Welcome to episode 336 of Live Happy Now.

When was the last time you took a moment to give yourself a high five?

If the answer is never, you've got plenty of company, but we're about to change that.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm talking with Mel Robbins, an international best-selling author who specializes in personal transformation.

Her latest book, The High Five Habit, introduces a fascinating new way to become your own biggest cheerleader.

But it's also launched the High Five Challenge, which has already gone viral with hundreds of thousands of people around the world participating.

She's here today to tell you how a simple high five is about to change your life.

Well, Mel, welcome to Live Happy Now.

Well, thank you.

Thank you so much for coming on the show because, first of all, I love the high five challenge.

It's something that, you know, I've seen on, I think on my Instagram was where it was popping up.

And I love how organically this just started taking off.

So for the uninitiated, can you tell us what the high five challenge is?

And then tell us how it came about.

Sure. So the high five challenge is and then tell us how it came about sure so the high five

challenge is a five day free challenge that I created because when we launched the high five

habit book I knew that there would be lots of people that would not be able to afford a book

and so I wanted to give the world a free experience that would help them take this

transformational, game-changing research that I write about in the high five-five habit

to a deeper level in a five-day free experience.

And so, you know, the high-five challenge, you're seeing

people all over the internet kind of posting selfies of them high-fiving themselves in the mirror.

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