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Here we explore together how to live a life where you feel good, happy and grateful pretty much all the time. What you think and how you feel determines what you attract into your life, so come along and change your life to truly live a joyous and purposeful life, since LIFE IS A GIFT-LIFE IT New episodes will be published every Monday and Thursday.
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Life is Good Ping Podcast

Life is Good

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Thanks for listening to season one of the Life is Good Ping Podcast! Stay tuned for more info coming soon on Season Two set to launch in 2020. In the mean time, comment, rate and subscribe to let us know how we are doing. About the Podcast: A podcast all about the power of optimism. Life is Good co-founders Bert and John Jacobs sit down with musicians, athletes, business leaders, and inspiring folks of all kinds to help shift the cultural conversation away from the negative and focus togethe ...
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What is a Good Life?

Mark McCartney

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Over the last three years I've interviewed over 250 people around the question of "what is a good life?". I am not trying to find or prescribe universal answers to this question, instead to prompt your own inquiry into what constitutes a good life for you. While I am also trying to share more genuine expressions of the human experience, beyond the masks that we wear.
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On the 107th episode of What is a Good Life? podcast, I am delighted to introduce our guest, Ben Bushill. Ben is a writer, spoken word artist and ceremony holder. His passion is the remembrance and sanctification of our human lives as we try to understand our place and our belonging in the vast unfolding web of existence. In his work as a poet he a…
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Send us a text Learning from a genius. This episode explores three quotes from Albert Einstein that are not related to physics but to being a human. I really appreciate them: Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. The only source of knowledge is experience Her…
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Send us a text I am sure you will LOVE this meditation. It brings you in contact with your real self and makes you practice feeling the good flowing from within you, also outside of you. It is only 10 min. It is perfect to do also when you are on the go, waiting for something or first thing in the morning. Life is a Gift Help me bring light to this…
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On the 106th episode of What is a Good Life? podcast, I am delighted to introduce our guest, Mona Sobhani, Ph.D. Mona is a cognitive neuroscientist, author, and entrepreneur. A former research scientist at the University of Southern California (USC), she holds a doctorate in neuroscience from USC and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Vanderbi…
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Send us a text So many of us which we can influence colleagues, friends, our children and spouse to change for the better. But how? Realize that you only have full control of YOUR thoughts and feelings. To change someone else you need to use the mirror neurons in their brain. When they observe you the subconsciously mirror the one they are with. If…
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Send us a text It is such a paradigm shift to consider seeing good in all situations. Start looking for it. Start feeling and expecting it. Things that happened that are connected to timing are especially interesting to note. If you miss your transportation or a meeting is moved, see it as a gift. Something else is coming instead. A gift for you. T…
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On the 105th episode of What is a Good Life? podcast, I am delighted to introduce our guest, Colin Smith. Colin is a specialist in deep listening, presence, and profound attention, dedicated to creating spaces where individuals unlock their clarity and creativity. Known as The Listener, he brings over two decades of experience in guiding, facilitat…
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Send us a text Life is messy. All kinds of situations will present themselves to us and we will have to react. NO WAIT! we have to possibility to stop, take a deep breath and RESPOND. So how to respond. The key is to stay away from being passive, aggressive and passive-aggressive and aim for ASSERTIVE. This is taking calm responsibility. Life is a …
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Send us a text Start the day with an intention for the day. Realize what flows with you. What suited your inclination and attractions. As important as living an intentional life is the occasional vacation from it. Also there, search inside of what your soul desires in order to recharge. Love your life and respect it. Life is a Gift Help me bring li…
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On the 104th episode of What is a Good Life? podcast, I am delighted to introduce our guest, Karen (Kaz) Maurice-O’Leary. Kaz is a highly awarded brand storyteller and wellbeing leadership speaker, recognised for promoting human-first environments and their impact on innovation. A New Zealander living in California, she has had an international car…
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Send us a text When we chase fun and happiness from the outside we can get trapped in the dopamine induced desire and need for more to feel the same. This chemical, dopamine, which is necessary for you to move (is depleted in that part of the brain for Parkinsons patients) and for feeling a desire and enjoyment (from the outside) of doing something…
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Send us a text Stress is breaking us all down. We can change it by infusing our body with happy vibrations that will calm us down, without even changing the outside situation. Happy cells create health and resistance to any decease. Life is a Gift Help me bring light to this world by turning your attention to the good and opening yourself up for th…
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Send us a text To truly change you need to practice overcoming programs in your subconscious mind that you have picked up since childhood. I have prepared a 14 min meditation for you, to help you change. To help you to open yourself up to a wide world of good, to stay in the non-dimensional space to make the mind quiet and ready for new programs, t…
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On the 103rd episode of What is a Good Life? podcast, I am delighted to introduce our guest, Nathan (Nate) Kinch. Nate is a sociotechnology ethicist, organisational designer, and trust researcher. His work centres around the question: how might we best design trustworthy organisations, technologies, and systems that support a healthy and dignified …
