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  • 2619 Unplug, Discover, and Connect with Nature with Lauren Connelly

    2619 Unplug, Discover, and Connect with Nature with Lauren Connelly
    2026/10/07
    In this episode of Living the Good Life, Kimberly Henrie sits down with artist, naturalist, conservation advocate, author, and podcast host Lauren Connelly
    . Lauren shares her inspiring journey from working as an animal experience specialist and dive safety officer at a public aquarium to embracing a creative, outdoor-focused life in Key West, Florida
    . Tune in as they discuss the importance of stepping away from digital screens, engaging your senses, finding purpose, and taking the small, manageable steps needed to reconnect with the natural world right outside your door
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    Key Takeaways & Highlights
    • The Journey to Key West: Lauren opens up about making a major cross-country move from Cincinnati to Key West, navigating life transitions alongside her son, and adapting her knowledge of ecology to a brand-new tropical environment.
    • From Aquarium to Conservation: Discover Lauren’s unique career path working closely with sharks and penguins, and how the 2020 shutdown prompted her to prioritize family, slow down, and pursue her passion for nature education and art.
    • The Power of "Sit Spots": Learn what a "sit spot" is and how spending just a few minutes a day observing nature—whether from a window or an outdoor chair—can dramatically reduce stress, improve mindfulness, and foster a deeper sense of presence.
    • Embracing Failure and Creativity: As an author and watercolor artist, Lauren discusses her books (Wildly Unplugged and The Art of Developing: Life Lessons from Watercolor) and explains why "failure" is simply a tool for learning and growing.
    • Unplugging for Well-being: Both Kimberly and Lauren explore the double-edged sword of digital connectivity and share practical sensory exercises (like the 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique) to break free from endless scrolling.
    Mentioned in This Episode
    • Lauren’s Podcast: Wildly Unplug
    • Lauren’s Books:
      • Wildly Unplug: Creative Ways to Reconnect With Nature
      • The Art of Developing: My Life Lessons from Watercolor
    Connect with Lauren: https://wilddevelopmentsstudio.com/

    Post-production on this episode by Mark Kenney

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  • 2618 Does Your Home Help You Thrive or Hold You Back? with Kim Costa

    2618 Does Your Home Help You Thrive or Hold You Back? with Kim Costa
    2026/08/26
    How do you feel when you walk into your home each day? Is it possible that you could create a haven that supports your personality, dreams and goals vs creating feelings of overwhelm, drain and responsibility?

    Maybe your home once fit your life and no longer does. Maybe it never really worked for you in the first place. Either way, you may find yourself wondering: Is it time to stay, go or renovate?

    In this episode of Living the Good Life, I’m talking with Kim Costa, a REALTOR®, author, speaker, podcast host and creator of Lifestyle Foundations and the Wheel House Assessment. With more than 30 years of experience in residential construction, design and real estate, Kim helps people look beyond bedrooms, budgets and square footage to consider a bigger question: Does your home—and the environment around it—help you thrive, or quietly hold you back?

    Kim explains how our surroundings can affect everything from our health, relationships and work to the ways we rest, create and connect. She also shares how her own home supported her through a major season of reinvention—and the wonderfully serendipitous story of eventually living in the kind of cottage she had imagined years earlier.

    We talk about:
    • Recognizing the everyday friction your environment may be creating
    • Why “familiar” doesn’t necessarily mean “right”
    • Looking at your needs before deciding whether to stay, move or renovate
    • Creating space for the parts of yourself that need to refuel
    • Kim’s simple “front door feeling” exercise
    • Making one meaningful change instead of trying to fix everything at once
    You don’t have to be buying, selling or remodeling a home to get something from this conversation. Sometimes the first step is simply noticing how your surroundings make you feel—and asking what might help life work a little better.

    Kim is the author of Live in Your Wheel House: An Empowering Guide to Stay, Go, or Reno.

    Connect with Kim Costa:
    • Website: Lifestyle Foundations
    • Virtual Workshop
    • Instagram
    • Facebook
    • LinkedIn
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  • 2617 Sixteen Conversations, Three Questions

    2617 Sixteen Conversations, Three Questions
    2026/08/05
    What does living the good life actually require?

    After sixteen conversations with seventeen guests, Kimberly Henrie steps behind the microphone alone to revisit the ideas that kept surfacing—whether the conversation began with RV travel, wellness, entrepreneurship, creativity, identity or community.

    The first lesson is to choose it. Patrick Smith, Sarah Jones and Greg Gunter showed how freedom can be designed through travel, work and place. Meghan DeFord, Jeffrey Eisen, Mia Dins and Mari Wuellner took the question inward: Are we living a life that fits, or performing the version of success we inherited?

    The second lesson is to build it. Brett Jensen, Kelly Freeman, Dane Mulligan, Patty Scallan, Veronica Munoz and Andrea Maxim each demonstrated that reinvention rarely comes with a complete blueprint. It grows through experiments, pauses, unexpected opportunities and small actions taken before certainty arrives.

