In the Heat of the Summer
The Summer 2026 Edition of Best Life Magazine is here — 40+ pages on transformation, presence, and what the heat of this season is actually trying to teach you.
inside this issue:
What the Heat Teaches Us
by Katie Cook
The co-founder of hot yoga studio Ebb +Flow, Katie has spent years watching people walk into a 100-degree room and immediately start planning their exit. What she’s learned — about the heat, about the mind, and about what actually happens when you stop looking for the door — is something you’ll carry well past summer.
You're Hottest When You're You
by Chris Turk
Chris Turk built his swimwear brand because he couldn’t find what he was looking for — swim that fit a real body, in designs that didn’t play it safe. What came next was a brand, a shop, a philosophy, and a story about belonging and giving back that goes a lot deeper than the boardwalk.
Forged In Heat
an interview with Chef Elio Lapaix
An evening at the chef’s counter with a man who grew up helping his mother at a bakery in Santo Domingo, trained through some of the country’s most demanding kitchens, and still believes the most important thing he can do is make you feel something. On heritage, pressure, hospitality — and the diamonds it produces.
PLUS: everything you need to go deeper
This issue doesn’t just inspire — it equips you with practical tools to integrate what you read into your daily life.
✨ Your Life Deserves a Blueprint
Your brain needs a clear picture of the life you’re trying to build. Here’s what happens when you finally give it one.
✨ The Science of Transformation
The same mechanism powering transformation in your cells is the one behind every change you’ve ever made in your life. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
✨ More Than a Read
This issue comes with activities — prompts, practices, and space to actually do something with what you’re reading. Think less coffee table, more Highlights magazine for your grown-up brain.
✨ Digital Access
Read on any device, anytime. Print edition includes lifetime digital access.
beyond the page: your immersive experience
This isn’t just a magazine — it’s a complete ecosystem designed to expand who you are in the world.
Included with your purchase:
🎵 Your Spring Mixtape
A curated playlist on Apple Music and Spotify — 30 absolute bangers to blast on your car stereo.
📋 Best Life Summer Bucket List
A map back to presence. Thirteen ways to have your most expansive summer yet — and shake hands with your future self while you’re at it.
🔁 Reach. Resist. Integrate.
The skill every transformation requires — and a 90-day practice to start building it, one day at a time.
🍽️ Host Like a Chef
Hosting wisdom from Chef Elio Lapaix’s kitchen to yours, including his peach mostarda recipe — summer-ish, sweet, spicy, and tangy.
📝 Your Best Life Blueprint
A guided exercise to give your brain the clearest possible picture of the life you’re building — so it can start going to work on your behalf.
no ads. no fluff. just substance.
✨ 40+ pages of depth — personal essays, practical tools, beauty
✨ Extended experiences that go beyond the page
✨ Print + digital options — choose the format that works for you
✨ Created with intention — every element designed to help you live more fully
“This issue gave me ways to look inside and outside myself to create real, tangible change in my life. I also love that it has no ads.”
- Peter
"The content in here is incredible. So inspiring, and so inviting. I've taken my copy everywhere with me this summer."
- Jule
"This magazine changed my life! Once I started reading it, I couldn't put it down. By the time I was done, I was changed."
- Jonathan
