If you're looking for a happy place, you have found it.

This is Live Happy Now.

Hello and greetings.

I'm your host, J.R. Houston.

Glad that you are joining us once again for another edition of the podcast that is dedicated

to bringing you closer to your peak happiness through powerful positive psychology, relatable stories and insights, and maybe we'll have a little bit of fun along the way as well. We're excited that you're joining us from wherever you are in the world. Plus, we're excited to bring on our partners Live Happy magazine. Of course, that's where we get our name. They've

got issues on newsstands everywhere. You can also find the digital edition online and our partner

LifeReimagined, their website, lifereimagined.org slash happy. And they've got all kinds of things

on there for you to think about and try to apply to your daily life as you move forward. They say as you

awaken it to the power of happiness, so do your dream. So what's next? Well, find out more at

at lifereimagined.com slash happy. We've got a fun, fun conversation coming up for you today.

We've got Susie Pellege Powelski is a contributing editor for Live Happy Magazine and a wellness counselor

specializing in the science of happiness and its effects on health and relationships.

Her 2010 Scientific American Mind cover story, The Happy Couple, was selected by the magazine as one of its most intriguing articles in recent years.

James Powelsky is a PhD and director of education and senior articles in recent years. James Polowski is a Ph.D.

and Director of Education and Senior Scholar in the Positive Psychology Center at the University

of Pennsylvania.

And for the last 10 years, he has served as the founding director of the Master of Applied

Positive Psychology Program, the World's First Degree Program in Positive Psychology, mind

you.

And he's also

founding director of the International Positive Psychology Association.

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