Thank you for joining us for episode 437 of Live Happy Now.

Ten years ago, the happiness movement was just beginning to gain a global presence,

and that paved the way for a birth of a company called Live Happy.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm talking with Deborah Hise, CEO and co-founder of Live Happy LLC, as we look back on 10 years of sharing happiness.

Deborah's going to explain how her work in personal development led to discovering positive psychology and how that opened the door to launching a company that remains committed to sharing the many ways we can discover greater

well-being. Let's have a listen. Deb, we're 10. I know. Isn't that crazy? Oh, my, I know. See,

now, here, you have an advantage because you're a parent, so you're used to raising 10-year-olds.

You know, I can't believe my kids are over 10 either at this point. You know, when they say time flies, they mean it. Ten is, that's unbelievable that we're 10. I know. So this was, it was so important. I mean, 10 years is a huge accomplishment for us to have reached there. And so this just seemed like a great time to talk with you. I wasn't there

in the very beginning. I was about three months late to the party. But I'm glad I got invited and I'm

glad you've let me say. So can you take us back to the mindset behind Live Happy? Because there's,

there was such a compelling argument for creating this movement and creating this platform. And it was unlike

anything that people were doing. So take me back there of what was going on and what made

this all this ball get rolling. Well, you know, the initial, my experience up to that point

had been in personal development, which was, you know, great. I was founding editor

and chief of the current version of Success Magazine. We were putting out content for people to improve

their lives, really micro business owners, small business owners to, and you know, with tips on

how they can have a better outlook on life or a better attitude from the experts. And since you guys can't see me, I'm doing air quotes when I say the experts. Because, you know, there's a lot of people that put out content on personal development. Some of it's great, like my co-founder Jeff Olson and his book The Slide Edge. And others of it, we're not going to name any names. It's just not so great.

It's really questionable in the science. Yeah, well, lacking in science. And what happened was,

as I'm working on that project, on that publication, and really diving into personal development,

which I really believe in, I believe we should all be working on ourselves, that there's ability for us to enhance our lives, we can all get better, we can all

become better humans. This thing called positive psychology came on my radar. There is an

organization called the International Positive Psychology Association, and they put on something

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