What is a Good Life?
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- Nov 10, 2026
About the podcast
What is a Good Life? is a podcast that invites us to question what we’ve been told makes for a good life, and to pay more attention to what really matters: our relationships, the moments that make us feel more human, and the experiences that connect us to one another. After more than 300 conversations over five years, I’m increasingly convinced that the good life we are sold and how people actually experience it are very wide apart. These conversations offer another way of seeing the world, and an invitation to live a little differently. New episodes every Tuesday.
Episodes 197
The Levers To Pull For A Good Life with Bill Yost | EP 197
What are the levers to pull for a good life? Bill Yost thinks of life as a character select screen: you only get so many stats, you can’t max them all, and every choice has a trade-off.Bill leads talent data …
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What are the levers to pull for a good life? Bill Yost thinks of life as a character select screen: you only get so many stats, you can’t max them all, and every choice has a trade-off.
Bill leads talent data products at Netflix and spent nearly eight years in people analytics at Google. He’s a dad of two, and 38,000+ people follow him on LinkedIn for his deadpan work humour. He also co-hosts Dashboard Confessionals, and runs a small-batch cookie business, Cookies Worth Sharon, with his mom, Sharon. In this conversation, he explains how he uses a data analyst’s mindset to decide where his time goes, he talks about how a thyroid cancer diagnosis at 28 reshaped his priorities, and why he’s now more focused on being a great dad than on climbing the corporate ladder.
If you’ve ever wondered how to find work-life balance and to decide what matters most, this conversation is for you.
In this episode:
- Why Bill noticed life was finite as a kid, long before he had a reason to
- Choosing a frat-house life in DC over a bigger 401(k)
- Riding his career at “mild” on the Taco Bell sauce scale
- The phone call that sent him to bed for a weekend, and how he got through it
- Living with annual scan anxiety, or “Schrödinger’s cancer”
- Why he says yes to every stranger who messages him about thyroid cancer
- How humor became his way of showing he knows his stuff
- Why he wants “great dad” on his tombstone, not a job title
To support the podcast:
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/whatisagoodlife?For more from Bill Yost:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billyost/
Your Post Sucks: https://yourpost.sucks/For more from Mark McCartney:
The Podcast's Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlifeYour Health Is Local with Angela Jenkins | EP 196
Registered dietitian Angela Jenkins spent nearly 30 years inside the conventional medical system. Then her own kidneys began to fail, and she was told, “You look healthy. We’ll just watch it.” Lying on a gravel …
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Registered dietitian Angela Jenkins spent nearly 30 years inside the conventional medical system. Then her own kidneys began to fail, and she was told, “You look healthy. We’ll just watch it.” Lying on a gravel bar on a Missouri river, she decided to figure it out for herself. That moment changed her approach to health, food, and life.
In this conversation, Angela shares what she learned about convenience and cosmetics, and how they shape our health. We talk about honouring your own experience, why hyper-diligent biohacking can keep the body in fight or flight, and the simple practices that help us return to ourselves: deep breathing, time in nature, and hands in the soil. Angela also explains why she believes putting a face to your food has huge benefits, and how building your own food system is a countercultural act. We explore:
- Why we get talked out of our own experience, and how to stop
- Convenience, cosmetics, and the toxic load of modern life
- The cost of living with one foot in a system you no longer believe in
- How hyper-diligence and wearables can work against the body
- Why medicating symptoms can create bigger problems later
- Building your most immediate food environment
- Aging without assuming you’ll feel worse
Angela Jenkins, RD/LD, is a registered dietitian, detoxification strategist, and founder of Health Is Local. With over 30 years of experience in nutrition, she helps people look beyond symptoms to understand the connections between cellular health, environmental exposures, lifestyle, and overall well-being. Her philosophy, All Health Is Local, reflects her belief that healthier people, healthier communities, and healthier environments are deeply interconnected.
To support the podcast:
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/whatisagoodlife?For more from Angela Jenkins:
website: https://healthislocal.comFor more from Mark McCartney:
The Podcast's Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlifeThe Pacifist Who Went to War with Dmytro Dokunov | EP 195
I recently watched a documentary that blew my mind: Where Everything Disappears. It was hard to hold the beauty and the grief it shared at the same time. It follows Dmytro “Dok” Dokunov, a documentary filmmaker …
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I recently watched a documentary that blew my mind: Where Everything Disappears. It was hard to hold the beauty and the grief it shared at the same time. It follows Dmytro “Dok” Dokunov, a documentary filmmaker who was living in a countryside eco-community, practicing yoga, breathwork and meditation, when Russia launched its full-scale invasion. He joined the Ukrainian army, became a commander, and kept recording his experiences.
This is one of the most fascinating conversations I’ve had in this series. We talk about:
- Leaving a community built around nature and connection for the front line
- Using mantras and the Bhagavad Gita in a war zone
- Why he saw going to war as a form of love
- The bonds formed when there are no masks left
- Losing friends, and the weight of commanding others
- Why he still believes in humanity’s future
A really moving conversation about presence, connection and keeping our hearts open, from a remarkable life.
The guest:
Dmytro “Dok” Dokunov is a Ukrainian documentary filmmaker, photographer, digital artist and Armed Forces veteran. For over 20 years, he has explored human stories, the beauty of everyday life, and the relationship between people, nature, and technology. As a co-founder of Pixelated Realities, he has worked on preserving cultural heritage through photography, 3D scanning, and digital art. When Russia's full-scale invasion began, Dmytro became a soldier, continuing to document life through his camera. His personal footage and experiences became the heart of the documentary Where Everything Disappears, directed by Oleksandr Tkachenko. Today, he is developing a nature-based creative and rehabilitation space for veterans and their families in Ukraine.
