Follow along with the transcript below for episode: Become Astonishingly Alive in 2026 With Jodi Wellman
[INTRODUCTION]
[0:00:03] PF: Thank you for joining us for episode 552 of Live Happy Now. 2026 is here and this week’s guest is going to tell us how to live this year like we mean it. I’m your host, Paula Felps, and this week, I’m welcoming back Jodi Wellman, author of You Only Die Once: How to Make It to the End with No Regrets. As an expert on how to stop squandering your life and live it to its fullest, Jodi is here to talk about how we can enter this year with a new mindset that will help us rediscover what we love, who we are, and how we live. Let’s have a listen.
[INTERVIEW]
[0:00:38] PF: Jodi, thank you for coming back on the show with me.
[0:00:41] JW: Oh, I’m really excited to be back. Thank you.
[0:00:44] PF: You are the perfect person to kick off the new year. I know as we enter this year, a lot of people might think it’s weird for us to talk about death, instead of a new beginning, because historically, it’s like, people, “Oh, what I’m going to do this year?” And dying is not what we want them to do. But why is it important for us to remember that we are all going to die at some point?
[0:01:03] JW: Oh, first of all, you got me all excited. Here we are new year, 52 Mondays, to really jazz up our lives. Here’s the thing, our lives don’t really have a whole heck of a lot of meaning, unless we know that there’s an expiration date, right? We get everything done through work, or our tasks, because we know there’s a deadline. Life is the ultimate deadline. Of course, the word deadline couldn’t be a clearer dead-line. We need that in order to put in perspective that this life is precious and worth doing something juicy with if we are so inspired. This is, I think, our conversation is to get inspired, because there’s an end, not this year. I mean, odds are slim, but it’s coming. So, let’s make this year win counts.
[0:01:44] PF: Yes. I love that, because we’ve just wrapped up quite a year. I heard one person describe 2025 as being awake during surgery. I don’t think they’re wrong. That has left a lot of people just feeling numb and dead and hopeless inside. But you wrote this fantastic blog post addressing this very topic, which is why we’re talking. We wanted to dig into that. Tell me, first of all, what are some signs that we might be getting a little bit dead on the inside?
[0:02:14] JW: Oh, dead on the inside. Well, I look at it in two different categories, right? One is we can be conscious to it, or unconscious to it. When we’re conscious to it, that’s when maybe we’re just a tad more self-aware, or we’re a little bit like, ah, life isn’t what it used to be. I want to pick it up again and do a little bit more. That’s our choice is to decide, are we going to make this our time? It’s to stop delaying our life, postponing our existence, all the things that we normally do, because that’s what we do really well, because we’re human.
There’s the conscious, wow, I really want to spruce things up around here. Then there’s the unconscious stuff, which can be more insidious. This is where I think it’s actually more exciting, is the stuff where when, like maybe through our conversations, some folks listening will go, “Oh, wait a minute. That’s me.” That awareness that, hey, when I think about it, maybe I have been playing it safe, rather than – and I love the adage, that expression about playing to win, versus playing not to lose. Playing to win means putting yourself out there and maybe risking something. Could be small, could be big. But playing not to lose is what – I mean, I’ve done this well. I know how to do this quite – I won the playing not to lose awards, which the medallions are really cheap. Don’t go for it.
Playing small, so that we don’t have to risk failure, or rejection, or any kind of emotion that doesn’t feel anything other than safe. The life that’s lived in a comfort zone, in a softened cocoon. I mean, let’s be honest, a really warm fleece blanket feels lovely, until it starts to suffocate us. We realize that sense of, I think I want to get up and out and start being bolder with my choices and maybe a little more adventurous, or a little bit more about the life I fantasized about living, but I’ve been afraid to. It’s about busting out of the really protective shield and starting to say, I’m going to live like I mean it. So, when I get to the end, I don’t feel like I died with a bunch of regrets.
[0:04:11] PF: It can be pretty easy to slide into that comfort zone, that groove that becomes a rut, because we don’t notice it happening. We start doing adult things and then we keep doing adult things, and then we stop doing the fun things, because we’re doing adult things. Then you looking 10 years down the road, you don’t even recognize that fun person, alive person you used to be.
