, you will die. Watch the full interview to find the answer! This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: How puzzles can help us to live better livesKeeping an open mind and remaining curiousThe benefits of pattern finding and the dangers of apopheniaHow puzzle games can help us overcome some of the damage in societyResources Mentioned: AJJacobs.comThePuzzlerBook.comThe Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of LifeConnect With The Guest: AJ JacobsSubscribe and sign up for more! Thank you for listening to this week’s episode of the School For Good Living Podcast, I hope you found it as insightful as I did! If you enjoyed this episode, then be sure to head over to goodliving.com and sign up for our email list to receive special reminders and exclusive content sent right to your inbox. Explore our website to learn more about the many services I offer, like my Transformation Coaching Program, Coach Training Program, and my catalog of quotations to help you live a good life!The post 188. AJ Jacobs – The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.
• 187. Ralph De La Rosa – Don’t Tell Me to Relax: Emotional Resilience in the Age of Rage, Feels, and Freak-Outs 22.08.2022 1ч 45мин

  Ralph De La Rosa teaches about two things, the suffering that comes from emotional confusion and the freedom that comes from emotional intelligence. Ralph began practicing meditation in 1996 and has taught meditation since 2008. He was a student of Amma’s, the hugging saint, for 16 years. He began studying Buddhism in 2005. Ralph’s work has been featured in the New York Post, CNN, Tricycle, GQ, Women’s Health, and many other publications and podcasts. Ralph is a PTSD, depression, and opioid addiction survivor, and their work is inspired by the tremendous transformation he’s experienced through meditation, yoga, and therapy. In this interview, Ralph joins me to discuss how we can live a better life, understand ourselves, and make the contribution we would make if only we could get out of our own ways. We also talk a good bit about Ralph’s books. The first is Monkey is the Messenger: Meditation and What Your Busy Mind is Trying to Tell You. Ralph offers an insightful perspective here that the mind, the monkey, is both an agitator and an ally. It’s not something to wish it would go away or shut up, it actually has some incredible messages for us of growth and healing. Ralph’s second book is called Don’t Tell Me to Relax: Emotional Resilience in the Age of Rage, Feels, and Freak-Outs, a book that’s very timely, even still as it was published a couple of years ago. “Life is like an exploding train wreck of beautiful possibilities.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: Music and the role it has played in Ralphs’ journeyNeurodivergence and how it has helped Ralph understand himselfHow our suffering can teach us compassionRalph’s new learning interest called “attachment styles”Ralph’s writing journeyResources Mentioned: RalphDeLaRosa.comDon’t Tell Me to Relax: Emotional Resilience in the Age of Rage, Feels, and Freak-OutsRalph’s Psychotherapy, Consulting, and Spiritual MembershipsConnect With The Guest: Ralph De La RosaRalph@ralphdelarosa.comSubscribe and sign up for more! Thank you for listening to this week’s episode of the School For Good Living Podcast, I hope you found it as insightful as I did! If you enjoyed this episode, then be sure to head over to goodliving.com and sign up for our email list to receive special reminders and exclusive content sent right to your inbox. Explore our website to learn more about the many services I offer, like my Transformation Coaching Program, Coach Training Program, and my catalog of quotations to help you live a good life!The post 187. Ralph De La Rosa – Don’t Tell Me to Relax: Emotional Resilience in the Age of Rage, Feels, and Freak-Outs first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.
• 186. Coaches Commonplace Book – #4 15.08.2022 1ч 15мин