To support the podcast:
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/whatisagoodlife?For more from Mark McCartney:
The Podcast's Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlifeLiving Fully While You Wait with Matt Hoffar | EP194
What does a good life look like when your health is uncertain? Matt was born with a bone condition and has broken more than 40 bones. He’s had a liver transplant, and he’s now waiting on open heart surgery …
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What does a good life look like when your health is uncertain? Matt was born with a bone condition and has broken more than 40 bones. He’s had a liver transplant, and he’s now waiting on open heart surgery. He’s also one of the most positive, curious people I know, and I wanted to find out how he lives so fully.
Matt has been a basketball coach, an equipment manager for the Vancouver Grizzlies in the NBA, a stockbroker, and a boxing promoter. He still trades and invests, and today he’s a writer and creator in animation, developing a comedy series.
In this conversation, we talk about what living with medical uncertainty has taught him, and why he doesn’t let his health or his job define him. We also cover how saying hello to strangers has shaped his career and friendships, why you should change your mind when the facts change, what he learned from a boxing venture that didn’t add up, and his rule for new opportunities: if you can’t think of a downside, give it a go.
It is a conversation about curiosity, relationships and keeping an open mind.
To support the podcast:
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/whatisagoodlife?For more from Mark McCartney:
The Podcast's Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlifePhilippe Birker: Living Life With Open Arms | EP193
What happens when a hard-working founder is told by “the spirit world” to slow down and become a father? Philippe Birker is the co-founder of Climate Farmers, an organisation supporting the transition to …
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What happens when a hard-working founder is told by “the spirit world” to slow down and become a father? Philippe Birker is the co-founder of Climate Farmers, an organisation supporting the transition to regenerative agriculture across Europe. In this conversation he shares the question he’s living by: What do I want to leave behind?
We talk about:- A transformative ayahuasca retreat, and the messages that reshaped his work and family life
- Moving from 70-hour weeks and near burnout to trusting the flow of life
- What teenagers in a South African township taught him about money and happiness
- Falling in love with regenerative farming, and the farmer who changed what he eats
- Replanting a burned Portuguese hillside and what it means to increase a place’s “life-holding capacity”
- Love, friendship, and the unconditional love of fatherhood
Originally from Germany, Philippe now lives in Portugal with his partner and two young sons. He also runs the social music label Hug Records and is rebuilding an abandoned village with friends.
This episode is filled with inspiration to pay more attention to how we live, to whom we love, and the power of working at something you find meaningful.
If you'd like to check out more of Philippe's work:
Climate Farmers: www.climatefarmers.org
To support the podcast:
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/whatisagoodlife?For more from Mark McCartney:
The Podcast's Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlifeThe Truth Will Set You Free with Kat Miles | EP192
What does it take to stand up when something doesn't feel right?In this episode, we speak with Kat Miles, a Brixton business owner, community organiser, and founder and Chair of the Brixton Traders & Community …
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What does it take to stand up when something doesn't feel right?
In this episode, we speak with Kat Miles, a Brixton business owner, community organiser, and founder and Chair of the Brixton Traders & Community Association (BTCA). She has traded in Brixton Village since 2011, and her shop became an informal hub for advice and support, which led her to found BTCA to give traders and the community a collective voice. She is also the driving force behind Buy Back Brixton, a community-led campaign to bring Brixton Village and Market Row into community ownership.
Kat takes us from a childhood spent pondering honesty on her bedroom windowsill to the struggles of traders working seven days a week with nothing to show for it. She explains why honesty with yourself is the foundation of everything else, how fear and love sit at opposite ends of the spectrum, and why a £50 million buy back vision appeared as the path she had to take. She also shares what makes Brixton so special: belonging, freedom and a community that steps in for one another.
This episode is incredibly inspiring for standing up and doing what you feel has to be done – regardless of whether you have done it before. Something our world needs more of right now.
If you'd like to support the campaign please check out:
Buy Back Brixton: https://buybackbrixton.org/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/btcassociation/For more from Mark McCartney:
The Podcast's Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlifeNikkolas Smith: Seeing The Humanity In Each Other | EP191
This week we are joined by Nikkolas Smith, Hollywood concept artist, #1 NYT bestselling illustrator, and the creator of Sunday Sketch. We explore his journey from theme park designer to viral artivist. We talk …
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This week we are joined by Nikkolas Smith, Hollywood concept artist, #1 NYT bestselling illustrator, and the creator of Sunday Sketch. We explore his journey from theme park designer to viral artivist. We talk about art as empathy, how art has helped him process grief and injustice, and the making of his hand-painted picture book The History of We – a 200,000-year visual journey back to humanity's first artists, astronomers, and storytellers in Africa. This is a conversation about holding onto our humanity as a way of meeting the broken bones of the world.
