How to Live a Meaningful Life with Stanford Life Design Lab’s Dave Evans
Feel Good Podcast with Kimberly Snyder
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4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this inspiring interview, Author and Stanford Design Lab Professor Dave Evans shares insights on living a meaningful life through design thinking, acceptance, and presence. Discover practical tools and spiritual perspectives to enhance your well-being and purpose.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Office Hours for Life
04:12 Ancient Wisdom and Modern Reframes
07:41 Acceptance and the Design Mindset
10:57 Creating Your Own Narrative
14:57 Heartbreak and Acceptance
18:59 The Power of Choice
20:45 Reframing Life's Challenges
22:45 Embracing Aging and Wisdom
24:41 Intimacy with Death and the Present Moment
25:34 The Pain of Loss and Its Impact on Life
28:39 Miscarriage and the Taboos Surrounding It
29:39 Acceptance of Life's Messy Parts
30:58 Design Thinking: A Reality-Based Approach
31:10 The Limitations of Impact as Meaning
34:47 Purpose as a Direction, Not a Destination
36:30 Heart Coherence and Compassion
39:16 Moment Making: The Art of Being Present
40:25 Judgment, Self-Forgiveness, and Compassion
43:02 The Role of Authenticity in Parenting
44:14 Finding Meaning in the Present Moment
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Dave Evans Resources:
Book: HOW TO LIVE A MEANINGFUL LIFE: Using Design Thinking to Unlock Purpose, Joy, and Flow Every Day
Website: designingyour.life
Instagram: @ fullyalive_bydesign
Stanford Design Lab: Life Design Lab
Bio: Dave Evans is a lecturer in the Product Design Program at Stanford. He holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford and a graduate diploma in Contemplative Spirituality from San Francisco Theological Seminary. While at Apple, he led product marketing for the mouse team and introduced laser printing to the masses. Having participated in forming the corporate cultures at Apple and EA, Dave decided his best work was in helping organizations build creative environments where people could do great work and love doing it. Helping people get traction on the question “What should I do with my life?” finally took Dave to Cal and Stanford and continues to be his life’s work.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Feel Good podcast, which is all about heart-led living and wellness. |
| 0:07.8 | When we awaken the power of our hearts and let that guide us through our daily choices and decisions, through our four cornerstones, food, body, emotional well-being, and spiritual growth, we will experience the most incredible |
| 0:22.8 | results and create more vitality, health, strength, peace, abundance, and love in our lives. |
| 0:32.0 | I am your host, Kimberly Snyder, New York Times best-selling author, founder of Saluna, |
| 0:39.3 | creator of the research-based heart-aligned meditation, wellness expert, nutritionist, and international speaker. |
| 0:45.0 | I am passionate about supporting you on your unique heart and wellness journey. |
| 0:51.5 | Let's get started. |
| 0:59.8 | Hi, everyone. Welcome back to our Monday interview show. |
| 1:07.6 | You are in for a real treat. I loved my conversation with Dave Evans, who we're having on today. He is the co-author of the brand new book, How to Live a Meaningful Life. |
| 1:14.3 | His previous book was in New York Times, number one bestseller called Designing Your Life |
| 1:20.4 | with his co-author, Bill Burnett. They are together the visionaries behind Stanford's |
| 1:27.0 | renowned life design lab. |
| 1:29.6 | So they have incredible research around purpose, around how to live this type of life. |
| 1:37.5 | But also what I love about Dave is that he is a background in theology. |
| 1:43.7 | So he also has an underlying spiritual perspective, but of course is coming |
| 1:48.5 | from this as well as a professor. He has amazing stories. He's pulling from such a wealth of |
| 1:53.6 | knowledge. I so enjoy talking to him. And one of the main things I loved in the book is that it's |
| 1:58.6 | not just about these finite moments, but it's about |
| 2:01.4 | meaningful moments, living with purpose in this present moment, not just checking things off a list. |
| 2:09.3 | So I think you're really going to love this conversation between Dave and I. I can't wait to share it with you. |
| 2:14.8 | But first, a little reminder to head to myceluna.com to join our newsletter |
| 2:20.0 | to check out our new packaging, which is birthing in the very near future. If you've been a |
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