  Dean Miles is a fellow member of the Marshall Goldsmith 100 coaches group. Dean joins me in this special series where we dive into some of our philosophies about coaching and good living. Join us in this episode of the Coaches Commonplace Book where we dive into the information that we have been consuming recently, what things we have been learning from that information, emotional fitness, emotional resiliency, and a bit about making money and influencing others as a coach. “There’s what you achieve and then there’s being happy. Don’t blend those two together.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: An update on Dean and Brilliant’s information DietSpending time and learning from Marshall GoldsmithWisdom of the PagesBrilliants magazine article “Damn Good Advice for Fathers”Dean’s magazine article “Six Ways to Spend a Mental Health Day”How to be a coachResources Mentioned: BridgepointCSG.comgoodliving.comConnect With The Guest: Dean Miles LinkedinBrilliant@goodliving.comSubscribe and sign up for more! Thank you for listening to this week’s episode of the School For Good Living Podcast, I hope you found it as insightful as I did! If you enjoyed this episode, then be sure to head over to goodliving.com and sign up for our email list to receive special reminders and exclusive content sent right to your inbox. Explore our website to learn more about the many services I offer, like my Transformation Coaching Program, Coach Training Program, and my catalog of quotations to help you live a good life!The post 186. Coaches Commonplace Book – #4 first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.
• 185. Tamar Haspel – To Boldly Grow: Finding Joy, Adventure, and Dinner in Your Own Backyard 08.08.2022 1ч 28мин

  Tamar Haspel coined the term first-hand food. Food that you grow, you cultivate, you forage for, you fish for, or you hunt for so that you get yourself. Tamar writes the James Beard Award-winning Washington Post column “Unearthed,” which covers the intersection of food and science, exploring how what we eat affects us and our planet. She’s also written for Discovery, Slate, Fortune Eater, Edible, Cape Cod, and other magazines and publications. For this week’s interview on the School for Good Living Podcast, Tamar joins me to talk about her book “To Boldly Grow: Finding Joy, Adventure, and Dinner in Your Own Backyard.” Join us as we discuss the structure of gardening, chickens, fishing, foraging, turkeys hunting, and many others, including the ethics of eating animals. We get into first-hand food, what it is, why it matters, and why it could matter to you. Relationships are another recurring theme in this interview and I think Tamar’s take on what it takes to create and sustain a lasting and fulfilling relationship is pretty cool, and I hope you like it too. “You do your best and hope for the best, that’s all you can do.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: What is firsthand food and how it differs from our typical dietsWhat is non-overlapping magisterial and how accepting it can benefit relationshipsHow to determine what plants are edibleThe ethics of raising, hunting, and eating animalsTips for staying open-mindedResources Mentioned: Tamar HaspelTo Boldly Grow: Finding Joy, Adventure, and Dinner in Your Own Backyardgoodliving.comConnect With The Guest: Tamar HaspelSubscribe and sign up for more! Thank you for listening to this week’s episode of the School For Good Living Podcast, I hope you found it as insightful as I did! If you enjoyed this episode, then be sure to head over to goodliving.com and sign up for our email list to receive special reminders and exclusive content sent right to your inbox. Explore our website to learn more about the many services I offer, like my Transformation Coaching Program, Coach Training Program, and my catalog of quotations to help you live a good life!The post 185. Tamar Haspel – To Boldly Grow: Finding Joy, Adventure, and Dinner in Your Own Backyard first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.
• 184. Leah Weiss – How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace the Daily Grind 02.08.2022 1ч 32мин

  Leah Weiss, Ph.D. is an author and a speaker who helps leaders be better humans. Leah has taught and spoken in more than 100 organizations worldwide, including Goldman Sachs, Nasser, the European Commission, Google Intuit and more. Her work has been covered by outlets including the New York Times, BBC TEDx, The Financial Times, A Harvard Business Review, and on and on. Leah co-founded Skylyte, a company that specializes in using the latest neuroscience and behavior change to empower high-performing leaders and managers to prevent burnout for themselves and their teams. In this interview, Leah joins me to explore a lot of things that can help you not only be a better leader, but also a better human. We talk a lot about her first book “How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace the Daily Grind.” that was also endorsed by the Dalai Lama. One interesting thing we talk about is purpose, not just as a concept, but how we can incorporate it into our day to day lives. We talk about mindfulness, compassion, and balance. Leah has a particularly interesting perspective of balance that I think you might find useful. If you work in a professional environment, or if you’ve experienced Sunday dread, overwhelm, burnout, mom guilt, inertia, or a struggle for balance, then this interview is for you. “Maybe there are external changes to make, but the first step is to do the internal work.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: Becoming a better leader and a better humanWhat truly matters to us and how we can incorporate it into our livesFinding balance in our increasingly busy livesStaying motivated and productiveMarketing and promoting booksResources Mentioned: LeahWeissPhD.comSkylyte LinkedinSkylyte WebsiteConnect With The Guest: Leah Weiss LinkedinSubscribe and sign up for more! Thank you for listening to this week’s episode of the School For Good Living Podcast, I hope you found it as insightful as I did! If you enjoyed this episode, then be sure to head over to goodliving.com and sign up for our email list to receive special reminders and exclusive content sent right to your inbox. Explore our website to learn more about the many services I offer, like my Transformation Coaching Program, Coach Training Program, and my catalog of quotations to help you live a good life!The post 184. Leah Weiss – How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace the Daily Grind first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.
• 183. Gary Ferguson – The Eight Master Lessons of Nature: What Nature Teaches Us About Living Well in the World 25.07.2022 1ч 31мин

