The ultimate creative challenge is to take a complicated scientific idea and make it super accessible.

We talk with Emmy-nominated filmmaker Tiffany Slane about the power of film and an event called Character Day in this episode of Live Happy Now.

The ancient Greeks define happiness as the joy you feel moving towards your potential.

To think about positive psychology, it's a science, and it's actually younger than the

internet, believe it or not.

The reality is that social connection is in the research, the greatest predictor we have

of long-term happiness.

You have some factors in your control.

They can promote the health and resilience and growth of your absolutely most important asset,

which is your brain. And so it all comes down to understanding ourselves. There's a way for all

of us to succeed, but it might take different things. We're all looking for the same thing, and that's a way to bring a little bit more joy to our day. Join us as we look at the many different paths that lead us to that happy place. This is Live Happy Now. Hello and greetings, and welcome to another edition of Live Happy Now. I am your host, J.R. Houston. Please that you are here for this edition of the podcast. We're going to be talking with Tiffany Schlaen coming up in just a bit. But we do want to remind you to check out Live Happy magazine. They are our parent company. That's where we get the name. Isn't it cool? Live Happy magazine. Live Happy Now podcast. Synergy, other buzzwords. It's all fun. We do encourage you to check out the magazine, though.

It is available on newsstands everywhere, and it is also available in your pocket, most likely,

or wherever you keep your phone or your tablet, or what have you.

You can get the digital edition at the Apple Store or at the Google Play Store,

and there's all kinds of special features involved with that.

Well, as mentioned, we are talking with Tiffany Schling, who is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, author and public speaker,

and was named by Newsweek as one of the women shaping the 21st century.

Tiffany runs a non-profit film studio in San Francisco called Let It Ripple,

and it puts together the annual global day called

Character Day.

And Paula Phelps, our science editor at Live Happy magazine, caught up with Tiffany and discussed

communicating through film as well as the upcoming Character Day on September 22nd.

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