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Podcast: Everyday Better with Leah Smart
Episode: The Year for Irrational Hope: Bruce Feiler on Navigating a “Lifequake”
Description: In the first episode of our January series, The Year for Irrational Hope, Leah Smart sits down with bestselling author Bruce Feiler about lifequakes – the major transitions that upend our lives, whether we choose them or not. From career changes and relationships to loss, parenthood, and global uncertainty, Bruce explains why expecting a linear life creates so much stress, and why most of us are actually in transition far more often than we realize.
They explore the three equally nonlinear phases of change: the long goodbye, the messy middle, and the new beginning, and wh...