Sandee Sgarlata
Happiness Solved
Welcome to Happiness Solved! I'm your host, Sandee Sgarlata. I've dedicated the last 34 years of my life to personal development. You see, 34 years ago my life was a hot mess and hitting rock bottom taught me a lot as I never dealt with the pain, grief, and multiple traumas I experienced as a child. The thought of anyone going through what I've dealt with in my life is the motivation and why I created this empowering podcast. The guests I interview are all experts in their respective fields and you can expect to hear inspiring stories, practical advice, and insights on how to cultivate joy and...
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Jan 23, 2026
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Episodes
41. Million Dollar Body: Interview with Nate Palmer 26.11.2021 34:49
Nate Palmer is a NASM certified personal trainer and corrective exercise specialist. He is also a Precision Nutrition Level 1 Coach. Nate is the bestselling author of “ The Million Dollar Body Method: The Entrepreneurs Diet for Superhuman Focus and Rapid Fat Loss ” as well as “ Passport Fitness: The No-nonsense Guide to Staying in Shape no Matter What City You Wake Up In. ” Nate is also the creato...
40. Own Your Greatness: Interview with Robert Raymond Riopel 19.11.2021 36:17
It all began when after some success, Robert Riopel and his wife found themselves deep in debt and struggling. Thanks to guidance from total strangers, they started their journey in personal development and quickly turned things around. This led to Robert finding his true passion of learning and teaching others. It is because of his past and newfound passion for teaching that Riopel started studyi...
39. All Things Yoga: Interview with Beth Shaw 12.11.2021 24:44
🔄 Press the reset button: 5 tips to reset and de-stress. 00:25 🤩 Founding of Yoga Fit in 1997. 05:01 3️⃣ The three mountain format and keeping people feeling good in a safe and healthy way. 06:23 🤓 Organizing 15 conferences a year across North America before covid, now live events are slowly coming back. 07:15 👧 Around six years old, Beth taught herself guided imagery and meditation because o...
38. The Girl in the Garage Interview with Sharon Hughes 05.11.2021 27:01
🧠 Reset and de-stress. 00:13 🙋♀️ Welcome Sharon! 04:07 📖 Sharon’s book The Girl in The Garage: Three Steps to Letting Go of Your Past 04:55 🙁 Abused at the Halloween party, and living in the belief that she is a throw-away. 07:19 💔Feeling broken inside even after many successes: Becoming a coach. 08:20 ☹️ The stigma attached to Sandee’s looks. 09:34 💎 “What do you believe about yourself? An...
37. Tragedy to Indie Publishing: Interview with Emma Rose 29.10.2021 40:32
🧠 Stress affects all systems of the body. 00:30 🧚 Gratitude is the quickest way to shift your mood and raise your energy levels. 03:49 😃 Sandee loves surprises. 05:49 😇 Living her dream: Emma wanted to be a writer since she was 10. 06:24 2️⃣ Two things Emma loves to do the most. 07:13 👧 Make your 10-year-old self proud. 08:17 🤩 Emma is an advocate for independent publishing. 08:55 🥺 Trapp...
36. Self-Love Summit: Interview with Jonathan Troen 22.10.2021 33:11
👉 We have a reset button: 5 tips to reset and de-stress. 00:25 👋 Welcome, Jonathan! 04:33 🙃 Jonathan had a “dream life” on paper: “You can run all your life, but not go anywhere.” 05:10 🤕 Comparing himself to others: Jonathan decided to find what was wrong with him. 08:20 ❓ Do you want this guy's life? 11:26 🤯 Happiness comes from inside: “Whatever you have leading up to getting your money i...
35. From Struggles to Poetry: Interview with Loreen de Kort 15.10.2021 31:50
😍 Why is forgiveness the most useful tool in order to find peace in your heart? 03:49 👋 Welcome, Loreen! 06:40 🌲 Living among pine trees. 06:54 ✍️ Writing a book of poetry and prose as an extended therapy. 08:40 😇 When all your troubles pour into your poetry. 09:47 😌 Expressing hidden feelings. 10:39 📬 The envelope from the Library of Congress 11:59 🤩 When you decide to believe in yourself....
34. Be Better: Interview with Kirby Chenkin 08.10.2021 36:23
⚡ Kirby has energetic videos on Instagram. 04:09 🤸♂️ High energy boy: Movement is medicine, define your movement and make it fun. 04:49 😃 No more gym memberships for Sandee. 06:13 🔝 “Your uniqueness and success lie within understanding your highest values.” 08:16 🙏 The body is sending us signals. 10:02 🙌 A greatness test: identify your highest priority values. 11:27 😩 A difficult divorce,...
