Hosted by Rosaria Cirillo, in this “Happiness practice” (5 to 30-minute recording in which we guide you through one practice that contributes to our happiness or increases our awareness), we recorded a guided #yoganidra session.

This practice includes the following stages:

This session has been validated with Himalayan gurus during my Yoga TT in Nepal, about which I shared more in episode 21 and in this blog post ⁠15 takeaways from my Yoga Teacher training & journey in Nepal⁠.

In the wider yoga wisdom, Yoga Nidra is one of the stages of Raya Yoga, about which we shared more in the blog post ⁠What is Yoga and what are the 16 types of Yoga connected to 7 chakras⁠ ⁠

In previous episode 24, we shared more about the theory behind this practice, sharing:

🌻 a poem written by Swami Satyananda Saraswati

🌻 a shortened abstract from the article “The Origin and Clinical Relevance of Yoga Nidra” published in 2022 on ⁠PubmedCentral⁠

🌻 A few key insights from the book Yoga Nidra by Swami Satyananda Saraswati, focusing on the four main benefits of Yoga Nidra.

We hope you find both episodes insightful and helpful, and we look forward to hearing your feedback either in the Q&A session on Spotify or by sending us an email at [email protected]!

🤨 Curious? Tune in and listen to this episode.

You can find out more about the Himalayan Yoga Academy I stayed at and the courses they offer ⁠⁠on their HYA website ⁠⁠or check them on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠

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Connect with Rosaria ⁠⁠on Instagram⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠

If you liked the show, we appreciate it if you shared it with one person who may benefit from it too. Subscribe to our channel & tune in for the next episode. You can find all the episodes and discover more business happiness contribution tips on our ⁠⁠The Happiness Contribution™ Show website⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠Instagram page⁠⁠

Want to be inspired (or get your company and colleagues inspired) by our host Rosaria? Check out her ⁠⁠keynotes⁠⁠, ⁠⁠sessions⁠⁠, ⁠⁠training programs⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠advisory⁠⁠ offerings ⁠⁠on her website⁠⁠ and all ⁠⁠her books available on Amazon⁠⁠

🌻Stay healthy & happy, keep smiling, nurture #happinesscontribution, and tune in for the next episode!

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“The Happiness Contribution™ Show is hosted by Rosaria Cirillo (Happiness Change Catalyst, Certified Happiness Trainer, Customer Experience Professional, and Laughter Yoga Teacher), and is available as a webcast on YouTube and Spotify, and on your favorite channels as a podcast. In this podcast, we talk with incredible people about the various roles Happiness plays in our lives, and we share knowledge and practices about what contributes to our happiness and how we can contribute to others’ happiness as individuals and as business leaders.

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Hosted by Rosaria Cirillo, in this “Insight episode” (20 to 30 minutes recording in which we share in-depth content about happiness, what contributes to our happiness, and how businesses can do their part in contributing to the happiness of their employees, customers, or society) I share with you a bit of background and theory about Yoga Nidra, a great well-being practice I first learned about during pregnancy Yoga classes in 2010, then during the Laughter Yoga Teacher Training in 2021, and then again during my Yoga TT in Nepal, about which I shared more in episode 21 and in this blog post  15 takeaways from my Yoga Teacher training & journey in Nepal.

In the wider yoga wisdom, Yoga Nidra is one of the stages of Raya Yoga, about which we shared more in the blog post What is Yoga and what are the 16 types of Yoga connected to 7 chakras

In this episode, I share:

🌻 a poem written by Swami Satyananda Saraswati

🌻 a shortened abstract from the article “The Origin and Clinical Relevance of Yoga Nidra” published in 2022 on PubmedCentral

🌻 A few key insights from the book Yoga Nidra by Swami Satyananda Saraswati, focusing on the four main benefits of Yoga Nidra:

In the next episode (25), we recorded a guided meditation, so that you can use that track as often as you like without having to fast forward through the theory.

We hope you find it insightful, and we look forward to hearing your feedback either in the Q&A session on Spotify or by sending us an email at [email protected]!

🤨 Curious? Tune in and listen to this episode.

