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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!

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 [email protected] 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.

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 [email protected] 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 unique podcast episode with my co-host, Dean Miles, and I explore a new thought activity where we read the headline of a magazine cover and share what things we would include if we were to write the articles ourselves. “Our behavior always follows who we know ourselves to be.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: What is a commonplace book and why this series is named after itBrilliant’s magazine headline – 18 Ways to Overhaul Your Life Starting TodayBrilliant’s ideas for overhauling your lifeDean’s ideas on overhauling your lifeStories of people who have overhauled their livesDean’s magazine headline – The science of inspirational quotesSome of Dean’s favorite aphorisms and proverbs – as well as some of his ownThe uplifting way of making amendsAttitudes that help in overcoming challengesHow quotes can help you have good livingResources Mentioned: Brilliant’s Favorite QuotationsConnect 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 179. Coaches Commonplace Book #2 first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

Britt Frank is the writer of “The Science of Stuck: Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward.” Britt’s upbringing exposed her to a lot of the things she now studies and the things that she helps others to understand about themselves. Her approach to therapy focuses on the physical reality of mental health by targeting the physiological processes that drive our sometimes illogical or unwanted decisions. She uses this knowledge to help others understand their different parts and how to effectively interact with them as an effective method of self-care. In this Interview on the School for Good Living Podcast, Britt joins me to talk about some important things that I believe really have the potential to help you live the life you want to live, be the person you want to be, and make the contribution you want to make. We talked about why mental health is a physical process, all the different aspects of ourselves, and why self-care maybe ought to be called parts care. We talked about why your browser history and transactional history might actually be the greatest entry points into shadow work. We also talk about things related to making your intimate relationships work, making them last, making them a rich and fulfilling why and making amends is so much more satisfying than apologizing. “Mental health is not a mental process—mental health is a physical process.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: How Britt became aware of mental health and what she has done to embrace itUnderstanding the physical realities of mental healthHow “parts-care” can help us understand self-careUnderstanding that our thoughts aren’t crazyTurning your inner monologue into an inner dialogueEmpowering people to figure things out for themselvesCreating a conflicting contractUnderstanding boundariesThe uplifting way of making amendsResources Mentioned: The Science of StuckBritt Frank (Instagram)Connect With The Guest: Britt FrankSubscribe 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 178. Britt Frank – The Science of Stuck: Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

Bernd Heinrich is the author of more than 12 books and 100 scientific papers. His most recent book is “Racing the Clock, Running Across a Lifetime.” Bernd holds many records as a runner. He ran a sub two-minute half mile, at one point he set the American national records for any age in ultramarathon distances of 100 kilometers, 200 kilometers, 100 miles, and the longest distance ran in 24 hours, totaling 156.8 miles. For many years Bernd’s work focused on the comparative physiological of insects, where he studied bumblebee behavior. He studied moths. He studied caterpillars very closely and their ecology and their pollination. He later shifted to studying ravens and other birds. For many years, Bernd has lived in a cabin in the woods of Maine, one that he built himself by hand. He lives without running water, phone service, or refrigerator, and he eats solely with wood and relies on a solar panel to power his laptop and his wifi router. He’s just about to turn 82 years old and he’s still running about four miles a day. In this interview on the School for Good Living Podcast, Bernd joins Brilliant to discuss many things, including having a plan versus enjoying life, love and its role in our lives, and balancing it with accomplishment. Bernd talks about finding our own path and figuring out who we are. Bernd shares about running, aging, and about writing. A theme that kept coming back was this one of just beginning. In running, as they say, the hardest and most important step is always the first one out the door. Everyone can do it and it counts. “The hardest and most important step is always the first one out the door.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: Bernd’s unorthodox upbringingHow Bernd became a runner and what impact running had on his lifeLove and its role in our livesBernd’s scientific breakthroughsHow Bernd responded to his work being stolenOvercoming injury and adversaryHow roadkill can help enhance our life viewResources Mentioned: TheNaturalistsNotebookConnect With The Guest: Bernd HeinrichSubscribe 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 177. Bernd Heinrich – Racing the Clock: Running Across a Lifetime first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

Coaching and writing are two very powerful tools that can be used to help and benefit others. Today my co-host Dean Miles joins me for a candid interview about coaching, writing fulfillment, and our objectives for this new podcast series. Stay tuned for this unique and engaging series where we dive deep into some creative thinking exercises that help us to learn more, understand deeper, and live better. “I truly believe that anyone in this world can benefit from coaching.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: Who are the hosts Brilliant Miller and Dean Miles?How the Coaches Commonplace came to beHow coaching can make a differenceWhat makes quotations so special and what are the caveats of using others’ wordsGaining client trustProductivity toolsWhat it means to find fulfillment and how to do itConnect 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 176. Coaches Commonplace Book #1 first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