Nikkolas Smith is an Artivist, #1 NYT Bestseller picture book creator, and Hollywood film illustrator and concept artist (Sinners, Black Panther Wakanda Forever, Space Jam II). He is the author/illustrator of the USA TODAY Bestselling The Artivist, and the illustrator of The 1619 Project: Born on the Water, a #1 NYT Bestseller, as well as Black Panther Wakanda Forever: The Courage To Dream and A Change is Gonna Come. His picture book The History of We is a 2026 Sibert Honor Book and winner of the 2026 Jane Addams Children's Book Award. As a Black illustrator, Nikkolas is focused on creating captivating art that can spark important conversations in today's world and inspire meaningful change toward social justice and equity.You can learn more about Nikkolas' work at www.NIKKOLAS.art
For more from Mark McCartney:
The Podcast's Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlifeHarrison Gardner on Building Your Own Security | EP190
Builder, broadcaster and author Harrison Gardner joins the show to talk about what it means to build your own security – the kind that comes from knowing you can meet your own basic needs. Harrison shares how …
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Builder, broadcaster and author Harrison Gardner joins the show to talk about what it means to build your own security – the kind that comes from knowing you can meet your own basic needs. Harrison shares how he left Australia at seventeen with no plan beyond learning how the world works, the years he spent building preschools in an Indian slum, and how buying a derelict 200-year-old stone cottage in the west of Ireland led him to found Build School. We talk about learned helplessness, why he stopped building other people's houses to teach them to build their own, and how impact shapes his life. This is an inspiring conversation about building your own capabilities and committing more fully to your life.
Harrison Gardner is an author, broadcaster and builder based on the west coast of Ireland. He presents Build Your Own Home on RTÉ, has written three books on self-building and the housing crisis, and hosts The Tools at Hand, a podcast about people who use whatever they have to hand to build exactly what they need. It all traces back to one belief: people don't need permission or expertise to fix what's broken around them. He's also Chairperson and co-founder of Common Knowledge, a social enterprise sharing practical skills with everyone.
You can learn more about Harrison's work at www.harrisongardner.net
For more from Mark McCartney:
The Podcast's Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlifeToko-pa Turner: What Your Dreams Are Trying to Tell You | EP189
Dreamworker and award-winning author Toko-pa Turner joins the show to talk about what it really means to let go – of the perceptions we project onto others, of the noise on the surface of life – so we can hear …
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Dreamworker and award-winning author Toko-pa Turner joins the show to talk about what it really means to let go – of the perceptions we project onto others, of the noise on the surface of life – so we can hear the "second attention" moving underneath. Toko-pa shares how she developed her own intimate relationship with dreams after leaving home at fourteen with no adult guidance, how a haunting nightmare revealed a core family wound, and the five keys of Courting the Dream. We talk about ritual as a way of honoring insight, the healing power of dream groups, and why she believes psyche doesn't end at the limits of our own bodies. A beautiful, grounded conversation about listening to the wisdom already moving through us.
Toko-pa Turner is a Canadian author and dreamworker whose work explores the reciprocity between psyche and nature. Her first book, Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home, has been translated into ten languages and received the 2018 Gold Nautilus Award and the Gold Readers' Favorite Award. Her most recent book, The Dreaming Way: Courting the Wisdom of Dreams, is a depth-oriented guide to dreamwork and winner of the 2025 Gold Nautilus Award.
Her course, The Dream Lodge, begins September 22nd: https://toko-pa.com/product/dream-lodge-sept-2026/
For more from Mark McCartney:
Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
Website: https://www.mmcleadership.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlifeYour One Wild & Precious Life with Laura Costello | EP188
This week we are in conversation with Laura Costello. Laura is Chief Communications Officer at Hometree, a nature restoration charity, and Ireland Lead with Purpose Disruptors. She led the Good Life 2030 …
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This week we are in conversation with Laura Costello. Laura is Chief Communications Officer at Hometree, a nature restoration charity, and Ireland Lead with Purpose Disruptors. She led the Good Life 2030 Ireland project, which invited people across Ireland to imagine a brighter future and resulted in a national creative campaign promoting visions of wellbeing centred on connection rather than consumption. We talk about the question at the centre of her life and work – borrowed from a Mary Oliver poem – and how it shifted from a career question into something much bigger. We explore the difference between understanding the climate crisis intellectually and actually feeling it, the significance of our attention on each other, and what people across Ireland said when asked what makes a good life.
For more of Laura's work:
Good Life 2030 project: https://www.goodlife2030.earth/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauracostello11/For more from Mark McCartney:
Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
Website: https://www.mmcleadership.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlifeArtist, Merchant, Seeker with Ewan Townhead | EP187
Ewan Townhead is an entrepreneur, coach, and the author of Artist, Merchant, Seeker: Bring Your Whole Self to the Path of Work. He spent a decade helping build Coaches Rising, a coach-training school, before …
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Ewan Townhead is an entrepreneur, coach, and the author of Artist, Merchant, Seeker: Bring Your Whole Self to the Path of Work. He spent a decade helping build Coaches Rising, a coach-training school, before stepping back to finish a book he'd been writing for seven years. We talk about the model at the centre of it – artist, merchant, and seeker – and his long process of trying to bring all three into his work rather than choosing one. We explore his early discomfort with money and marketing, some past-life memories that changed how he thinks about death, and a period of burnout that clarified what he actually wanted to be doing. We close, as always, on his thoughts as to what makes a good life.
If you're trying to integrate different parts of yourself into your work and want a fresh perspective on how to do it, this is really worth a listen.
For more of Ewan's work:
Website: https://www.ewantownhead.com
Book: https://www.ewantownhead.com/book/For more from Mark McCartney:
Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
Website: https://www.mmcleadership.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlifeOONA: Self-Sovereignty, Surveillance, and the Body as Art | EP186
In this episode I was joined by OONA – an anonymous performance artist known for her works Milking The Artist, Dear David, and Look Touch Own. Recognised by her mask and dark sunglasses, she treats anonymity …
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In this episode I was joined by OONA – an anonymous performance artist known for her works Milking The Artist, Dear David, and Look Touch Own. Recognised by her mask and dark sunglasses, she treats anonymity itself as both method and performance, examining power, value, and identity within digital culture.
