Welcome to Episode 200 of Live Happy Now. I'm Paula Phelps, thanking you for joining us today for what we think is a very special episode. If you've been listening since the beginning, you already know that Live Happy Now has evolved in many different ways since we launched it in 2015. Thanks to listeners like you, we've been able to exceed our own expectations and hopefully

have exceeded yours as well.

This week, Live Happy CEO, Deborah Hyes, sat down with me to talk about how the podcast

began, what we've learned during our first 200 episodes, and what to expect going forward.

Welcome back to the show.

It's always a pleasure to have you come by and chat with us.

Well, it's always fun to do this. This is probably my favorite thing that we do at Live Happy.

And we've been doing this for a little while now. It kind of sneaked up on us.

It did. It did. This is our 200th podcast, which is kind of unbelievable to me.

Yeah, especially, did you know that the average number

of podcasts that someone puts out is seven? That's incredible. I know, I know. So, you know, I remember

when we were going to start this and we had no idea that, one, that we could pull it off and two,

that it would do as well as it's done and would lead us to this. What was the idea behind wanting to start Live Happy Now? Well, you know, I actually, before we started this, I kind of discovered podcasts. I do a lot of traveling and I started listening to them when I was traveling. And then I started doing some research into podcasts and looking at them. And I asked, you know, some of the staff members, like Brittany was a key part of it. You were a

key part of it. Chris was a key part of it. Looking at, you know, how people were to do a podcast and what

audiences were like. And we just started really looking at it and we were talking to everybody. And

the conclusion that we came to quite rapidly was that podcast provided people

information in a way that was very comfortable for them to consume it, something that didn't

require extra time out of their day because they could listen to it in their car or listen to it

while they worked out. And it was really attracting, you know, our core audience, which is people who want to,

who want to improve their lives. They're, they're one of the main audiences for podcasts.

And it really became obvious that, you know, launching a podcast, would be a benefit to the

people that we're trying to reach.

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