074: How to Know What to Do with Your Life with Jonathan Fields

Feel Good Effect

Robyn Conley Downs

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.9 • 725 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This week’s guest is Jonathan Fields, founder of The Good Life Project where he hosts his top-ranked podcast, The Good Life Project Podcast, and creator of Sparketypes.

Jonathan Fields shares his wisdom about how to dive into self-knowledge and really understand who you are, what you want, what you need in your life, and then how to harness that to do the work that you’re here to do.

We really unpack what Jonathan calls Sparketypes (the archetype of work that sparks you), tell you how you can figure out what yours is, and some really tactical ways to know what to do with your life.

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Guest Bio

Jonathan Fields is a dad, husband, entrepreneur and award-winning author. He founded mission-driven media and education venture, Good Life Project®, where he hosts the top-ranked Good Life Project podcast, with millions of downloads and a global audience, and leads an international community in the pursuit of live well-lived. He is also the creator of the Sparketypes™, a set of archetypes designed to reveal the source-code for the work you’re here to do. Jonathan’s latest book, How to Live a Good Life: Soulful Stories, Surprising Science and Practical Wisdom, offers a powerful framework for a life well-lived, and its companion journal, The Good Life Journal, reveals a simple 12-minute daily practice that lets you come alive not someday, but today.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Feel Good Effect. Today we're talking with Jonathan Fields.
0:04.8	Jonathan is a dad, husband, entrepreneur, and award-winning author. He's the founder of
0:09.7	Mission-driven Media and Education Venture Good Life Project, where he hosts the top-ranked Good Life
0:14.9	Project podcast with millions of downloads and a global audience. He's also the creator of the
0:20.7	Sparka Types, a set of
0:22.1	archetypes designed to reveal the source code for the work you're here to do. In his latest book,
0:27.5	How to Live a Good Life, Soulful Story, Surprising Science and Practical Wisdom, offers a powerful
0:33.1	framework for a life well lived. I invited Jonathan on to share his wisdom about how to look at
0:39.3	your life right now and in retrospect and to find that through line, how to dive into self
0:44.5	knowledge and really understand who you are, what you want, what you need in your life, and then how
0:50.2	to harness that to do the work that you're here to do. I'm also so fired up about the sparkotypes,
0:56.3	the work that Jonathan and his team are doing around revealing what he's calling the source
1:01.6	code for the work you're here to do. And so we really unpack those sparkotypes, tell you how
1:06.8	you can figure out what yours is, and some really tactical ways to know what to do with your life,
1:12.3	whether you're someone that's just getting into a new career or you're way down the path in life.
1:18.3	This episode offers so many gems. Let's make it happen. Welcome to the feel good effect. I'm your host, Robin Conley Downs, and I help people find time and create space in their lives for what matters most by sharing simplified strategies for wellness. This podcast is all about real talk, real wellness, and unpacking what it really means to be healthy.
1:48.5	Jonathan, thank you so much for joining us today.
1:52.0	Oh, it's my pleasure. Thanks for inviting me.
1:53.6	So I have to say, I didn't say this before we got on the actual interview, but there's been
1:58.9	a few times in my podcasting career while I have this
2:01.6	moments where I get to talk to people who are my longtime virtual mentors. It's just such a
2:08.4	thrill because I don't know if you have had that experience through your podcasting journey,
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