{"podcast":{"title":"Good Life Project","slug":"good-life-project-963599","podcast_index_feed_id":963599,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/61de0665cc27c20014ea15cf","website_url":"https://www.goodlifeproject.com/podcast/","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/61de0665cc27c20014ea15cf/1718134805924-52d4419e899171e74e55b85422605cfc.jpeg","author":"Jonathan Fields / Acast","episode_count":1172,"summary":"Good Life Project is a podcast and video series for people navigating midlife with intention. Hosted by Jonathan Fields, each episode is a deep, honest conversation about what it actually takes to build a life that feels like yours, through the reinventions, reckonings, and reclamations that define your 40s, 50s, and beyond. Grounded in science, fueled by genuine curiosity, and always in service of the real work of living well. Often top-ranked, it’s been listened to and viewed more than 100 million times. New episodes weekly. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-27T16:19:53.107350+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/good-life-project-963599"},"episode":{"title":"The 3 Things Every Room You Live In Must Have to Be Okay | Leidy Klotz","slug":"the-3-things-every-room-you-live-in-must-have-to-be-okay-leidy-klotz","published_at":"2026-07-27T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/good-life-project-963599/the-3-things-every-room-you-live-in-must-have-to-be-okay-leidy-klotz","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/good-life-project-963599","url":"https://shows.acast.com/goodlifeprojectinspirationmotivationhappinessmeaningsuccess/episodes/the-3-things-every-room-you-live-in-must-have-to-be-okay-lei","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/61de0665cc27c20014ea15cf/e/6a6121ab541edc613e748f1c/media.mp3","summary":"Most of us think the biggest decision about a room is whether it's functional. Leidy Klotz thinks that's the wrong question, and the right one changes how a desk, a kitchen, or an entire return-to-office policy actually lands on the person living inside it. Leidy Klotz is a behavioral scientist and engineering professor at the University of Virginia who studies how and why humans design. His research has appeared in Nature and Science , and he's been interviewed everywhere from Hidden Brain to Freakonomics to The Atlantic. Before any of that, he spent 22 years as a professional soccer player and then built schools for a living, which is part of why his take on space is so physical and so lived-in. In this conversation, you'll explore: The three psychological needs that every space either feeds or starves, and why they trace straight back to hunter-gatherer survival Why Susan Cain's open-office backlash and today's return-to-office mandates are the same failure wearing different clothes The strange, well-documented phenomenon of \"habituation,\" including the story of an architecture student who walked past a six-story landmark building for years without ever seeing it A simple practice called \"space before screen,\" and why the top of a parking garage might be the cheapest awe you'll ever find What it means to build a space that keeps someone's memory alive, drawn from one of the most personal stories Leidy has ever told on a podcast If you've ever felt something shift the moment you walked into a certain room and couldn't say why, this conversation gives you the language for it. You can find Leidy at: Website | LinkedIn | Episode Transcript Next week, we're sitting down with Chris Guillebeau to talk about why the anxious feeling that you're running out of time might be l…","meta_description":"Most of us think the biggest decision about a room is whether it's functional. Leidy Klotz thinks that's the wrong question, and the right one changes how…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2814,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/good-life-project-963599/episodes/the-3-things-every-room-you-live-in-must-have-to-be-okay-leidy-klotz/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/good-life-project-963599/the-3-things-every-room-you-live-in-must-have-to-be-okay-leidy-klotz.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}