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 <a href="http://acast.com/privacy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. Hosted on Acast. See <a target="_blank" href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noreferrer noopener">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.
Podcast Overview
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 <a href="http://acast.com/privacy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information. Hosted on Acast. See <a target="_blank" href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noreferrer noopener">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.
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July 30, 2026
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 are not alone. <br />Chris Guillebeau has spent fifteen years writing about the questions that keep smart, capable people stuck. He is back on the show to talk about his new book, Time Anxiety, the clearest thing he has written yet on why "get up an hour earlier" backfires and what actually helps.<br />In this conversation, you'll explore:<br /><ul><li>Why your brain is chronically wrong about how much time anything takes, and the fifteen-minute fix for chronic lateness</li><li>The eighth day exercise, a way to find out what you actually want to do with your time by imagining a day with zero obligation to anyone else</li><li>The traffic light method for working with your real energy instead of fighting it</li><li>Why swapping the word "productive" for "valuable" changes how a day feels</li><li>The shame so many caretakers feel about carving out time for themselves, and the answer Gretchen Rubin gave Chris that changed how he thinks about it</li></ul><br />If you've ever felt like your calendar is lying to you about how much time you have, this is the conversation for it.<br />You can find Chris at: <a href="https://www.timeanxiety.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Website</a> | <a href="https://www.yearofmentalhealth.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">A Year of Mental Health Substack</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/193countries" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Instagram</a> | <a href="https://www.goodlifeproject.com/podcast/time-anxiety-time-blindness-energy-management-chris-guillebeau-best-of" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Episode Transcript</a><br />Next week, we're sitting down with Dr. Fred Cohen to talk about why almost everything you've been told about migraines is outdated, and what the science actually says about treating them. Be sure to follow Good Life Project wherever you get your podcasts so you don’t miss any upcoming episodes!<br />Check out our sponsors and resources: <a href="https://www.goodlifeproject.com/sponsors/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Visit Our Sponsor Page</a>
July 27, 2026
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 inside it.<br />Leidy Klotz is a behavioral scientist and engineering professor at the University of Virginia who studies how and why humans design. His research has appeared in Nature and Science, and he's been interviewed everywhere from Hidden Brain to Freakonomics to The Atlantic. Before any of that, he spent 22 years as a professional soccer player and then built schools for a living, which is part of why his take on space is so physical and so lived-in.<br />In this conversation, you'll explore:<br /><ul><li>The three psychological needs that every space either feeds or starves, and why they trace straight back to hunter-gatherer survival</li><li>Why Susan Cain's open-office backlash and today's return-to-office mandates are the same failure wearing different clothes</li><li>The strange, well-documented phenomenon of "habituation," including the story of an architecture student who walked past a six-story landmark building for years without ever seeing it</li><li>A simple practice called "space before screen," and why the top of a parking garage might be the cheapest awe you'll ever find</li><li>What it means to build a space that keeps someone's memory alive, drawn from one of the most personal stories Leidy has ever told on a podcast</li></ul><br />If you've ever felt something shift the moment you walked into a certain room and couldn't say why, this conversation gives you the language for it.<br />You can find Leidy at: <a href="https://leidyklotz.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Website</a> | <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/leidyklotz/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">LinkedIn</a> | <a href="https://www.goodlifeproject.com/podcast/agency-habituation-midlife-spaces-leidy-klotz" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Episode Transcript</a><br />Next week, we're sitting down with Chris Guillebeau to talk about why the anxious feeling that you're running out of time might be less about your calendar and more about a story you've never questioned. Be sure to follow Good Life Project wherever you get your podcasts so you don't miss any upcoming episodes!<br />Check out our sponsors and resources: <a href="https://www.goodlifeproject.com/sponsors/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Visit Our Sponsor Page</a>
July 23, 2026
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 deserves it, and what it says about us if we don't have enough of it.<br />Leisa Peterson spent three decades inside the financial services industry before a near-fatal event forced her to see how far she had drifted from her own life. Today she coaches people, most of them women, on the inherited stories that quietly run their financial decisions long after childhood ends, and how to rewrite them, along with their financial futures.<br />In this conversation, you'll hear:<br /><ul><li>Why twins raised in the exact same household can end up in completely different financial and emotional places as adults</li><li>The specific questions to ask a financial advisor before you hire one, and the one answer that should make you walk away</li><li>Why financial regret research shows the real damage isn't the bad decision, it's the silence around it</li><li>How to start defining your own "enough" instead of borrowing someone else's number</li><li>What Leisa's husband's diagnosis taught her about the assets that never show up on a bank statement</li></ul><br />If you've ever felt behind, ashamed, or just quietly unsure whether you're getting this right, this conversation will change how you think about all of it.<br />You can find Leisa at: <a href="https://www.wealthclinic.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Website</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/leisapeterson/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Instagram</a> | <a href="https://www.goodlifeproject.com/podcast/money-story-financial-psychology-midlife-money-leisa-peterson" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Episode Transcript</a><br />Next week, we're sitting down with Leidy Klotz to talk about how the rooms you live in every day shape how much control, connection, and competence you feel, often without you ever noticing it. Be sure to follow Good Life Project wherever you get your podcasts so you don’t miss any upcoming episodes!<br />Check out our sponsors and resources: <a href="https://www.goodlifeproject.com/sponsors/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Visit Our Sponsor Page</a>
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