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

This week we are talking about how to take charge of your happiness, why small wins really matter.  And they do!  They really matter.  Its so important to celebrate all your small wins along the way to your goals.  No large goal is achieved without all the small steps, and today we are talking about how powerful it is to celebrate those.  When we do this we build momentum and belief in ourselves.  When we learn to enjoy those moments we bring more happiness into our daily life.

Some Previous Episodes that talked about The Power of Small Wins are:

Real People Finding Real Happiness – Interview with Karen Holliday

Take Back Control of Your Life and Create Powerful Habits

Celebrating The Small Wins

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!  You can also sign up to get the podcast delivered right to your inbox here.

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

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This week's episode is focusing on what we can take from our summer experience and use it to learn more about our self and be proactive in creating the life we want.  Whether you had a great summer or a less than stellar summer...reflecting on your summer and learning from all your experiences can help you find your happier.  This week's happiness tool is a powerful one!  Be sure to post comments and let me know what you think about this week's challenge.

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.

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In today's episode I am challenging you to step up, have fun and grow your happiness this summer. Its a fun summer project to ensure you come out of your summer feeling rested, recharged and that you've done something awesome for yourself! For the last couple of summers I have just survived! I am determined to thrive this summer! I believe the key to thriving is the Summer Happiness Challenge! Who doesn't want to add more happiness in their daily life? I can't wait to see what this form of "summer camp" does for our happiness community this summer! 

You can do the challenge with a friend, you can do the challenge with your family, or you can just sign up to do the challenge and meet the other challenge participants on our closed Facebook group. We are going to have fun this summer! Through the challenge, we're going to have fun together and support and encourage one another.

Summer Happiness Challenge Sign Up is Here!

For more info on the Summer Happiness Challenge you can go to our Happiness Challenges page.

If you know you are already up for the challenge you can sign up here The Summer Happiness Challenge sign up


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!  You can also sign up to get the podcast delivered right to your inbox 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 I am talking about how happiness is unique to each of us. As we get to know our authentic self, we will be able to stop being sold to and start living our happier life now! We are all at different stages in our life and therefore ready for different things. In today's episode I suggest 3 activities, or happiness tools that you can use to start living your happier life now. Because happiness isn't a destination, but small decisions we make on the journey, we are able to keep making adjustments to learn and grow and find more happy in every day life.

Resources I referenced this week:
Here are the podcast episodes that relate to the three happiness tools I referenced this week:
Finding Ways to Recharges during COVID 19
Who Are You Choosing To Be

Summer Happiness Challenge Sign Up is Here!
If you want to join us for our summer happiness challenge where we not only build on our happiness tools, we are going to do the happiness activities!  Sigh up here and build on your happier this summer!

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!  You can also sign up to get the podcast delivered right to your inbox here as well as make sure you get notified when enrollment opens for our Summer Happiness Challenge. 

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 this episode I am talking about how knowing and living your values helps you create an authentic life. I think this is the foundation of finding your happier because you won't be truly happy until you figure out what your authentic life looks like and start living it. I believe that figuring out your values is a great way to clarify what matters most to you. Then you can design your life to fit that. Knowing your values helps clarify where to spend you time, money and attention. Decisions are all around us. Can you imagine how much clearer your path would be if you held your decisions up against your values? You are worth the work!

Resources I referenced this week:

Knowing Your Values Will Help You Find Your Happier - Podcast with Doris Belland
List of Values that Doris Uses in her teachings
If you want to learn more about Doris and what she teaches, you can check her out on her website Your Financial Launchpad

 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!  You can also sign up to get the podcast delivered right to your inbox here as well as make sure you get notified when enrollment opens for our Summer Happiness Challenge.

