Episode
Choose The Good Day
- Podcast
- If Only
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- Mar 24, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 2927
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Summary
If your inner voice defaults to doubt, Carol Rieg brings a radically practical alternative: treat optimism like a decision, not a personality trait. We sit down with Carol, a philanthropic strategist and longtime nonprofit leader whose career spans Capitol Hill advocacy, the Future City STEM competition, corporate social responsibility, and NASA. Her “if only” isn’t a regret. It’s a challenge to choose the good day and keep moving, even when the path looks messy or the next step feels unfamil...