

What is a Good Life?
Mark McCartney
This isn’t a podcast about fixing you. It’s about living life more fully.
What Is a Good Life? is a long-form conversation project exploring how people actually live, feel, and make meaning of their lives.
Over the past four years, I’ve sat with more than 300 people — artists, parents, executives, wanderers, therapists, and strangers — and invited them into a simple but profound inquiry: What is a good life for you?
These conversations aren’t about advice, formulas, or self-improvement. They explore presence, paradox, uncertainty, and the moments that quietly shape a life — love and loss, trust and fear, clarity and not knowing.
This podcast isn’t here to give you answers.
It’s here to slow you down, to listen deeply, and to invite you into conversation with your own life.
New episodes weekly.
What Is a Good Life? is a long-form conversation project exploring how people actually live, feel, and make meaning of their lives.
Over the past four years, I’ve sat with more than 300 people — artists, parents, executives, wanderers, therapists, and strangers — and invited them into a simple but profound inquiry: What is a good life for you?
These conversations aren’t about advice, formulas, or self-improvement. They explore presence, paradox, uncertainty, and the moments that quietly shape a life — love and loss, trust and fear, clarity and not knowing.
This podcast isn’t here to give you answers.
It’s here to slow you down, to listen deeply, and to invite you into conversation with your own life.
New episodes weekly.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the What is a Good Life? podcast:

#1 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Wherever You Go, There You Are
Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

#2 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Time to Think
The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children

#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The passion of the Western mind

#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
How to Work with (Almost) Anyone

#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Die Wise
A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul

#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Life Will Be the Death of Me
. . . and you too!

#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Dream of the Earth

#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Right Story, Wrong Story
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Boudica: Dreaming

#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Eagle of the Twelfth

#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The last of the Mohicans

#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Coaching Habit
Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Awareness
a de Mello spirituality conference in his own words
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A child of our time

#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Sandman

#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Who can you trust?

#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Money and the soul's desires
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Rekindling Democracy
A Professional’s Guide to Working in Citizen Space

#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The ones who walk away from Omelas
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes




