You can find out more about the Himalayan Yoga Academy I stayed at and the courses they offer ⁠on their HYA website ⁠or check them on ⁠Instagram⁠

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Connect with Rosaria ⁠on Instagram⁠, ⁠Linkedin⁠, and ⁠YouTube⁠

If you liked the show, we appreciate it if you shared it with one person who may benefit from it too. Subscribe to our channel & tune in for the next episode. You can find all the episodes and discover more business happiness contribution tips on our ⁠The Happiness Contribution™ Show website⁠ & ⁠Instagram page⁠

Want to be inspired (or get your company and colleagues inspired) by our host Rosaria? Check out her ⁠keynotes⁠, ⁠sessions⁠, ⁠training programs⁠, and ⁠advisory⁠ offerings ⁠on her website⁠ and all ⁠her books available on Amazon⁠

🌻Stay healthy & happy, keep smiling, nurture #happinesscontribution, and tune in for the next episode!

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“The Happiness Contribution™ Show is hosted by Rosaria Cirillo (Happiness Change Catalyst, Certified Happiness Trainer, Customer Experience Professional, and Laughter Yoga Teacher), and is available as a webcast on YouTube and Spotify, and on your favorite channels as a podcast. In this podcast, we talk with incredible people about the various roles Happiness plays in our lives, and we share knowledge and practices about what contributes to our happiness and how we can contribute to others’ happiness as individuals and as business leaders.

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Welcome! In today's episode, our guest is Dorota Klop-Sowinska, Executive Career Coach, Author of Career Jump, Founder of DoSo! Coaching

Dorota Klop-Sowinska is a certified coach and counselor from the Dutch Academy for Psychotherapy. Dorota is an international career coach with over 14 years of experience in coaching. In 2020, Dorota completed a breakthrough study in neuro coaching and obtained a BrainBased Coaching Certificate and Results Trained Coach certificate from the NeuroLeadership Institute. Dorota is also a certified Mental Fitness Coach. In 2022 Dorota was selected to join Forbes Coaches Council.

In the past 14 years, Dorota has worked with a wide range of

Dorota in 5 sentences:

💛 I am the wife of a Dutch guy, the mother of two great daughters, and of a wonderful dog, from Poland.

💛 I am passionate about my family, learning, my job, and being in

💛 I love Matcha & Yoga. 

💛 I hate war.

💛 To me, happiness contribution means making sure my family is happy and making sure my clients have jobs that they love. 

Here is a glimpse of some of the topics covered in this episode:

🌻 Definition of Happiness & Dorota Yellow Factor Inward & Outward

🌻 Health, Play, & Purpose

🌻 What gets in the way of people finding their path and leading a

🌻 How do we know or feel when we have found our path to a fulfilling career

🌻 Whether there is just one path to a fulfilling career and life

🌻 How the Adult Parent Child psychotherapy model applies to career choices

🌻 Life changing book & Golden nugget

You can learn more about Dorota on www.dosocoaching.com and connect with her on Facebook LinkedIn and Instagram

Books mentioned in the episode:

Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher

Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work by David Rock

Career Jump!: How to Successfully Change Your Professional Path by Dorota Klop-Sowinska

Yellow Factor: Happiness in Business by Rosaria Cirillo

🤨 Curious? Tune in and listen to this episode.

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If you liked the show, we appreciate it if you shared it with one person who may benefit from it too. Subscribe to our channel & tune in for the next episode. You can find all the episodes and discover more business happiness contribution tips on our ⁠The

Want to be inspired (or get your company and colleagues inspired) by our host Rosaria? Check out her ⁠keynotes⁠, sessions⁠ , and ⁠training programs⁠ offerings ⁠on her website⁠ and all ⁠her books available on Amazon⁠

🌻Stay healthy & happy, keep smiling, nurture #happinesscontribution, and tune in for the next episode!

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“The Happiness Contribution™ Show is hosted by Rosaria Cirillo (Happiness Change Catalyst, Certified Happiness Trainer,

This episode was recorded using StreamYard. Want to check it out yourself? Here is our affiliate code which will give you 10$ credit: ⁠https://streamyard.com/pal/5135760815816704⁠

Welcome! In today's episode, our guest is Shay Klomp Bueters, Functional Medicine Consultant & Founder of Contagiously Healthy

