October 13, 2021

Spreading Happiness, Mental Health, Stoicism, Happiness Hacks and more with UN Happiness Ambassador and Entrepreneur Mario Chamorro (Episode #23)

1 hour 2 minutes

Today’s guest is Mario Chamorro (LinkedIn), an international ambassador for happiness who has spread smiles across three continents and swapped stories with politicians, former guerrilla combatants, and countless community leaders.

Mario was part of a group of happiness activists that created the international Day of Happiness at the United Nations which falls on March 20th each year!

Mario is currently working on making mental health journeys easier through his new startup.

Before July 2021, Mario was the Head of Coursera Latin America where he grew Coursera by 16M users and developed an enterprise business with more than 250 organizations using Coursera for Enterprise from the region.

In the past, Mario served as a VP of Marketing for SOMA messenger, where he secured 10 million downloads within 30 days of launching the app. It became the fastest-growing messaging app in internet history.

Mario’s work has touched millions of lives in the private and public sectors. Mario has presented at TEDx events internationally, given a talk at Google Headquarters, spoken before a U.N. panel on happiness, built workshops for socially conscious corporations, coordinated major grassroots activations in the streets of cities worldwide, and mobilized student groups and universities around the globe.

His work has been featured in press including Fast Company, Forbes, and Harvard Business Review, among others.

As of today, Mario's initiatives have touched the lives of +45 million people in +33 countries.

In this episode, we cover:

What it was like to create the UN International Day of Happiness

What Mario’s daily DOSE of happiness hormones looks like, and how to plan your day accordingly

We talk about Stoicism, growing up next to a volcano in Columbia

Reaching for your dreams

Not letting no stop you

Solving for the mental health pandemic

The joy of being happy and spreading happiness

And much more!

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