Raymond Moody has a Ph.D., he’s also a medical doctor, a world-renowned scholar, lecturer, and researcher. And he’s widely recognized as the leading authority on near-death experiences, as he coined the term. He’s the bestselling author, the bestselling author of many books, including Life After Life, Glimpses of Eternity, The Light Beyond Coming Back, and more. His work profoundly illuminates our understanding of death, dying, and grief, and offers compelling answers to the question Is there an afterlife? Dr. Moody has several books including My Life in Pursuit of the Afterlife and his latest book called God Is Bigger Than the Bible. In this conversation for the School for Good Living, Raymond Joins Brilliant to discuss philosophy and nonsense. Raymond shares commonly reported experiences of those who have died and returned to life. Dr. Moody is a skeptic, as he says. He draws no particular conclusion, although he does have his own experiences, including his own near-death experience. If you are a seeker, if you’re curious, if you want to understand the universe or life more fully, you might enjoy this conversation. “Philosophy is a rehearsal for dying.” – Plato This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: Why death is the key component of philosophyWhy the chicken really crossed the roadHow near-death experiences came to light with the development of resuscitationCommonalities in reported near-death experiencesWhat we can learn from death without dyingResources Mentioned: LifeAfterLife.comConnect With The Guest: Raymond MoodySubscribe 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 175. Raymond Moody – Life After Life: The Original Investigation Revealing Near Death Experiences first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

David J Helfand is the chairman of the American Institute of Physics, past President of the American Astronomical Society, and has been a faculty member at Columbia University for 45 years. He’s authored nearly 200 scientific publications and mentored 22 Ph.D. students. But most of his teaching has involved teaching science to non-science majors. David instituted the first change in Columbia’s core curriculum in 50 years by introducing science to all first-year students. David’s book is A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age: Scientific Habits of Mind. In this interview on the School for Good Living podcast, David joins Brilliant to discuss how living a bit more skeptically with scientific habits of mind can help you improve the quality of your thinking, your life, and even the world. With all the information that we’re producing every single day, it’s hard to know what to pay attention to, what to make it mean, and what to do as a result. Our challenge today is not the scarcity of information, but the overabundance of it. But David helps navigate a course that hopefully will result in our survival and our thriving for not only us as humans but all of life. “Throughout human history, information has been limited, difficult to access, and expensive.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: Why accurate information has devolved over timeWhat is the difference between truth, meaning, and understandingHow to approach verifying and qualifying factsWhy astronomy can be considered a good use of taxpayer moneyWhat are dark matter and dark energy and why are they so hard to defineHow to be skeptical without being negativeResources Mentioned: David J HelfandOxford Comma Lawsuitgoodliving.comConnect With The Guest: David J HelfandSubscribe 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 174. David J Helfand – A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age: Scientific Habits of Mind first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

Kim Scott is the author of several very impactful books, some of which you may have heard of, such as “Radical Candor,” that give some very useful perspectives on how to give feedback, and how to receive feedback. Her latest book is called “Just Work: How to Root Out Bias, Prejudice, and Bullying to Build a Kickass Culture of Inclusivity.” Kim was a CEO coach at Dropbox, Qualtrics, Twitter, and other tech companies. She was a member of the faculty at Apple University and before that led teams at Google, including AdSense. She also managed a pediatric clinic in Kosovo and started a diamond-cutting factory in Moscow. Kim is especially admirable because she’s not just writing from theory, but from deep experience. In this interview on the School for Good Living Podcast, Kim joins Brilliant to discuss some of the different roles that we play as we go through life and in the workplace. She talks about the workplace, what to do when we are a person being harmed, or when we are the person who causes harm, when we’re in a leadership position, when we are someone who just observes this, and what our responsibility is or might be and how to effectively handle situations. Throughout the interview, Kim shares how effectively handling potentially difficult situations can be a key to good living. “Bias is a pattern – and we as humans are pattern makers; but we’re also pattern changers, and we can change those patterns.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: How to celebrate failures and successesWhat you can gain from weeding out the bias in the words you chooseHow to stand up to bias, prejudice, and bullying in the workplaceDesigning management systems around fairness and safetyUsing writing to rejuvenateMaking a difference through editingResources Mentioned: Kim ScottJust Work: How to Root Out Bias, Prejudice, and Bullying to Build a Kick-Ass Culture of InclusivityRadical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing your HumanityConnect With The Guest: Kim ScottSubscribe 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 173. Kim Scott – Just Work: How to Root Out Bias, Prejudice, and Bullying to Build a Kick-Ass Culture of Inclusivity first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

John Philip Newell is a Celtic teacher and author of spirituality, who calls the modern world to reawaken to the sacredness of the Earth and every human being. John Philip’s most recent book is called “Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World.” John Philip began the School of Earth and Soul, which was originally called the School of Celtic Consciousness. Reading John Philip’s book and talking to him today has inspired me in so many ways. John Philip’s writing and his teaching offers the possibility of leaving others living and being and relating in new ways that are healthy, that are sustainable, and that are fulfilling. It’s a big promise, and it’s not a simple algorithm, but there is inspiration. In this interview on the School for Good Living podcast, John joins Brilliant to discuss Celtic spirituality and the divinity that can be found in all things. John provides lots of insight on understanding the sacredness of the Earth and the people around us. Throughout this discussion, John also provides a lot of insight on how this knowledge can be a key to good living and how these perspectives open us to new possibilities of healing and overcoming the difficulties this world has to offer. “The crises that we are in the midst of today stem from the fact that we treat the Earth and one another as less than sacred.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: Who the Celts areHow to make prayer a way of livingWhat is “Anam Cara” (a soul friend)Panentheism – there is divinity in all thingsHow divinity flows and how we can set it freeWriting with your audience in mindResources Mentioned: John Philip NewellSacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the WorldConnect With The Guest: John Philip NewellSubscribe 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 172. John Philip Newell – Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening to What our Souls Know and Healing the World first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