We discuss data, extraction, the body as art, and what sovereignty means through physical, digital, and spiritual lenses. It is a really thought provoking and stirring conversation that left me optimistic about finding connection and intimacy in the places we'd least expect it.
For more of OONA's work:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/made.by.oona/For more from Mark McCartney:
Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
Website: https://www.mmcleadership.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlifeSarah Marquis on Fear, Instinct, and Surviving Alone in the Wild | EP185
National Geographic Explorer Sarah Marquis has spent 25 years walking alone through some of the most remote landscapes on Earth — the equivalent of circumnavigating the planet on foot. Her expeditions include a …
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National Geographic Explorer Sarah Marquis has spent 25 years walking alone through some of the most remote landscapes on Earth — the equivalent of circumnavigating the planet on foot. Her expeditions include a 14,000km, 17-month crossing of the Australian Outback, three years walking solo from Siberia to Australia, and three months surviving off bush tucker in the Kimberley. In this episode, she talks about the seven-year-old girl who slept alone in a cave and never lost her sense of mission, why fear is a construction we choose to believe, how she learned to read the land through a herd of wild cattle, surviving a near-fatal fall in Tasmania that left her crawling out of a gorge with a broken shoulder, and the grief that followed her mother's sudden death. This is a conversation about instinct, consciousness, and what it means to build a life from the inside out.
Sarah is a force of curiosity and nature and it was both a joy and inspiration to sit with her.
For more of Sarah Marquis' work:
Website: https://www.sarahmarquis.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/explorer_sarahmarquis/For more from Mark McCartney:
Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
Website: https://www.mmcleadership.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlifeDr. Miriam Meckel: Resting in the Core of My Identity | EP184
What does it actually mean to be human in an age racing toward AGI? In this episode of What is a Good Life?, Mark sits down with Dr. Miriam Meckel - award-winning journalist, professor of communication …
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What does it actually mean to be human in an age racing toward AGI? In this episode of What is a Good Life?, Mark sits down with Dr. Miriam Meckel - award-winning journalist, professor of communication management at the University of St. Gallen, and founder of ada learning - to explore the question that has shaped her life's work: what is irreducibly human, and what are we at risk of losing? Miriam, the first female editor-in-chief of WirtschaftsWoche and former State Secretary for Media and International Affairs in North Rhine-Westphalia, opens up about a burnout that became a life-altering depression, the vulnerability of turning her private writing into her bestselling book Letter to My Life, and why she believes embodied experience — not intelligence — is what truly separates us from machines. It is a conversation about identity, friction, kindness, and what it takes to live a quiet, honest life.
For more of Dr. Miriam Meckel's work:
ada learning: https://www.join-ada.com/en
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meckel/For more from Mark McCartney:
Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
Website: https://www.mmcleadership.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlifeWhen Fear Becomes My Partner with Ralf Wetzel | EP183
In this episode of What is a Good Life, host Mark McCartney sits down with Ralf Wetzel - a leadership scholar who has taught at leading European business schools, and a clown and mask performer whose solo show …
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In this episode of What is a Good Life, host Mark McCartney sits down with Ralf Wetzel - a leadership scholar who has taught at leading European business schools, and a clown and mask performer whose solo show Absolutely Reliable! has played the Edinburgh Fringe. This episode is built around one question: what does it mean to have a good relationship with fear? Ralf grew up under surveillance in communist East Germany, in a family where fear was something you lived with, not something you spoke about. He spent years trying to work through it - through therapy, yoga, and psychedelics, and eventually through improv and clown theatre. Along the way, we get into a teaching moment that tested everything he'd learned, and why a plastic clown nose turned out to teach him more about truth than theory ever did.
This episode is for anyone who wants to reconsider their relationship with fear.
For more from Ralf Wetzel:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ralf-wetzel-3a742011/For more from Mark McCartney:
Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
Website: https://www.mmcleadership.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlifeLior Steinberg: Cities That Make Us Happier | EP182
In this episode of What is a Good Life, host Mark McCartney sits down with Lior Steinberg, a Rotterdam-based urban planner and co-founder of Humankind, a multidisciplinary team working toward urban happiness …
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In this episode of What is a Good Life, host Mark McCartney sits down with Lior Steinberg, a Rotterdam-based urban planner and co-founder of Humankind, a multidisciplinary team working toward urban happiness for all. Lior is also the author of the children's book The Car That Wanted to Be a Bike. Together they unpack why so many cities remain trapped in car-centric design decades after urbanist Jane Jacobs first warned against it.
They talk about the "sidewalk ballet," how children's toys teach us to want cars, the surprising parallel between car culture and cigarette smoking, Barcelona's superblocks, and why trees are the best climate technology we already have.
This is a thought-provoking conversation on how often change feels impossible until it is here.
For more of Lior Steinberg's work:
Humankind: https://www.humankind.city/
Personal Website: https://steinberg.nu/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/liorsteinberg/For more from Mark McCartney:
Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
Website: https://www.mmcleadership.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlifeFinding Peace Within Myself with Kadam Adam Starr | EP181
What does it mean to live a truly meaningful life and why do so many of us feel an emptiness even at the height of our success?In this episode, Mark sits down with Kadam Adam Starr, who has been an …
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What does it mean to live a truly meaningful life and why do so many of us feel an emptiness even at the height of our success?
In this episode, Mark sits down with Kadam Adam Starr, who has been an international teacher of meditation and Buddhism for over 20 years and is the principal teacher at Tara Kadampa Meditation Centre in Dublin. Adam walked away from a corporate media career in 2005 to pursue a different kind of question. What began as a planned year or two away became a complete reorientation of his life.
