If you are looking for a happy place, you have found that this is Live Happy Now.

Hello and greetings. I am your host, J.R. Houston. This is the podcast dedicated to bringing you closer to your peak happiness through powerful positive

psychology, relatable stories, maybe some things that will touch you in different ways.

We make our way through these broadcasts.

We're excited that you're with us, wherever you're listening throughout the country, throughout

the world, and we're, of course, excited to welcome in our partners.

Live Happy Magazine.

Their offices are where we broadcast from,

or podcast from, if you will. They've got a new issue coming out very soon, and you can find it on

newsstands everywhere. We've also got to thank our partner, LifeReimagined, and their website

lifereimagined.org slash happy. It's got all kinds of processes that you can maybe apply to your life and resources for

you to use to help you achieve that peak happiness we're always talking about.

They say as you awaken to the power of happiness, so do your dreams.

So what's next?

Find out at life reimagined.org slash happy.

Excited to have an interesting conversation today with Shane Lopez.

He's PhD and author of Making Hope happen.

And he's the world's leading researcher on hope.

Shane researches the links between hope, strengths, development, academic success, overall

well-being, and collaborates with scholars around the world on these issues.

Shane, we are very excited to have you on the program here today, and I want to begin by asking

you about your definition of hope, because I think a lot of people, as we're sitting here,

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