The Good Life podcast episodes.
On today’s show, Sean Murray talks with James Mustich, the author of 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List. Mustich has curated one of the most comprehensive and significant book list of all time. In this amazing book, Mustich channels his encyclopedic knowledge of all things books into a list of the best history, philosophy, science fiction, poetry, literature, plays, detective novels, graphic novels and every other genre of book you can think to imagine.
TGL011: Life Lesson’s from the Odyssey w/ Daniel Mendelsohn
On today’s show, Sean Murray talks with Daniel Mendelsohn, Professor of Classics at Bard College and the author of “An Odyssey: A Father, a son and an Epic.” Mendelsohn has a very unique and personal story about his experience teaching the Odyssey. In 2011, his eighty-one year old father enrolled in his seminar course about the Odyseey, which initiates a father-son adventure that is both emotionally and intellectually stunning.
TGL010: Solitude: The Secret Weapon of Leadership w/ Michael Erwin
On today’s show, Sean Murray talks with Michael Erwin, the co-author of Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership through Solitude. Michael, a graduate of West Point in 2002, served three combat tours with the First Cavalry Division and 3rd Special Forces Group in Iraq and Afghanistan. Michael talks about the role solitude played in forging his military leadership experience, and how it led him to found the veteran’s service organization, Team Red White & Blue, and write.
TGL009: Seneca on Death w/ James Romm
On today’s show, Sean Murray talks with James Romm, Professor of Classics at Bard College and the author of the books Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero, and How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life. Seneca was an influential Stoic philosopher who left us with a number of masterful works on how to live and, interestingly, he also wrote a lot about how to die.
TGL008: How to Think Like a Roman Emperor w/ Donald Robertson
On today’s show, Sean Murray talks with Donald Robertson, the co-founder of Modern Stoicism and the author of How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius. Robertson is an expert on both ancient Stoicism and the modern psychotherapy that evolved from Stoicism called Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.