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's podcast is an interview with Natasha Mang.  Natasha is a Happiness Community Member who completed the 21 Day Happiness Challenge and has offered to come on the podcast and share her insights and lessons learned.   In today's episode Natasha shares how she used her experience in her first happiness challenge to get even more out of the second challenge.  She makes me laugh when she shares how she "beat the system" on her first challenge and how she is consciously choosing how she shows up each day.  She also shares insight on how her whole family is using the  Love Languages to improve communication and more effectively show each other love.    Such a fun interview and so many great take-a ways. 

Previous podcasts covering some of the happiness tools Natasha talks about in today's episode:
The Podcast on Gratitude:How Gratitude Can Boost Happiness and Change How You See The World
The Episode on The Five Love Languages:  How To Ask For What You Need
The Episode on Who Are You Choosing To Be: Who Are You Choosing To Be
The Episode on Anticipation:  Why You Need To Bring Back Anticipation

 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!  You can also sign up to get the podcast delivered right to your inbox 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 I am talking about 5 happiness tools that can help you increase your resilience.  Resilience is your ability to get back to your normal state after a struggle or a crisis.  Its not really something most of us spend time thinking about until we find ourselves having to dig deep and work our way through a crisis or struggle.   I am convinced that by working on these 5 happiness tools, you are actually building your resilience muscle as well.  How cool is that?  More bang for your personal growth time!  YES!!    I think that if you choose one of these happiness tools and work on it for a couple of months, you will notice an increase in your happiness AND your resilience.  Don't you think that its worth a try? 

Resources I referenced this week:
The podcasts that go deeper on the 5 happiness tools I mentioned are:
Reflection and Review
Celebrating The Small Wins
Self-compassion
Gratitude
Changing The Way you Talk to Yourself
 And whenever I talk about Self-compassion I like to refer you to Dr. Kristen Neff and her Guided meditations on self-compassion.

 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!  You can also sign up to get the podcast delivered right to your inbox 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 I am talking about how gratitude can boost your happiness and change how you see the world.  I believe gratitude has changed the way I see the world.  Today's episode is a reminder of how powerful gratitude is and even though I think I'm quite good at it, I forget sometimes to focus on the good of what I have instead of what I lack.  This happiness tool is an easy "go to" tool to change the way you feel in any moment.  However, when you add it to your life as a daily practice you will just be different.  Today's episode is meant to be a reminder of how powerful gratitude can be and to encourage you to keep at yours and give it a boost if you can.

Resources I referenced This week:
Remember you can always pop over to the website, www.thehappieryou.net, and listen to past episodes if you need a happiness boost.

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!  You can also sign up to get the podcast delivered right to your inbox 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 to get yourself through the yucky stuff so you can feel more happy.  If you are like me, your inner critic berates you for every screw up and misstep.  One mistake and you can spiral into a judgemental dark place identifying with your screw up.  Today's episode is to get you to remember that how you react to things and support yourself through the tough stuff is a choice.  I want to encourage you to be a good friend to yourself in the rough stuff, and help yourself out of that yucky stuff with self compassion, understanding and care.

Resources I referenced this week:
Episdoe 33 of The Happier You Podcast
The Gifts of Imperfection ~ Brene Brown
Dr. Kristen Neff  on Self Compassion - www.selfcompassion.org

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's podcast is an interview with Karen Holliday.  Karen is a Happiness Community Member who just finished the 21 Day Happiness Challenge.  Karen asks, "Who wouldn't want to be happier?"  Which is a great question!  Listen and find out why Karen believes that a small daily investment in yourself can bring you joy.  And that joy can spread to others around you.  I really enjoyed getting to know Karen in this interview.  I think you will love her insight and honesty.

Resources I referenced in today's episode:
The Podcast on Play: The Transformative Power of Creativity and Play – Part 2
The Podcast on Habits: Celebrating The Small Wins
The Episode on Journaling: How To Set Yourself Up For Success on This Journey
Atomic Habits, James Clear
The Gifts of Imperfection, Brene 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!  You can also sign up to get the podcast delivered right to your inbox 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