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Send us a text So many of us have gone accustomed to being a victim. Blaming what doesn't go well for us on other people, circumstances and history. To live a truly good life we must want to take responsibility for our like and action and start expecting the good. All of a sudden you will start seeing that the rain will stop just when you need to g…
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Send us a text The real happiness comes from the inside. Here we talk about how to find it and train ourselves to be happy and stay with that happiness when the people around us are still stuck in the negative rut. The important mirror neurons need to be used for our benefit not detriment. A lioness is teaching her cubs to hunt through those mirror…
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On the 102nd episode of What is a Good Life? podcast, I am delighted to introduce our guest, Nadjeschda (Nadja) Taranczewski. Nadja has a Master of Psychology, is a Master Certified Coach and works as a coach, author, and keynote speaker. She supports leaders who want to reinvent their organisation as Conscious Tribe, i.e. as a thriving community w…
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Send us a text There is a saying stating: Change happens when the pain of staying the same is higher than the pain of change. We need a great crisis to change. It doesn't have to be like that. We can embrace change and make is our deepest desire to listen to the soul and follow it. Wake up every day ready for change. New and better is coming your w…
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Send us a text In our world of phones and private entertainment and working from home, we might loose sight that relationships are the most important parts in our lives. Treasure, build stronger and consciously focus on how you can contribute to others. It will give you even more! Life is a Gift Help me bring light to this world by turning your att…
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On the 101st episode of What is a Good Life? podcast, I am delighted to introduce our guest, Patrick Boland. Patrick is a leadership consultant, executive coach, psychotherapist, writer, and trainer across several industries and sectors around the world. Patrick's 2024 book, 'The Contemplative Leader', features interviews with world-class leaders o…
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Send us a text Americans are celebrating Thanksgiving late November, Let that be an inspiration to take a day focused on gratitude. On not filling your space with music and podcasts, movies and news but to take off those headphones and be present to life around you and express thanks for it all being there. Life is a Gift Help me bring light to thi…
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Send us a text This is an action episode. It describes how you can evaluate various parts of your life and realize what works against you and by reviewing and re-writing how you see, for example WORK you can remove old beliefs and install new ones so you can flow in a new way and not operate from contradictory beliefs that just suck energy from you…
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On the 100th episode of What is a Good Life? podcast, I am delighted to introduce our guest, Cormac Russell. Cormac is a social explorer, an author and a much sought-after speaker. He is the Founding Director of Nurture Development and a member of the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute, at DePaul University, Chicago. Over the last 2…
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Send us a text Sometimes a challenge can overwhelm you and you feel the joy being sucked out of you. Well that is not true of course, it is just that you do not manage to see that it is temporary and has (unless you give it) no power over you. Let it go. Let the challenge convert to good, like it did with my suitcase that took 118 days to arrive. L…
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Send us a text If we really stare at how we are acting around a certain issue we can find that we often have opposing forces at work. That means that a the same time as you are looking for a person to share your life with, you do believe in the importance of your independence and sole decision making in your live. In your conscious mind you are loo…
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On the 99th episode of What is a Good Life? podcast, I am delighted to introduce our guest, Darcia Narvaez. Darcia is Professor Emerita of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame, and Fellow of the American Psychological Association, American Educational Research Association, Association for Psychological Science, and the American Association fo…
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Send us a text Have you heard about famous people get to share their talent with a big audience and the fame and the money really crush them? To receive great things, we need to build strong vessels to both receive the good and move it on to others. So if you are now struggling with something in your life, be grateful for the struggle. It will buil…
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Send us a text When we start something new we are stepping in to the unknown. In that space we will get into challenges we had not expected. See it as a gift. Celebrate it. It will bring you to the right place. Life is a Gift Help me bring light to this world by turning your attention to the good and opening yourself up for the good in others and h…
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Nora Bateson, is an award-winning filmmaker, research designer, writer, educator, international lecturer, as well as President of the International Bateson Institute based in Sweden. She is the creator of the Warm Data theory and practices. Nora’s work brings the fields of biology, cognition, art, anthropology, psychology, and information technolog…
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Send us a text We are so on and to able to explore new interesting things that it adds to our stress levels. Take a brake sometimes from the phone. Put it away. Look only once an hour or once a day for potential important messages and then do nothing more. Read books, meet people Be present. Realize that the world works well without you know what i…
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Send us a text A friend working with terminally ill cancer patients told me how their patients treat every moment with respect. They know each moment is a gift. We should learn from them and start to live our lives the same way, respecting each moment we have been given. Life is a Gift Help me bring light to this world by turning your attention to …
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On the 97th episode of What is a Good Life? podcast, I am delighted to introduce our guest, Diarmuid Lyng. Diarmuid is co-owner of Wild Irish Retreats and Nature of Man. He is a former Wexford hurling captain and a host on Newstalk's flagship sports programme 'Off the Ball'. With Wild Irish Retreats he is part of a team that is focused on the rejuv…
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Send us a text Being rational is not the thing. Life is not. We are not in charge of snow storms or traffic accidents that might throw us off our planned schedule. Flow with life and life will flow with you. Resisting it makes just as little sense as fighting the snow storm. If you find yourself in it know that you are at the right place at the rig…
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Send us a text Here I read a quote from Jordan Peterson regarding gratitude being a light through dark times. I love that visual. It really is. Even when it seems impossible, if we find one thing to be grateful for, it is as if a light is sparking on the floor, showing where the next step should be. We can take that step, and then stop and show gra…
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Send us a text TW: abuse, s*xual assault Lusu grew up in a Christian household, going to church but didn’t understand her “borrowed faith.” She had a tough relationship with her parents due to verbal and physical abuse growing up. For university, Lusu moved to a different country for school and was sexually assaulted. She was in a very rough mental…
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On the 96th episode of What is a Good Life? podcast, I am delighted to introduce our guest, John Oliver. John is an artist and sense-making facilitator, exploring multidisciplinary practices based on complexity principles and narrative frameworks. Since 2020, he has developed an artistic practice that integrates the arts with complexity principles,…
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Send us a text Here we talk about a method to attract what you really want. Stay focused on it. Defined an area, lets say HEALTH. Write the first letter of it on a peace of paper H and define what that means intellectually to you, lets say: 1. Moving freely 2. Sleeping well 3. Tons of healthy energy Visualize the H pulsating, sending out the signal…
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Send us a text The mind is important. But the body holds a lot of old patterns or is causing you pain and discomfort now. As we are opening up ourselves to good energy we want to include the body in it. Life is a Gift Help me bring light to this world by turning your attention to the good and opening yourself up for the good in others and how amazi…
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On the 95th episode of the What is a Good Life? podcast, I am delighted to introduce our guest, Madelaine Ley. Madelaine is a philosopher, spiritual ecologist, and contemplative artist. Her varied work includes lecturing at Delft University of Technology and Lassonde Engineering School in Canada on digital citizenship, responsible AI, intersectiona…
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Send us a text Many people talk about the importance of things being fair. Children often brings that up, especially if you are giving out treats for example. Is life fair? Should it be? Life is a Gift Help me bring light to this world by turning your attention to the good and opening yourself up for the good in others and how amazingly connected w…
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Send us a text We often talk about if we are a person who sees the cup half full or half empty. But we seldom stand still at the half part. The fact that it is half full shows we have room to grow. Sun Tzu, in his famous book, the Art of War, written thousands of years ago says, “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” Here…
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Send us a text Curiosity is such a positive and powerful driver and if used in the right way in every situation can be what truly makes you find your mission and drive it. If you miss a bus, you stay curious as to what it means and what possibilities it opens up for. Your mission is also to be curious. If you work with someone challenging or who al…
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On the 94th episode of the What is a Good Life? podcast, I am delighted to introduce our guest, Jennifer Murphy. Jennifer is an Irish mythologist, anthropologist, creativity mentor, and the founder of The Celtic Creatives. A Dubliner born and bred, from the time she could talk, Jennifer's grandmother, Frances O'Sullivan, filled her ears with tales …
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Send us a text Sometimes we feel attacked by several things at the same time. It seems like all core parts of your life is crumbling simultaneously. How do I deserve this? Well, that is not a relevant question, life is not fair. You might try to run for outside soothing strategies, but it will not help. Your help is on the inside. The strength is i…
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Send us a text Being in the presence of someone with good energy is so nice. Everyone around that person benefits and so does the person with good energy. You want that person in your team, on your side. Sometimes, even when you manage to be that person, you get challenged. I call it going down to go up. It is as if we are on a ladder upwards and i…
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On the 93rd episode of the What is a Good Life? podcast, I am delighted to introduce our guest, Kemo Camara. Kemo is the visionary behind Omek, a community-centric platform whose mission is to amplify the talent, voices, and energy of biculturals of African descent. A social entrepreneur, community influencer, economist, and captivating speaker, Ke…
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Send us a text We are doing our best not to make any mistakes. When we do we feel guilty, bad, useless and more in that negative category. A mistake can however be the beginning of something great, a new direction, a closer relationship, new insight to ourselves. Embrace life. Mistakes and all and you will find the blessings in them. Life is a Gift…
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Send us a text As much as we would want life to be easy, the truth is, struggling is necessary. Embrace it when it come. It will bring growth and strength with it, just as a butterfly must struggle to get out of a cocoon for the wings to work. Life is a Gift Help me bring light to this world by turning your attention to the good and opening yoursel…
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On the 92nd episode of the What is a Good Life? podcast, I am delighted to introduce our guest, Rachel Donald. Rachel is the creator of Planet: Critical, the podcast and newsletter for a world in crisis with 15,000+ subscribers from 160 countries. Planet: Critical connects the dots of science, art, language, politics, media, philosophy and power to…
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Send us a text Humans are so amazing and so complex. When we experience a trauma, like someone being killed before your eyes, that event, a few seconds of your life really, can become a moment that is relived over and over again and eventually you are defined by it. There are ways to be free. You want the feelings to go. The memory can stay. Here I…
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