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What is a Good Life?Over the last three years, I've interviewed nearly 300 people around the question of "What is a good life?" I am not trying to find or prescribe universal answers to this question; instead, I aim to prompt your own inquiry into what constitutes a good life for you. Author: Mark McCartney
Over the last three years, I've interviewed nearly 300 people around the question of "What is a good life?" I am not trying to find or prescribe universal answers to this question; instead, I aim to prompt your own inquiry into what constitutes a good life for you. I am also trying to share more genuine expressions of the human experience, beyond the masks that we wear. Language: en Genres: Education, Philosophy, Self-Improvement, Society & Culture Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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What is a Good Life? #170 - Recovering Right Relationship with Ally Kingston
Episode 170
Monday, 13 April, 2026
What does a truly good life look like - and how do we find our way back to it?In this episode of What is a Good Life?, Mark McCartney speaks with Ally Kingston about recovering the capacity for "right relationship": with ourselves, with nature, with community, and with something greater.Ally is a creative strategist and facilitator, and strategy lead at non-profit Purpose Disruptors and Agency for Nature. She designs interventions to galvanise public imagination and redirect our creative skills to work in harmony with the natural world. Also passionate about holding space for grief and loss in our changing times, she has also trained as a death doula and rites of passage holder. Once an advertising and sustainability leader, and one of Forbes’ 43 People Changing Advertising for the Climate, she writes & lectures on storytelling, imagination and new conceptions of the good life. They explore:- What "right relationship" actually means — and why we've lost it- Sobriety as a gateway to a fuller life- The Artist's Way and morning pages as a daily return to self- What four days alone in a forest teaches you about civilisation- The imagination crisis - why our vision of the future is shrinking- Death, grief, and why learning to let things end well matters now more than everIf you're searching for meaning beyond consumption, or asking what it means to live well in uncertain times, this conversation is for you.🎙️ What is a Good Life? - conversations that go to the heart of what matters.Subscribe for new episodes every Tuesday.Leave a review if this episode resonated with you.For more from Ally's work:Purpose Disruptors: https://www.purposedisruptors.org/ally-kingstonLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ally-kingston-75922025/For more from Mark McCartney:Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/Website: https://www.mmcleadership.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@whatisagoodlifeInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/markcmccartney00:00 How to be in right relationship?03:45 Two Tomatoes and an Epiphany08:25 The Word Recovery09:45 Sobriety and the Paradigm Shift17:02 Threads Pulling Together21:24 Morning Pages and the Artist's Way25:29 Four Days in the Forest33:24 How Do I Help Things Die?38:12 Accompanying Her Grandmother48:30 The Shrinking Imagination53:04 What is a Good Life?Tags: good life, meaning, right relationship, sobriety, nature connection, death doula, climate, imagination, morning pages, the artist's way, wilderness, grief, belonging, mindfulness, purposePodcast Keywords: Meaning of Life Interviews | meaning of life conversations | exploring life | big life questions | meaning of life discussions | creating a meaningful life
