Month: July 2022

My guest today is Gary Ferguson. Gary has written 27 books on Science and Nature, including a book called “The Eight Master Lessons of Nature: What Nature Teaches us About Living Well in the World.” Gary’s most recent book is called “Full Ecology: Repairing Our Relationship with the Natural World.” Garry has created an organization called Full Ecology with a cultural psychologist named Mary Clare, who is not only has co-founder and partner, but also his wife. Gary describes full ecology as an idea and an organization dedicated to breaking down the walls between the human psyche and the natural world. Together, he and Mary Clare offer workshops, retreats, keynotes and continuing professional development to help individuals, families and or organizations traverse life’s changes with integrity and vision.

In this interview, we discuss how to renew your relationship with nature and how to deepen it. We also talk about things like the many, many hundreds and thousands of miles that Gary has spent in Yellowstone National Park. We discuss what he has learned in that including beauty, community, relationships, grief, and mystery.

“It is no wonder that we are starving to rediscover a connection with the natural world.”

This week on the School for Good Living Podcast:

• What is the objective case and what does it teach us about the world?
• What Gary has learned in his thousands of miles walked in Yellowstone National Park.
• What Gary has learned about grief and how it helps him to empathize with others.
• How things in nature, including humans, react to the forces of trauma.
• How we can make space for grief in our lives and what that can do for us.
• What is full ecology and what does it teach us about what’s inside us and between one another.

Resources Mentioned:

• Wildwords.net
• Fullecology.com

Connect With The Guest:

• Gary Ferguson

Subscribe and sign up for more!

Thank you for listening to this week’s episode of the School For Good Living Podcast, I hope you found it as insightful as I did! If you enjoyed this episode, then be sure to head over to goodliving.com and sign up for our email list to receive special reminders and exclusive content sent right to your inbox. Explore our website to learn more about the many services I offer, like my Transformation Coaching Program, Coach Training Program, and my catalog of quotations to help you live a good life!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

182. Coaches Commonplace Book – Episode #3

Dean Miles is a fellow member of the Marshall Goldsmith 100 coaches group. Dean joins me in this special series where we dive into some of our philosophies about coaching and good living.

Join us in this episode of the Coaches Commonplace Book where we dive into the information that we have been consuming recently, what things we have been learning from that information, emotional fitness, emotional resiliency, and a bit about making money and influencing others as a coach.

“As things grow, they become more complex, but they don’t need to become more complicated.”

This week on the School for Good Living Podcast:

• How humans are “infovores”
• What are Brilliant and Dean currently reading?
• The information diet of a coach
• What Brilliant and Dean would include if they wrote the Men’s Health article “Are You Mentally Fit? 31 Ways to Power up Your Brain”
  • Da Vinci’s work and philosophies
  • Brilliant’s habits for mental fitness
  • Dean’s habits for mental fitness
• Embrace failure in your life without letting yourself fall too far
• Becoming space holders for other people and for things we care about

Resources Mentioned

• Bridgepoint Coaching
• goodliving.com

Connect With The Hosts:

• Brilliant Miller
• Dean Miles

Subscribe and sign up for more!

Thank you for listening to this week’s episode of the School For Good Living Podcast, I hope you found it as insightful as I did! If you enjoyed this episode, then be sure to head over to goodliving.com and sign up for our email list to receive special reminders and exclusive content sent right to your inbox. Explore our website to learn more about the many services I offer, like my Transformation Coaching Program, Coach Training Program, and my catalog of quotations to help you live a good life!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author and an award-winning journalist. He is the Executive Director of the Flow Research Collective, as well as the co-host of a podcast by the same name. He is one of the world’s leading experts on human performance and has appeared in over 100 publications. In addition, he has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes. In his latest book, The Devil’s Dictionary, he writes about what the world could look like in 15 years if we manage to solve some of the biggest problems we face as a species and what adjustments we would see in society.

In this interview on the School for Good Living Podcast, Steven shares about his latest book, The Devil’s Dictionary. It’s a near-future thriller about the evolution of empathy in the tradition of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson. In this interview, we talk about empathy and why it’s critical for us as humans to cultivate at this time to expand our sphere of caring and how we can do so. Steven shares personally from his life about his loving-kindness practice, the skepticism he had coming into that, and the benefits he’s found from doing it. We also talk about a conservation technique called mega linkages, how we can connect more nature for very specific reasons.

“If we’re going to solve the environmental challenges that we’re up against, we are going to have to start caring for forests and oceans the way that we care about friends and family.”

This week on the School for Good Living Podcast:

• What is happening with the world and what hope to have for the future
• How “empathy for all” could be the key to solving the big environmental challenges we face
• What are mega linkages and how they could help us save the natural environment around us
• What is loving-kindness meditation and how it can bless our lives
• How we can cultivate empathy and its role in us performing at our peak
• What difficulties writers face when writing both fiction and non-fiction books

Resources Mentioned

• Steven Kotler
• Steven’s first interview on the School for Good Living
• The Devil’s Dictionary

Connect With The Guest:

• Steven Kotler

Subscribe and sign up for more!

Thank you for listening to this week’s episode of the School For Good Living Podcast, I hope you found it as insightful as I did! If you enjoyed this episode, then be sure to head over to goodliving.com and sign up for our email list to receive special reminders and exclusive content sent right to your inbox. Explore our website to learn more about the many services I offer, like my Transformation Coaching Program, Coach Training Program, and my catalog of quotations to help you live a good life!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS

David McRaney is a science journalist fascinated with brains, minds, and culture. David is the creator of the blog, the book, and the podcast called “You Are Not So Smart.” His most recent book is “How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion and Persuasion.” In this book, David writes “You are about to gain a superpower. A step-by-step script of how to change people’s minds on any topic without coercion, by simply asking the right kinds of questions in the right order.” That’s a pretty bold claim, but David has traveled the world to learn from experts in communication and human behavior such as scientists and psychologists. He’s also talked to 911 truther cult members, flat earthers, all kinds of people who believe just about everything to find out why they believe what they believe and when they stop believing it, what caused them to stop believing it and to believe something else instead. It’s not exaggerating to say that it very well could change your life.

In this conversation, we explore disagreements, opinions, attitudes, beliefs, and how they’re different. We talk about the fact that humans are ultra-social creatures and how the groups we belong to influence what we believe. We talk about identity and about the potential that each of us has to change the world. I love this book and I’m super grateful to David for being a guest on The School for Good Living.

“What if instead of trying to win an argument as to whether or not one of us is seeing this properly and the other is not… we enter into a conversation of why you think we see this differently?”

This week on the School for Good Living Podcast:

• Why we disagree
• How our brains lie to us to try and disambiguate new things
• How we think differently alone versus in a group
• How cognitive empathy can help us to change our minds
• How we can change who we know ourselves to be
• What is a threshold to conformity and what does it say about our natural ways of finding community

Resources Mentioned

• David McRaney
• How Minds Change
• You Are Not So Smart

Connect With The Guest:

• David McRaney

Subscribe and sign up for more!

Thank you for listening to this week’s episode of the School For Good Living Podcast, I hope you found it as insightful as I did! If you enjoyed this episode, then be sure to head over to goodliving.com and sign up for our email list to receive special reminders and exclusive content sent right to your inbox. Explore our website to learn more about the many services I offer, like my Transformation Coaching Program, Coach Training Program, and my catalog of quotations to help you live a good life!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: RSS