Jadah Sellner and Jeffrey Davis: On Legacy, Life and Laughter
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2016
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
This time on The Good Life Project, I am joined by Jadah Sellner and Jeffrey Davis for a roundtable-style discussion of a few of the burning issues and questions that have been on our minds...and maybe yours, too. This discussion was incredibly fun and full of so much information, I couldn't wait to share it with all of you. Jadah is the cofounder of Simple Green Smoothies and JadahSellner.com. She has developed her groundbreaking life strategy, Love Over Metrics, with the help of her dream-tribe that supports her vision for the future of the world. Jadah’s passion is to help everyone to start and grow their own tribe in order to inspire action that will change the world. Jeffrey Davis is a poet, author, teacher, brand-strategist, founder of Tracking Wonder and author of Coat Thief and The Journey from the Center to the Page: Yoga Philosophies and Practices As Muse for Authentic Writing.
We dive into a wide swath of topics today, from the legacy that we want to leave our families and the world to the amount of control the government should have on the hours we work to grit, the infamous “aha” moment and so much more.
Mentioned in This Episode:
- Connect with Jadah: Jadah Sellner
- Connect with Jeffrey Davis: Tracking Wonder
- Coat Thief by Jeffrey Davis
- The Journey from the Center to the Page: Yoga Philosophies and Practices as Muse for Authentic Writing by Jeffrey Davis
- Big Ass Fans
- BJ Novak
- World Domination Summit
- Treehouse
- Seth Godin
- Anders Ericsson
- Edward C Banfield
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth
- Daniel Gilbert
- Tim Cook
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| 0:00.0 | So I got a bit of a fun episode for you today. You may have noticed we've been making some shifts in the format and we will continue to experiment a couple months back. |
| 0:10.0 | We sent out a listener survey, a questionnaire, we got a tremendous amount of amazing feedback about what's working, what's not working, what you like, what you don't like. |
| 0:21.0 | We can learn that three times a week was way too much for the average bear and that the longer the full length conversations are the things that the vast majority people really wanted and if anything wanted more of. |
| 0:32.0 | So you may have noticed that we've actually pulled back to twice a week now and we'll continue to listen, continue to experiment so keep letting us know what's working. |
| 0:40.0 | And we had in the pipeline this final round table. So we did a little bit differently and this one is actually with two dear friends, Jada Selner, founder, simple green smoothies and Jada Selner.com and also Jeffery Davis founder tracking wonder. |
| 0:54.0 | And there are two awesome human beings who have been individual guests in the past. We did not record this in our studio because the building was under construction that day. |
| 1:05.0 | So we ended up in my living room with three completely different microphones handheld and so what you're going to hear is a fun really wide ranging conversation that actually goes on for the better part of two hours and you will also notice that the sound is a little bit different than our normal studio sound because like I said, we're actually we're sitting in my living room on different couches and moving around and shuffling and holding different microphones. |
| 1:34.0 | And trying to get comfortable. So if you notice it's not entirely the normal broadcast, I hope quality that that's what's going on. So I just want to give you a little context there so you understand the hustle and bustle that's happening behind it. |
| 1:47.0 | It is an awesome super fun conversation. I think you may learn a lot more about all of us in this conversation than you know before to really excited to share this. I'm Jonathan Fields and this is good life project. |
| 2:01.0 | Hello, Vartee people. |
| 2:07.0 | You guys can see what's going on right here, but our studio is currently they're attacking the outside of the building and reconstructifying it. So I'm hanging out my living room on a very fluffy couch and across from me are two awesome human beings also on a really fluffy couch. |
| 2:23.0 | Jada's out there of simple green smoothies and jada's on there.com and all sorts of really neat things to come. Maybe we'll find out a little bit about that. We'll see. |
| 2:34.0 | And Jeff free Davis poet laureate guy who lives life, not just from the head up anymore founder of tracking wonder and a new book also the code thief. |
| 2:50.0 | Go check it out. What are we doing today? Well, this is a little thing called the round table, but we keep experimenting with formats. So as you guys know, we have done long forms. We have done short forms, but fundamentally we're going to be hanging out and each of us is going to be throwing out a couple of topics and we're going to go around the table. |
| 3:08.0 | And we're going to jam on those topics until they're unjammed or completely and utterly jammed. We just can't find our way out either way is good. |
| 3:19.0 | We're totally good. Whatever actually happens. That's totally fine. So always start out with you, Jada. What's on your mind today? Ladies first. |
| 3:27.0 | Well, something that I've been thinking a lot about. I'm turning 33 this month and I feel like a common conversation that comes up a lot is about adulting. |
| 3:40.0 | So I'm feeling more adult like as a mother and a wife and a founder geeking out on entrepreneurship and community building and something that I've been pondering about is what does it mean to leave a legacy. |
| 3:55.0 | And I think that there are kind of two parts. There is the one of like how do we show up in the world emotionally? How do the people closest to us really experience us in life and describe us when we're not around. |
| 4:10.0 | And then I think there's a second part, which is kind of the creative output of our body of work that we put in the world. |
| 4:16.0 | And I have two quotes. I'll share one right now that I think kind of helps set the frame for that by Benjamin Franklin, which is if you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. |
| 4:33.0 | And so I want to know what does it mean to leave a legacy. |
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