Nov. 13, 2026

Gail Harris: One Good Thing - How Small Acts Can Change The World

Show Notes

About this episode:

What if changing the world didn't require extraordinary wealth, influence or power, but simply a commitment to doing one good thing every day?

In this inspiring episode of The Business Elevation Show – Where Good Matters, Chris Cooper welcomes National Emmy Award-winning journalist, author and founder of the One Good Thing movement, Gail Harris.

Gail's remarkable journey has taken her from the demanding world of national television journalism, including ABC News Nightline, to exploring the profound connections between mind, body and spirit. As creator and host of the groundbreaking PBS series Body & Soul, she helped bring conversations about meditation, holistic health and personal wellbeing into mainstream television.

Now, Gail has embraced a new calling. Inspired by a moment of insight during meditation and concerned about the world being inherited by her children and grandchildren, she launched One Good Thing — a simple yet potentially transformative invitation for everyone to contribute something positive each day.

Together, Chris and Gail explore the courage to follow your heart, the unexpected opportunities that emerge when we trust our intuition, and why our later years can become some of our most purposeful. They also discuss Gail's involvement in the moving documentary The Last Ecstatic Days, and what supporting people at the end of life can teach us about compassion, community and living meaningfully.

Join us for a heartfelt conversation about kindness, reinvention, spiritual wisdom and the extraordinary ripple effects that can begin with just one good thing.

More about Gail Harris:

Gail Harris is a National Emmy Award-winning journalist and founder of the One Good Thing movement at #gailharrisonegoodthing on Instagram and on her website, gailharrisonline.com.

She was the creator, executive producer and host of the Body & Soul television series for PBS (public television) and author of the companion book, Body & Soul: Your Guide to Health, Happiness, and Total Well-being. Also for PBS, Gail co-hosted Follow the Money, a 26-part series on campaign finance reform which received an Overseas Press Club Award.

In addition, she is the author of Finders Seekers, a spiritual novel which tells the story of a network TV correspondent who turns to spiritual tools to remake her life after devastating personal and professional setbacks. "Not the story of my own life," says Gail, "but it does come from two worlds I know fairly well: television and spirituality."

Gail is a graduate of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where she received a Master's degree in Public Administration. She is a former adjunct professor at Dominican University of California, practices Reiki II energy healing as part of her 34-year meditation/spiritual practice, and is certified as an End of Life Doula by the Emberlight Center for Conscious Living and Dying in Asheville, NC.