The Happier You: Empowering Your Journey to a Joyful and Fulfilling Life

This episode I am looking at 2021 through the lens of my gratitude jar and realizing I am grateful for quality time with quality people.  As we look back on 2021 I am asking you to perform your reflection and review and celebrate the wins, no matter how small.  Using this review, we ask ourselves, what can we do in 2022 to make it a great year! Resources I referenced this week: The Happier You 21...

In this episode I am encouraging you to invite more Happy into your life.  Getting more happy doesn't always need to be huge sweeping changes.  In an attempt to inspire you to find what can invite more happy into your life, I share the top 3 Happiness Tools that have given me the biggest return on my time.  I was inspired by a friend saying, "I just  need real actionable items".   T...

Today’s Living Your One True Authentic Life podcast is an inspiring interview with Cindy Stradling, the founder of the Courage In Action Organization.  When Cindy asked herself, “What if?” she had no idea how much joy that seemingly inconsequential question would bring to her life.  Now, 8 years after she asked that question and put her idea out to a few friends, she is sharing her happier with ma...

This week we are looking ahead at the upcoming holiday season.  I am heading into this often stressful season, armed with 3 happiness tools.  I decided that instead of assuming everything will go well, I was going to plan for possible stressors and have a game plan for when things get overwhelming or go sideways. This year I'm going in "eyes wide open" by planning to use tools from...

In today's episode I am interviewing Doris Belland.  She made 3 big transitions in her life but the most recent was toward her happier.  As she tells us in today's interview, her one true authentic life decision took time, a lot of honesty with herself, and was executed, one step at a time.  And its still going on!  Doris's story is inspiring.  Join us for today's podcast where...

In today's episode we are talking about how to take back control of your life and create powerful habits.  Have you ever stopped and wondered how you got here?  Where did all your healthy habits go?  What about that strong healthy body?  Where did it go?  When did you stop taking care of yourself?  In this episode we are talking about how habits can build happiness.  Creating Small daily wins...

Have you ever met someone who seemed to be really comfortable living their One True Authentic Life that you felt intimidated?  Well, today I'm interviewing Kyra Wong, and she was that for me a few years ago.  After figuring out what my one true authentic life looks like,  Kyra's incredible "Sparkle and Glitter personality" no longer intimidates me. It inspires me!  I am so thri...

 How do you Successfully get back on your happiness journey after a pause? In today's podcast, we are talking about just that.   On a journey, sometimes you take breaks and pause, but you do NOT quit.   You get back at it, figure out what you have done well, ask yourself, what you could have done better, and maybe tweak a few things, then keep going.  Getting down on ourselves doesn't he...

I hope my summer reading List for 2021will motivate you to invest in your future happiness by adding some inspirational reading to your summer plans!  What we read today will take a few years to get implemented in our lives.  The more we stretch and grow now, the happier our future selves will be!  What’s on your summer reading list?  Here are my top 5 recommendations.  Enjoy!   The Gifts of Imper...

This week's Real People Finding Real Happiness podcast interview is with Christie Parcigneau.  Christie was not only a 21 Day Happiness Challenge participant, she also created the guided meditation during the challenge.   In this episode, Christie gives us some great insight into building our meditation practice.  As well, she shares her biggest take-a ways from the challenge that remind us t...

This week we are talking about why we need to avoid negativity and the 3 C's to increase happiness.  Negativity is contagious and the 3 Cs of Comparing, Complaining and Criticizing spread that negativity in our lives.  They are so prevalent in our culture that we often don't even realize when we are doing them.   The sooner we identify why and where they show up in our lives, the sooner...

Today's question we're contemplating is, Does each of us have a limited amount of happiness? Is there only so much happiness to go around?  Are you thinking that because someone else is happy, you can't be? Well guess what?  The answer is, No! In fact, I believe that the more happiness there is, the more there is to share.  More like it's contagious than limited.  I explain my...

