What is a Good Life? #158 | Finding Self-Love Beyond Achievement
Where do you belong? How do you best use your gifts?
These questions have followed Alan Wilson throughout his life—from childhood football pitches to corporate boardrooms. In this deeply honest conversation, Alan shares his journey from seeking external validation to cultivating self-love, exploring how grief, self-inquiry, and simple presence have reshaped his understanding of a good life.
Alan Wilson is a Director of People & Operations and qualified coach with 17+ years in senior leadership roles. He supports leaders and organisations navigating change by combining commercial insight with a deeply human approach—focused on self-awareness, integrity, and sustainable performance.
In this episode:
- The childhood patterns behind our adult struggles
- Why achievement never feels like enough
- Finding centre in an increasingly distracted world
- How children guide us back to presence
- Why self-love transforms leadership
- The agency we have despite feeling disempowered
This conversation is for anyone questioning whether they're enough, struggling with validation, or wondering if there's more to life than the next achievement.
What is What is a Good Life??
What is a Good Life? is a podcast about the questions that shape our lives: how we live, who we become, and what truly matters. For the past five years, I've asked more than 300 people one deceptively simple question: What is a good life?
There isn't a single answer. Instead, each conversation offers a different way of seeing the world—through stories, ideas, struggles, joys, and moments of hard-earned wisdom. Together, they form a richer picture of what it means to be human.
Whether you're searching for clarity, purpose, or simply a thoughtful conversation, this podcast is an invitation to reflect on your own answer.
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