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The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

How to Live a Good Life with Jonathan Fields

The Tortoise with Brooke McAlary

Brooke McAlary

Education, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.6525 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Brooke has a wonderful conversation with Jonathan Fields about choice, mindfulness, technology and what it means to live a good life.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Slow Home podcast. This is episode number 114. I'm your host, Brooke. Hello, Ben.

0:08.8

Good. How are you? Very well. Thank you. Good. Looking forward to you chatting with one Jonathan Fields today in this

0:18.0

episode, all about how to live a good life.

0:23.6

How to live a good life. So Jonathan is someone I've been following online for a long time.

0:29.2

He founded the Good Life Project. He has a podcast and a video series by the same name.

0:35.6

He runs workshops and summer camps for adults and

0:39.7

really cool stuff. And he's had such an amazing personal trajectory. He's gone kind of from a

0:46.6

lawyer, fast-paced, pressured life to someone who taught yoga and mindfulness and started companies as serial entrepreneur and,

0:56.9

you know, has written books for business owners and entrepreneurs. And now he's someone who

1:02.7

helps people figure out what it looks like to live a good life personally. It's really, he's just

1:08.0

a cool guy with so many insights and, you know, so much experience personally to draw from, but cool guy so many insights and

1:11.2

you know so much experience personally to draw from

1:13.8

but then also so many wonderful conversations with amazing people

1:16.9

that he then uses to kind of fuel his own personal quest

1:21.1

for a good life and then uses that to help other people find

1:24.5

you know what it looks like so I was very excited to

1:27.0

get to chat

1:27.9

with Jonathan. Yeah, what a real personal thing to discuss. Oh, absolutely. I mean, a good life

1:33.3

for one person may not be the same for another another. So it's, I know, it's going to be a very

1:39.4

interesting discussion. It is. It's such a good chat and very practical. I think sometimes it can be really

1:46.5

easy to slip into the theoretical of these kind of conversations and keep it really sort of high

1:53.4

level and not necessarily think about how it looks in our personal everyday, daily life, you know,

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