This is Hello Freedom and I'm your host Terry Cole.

For almost two decades I've been a licensed psychotherapist and transformation coach, and on this show I will bring you simple strategies based on practical psychology, inspiring expert interviews, and my own insights and observations

from my time on the front lines of the fascinating worlds of entertainment,

empowerment, and mental health.

Now let's get going with today's episode. Well, hello and welcome to Hello Freedom. I'm your host Terry Cole.

Today is a really super special episode.

I want to talk today about all of the self-help books

that are out there.

How do we know what are the ones that will actually speak to us?

Right, how do we know what are the ones that are actually accessible?

What are the ones that can help us actually live a good life?

Today I am interviewing one of my really close friends,

Jonathan Fields, and yes, he has a new book out that just came out last week, and it's called How to Live a Good Life.

Many of you may be familiar with Jonathan's work. He has an amazing podcast called The Good Life Project, and he's such an interesting person to talk to.

Before I became friends with Jonathan a couple of years ago, I was very familiar with his work because

originally he had a project called the Good Life Project and he interviewed 29

influencers in all different industries and he asked them one question each and he basically thought that he would

get a lot of similar answers and the question was what makes a good life and he actually got 29 very very different answers and

so that became a video series that you guys can see right out there and all this info will be on the website.

And Jonathan actually interviewed me last year for his podcast and it was probably, it definitely was, not probably. It was the deepest

interview that I ever did and I went up to his apartment I'm friends with his wife Stephanie as well and I went up to their upper west side apartment where he records and we sat there and I think we talked

for about 90 minutes straight. So that interview is about an hour and 12 minutes long,

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