Welcome to episode 276 of Live Happy Now. This is Paula Phelps, welcoming you to another episode

and a brand new month. A lot of us would like to learn how to calm the chaos around us right now,

and it just so happens that today's guest literally wrote the book on that. Nicola Reese Taggart is a life strategist,

author, and speaker who helps people discover a more centered, conscious approach to everyday life.

Two years ago, she wrote the book Calm the Chaos, which is a journal designed to help users

align their outer presence with inner peace. Most recently, her calm the chaos cards

provide mindfulness and centering exercises as well as reminders of how to stay in the moment.

Let's hear more about how you can learn to calm the chaos even in these rather chaotic times.

Nicola, welcome to Live Happy Now. Thank you. It's such a pleasure to be joining you today.

Well, we really want to talk to you because calm the chaos. That's so timely for 2020.

So I found it interesting that this initiative actually began with a journal a couple of years ago. So can you talk about

how this all came about? Well, we probably don't have enough time for that.

We can do a three-part or if you know. Yeah, yeah. No, I mean, it really came about when I started

my own business about 15 years ago. And again, I won't go back that far,

but I'll say that what I realized when I started working with people, and at the point,

I was focused on working with women in leadership positions and really kept coming back to the

same kind of common issue over and over again, which was

people feeling like they were much more successful externally than they were internally.

And I, you know, began to wonder why that was and how could I support the clients that I was

working with in really redefining success from the inside out.

So that kind of started happening when I started my business. And then not that long afterwards,

my life got a whole lot more chaotic when I started having children and the business was getting

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