Together they explore the emptiness that often arrives in our late twenties and early thirties, the difference between fleeting pleasure and genuine peace of mind, and why Adam came to realise that the problem was never his career - it was how badly out of balance he'd become. They talk about the shift from an ego-driven life to one grounded in compassion, what a three-month silent retreat revealed about our shared humanity, and how living from a peaceful mind and a good heart can make life feel radically more simple.
This is a conversation about self-knowledge, the attention economy, meeting difficult people with friendship rather than judgment, and the realisation that a good life may come down to how we choose to show up each day.
For more of Kadam Adam Starr's work:
Tara Kadampa Meditation Centre: https://meditateinireland.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/tara_kadampa_meditation_centre/For more from Mark McCartney:
Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
Website: https://www.mmcleadership.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlifeKaren L. Jacob, PhD: The Art of a Meaningful Life | EP180
Dr. Karen L. Jacob is a clinical psychologist, Program Director of the Gunderson Residence at McLean Hospital, and Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. She specialises in the assessment …
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Dr. Karen L. Jacob is a clinical psychologist, Program Director of the Gunderson Residence at McLean Hospital, and Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. She specialises in the assessment and treatment of personality disorders, with particular expertise in borderline personality disorder. In this conversation Karen talks about growing up with a love of art, spending four years after college searching for work that actually meant something, the influence of a father who treated the underserved his entire career, and what drew her unexpectedly to specialising in personality disorders. We also discuss a New Year's resolution with her husband that changed how she parents and how she works.
It's a conversation about what it looks like to build a meaningful life with joy, and staying open to a path that keeps surprising you.
For more of Dr. Karen L. Jacob's work:
Profile: https://www.mcleanhospital.org/profile/karen-jacobFor more from Mark McCartney:
Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
Website: https://www.mmcleadership.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlifeTrust, Water & Rewilding with Daniel Allen-Hörnfeldt | EP179
In this episode, Dan talks with Mark about trading 80-90 hour work weeks and a self-medicating lifestyle in London for the forests and lakes of northern Sweden. He shares how his father's death became a turning …
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In this episode, Dan talks with Mark about trading 80-90 hour work weeks and a self-medicating lifestyle in London for the forests and lakes of northern Sweden. He shares how his father's death became a turning point, how cold water swimming became a doorway back into his body, and how a small group of friends turned a Sunday morning dip into a movement. The conversation explores trust, surrender, community, and what it means to dissolve the "thick border" between yourself and the world.
Dan Allen-Hörnfeldt is Chairman of Umeå Kallbad, a community swimming and sauna association recently named one of Sweden's best places to visit in 2026, and Head of Nature for People at Rewilding Sweden. A former GB triathlete, he spent fifteen years in restaurants and pubs, winning two Michelin Bib Gourmands and twice being named London's Best Pub, before building a nationally recognised restaurant in northern Sweden with his wife. He has also competed at an elite level in open-water and ice swimming, including a podium finish at the Ice Swimming World Cup.
Learn more about Dan Allen-Hörnfeldt's work:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danallenhornfeldt/
Umeå: https://umeakallbad.se/
For more from Mark McCartney:
Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
Website: https://www.mmcleadership.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlifeThe Courage To Be Heard with Lucinda Millward | EP178
Lucinda Millward is the founder of The Baskerville Project and a practitioner in embodied relational practice - bringing creativity, the body, and the nervous system into collective inquiry. She works across …
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Lucinda Millward is the founder of The Baskerville Project and a practitioner in embodied relational practice - bringing creativity, the body, and the nervous system into collective inquiry. She works across executive education, the arts, and public contexts, holds degrees from the University of Oxford, the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and RADA and King’s College London, and has served for seven years as Acting Course Director at the Fontainebleau School of Acting, alongside several years teaching at Guildhall.
In this conversation, Lucinda speaks about what it costs to speak true - and why so many of us have learned not to. We explore the childhood roots of devoicing, the paradox of using other people's words to say what we cannot otherwise say, what it means to really look someone in the eye, and why she believes that in one's wound lies one's gift.A beautiful conversation about courage, presence, and what it means to let yourself be witnessed.
Learn more about Lucinda's work at The Baskerville Project:
https://www.thebaskervilleproject.com/
For more from Mark McCartney:
Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
Website: https://www.mmcleadership.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlifeComplicated Locks, Simple Keys with Sam Smith | EP177
This week Mark McCartney sits down with Sam Smith. Sam sees life as a big old experiment. He used to play professional rugby, before starting a few businesses. Now he spends his time speaking to people, writing …
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This week Mark McCartney sits down with Sam Smith. Sam sees life as a big old experiment. He used to play professional rugby, before starting a few businesses. Now he spends his time speaking to people, writing and loving his family. Last year he wrote his first book, The Door Was Never Locked. His latest project with his friend Garth, Conscious Soup launches soon, it's a Living Experiment. They aren't sure what that means yet.
In this conversation, Sam opens up about the moment he retired from rugby at 26 and collapsed on a bathroom floor crying, escaping this transition with work and alcohol, and how a simple repeated gesture from a coach changed the entire direction of his life.We explore identity, the stories we carry without questioning, what it really means to lead as a human, and why a good life for him is wanting all of it - even the hard parts. If you are navigating any big life transitions right now, this conversation may be particularly helpful.