Phil Jones is the author of seven Best-Selling Business Books, and he is the creator of the Exactly series, including “Exactly What to Say: The Magic Words for Influence and Impact.” Phil is an entrepreneurial success story who has founded five multi-million-dollar companies. Phil is a dual citizen of the United States and England, which comes with a lot of great perspectives. Phil is one of less than 200 living members of the National Speakers Association Hall of Fame and the youngest winner of the British Excellence of Sales and Marketing Award. In this interview on the School for Good Living podcast, Phil joins Brilliant to discuss becoming a decision catalyst — someone who can effectively change “maybe” to “yes” by using effectively choosing their words. Phil has a variety of “magic words” with a certain purpose that can have an incredible impact. Along with sharing some of his magic words and their meaning, he also explains how they can help people make up their minds. He also shares several ways to serve others through your work and through your writing. Phil is passionate about words, and he shares a lot of ways choosing the right ones can be a key to good living. “Change your words, change your world.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: Using magic words to help people make up their mindAsking questions with empathy and curiosityBeing a decision catalystUnderstanding how the enemy of “yes” isn’t “no”, it’s “maybeOvercoming rejection and setbacksWriting with a purposeResources Mentioned: Phil M JonesExactly What to Say: The Magic Words for Influence and ImpactTiny Habits: Small Changes Change Everything with BJ FoggConnect With The Guest: Phil M JonesSubscribe 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 171. Phil M Jones – Exactly What to Say: The Magic Words for Influence and Impact first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

Ron Lieber is the author of the “Your Money” column for The New York Times and the author or co-author of five books. His most recent book is called “The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Roadmap for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make.” He’s also written for Fast Company for The Wall Street Journal and for Fortune Magazine. Ron is a three-time winner of the Gerald Loeb Award, which is the most prestigious award in business journalism. Part of that is because his writing is not only enjoyable to read, but it’s also practical. In this interview on the School For Good Living Podcast, Ron joins Brilliant Miller to discuss his book “The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money,” which if you are raising kids, you probably hope they’ll turn out that way, not spoiled. This interview includes a lot about money and parenting, including allowance, whether we should pay it, what its relationship to chores should be, how to approach it, and even what should be off-limits for kids, if anything, when it comes to how they spend their own money. Ron also shares his thoughts on how much the tooth fairy should pay for a tooth, which he answers in a very interesting way, and how to answer kids’ questions about money. Throughout Ron’s book, and in this interview, he shares many ways to approach talking about and using money to use it as a key for good living. “Spoiled is a passive verb. Kids aren’t born that way, they are made. So I think that would be a pretty bad sin to commit unto them.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: Finding happiness in serving othersRaising kids who aren’t spoiledWriting for others – “Service Journalism”Coming up with writing ideasMaking money a key to good living without relying on it for happinessResources Mentioned: The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About MoneyThe Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever MakeConnect With The Guest: Ron LieberSubscribe 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 170. Ron Lieber – Priceless Advice on Parenting, Money, and College Admissions first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

David Henkin is a life-long historian specializing in uncovering the ancestral events that are the roots to many of the social norms of today. He has published many of his findings in books that are available nationwide. I invited David onto the show today because I read his latest book “The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are” and found it incredibly insightful. In the book David explains the events that led to the phenomenon of the entire world unanimously adopting the structure of the seven-day week, and the many revisions that structure has gone through over the years that made it what it is today. In this interview I am joined by David to talk about his book, the origins of the modern week, and the implications of his claims for the average person. We dig into the likelihood that the week may face another revision in our lifetimes, as well as the chance that the week could become obsolete all together. Our discussion also explores the way that the modern week has become engrained in society, religious practice, and our identities. “You can call it different names. You can disagree about where it starts. You can disagree about what it means, but no one disagrees with the structure of the week!” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: The origin of the modern week.How the seven-day week has influenced modern society.Our dependency on structure.The likelihood of the week experiencing another major change.How the week could be better.Resources Mentioned: The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Aregoodliving.comConnect With The Guest: David HenkinSubscribe 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 169. David Henkin – The Week: A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

