123: Jonathan Fields - How To Live A Good Life • Breakthroughs Require Uncertainty • Money And Happiness Are Byproducts, Not The Goal
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2016
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Jonathan Fields inspires possibility.
He's a dad, husband, serial entrepreneur, growth strategist, and award-winning author.
Jonathan runs mission-driven media and education venture, Good Life Project, where he and his team lead a global community in the quest to live more meaningful, connected, and vital lives.
Good Life Project is a top-rated podcast and video-series with millions of listens and views in more than 150 countries, where Jonathan regularly shares conversations with the world’s leading voices like Sir Ken Robinson, Elizabeth Gilbert, Milton Glaser, Brene Brown, Gretchen Rubin, and hundreds more.
When not building ventures, writing, and producing, Jonathan can be found dancing around his living room with his wife and daughter, listening to “real music."
In this episode, we discuss:
- How "How to Live a Good Life" differs from his previous books
- Blending being an artist and entrepreneur
- What is Good Life Project and what makes it so successful?
- Jonathan's wake up call during his depleted lawyer phase
- There are no breakthroughs without uncertainty
- Don't aim for work life balance, aim for work life blend
- Your three buckets... connection, contribution, and vitality
- How do you know what bucket to fill first?
- The bucket that needs filling isn't always obvious
- You're only as strong as your least full bucket
- When all 3 buckets are dry, get quality sleep
- Jonathan's sleep strategies
- Reset your body in nature
- A sense of belonging is essential for survival
- Relationships require both give and take
- Give to glow
- The practice of saying "no"
- Money and happiness are byproducts, not the goal
- Being intentional
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Jonathan Fields - How to Live a Good Life (book)
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Listen and subscribe to Good Life Project Radio - iTunes/Stitcher
Jonathan Fields - Uncertainty (book)
Jonathan Fields - Career Renegade (book)
Adam Grant - Give and Take (book)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and next level. Our guest this week is Jonathan Fields, a man who inspires |
| 0:24.5 | possibility. He's a dad-husband, serial entrepreneur, gross strategist, and |
| 0:30.2 | award-winning author. Jonathan currently runs Mission Driven Media and Education Venture, |
| 0:35.0 | Good Life Project, where he and his team lead a global community |
| 0:39.0 | and a quest to live more meaningful, connected, and vital lives. |
| 0:44.0 | Good Life Project is a top rated podcast and video series |
| 0:47.2 | with millions of listens and views in more than 150 countries |
| 0:51.0 | where Jonathan regularly shares his conversations with the world's |
| 0:54.8 | leading voices. People like Sir Ken Robinson, Elizabeth Gilbert, Milton Glazier, |
| 1:00.6 | Brenay Brown, Gretchen Rubin, and hundreds more. |
| 1:04.6 | Jonathan is just so fun to listen to, so inspiring, and such a wealth information. |
| 1:10.0 | You guys are going to love this. |
| 1:12.2 | So before we get into the details of our show with Jonathan, I'm going to give a shout |
| 1:15.2 | out to our show sponsor Sun Warrior and I am super excited to announce the launch of their new protein bars. |
| 1:22.4 | So Sun Warrior has a new bar called Soul Good and it comes in four |
| 1:26.1 | different flavors and they are awesome. Jesse and I may have mentioned earlier on in the |
| 1:31.5 | podcast that we got some samples of them |
| 1:33.4 | and now they are finally here. Unfortunately they're not in Canada yet but they will be |
| 1:37.8 | soon as we know us Canadians we have to be patient for some of these awesome somewhere |
| 1:42.4 | products but in the US you have |
| 1:44.9 | access to these awesome protein bars so really excited to announce that this is |
| 1:50.0 | really good news for Sun Warrior and we can't wait to get our first shipment. |
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