[0:04:35] JW: What an interesting point. You’re highlighting the hedonic treadmill. For anybody who needs a refresher, it’s that phenomenon where we adapt to the good stuff that happens and then we also adapt to the crap stuff that happens. That’s actually comforting when things are crapola. We need that new stimulation. We will start to slowly, but surely live narrower and narrower lives. I’m conscious about the word narrower, because part of my framework is this notion of living wider with the sense of vitality. In the absence of that, when we get, like you said, adult things, we’re busy with work, or maybe you have a kid or two, or an aging parent or something, or you’ve got all these adult commitments and we somehow abandon our hobbies, our own interests. All of a sudden, our lives feel a little bit back to the smothery part, back to just narrow like, how you said, Paula, and it’s so interesting. Wow, there used to be a version of me that did cool things. I used to go to axe throwing classes, or we used to do that brunch that fell off the wagon after COVID, or we used to plan trips that are now, we only just go to local state parks, or whatever. Awareness of who you used to be.
Let’s not make that the bummer postmortem of the life that you lived. Let’s use that as the intel that goes, it’s in you. That woman, or that man, or that whomever you are is still there, if you want to arouse that person, weaken them from their slumber.
[0:06:02] PF: That can be hard to wake him up, though, because we’re not necessarily sure how. Oftentimes, we’ve slipped into this comfort zone with other people. Our friends have done the same thing. We’ve lockstep down that same path.
[0:06:16] JW: Yeah. Yeah. You reminded me of a conversation I had with someone who said, my partner, she prefers a little bit more of a comfortable, traditional, narrow life. This woman was saying, “I want more.” I think that you are super right to highlight those issues we face. I will always say, that we are our own entertainment directors in our lives, our own well-being champions. No one else is getting pom-poms out and cheering you on for you. Sometimes that does mean we have to take a quick breather. For example, look back on last year. When were the times you felt super alive? When were the times you didn’t? Well, maybe look back farther. What were those moments of the highlights?
I think let’s avoid the tendency we have. I know I have it, to be all or nothing. Like, I’m going to be the alive version of me. Go, go, go. Get out of my way. This train’s moving, versus a, what if it just meant interspersing more of those beautiful things I like, knowing it may not involve my partner, or maybe my friends are just interested in just doing happy hour once a month, and I want to go hiking? Well, you know what? Maybe you’ll go on a hike alone. I mean, maybe don’t go on an advanced hike and die in the woods.
[0:07:34] PF: In the mountains with nobody else around.
[0:07:36] JW: Right. Pick the right hike.
[0:07:38] PF: Please don’t.
[0:07:39] JW: maybe it’s about being conscious about what will be a few things that would make me feel really alive and proud of myself this quarter? It may involve new people. It may involve just saying, “Hey honey. I know you do not enjoy spicy Szechuan cuisine. I’m going to go and do that for dinner and let’s circle back after.” It’s taking a stand for your life. I say this crassly, because no one else is going to do it for you. I don’t mean that. Why aren’t we all victims? No one cares about us. Really, you got to be the one to go eat your Szechuan, if you want Szechuan.
[0:08:13] PF: I love that. You got to take that, take charge of what it is that you want and really jump in. You talk about astonishing aliveness. I love that phrase, because it just is so vibrant. Astonishing aliveness. Tell us what that means.
[0:08:29] JW: Wow. Well, it means that we are in some way, shape or form plugged into life. Can I actually just be a little bit on the defense for a second? Because –
[0:08:37] PF: Please.
[0:08:37] JW: I realized I chose a word in my whole model of living with astonishingly alive life, or astonishing life is, astonishing sounds big, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s conspicuous aliveness, that it’s for show, or for other people necessarily, or that it has to be a prescriptive way of saying, well, you have to be out X nights a week. It has to involve Szechuan, because maybe you don’t like Szechuan. I don’t even know if I do. It’s about you tuning into what makes me feel, almost like my breath has been taken away, because I’m so excited that I’m demonstrating to myself that I am alive and living a life that I love, that makes me feel like I’m living wide with vitality and also, deep with meaning and connection to other people.
Your version of it might look different than my version of it and that’s okay. It’s that sense we have when we feel like, I’m doing it, I’m living it. And said differently, just a little more morbidly, but we can handle it. It’s almost that little litmus test of if you were to go tonight, like grim reaper knocks on your door with his bony little hand. All right, you go, “I’m okay. I killed it. I lived this life.” There’s not a sense necessarily like, life was left unlived. That does not mean that everything on your bucket list got checked off, because that’s just not possible.
Not enough time in the world to do all the things you want to do. Is there that sense that you participated and feel good. That’s the feeling of astonishing aliveness. I think each one of us just want, let’s tap into what that means for us. Even just for the rest of this month. What do we want that to look like for this month and then the next month? Then that adds up to a year and that adds up to a part of a beautifully astonishingly alive life.