    The third lesson is to share it. Jennifer Schillaci, Lynn Harris, Sebastien Samuel and Georgette Beck reminded us that freedom without connection can become lonely. The good life becomes richer through friendship, creativity, encouragement, service and contribution.

    In this solo recap, Kimberly offers three questions:
    • Am I building the life I genuinely want—or performing the one I was handed?
    • What small, imperfect move could I make before I feel completely ready?
    • Who could I reach toward, encourage or contribute to from the life I am building?
    The good life is not one destination, lifestyle or final achievement. It is something we choose, build and share.

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    22 分
  • 2616 Stop Outsourcing Your Decisions and Trust Yourself Again | Mari Wuellner

    2616 Stop Outsourcing Your Decisions and Trust Yourself Again | Mari Wuellner
    2026/07/29
    What if the wisdom you keep searching for is already yours?

    Mari Wuellner did what many of us were taught to do: work hard, build the business, earn the recognition, care for the family, and keep moving. From the outside, her life looked successful. From the inside, she was operating on a blueprint that no longer felt like her own.

    After a panic attack forced her to slow down, Mari began redefining success around freedom, joy, rest, and choices she could genuinely claim as hers. That journey eventually took her back to Florence, where she had lived as a pregnant 20-year-old during one of the hardest seasons of her life.

    Mari returned with the journal she had kept all those years ago. She planned to write back to her younger self with the wisdom of experience. Instead, she discovered that the young woman she had been still carried the hope her present-day self needed.

    In this conversation, Kimberly and Mari explore:



    • How conventional success can quietly become default mode
    • Why so many of us wait for permission we do not actually need
    • The difference between outside recognition and inner freedom
    • What old journals and earlier versions of ourselves can reveal
    • Mari's define, design, and demand framework
    • Why an unsuccessful experiment is information, not an indictment
    • How to build work around life instead of sacrificing life to work

    Mari is an entrepreneur, storyteller, life coach, and founder of The Crew Coaching Collective. She has operated an insurance agency since 2008, became a life coach in 2017, and created The Crew in 2024 to make multidisciplinary coaching more accessible. She also hosts The Living on Purpose Podcast.

    Connect with Mari:
    Website and The Crew: https://www.mariwuellnercoaching.com/
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mariwuellner/
    The Living on Purpose Podcast: https://www.mariwuellnercoaching.com/podcast

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    42 分
  • 2615 Community, Confidence and the Courage to Be Seen with Georgette Beck

    2615 Community, Confidence and the Courage to Be Seen with Georgette Beck
    2026/07/22
    Sometimes life stops looking anything like the picture we carried in our heads. That does not mean the story is over—and it may not even mean we are starting from scratch.

    In this episode of Living the Good Life, Kimberly welcomes Georgette Beck, author of Junk to Jewels: A Journey From Brokenness and Despair to Beauty and Delight. Georgette reflects on the smiling, high-achieving girl who was quietly carrying shame; the painful adult season she calls her rescue; and the people, practices, and choices that helped her begin recognizing her own value.

    Their conversation moves through Georgette’s four C’s—contemplation, community, caring, and contribution—and into the wonderfully ordinary things that can make a life feel like your own again: inviting someone for coffee, walking near the water, buying yourself flowers, painting badly and happily, asking for help, and sharing what you have learned.Georgette also speaks candidly about being a late bloomer, earning a degree while raising her daughter and working, creating a nonprofit from the care she once received, and feeling an urgency to write the stories her family did not get to tell.

    In this episode:
    • Why healing and confidence arrive in layers
    • The difference between looking successful and feeling worthy
    • How community can make courage possible
    • A simple first step when reaching out feels uncomfortable
    • Why knowing what you love is part of defining the good life
    • How caring for others can turn survival into contribution


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    Connect with Georgette:
    Book: https://a.co/d/0etqV85U
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GeorgetteBeckWriter
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georgette.beck/
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgette-beck-7a659387/

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    50 分
  • 2614 From a Village of 80 People to a Life Without Borders with Mia Dins

    2614 From a Village of 80 People to a Life Without Borders with Mia Dins
    2026/07/15
    What if the life you've been chasing was never actually yours?

    In this inspiring episode of Living the Good Life, Kimberly Henrie welcomes Mia Dins, whose remarkable journey begins in a tiny farming village of just 80 people in Germany and unfolds into a life of worldwide travel, healing, and personal transformation. Today, Mia lives a fully nomadic lifestyle, traveling through house and pet sitting while helping people reconnect with themselves through intuition, embodied awareness, and what she calls Quantum Embodiment. But this conversation isn't simply about spirituality—it's about having the courage to question expectations, embrace change, and create a life that reflects who you truly are.

