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What Makes a Good Day?
by Eric Benson
What Makes a Good Day is a podcast for anyone who creates hosted by design professor Eric Benson (of the award-winning Climify podcast). Each episode tackles the ancient question that feels urgently contemporary: what constitutes a life worth living? What Makes a Good Day skips the productivity hacks and morning routine worship. Instead, I ask: are you living by your own values, or reacting to everyone else's expectations? Through conversations with creative practitioners who've figured a few things out, alongside insights from Stoic philosophy and contemporary psychology, we explore how small, intentional choices compound into lives that feel genuinely meaningful and joyous. What Makes a Good Day is your weekly reset—a space to step back from the chaos and honestly assess how to make each day live up to the life you want to live. Join me. Let's figure out what we're actually doing here. New episodes weekly. Brought to you
Episodes
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Heather Goldstone on Doing the Next Right Thing
Heather Goldstone, a scientist turned storyteller, makes it her life’s mission to motivate people to act on climate. She joins host Eric Benson to dig into what actually makes a good day: the kind of curiosity and meaningful work that gives you more spiritual energy than it takes. For Heather…
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Mary Clavieres on Listening to Your Body
Mary Clavieres, a transformation guide specializing in mind-body connection and human design, joins host Eric Benson to explore what it really means to have a good day, and how your body is often the first to know when you're not. For Mary, a good day is built from small moments of alignment: a...
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Veena Harbaugh on Finding Your Life Force
Veena Harbaugh, a sustainability strategist, author, and change-maker, joins host Eric Benson to talk about what a good day actually feels like, and how you know when you're in one. For Veena, it comes down to two things: creativity and connection. Whether she's writing, arranging flowers, or...
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Steven McCarthy on Designing a Good Day
Retire, but don't stop. For Steven McCarthy, professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota and lifelong designer, a good day is less about structure and more about staying curious, being aware, and having discipline. For Steven, a good day starts with sleep you didn't have to set an alarm…
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Shivam Patel on Winning Your Day
Win the morning, win the day. It sounds like a bumper sticker, but for Shivam Patel, a University of Illinois senior studying information science, it's a philosophy backed by Hinduism, the Bhagavad Gita, and a growing obsession with neuroscience. He joins host Eric Benson to walk through what a...
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Elizabeth Azide on Living a Life That Feels Like You
What does it actually mean to have a good day — and can you design one? Host Eric Benson, a graphic design professor and climate advocate, has been wrestling with that question since the pandemic turned every day into Groundhog Day. For his first guest, he turns to Elizabeth Azide, marketer,...
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What Makes a Good Day?
What Makes a Good Day is a podcast for anyone who creates, hosted by design professor Eric Benson (of the award-winning Climify podcast). Each episode tackles the ancient question that feels urgently contemporary: what constitutes a life worth living? What Makes a Good Day skips the productivity...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
What Makes a Good Day is a podcast for anyone who creates hosted by design professor Eric Benson (of the award-winning Climify podcast). Each episode tackles the ancient question that feels urgently contemporary: what constitutes a life worth living?
What Makes a Good Day skips the productivity hacks and morning routine worship. Instead, I ask: are you living by your own values, or reacting to everyone else's expectations? Through conversations with creative practitioners who've figured a few things out, alongside insights from Stoic philosophy and contemporary psychology, we explore how small, intentional choices compound into lives that feel genuinely meaningful and joyous.
What Makes a Good Day is your weekly reset—a space to step back from the chaos and honestly assess how to make each day live up to the life you want to live.
Join me. Let's figure out what we're actually doing here.
New episodes weekly. Brought to you
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Eric Benson
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What Makes a Good Day is a podcast for anyone who creates hosted by design professor Eric Benson (of the award-winning Climify podcast). Each episode tackles the ancient question that feels urgently contemporary: what constitutes a life worth living? What Makes a Good Day skips the productivity...
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