Welcome to episode 33 of Live Happy Now.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week we're celebrating the eighth anniversary of Live Happy,

which published its first magazine issue in October 2014.

Joining me on this stroll-down memory lane is Live Happy editor Chris Libby, and we're going to talk about eight important things that we've learned in eight years.

To further join in this celebration, visit our Live Happy Store and shop our anniversary sale.

You can save 40% on graphic T's by using the code HBD8 at store.livehappy.com. And now let's talk to Chris. Chris Libby. Welcome back to

Live Happy Now. Thanks for having me back. This is great. Well, this was the perfect time to

have you back because we're not just celebrating any old October thing. This is our eighth

anniversary. Yeah, it's really

kind of remarkable. I remember when we first started with this thing, we were both to hear from the

beginning and we had no idea, no idea what was ahead. We didn't know what we were doing. No.

No, it was something that was so new and it was really exciting and it's been fun to watch

this grow through the years and it's also been fun i think to watch each other grow because as we've

covered these stories you and i have both benefited from them that's one of the great things about

being in journalism you get to learn and grow because of the topics you cover.

Absolutely.

And, you know, in traditional journalism, sometimes you have to cover topics that aren't so pleasant.

And I'm not saying that, you know, everything needs to be all happy and all the time.

But it is a nice break.

And to learn the things in life that make you happy and make

that's great for your well-being and things that can help other people. And it's pretty

gratifying knowing that what you're working on is actually helping people. Yeah, it really is.

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