In this podcast we interview Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar, author of "Happier." That book is one of the simplest yet most impactful things we've read in recent years. In our podcast, Ben-Shahar describes what happiness is, the other necessary conditions to long-term happiness, and how you can use every day to become a little bit happier.

Jennifer Niesslein spent two years trying self-help 'cures' for everything from clutter to marriage. Her new book 'Practically Perfect in Every Way' is a trenchant -- and fun -- look at what she found.

This podcast continues our interview with the DatingGoddess.com. She talks about the mistakes women make on first dates, how to use dating to learn more about yourself, 'settling' versus choosiness, and more.

The Dating Goddess -- a management consultant, bestselling author and professional speaker by day -- takes a clear eyed, funny, and entertaining view of the midlife dating scene at her blog, DatingGoddess.com. It's one of our favorites.

In this interview -- the first of two parts -- she tells us how midlife dating is different from dating when we were twenty or thirty years younger, some ideas for improving the first date, and the things men do wrong at that first get-together.

If a man in your life seems to be going through a midlife crisis, this podcast episode offers some ideas and to-dos to help you help him.

The male midlife crisis seems to get all the press, but women get them too. In only six minutes, Nina Boski tells us about the unique aspects of female midlife crisis.

Nina Boski gives a six minute look at the several types of midlife crisis.

In our first podcast, our friend Nina Boski from LifeBites answers the question "why LifeTwo?"