For more from Sam Smith:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/conscious-soup-studio/
You can grab a copy of his book: https://amzn.eu/d/07QwCqFQAnd he'd love to hear from you: [email protected]
Check out Sam’s next project with Conscious Soup here: www.conscioussoup.com
For more from Mark McCartney:
Newsletter: https://www.whatisagoodlife.com/
Website: https://www.mmcleadership.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlifeWhat Is It About Dogs? with Doug Skoke | EP176
What is it about dogs?It's the question Doug Skoke has been sitting with and it turns out, trying to understand what makes his golden doodle Harley tick has become one of his most impactful explorations of how …
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What is it about dogs?
It's the question Doug Skoke has been sitting with and it turns out, trying to understand what makes his golden doodle Harley tick has become one of his most impactful explorations of how to actually live well.
Doug is the Founder & CEO of LFG NOW!, a boutique executive search firm, and a Gallup-certified CliftonStrengths Coach - but what defines him more than any title is a lifelong obsession with people, energy, and what it means to show up fully in your own life. A daily meditator and firm believer in the Platinum Rule - treat others as they prefer to be treated - Doug has spent over a decade exploring practical and spiritual approaches to growth, resilience, and presence.
What begins as a question about why dogs are so emotionally regulating opens into one covering grief, crisis, dialectical behavioural therapy, the self-love pendulum, radical acceptance, and what it actually means to lift others up.
Whether you're drawn to mindfulness, emotional intelligence, personal growth, or just an honest human conversation - this episode is for you.
For more from Doug Skoke:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougskoke/For more from Mark McCartney:
Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
Website: https://www.mmcleadership.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlife00:00 Five Years In The Making
01:15 What Is It About Dogs?
03:30 The Thought Bubble Cartoon
06:00 What Dogs Know About Presence
09:09 When His Brother Died
11:14 Alma's Unwavering Welcome
13:20 Angels In Disguise
18:50 Unconditional, Every Single Moment
24:20 The Dog He Almost Gave Away
30:53 Learning To Regulate
40:15 The Self-Love Pendulum
1:01:08 What Is A Good Life for Doug?Jennifer Garvey Berger: Closing the Gap Between Values & Life | EP175
In this episode of What is a Good Life?, Mark McCartney sits down with Jennifer Garvey Berger - author, global leadership coach, and co-founder and CEO of Cultivating Leadership - to explore one of the most …
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In this episode of What is a Good Life?, Mark McCartney sits down with Jennifer Garvey Berger - author, global leadership coach, and co-founder and CEO of Cultivating Leadership - to explore one of the most honest questions a person can ask: am I actually living in alignment with what I say matters most?
Jennifer has spent decades helping leaders untangle big questions and find more courageous, compassionate ways to lead. All four of her books are Stanford University Press top sellers of the last decade. But here, she turns that same rigorous curiosity on herself.
She shares the moment she realised her deepest values - generosity and curiosity - have their own shadows. She unpacks the concept of values as polarities, why rigid adherence to a single value leaves the whole system weak, and how she learned to hold temporary certainty without pretending to have all the answers.
If you're interested in personal growth, leadership, values, conscious living, philosophy of life, intentional community, or a good life, this episode is for you.
For more from Jennifer Garvey Berger:
Company Website: www.cultivatingleadership.com
Books:
Unleash Your Complexity Genius: https://www.sup.org/books/business/unleash-your-complexity-genius
Changing on the Job: https://www.sup.org/books/business/changing-job-second-edition
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-garvey-berger-7b4a264/For more from Mark McCartney:
Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
Website: https://www.mmcleadership.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlife00:02 A Question Worth Following
01:31 Closing the Values Gap
04:01 When Values Cast Shadows
08:53 Generosity and Curiosity's Dark Side
13:02 Shame and the Human Condition
16:29 Learning to Take Stands
18:49 Standing for Love
23:19 Certainty at Sea
26:21 Time, Physics and Reality
33:39 Rising to Love
38:05 The Intentional Community
50:28 What Is A Good Life for Jennifer?Being In The Pulse Of Life with Laura Beckingham | EP174
In this episode of What is a Good Life?, Mark McCartney sits down with Laura Beckingham - a modern mystic for turbulent times. It's a conversation that remains as grounded in the bread and butter of life as it …
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In this episode of What is a Good Life?, Mark McCartney sits down with Laura Beckingham - a modern mystic for turbulent times. It's a conversation that remains as grounded in the bread and butter of life as it ascends into the spiritual.
We move from asking what existence is all about through radical inclusion, Family Constellations, ancestral wisdom, the right size in relationships, grief and death, the energy of birth - and why a good life for Laura is about staying in contact with the pulse of life.
It will leave you with plenty to sit with.
Laura works one-to-one with senior execs who are dismantling the system from the inside, and with people practitioners and creatives who are doing something of the same in their own way. You can also join her in community online, for ritual and reflective practice in The Sanctum, and at The Loom.
For more from Laura Beckingham:
Website: https://spacewith-in.com/
The Sanctum: https://spacewith-in.com/category/the-sanctum/
The Loom: https://spacewith-in.com/the-loom-2026/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-beckingham-109bb625/For more from Mark McCartney:
Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
Website: https://www.mmcleadership.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlife00:00 What Is All of This?
02:15 Born Curious
07:10 Knowing and Not Knowing
10:25 Old Wisdom, New Ways
14:50 Radical Inclusion
18:30 Do No Harm
20:45 The Right Size
25:10 Life as Attunement
28:30 Opening and Closing
34:00 In Motion and Still
40:40 The Witch and the Field
55:35 Grief, death, birth
1:01:00 What Is a Good Life?Dave Snowden: The Place Of Multiple Belongings | EP173
In this episode of What is a Good Life?, Mark McCartney sits down with Dave Snowden - Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of The Cynefin Co., creator of the Cynefin Framework, and one of the most original …
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In this episode of What is a Good Life?, Mark McCartney sits down with Dave Snowden - Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of The Cynefin Co., creator of the Cynefin Framework, and one of the most original thinkers working at the intersection of complexity science, organisational design, and human decision-making.
