Good Life Project

良好生活

Heart-to-heart conversations about what it means to truly live towards a good life.

For the questions that don't have easy answers

The name 良好生活 is rooted in Aristotle's concept of eudaimonia. Not happiness as fleeting pleasure or contentment, but happiness as flourishing. Living from the inside out. Becoming more fully who you are. If you've ever sensed there's a deeper way to live, and found yourself searching for what that actually means, this show is for you.

Good Life Project began as a "third space," a bilingual conversation between me and my friend Ziddle, carved out between our full-time lives. We were both deep in demanding careers and studies, and this was where we could think out loud about the bigger questions neither of us had time to sit with anywhere else.

In 2024, we launched In Transition, eight honest conversations with people mid-crossing: PhD students still figuring out who they are, new graduates stepping into the working world, people deep in mid-life reinvention. All of them honest about the fog. What emerged was a pattern: transition covers far more of life than we admit, and is far less talked about than it deserves to be.

Now the show is mine to carry, and still finding its shape. I share personal reflections on transition from the inside, interview people who are living examples of what it means to move towards a good life, and bring in voices from the field: psychologists, researchers, practitioners, thinkers. It's a standalone space for anyone who is in transition, or beginning to wonder if they might be. Fittingly, the show is still in transition.

Six episodes to begin with

01

GLP38: Midlife Crisis as Turning Point

中年危机也是转机|用教练的眼光看转变

What does it actually mean to be in midlife transition, from the inside? Drawing on the Rooted and Rising methodology, this episode reframes midlife crisis as a signal worth listening to, not a problem to solve.

普通话 · 38 min · Nov 2025
02

In Transition: Giving Up the Beijing Apartment to Build a Cabin in Xinjiang

退掉北京的房子,去新疆盖小屋

A guest conversation with someone who made a choice that looked, from the outside, like the wrong one. What actually happens when you leave the familiar behind and build something new in the most literal sense.

普通话 · 62 min · Oct 2024
03

GLP31: The Three Most Expensive Costs of Midlife Transition

中年转型,我付出的三个最昂贵的代价

What transformation actually costs, how success gets redefined, and what goal-setting looks like when you are no longer running from the outside in.

普通话 · 75 min · Mar 2025
04

GLP35: Emotions as Messengers of Transition

情绪,转变的信使|解码你的内在语言

Emotions are not reactions. They are the brain's active constructions. Drawing on Lisa Feldman Barrett's theory of constructed emotion, this episode explores how to read the language your inner world is already speaking, and use it to navigate transition with more clarity.

普通话 · 23 min · May 2025
05

GLP37: The Wet Market Awakening: When Your Value Is No Longer on Your Business Card

菜市场的觉醒|当你的价值不再系在business card上

Karen left her role as an Asian Business Manager at 38, and had her awakening at a Macau wet market surrounded by housewives and vendors. What followed: depression, loss, a husband in ICU, and a cancer diagnosis at 51. This is not a motivational story. It is a real one.

English · 47 min · Oct 2025
06

Moving House, Clearing Space: Making Room in the Heart

搬家断舍离:腾出空间 腾出心

A conversation about what the ordinary act of moving house reveals, about accumulation, attachment, the things we carry without knowing why, and what happens when we finally let go.

普通话 · 52 min · Oct 2024
所有的"不知道",是起航的星辰。所有的"困惑",都是打开新世界的钥匙。
生命最珍贵的不是现成的解答,而是探寻中闪耀的微光。
Every "I don't know" is a star to sail by.
Every confusion is a key to a world not yet opened.
The most precious thing in life is not the ready-made answer,
but the glimmer of light found in the searching.
— Good Life Project · 良好生活

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