168. Suzanne McConnell – Pity The Reader: On Writing With Style               Suzanne McConnell is the author of “Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style”. Suzanne was a student and a friend of Kurt Vonnegut’s, and she was asked to write this book by Kurt’s Trust. Kurt is the author of Slaughterhouse-five and several other works of primary fiction, but also nonfiction. He shares many stories from his life in ways that were sometimes humorous, sometimes touching, but almost always entertaining. In this book, Suzanne includes Kurt Vonnegut’s instructions and advice about writing, work and family balance, and sharing our talents. In this interview for the School for Good Living Podcast, Suzanne joins Brilliant Miller to discuss what Suzanne learned from Kurt Vonnegut and how to earn a living as a creative, those financial considerations as a writer, love, finding a community, or building one. Suzanne talks about how Kurt dealt with depression as so many creatives do, and how he thought about love and sharing our talents. Throughout the interview, Suzanne and Brilliant uncover many of the Keys to Good Living that can be learned from Kurt Vonnegut, his life, his family life, and especially his writing. “The most meaningful aspect of our styles, which is what we choose to write about, is utterly unlimited” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: Who is Kurt Vonnegut and what is his work about?Meeting Kurt Vonnegut and Suzanne’s relationship with him.Why Suzanne wrote “Pity the Reader”How to write with style.Sharing our talents.Balancing work and family.Finding a community and building one.Resources Mentioned: Suzanne McConnellPity The Reader: On Writing With StyleSuzanne’s Lecture at the American Academy in BerlinHow to Write With Style – Kurt VonnegutThe Artist’s Way – Julia CameronConnect With The Guest: Suzanne McConnellSubscribe 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 168. Suzanne McConnell – Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

Adam Stern, M.D is the author of “Committed: Dispatches From a Psychiatrist in Training.” It’s a memoir Adam wrote about his time learning to become a psychiatrist, which involved overcoming imposter syndrome and learning the value of human connection. Adam is well studied in psychology, medicine, psychiatry, clinical neurosciences, all kinds of smart, academic scientific stuff. But he’s a very approachable human being. He’s currently an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard, and he has won several awards for psychiatry, for writing, and excellence in medical education, and he’s also published more than two dozen scholarly publications. In this interview for the School for Good Living Podcast, Adam joins Brilliant Miller to discuss overcoming doubts, the difference between being empathic and being empathetic, how those things differ, and how we can become more empathic. Adam shares his thoughts about individuality, knowing what we want, breaking through to the next level for us, and helping others do the same thing. Adam shares a bit about his creative process and what he feels it means to be a writer and follow your passion, doing what you love for yourself, and the serendipity that often happens in the process. “Whatever it is that you want to do, take the chance and do it.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: What lead Adam to the world of medicine and PsychiatryOvercoming Doubts and Imposter SyndromeEmpathic versus Empathetic and becoming more EmpathicPracticing Gratitude: The antidote to a lot of negative feelingsActively participating in your own life.The power of questionsThe power of silence and accepting itResources Mentioned: AdamSternMD.comCommitted: Dispatches from a Psychiatrist in TrainingConnect With The Guest: Adam SternSubscribe 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 167. Adam Stern – Committed: Dispatches From a Psychiatrist in Training first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

Matt Alt is a Tokyo-based translator, writer, and speaker. He has written for or writes for The New Yorker, CNN, Wired, Slate, The Japan Times, Newsweek Japan, Vice, and more. Matt’s curiosity and love for Japanese culture and inventions have led him to find the creators of what he calls “Fantasy Delivery Devices”; gadgets that changed our lives, things like the karaoke machine, the Walkman, the Nintendo entertainment system, the Gameboy characters like Hello Kitty and the Pokémon. He’s also tracked the roots of strange new forms of digital expression like the Tamagotchi, Emoji, anonymous imageboards, and he discovered how a wild bunch of Japanese creatives has shaped modern life, forging new tools for navigating the weirdness of late-stage capitalist societies. For nearly the last two decades, Matt has worked successfully alongside his wife for a company they started called Alt Japan. In this interview for the School for Good Living Podcast, Matt joins Brilliant Miller to discuss his latest book called “Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World”.  Japanese culture and inventions are what Matt is passionate about and he’s good at sharing them with the world. In this interview, Matt shares how his 24 years in Japan have helped him understand how language shapes our thoughts and how we see and experience the world. He discusses his take on Japanese spirituality, and how deep-down humans really are the same in some fundamental ways. This interview helps us to grasp how, for Matt, Japanese pop culture has been a key to good living. “Japanese pop culture and the ways that it is made and consumed, both in Japan and abroad is more than my hobby or my reporting, but it is my lifeblood.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: Alt Japan – The company Matt created and operates with his wifeHow Matt became curious and passionate about JapanJapanese culture and it’s influenced on the worldJapanese spiritualityWhat we can learn from translation and interpretationKeys to Good Living found in Japanese cultureResources Mentioned: Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern WorldAlt JapanConnect With The Guest: Matt AltSubscribe 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 166. Matt Alt – Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

