Live Happy Now
Live Happy LLC
Bringing you scientifically proven tips and ideas to live a happier and more meaningful life through interviews with authors, positive psychology experts and well-being thought leaders.
The editors of Live Happy magazine bring you best-selling authors and happiness gurus that share their knowledge on topics such as wellness, gratitude, well-being and mindfulness. Interviews are conducted with people like Shawn Achor, Michelle Gielan, Dr. Christine Carter, Margaret Greenberg, Dr. Drew Ramsey, Gretchen Rubin, Barbara Fredrickson, Tal Ben-Shahar, Deepak Chopra, Sonja Lyubomirsky, Stacy Kaiser, Darin McMahon, Michelle McQuaid, Fred Luskin, Shani Robins, Kristin Neff, Dr. Rick Hanson, and many more.
The editors of Live Happy magazine bring you best-selling authors and happiness gurus that share their knowledge on topics such as wellness, gratitude, well-being and mindfulness. Interviews are conducted with people like Shawn Achor, Michelle Gielan, Dr. Christine Carter, Margaret Greenberg, Dr. Drew Ramsey, Gretchen Rubin, Barbara Fredrickson, Tal Ben-Shahar, Deepak Chopra, Sonja Lyubomirsky, Stacy Kaiser, Darin McMahon, Michelle McQuaid, Fred Luskin, Shani Robins, Kristin Neff, Dr. Rick Hanson, and many more.
Episodes
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Feb 28, 2017 • 24min
Bringing Laughter Back with Yakov Smirnoff
Yakov Smirnoff is a Soviet-born American comedian, actor and writer. After emigrating to the United States in 1977, Yakov began performing as a stand-up comic. He reached his biggest success in the mid-to-late 1980s, appearing in several films and the television sitcom vehicle What a Country!. He has received a Masters of Applied Positive Psychology at UPenn and is currently pursuing a doctorate at Pepperdine University in Psychology.
What you'll learn in this podcast:
Why laughter really is the best medicine
Warning signs your relationship may be in trouble
Why laughter is essential to the well-being of a relationship
Feb 21, 2017 • 19min
How to Declutter with Digital Spring Cleaning with Amy Blankson
Amy Blankson has become one of the world’s leading experts on the connection between positive psychology and technology and is the only person to be named a Point of Light by two presidents (President George H. W. Bush and President Bill Clinton) for creating a movement to activate positive culture change. In this episode of Live Happy Now she expands on her article Get a Grip on Your Gadgets in the February 2017 issue of Live Happy magazine.
What you'll learn in this podcast:
Tips on a healthy and happy digital cleanse
The steps to de-clutter your tech devices
How organization contributes to your overall happiness
Feb 16, 2017 • 21min
The World Happiness Summit with Suzanne Jewell
The World Happiness Summit is coming! Find out what this meeting of the minds is all about on this episode of Live Happy Now.
Suzanne Jewell is the Chief Mindfulness Officer for the World Happiness. Suzanne believes her life path has led to participate and support this history making movement of sharing the science and practice of happiness. Having struggled through her own paralyzing anxiety after the loss of her best friend, which was her Mom, she dedicated herself to learning tools & techniques to “grow through”, not just “go through” the challenge and build her own personal resilience.
Feb 14, 2017 • 23min
A Dog’s Purpose with Bruce Cameron
Bruce Cameron began his writing career as a humor columnist for the Denver Rocky Mountain News. Sadly, the Rocky went out of business, but he says that was not his fault. He is a Benchley award winner for humor and was the 2011 NSNC Newspaper Columnist of the Year. His novel A Dog’s Purpose spent 52 weeks on the NY Times best-seller list and DreamWorks has developed it into a film currently playing at theaters across the country.
What you'll learn in this podcast:
The amazing story of how A Dog's Purpose became such a huge hit
The true message of the book and of our dogs
What prompted the writing of A Dog's Purpose
Feb 9, 2017 • 22min
Mindfulness is Pure Awareness with Jon Kabat-Zinn - Part 2
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. is internationally known for his work as a scientist, writer, and meditation teacher engaged in bringing mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine and society. He is Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he founded its world-renowned Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Clinic (in 1979), and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society (in 1995).
What you'll learn in this podcast:
How to live life with intent
The minimum amount you should spend being mindful or meditating
How to create a love affair with your own life
Feb 7, 2017 • 27min
Mindfulness is Pure Awareness with Jon Kabat-Zinn - Part 1
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. is internationally known for his work as a scientist, writer, and meditation teacher engaged in bringing mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine and society. He is Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he founded its world-renowned Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Clinic (in 1979), and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society (in 1995).
What you'll learn in this podcast:
How to live life with intent
The minimum amount you should spend being mindful or meditating
How to create a love affair with your own life
Jan 31, 2017 • 23min
Teaching Your Kids Gratitude with Giacomo Bono
Giacomo Bono, Ph.D., is Associate Editor for The Journal of Positive Psychology, and director of the Youth Gratitude Project. The aims of the Youth Gratitude Project are to create youth measures of gratitude and to develop and test a gratitude curriculum targeting pre-K and grades 4 through 12 throughout the United States with the broad goal of providing schools with resources to support students' well-being, socio-emotional skills and character.
What you'll learn in this podcast:
The science behind developing gratitude
The effects of gratitude on mental health
Strategies for motivating and better relating to children and teens
Jan 24, 2017 • 27min
5 Steps to a More Confident You with Carin Rockind
Carin Rockind is a leading happiness expert, media personality, and the creator of PurposeGirl, a movement to empower purpose-driven living. She has taught thousands of people real-life strategies to reclaim their happiness, and live to their fullest potential of success and well-being.
What you'll learn in this podcast:
How to find your purpose
Why it is important to take action towards your goals now
How to use midlife for a catalyst instead of a crisis
Jan 17, 2017 • 28min
Supercharge Your Life with Deborah Heisz
In this episode of the Live Happy Now podcast we explore the new issue of Live Happy magazine with Live Happy CEO and Editorial Director Deborah Heisz. Listen in as we preview four of the articles in this issue and explore the topic of how to supercharge your life.
What you'll hear in this podcast:
How Ming-Na Wen of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. stays positive
Why Luke Cage and Sons of Anarchy star Theo Rossi gives back
The latest theory in creative goal setting, called “design thinking”
Four traits to develop in your children to help them become high achievers
Jan 10, 2017 • 25min
Agent of Positivity with Ming-Na Wen
Actress Ming-Na Wen, star of ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., has become a role model at age 53, with a new book in the works and a burgeoning brand, #Wenever. Learn how this age-defying, butt-kicking superhero manages it all in this episode of Live Happy Now.
What you'll learn in this podcast:
The importance of taking care of yourself
How to create your own happiness through positivity
Tips on combating negativity
