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A project exploring the big questions around how we live, who we are and what actually matters. Over the past four years, I’ve sat with more than 300 people — artists, parents, executives, wanderers, therapists, and strangers and invited them into a simple but profound inquiry, "What is a good life for you?" The conversations explore presence, paradox, uncertainty, and the moments that shape a life - love and loss, trust and fear, clarity and not knowing. It’s an invitations to slow down, to listen deeply, and to bring you into conversation with your own life. There are new episodes every Tuesday.

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What is a Good Life? #178 - The Courage To Be Heard with Lucinda Millward

Jun 09, 2026 52m

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…

What is a Good Life? #177 - Complicated Locks, Simple Keys with Sam Smith

Jun 02, 2026 56m

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…

What is a Good Life? #176 - What Is It About Dogs? with Doug Skoke

May 26, 2026 1h 4m

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…

What is a Good Life? #175 - Closing the Gap Between Values & Life with Jennifer Garvey Berger

May 19, 2026 58m

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…

What is a Good Life? #174 - Being In The Pulse Of Life with Laura Beckingham

May 12, 2026 1h 6m

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…

What is a Good Life? #173 - The Place Of Multiple Belongings with Dave Snowden

May 05, 2026 52m

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…

What is a Good Life? #172 - What If It Were Easy? with Dr Myriam Hadnes

Apr 28, 2026 53m

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…

What is a Good Life? #171 - What Must My Life Be About with Robert J. Anderson

Apr 21, 2026 1h 14m

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…

What is a Good Life? #170 - Recovering Right Relationship with Ally Kingston

Apr 14, 2026 55m

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…

What is a Good Life? #169 - Wonder, Wildness And Song with Sam Lee

Apr 07, 2026 1h

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…

What is a Good Life? #168 - What It Means to Be Fully Alive with Joel Monk

Mar 31, 2026 57m

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…

What is a Good Life? #167 - Gifts, Rituals, & The Path To Belonging with Bruce Anderson

Mar 24, 2026 57m

What makes a life truly good? In this rich and wide-ranging conversation, Mark speaks with Bruce Anderson, Executive Director of the Core Gift Institute, about the three kinds of glue that hold…

What is a Good Life? #166 - Living Your Own Version Of Success with Kaylyn Lehmann

Mar 17, 2026 57m

What does it mean to trust yourself when the path isn't clear?Kaylyn Lehmann is Co-founder and Executive Coach at Simplified Coach, a former VP of HR, and a specialist in neuroscience leadership and…

What is a Good Life? #165 - Money Is Never Just Money with Bogumil Baranowski

Mar 10, 2026 1h 2m Transcript

Most conversations about money stay on the surface. This one doesn't.Mark McCartney sits down with Bogumil Baranowski — investment advisor, author of Crisis Investing and Money Life Family, host of…

What is a Good Life? #164 - The End Of All Seeking with Nicholas Janni

Mar 03, 2026 56m

What does it mean to be fully human — and to live from that place?Nicholas Janni has been working with CEO’s and senior teams globally for over twenty-five years, and teaches at two of the world’s…

What is a Good Life? #163 - Listening To The Mighty Heart with Dr Scilla Elworthy

Feb 24, 2026 49m

Dr Scilla Elworthy is a three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee for her work with Oxford Research Group to develop effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policy-makers worldwide and their critics…

What is a Good Life? #162 - What Comes After Optimising with Jasper Walshe

Feb 17, 2026 1h 1m

In this episode of What Is a Good Life?, Mark McCartney is joined by Jasper Walshe, coach, facilitator and founder of TRIPS Tank™, for an honest and wide-ranging conversation about identity,…

What is a Good Life? #161 - The Potential For Compassion with Rasmus Hougaard

Feb 10, 2026 53m

What does it take to be happy? And why does happiness so often slip away?In this episode of What Is a Good Life?, Mark McCartney is joined by Rasmus Hougaard for a conversation that moves from…

What is a Good Life? #160 - The Art Of Living With Coherence with João Sevilhano

Feb 03, 2026 56m

What does it really mean to live a coherent life?In this episode of What Is a Good Life, Mark McCartney is joined by João Sevilhano for a deep, reflective conversation on coherence, something that…

What is a Good Life? #159 - Cultivating Interconnected Harmony with Cindy Forde

Jan 27, 2026 51m

How do we live in harmony with each other and the natural world?Cindy Forde is a thought leader and acclaimed author with over 25 years dedicated to systems change. In 2023, she won the Change…

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