Scott O’Neil is not only a successful person, but also very good at articulating the principles that he has used to achieve his success. Professionally, he’s a best-selling author, an award-winning sports business executive and leader. He’s the former CEO of Harris-Blitzer Sports and Entertainment, a 25-year tenured NBA, NFL, and NHL senior executive and a Harvard Business School alum. He was a straight-A student, president of the student body, captain of three sports teams, and even president of the local National Honor Society, so he has been on a path of success for a very, very long time. In this interview for the School for Good Living Podcast, Scott joins Brilliant Miller to talk about his book called “Be Where Your Feet Are: Seven Principles to Keep You Present, Grounded, and Thriving”. These are not necessarily the conversations that executives in corporate America are having, but Scott is. And for that reason, he very interesting. In this conversation, they cover many things related to not only achieving success but also living well. Scott is a great storyteller. As a heads up, there’s one challenge related to gratitude that Scott issues you in this interview that Scott has found to help him live a good life. This interview lays the groundwork for how we can live mindfully, have meaningful connections with others, and balance our time in order to help us have good living. “Phone down, head up. Be where your feet are.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: Using sports to drive positive changeMaking gratitude a constant in our lives ***BONUS INVITATION***Phone down, head up – creating meaningful time and being more presentLiving mindfullyBalancing timeWhat it took to get the book published“Be where your feet are”; an essential key to good living.Resources Mentioned: Be Where Your Feet Aregoodliving.comConnect With The Guest: Scott O’NeilSubscribe 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 165. Scott O’Neil – Be Where Your Feet Are: Seven Principles to Keep You Present, Grounded, and Thriving first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

Pamela Seelig is the author of “Threads of Yoga: Themes, Reflections, and Meditations to Weave into Your Practice.” It’s a guide for students and teachers inspired by the yoga sutras. Pam is someone who began her yoga journey more than twenty-five years ago when an illness interrupted her Wall Street career. She began meditating as a complementary therapy with startling results. Along with speeding up her recovery, the impact of her meditation led to a lifelong pursuit of perceiving and sharing yoga wisdom. Pam eventually trained at Integral Yoga Institute in New York and began teaching to friends at a local convent in New Jersey until 2009 when she opened her own studio called Lotus Mind and Body. After a rewarding nine years, she sold the studio to focus on writing this book. In this interview for the School for Good Living Podcast, Pam joins Brilliant Miller to talk about a lot of things related to living well, yogic philosophy, and energy. We talk about the witness, cultivating a deeper relationship with the observer, quieting the mind, meditation, prana, kundalini, and the chakras. Pam also explains a bit about her writing, creative process, and how she got the book written and published. Pam explains how she has lived a better life by incorporating things both in her book and in this interview and how they can be keys to our own good living. “That’s what yoga is really about… living a more full life.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: Pam’s Journey from a successful career on Wall Street to yogic philosophyHow Pam and many others have used yoga as a key to good livingThe “witness” and other yogic philosophies uncovered in the bookHow we can regain the energy we spend on holding onto negative feelingsThe power and purpose of breathHow and why Pam decided to publish with ShambhalaCultivating a relationship with PranaThe Yamas and Niyamas: Guides for good livingResources Mentioned: PamelaSeelig.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 164. Pamela Seelig – Threads of Yoga: Themes, Reflections, and Meditations to Weave Into Your Practice first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

163. Dawson Church – Bliss Brain: The Neuroscience of Remodeling Your Brain for Resilience, Creativity, and Joy Dr. Dawson Church is the author of “Bliss Brain: The Neuroscience of Remodeling Your Brain for Resilience, Creativity, and Joy”. Dawson decided to shift from his successful publishing career because of the great impact that meditation had on his ability to be happy despite some of the catastrophic events he has lived through. Dawson’s many scientific clinical trials have also helped him find many astonishing results in the techniques he uses. Dawson’s work comes from a place of first healing trauma, and then beyond that, achieving elevated states of consciousness, which, of course, is why he’s named his book Bliss Brain. He’s founded the National Institute for Integrative Health Care to promote groundbreaking new treatments. And he’s also founded something called the Veterans Stress Project, which has offered free treatment to over twenty thousand veterans with PTSD over the last 10 years. In this interview for the School for Good Living Podcast, Dawson joins Brilliant Miller to talk about what’s going on inside our brains and our bodies when we meditate, helping to demystify, make it comprehensible and actionable, and explain some of the benefits of meditation, taking it out of the realm of mysticism and making it very relatable, understandable, and doable. In this interview, Dawson explains and shares many of the ways that he has been able to enhance his own meditation and ultimately how it has become one of his greatest keys to good living. “By healing yourself, you heal the world.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: Healing Trauma: The initial step to reaching elevated statesCreating oneness with the nonlocal mindHow Dawson was happy and prosperous despite losing his home, business, and life savings.Understanding problems and remaining happy anywayDiminishing our negative thinkingResources Mentioned: BlissBrain.comDawsonChurch.comTappinggift.comEFTuniverse.comgoodliving.comConnect With the Guest: Dawson ChurchSubscribe 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 163. Dawson Church – Bliss Brain: The Neuroscience of Remodeling Your Brain for Resilience, Creativity, and Joy first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

