Faolan Sugarman-Lash 

Author, Coach, Podcast Host, Artist, Lover of Life.

About Faolan Sugarman-Lash

Faolan is an accomplished coach, writer, photographer, and world traveler. He has spent the last many years introspecting on the meaning of his life and life in general. This journey of discovery was ‘capstoned’ by his book “Why Live?”, which he published in 2022. He is currently working remotely from around the world as a life coach and writing his second book. His mission is to revolutionize mental health, so we can all live full and meaningful lives of authentic alignment and joy.

 Faolan’s To Do List


What do I want to do before I die?

100+ Things!

☐ Read 1000 books

☐ Write a #1 NYT Bestseller

☐ Make 1 million dollars

☑︎ Yell at the top of my lungs in public

☐ Go to Burning man

☐ Watch the ball drop in NYC on New Year’s Eve

☑︎ Walk El Camino De Santiago

☐ Skydive

☐ Meet the Dalai Lama

☐ Get my paragliding license

☐ Fly a plane

☑︎ Start and run a sustainable business

☐ Live in a van

☐ Release music on Spotify

☐ Hike the AT

☑︎ Meditate for 8 hours in a day

☐ Wear a really snazzy suit to a ball

☑︎ Go to a party w/ famous people

☐ Get 6 pack abs

☐ Don’t drink for a year straight

☑︎ Micro dose w/ psilocybin/LSD (shh)

☑︎ Legally facilitate psychedelic experience

☐ Be on the Tim Ferris Show

☑︎ Do a backflip into water

☐ Start a living community for awesome people

☐ Build a house to live in

☐ Coach 200 people

☐ Go to the olympics

☑︎ Dance with a complete stranger

☐ Surf a barrel

☐ Fly my grandma to Scotland

☐ Start a band

☐ Do a birth pain simulator

☑︎ Go skinny dipping with a partner

☐ Pogo stick on a subway

☐ Live in NYC

☐ Give a speech to an audience

☐ See bioluminescence

☐ See the northern lights

☐ Go to the pyramids

☑︎ Live in a non-english speaking country

☐ Give SCU commencement address

☐ Motorcycle around Europe

☑︎ Make magic memories at a music festival

☐ Invite a couple to dinner

☑︎ Have a successful relationship

☐ Live on a boat in SE Asia

☐ Get The Brook and the Bluff to play my wedding

☐ Build a community of people who get it

☐ Take my mom+dad out for dinner

☐ Backcountry ski

☐ Host a big masquerade party like in The Starless Sea

☐ Start a used bookstore/bakery

☐ Ring a church bell

☐ Get a negative book review from a stranger

☑︎ Lead a meditation

☐ Be in the news (for good reasons)

☐ Interview my grandparents

☐ Live in Bali

☐ Live in South France

☐ Live in Italy

☐ Meet Chris Martin (of Coldplay)

☑︎ Ask out a stranger

☐ Get my mom and dad to trip sit for me

☐ Tour the Ben and Jerry’s factory

☐ Touch a live wolf

☐ Go to Mt Lhasa

☐ Sell Pizza Nachos for money

☐ Get a PhD

☐ Publish a poetry/photo book

☐ Plant 10 trees

☐ Be a best man

☐ Rock climb at Yosemite

☑︎ Have my book sold in a bookstore

☐ Do a handstand for 20 seconds

☐ Meditate every morning for a year straight

☐ Cameo in a movie

☐ Teach a college class

☑︎ Get a tattoo

☐ Sword fight with real swords

☐ Find a therapist who gets me

☐ Ride a horse

☐ Snowboard in the Alps and NZ

☐ Write a fiction book

☐ Travel to see Gurus around the world

☐ Live on a tropical island and eat a mango from a tree

☑︎ Fly somewhere far away one way

☐ Sail a boat

☐ Officiate a wedding

☐ Backpack in the Torres Del Paine w Seamus

☐ Be a surfer bro all in

☐ Buy a house

☐ Sail around the world

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