The conversation moves through substrate theory, complexity science, psychological safety, the dangers of homogenisation, coherent heterogeneity, Celtic identity, indigenous rights, conflict resolution in Northern Ireland, and what a good life really comes down to.
It is a beautiful mixture of thought provoking ideas and powerful lived experiences.
For more from Dave Snowden:
Website: https://thecynefin.co/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-snowden-2a93b/For more from Mark McCartney:
Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
Website: https://www.mmcleadership.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlife00:00 Substrate and What Emerges
02:37 Fed Up With Management Fads
05:54 When Ideas Come Together
07:25 Celtic Presence and Attention
10:20 The Reformation's Long Shadow
13:28 The Problem With Safety
16:38 Phase Shifts and Flipping
21:17 Changing the Granularity
24:48 Witnessing Violence
29:12 Identity as Flow
37:43 Metaphor as Intelligence
51:57 What Is a Good Life?What If It Were Easy? with Dr Myriam Hadnes | EP172
What if it were easy? What would you do if you weren't afraid?This week I am joined by Dr Myriam Hadnes who shares with us two questions that have really influenced her life. We explore how passion can grow …
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What if it were easy? What would you do if you weren't afraid?
This week I am joined by Dr Myriam Hadnes who shares with us two questions that have really influenced her life. We explore how passion can grow through doing rather than preceding it, why conflict in relationships can be a form of intimacy rather than a threat to it, and what it really means to act in integrity even when the cost is potentially high.
It is a beautiful conversation about communication, courage, and what it means to feel truly accepted.
Dr Myriam Hadnes is a behavioural economist, facilitator, and host of the Unprofessionalism podcast, exploring what gets lost when professionalism becomes performance. Her agency workshops.work partners with global organisations to build the conditions where people think together, speak up, and do honest work.
For more from Dr Myriam Hadnes:
Website: workshops.work
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/myriam-hadnes/For more from Mark McCartney:
Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
Website: https://www.mmcleadership.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlife00:00 Two Life-Changing Questions
04:09 What If It Were Easy?
07:08 When Easy Gets Scary
09:31 Finding Meaning in Work
13:24 Teaching What You Live
19:00 Conflict Doesn't Mean Unlove
23:01 Sisyphus and the Paradox
25:30 The Radical Honesty Moment
30:35 Lessons From A Client Conflict
38:31 Walking Away With Integrity
44:55 Easy Love, Redefined
52:30 What Makes a Good LifeRobert (Bob) J. Anderson: What Must My Life Be About | EP171
Robert J. Anderson joins the show for a wide-ranging conversation about purpose, intuition, shadow work, and the question that has guided his life. He talks beautifully about doubt and fear alongside grace and …
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Robert J. Anderson joins the show for a wide-ranging conversation about purpose, intuition, shadow work, and the question that has guided his life. He talks beautifully about doubt and fear alongside grace and synchronicity, and what it takes to keep saying yes when you can't see where it's going.
Robert J. Anderson has been a pace setter in the field of Leadership Development for over 30 years. He is the Founder and Chief Knowledge Officer of Leadership Circle, and the co-author of Scaling Leadership and Mastering Leadership. Bob created the Leadership Circle Profile, a 360° assessment used by organisations worldwide to measure the effectiveness of their leaders (individually and collectively), chart a pathway for their development, and assess their progress as they develop. In 2005, the Stayer Center for Executive Education at the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business awarded Bob the Partner in Innovation Award. The MEECO Leadership Institute awarded him the International Thought Leader of Distinction in 2018.
If you sense you are still not fully committing to the path you are already on, this will offer plenty of inspiration.
For more of Robert J. Anderson's work:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-j-anderson/
Company Website: https://leadershipcircle.com/For more from Mark McCartney:
Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
Website: https://www.mmcleadership.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlife
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markcmccartney00:00 The Guiding Question
03:30 Becoming Who I Am
07:00 Writing the Musts
11:30 Learning to Trust Intuition
16:00 Around the World Experiment
22:00 The Brennan School Years
28:00 Leadership Circle is Born
34:00 What Is Wanted Now
40:00 Unity as Foundation
47:00 The Soldier and the White Light
54:00 The Divine Elephant
1:03:00 Joy at the Bottom
1:10:00 What is a good life for Robert?Podcast Keywords: Meaning of Life Interviews | meaning of life conversations | exploring life | big life questions | meaning of life discussions | creating a meaningful life
Recovering Right Relationship with Ally Kingston | EP 170
What does a truly good life look like - and how do we find our way back to it?In this episode of What is a Good Life?, Mark McCartney speaks with Ally Kingston about recovering the capacity for "right …
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What does a truly good life look like - and how do we find our way back to it?
In this episode of What is a Good Life?, Mark McCartney speaks with Ally Kingston about recovering the capacity for "right relationship": with ourselves, with nature, with community, and with something greater.
Ally is a creative strategist and facilitator, and strategy lead at non-profit Purpose Disruptors and Agency for Nature. She designs interventions to galvanise public imagination and redirect our creative skills to work in harmony with the natural world. Also passionate about holding space for grief and loss in our changing times, she has also trained as a death doula and rites of passage holder. Once an advertising and sustainability leader, and one of Forbes’ 43 People Changing Advertising for the Climate, she writes & lectures on storytelling, imagination and new conceptions of the good life.