Shay graduated from the University of Montana with Bachelor of Science in Health and Human performance with a focus in Exercise Science and Corporate Wellness. After over 10 years in a 9-5 as the Director of an International Trade Organization, she decided it was time to go back to her roots in health and wellness, graduating from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition and The School of Applied Functional Medicine (SAFM). Shay has given nutritional workshops in English and in Dutch at corporations in the Netherlands such as ASR Verzekering via High Five, Oracle, Cisco, Nike, along with organizations and schools such as the Impact Hub, the “Zo Blijven Wij Gezond” Festival, The International School of Amsterdam, and the American International Community School in Amsterdam. Shay was invited to join the Sugar Summit hosted by Sugarwise, an international certification body for sugar claims, which took place at the European parliament in Brussels, along with being an expert on the Global Kick Sugar Summit. In experiencing firsthand the power of nutrition and lifestyle changes to overcome infertility and burnout, Shay is keen to empower others to reclaim their health. The body has an incredible ability to heal when allowed to! Implementing Functional Medicine has been a game changer for Shay personally and professionally, in healing her own asthma, as well as sharing the knowledge with the clients she is blessed to educate, inspire and empower enabling them to move step by step into a place of sustainable wellness and vitality. 

Shay in 2 sentences:

💛 I am a wife and mother, who has a passion for transforming health care from a grassroots level with the lovely clients who I am blessed to partner with on

💛 To me, happiness contribution means partnering with people to transform their health so that they feel optimal and vital and truly can enjoy life to the fullest

Here is a glimpse of some of the topics covered in this episode:

🌻 Definition of Happiness & Shay Yellow Factor Inward and Outward,

🌻 Health, Play, and Smile,

🌻 Contagiously Healthy,

🌻 Impact of sugar and gluten on inflammation

🌻 Nutrition

🌻 3 key steps of optimal health: Maximize, Minimize, Prioritize

🌻 Life changing book and Golden nugget

You can learn more about Shay on her website and connect with her on  Instagram and Facebook

🤨 Curious? Tune in and listen to this episode.

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Connect with Rosaria ⁠on Instagram⁠, ⁠Linkedin⁠, and ⁠YouTube⁠

If you liked the show, we appreciate it if you share it with one person that may benefit from it too. Subscribe to our channel & tune in for the next episode. You can find all the episodes and discover more business happiness contribution tips on our ⁠The Happiness Contribution™ Show website⁠ & ⁠Instagram page⁠

Want to be inspired (or get your company and colleagues inspired) by our host Rosaria? Check out her ⁠keynotes⁠, ⁠sessions⁠, ⁠training programs⁠, and ⁠advisory⁠ offerings ⁠on her website⁠ and all ⁠her books available on Amazon⁠

🌻Stay healthy & happy, keep smiling, nurture #happinesscontribution, and tune in for the next episode!

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“The Happiness Contribution™ Show is hosted by Rosaria Cirillo (Happiness Change Catalyst, Certified Happiness Trainer, Customer Experience Professional, and Laughter Yoga Teacher), and is available as a webcast on YouTube and Spotify, and on your favorite channels as a podcast. In this podcast, we talk with incredible people about the various roles Happiness plays in our lives, and we share knowledge and practices about what contributes to our happiness and how we can contribute to others’ happiness as individuals and as business leaders.

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This episode was recorded using StreamYard. Want to check it out yourself? Here is our affiliate code which will give you 10$ credit: ⁠https://streamyard.com/pal/5135760815816704

Welcome! Just back from a full month in Nepal, in this episode I (your host Rosaria Cirillo) share with you:

You can find out more about the Himalayan Yoga Academy I stayed at and the courses they offer on their HYA website or check them on Instagram

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Connect with Rosaria on Instagram, Linkedin, and YouTube

If you liked the show, we appreciate it if you share it with one person that may benefit from it too. Subscribe to our channel & tune in for the next episode. You can find all the episodes and discover more business happiness contribution tips on our The Happiness Contribution™ Show website & Instagram page

Want to be inspired (or get your company and colleagues inspired) by our host Rosaria? Check out her keynotes, sessions, training programs, and advisory offerings on her website and all her books available on Amazon

🌻Stay healthy & happy, keep smiling, nurture #happinesscontribution, and tune in for the next episode!

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“The Happiness Contribution™ Show is hosted by Rosaria Cirillo (Happiness Change Catalyst, Certified Happiness Trainer, Customer Experience Professional, and Laughter Yoga Teacher), and is available as a webcast on YouTube and Spotify, and on your favorite channels as a podcast. In this podcast, we talk with incredible people about the various roles Happiness plays in our lives, and we share knowledge and practices about what contributes to our happiness and how we can contribute to others’ happiness as individuals and as business leaders.

