Cultivating Happiness with Karen Guggenheim

Power Hour

Adrienne Herbert

Society & Culture, Unknown

4.8 • 713 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Karen Guggenheim is a pioneer in the global happiness movement, a leader in promoting the science behind well-being to an international audience, and a motivational speaker inspiring people about how to grow post trauma and rebuild a life focused on meaning, purpose, and happiness. She is the producer of the World Happiness Summit®, the leading well-being conference promoting the benefits of an evidence-based approach to increase happiness in all areas of life.

Her new book, Cultivating Happiness is a practical and accessible guide to dealing with adversity, showing us that it is possible to grow from our challenges and lead more fulfilling and purposeful lives. Available in-store and online now!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Power Hour. I'm Adrienne Herbert, wellness coach, international speaker and author.
0:10.9	Each week I speak to a variety of guests from business founders to Olympic athletes, leading coaches,
0:17.2	change makers and innovators to find out their daily habits, their rules to live by and what
0:22.7	motivates them to get up out of bed each day. Personally, I am on a mission to encourage, motivate and
0:29.5	inspire so I hope that the Power Hour will help you to achieve your personal and professional
0:34.5	goals. Welcome back to the Power Hour podcast. Today I am joined by co-founder
0:41.8	of the World Happiness Summit, Karen Guggenheim. We'll be discussing how psychology and neuroscience
0:48.4	can influence our happiness, as well as Karen's new book, Cultivating Happiness,
0:57.5	overcome trauma and positively transform your life. Karen, thank you. as well as Karen's new book, Cultivating Happiness, Overcome Trauma and Positively Transform Your Life.
1:00.3	Karen, thank you so much for joining us. Welcome to The Power Hour.
1:06.4	Thank you so much, Adri. Thank you for having me. And I'm so, so excited to share with your listeners a little bit about my story and the bit I've learned in the last decade or so on the science of
1:15.1	happiness. Well, I think a great place to start would be perhaps before we even dive into the
1:20.5	book, actually, if we could start by telling us about the World Happiness Summit, I'll be
1:25.6	honest, since reading about it, it sounds like something that is
1:28.4	right up my street. It is something that I really want to go to myself. So can you tell us about
1:33.3	it and most importantly, actually, why you created the summit? Absolutely. So first of all,
1:39.8	you're most welcome to come. That's important to get that out of the way. My story really is from
1:47.1	unhappiness. And so unfortunately, 11 years ago, last week actually, I lost my husband. He
1:55.9	died suddenly from the flu. So it's very much like COVID now that or that two years ago how people
2:02.9	were dying from from COVID the intubation all those different things the
2:07.7	pneumonia and in less than 10 days he was gone and so at first it was just shock
2:16.9	and trauma because it happened very, very quickly.
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