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

This is Live Happy Now.

Hello and greetings wherever you are in the world, however you may be tuning,

and we are thrilled to have you here.

I'm your host, J.R. Houston, for the podcast dedicated to bringing you closer to your peak happiness through powerful, positive psychology, relatable stories and insights, and a little bit of fun along the way as well.

As happy as we are to have you here, we're just that happy to have our partners with us. Live Happy magazine available on newsstands

wherever fine magazines are sold and, of course, our digital editions available for you in

the iTunes store as well as Google Play, and you can find us at livehappiness.com. Our other partner,

of course, is Life Reimagined. They've got all kinds of processes and resources for you on

their website because as you awaken to the power of happiness, so do your dreams. So what's next?

Go to Lifereimagined.org slash happy, and you can find out. Today's guest is Sarah Oliveri. She

coaches people to live happier lives to operate happier organizations as well. She's a life coach and speaker. She's based out of Washington, D.C., and one of fewer than 300 people in the world to earn a master's degree in positive psychology. And in this episode, she and are going to talk about effective tools to create a more meaningful or fulfilling life and how to identify your personal core values to help you achieve authentic happiness.

Well, Sarah, we are so glad to have you here to talk about a variety of things.

But I want to know from you because we get this question a lot here at live happy because I think a lot of people

are almost intimidated by the name live happy. What is your definition of happiness? It's not all

sunshine and rainbows, right? Right. Absolutely. Yeah, I think that's a great question. My personal

definition of happiness is a feeling of wholeness and deep fulfillment with one's life.

And, you know, as you can kind of hear in that definition, that definitely includes experiencing sadness and grief and disappointment and the full spectrum

of the sort of more challenging emotions.

So it's not, I think that's what a lot of people, when they kind of try to get into this

and they try to have the goal of increasing their happiness, if you will.

They do get intimidated by that because really it's not about eliminating the negative emotions.

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