Living on the Smile Side of Life

Today I watched a segment of CBS Mornings, July 22, 2025. The story was about Gilda Radner, and her battle with ovarian cancer. Alan Zwiebel revealed his calls with Gilda, how she told him the bad news, and ask specifically that he help her laugh about it. It reminded me of my friend Madeline Hoffer, who called me to tell me about her bad news - and told me she called because she wanted me to help...

What is Well-Being? Well-being is the part of Wellness that involves all the elements contributing to life satisfaction. Developing well-being enhancing habits can add to your resilience - your ability to manage when things get difficult and stressful. Some well-being habits also help with wellness, which incorporates both your physical and emotional health. A two for one!

Noreen Braman helps you, your employees, members, clients, event attendees, and others boost well-being, discover meaning and purpose, and support resilience for when life is not so funny!

Learn how laughter helped human survival, how baby laughter is diabolical, benefits of laughter, and more!

In this section, I discuss Reinventions and How the Affects Your Personal Mission and Vision, Also - what are we doing with time? This is the last section to be read. The print book, which will soon have a second edition sans typos :) contains inspiring quotes, further reading, and some extra credit work. You can purchase the book directly from the publisher  https://www.lulu.com/shop/noreen-brama...

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In this chapter, Noreen Braman introduces the three parts of finding your purpose, creating Purpose, Mission, and Vision Statements. And don't forget to bring your Watchword from Episode 1. Noreen also shares her origin story.

No matter what our stage of life, from being a young career striver through retirement years, we face life challenges, some of them coming about without your choice or control. Especially, the journey through midlife and beyond can be an unsettling time. As parts of life change, it creates the perfect opportunity to re-examine one's sense of meaning and purpose, to create fresh vision for the road...

'The Impossible Dream’ is the title track from Aaron Lazar’s debut album IMPOSSIBLE DREAM. Featuring an all-star cast of artists from the theater and pop world: Kristin Chenoweth, Josh Groban, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Kelli O'Hara, Leslie Odom, Jr, Liz Callaway, Neil Patrick Harris, STING and many more! *Proceeds from the sale of the album will benefit the ALS Network and Aaron Lazar who continues to f...

Five Fun Facts in a Flash! Why you need laughter in your life - it's not optional!

Some of the presentations, workshops, and classes from The Smile Side of Life Laughter & Happiness Club from Noreen Braman, CLYL, CLWI

Laughter is an important aspect of Well-Being, and has existed since before humans had language, or even a "sense of humor." Take a journey through laughter's history, learn about laughter's support of resilience, and enjoy some laughter exercises that do not rely on comedy or jokes!

Noreen Braman is a certified Laughter Wellness Instructor who studied the Psychology of Laughter at Rutgers University. She added the Science of Happiness through The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and belongs to the Association for Applied & Therapeutic Humor (AATH). She presents laughter for the health of it through her Smile Side of Life interactive presentations and workshops....

Quick animation I did for the Smile Side of Life to use as an opener to videos.

This interview was co-hosted with Iris Goldfeder, CEO of Gas Stove Creative. It was such fun. Noreen Braman is the founder of The Smile Side of Life Laughter & Happiness Club, and is all about the healing power of laughter. She's literally a hoot! After a few rounds of reinvention, including a contentious divorce, corporate downsizing due to an economic recession of historic proportions, and f...

Blasts from the Past   "I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not."  - Mark Twain  

1. Introduction Treading Water is a slightly damp collection of Noreen Braman's previously published humor essays and columns. You'll be grateful that your life isn't full of watery adventures, misbehaving dogs, care plans gone awry, and varmint that don't give up. "You can't save someone from drowning if you're barely trading water yourself." - Eddie Vetter