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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Thursday · 1 hr 5 min
Why Avoiding a Fight is Killing Your Relationship (and How to Fight Well) | Priya Parker
Priya Parker comes back to argue that the fights you're avoiding aren't threatening your closest relationships; they're the only thing that can save them. Priya Parker is a facilitator and strategic advisor who has spent two decades helping churches,...
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Monday · 47 min
The Menopause Timeline Most Women Never Learn Until Midlife | Dr. Jessica Shepherd
Most women don't hear about perimenopause until they're already deep into it, sometimes a decade in. This week, guest host Karen Walrond talks with OB/GYN and https://amzn.to/4qepJp3 author Dr. Jessica Shepherd about the actual, gradual shape of that...
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August 20 · 1 hr 6 min
How to Avoid Cognitive Decline & Dementia (starting in your 40s) | Dr. Tommy Wood
Your brain does not have to decline with age. Recent research reveals that for most people, staving off cognitive decline or dementia is more about lifestyle, especially in your 30s to 50s, than age or genetics. And, amazingly, retirement might be the...
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August 17 · 1 hr
Sleep Doesn't Have to Get Worse With Age | Dr. Rebecca Robbins
Every night, while you're asleep, your brain runs a cleaning cycle that clears out the kind of toxic buildup linked to Alzheimer's and dementia. And, with age, most of us sleep less. We are shortchanging the benefits without ever realizing how much...
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August 13 · 57 min
The Self-Care Trap: Why Doing Everything Right Often Isn’t Enough | Jonathan Fields
You can have a genuinely excellent self-care practice, the meditation, the training, the tracked sleep, the nutrition, and still be using every bit of it to avoid the one question that actually needed asking. In this episode, I turn the mic on myself....
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August 10 · 1 hr 13 min
What 10-Year-Olds Know About Mental Health That the Rest of Us Forgot | Dr. Niobe Way
We've been calling it a loneliness epidemic and treating it like a mental health problem. NYU developmental psychologist Niobe Way says that's the wrong diagnosis, and she has almost 40 years of data on teenage boys to make her case. Niobe Way has...
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August 6 · 56 min
Not All Pain Has a Purpose | Marisa Renee Lee
What if the kindest thing someone told you about your pain was that it didn't have to mean anything? Marisa Renee Lee has spent her career inside other people's grief and her own. She's the bestselling author of Grief Is Love, a former deputy director...
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August 3 · 1 hr 7 min
Top Headache Doc: Migraine Is Not What You Think
For decades, migraine was explained to patients as a blood vessel problem: swelling, throbbing, treat it by shrinking things back down. That explanation is mostly a myth, and it may be part of why so many older treatments never worked. Dr. Fred Cohen...
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July 30 · 50 min
Time Anxiety: Beating the Dread That You’ll Never Get Ahead | Chris Guillebeau
You know that feeling, like you’re forever running behind in work and life? That you’ll never finally be “there,” or be able to relax and enjoy things. Like the days are just collapsing into each other? Welcome to the wacky world of time anxiety. You...
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July 27 · 51 min
The 3 Things Every Room You Live In Must Have to Be Okay | Leidy Klotz
Most of us think the biggest decision about a room is whether it's functional. Leidy Klotz thinks that's the wrong question, and the right one changes how a desk, a kitchen, or an entire return-to-office policy actually lands on the person living...
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July 23 · 54 min
How Much Money Is Enough? Your Confusing Money Questions Answered. | Leisa Peterson
By the age of 7, most of us have absorbed the rules that run our financial lives…forever. And almost none of us checked to see if they were true. Not the numbers. The rules. The slogans we heard around the kitchen table about what money means, who...
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July 20 · 1 hr 2 min
Tapping: Surprising Science Behind Healing Claims (and how to do it) | Jessica Ortner
Your body already knows you're stressed before your brain finishes the thought. That tightness in your chest before a hard conversation. The way your stomach drops before you walk into a room full of people. Logic doesn't reach it. Telling yourself...
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July 16 · 57 min
Midyear Wake-Up Call | Part 2
Share your midlife reinvention story with us https://stephanie197.typeform.com/to/BOdLYgvb. You have a plan for how to succeed in the second half of the year, how to “get back on track.” And a plan, it turns out, is the most sophisticated way to...
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July 13 · 53 min
Midyear Wake-Up Call | Part 1
You can hit every goal you set in January and still be running on empty in the parts of your life the list never thought to measure. That's not a failure story. That's a design flaw in the instrument most of us reach for at the midpoint of the year....
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July 9 · 1 hr 2 min
Healing Family Estrangement: What To Say, And What Never to Say.
Between 10 and 15 percent of mothers and 1 in 4 fathers are currently estranged from a child. If those numbers feel shocking, the harder truth might be this: most of the moves parents instinctively make once estrangement begins are the exact moves...
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July 6 · 48 min
The Caregiving Conversation Everyone Postpones Until It's Too Late.
Here is something most people never see coming: the hardest part of caring for an aging parent is not the logistics. It is the grief. The grief for who your parent used to be, for the life you thought you would be living by now, and for the version of...
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July 2 · 56 min
When You Can't Stop Thinking About Something, Here's What To Do. | Donna Jackson Nakazawa
There is something your brain is spinning right now, that you may never have been given a name for or a way out of. The thought you keep replaying. The conversation you keep recasting. The reel that loads up again and again without resolution, making...
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June 29 · 1 hr 3 min
Why More Choices Make You Less Happy | David Epstein
Most of us believe more options equals better outcomes. Research says no. In much of life, the opposite is true, and the gap between what we believe and what the data shows is one of the more quietly consequential misconceptions shaping how we live...
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June 25 · 52 min
The Toll of Generalized Resentment (and What to Do About It)
There is a feeling many people in midlife carry that does not have a name, a clear cause, or anyone to blame. It shows up when you have been the dependable one long enough that dependable starts to feel like a cage. Or when you have handled...
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June 22 · 55 min
You Spent Years Acting Normal Inside a Life That Never Fit | Sari Botton
Gotta love a good midlife reinvention story, and today we’ve got a great one! Sari Botton built her career editing some of the most celebrated voices in American literary nonfiction. Then, in her mid-50s, she watched doors close in her face, turned...
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