Thank you for joining us for episode 385 of Live Happy Now.

Now that it's October, it's time to start looking at how to make this a truly happy Halloween.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm joined by Deborah Heise, CEO and co-founder of Live Happy,

and Casey Johnson, our e-commerce marketing manager, to talk about

our all-new Halloween Happy Acts campaign. If you've been with us for a while, you already know that

every March, we encourage well-being with a month of intentional activities that we call Happy Acts.

This year, we're combining Happy Acts with our favorite holiday to create an entire

month of happiness while celebrating the spirit of Halloween. Let's hear what it's all about.

Deb and Casey, welcome back to Live Happy Now. Such a pleasure to be here. As usual, always excited

to get on the podcast, Paula. I know we have a lot of fun stuff going on.

This one I'm particularly excited about because Halloween is my favorite time of year.

I absolutely love Halloween. And when Casey told me about the Halloween Happy Acts, I got super

duper excited about it. And I guess the first thing we need to do is talk about what happy acts are. And since

Deb, you're pretty much the originator of the happy act. Why don't you tell us what a happy act is and

where those came from? I'd love to. But also, everybody say hi to Casey. Casey, say hi.

Hi, guys. She has come up with some great ideas for Halloween. Happy Acts. Oh, my gosh, yes. I'm excited to have extended it out of the month of March, which is when we typically do Happy Acts, because they really should be an all-year thing. They shouldn't be confined to March where the internationally of happiness is. But, of course, putting some attention on it and doing it at that time a year, you know, we get a lot more coverage. We get a lot more people participating because it's something you can hang your hat on and say, okay, in March, I'm going to make sure and, you know, up my happy axe game. But doing it in Halloween is great because like you, it's one of my favorite times of the year. You know, one of the happiest things for me at Halloween is Halloween specials. For whatever reason, all the shows that just run specials that are Halloween themed, I think back to Roseanne when it was on in my childhood and how the family got dressed up in elaborate costumes every year. And it was just a lot of fun. One of my happiest times

a year. And I'm an October baby. Oh, you're really? Yes. And my mother's an October baby.

And my older daughter and I actually share a birthday in October. So October's like my month.

That is a few month. You should like take the whole month off to celebrate.

It really works that way. But you ask me what Happy Acts are.

So Happy Acts are little things that you can do or big things, but things you can do

intentionally with intention to make the world a happier place.

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