33. Through Love, Anything is Possible: Interview with Max Reif.mp3 01.10.2021 43:15
☮️ Max had a hard time in college, experimented with LSD, and had an interesting spiritual life journey. 05:46 📰 In college, Max heard about Meher Baba for the first time. 09:28 🙌 “The truth is mystical, not political.” A rumor was spread that he became Meher Baba`s follower. 10:38 ❗ Max suffered from drug addiction and depression. 15:22 👼 Max had a weird dream. 16:58 🌈 There is an avatar -...
32. Roar with Laughter: Interview with Pasha Marlowe 24.09.2021 31:49
😉 Pasha calls herself a therapeutic comedy coach as a title that encompasses her background. 04:31 🎭 She loves stand-up comedic approaches and she has a background in professional theater and acting. 05:25 👦 Orientation towards humor at the hardest of times: Pasha’s son got sick and comedy helped her a lot. 06:24 🎤 Roar with Laughter program is about laughing through tears and transforming wi...
31. Bullying to Kung Fu: Interview with Sifu Love 17.09.2021 31:30
💚 Meaning of his name. 04:49 😇 “Soul whisperer” teaches spiritual martial arts principles to tune inside and that can help us find the core of who we are. 05:16 🥋 Combination of kung fu and Qi Gong but from a more spiritual perspective. .06:51 🤩 Because of issues in elementary school, Sifu started reading a lot and learned meditation from “Meditation for Dummies”. 8:27 ☀️ His mom pushed him to...
30. Let Your Light Shine: Interview with Kim O'Neill 10.09.2021 34:30
🔄 Press the reset button: 5 tips to reset and de-stress. 00:25 😇 Being ahead of the podcast schedule gives peace and happiness to both Kim and Sandee. 04:46 🌟 Following what feels right and staying true to yourself: Let Your Light Shine movement. 06:49 💫 Interesting dichotomy: Helping people and coaching others provide you to come back to your true self. 08:15 🌞 Let Your Light Shine movement...
29. Positive Light Through Darkness: Interview with Forrest Rivers 03.09.2021 35:08
🔄 Press the reset button: 5 tips to reset and de-stress. 00:49 🤝 How Sandee and Forest met. 04:48 ✍️ Forrest’s writing for The Mindful Word journal. 05:42 😷 The pandemic was surrounded by fear and anxiety. 08:58 🙃 Writing a book in the middle of the pandemic: How we respond to the suffering is what matters. 10:38 📖 Book: COVID-19 & Humanity’s Spiritual Awakening is about all the different wa...
28. Own Your Gifts: Interview with Julie Hoyle 27.08.2021 30:02
🍑 Julie's favorite word these days is “peachy.” 03:02 🇧🇸 She lives in the Bahamas and feels blessed to live in such an inspirational and colorful country. 03:35 🧳 Getting out of the UK and following her dream in order to thrive. 05:08 🕊️ Julie had a radical spiritual awakening through a lucid dream. 07:45 🌌 What are lucid dreams? 09:20 🙏 Shaktipat: The minute Julie realized what she was lo...
27. Rising From The Ashes: Interview with Lanette Pottle 20.08.2021 32:29
😊 Maine, USA - An amazing place to live. 03:00 🙃 Finding her way after turbulent personal times in her 20s. 04:17 🤷♀️ She did not like the person she became. 06:42 😎 Lanette created an online community before Facebook called “Positivity Nation” 08:06 🎨 Having a full range of emotions is healthy: Only being the “Positivity Lady” was too much. 10:59 📚 The first book she wrote was a collaborat...
26. Struggles to Living in Authenticity: Interview with Michelle Fuqua 13.08.2021 43:45
😇 Sandee`s 5 habits for being happy! ⚕️ A suspicion of breast cancer was a pivot point in Michele's life. 04:33 👨👩👧👦 Family problems and seeking a bigger purpose. 06:14 ⚖️ Michelle has recalibrated her life to keep her focused. What does calibration mean to her? 08:25 🎓 Michelle's stories of survival during college, her first corporate job, and seeking joy. 11:56 📈 “What we know today m...