What does it mean to live a good life? Over the past few years, I have tried to answer that question by interviewing nearly 200 guests from all walks of life. Each week I invite an author with a unique perspective to share their thoughts on what it means to live a good life. Each guest shares a bit about themselves, the work they do and have done, and most importantly, their Keys to Good Living. These keys not only help us to live better lives, but also to understand ourselves better, to know what we really want, and to become the people we want to be. Despite the great differences in each guest, they are all highly intelligent people who have found what it means personally for them to live a good life and they openly share how we can do the same. This week on the School For Good Living podcast, we get an inside look at Brilliant Miller, the work he does, why he does it, and the benefits that it could have on your life. If you want to be, do, have, and give more then this podcast is for you. Video podcast interviews are released weekly on YouTube and audio recordings can be found on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, and Spotify. Subscribe for weekly tips, tricks, and ideas that could help you to unlock your potential and give you some insight on how you can achieve it. This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: What is life about?A Showcase of a few of my guestsWhy do I do what I do?How could it help you discover what you want and how to reach it?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 162. Keys to Good Living first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

What does it mean to live a good life? Over the past few years I have tried to answer that question by interviewing nearly 200 guests from all walks of life. Each week I invite an author with a unique perspective to talk about the subject of their book and share their thoughts on what it means to live a good life, as well as their tips for getting books written and published! I also run each guest through my Enlightening Lightning Round, a series of 9 quick questions regarding all aspects of life, from travel and finances, to health and relationships. This video is designed to celebrate the diversity of my guests, as well as to showcase the new video format of my interviews. I hope that this short video will help to introduce you to my mission here at the School for Good Living, and get you excited for my upcoming episodes! Be sure to subscribe as well so you can be the first to know when my new episodes launch!The post 161. 2021 Podcast Highlights first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

Dr. Dennis Rebelo is the author of a book called “Story Like You Mean It: How to Build and Use Your Personal Narrative to Illustrate Who You Really Are”. Dr. D is a professor, speaker, a career coach. He’s the creator of the peak storytelling model, a research-based method for crafting the narrative of who you are, what drives you, and why. His method has been used by not only former professional athletes, guidance professionals, and advisors, but also nonprofit leaders, as well as entrepreneurs and CEOs around the world. This book and this approach provide structure to really identifying what are those key moments of your life that you can share when you meet others, whether it’s for an interview, making a first impression, or simply running into somebody you haven’t seen in a long time. We often have the chance to answer the question, “Tell me about yourself”, which can be one of the simplest yet most difficult questions to answer. In this interview, Dennis joins Brilliant to discuss why that’s so hard, how to do it well, and why it really matters. Dennis has made the connection between understanding our personal identity with our ability to tell our own story accurately and mindfully. Through this interview, we learn not only how to tell our own stories but also how it is essential to good living. “Put the work in and your story works out.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: How understanding your story is an essential Key to Good LivingAnswering the age old question “Tell me about yourself”Why is it so hard to tell our own life storiesOur hero side, our collaborating side, and our virtuous sideIdentity and telling your storyHow to make sure your writing is conveying your storyDeciding what message to give to the worldResources Mentioned: DrDennisRebelo.comgoodliving.comConnect With The Guest: Dennis RebeloSubscribe 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 160. Dennis Rebelo – Story Like You Mean It: How to Build and Use Your Personal Narrative to Illustrate Who You Really Are first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

I’ve traveled many places around this globe and talked to many people, some of whom have very interesting views. Today’s guest is one of those people. Rachel Harris has written a book called “Listening to Ayahuasca: New Hope for Depression, Addiction and Anxiety”. Over her thirty-five years of experience as a psychologist and 10 years of scientific research, she’s received multiple awards from the National Institutes of Health and published more than 40 scientific studies in peer reviewed journals. Rachel joins Brilliant to talk about her book and about ayahuasca, the benefits that it might have for humanity and what the potential risks are. As a disclaimer for this interview, this substance is currently illegal in the United States. While this subject may not appeal to everyone, there is a lot to be learned from Rachel and her perspective on how this substance has helped her and others on their quest to good living. “You know, this is outside the Western world view and it’s very threatening.” This week on the School For Good Living Podcast: What Ayahuasca is, where it comes from, and how for some people it is a Key to Good LivingRachel’s background in Psychology and ResearchRachel’s expansion from psychological work to both psychological and spiritual workThe potential benefits of AyahuascaWhy Ayahuasca is currently illegal in the United States, what the potential associated risks of using it are, and whether it has addictive qualitiesRachel’s journey to becoming a writer and publishing her bookResources Mentioned: Listening to Ayahuaska: New Hope for Depression, Addiction, PTSD, and AnxietyListeningtoAyahuaska.comgoodliving.comConnect With The Guest: Rachel HarrisSubscribe 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 159. Rachel Harris – Listening to Ayahuasca: New Hope for Depression, Addiction, PTSD, and Anxiety first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