[0:10:18] PF: If you are feeling a little dead inside, it can be hard to imagine achieving such aliveness.
[0:10:24] JW: Yeah, I’m glad you said that.
[0:10:26] PF: Then how do you start? Because even like, oh, going out once a week for Szechuan, I can’t. I have to get off the couch. Things can seem overwhelming. You feel like, there’s no point. How do you even find that starting point if you don’t feel that spark, but you know you need to?
[0:10:45] JW: Yeah. I love you’ve asked this, because I want to normalize. I’m looking around right now, but are you also in some of the dead zones, I’m like, me too? Let’s just say, it’s part of the human experience. Number one, I think we judge ourselves when we are not feeling astonishingly alive. Well, that’s unattainable. That’s for those people, those social people. I’m like, I’m the introvert. I found a way to do it while being introvert. Or, I like to be at home and yet, there is a way. When we’re feeling even more so dead inside, or when we are in the dead zone, or maybe we’re even veering towards something clinical, or full trenched into the clinical zone. Number one, if it’s clinical, definitely get medical help. That’s super crucial, important.
I think, let’s not underestimate the impact of small gestures we can make towards feeling alive. What that might mean is, it doesn’t mean weekly outings. That means that you have to do your hair. It’s exhausting sometimes. Like you said, get off the couch. I’m like, wait, I’m going to have to leave Netflix? Netflix is not going to know what happened to me if I’m not constantly watching it.
[0:11:44] PF: They’re going to call somebody.
[0:11:47] JW: I know. Netflix might actually have an emergency button when they’re like, “Wait a minute. She stopped watching for three hours. What happened to her?” I think it’s about saying, don’t underestimate a little, tiny spark of aliveness. A spark doesn’t have to be an explosion, or a firecracker. It could be just lighting the kindling of a tiny fire of saying, maybe – and this is a true example in my life. I watch a lot of TV and I do have a routine that tends to suffocate me. It was a conscious choice this week to say, before we watch our nightly dose of TV, which we do love, let’s just pause for 30, 40 minutes and just read. The husband and I, we said, all right. We felt like it was a homework assignment.
[0:12:32] PF: Oh, we’re going to be adults now.
[0:12:33] JW: I know. I’m going to be cultured and read a book, but I love it. I just don’t make time for it, because I’m in a rut right now of just going through the motions, like a highly functioning zombie. I will tell you, taking 30 minutes, a couple of days ago, to sit on the couch again, warm blanket, glass of wine didn’t hurt. I opened up my Kindle and I read, and I didn’t finish a chapter. I didn’t accomplish a chapter, but I still felt like a better version of me. Then I fixed up the dinner and then we watched TV. It’s that little tiny thing, that gesture.
For some people, it might mean, just in the kitchen, just try a different spicer recipe that you’ve been wondering about. Or maybe, it might mean just quickly text someone in your network, a friend who you haven’t reached out to in a long time and just say, “Hey, remember when,” and send a picture of when you guys did that road trip. Or maybe it is, just go sit outside with your coffee in the morning. Even if it’s freezing cold, bundle up with a scarf around your face and say, take a deep breath and smell the smells and feel the feeling, and then go back inside. It’s little things that can go a long way and we do underestimate them.
[0:13:43] PF: We’ll be right back with more of Live Happy Now.
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[0:13:52] PF: Now, let’s hear more from Jodi Wellman.
[INTERVIEW CONTINUED]
[0:13:56] PF: One thing you talk about, I love this in your newsletter, you talk about consciously reprioritizing what matters to us. Because what’s so surprising is we forget what matters to us. I’ll have times when I sit down and go like, okay, why am I not doing – what’s going on with me? And talk about things I love, and then versus things I’m doing. I’m like, oh, my God. No wonder I feel miserable. I’m not doing any of the things I love. Let’s talk about that. How do we get back to reprioritizing what matters, take that wheel so that we can remember what lights us up?
[0:14:32] JW: Oh, I love this question so much. Well, the easiest way to reprioritize what matters is to have a near-death experience. However, it’s not recommended. It really is stark and impressive that when people have come through the clear and they say, “Oh, my gosh. Now I know what matters, what doesn’t matter, I get to shed the obligations.” We can fake it. I’ll just say, this is a bit cheesy, but work with me here. There is an exercise I do sometimes with groups where I’ll say, imagine you have just been discharged from the hospital. We go through graphically, almost a visualization of you’ve been in a coma, you almost had a car accident that killed you. You are so fortunate through the good care of the team that looked after you and now you are home and you’re sitting at your desk.
