Well, hello there and welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian and you are listening to

episode 225 of the Sustainable Minimalist Podcast, a twice weekly show about intentional and eco-minimalist living. On today's show

we are discussing how to be happy in a culture that glorifies consumption. Now the benefits of happiness are innumerable, right?

Happy people are more helpful and less hostile and more productive.

They also experience better health and live longer.

Now if you've been listening to this podcast for a while, you likely already know,

and I mean no cognitively in your head that happiness doesn't come from stuff right but even

knowing this cognitively isn't necessarily enough amidst our consumers culture which of course tells us over and over again

that happiness can be found in buying stuff, accumulating stuff and in

accumulating and focusing on money.

Today I am speaking with Julia Spore.

She is the host of the Being Better Podcast,

which is a show about how we can all become

happier, healthier, and wiser versions of ourselves.

And here we are, Julia, I am so excited to talk to you today all about happiness.

Tell us who you are and what the Being Better Podcast is all about.

Hi everyone, I am Julia and I'm currently in Poland and I am a blogger and I host the Being Better Podcast and it's about all the ways in which we can all become happier, wiser, healthier, and in the

feet of the podcast you can listen to solo episodes in which I talk about different practices and experiments that I do on myself and just

talking about different scientific research regarding right being just better and also you can find interviews with

different experts from different fields that can share their knowledge and

their experiences.

I found this amazing quote as I was preparing for this episode and it's by philosopher Roger Corless.

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