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

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.  Thanks for a great year everyone, it is way more fun because you are here with us!

This years' success has only fueled the excitement to bring more happy to more people.  Let's share this awesome community of people finding their happy and inspire others to do the same.

Resources I referenced this week:
Why You Need to Bring Back Anticipation (episode 14)
The Gifts Of Imperfection -  Brené Brown

I hope you enjoy this week’s podcast. Don’t forget we’d love to see you over on the Facebook Group, The Happier You Podcast!
And remember you can sign up for the next 21 Day Happiness Challenge Here. We'll be starting another one soon!

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook

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 she had once been and so she used the challenge to help her refocus and find her happier!  Its a fun interview with some great take-aways for all of us!

Resources I referenced this week:
The 21 Day Happiness Challenge - We'll start another challenge again soon!

 I hope you enjoy this week’s podcast. Don’t forget we’d love to see you over on the Facebook Group, The Happier You Podcast!
And remember you can get the podcast and the Happiness Mid Week Motivator emailed to you weekly when you join our mailing list here!

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook

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 advice would you give someone who understands that awful feeling of not knowing the dream in their heart and wants to find their own.”   I hope this helps you find your dream and start on your personal happiness journey.

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook

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.  I can't wait for you to try it yourself!

Resources I referenced this week:
Ultimate Confidence book by Marissa Peer

Master Your Money Mindset Course with Doris Belland
Positive Script Examples PDF

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook

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 those qualities in YOU!!  Once you do that, you will never set a "meh" goal ever again!

Resources I referenced this week:
The 21 Day Happiness Challenge - click to join our challenge starting 1 Feb 2021!
Dorothy Lazovik - Check out herwebsite.   She has a great blog there too.
Doris Belland - Check out her website.  Her recent blog post is one of my favourites.   Check it out!!!

I hope you enjoy this week’s podcast. Don’t forget we’d love to see you over on the Facebook Group, The Happier You Podcast!
And remember you can get the podcast and the Happiness Newsletter emailed to you weekly when you join our mailing list here!

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook

 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 job.

Resources I referenced this week:
Patricia's Facebook Page: Blue Sage Energy Arts
 Patricia also joined us previously on episode 029 – Find The Things That Make Your Soul Sing

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook

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.  Happiness is an adventure.   When we dare to set and achieve goals we have things to celebrate on this journey.

Resources I referenced this week:
Matt Cutts TED Talk - 30 Day Challenge
Episode 3 of The Happier You - Celebrate The Small Wins
John Dooer TED Talk - Why The Secret To Success Is Setting The Right Goals
Dan Harris's Book - 10% Happier

I hope you enjoy this week’s podcast. Don’t forget we’d love to see you over on the Facebook Group, The Happier You Podcast!
And remember you can get the podcast and the Happiness Newsletter emailed to you weekly when you join our mailing list here!

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook

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 I have tools in my toolbox to pull myself out of that downward spiral.  I hope that by sharing it with you I can inspire you to keep going on your happiness journey despite the hiccups.  We've got this.  As long as we get better at dealing with things, we get closer and closer to that happiness.

Resources I referenced this week:
The Gifts of Imperfection~ Brené  Brown 

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook

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 acknowledge the lessons of 2020.  As Angela Duckworth said, "When you keep looking for ways of changing things for the better, you stand a better chance of finding them!"

Resources I referenced this week:
Grit by Angela Duckworth
Values Course with Doris Belland from Your Financial Launchpad
Knowing Your Values Will Help You Find Your Happier - Episode 30, The Happier You Podcast

 I hope you enjoy this week’s podcast. Don’t forget we’d love to see you over on the Facebook Group, The Happier You Podcast!
And remember you can get the podcast and the Happiness Newsletter emailed to you weekly when you join our mailing list here!

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook

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 that in ourselves.  What a gift!

Things I referenced in this week's episode:
Easy To Love, Difficult To Discipline.  The 7 Basic Skills For Turning Conflict Into Cooperation ~Becky A. Bailey, Ph.D.

 I hope you enjoy this week’s podcast. Don’t forget we’d love to see you over on the Facebook Group, The Happier You Podcast!
And remember you can get the podcast and the Happiness Newsletter emailed to you weekly when you join our mailing list here!

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook