What Is a Good Life? is a podcast about the questions that shape our lives: how we live, who we become, and what truly matters. For the past five years, I've asked more than 300 people one deceptively simple question: What is a good life? There isn't a single answer. Instead, each conversation offers a different way of seeing the world—through stories, ideas, struggles, joys, and moments of hard-earned wisdom. Together, they form a richer picture of what it means to be human. Whether you're searching for clarity, purpose, or simply a thoughtful conversation, this podcast is an invitation to reflect on your own answer. New episodes every Tuesday.
What is a Good Life?
Claim This Podcastby Mark McCartney
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What Is a Good Life? is a podcast about the questions that shape our lives: how we live, who we become, and what truly matters. For the past five years, I've asked more than 300 people one deceptively simple question: What is a good life? There isn't a single answer. Instead, each conversation offers a different way of seeing the world—through stories, ideas, struggles, joys, and moments of hard-earned wisdom. Together, they form a richer picture of what it means to be human. Whether you're searching for clarity, purpose, or simply a thoughtful conversation, this podcast is an invitation to reflect on your own answer. New episodes every Tuesday.
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July 21, 2026
What is a Good Life? #184 - Resting in the Core of My Identity with Dr. Miriam Meckel
<p>What does it actually mean to be human in an age racing toward AGI? In this episode of What is a Good Life?, Mark sits down with <strong>Dr.</strong> <strong>Miriam Meckel</strong> - award-winning journalist, professor of communication management at the University of St. Gallen, and founder of ada learning - to explore the question that has shaped her life's work: what is irreducibly human, and what are we at risk of losing? Miriam, the first female editor-in-chief of WirtschaftsWoche and former State Secretary for Media and International Affairs in North Rhine-Westphalia, opens up about a burnout that became a life-altering depression, the vulnerability of turning her private writing into her bestselling book Letter to My Life, and why she believes embodied experience — not intelligence — is what truly separates us from machines. It is a conversation about identity, friction, kindness, and what it takes to live a quiet, honest life.</p><p>For more of Dr. Miriam Meckel's work:<br>ada learning: <a href="https://www.join-ada.com/en">https://www.join-ada.com/en</a><br>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/meckel/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/meckel/</a></p><p>For more from Mark McCartney:<br>Newsletter: <a href="https://www.whatisagood.life/">https://www.whatisagood.life/</a><br>Website: <a href="https://www.mmcleadership.com/">https://www.mmcleadership.com/</a><br>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/</a><br>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/%20%E2%81%A8@whatisagoodlife3875%E2%81%A9">https://www.youtube.com/ @whatisagoodlife3875</a></p>
July 14, 2026
What is a Good Life? #183 - When Fear Becomes My Partner with Ralf Wetzel
<p>In this episode of What is a Good Life, host Mark McCartney sits down with <strong>Ralf Wetzel -</strong> a leadership scholar who has taught at leading European business schools, and a clown and mask performer whose solo show Absolutely Reliable! has played the Edinburgh Fringe. This episode is built around one question: what does it mean to have a good relationship with fear? Ralf grew up under surveillance in communist East Germany, in a family where fear was something you lived with, not something you spoke about. He spent years trying to work through it - through therapy, yoga, and psychedelics, and eventually through improv and clown theatre. Along the way, we get into a teaching moment that tested everything he'd learned, and why a plastic clown nose turned out to teach him more about truth than theory ever did.</p><p>This episode is for anyone who wants to reconsider their relationship with fear.</p><p>For more from Ralf Wetzel:<br>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ralf-wetzel-3a742011/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/ralf-wetzel-3a742011/</a></p><p>For more from Mark McCartney:<br>Newsletter: <a href="https://www.whatisagood.life/">https://www.whatisagood.life/</a><br>Website: <a href="https://www.mmcleadership.com/">https://www.mmcleadership.com/</a><br>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/</a><br>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/%20%E2%81%A8@whatisagoodlife3875%E2%81%A9">https://www.youtube.com/ @whatisagoodlife3875</a></p>
July 7, 2026
What is a Good Life? #182 - Cities That Make Us Happier with Lior Steinberg
<p>In this episode of <strong>What is a Good Life</strong>, host Mark McCartney sits down with <strong>Lior Steinberg</strong>, a Rotterdam-based urban planner and co-founder of Humankind, a multidisciplinary team working toward urban happiness for all. Lior is also the author of the children's book The Car That Wanted to Be a Bike. Together they unpack why so many cities remain trapped in car-centric design decades after urbanist Jane Jacobs first warned against it.</p><p>They talk about the "sidewalk ballet," how children's toys teach us to want cars, the surprising parallel between car culture and cigarette smoking, Barcelona's superblocks, and why trees are the best climate technology we already have. </p><p>This is a thought-provoking conversation on how often change feels impossible until it is here.</p><p><br>For more of Lior Steinberg's work:<br>Humankind: <a href="https://www.humankind.city/">https://www.humankind.city/</a><br>Personal Website: <a href="https://steinberg.nu/">https://steinberg.nu/</a><br>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/liorsteinberg/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/liorsteinberg/</a></p><p>For more from Mark McCartney:<br>Newsletter: <a href="https://www.whatisagood.life/">https://www.whatisagood.life/</a><br>Website: <a href="https://www.mmcleadership.com/">https://www.mmcleadership.com/</a><br>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/</a><br>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/%20%E2%81%A8@whatisagoodlife3875%E2%81%A9">https://www.youtube.com/ @whatisagoodlife3875</a></p>
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