  My guest today is Gary Ferguson. Gary has written 27 books on Science and Nature, including a book called “The Eight Master Lessons of Nature: What Nature Teaches us About Living Well in the World.” Gary’s most recent book is called “Full Ecology: Repairing Our Relationship with the Natural World.” Garry has created an organization called Full Ecology with a cultural psychologist named Mary Clare, who is not only has co-founder and partner, but also his wife. Gary describes full ecology as an idea and an organization dedicated to breaking down the walls between the human psyche and the natural world. Together, he and Mary Clare offer workshops, retreats, keynotes and continuing professional development to help individuals, families and or organizations traverse life’s changes with integrity and vision. In this interview, we discuss how to renew your relationship with nature and how to deepen it. We also talk about things like the many, many hundreds and thousands of miles that Gary has spent in Yellowstone National Park. We discuss what he has learned in that including beauty, community, relationships, grief, and mystery. “It is no wonder that we are starving to rediscover a connection with the natural world.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: What is the objective case and what does it teach us about the world?What Gary has learned in his thousands of miles walked in Yellowstone National Park.What Gary has learned about grief and how it helps him to empathize with others.How things in nature, including humans, react to the forces of trauma.How we can make space for grief in our lives and what that can do for us.What is full ecology and what does it teach us about what’s inside us and between one another.Resources Mentioned: Wildwords.netFullecology.comConnect With The Guest: Gary FergusonSubscribe and sign up for more! Thank you for listening to this week’s episode of the School For Good Living Podcast, I hope you found it as insightful as I did! If you enjoyed this episode, then be sure to head over to goodliving.com and sign up for our email list to receive special reminders and exclusive content sent right to your inbox. Explore our website to learn more about the many services I offer, like my Transformation Coaching Program, Coach Training Program, and my catalog of quotations to help you live a good life!The post 183. Gary Ferguson – The Eight Master Lessons of Nature: What Nature Teaches Us About Living Well in the World first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.
• 182. Coaches Commonplace Book – Episode #3 18.07.2022 1ч 12мин

  182. Coaches Commonplace Book – Episode #3 Dean Miles is a fellow member of the Marshall Goldsmith 100 coaches group. Dean joins me in this special series where we dive into some of our philosophies about coaching and good living. Join us in this episode of the Coaches Commonplace Book where we dive into the information that we have been consuming recently, what things we have been learning from that information, emotional fitness, emotional resiliency, and a bit about making money and influencing others as a coach. “As things grow, they become more complex, but they don’t need to become more complicated.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: How humans are “infovores”What are Brilliant and Dean currently reading?The information diet of a coachWhat Brilliant and Dean would include if they wrote the Men’s Health article “Are You Mentally Fit? 31 Ways to Power up Your Brain”Da Vinci’s work and philosophiesBrilliant’s habits for mental fitnessDean’s habits for mental fitnessEmbrace failure in your life without letting yourself fall too farBecoming space holders for other people and for things we care aboutResources Mentioned Bridgepoint Coachinggoodliving.comConnect With The Hosts: Brilliant MillerDean MilesSubscribe and sign up for more! Thank you for listening to this week’s episode of the School For Good Living Podcast, I hope you found it as insightful as I did! If you enjoyed this episode, then be sure to head over to goodliving.com and sign up for our email list to receive special reminders and exclusive content sent right to your inbox. Explore our website to learn more about the many services I offer, like my Transformation Coaching Program, Coach Training Program, and my catalog of quotations to help you live a good life!The post 182. Coaches Commonplace Book – Episode #3 first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.
• 181. Steven Kotler – The Devil’s Dictionary 11.07.2022 58мин

  Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author and an award-winning journalist. He is the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective, as well as the co-host of a podcast by the same name. He is one of the world’s leading experts on human performance and has appeared in over 100 publications. In addition, he has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes. In his latest book, The Devil’s Dictionary, he writes about what the world could look like in 15 years if we manage to solve some of the biggest problems we face as a species and what adjustments we would see in society. In this interview on the School for Good Living Podcast, Steven shares about his latest book, The Devil’s Dictionary. It’s a near-future thriller about the evolution of empathy in the tradition of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson. In this interview, we talk about empathy and why it’s critical for us as humans to cultivate at this time to expand our sphere of caring and how we can do so. Steven shares personally from his life about his loving-kindness practice, the skepticism he had coming into that, and the benefits he’s found from doing it. We also talk about a conservation technique called mega linkages, how we can connect more nature for very specific reasons. “If we’re going to solve the environmental challenges that we’re up against, we are going to have to start caring for forests and oceans the way that we care about friends and family.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: What is happening with the world and what hope to have for the futureHow “empathy for all” could be the key to solving the big environmental challenges we faceWhat are mega linkages and how they could help us save the natural environment around usWhat is loving-kindness meditation and how it can bless our livesHow we can cultivate empathy and its role in us performing at our peakWhat difficulties writers face when writing both fiction and non-fiction booksResources Mentioned Steven KotlerSteven’s first interview on the School for Good LivingThe Devil’s DictionaryConnect With The Guest: Steven KotlerSubscribe and sign up for more! Thank you for listening to this week’s episode of the School For Good Living Podcast, I hope you found it as insightful as I did! If you enjoyed this episode, then be sure to head over to goodliving.com and sign up for our email list to receive special reminders and exclusive content sent right to your inbox. Explore our website to learn more about the many services I offer, like my Transformation Coaching Program, Coach Training Program, and my catalog of quotations to help you live a good life!The post 181. Steven Kotler – The Devil’s Dictionary first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.
• 180. David McRaney – How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion 05.07.2022 1ч 34мин

  David McRaney is a science journalist fascinated with brains, minds, and culture. David is the creator of the blog, the book, and the podcast called “You Are Not So Smart.” His most recent book is “How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion and Persuasion.” In this book, David writes “You are about to gain a superpower. A step-by-step script of how to change people’s minds on any topic without coercion, by simply asking the right kinds of questions in the right order.” That’s a pretty bold claim, but David has traveled the world to learn from experts in communication and human behavior such as scientists and psychologists. He’s also talked to 911 truther cult members, flat earthers, all kinds of people who believe just about everything to find out why they believe what they believe and when they stop believing it, what caused them to stop believing it and to believe something else instead. It’s not exaggerating to say that it very well could change your life. In this conversation, we explore disagreements, opinions, attitudes, beliefs, and how they’re different. We talk about the fact that humans are ultra-social creatures and how the groups we belong to influence what we believe. We talk about identity and about the potential that each of us has to change the world. I love this book and I’m super grateful to David for being a guest on The School for Good Living. “What if instead of trying to win an argument as to whether or not one of us is seeing this properly and the other is not… we enter into a conversation of why you think we see this differently?” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: Why we disagreeHow our brains lie to us to try and disambiguate new thingsHow we think differently alone versus in a groupHow cognitive empathy can help us to change our mindsHow we can change who we know ourselves to beWhat is a threshold to conformity and what does it say about our natural ways of finding communityResources Mentioned David McRaneyHow Minds ChangeYou Are Not So SmartConnect With The Guest: David McRaneySubscribe and sign up for more! Thank you for listening to this week’s episode of the School For Good Living Podcast, I hope you found it as insightful as I did! If you enjoyed this episode, then be sure to head over to goodliving.com and sign up for our email list to receive special reminders and exclusive content sent right to your inbox. Explore our website to learn more about the many services I offer, like my Transformation Coaching Program, Coach Training Program, and my catalog of quotations to help you live a good life!The post 180. David McRaney – How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.