If you're looking for a happy place, you have found it. This is Live Happy Now. I'm your host, J.R. Houston.

Happy once again to have you here with us. It is so exciting. The number of people that have joined us in recent weeks,

and we're glad that you are helping to grow the show. And we're also glad to have our partners

along. Live Happy Magazine on stands now, wherever fine magazines are sold. And we also want you to

check out the website of our partner, Life Reimagined. That website, LifeReimagined.org. Makes sense, right? They've got all kinds

of resources there for you and processes to go through to help you reach your peak happiness.

You know, they say as you awaken to the power of happiness, so do your dreams. So what's next?

Well, find out at lifereimagined.org. Got a very, very special guest and someone you may have heard

from before. Our good friend Michelle McQuaid is joining the program. She will be talking with our

C-O-O and co-founder editorial director, Deborah Heist coming up. Michelle, if you haven't heard of her before,

is a best-selling author, a workplace well-being teacher, and a guest blogger

for Live Happy magazine. She holds a master's in applied positive psychology from UPenn,

that's the University of Pennsylvania, and is currently completing her PhD in appreciative inquiry.

Now, in this episode, she and Deborah will discuss how to discover your strengths and be happier at work as well as the latest results from the Via Institute's Strength Challenge.

Michelle, for those of you who don't know, is Australian, and we love her accent, and she's on today from Melbourne, Australia.

So she's up very early in the morning, and we are very excited to talk to her about the strengths challenge.

You recently launched a strengths challenge with the VIA Institute to help people discover their strengths and practically apply them in everyday life.

My real question, just to start off, is can you describe what we mean when we talk about strengths from a positive psychology

perspective? It's a great place to start. I love the definition that in its simplest form,

a strength is something that you're good at, but also something that you enjoy doing. And I think

that definition, as simple as it is, is very powerful because in my experience working with

lots of people in organisations all over the world, I find ourselves in jobs that we're good at,

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