Adii Pienaar is someone who uses his strengths, gifts, and talents in a variety of ways to solve real problems for others. He has been able to implement self-expression into his career of building successful companies. He’s a family man, a seeker, and a learner. He’s also a founder of Cogsy, Conversio, and WooCommerce; which shows he knows a thing or two about building and growing a successful business from the ground up. One of the things that sets Adii apart is his ability to balance creating these successful businesses with the things he values most in life. In addition to his success in the business and tech worlds, he is also a writer. His latest book is called “Life Profitability: The New Measure of Entrepreneurial Success”. He’s also written a book called “Rockstar Business”, another called “Branding”, and even a book of poetry. He’s been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Startups.com. He’s a native of South Africa, where he lives in Cape Town with his wife Jeanne and their two children. You can learn more about him and the work he does at Adii.me. “Like the age-old question, what is the meaning of life? We should answer that question. And I don’t think you find those answers exclusively by building a business.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: Being the best versions of ourselvesUsing labels positively to define our focusFinding the true meaning of the work we doPrivilege and how we should approach itBeing successful as an entrepreneur – both in business and in lifeHow to create a community for building a business or a followingResources Mentioned: Life Profitability: The New Measure of Entrepreneurial Successgoodliving.comConnect With The Guest: Adii PienaarSubscribe 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 158. Adii Pienaar – Life Profitability: The New Measure of Entrepreneurial Success first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

Sadhguru is a yogi, a mystic, and an author of many books. His most recent book, as mentioned in this interview, is A Yogi’s Guide to Creating Your Destiny. He is no stranger to public speaking, having been an invited guest to the United Nations, Harvard, MIT, World Economic Forum, and so many more. In his work, Sadhguru has devoted himself to the betterment of mankind and this planet as both a humanitarian and environmentalist. For today’s short interview, we focus in on Sadhguru’s new Green Earth Initiative; a group focused on informing the world of the facts regarding environmental decline, and it’s hopeful reversal. We discuss the importance of this planet, it’s fragile ecology, and the surprising cause of it’s decline. We also talk about the importance of soil, and how it is the root of all life. Lastly, we discuss his tips to writing a book and where to look for inspiration. “Everything that’s happening to you…is entirely your making because human experience comes from within” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: The purpose of life here on this planetThe human experienceAction over inspirationThe degradation of our soilThe next stepsResources Mentioned: Karma: A Yogi’s Guide to Crafting Your Destinygoodliving.comConnect With the Guest: SadhguruSubscribe 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 157. Sadhguru – Karma: A Yogi’s Guide to Creating Your Destiny first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

Neal Allen describes himself as pink, fluffy, love. He’s written a book called Shapes of Truth: Discover God Inside You, which is an interesting book to write for someone who declared himself an atheist at the age of 14. In this conversation and in the book, he lays out some interesting ideas about how we can really get in touch with what’s truly inside us and what’s not. Neal worked for many years as a journalist, and he entered the corporate world where he worked as an executive. Ultimately, he left that to explore a life of coaching and service. A lot of his work has involved looking at the identities we live, how we can dissolve those, and how we can create new and more empowering ones. In this interview, Neal describes two of the most shaping periods in his life – the “stop believing my story” period and the “burning down the house” period. We get a taste of his transformation process as he takes Brilliant through one that he describes in his book, where we can go deep into an aspect inside ourselves. Neal also takes Brilliant through the enlightening lightning round with him. So not only will you hear his answers in this interview, but Brilliant’s as well. This captivating interview provides techniques to discover ourselves and make the best of who we are. “When you give yourself the right to look at something like deficient emptiness… it feels like it has actually been seen through… it waves goodbye and disappears.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: Bridging the gap from atheismBob and the work he did with Neal – The “Stop believing my story” period of lifeDissolving self identities – The “Burning down the house” period of lifeBrilliant “discovering God” inside himselfThe “I don’t know” approachBrilliant joins Neal for the enlightening lightning roundResources Mentioned: Shapes of Truth: Discover God Inside YouShapesoftruth.comgoodliving.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!The post 156. Neal Allen – Shapes of Truth: Discover God Inside You first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

Steven C. Hayes is an amazing thinker. He has written nearly 50 books, and hundreds of articles. He is an originator of ACT therapy and RFT (Relational Frame Therapy). Google scholar data ranks him among the top fifteen hundred most cited scholars in all areas of study, living and dead. His career has focused on human nature, language, cognition, and the application of this to an understanding and alleviation of human suffering. His latest book, and topic of our interview, is called “A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters”. In this episode, Steven C. Hayes talks about psychological flexibility, what it is, how we can cultivate it, why it matters, and how it can change our lives. We talk about something in this interview called “The Dictator within”; how to give distance to and how to get distance from it, to not let it run our lives or ruin our lives. We talk about awareness and attention. We talk about the idea of evolving on purpose, and so much more. Finally, we get into a little bit about writing and how Steven has written over a million words. We also talk about how Steven’s large volume of content has quite literally changed our world. “Love isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.” This week on the School for Good Living Podcast: The dictator withinEvolution and being ‘average’Diffusion from our own mindPsychological flexibility, emotional openness, and mindfulnessAuthoritarian DistancingResources Mentioned: A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What MattersStevenCHayes.comSteven’s first TED talkRandomized trialsContextual sciencegoodliving.comConnect With The Guest: Steven C HayesSubscribe 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 155. Steven C. Hayes – A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

