Good Life Project

Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields / Acast

Episodes 1,159
Avg. Duration 1h 1m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.5 (3,181)
Since Jul 2014
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Schedule
Every Few Days
Format
Episodic
Consistency
80%
Hosting
feeds.acast.com

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About This Podcast

Good Life Project is a podcast and video series for people navigating midlife with intention. Hosted by Jonathan Fields, each episode is a deep, honest conversation about what it actually takes to build a life that feels like yours, through the reinventions, reckonings, and reclamations that define your 40s, 50s, and beyond. Grounded in science, fueled by genuine curiosity, and always in service of the real work of living well. Often top-ranked, it’s been listened to and viewed more than 100 million times. New episodes weekly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Recent Episodes

What Lucky People Do Differently, According to Science | Tina Seelig

Jun 11, 2026 49m

Luck is not a personality trait you either have or you don't. It is something you build, and science tells us there are specific, learnable skills behind why some people consistently seem to be in…

Why Rituals Matter More Than You Know, And How to Design Your Own | Bruce Feiler

Jun 08, 2026 54m

There is a particular kind of loneliness that hits in the middle of a full life. Not because you are isolated. Because the relationships that used to hold you steady are all being renegotiated at…

Dating in Midlife…Oh My! | Bela Gandhi

Jun 04, 2026 57m

Here is something most of us have never been told: falling in love was never supposed to be easy, and the fact that it hasn't been isn't a character flaw. It's a design problem. Your biology may be…

Your Ambitions Might Not Be Yours | Tom Rath

Jun 01, 2026 46m

Most of us reach our 40s and discover something unsettling: the ambitions we've been chasing weren't entirely ours. They came from parents, from culture, from the two or three careers we happened to…

Why Can’t Anyone Tell Me What’s Wrong? | Alexandra Sifferlin

May 28, 2026 57m

Ever have something clearly wrong, and yet no expert can tell you what’s causing it? Or, worse, they DO tell you, but they’re wrong?Nearly everyone will experience at least one diagnostic error in…

How to Finally Have the Talk You've Been Avoiding | Jonathan Fields

May 25, 2026 45m

There is a conversation most of us are carrying right now. Not one we lack words for. We have plenty of those. One we keep finding reasons not to have. Not because we don't know what we'd say, but…

Invisible Grief: How Hidden Loss Holds You Back (and how to release it) | Dr. Lucy Hone

May 21, 2026 51m

There is a gap between where your life is and where you thought it would be. That gap has a name. It is grief. A kind of hidden, invisible grief. And most of us are walking around carrying it without…

Your Life in One Word? This Could Change Everything | Erin Weed

May 18, 2026 1h 4m

Somewhere in the last few years, a lot of us started asking a version of the same question: who am I now, and what am I actually here to do? The answers don't come from a quiz or a vision board. But…

The 5 Types of Overthinking and How to Turn Each One Off | Emiliya Zhivotovskaya [Best of]

May 14, 2026 1h

The voice telling you that you're not enough, that something is about to go wrong, that you should have done it differently, it sounds like you. That's exactly what makes it so hard to catch and so…

The Hidden Reason You Keep Putting Things Off | Jon Acuff

May 11, 2026 52m

What if procrastination has been working exactly as intended? Not as a character flaw, not as laziness, but as a solution you invented for a problem you were more afraid of than the thing you kept…

Your Childhood Patterns Are Still Running Your Life | Dr. Nicole LePera

May 07, 2026 1h 2m

The anxiety you carry, the way you go silent in conflict, the relentless drive that never quite feels like enough, these didn't start with you. They started much earlier, in relationships and…

You Probably Shouldn’t Say That. And Yet…(Groundbreaking Science of Disagreeing Well) | Julia Minson

May 04, 2026 49m

Learn how to say what you think without blowing up your relationships. Most of us have been there. A conversation that starts completely normally and somehow ends with you lying awake at 2am…

Your Body Is Already Talking. Here's What It's Saying | Linda Clemons

Apr 30, 2026 52m

Before you ever say a word, you've already told the room everything it needs to know. Your posture, your eye contact, the angle of your body, the openness of your chest — all of it is speaking. And…

The Science Behind Why Religion Actually Works | David DeSteno

Apr 27, 2026 1h 3m

People who are genuinely engaged in spiritual practice live longer, experience 30% lower all-cause mortality, report more meaning, and suffer less depression. The data are remarkably clear. And yet,…

The Practice of Holding Nothing | Elena Brower

Apr 23, 2026 51m

Elena Brower spent two decades as one of the most visible yoga and meditation teachers in the world, stages of thousands, a growing platform, the whole forward-facing life. Then she started doing the…

Is Sleep Procrastination Messing With Your Health & Mindset? | Vanessa Hill, PhD

Apr 20, 2026 51m

It’s getting late, you know you “should” go to bed. But you just can't…or won’t. You tell yourself, just one more episode, or a few more minutes of scrolling, or a little more work to sneak in. It…

The Unbusy Manifesto: Life is Short, Live it Now.

Apr 16, 2026 46m

Do you ever feel like you are just a reaction to other people's needs? Not just for days, or months, but years, maybe even…decades? It is easy to slip into a life where others take the wheel and…

Secure Attachment & The Good Life: Surprising Insights | Amir Levine, M.D.

Apr 13, 2026 57m

The tiny moments you ignore may hold the key to it all. New research in neuroscience and attachment science reveals that your brain is constantly monitoring your relationships through small, everyday…

An End to Chronic Pain? Surprising Science is Getting Us Closer. | Dr. Rachel Zoffness

Apr 09, 2026 50m

Stop the cycle of chronic pain by fixing the signals in your brain. We’ve been told for decades that pain is purely a physical problem, born of bones and body parts. But the latest neuroscience…

How to Not Lose Hope in a World That Feels Increasingly Dark

Apr 06, 2026 51m

If you feel like the world is crashing down, you are not alone in that darkness. This moment of global contraction isn't necessarily the end of the story, but perhaps the beginning of a difficult…

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