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Welcome! In today's episode, our guest is Alwin Put, the author of Captains of Leadership: Build your Facilitative Confidence, a Design Thinking expert, sought-after facilitator, trainer, and speaker. He has a long track record in Marketing & Brand Strategy, working with start-ups, scale-ups, corporates, and his own ventures. His book summarises his learnings when leading co-creation sessions with countless people from all kinds of organizations. 

I first met Alwin while I was delivering a workshop on using the science of Happiness in Business during the Design Thinking Conference in Amsterdam in 2019. Later on, I followed his journey of publishing his book Captains Of Leadership –which I loved and I highly recommend reading - and last year I followed two of his courses, one on Facilitative Leadership and one on Breathing work. He fully embodies and applies in his work what I call HCX: Human-Centered, Happiness-Contributing, and Heart-Centered Experience, and I’m glad to have had him on the podcast to share just a pinch of his wisdom with our audience.

Alwin in 6 sentences:

💛 I am a father of two sons and a husband to an amazing woman living in the area of Belgium which is close to the Netherlands and Germany.

💛 I love reading and writing, movies, theatre, concerts, and basically everything that conveys stories.

💛 I have been exploring the concept of spirituality since my teens and I have spent half of my life in corporate environments and some but too little in start-up environments

💛 I honestly hate parsnip, it really makes me nauseous which is one of the strangest words to write in English 

💛 I wish I could turn the whole world into Captains of Leadership. If that happened I would finally watch the news again

💛 To me, happiness contribution means making other people happy

Here is a glimpse of some of the topics covered in this episode:

🌻 Definition of Happiness & his Yellow Factor Inward and Outward,

🌻Empathy, Autonomy, and Purpose,

🌻 Facilitative Leadership,

🌻 Importance and impact of managing our own state

🌻 3 key steps of facilitation: Guide, Conduct, Catalyze

🌻 3 key steps of facilitation

🌻 Golden nugget: there is no truth in life, everything changes continuously and there are just different perspectives. Facilitation is about the celebration of different perspectives. There is just creation, and life keeps changing and evolving.

You can connect with Alwin on:

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alwinput/

On his blog:  https://www.captainsofleadership.com/captains-blog

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Connect with our host Rosaria on Instagram, Linkedin, and YouTube

If you liked the show, we appreciate it if you share it with one person that may benefit from it too. Subscribe to our channel & tune in for the next episode. You can find all the episodes and discover more business happiness contribution tips on our The Happiness Contribution™ Show website & Instagram page

Want to be inspired (or get your company and colleagues inspired) by our host Rosaria? Check out her keynotes, sessions, training programs, and advisory offerings on her website and all her books available on Amazon

🌻Stay happy & happy, keep smiling, nurture #happinesscontribution, and tune in for the next episode!

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“The Happiness Contribution™ Show is hosted by Rosaria Cirillo (Happiness Change Catalyst, Certified Happiness Trainer, Customer Experience Professional, and Laughter Yoga Teacher), and is available as a webcast on YouTube and Spotify, and on your favorite channels as a podcast. In this podcast, we talk with incredible people about the various roles Happiness plays in our lives, and we share knowledge and practices about what contributes to our happiness and how we can contribute to others’ happiness as individuals and as business leaders.

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In this episode, I share the highlights, and the learnings made during the three months of my husband's hospitalization and after, and what contributed to my happiness also on hard times.

Welcome to “The Happiness Contribution™ Show!

Hosted by Rosaria Cirillo (Happiness Change Catalyst, Certified Happiness Trainer, Customer Experience Professional, and

Episode 16 –  the first episode after 3 months unplanned hiatus – was a “special” edition in an unusual format… a solo during which I shared the life that happened to me in the 3 months which turned out to be the hardest time of my life to date. It turned out to be a very long episode.

In the first 1 hour and 15 minutes I share the chronicles of my husband hospitalization and in the following 30 minutes I shared what depleted me and what enriched me during these 3 months. Given the length and the answers in the poll attached in the spotify episode which asked to split it

Ready? Tune in and listen.