What matters, what doesn’t? That can be an exercise we can go through in order to get clarity. I think you worded it really well a minute ago, Paula, the thing about you did this analysis almost of this is the stuff I know I love doing, but yet, this is the way I’m spending my time. Let’s again, normalize, we will get sucked into the routine so fast and usually, it’s the boring stuff, right, of I answer emails. What is it for you by the way? Do you have a –
[0:15:47] PF: Oh, yeah. The email vortex is a big thing, and just my laptop in general sucks me in and just keeps me chained to it. Things get pushed aside.
[0:16:02] JW: Well, for some of us, it is also social media. We’re scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, look at other people living lives that we might dare to live on our own in some ways. Whatever your distraction of choice is, or whatever the version of your life is that is unfortunately a bit dulling. Some things, by the way, are not in your control. You may say, well, I’m looking after a toddler. I can’t give that up anytime soon. Then you’re probably right, for lots of reasons.
However, acknowledging what’s within your control and what isn’t. I think an easy thing we can do is get out a piece of paper, a nice fresh piece of paper and jot down things that make you feel delighted, or alive. Most of them have to be generally accessible. Flying on an exotic vacation is probably not your usual thing you can do in a typical week. Maybe if your life is like that, I’d love to meet you. Otherwise, most people when I ask them this, the answers are beautifully simple. They don’t involve usually any money, or even just a tiny bit and they don’t really even involve a ton of time.
It could be something as simple as like, I met a woman in a workshop recently who said in between meetings, “Sometimes I just lie on the ground on my yoga mat and I do the corpse pose.” Instantly me, death girl. I’m like, I love the corpse pose. She does a restorative moment, does a bit of meditation. She does it for 10 minutes. She says, “It makes me feel like a new person going into my next interaction.” That, again, is free and pretty fast. For a lot of people, it involves the outdoors, something restoring, like sitting on a park bench, or looking at a tree, or clouds, or birds. For the rest, sometimes it might be creative, taking a quick moment to sketch something, whatever that is for you, but getting in tune with what makes you feel alive.
It could be bigger. I’m not going to hold you back from living a big life over there. You may say like, “I want to go and do unicycle lessons, or I’m going to go and take these. I’m out and I’m learning this new language.” A new language, obviously, you can do at home for free too, or almost free with an app. Engaging in something that gives you that sense of reprogramming and psychology, it’s this notion of like, “I’m the person who.” We retrain our brains to say like, “I’m the person who cares about for development. That’s why I’m going and taking this class.” Or, “I’m the person who supports fun. That’s why I’m going and taking a smashing class.” You can go, by the way, and spend money to go into a room with a bat and bash old printers and pewters. Actually, they’re called rage rooms, I think. Maybe this is something.
[0:18:39] PF: PF: Or you can break into an office and do it for free.
[0:18:44] JW: You heard it here first, people. That’s a recommend. I love that so much, though. It hurts. Yeah. Or, you can go obviously into a, maybe a dumpster and do that yourself.
[0:18:54] PF: There you go.
[0:18:54] JW: Whatever the thing is that you’d long to do, you get to tell yourself after doing one tiny step towards it, I’m the person who reads before dinner. I’m the person who makes time for friends and laughs. It’s a gesture.
[0:19:08] PF: I love that. Because, you know what? This is beginning of the year. Instead of doing, this is my resolution, or this is my intention, or my word of the year, I love the idea of doing that, writing down, “I’m the person who,” and making that your mantra for 2026.
[0:19:23] JW: That’s cool.
[0:19:24] PF: I love that.
[0:19:25] JW: Let’s do it. I can think of examples, too, where – because it’s less restrictive, right? It’s not about, this is how I’m going to eat. It could be, I’m the person who makes healthy choices a majority of the time. Now, a majority, last I checked was 51%. I get truffle fries and spinach fish.
[0:19:44] PF: 49% of the time.
[0:19:45] JW: Yeah. Yeah. I think that’s an ocean. That’s a good idea.
[0:19:50] PF: I like that approach. Once we do that, though, once we define what kind of people we are, what lights us up, then it gets scary, because now we have to make a conscious choice to take action. Talk to me about the importance of saying, yes in 2026, to what you know is going to make you astonishingly alive.
