Discovering the Happiness Essentials With Maria Baltazzi

Live Happy Now

Live Happy LLC

Health & Fitness:mental Health, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 522 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

When you’re going on a trip, it’s important to make sure you pack all the essentials. And when you’re starting a journey to well-being, you need to pack the happiness essentials. This week, host Paula Felps talks with Emmy Award-winning television producer, well-being teacher, and author Maria Baltazzi about her new book, Take A Shot at Happiness: How to Write, Direct and Produce the Life You Want. A world traveler who has developed and produced TV shows around the globe, including the hit reality show Survivor, Maria has truly used the planet as an extraordinary classroom. Her book explores the eight happiness essentials she’s discovered and teaches us how we can use them to improve well-being. In this episode, you’ll learn: What she considers her three most important Happiness Essentials. Why she created a practice of photo journaling and how to use it for greater well-being. How her work on “Survivor” changed the way she looks at the world.

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0:00.0	Thank you for joining us for episode 441 of Live Happy Now.
0:07.8	When you're going on a trip, it's important to make sure you pack all the essentials.
0:12.6	And when you're starting a journey to well-being, you need to pack the happiness essentials.
0:18.2	I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm talking with Emmy Award-winning
0:22.3	television producer, well-being teacher, and author Maria Balthazi about her new book,
0:28.6	Take a Shot at Happiness, How to Write, Direct, and Produce the Life You Want.
0:34.2	A world traveler who has developed and produced TV shows around the globe, including the hit reality show Survivor, Maria has truly used the planet as an extraordinary classroom.
0:44.9	That led her to earning her Ph.D. in Conscious-centered Living, and her book explores the eight happiness essentials she's discovered and teaches us how we can use them to improve
0:54.8	our well-being in our daily lives. Let's have a listen.
0:58.9	Maria, thank you for joining me today.
1:01.6	Oh, I'm so excited to be here. Thank you for having me as a guest.
1:05.3	You are the first guest that we've had who is a happiness explorer. So tell everybody
1:09.8	what a happiness explorer is and does.
1:13.3	It's someone who travels, who goes through the world and takes that perspective of seeing
1:21.8	what is good, what is right, what is positive, and embracing that.
1:29.4	So is that a natural talent that you have?
1:32.3	Has that always been your mindset?
1:33.9	Or is it something that you've cultivated over the years?
1:36.4	Because we talk on Live Happy about the negativity bias
1:39.8	that we have and the happiness set points.
1:42.1	So what about you?
1:42.8	Are you naturally happy or did you cultivate
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