Hi, I'm Dr. Amy Robbins and welcome to life, death, and the space between.

Today's guest is Jody Wellman and her new book, You Only Die Once, is a super fun way to embrace death,

which is obviously something that is very near and dear to my heart.

Jody was a former corporate executive turned executive coach with a master's degree from University of Pennsylvania where the work

of positive psychology came out of. So she worked under Martin Soligman, Marty Soligman, who was

the father of positive psychology.

And this book is great. And this conversation was so much fun. We laughed all about death.

We talked about how you can use death to really help you live, which is obviously the big

premise of this podcast. She doesn't include the afterlife piece. I do.

So we had a little fun chatting about that. And it was just a really lighthearted conversation about the

little changes that you can make today that will make a big difference in terms of how you're

thinking about living your life, the choices that you're

making, the choices you're not making, which are probably even more important than the choices

that you are making, how consciousness plays into it. And there's just a lot of really great

overlap here, which made for an awesome conversation and make sure you listen to the end.

I take it another step further than Jody in terms of her concept of 4,000 Mondays.

So with that, here is today's episode of Life, Death, and the Space Between.

Welcome, Jody to Life, death, and the space between.

I'm so excited to be here with you, Amy.

This is, the energy is already moving between us and on the topic of death, no less, right? So like, how can we, I mean, you are a woman after my own

heart with this book. You only die once, which I was reading this morning and as I was preparing

for this interview and was like underlining and thinking about, okay, great tip, great tip, great great tip I thought I knew this but like what a

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