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Arianna Huffington: On Family, Success and Sleep Apr 11, 2016

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Today's guest is Arianna Huffington, co-founder, president, and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, and author of fifteen books.

In May 2005, she launched The Huffington Post, a news and blog site that quickly became one of the most widely-read, linked to, and frequently-cited media brands on the Internet.

In 2012, the site won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. Huffington has been named to Time Magazine's list of the world’s 100 most influential people and the Forbes Most Powerful Women list.

Originally from Greece, Huffington moved to England when she was 16 and graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in economics. At 21, she became president of the debating society, the Cambridge Union. She serves on numerous boards, including The Center for Public Integrity and The Committee to Protect Journalists.

A devoted mom with a deepening focus on redefining the metrics of a life well-lived beyond business, she's decided to make sleep her revolutionary cause with her latest book, The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life One Night At A Time.

In This episode, You’ll Learn:

What family means to Arianna and how her Greek heritage shaped her lens on relationships.
How an health incident awakened her to the important of redefining success.
Why she chose sleep as the subject of her attention and new book.
Why sleep may well be the single biggest game-changer for your life.
What Arianna's doing to make her smartphone into a dumb phone.
Simple things you can start that will make the biggest difference in your sleep.
How sleep affects mood, cravings and weight.

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Chris Guillebeau: The Upside of Giving Up Apr 08, 2016

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Finish what you start.

Don't be a quitter.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

It's a lesson we all learned from well-intended advice-givers somewhere along the way. It's all about character.

Life's hard, things get hard, the people who survive and do great things in business and life are the ones who keep going, no matter what the road throws in our way.

But, what if that was wrong?

FWhat if the people who do great things are are the ones who aren't afraid to quit a parade of wrong things in the name of making the space needed to see and then do the right ones?

What if finishing what you started was only half the story? The other half being the potential benefits?

This is what today's GLP Guest Riff is all about, and it comes from World Domination Summit founder and New York Times bestselling author of the new book, Born For This, Chris Guillebeau.

Chris delivers some straight-shooting myth-busting about "stick-to-it-iveness," or when it makes sense to keep going and when the best option, both for you and for those you eventually seek to serve, is to just walk away.

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Susan Piver, Lodro Rinzler: Soulmates, Rejection and Big Wins Apr 06, 2016

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Today's Good Life Project Roundtable™ features guests-in-residence Susan Piver and Lodro Rinzler. This is session 2 in their three-week residency.

Susan is a New York Times bestselling author, teacher, and founder of the international mindfulness community, The Open Heart Project. Working to create a good human world, one breath at a time.

Lodro is a teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage, the author of five books on meditation, and the founder of M N D F L, a new studio making meditation accessible to all New Yorkers, and the Institute for Compassionate Leadership.

Our three topics in this episode:

Is there such a thing as 'the one' in relationships and how do you know?
Everyone wants to own the results, but why not the process?
How to be okay when your co-workers reject you.

It's fast-paced, fun, utterly unscripted and at times a bit raw, but always good-natured and very real. Enjoy! And let us know if you like this format, over on social media.

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Krista Tippett: Becoming Wise Apr 04, 2016

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Today's conversation features Krista Tippett, a Peabody-award-winning broadcaster, New York Times bestselling author, and National Humanities Medalist.

As the creator and host of public radio’s On Being, she takes up the great questions of meaning amidst the political, economic, cultural, and technological shifts of 21st century life.

In 2013, Krista took On Being and its emergent Civil Conversations Project into independent production, creating "a social enterprise with a radio show at its heart." She grew up in Oklahoma, attended Brown University, was a journalist and diplomat in Cold War Berlin, and holds a masters of divinity from Yale.

Her books include Einstein's God, Speaking of Faith, and most recently Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living.

In This episode, You’ll Learn:

Lessons she drew from her hellfire and brimstone Southern Baptist grandfather.
Her experience being in East Germany while the wall was still up.
What drew her to divinity school.
Why pitching her idea for On Being was a hard sell in the early 1990's.
Why it took 2 years to convince her to release the long form, unedited content of her show and why this resonates with listeners.
What essential quality she thinks is a mark of wisdom.
Why leaning into mystery, being fully grounded in our bodies, and returning to the beloved community are so crucial today.
How joy and hope play into the attainment and expression of wisdom.

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Charlie Gilkey: On Service, Hard Work and Freedom Apr 01, 2016

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+This week's GLP Guest Riff comes from Productive Flourishing founder and process/growth maven, Charlie Gilkey.