This week we are talking about how to find your happiness when it feels like it is just outside your comfort zone!  Many of us don't know where to start because our personal happiness seems elusive and unclear.  How do you try to work towards something when you aren't even sure what that "something" looks like?  Well, today's episode is about exactly that.  What do you do...

This week's Real People Finding Real Happiness podcast interview is with Teri Murray.   Teri has been on her own happiness journey for over 2 years and I know that you will enjoy learning about her journey.  As Teri shares her biggest take-a ways from the challenge she also encourages us all to try the challenge if we are feeling kinda stuck or feel something is missing!  Teri is a joy to be...

This week is another interview where we find out what practical tools Happiness Community Members got by doing the 21 Day Happiness Challenge.  This week Lisa Parr is our guest and she shares her biggest take aways from the challenge!  Lisa has great energy and I think we can all benefit from the insights she gained during the challenge.  She reminds us that play is not only for kids and we can pu...

This week is our one year anniversary episode!  We are celebrating the 1 year milestone with a fun interview with my Hot Guy Editor (aka Norm, my hubby).  We created a set of questions, answered them separately and then came together in the podcast booth to see how far apart our answers were!  Its a fun celebration of the Happier You Podcast Community and the ups and downs of its first year.  Than...

This week is the first episode where we are finding out what practical tools Happiness Community Members got by doing the 21 Day Happiness Challenge.  This week Jenni MacDonald is our guest and she is sharing how she used the 21 Day Happiness Challenge to pinpoint some specific things in her life she could change to rediscover her happy.  She had already realized that she wasn't as happy as s...

In Today's episode I share the 5 Steps To Learn To Love Yourself And Discover The Dream In Your Heart.  When I share the story of how the Happier You Podcast came to be,  what seems to be resonating with people the most is that feeling of being gutted or having a big gaping hole when I realized I didn't know the dream in my heart.   Today’s podcast is my answer to the question, “What adv...

This week we are talking about how to find and strengthen your best self by adding positive scripts in your happiness toolbox.  Experts tell us that we have around 77,000 thoughts in a day and a lot of these are negative.  This week I share how this has worked amazingly well for me and I give you some example scripts that you can start using today.   I am amazed at how much they have done for me. ...

This week we are asking, "Are You Up For The Challenge?"  Did you set a New Year's goal or did you shy away from the challenge?  What if I told you that the most important thing is choosing the right challenge?  When you tap into the right challenge your best qualities come out to show you what you are made of!  I share this really cool exercise I learned to get you to identify thos...

 How do you know if the goals or resolutions you set for 2021 are in alignment with your happiness journey? This week we are talking with Patricia Vander Laan because she is further along her happiness journey than I am!  I asked her to share her advice to our community.  She shares how she ended up on her personal journey as well as some awesome advice. Patricia and I agree, its still an inside j...

This week we are talking about HOPE and New Years Resolutions.  What does one have to do with the other?  Well, I don't know about you, but each new year holds hope for me.  Hope for better things, for renewed commitment to goals and excitement for the possibilities.  I think its important to use that hope to effect change in your life.  Not just hope others will change things for you.  Happi...

This week we are talking about how we cannot let our mistakes diminish our happiness. I share a mistake I made and how I used my new "happiness tools" (and the help of my family) to pull myself out of it.  Its humbling to admit that I got dragged down by the shame gremlins over something that was totally preventable.  However, it made me realize that its going to happen, and when it does...

This week we are taking a look back at 2020 for our annual review to set ourselves up for greater happiness in 2021.  We are doing this with a focus on gratitude, forgiveness and optimism.  We can only move ahead into 2021 with evaluated experience when we take an honest look at the past year and learn from it.   Before we can welcome the new year with an open mind, we must first properly acknowle...

This week we are talking about those thousands of thoughts we have during a day, and how to change them from negative to positive.  The idea that "What we offer to others, we give ourselves" means that we can be kinder to ourselves when we offer kindness to the world.  What we see in others we strengthen in ourselves.  So by seeing kindness, acceptance and love in others we strengthen th...