    Along the way, Kimberly and Mia explore:
    • Growing up in a village of only 80 people in rural Germany
    • Creating a life without borders through travel and house sitting
    • The surprising freedom and practicality of a nomadic lifestyle
    • Healing from childhood trauma and life's unexpected challenges
    • Learning to trust your intuition and the wisdom of your body
    • Why personal reinvention is possible at any stage of life
    • The importance of asking one simple but life-changing question: "What do I really want?"
    Whether you're dreaming of traveling the world, considering a major life change, or simply wondering if there's another path waiting for you, Mia's story is a powerful reminder that the good life isn't found by following someone else's map—it's created one courageous decision at a time.

    Connect with Mia Dins
    🌐 Website: luna-mia.org
    🎙️ Podcast: Dins Talk
    📱 Instagram:@mia_dins/

    Listen, Subscribe & Share If this conversation inspired you, please subscribe to Living the Good Life Podcast, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who may be ready to write a new chapter of their own story.

    Because sometimes the biggest adventures begin in the smallest places.

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    39 分
  • 2613 He Built the Life Everyone Told Him to Want,Then Walked Away w/JeffreyEisen

    2613 He Built the Life Everyone Told Him to Want,Then Walked Away w/JeffreyEisen
    2026/07/08
    After three decades building a successful company, Jeffrey Eisen discovered the good life wasn’t something to achieve—it was something to feel, create, and live authentically.

    Jeffrey Eisen: Redefining Success and Creating Your Own Good Life
    What if you spent decades building the life everyone admired... only to realize it wasn't the life you truly wanted? That's the question at the heart of this conversation with Jeffrey Eisen. After more than 30 years leading a successful steel company, Jeffrey reached a turning point. The career was thriving, the accomplishments were real, but something deeper was calling. What followed was a journey of self-discovery that reshaped his understanding of success, purpose, and what it truly means to live a good life. In this episode of Living the Good Life, Jeffrey and Kimberly explore the courage to question old definitions of success, embrace authenticity, and discover that it's never too late to create a life that feels like your own.

    In this conversation:
    • Why traditional success doesn't always equal fulfillment
    • How awareness creates opportunities for lasting change
    • The difference between thinking your way through life and feeling your way into alignment
    • Why self-worth matters more than outside validation
    • How small everyday moments become part of "the good life"
    • The courage it takes to change your story
    About Jeffrey Eisen
    Jeffrey Eisen is a transformational coach, teacher, and former business leader from Toronto, Canada. After decades in the corporate world, Jeffrey began a personal journey of self-discovery that reshaped his understanding of success, purpose, and happiness. Today, he helps others cultivate greater awareness, authenticity, and meaningful connection.

    Connect with Jeffrey 🌐 Website: https://jeffreyeisen.com

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    54 分
  • 2612 Identity Shifting for Health with Andrea Maxim

    2612 Identity Shifting for Health with Andrea Maxim
    2026/07/01
    In this episode, we chat with Andrea Maxim, a licensed naturopathic doctor turned master mindset coach, to explore the missing piece of the wellness puzzle: the subconscious mind.
    Andrea shares her personal and professional journey shifting from strictly physical treatments to utilizing Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and hypnotherapy. We dive deep into why high-achieving women experience emotional eating and stay stuck in a cycle of "protective weight," the four core limiting beliefs that drive our daily behaviors, and how a simple 30-second pause can dismantle self-sabotage.

    Key Takeaways & Timestamps
    • The Missing Piece of the Puzzle: Andrea discusses her transition from a traditional brick-and-mortar naturopathic practice to mindset coaching after realizing that physical protocols alone weren't yielding long-term results for her clients.
    • Conscious vs. Unconscious Mind: Understanding how our subconscious controls our day-to-day choices, fears, and limiting beliefs, and why logic often fails to fix a habits problem.
    • Trapped Energy and Neuroplasticity: A look at how past experiences (especially from ages 0–7) leave energetic imprints, and how tools like NLP neutralize those emotional triggers without requiring years of traditional therapy.
    • The 4 Core Limiting Beliefs: Andrea breaks down the four deepest wounds women carry (I'm not good enough, I am powerless, I'm unworthy, and I'm unsafe/alone) and how they manifest as overcompensating or staying small.
    • The Concept of "Secondary Gain": Why we often choose to stay stuck in a problem because the comfort of the cocoon outweighs the temporary discomfort of growth.
    • What Women Need to Soften: A conversation on the core biological needs of safety, protection, and support, and how over-activating masculine energy leads to hypervigilance and burnout.
    • Identity Shifting & Micro-Movements: Practical steps for shifting from an "away from pain" mindset to a "towards health" identity, using visual cues, gratitude, and the power of the 30-second pause
    Resources Mentioned in This Episode
    • Atomic Habits by James Clear
    • The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin
    Connect with Andrea Maxim
    • Instagram: @themmaximmovement (Note the two 'm's in the middle!)


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    46 分