# Choose The Good Day

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Podcast: [If Only](https://stenobird.com/podcast/if-only-6468928)
Published: 2026-03-24T11:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2557643/episodes/18886836-choose-the-good-day.mp3
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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...

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