If you are going to prioritize money over your day to day sanity, even for a season,

you're playing with fire because that thing inside you that needs release coils up and

then makes you angry inside and then you have all this money so you start buying more

things to satiate that requires maintenance and so you are slipping down into a sand trap.

Today's guest is Jetta Diet Jenkins so he started out life in Nashville, ended up somehow

going to film school and studying writing, watching going to school and studying film and writing

and then made this really interesting turn to head into law and then went into the world

of nonprofits where he became part of one of the biggest sort of viral movements on the

internet that made a massive splash and then also turned dark really quickly. From there, he then

mounted a bicycle adventure that took him from Portland all the way down to the southern end of

South America. Does that sound like a lot for a guy who's in his mid-30s? Well, it's a lot for

anybody and in today's conversation we dive into all of these different stops along the way,

why he made those stops, what was the motivation behind it, what he discovered and how, each one of

these different things changed him. Really excited to share this conversation with you. I'm Jonathan

Fields, this is Good Life Project. When you're listening to something, you could be kissing your

boyfriend for the first time. You could be seeing Hawaii for the first time, you could be driving

down the road on your way to your grandmother's funeral and hearing a song so you're consuming art

in the context of doing something else and so that art is then layered on top of that emotion and so

for the rest of your life when you hear that song, that Bonnie Verr-sung, you're going to be like,

oh my gosh, and you're going to feel that again and that's pretty unique to music and so for me,

when I listen to podcasts and I learn, it's often when I'm driving around L.A. or driving somewhere

and so I'll learn something new and if I think about the intersection of Fairfax and Third,

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