288. The Power of Perspective: Choosing Empowering Stories with Sean Kanan

Happiness Solved

Sandee Sgarlata

Joy, Love, Motivational, Peace, Inspirational, Depression, Happiness, Health & Fitness, Selflove, Business, Education

5.0 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Happiness Solved with Sandee Sgarlata. In this episode, Sandee interviews Sean Kanan. Sean Kanan's career encompasses many facets of the entertainment world including actor, author, comedian, and producer. Early in his career, Kanan was chosen at an open call by Oscar-winning Director, John Avildsen from over 2000 hopefuls for the role of Mike Barnes in the Karate Kid III. He went on to create two iconic characters, AJ QUARTERMAINE (GH) and DEACON SHARP (B&B/Y&R). Kanan's popularity as DEACON in Italy and ability to speak fluent Italian landed him on the Italian version of the popular show Dancing with the Stars where he lasted 9 weeks. On the comedy stage, Kanan has performed at some of the countries leading clubs including the Laugh Factory, the Comedy Store, Dangerfield's, the Brokerage, Uncle Vinny's and other venues. On the theater stage, he has performed in Sam Shepard's True West twice, once at the Zephyr theater and once at the Palm Canyon Theater. Sean penned The Modern Gentleman; Cooking and Entertaining with Sean Kanan (Dunham Books) and Secret of My Success. Kanan co-hosted a celebrity parenting radio talk show called Kanan's Rules, available for download on iTunes podcast. Sean Kanan spends his free time studying martial arts, writing scripts, cooking, performing his stand-up routine and further pursuing the study of the Italian, French, Mandarin, Russian and Japanese language. Sean also dedicates much of his time to numerous charitable and nonprofit endeavors including ASPCA, anti-bullying and the Red Cross. Sign up for the Happiness Solved Plus Exclusive Membership Site: http://HappinessSolved.Supercast.com Follow him on Instagram @sean.kanan and Twitter @seankanan Connect with Sandee www.sandeesgarlata.com Podcast: www.happinesssolved.com www.facebook.com/coachsandeesgarlata www.twitter.com/sandeesgarlata www.instagram.com/coachsandeesgarlata

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0:00.0	This is happiness solved with America's Happiness Coach Sandy Scarlata.
0:20.3	Hello and thank you for joining us today. I'm so happy you're here.
0:24.0	Happiness Solved is the place where we explore everything you need to become the best possible
0:29.9	version of you. This is Sandy Scarlata and today I've got some exciting news
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0:47.5	To learn more about all of the exciting benefits, stay tuned until the end of the episode where I will explain in greater detail.
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1:01.6	Today is another amazing conversation, so let's get started.
1:05.0	Sean, Haynan, I am so excited to be speaking with you today. How's everything going?
1:16.0	You know, everything is going extremely well right now. I am very blessed, very fortunate.
1:21.0	So nothing to complain about. Isn't that the best though right? It is. It is.
1:28.2	So for those of you who are living under a rock and do not know who Sean is.
1:34.1	I'm like looking at, I pulled your bio up on IMDb.
1:39.3	Yeah.
1:40.2	And I just, you know, your career has spanned so many years so you've done a lot
1:47.1	But not only are you an actor I didn't realize you were you are also comedian
1:56.2	You've written a few books, one of which I'm reading right now, the Way of the Cobra. And but what I what I really love mostly is that you also have been on Capitol Hill raising awareness about bullying.
2:10.3	Yeah, it's something it's really something I'm very passionate about whenever I have the opportunity to speak about anti bullying
2:18.7	I jump at the opportunity because I think it's become such you know I hesitate to use the word pandemic, but it is definitely endemic and you know now with you know with kids using the internet and cyberbling it's it's become you know geometrically worse than it was when I was a kid.
2:37.3	Oh yeah, yeah. Well we're we're I'm I think I'm a year older than you and you shared the same birthday with my brother.
2:44.2	I was like, oh, that's kind of fun.
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