Links mentioned in this show: 

- New sessions and programs open to individuals to nurture your well-being and flourish: https://wownow.eu/opentraining/

- Book extract of the entire Smile chapter of the book (and a few extra chapters as Lagniappe): https://wownow.eu/YellowFactorSmile 

- Reiki Healing mantra ra-ma-da-sa-sa-say-so-hung. You can listen to it on ⁠Spotify⁠ 

- You can read more about it and how to use it to send headlong wishes to someone sick at https://www.laviadelreiki.org/2017/11/18/mantra-ra-ma-da-sa-sa-say-so-hung/ 

- Rosaria’s in-company Wellbeing boosters sessions https://wownow.eu/sessions/ 

- More details on the Uppiness Game session Rosaria’s can run on demand for your company or as an open class: https://wownow.eu/uppinessgame 

~~~ Connect with our host Rosaria ⁠on Instagram⁠, ⁠Linkedin⁠, and ⁠YouTube⁠ 

If you liked the show, we will appreciate it if you share it with one person that may benefit from it too. Subscribe to our channel & tune in for the next episode. 

🌻 Stay happy & happy, keep smiling, and nurture #happinessdrivengrowth

Welcome to “The Happiness Contribution™ Show!

Hosted by Rosaria Cirillo (Happiness Change Catalyst, Certified Happiness Trainer, Customer Experience Professional, and Laughter Yoga Teacher), in “The Happiness Contribution™ Show” we talk with remarkable people about the various roles Happiness plays in our lives, and we share knowledge and practices about what contributes to our happiness and how we can contribute to others’ happiness as individuals and as business leaders. And we do so grounded in the reality of life.

In this episode, I share with you the recording of the keynote I did for the European Customer Centricity Awards held by ARCET Global in September 2022. ARCET Global helps to recognize organizations around the world who are doing amazing things in customer experience. If you would like to learn more you can visit their website www.arcetglobal.com or their awards site https://customercentricityworldseries.com/

Here is a glimpse of some of the topics covered in this episode:

🌻 my vision of Happiness Driven Growth and HCX, Human-Centric and Happiness-Contributing Experience,

🌻 why happiness matters in business

🌻 how we can embrace a version 5.0 of business where happiness is at the center of what we do, and profit, prosperity, and growth follow as result for all stakeholders,

🌻 how businesses can contribute to happiness for their customers, employees, and society overall, nurturing 9 types of Yellow Factors, conveniently fitting the acronyms HAPPINESS, using the 6 DRIVEN competencies, and moving through the 6 stages of GROWTH

🤨 Curious? Tune in and listen to this episode.

Thanks to Firat Aras (from FiratFotografie.nl) for recording this talk outside along the Zaan, enduring boats, planes, and ducks passing by, and birds chipping all around. Thanks to ARCET for the permission to share this keynote and spread the message further.

If I can be of any help or support for you and your company with my advisory, keynotes, sessions, or training programs, I would love to hear from you. Get in touch. Connect with me Rosaria on Instagram, Linkedin, and YouTube

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If you liked the show, we appreciate it if you share it with one person that may benefit from it too. Subscribe to our channel & tune in for the next episode. You can find all the episodes and discover more business happiness contribution tips on our The Happiness Contribution™ Show website & Instagram page

Want to be inspired (or get your company and colleagues inspired) by our host Rosaria? Check out her keynotes, sessions, training programs, and advisory offerings on her website and all her books available on Amazon

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🌻Stay happy & happy, keep smiling, nurture #happinesscontribution, and tune in for the next episode!

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Welcome! Hosted by Rosaria Cirillo (Happiness Change Catalyst, Certified Happiness Trainer, Customer Experience Professional, and Laughter Yoga Teacher), in “The Happiness Contribution™ Show” we talk with incredible people about the various roles Happiness plays in our lives, and we share knowledge and practices about what contributes to our happiness and how we can contribute to others’ happiness as individuals and as business leaders.

In today's episode, our guest is Houda Dortland, a certified Life coach and Happiness trainer. She is passionate about helping individuals who feel emotionally stuck and experience too much stress in their daily lives or at work. With over 22 years of experience in acute medicine, she has seen the effects of stress on the mind and body. Today she helps people to shift from stress to success and uses the science of happiness, #wellbeing, and #EFT (#EmotionalFreedomTechniques) to do so.

I met Houda at beginning of 2022 first virtually as a fellow member of the Uppiness Game Facilitator and the HSA communities, then in person in June during the HSA Alumni meet-up and Happiness@work conference in Antwerp. In August, we started weekly calls as we became accountability buddies since we both are freelance entrepreneurs.

