Sophie Cliff, aka the Joyful Coach, tells her story of how she was constantly outsourcing her happiness to the future, building her career and being a bystander in her own life. After experiencing a tragedy, she realised the Instagram posts were true – you only live once. She shares her story of how connecting to the daily joys in life supported her to come back to the present, but also continue to become an incredibly successful coach and author.

Sophie brings a perfect blend of personal experience with practical research to show us how coming back to the things that bring you joy can create incredible impact to your life.

This conversation was a joy in itself.

Sophie discusses:

• Why so many people have to have a tragic event to force them to stop from a point of desperation before they realise they have to change
• How joy is the precursor to your success – and to stop delaying it to another day
• There is no set view for what brings joy for everyone – it's a concept individual to everyone
• You don't need a plan for your life before you start to prioritise joy
• How not to let perfectionism get in the way of you finding joy, have a go and experiment
• The big milestone moments are such a small part of your life, it's the stuff we do every day that matters
• You don't have to make huge changes in your life, in fact, sometimes you don't have to make any at all
• Even in the darkest times of your life, joy is available

About Sophie

Sophie Cliff (aka The Joyful Coach) is a certified coach and positive psychologist who uses her expertise to help people flourish by finding more joy and prioritising wellbeing. She is also the author of Choose Joy: Relieve Burnout, Focus on Your Happiness, and Infuse More Joy into Your Everyday Life and the host of chart-topping podcast, Practical Positivity. Prior to retraining in 2018, Sophie spent a decade building a successful career in sales and marketing, working at global organisations such as The Walt Disney Company and Hallmark cards, and some smaller tech start ups. Her work has been featured in multiple national press titles in the last year, including The Independent, You Magazine, iNews, CN Traveller, Marie Claire and HuffPost.

You can find more about Sophie at www.sophiecliff.com

About Meg

After living life in the rat race consistently driving towards the next thing, Meg changed her life by asking whether she was happy. The answer, 'I'm not 'unhappy' – but there has to be more than this' made her live life differently. Now a Positive Psychologist, she supports people to take ownership of their happiness and step into the happiest version of them using a blend of evidence-based coaching and training solutions.

About happybyme

happybyme exists to support people to make great things happen by cultivating happiness. We beleive that by supporting people to take control of their happiness, more great things will happen in the world. We do this through our range of training and coaching solutions and our brand new 'Choose Happiness' planner.

You can find out more at www.happybyme.co.uk