What is a Good Life?

In this episode of What is a Good Life?, Mark McCartney sits down with Laura Beckingham - a modern mystic for turbulent times. It's a conversation that remains as grounded in the bread and butter of life as it ascends into the spiritual.

We move from asking what existence is all about through radical inclusion, Family Constellations, ancestral wisdom, the right size in relationships, grief and death, the energy of birth - and why a good life for Laura is about staying in contact with the pulse of life.

It will leave you with plenty to sit with.

Laura works one-to-one with senior execs who are dismantling the system from the inside, and with people practitioners and creatives who are doing something of the same in their own way. You can also join her in community online, for ritual and reflective practice in The Sanctum, and at The Loom.

For more from Laura Beckingham:
Website: https://spacewith-in.com/
The Sanctum: https://spacewith-in.com/category/the-sanctum/
The Loom: https://spacewith-in.com/the-loom-2026/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-beckingham-109bb625/

For more from Mark McCartney:
Newsletter: https://www.whatisagood.life/
Website: https://www.mmcleadership.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-mccartney-14b0161b4/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ ⁨@whatisagoodlife3875⁩  

00:00  What Is All of This?
02:15  Born Curious
07:10  Knowing and Not Knowing
10:25  Old Wisdom, New Ways
14:50  Radical Inclusion
18:30  Do No Harm
20:45  The Right Size
25:10  Life as Attunement
28:30  Opening and Closing
34:00  In Motion and Still
40:40  The Witch and the Field
55:35  Grief, death, birth
1:01:00 What Is a Good Life?

What is What is a Good Life??

A project exploring the big questions around how we live, who we are and what actually matters. Over the past four years, I’ve sat with more than 300 people — artists, parents, executives, wanderers, therapists, and strangers and invited them into a simple but profound inquiry, "What is a good life for you?"
The conversations explore presence, paradox, uncertainty, and the moments that shape a life - love and loss, trust and fear, clarity and not knowing. It’s an invitations to slow down, to listen deeply, and to bring you into conversation with your own life. There are new episodes every Tuesday.