Anthony is a Corporate Trainer & Motivational Speaker specializing in happiness and well-being to improve team dynamics, communication, trust and productivity. His work is based on the research in the fields neuroplasticity, positive psychology and leadership. Given Anthony's background and knowledge this made for a great discussion. We were able to explore big topics like happiness, service to others, gratitude, and others from a philosophical, psychological, and physiological perspective (all the "p's"); which I think you have to do when you are trying to make sense of topics like these.

Anthony started the show by talking about "service" as his most important value, but we quickly used that to run with and talk about "happiness.". We explored if happiness can ever be rooted in pain, if fun generates more happiness than purpose, and how detachment can be the highest form of happiness. Happiness has had such a heavy presence on many of the episodes, so it was really interesting to deep dive into the concept with someone who spends so much time thinking about it.

My favorite part of the conversation though came when we discussed the idea of transcendence. We started to discuss the idea that our human consciousness is allowing us to transcend nature. It seems we are able to detach ourselves from our evolutionary programming and make decisions outside the bounds of what nature or our genetics have encoded. If that is true and we have transcended nature would that make use god like? If we can find happiness in our suffering, is that a divine act? The discussion around all of this was super interesting and thought provoking, so a big thanks to Anthony for being on sharing his perspective.