You Only Die Once: Mortality, Planning, and So Much More with Jodi Wellman EP 210

Best Laid Plans

Sarah Hart-Unger

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, Sarah interviews Jodi Wellman on her work on mortality and how the concept of death / our finite lives can inspire living a life with vitality, meaning, and -- for lack of a better term, more "aliveness." Jodi holds a Masters in Applied Positive Psychology and spent years exploring and applying these tough topics to help others with her work on Four Thousand Mondays and her recent book, You Only Die Once. Sarah and Jodi discuss memento mori, the darker side of habits and routines, and so much more. You can find Jodi's work at fourthousandmondays.com and her book, You Only Die Once, at all major book retailers. Other works referenced: Oliver Burkeman, author of 4000 Weeks TIm Urban's The Tail End: https://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html Episode Sponsors: Jenni Kayne: Find your summer aesthetic at jennikayne.com. Get 15% off your first order when you use code plans at checkout. Earth Breeze: Effective liquidless laundry detergent! Listeners can receive 40% off Earth Breeze by visiting earthbreeze.com/plans Mint Mobile: To get their new customer offer and your new 3-month unlimited wireless plan for just $15/month for the first 3 months, go to mintmobile.com/plans PrepDish: Check out PrepDish.com/plans for your first 2 weeks of meal plans, FREE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Best Laid Plans.
0:11.1	This is your host Sarah Hart Unger and this is the podcast where we talk of all things planning
0:15.1	and planning adjacent.
0:16.8	I have a treat for you today.
0:19.8	I learned about Jody Wellman from another podcast that I enjoy.
0:23.6	I believe it was Laura Termaine's 10 Things to Tell You podcast.
0:27.7	Laura's actually been a guest on this show before, but this is not about Laura.
0:32.4	This is about Jody, who I heard and then promptly got interested in her work.
0:38.3	And then serendipitously, as things sometimes happen, I got an email from her publicist
0:43.0	asking if she'd be interested in coming on best laid plans.
0:46.2	So I asked for her book and thought that sounds like a fascinating topic.
0:50.9	And I could not have prepared myself for how much I was going to enjoy this book and her
0:57.1	work and her philosophies and her ideas. I mean, I just think it was eye-opening to me and
1:03.9	meaningful to me to read her work and I honestly feel like there are some things in my life
1:09.6	that might be different.
1:13.4	Post reading this book versus pre-reading this book.
1:14.5	That is saying a lot.
1:17.6	I don't feel like there are a ton of works where that is the case.
1:22.0	So I'm just like thrilled to be able to share this interview with you.
1:27.9	I had a really fun time doing the interview as well, which I think is going to come across in the interview itself. I am going to do a tiny bit of a trigger warning because we do talk about mortality and death
1:35.0	and near-death experiences and things like that. And I wrote a blog post kind of on this topic
1:40.5	and someone gently reminded me that, you know, for some people, they may not be in a
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