And in November and December, she coached me on how to use EFT practice during the most challenging time of my life. As you may have heard in the solo episode 16, EFT has been really my lifebuoy in the most stressful moments during my husband’s illness, and I’m very excited to share this practice with you in this episode, where Houda also guides through the key steps of the practice with simplicity and empathy.

Houda in 6 sentences:

💛 I am a wife and mother who loves life!

💛 I am a dreamer and thinker, passionate about well-being and happiness.

💛 I love exploring the world through food and fitness and chocolate 🙂.

💛 I hate: I don't think I hate anything, maybe dislike but hate? no.

💛 I wish everybody would take off their masks and start to show their unique greatness.

Here is a glimpse of some of the topics covered in this episode:

🌻 Definition of Happiness & her Yellow Factor Inward and Outward,

🌻 Value of energy, simplicity, and autonomy

🌻 Mental Fitness,

🌻 EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques),

🌻 Sample EFT Practice

🌻 Life-changing book (affiliate link): The Big Five for Life 

You can reach out to Houda at [email protected]

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Connect with our host Rosaria on Instagram, Linkedin, and YouTube

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If you liked the show, we appreciate it if you share it with one person that may benefit from it too. Subscribe to our channel & tune in for the next episode. You can find all the episodes and discover more business happiness contribution tips on our The Happiness Contribution™ Show website & Instagram page. 

Want to be inspired (or get your company and colleagues inspired) by our host Rosaria? Check out her keynotes, sessions, training programs, and advisory offerings on her website and all her books available on Amazon

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🌻Stay happy & happy, keep smiling, nurture #happinesscontribution, and tune in for the next episode!

Welcome to “The Happiness Contribution™ Show!  Hosted by Rosaria Cirillo (Happiness Change Catalyst, Certified Happiness Trainer, Customer Experience Professional, and Laughter Yoga Teacher), in “The Happiness Contribution™ Show” we talk with remarkable people about the various roles Happiness plays in our lives, and we share knowledge and practices about what contributes to our happiness and how we can contribute to others’ happiness as individuals and as business leaders. And we do so grounded in the reality of life. 

This episode – after 3 months unplanned hiatus - is a “special” edition in an unusual format… it is a solo episode during which our host Rosaria shares the life that happened to her in the past 3 months, which turned out to be the hardest time of her life to date. Within a few days, her world literally went upside down and got twisted, as her husband got a sudden life-threatening disease starting November 9th and was away from home for 85 days - 49 days in the hospital (of which 38 were in ICU) and 36 days at a rehabilitation center. In the first 75 minutes of this (long) episode, we share with you: 

1) The full chronicle of the first few weeks in the hospital with a heavy dose of reality and challenges due to uncertainty about diagnosis (either Guillen-Barré Syndrome, Miller-Fisher variant, or botulism or both), including the bumps and the breakdowns Rosaria had along the journey, 

2) The key interactions she had in this period (with companies, brands, doctors, nurses, and/or small local businesses) and the role each played 

The part after 1:12:30 has now been moved to episode 19 and will soon be deleted from this episode. Now it still includes:

From (1:12:30) What depleted or saddened Rosaria 

From (1:22:00) What enriched Rosaria and contributed to her happiness

From (1:32:00) Insights from Tal Ben-Shahar on how to turn a traumatic experience into an opportunity for growth 

From (1:35:00) Rosaria’s overall learning and conclusion 

Ready? Grab a cup of tea & if you are not into details just skip to the last 30 minutes for the learning 

Links mentioned in this show: 

- Book extract of the entire Smile chapter of the book (and a few extra chapters as Lagniappe): https://wownow.eu/YellowFactorSmile 

- Reiki Healing mantra ra-ma-da-sa-sa-say-so-hung. You can listen to it on Spotify 

- You can read more about it and how to use it to send headlong wishes to someone sick at https://www.laviadelreiki.org/2017/11/18/mantra-ra-ma-da-sa-sa-say-so-hung/ 

- Rosaria’s in-company Wellbeing boosters sessions https://wownow.eu/sessions/ 

- More details on the Uppiness Game session Rosaria’s can run on demand for your company or as an open class: https://wownow.eu/uppinessgame 

~~~ Connect with our host Rosaria on Instagram, Linkedin, and YouTube 

~~~ The Happiness Contribution™ Show is available on Spotify & YouTube as a webcast & on your favorite channels as a podcast. & on your favorite channels as a podcast. If you liked the show, we will appreciate it if you share it with one person that may benefit from it too. Subscribe to our channel & tune in for the next episode. 

🌻 Stay happy & happy, keep smiling, and nurture #happinessdrivengrowth