[0:20:13] JW: Yeah. Yeah. Our instinct for most of us, back to the idea, I said earlier about playing it safe, saying no to things and playing it small is a safer bet. It will never not be, right? If you don’t go for the bigger job, or you don’t say yes to trying the class to go to the glass-blowing, or you don’t say yes to going on a dating app, or fill in the blanks, there’s no shortage of examples. We will end up living back to that narrow stifling dead in – dead before we die lives.
It is scarier to make that choice. I want to acknowledge it and say, we’re all in this together. Every time we make a tiny vote towards living in this way to say yes, it requires courage. That’s a brave step for many of us to actually live the life we’ve imagined. That is why we postpone it. I will argue to my dying day that the typical excuse of I’ll do it later, which we say is, because we maybe don’t have time right now, that can be true. Mostly, it’s that it is easier for us psychologically to punt it and believe it will do it later, because maybe then we’ll have more courage to press go on the dream, or I’m just this. Even if it’s something as simple as planning a trip, that doesn’t have to require a ton of risk, like starting a business. But it can still mean a representation of something that I’ve always dreamt of going to Vienna, and what if it doesn’t deliver on the promise that I thought it would be really cool, or it’s just easier again to stay local?
Saying yes is actually a bit – I’m going to contradict myself. I’m anti habit and routine for the most part, because it does tend to turn us into these automatons that are living without being conscious. Unless, we can use them to our advantage. I do think that yes can be a reflex. As a homebody, I say no a lot to social things. I generally feel good about it. It protects my own well-being and energy.
[0:22:06] PF: I get that.
[0:22:08] JW: You do?
[0:22:08] PF: Yeah.
[0:22:09] JW: High-five to you. Yet, there have been many a times where I say yes, I forced myself to say yes. I would ask you, too, this question. Have you ever really regretted it?
[0:22:20] PF: It always turns out, there’s some benefit. That’s how I convince myself, too. It’s time like, oh, it’d be so much easier to just stay home. We’ve been doing this all day. I can just sit on the couch. But when you do make that step, I am always glad afterwards. Or it’s like, maybe it wasn’t even the experience I thought it would be, but there was a peripheral experience. It was like, okay, that was fantastic and I met this person and this was a lot of fun.
[0:22:48] JW: Right. We bought tickets to see a comedy show. It was on a Saturday night. Here’s the issue. It started at 8. Hey, guys. We’re pushing up against bedtime here, right? Some of us go to bed in the late 8s, okay? Embarrassing, but true. I was dangling in front of the husband to say like, “Give me a reason to say no. We’re tired, right? We could just order a pizza.” I’ll give him the credit. He said, yes. Here I was, a terrible influence. I was pushing for no, even though we’d already bought these tickets, whatever, sunk cost. He says, “Well, let’s go.” We go. Obviously, we laughed. Obviously, we came on. You know what? We got home at 10.30 and I did not die. I like my life more for doing it.
It’s being conscious about, if you’re resistant to yes, well, that’s okay, sweetie. Just maybe make a commitment that you’re going to say, yes two times, rather than zero times. It’s about increments and don’t underestimate again the increments of saying yes.
[0:23:45] PF: Even if you do have a couple of yeses that don’t pan out the way you had hoped, there’s still a payoff to learning to say yes.
[0:23:53] JW: Well, you just said a minute ago that maybe the thing that happens is different from what you expected. You do the social thing and it’s that you didn’t really bond with the couple you went with, but then they had a really fun thing over there. Being open to a life worth living is involving novelty in different things and getting curious about what might happen. That’s when the good stuff of life does happen. I’ll also argue that when we give something a go, it could be a dream that’s a bit scarier, busting out of that fleece blanket comfort zone and saying, “I’m going to try this thing.” It is possible that it won’t work out.
You could start a relationship, or decide to move in and maybe that didn’t work out, or maybe the job thing didn’t work out, or your new business plan didn’t work out, or would it. There is a very distinct outcome from trying and consciously saying, “I’m going to move on from this.” That is what creates resilience, pride, growth, versus the opposite, which is wondering what would have happened if you did do it, which usually results in a cowering, caving in sense of my life is getting smaller and smaller. Now, I must die.