They explore:
- What "right relationship" actually means — and why we've lost it
- Sobriety as a gateway to a fuller life
- The Artist's Way and morning pages as a daily return to self
- What four days alone in a forest teaches you about civilisation
- The imagination crisis - why our vision of the future is shrinking
- Death, grief, and why learning to let things end well matters now more than everIf you're searching for meaning beyond consumption, or asking what it means to live well in uncertain times, this conversation is for you.
🎙️ What is a Good Life? - conversations that go to the heart of what matters.
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For more from Ally's work:
Purpose Disruptors: https://www.purposedisruptors.org/ally-kingston
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ally-kingston-75922025/For more from Mark McCartney:
Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
Website: https://www.mmcleadership.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlife
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markcmccartney00:00 How to be in right relationship?
03:45 Two Tomatoes and an Epiphany
08:25 The Word Recovery
09:45 Sobriety and the Paradigm Shift
17:02 Threads Pulling Together
21:24 Morning Pages and the Artist's Way
25:29 Four Days in the Forest
33:24 How Do I Help Things Die?
38:12 Accompanying Her Grandmother
48:30 The Shrinking Imagination
53:04 What is a Good Life?Tags: good life, meaning, right relationship, sobriety, nature connection, death doula, climate, imagination, morning pages, the artist's way, wilderness, grief, belonging, mindfulness, purpose
Podcast Keywords: Meaning of Life Interviews | meaning of life conversations | exploring life | big life questions | meaning of life discussions | creating a meaningful life
Sam Lee: Wonder, Wildness And Song | EP 169
How do you hold on to that feeling of childlike enchantment that you remember as a kid?In this captivating conversation, Mark sits down with Sam Lee, singer, composer, and author. We explore the nature of …
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How do you hold on to that feeling of childlike enchantment that you remember as a kid?
In this captivating conversation, Mark sits down with Sam Lee, singer, composer, and author. We explore the nature of wonder, the role of ritual, and the significance of rite of passages and thresholds. He talks about his apprenticeship to Scottish traveller and balladeer Stanley Robertson and how that completely dismantled what he thought folk music was. We talk about songs as medicine and what it means to be their custodian, as well as being being dangerously surrounded by a dozen shepherd's dogs in the Carpathian mountains.
Sam Lee is a Mercury prize-nominated singer, composer, arranger, folksong interpreter, connecting his passion for nature and song into timeless unique ways. Collector of songs from across the British Isles & Ireland he’s also the creator of many live nature immersions including the annual sell-out Singing With Nightingales. Penguin recently published his debut novel 'The Nightingale, Notes on a songbird' telling the epic tale of this highly endangered bird. And his latest album is the critically acclaimed, Guardian 5 star and Mojo Album of the Month ‘songdreaming’. Sam is also an Ambassador for The Global Rewilding Alliance.
This conversation and Sam's stories are for anyone seeking more aliveness in this life.
For more from Sam Lee's work:
Website: https://samleesong.co.uk/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samleesong/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/samleesongFor more from Mark McCartney:
Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
Website: https://www.mmcleadership.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlife
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markcmccartney
00:00 Does Wonder Ever Cease?
02:29 A Life of Proximity
05:00 The Gift of the Puffball
09:04 A Rite of Passage
17:30 On Ritual and Threshold
18:03 Bar Mitzvah to Bison Tracking
26:58 Surrounded by Shepherd's Dogs
35:10 Apprenticed to Stanley Robertson
48:30 Songs as Medicine
53:40 Walking Into Darkness
59:40 What is a Good Life?Keywords: Meaning of Life Interviews | meaning of life conversations | exploring life | big life questions | meaning of life discussions | creating a meaningful life
What It Means to Be Fully Alive with Joel Monk | EP 168
What does it mean to be fully alive? Mark sits down with Joel Monk to explore the journey from spiritual bypassing to embodiment. They talk about dark nights of the soul, the "yum" of visceral wellbeing …
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What does it mean to be fully alive?
Mark sits down with Joel Monk to explore the journey from spiritual bypassing to embodiment. They talk about dark nights of the soul, the "yum" of visceral wellbeing, trauma-informed healing, the role of grace and prayer, and what it actually means to feel safe, okay, and enough. An episode for anyone on a path of dropping deeper into their own humanity and body.
Joel Monk is the founder of Coaches Rising, one of the world’s leading platforms for transformational coaching, with a global community of more than 65,000 coaches. He is the host of the Coaches Rising Podcast and is known for his work in transformational coaching, embodiment, and human development. He has coached hundreds of entrepreneurs, CEOs, and senior executives — even a Zen master — helping high-level leaders unlock deeper presence, wiser action, and profound personal transformation.
For more from Joel Monk's work:
Company website: www.coachesrising.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-monk-33952613/
Coaches Rising Podcast: https://www.coachesrising.com/podcast/For more from Mark McCartney:
Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
Website: https://www.mmcleadership.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlife
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markcmccartney00:00 Awakening Into Full Humanity
02:00 Magic Mushrooms on the Moors
07:15 Coming Into the Body
10:20 The Yum
13:47 Clinging to Bliss
17:00 Safety, Okayness, and Intimacy
20:45 Intoxified by Life
27:42 Moving Beyond Renunciation
31:07 The Gift of Grace
38:52 Inquiring Into God
46:17 Fully Alive in Dark Times
51:37 What Is a Good LifeKeywords: Meaning of Life Interviews | meaning of life conversations | exploring life | big life questions | meaning of life discussions | creating a meaningful life
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