25. Childhood Wounds to Joy Interview with Joy Resor 06.08.2021 39:20
🤕 A core wound of not belonging from a very early age. 04:53 😇 Divine interventions: Separation is an illusion, connection is the only thing that exists. 06:01 🩹 What Joy longed for was a healed relationship with her sister. 10:09 ✌️ Everyone gets wounded but are you holding onto that for your whole life? 11:54 ️🙏 Helping people as a spiritual mentor: Wisdom is in the airwaves. 16:54 ✍️ Joy’s...
24. Empowered Eating & Movement: Interview with Kim Basler 30.07.2021 49:31
🤯 Kim started dieting at age of 12 and became a fitness instructor at age of 16. 03:27 🙁 Losing happiness in work, marriage, and with friends. 05:35 🎭 Queen of putting masks: The day when Kim completely broke down. 07:49 🩹 Time to heal and to empower herself. 11:09 🙋♀️ “Our relationships with food are a symptom, not the problem.” 14:44 🌞 Helping women heal the parts of themselves that they...
23. Mental Illness to Multi-Published Author Stormi Lewis 23.07.2021 47:24
🎩 Stormi developed her own bag of tricks to cope with bipolar disorder.. 03:42 😕 About the dark place she worked against. 08:18 🧐 When society labels you, all your prior accomplishments don't count. 13:07 🙅♀️ Developing people-pleasing habits and toxic relationships. 15:24 💃 Stormi decided to find her voice and love herself. 19:33 📚 Stormi started with writing blog posts, then two books, an...
22. Inspire, Educate & Empower: Interview with Tanaka Tava 16.07.2021 34:59
5️⃣ Sandee’s five habits for being happy. 0:36 🤩 Tanaka is grateful for so many things. 03:17 😇 What drives Tanaka: art, media, performance, and not living life without regrets. 06:48 👂 Parents taught him to be a listener. 09:43 🤯 Being deaf until he was four years old. 11:34 ⚡ His whole ethos is about being human.15:46 🎙️ Tanaka is a speaker but owns a multimedia company, a clothing line, an...
21. Devastation to Empowerment: Interview with Margot Zaher 09.07.2021 42:46
💔 Margot’s story about a polyamorous experience in her marriage 01:43 😞 Her self-esteem really plummeted. 05:13 🫂 Embracing the tense emotions: Allowing herself to grieve every day. 07:12 🤓 When you push something difficult away from you, it actually tends to stay there. 08:52 🎁 Searching for the gifts: Margot is grateful for the breakdown of her marriage. 10:20 🚪 Forgiveness is a doorway fo...
20. A Safe Space to Get Support and Help: Interview with PeerSpace 02.07.2021 30:31
🐣 About the beginnings of PeerSpace 02:22 💔 The most common questions asked are about anxiety, heartbreak, and relationships. 03:44 🫂 Helping people with very serious problems like suicide. 07:55 🌐 Their site is totally anonymous and open to everyone worldwide. 09:44 📱 Find them on Instagram @PeerSpaceOfficial. 10:47 😇 Using Twitter to post short reminders on important mental health issues.1...
19. Depression, Grounding, and Spirituality: Interview with Missy Crider 25.06.2021 34:09
✍️ Writing has always been her first love. 02:02 😇 Missy wrote her novel “The Interims” in a leather-bound journal. 03:18 🎩 Missy wrote this book with a very classic and timeless vocabulary. 04:53 🕊️ Her novel is about how the earthbound is interconnected to spirits in other realms. 07:42 🎭 Missy had many joyful times as an actress, but it was also very difficult. 13:09 🙏 What keeps her groun...
18. The Law of Attraction: Interview with Andrew Kap 18.06.2021 42:18
🤯 Andrew learned about the Law of attraction in 2004 and four years later he had an epiphany about it. 02:15 🤷♂️ In his book, Andrew addresses why people get excited about the law of attraction and begin to get results but still quit. 05:53 🤩 The Secret was misinterpreted: enjoying the method vs manipulating the method. 09:46 📸 Method of gratitude Blitz. 11:54 😇 The illusion of negativity a...
17. Dis-Ease to Yoga: A lesson in living life stress free! : Interview with Karen Duncan 11.06.2021 32:16
🌌 Karen and Sandee have been very close friends since 2006. 01:45 🤰 All the pain and trouble throughout nine years to figure out Karen has celiac disease was horrible. 04:32 😞 When people and doctors make you feel helpless, unheard, invalidated, and very judged. 06:56 🍽️ The best way to eat whether you have celiacs or not. 10:42 🍞 The difference between gluten sensitivity and celiac disease.12...
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