[0:25:02] PF: Yeah. I love that. When I was in my thirties, I got a book deal. I wrote my first book. It was on Texas Music. I remember I had a lovely aunt, Aunt Lillian, best person ever in my life. I remember talking to her on the phone. I was really scared, because I’m like – you’ve written a book, you know how it is. You’re ready to turn it over. It’s like, oh, my God. What if it’s horrible? What if it fails? I remember talking to Lillian and saying – she was talking how proud she was of me. I’m like, “Yeah, but what if it fails? What if it doesn’t do on?” She said, “There isn’t failure, because what have you learned from doing it? What will you do next, because you did that?” She just completely reframed it. It’s like, basically said, “Paula, your book might be a flop, but it won’t be a failure, because you did it, and because you learned something from it and now you’re going to do something else.” That stuck with me, obviously, for all these years.
[0:25:55] JW: What a wise woman. Yeah. The ways in which we stop ourselves, we’ll self-sabotage, whether we’re afraid of success, often, it’s that we think we’re afraid of failure, but we’re afraid of success. Whatever, we can conflate them. The life that’s nuanced where we get to the end and we get to have almost a chalkboard where we say, wow, look at these spectacular failures. There was evidence of a life where I tried so many things. Like skinning your knees and getting up, because that’s what happens when you go running and you’re twirling around the fair and you’re trying all the playground and you’re having the fun. If you lived strapped to the chair and didn’t try anything, well, you would never fail and you would never skin your knees and you’d save on band-aids, but that does not sound a really great life, does it?
[0:26:41] PF: No. Now, I want to make a whiteboard with my most epic failures. Wouldn’t that be fun?
[0:26:46] JW: That’ll be so fun. Yes.
[0:26:47] PF: Oh, my gosh.
[0:26:49] JW: Yes.
[0:26:50] PF: I might have some explaining to do, but.
[0:26:54] JW: That’s fine. Deduce the doodles.
[0:26:54] PF: I love that. Tell us what you’re going to do. What’s your plan for 2026 to stay alive inside? Because you’re the expert on this. We’re going to steal your ideas. That’s why.
[0:27:06] JW: Well, now that I’ve shared that I’m the first person to say no to going to a comedy show that I bought tickets for, well, I am consciously, for 2026, the theme for me is going for it. Back to your idea about saying like, “I’m the kind of person,” I’m the person who goes for it. That will not mean saying yes to every opportunity and endeavor, because that would exhaust me, but it’s saying going for it. The thing inside me that makes me feel squeamish and tingly. I don’t want to try, because what if somebody thinks something? I’m worried about judgment, or I’m worried that I’m going to bother someone if I ask them for support or help on something, I’m the kind of person who goes for it. That version of me ain’t going to give a care.
2027 me, I can change. Maybe I’m the person who doesn’t go for it anymore. But this year, it’s 52 Mondays of my life. Why not give it a go and see what happens. Almost as a grand experiment, because life’s too short to not have fun with it and try on different clothing. Try on different faces. Try on different sizes.
[0:28:06] PF: I love that. I can’t think of a better way to wrap that up. That is such great parting words to, for all of us to keep in mind, as we move through this year. Jodi, I appreciate you spending this time. We’re going to tell our listeners how to find you, how to find your terrific blog, sign up for your newsletter, which I depend on every Monday morning to show up in my box and they can find your book, too. Thank you so much for what you’re doing and the aliveness that you bring to us.
[0:28:36] JW: Oh, thank you so much. This is such a great way to kick off our year. You’re amazing.
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[0:28:44] PF: That was Jodi Wellman talking about how we all can become more alive in the new year. If you’d like to learn more about Jodi, follow her on social media, sign up for her terrific Monday newsletter, or check out her book, You Only Die Once: How to Make It to the End with No Regrets, just visit us at livehappy.com and click on this podcast episode.
That is all we have time for today. We’ll meet you back here again next week for an all-new episode. Until then, this is Paula Felps, reminding you to make every day a happy one.
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In this episode, you’ll learn:
- Why acknowledging life’s “deadline” can motivate us to live more fully.
- How to recognize signs of feeling “dead inside” and reignite vitality.
- Practical ways to say yes to experiences that create meaning and aliveness.
Visit Jodi’s website.
Discover her book, You Only Die Once: How to Make It to the End with No Regrets.
Take the free How Alive Are You? Quiz
Subscribe to Jodi’s Monday Newsletter here.
Listen to Jodi’s Tedx Talk, How Death Can Bring You Back to Life.
Get a free Astonishingly Alive Assessment from Jodi! Just email info@fourthousandmondays.com and put “Assessment” in the subject line.
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- LinkedIn: @fourthousandmondays
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