If you've been looking for a happy place, you've found it right here. This is Live

Happy Now. Thanks for joining us. I'm J.R. Houston. I'm the host of Live Happy Now. It's a podcast

dedicated to helping you find true happiness through positive psychology,

relatable insights, and hopefully a little bit of fun as well.

And we want to thank our partner, Life Reimagined, and you can go to their website to learn more about them,

LifeReimagined.org.

They've got just a ton of tremendous resources and even processes for you to go through

to help you discover what's next for you to go through to help

you discover what's next for you.

And you know, they say as you will wake into the power of happiness, so do your dreams.

So what's next?

You can find out at life reimagined.org.

We're joined by Deborah Heiss, who is the co-founder, C.O.

and editorial director of Live Happy.

Deborah has been leading and growing successful startups in the publishing industry for more than a decade and has 20-plus years of management experience in a variety of fast-moving organizations.

We're so excited to not only be launching this, but to have you here for the launch.

It's an exciting time here at Live Happy. It really is, JR. We're so excited to be bringing a new podcast, Live Happy Now. We hope it brings Live Happy to a group of people we haven't been reaching before. We're just super excited about it. First, let me just ask, why are we launching a Live Happy podcast? We launched Live Happy two years ago with the idea of bringing information to consumers that can help them live happier lives.

I've been working in Success Magazine for a few years, and I've been in personal development industry or affiliated with personal development industry for more than a decade.

And there's all this information out there about how you can have a better career, how you can have more work-life balance.

But what's different about happiness is that happiness is founded in real science. Positive psychologists study it, researchers study it, and it's all

about how we can have greater well-being. And this information is available in academic circles,

but it hadn't really gotten to the general consumer. So when we took a look at it, we decided that,

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