Heart-to-heart conversations about what it means to truly live towards a good life.
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.
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.
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.
What transformation actually costs, how success gets redefined, and what goal-setting looks like when you are no longer running from the outside in.
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.
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.
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.
Every "I don't know" is a star to sail by.— Good Life Project · 良好生活
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.
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