Thank you for joining us for episode 406 of Live Happy Now.

It's almost March, and here at Live Happy, it's our favorite time of year,

and not just because of St. Patrick's Day.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week we are talking about Happiness Month

and how you can help celebrate it.

Today, I'm being joined by Live Happy CEO and founder Deborah Heise, e-commerce marketing manager Casey Johnson, and marketing

manager, Laura Koppage, to talk about why we're so excited about this time of year and how you can be a

part of it. Let's have a listen. Well, I'm so happy to have all three of you ladies here at

Live Happy. It's really exciting to talk about Happiness Month. We've been doing this for a while,

and I'm so glad that we can sit down and tell everybody, what all we have planned this year? Because I feel

like we're back for the first time in like three years. You know, one thing people may not know about if they haven't been following Live Happy earlier, and we forgive them for that, they may not know what Happy Acts are and what this is all about. And Deb, I don't think anyone can explain it better than you can. Well, thanks, Paula. Yeah, this is something we have been doing for quite a while. I think this is our ninth year of doing some sort of a happy acts

campaign. I could be wrong, but I think it's year number nine. We better figure that out before

it's year number 10. Really, what we do is we take the month of March, and the reason why we

selected March is because in 2012, the United Nations declared March 20th, the International

Day of Happiness.

So March was kind of declared for us, but we take the month of March and we use it as a month

to share happiness and try and make the world a happier place through something we call our

Happy Acts.

That's Happy A-C-T-S campaign.

And that's really composed of two different things. One is an online

social media, people doing happy acts and sharing happy acts and pointing out the good things

they see in the world, but also being intentional. And the other one is a Walls project, which is

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