Thank you for joining us for episode 558 of Live Happy Now.

If there is one thing we could all use a little bit more of these days, it's hope.

And that's exactly what this week's guest is bringing us.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and today I'm joined by Resiliency Expert, Dr. Robin Hanley Defoe.

Her latest book, I Hope So, uses Hope as the strategy for rewiring our brains for greater

resiliency and well-being, no matter how difficult times become.

She's here today to talk about how hope is an essential tool that can ignite personal transformation,

help us bounce back from setbacks, and become the most successful version of ourselves.

Let's have a listen.

Dr. Robin, thank you so much for coming back on Live Happy Now.

I'm so happy to be here, Paula.

Thanks for the invitation.

I had a wonderful reason to invite you because you have a brand new book. I could not be here, Paula. Thanks for the invitation. Well, I had a wonderful reason to invite you because you

have a brand new book. I could not be timed any better because it's all about hope. And let's

start with why you knew that this was the time to write this particular book. Yeah, well, thank you.

So the book is called, I Hope So, How to Choose Hope Even When It's Hard.

And where this origin story began was, as you know, I study human resiliency and I study stress.

And when I looked at that work, the research, but also just the stories people shared with me and the learning, the through line without a doubt

for people to be resilient, for people to be able to navigate stress, challenge, change,

uncertainty, you name it, Paula. The through line was always a hope practice. And so I got so

curious, what is hope actually? And what is it doing that's creating this psychological

and physiological difference in people? And once we started to learn about it, I just wanted to

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