Charlie read Jonathan's original essay, The Content Delusion, which we aired as last week's GLP Riff, and felt the need to respond. He wanted to go deeper and explore what he calls the Sustainability Thesis, while also debunking two huge myths about building a business or a career.

In this provocative, philosophical and actionable riff, he dives into the idea of "scaling" your business and why, for some, that is a fantastic idea, while for others, it is a terrible one. He also explores the "dollars for hours" myth for service professionals and offers a potential defense of it as a way to build a business that is so often maligned not only in the online space, but in the community of "legitimate business" in general.

It is a great compliment to last week's Content Delusion Riff and also a bit of a reset and a permission slip to elevate service over freedom.

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Roundtable: Susan Piver & Lodro Rinzler – Part 1 Mar 30, 2016

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Today's Good Life Project Roundtable™ features guests-in-residence Susan Piver and Lodro Rinzler. This is session 1 in their three-week residency.

Susan is a New York Times bestselling author, teacher, and founder of the international mindfulness community, The Open Heart Project. Working to create a good human world, one breath at a time.

Our three topics in this episode:

When women get emotional, do you secretly think they're crazy?
Do we have to love the people we hate?
Fame for fame's sake, what gives?

It's fast-paced, fun, utterly unscripted and at times a bit raw, but always good-natured and very real. Enjoy! And let us know if you like this format, over on social media.

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Neil Pasricha: From Awesome Hunter to Happiness Crusader Mar 28, 2016

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Today's conversation features Neil Pasricha, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Awesome series, three time Webby Award winner, Harvard MBA grad, former Director of Leadership Development at Walmart, and husband, father, son, and brother.

He is the author of a new book, The Happiness Equation: Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything, which started as a letter to his unborn child on how to live a happy life, after his wife told him she was pregnant on the flight home from their honeymoon!

TIn This episode, You’ll Learn:

How Neil divides his time into 3 buckets for optimal happiness (and how they are different from the 3 buckets Jonathan offers).
Why wanting can often lead to the exact opposite of happiness.
Why he advocates for a 'home contract' as a key to happiness, in addition to a business or employment contract.
How action leads to motivation, not the other way around.
Why he's loving the word practice these days.

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The Content Marketing Delusion: Work Still Matters Mar 25, 2016

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There’s this unfortunate delusion that’s gaining credibility in the world of entrepreneurship and careers.

The road to growth is paved with "content." Write, film, record and produce content and the world will rush to your doorstep.

You don’t have to put your “self” out there anymore, just put your content out there.

Problem is, it preys on a particular fear, and it’s based on a lie. At least, in part.

Content, done right, can be a fantastic mechanism to build an idea into a platform, a brand, a reputation, position, entity, business or organization. But, it’s also a way to hide from the other piece of the launch and growth pie. The side of the equation that is about something else. Something that scares us. Something that, skipped, will still leave you playing a losing game. That's what today's GLP Riff is about.

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Divine Feminine, Creative Suffering and Word Traps? Mar 23, 2016

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Today's Good Life Project Roundtable™ is the third and final week for our current guests-in-residence Emiliya Zhivotovskaya, MAPP and and Bob Gower.

Emiliya is a leading voice in the world of positive psychology and the science of flourishing, and is the founder of the Certificate in Applied Positive Psychology program, which is the largest in the world. In a past life she was a party entertainer and knows pretty much every group dance ever invented.

Bob is a deep systems-thinker, author of Agile Business, organizational-dynamics consultant to some of the largest companies in the world. He's also an ex-cult member, and that comes out in interesting ways in the conversation.

Our three topics in this episode:

What's up with the "divine feminine?"
Does creative genius demand suffering?
Are we trapped by our past actions and statements?

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From Club Kid to CEO and World Hunger Activist Mar 21, 2016

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This week, our in-depth conversation features Cathy Burke, speaker, author, and global change maker has served as CEO of The Hunger Project Australia for nearly two decades, and has traveled extensively across the villages of Africa and South Asia in her work of ending hunger.

Cathy has been profoundly changed by what she has experienced. The women and men she has met have given her the most enduring lessons in life and leadership, resilience and the power of the human will.

She is the author of the book, Unlikely Leaders: Lessons in leadership from the village classroom, These stories are captivating and moving, providing a roadmap for personal and social change.

In This Episode, You'll Learn:

How Cathy awakened to both the truth of world hunger and her role in helping to end it
What her first trip to Ethiopia taught her that she (and her group) never saw coming
How harnessing the power of women to lead is the ultimate catalyst
How her work has forever changed her

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The Hunger Project

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