Today’s guest is Dr. Sharon Horesh Bergquist, the Pam R. Rollins Professor of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and Medical Director of Emory Executive Health. She is a board-certified internal-medicine physician whose clinical and research work focuses on healthy aging, prevention, lifestyle medicine, and the ways daily behavior interacts with resilience. Her book, The Stress Paradox, asks whether we have treated all stress as the same problem. Living well, she argues, requires not the elimination of challenge, but a wiser relationship with it.

My guest in this episode is Kimberly Malone, Assistant Director of Prison Education at Northeastern University in New York. For more than a decade, she has taught incarcerated students and helped lead college programs in men's and women's prisons across medium- and maximum-security settings. She is also president of Rising Hope, a nonprofit providing postsecondary education in New York prisons. Join us as we discuss the connection between happiness, hope, and education, especially for people who don't have many choices.

What changes when wellbeing is treated as a dynamic system rather than a personal checklist? How can we measure flourishing without flattening out how a human life actually works? My guest in this episode, Dr. Peggy Kern, is a professor at the Centre for Wellbeing Science at the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Education in Australia. Her research focuses on questions like these and draws on a variety of methodologies to examine who thrives in life and why, and what we can do about it.