Good Life Project

Today’s guest, Elena Brower, dedicated her life to the practice and teaching of yoga nearly 20 years ago. She rose to acclaim, becoming known first as a wonderful teacher on the New York yoga scene, …

The process of creation breathes me. Always has, always will. I wake up every day thinking about what I am going to create, from business to art and health to relationships.

The bigger challenge for m…

Imagine a career...no…Imagine a life where you travel the world earning your living by taking jaw-dropping photos of some of the most astounding athletes, action-sports, and breathtaking backdrops th…

“No.”

It’s such a simple word, and yet…massively impactful.

Too often we find ourselves standing toe to toe with No—challenging it as an unwarranted slight, or an underserved rejection.

My question is—w…

Imagine yourself as a child uprooted from your home, and bouncing from nation to nation as a paperless refugee…

Envision the fear of being unexpectedly foreign in lands when the customs are as alien a…

If you ask someone who is working on turning an idea into a business what they call themselves, a likely answer these days is "startup founder."

If you'd asked that same question a generation ago, you…

Nerd. Gamer. Athlete.

Three words you rarely hear uttered in the same sentence, let alone to describe any one person (unless you're talking about epic movie battles).

But, that "triple-threat" describe…

Ever try to help someone who had absolutely no interest in being helped?

It's one of the most frustrating experiences we can have. Maybe it's a family member or partner. Maybe it's a close friend or c…

John Lee Dumas grew up believing he wasn't the most talented person in the room. But, he also knew the path to success in almost any endeavor was more about work than it was about innate gifts. So, p…

At the end of every year, business owners and accountants do something we might want to consider also doing in our personal lives.

They "close the books."

What does that mean? They look back over every…

Colin Beavan burst into the public consciousness in a huge way with a documentary and international bestselling book called No Impact Man that documented his yearlong experiment to live in the middle…

Sometimes your creative voice clashes with others' expectations of what's always been done, and what they think you're "supposed" to do.

This has happened a few times with this podcast. Ninety-nine pe…

Sekou Andrews defies every preconceived notion you might have in your head about the voice and role of poetry in business, society and life.

In his words, when he "tells people that, before creating a…

Have you ever done something because you thought it would look good on your resume? Studied at a particular school or with a particular person?

What if, instead of trying to pile on credentials from e…

Janice Kaplan is filled with gratitude. But, it wasn't always that way.

Her career in the media has taken her from the TV sportscasting desk to producing dozens of shows, writing more than a dozen boo…

There's been a lot of pushback lately against the idea of mastery, choosing one thing and putting everything you've got into it.

Mastery, it seems, has become almost a dirty word. Why choose just one …

There's that old line. When you're thinking about opening a restaurant, the three most important things are location, location and location.

Edward Barnett agrees, but the way he chose the location fo…

We spend so much time trying to "acquire" people and things.

In business, we talk about "acquiring a customer," like they're a commodity we're buying at the corner store and we even associate a price …

Born and raised in a family of Irish surfers, and named after a surf break, Easkey Britton is a renowned Irish pro surfer, five-time National Surfing Champion and one of the top female big-wave surfe…