Todd Rose is an extraordinary man. Convinced we has a bad student, he performed poorly in school and even dropped out of college. Little did he know he would later gain a PHD and become a professor at Harvard University. Todd has since been fascinated with the idea of motivation, and has founded the nonprofit Populace to help transform how we learn, work, and live to help us live more fulfilling lives. Todd joins us today to discuss the relationship between motivation, and the pursuit of happiness. We talk about the phenomenon of the Dark Horse, a person who finds fulfillment in going against the system. We also discuss the definition of fulfillment, as well as the power and productivity that comes when we prioritize fulfillment over other daily motivations. Lastly, we talk about the writing process and how Todd has written his books. “There is nothing to be had for you achieving on someone else’s view of a good life.” This week on the School For Good Living Podcast: Motivations, what are they?Dark Horses and what drives themHow to understand your micro motivationsThe key to finding fulfillmentSociety is positive-sumIgnoring society’s definition of a good lifeResources Mentioned: Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through The Pursuit Of Fulfillmentgoodliving.comConnect With The Guest: Todd RoseSubscribe 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 154. Todd Rose – Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through The Pursuit of Fulfillment first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

David McRaney has worked as an editor, a photographer, a voiceover artist, a television host, a public speaker, a TV producer, and a journalist. David, being a deeply intelligent and thoughtful man, has focused his work on revealing the self-delusions and cognitive biases by which we live our lives. He has written a book called You Are Not So Smart and also runs a blog and podcast by the same name to help provide the world with his findings. David joins me today to discuss this phenomenon of self-delusion, and how each of us sees the world differently. We talk about how our experiences can change the way we view the world, and his deep desire to better understand and know himself. We also touch on how we managed to write his last book while his house was hit by a tornado, and other challenges he faced while writing his books. “You will find a place in your life where you can extract value from the chaos.” This week on the School For Good Living Podcast: Our understanding of the world is always changingWriting through a tornadoThe powerful influence of PTSDHow a mindset can help you lose weightThe wrong way to influence peopleAlways challenge your assumptionsResources Mentioned: You Are Not So Smartgoodliving.comConnect 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 153. David McRaney – You Are Not So Smart first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

Dr. Aaron Berkowitz is a leading voice in neurology, global health and medical education. He’s also concerned and involved with issues of social justice. Aaron has written a book called One by One by One: Making a Small Difference Amid a Billion Problems, to inspire others to see the world differently and get involved in making a positive change. Aaron joins me today to discuss the immense comforts we take for granted in this country, and in particular, modern medicine. We discuss his trips to Haiti and the immense poverty he witnessed in a place that was only a four-hour flight from his home in Boston. Lastly, we touch on his writing process and his message to us all about how we can help change the world. “There are no failures, only failures of imagination.” This week on the School For Good Living Podcast: The value of not knowingAn unstructured path into a very structured careerHaiti and its rich historyVoluntourism: does it actually help?How to become a powerful storytellerResources Mentioned: One by One by One: Making a Small Difference Amid a Billion Problemsgoodliving.comConnect With The Guest: Aaron BerkowitzSubscribe 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 152. Aaron Berkowitz – One by One by One: Making A Small Difference Amid a Billion Problems first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

Shirley Hager is an advocate and activist for social and racial equality. From a young age she has had an eye for spotting discrepancies in the way we treat each other. Recently, she joined a group of thirteen indigenous and non-indigenous people who banded together to gain a deeper understanding of each other’s lives and culture. This group recently co-authored a book, The Gatherings: Reimagining Indigenous-Settler Relations. Shirley joins me today to discuss her first encounter with racial inequality as an elementary school student, her lifelong pursuit of equality, and how she gained a particular interest in Native American culture. We talk about the early years of this great nation and settle some little-understood facts about how it got it’s start. Finally, we discuss what it was like writing a book as a group and the unique creative process that they used. “We all have the truth, we are just looking for someone to confirm it.” This week on the School For Good Living Podcast: Shirley’s first encounter with racismThe real first acts of racism in AmericaWhy Indian children were being removed from their homesThe only solution to racial inequalityWriting a book as a groupResources Mentioned: The Gatherings: Reimagining Indigenous-Settler RelationsThe Gatherings book official websitegoodliving.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 151. Shirley Hager – The Gatherings: Reimagining Indigenous-Settler Relations first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.

Mike Finkel’s bio reads more like Indiana Jones than a Journalist. He has traveled the world in his work for various magazines including climbing volcanos, delving into caves, meeting with native tribes in Tanzania, ascending the mountains of Afghanistan, hunting for extremely rare mushrooms in Tibet, and even investigating the black market human organ trade. He has written various, nonfiction books across a wide range of topics and has another on the way. Mike joins me this week to discuss his latest book, A Stranger In the Woods, which revolves around a man who spent 27 years in the woods of Maine without ever coming in contact with a single person or even lighting a fire. We talk about Mike’s unique creative process and how he chooses the topics for his books. We also talk about how unique and valuable ever person’s story is. “I believe that everybody has a fascinating story to tell, and nobody, if you ask the right questions, is really boring” This week on the School For Good Living Podcast: The life of a writerStudying the world’s last hermitHow to develop crucial interviewing skillsNo story is boringPursuing what interests youResources Mentioned: A Stranger In the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermitgoodliving.comConnect with Mike: Professional PageSubscribe 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 150: Mike Finkel – Lessons from 27 years Alone in the Woods and other Incredible True Tales first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.