126: Astonishingly Alive (by Acknowledging Your Death) with Jodi Wellman

The Cosmic Business Podcast

How much time do you have left? Are you living your life to the fullest each day? These are concepts that can bring discomfort when we ponder the harsh reality of our lives. Wouldn’t it be more inspiring to view our lives and mortality in an uplifting way? Don’t we all want to live each day “astonishingly alive”? Join us to learn more!

Jodi Wellman is a speaker, author, and facilitator who helps people live lives worth living. She specifically helps her clients live squander-free lives while they're lucky enough to still be above ground. She named her business 4000 Mondays because the name shines a light on the finite number of weeks we have to live like we mean it. Jodi holds a master's of applied positive psychology from the University of Pennsylvania where she's also an assistant instructor. As a certified coach with 25 years of corporate leadership experience, she helps executives, teams, and high performers work well and live even better. Jodi's TEDx talk, How Death Can Bring You Back to Life, has had over 1.3 million views, making it the 14th most-watched TEDx talk released in 2022 (out of 15,900). In this episode, we discuss how connecting with your death can actually help you live a life that is more astonishingly alive, and why you should be counting your Mondays, plus practical tips for cultivating your curiosity and sense that you are not living on the sidelines. Jodi also allows us to take a look behind the scenes of her creativity-focused business.

Show Highlights:

• How 4000 Mondays began as an uplifting way to look at death
• Why Jodi counts down her Mondays as the first step in learning not to take precious life for granted
• Why Jodi lives with tiny, positive, visual reminders to live life to the fullest because time is ticking
• What it means to live a “squander-free life” and not just go through the motions
• How to get real about life’s simple pleasures
• How the pandemic was a gift in disguise to help us prioritize our lives
• How creativity has infused Jodi’s business
• What Jodi’s chart shows about her ability to do big things and confront the uncomfortable
• How Jodi navigated the writing process for her book, You Only Die Once: How to Make It to the End with No Regrets
• Hear Jodi’s answers to rapid-fire questions about helpful advice, morning routine, and what she’s reading right now.
• The role of enthusiasm in living “astonishingly alive”

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Connect with Jodi Wellman

Website

You Only Die Once book

Jodi’s TEDx talk

Books mentioned by Jodi

Beautiful Writers by Linda Sivertsen

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

Congratulations, The Best is Over! by R. Eric Thomas