Hello and greetings and welcome to the latest edition of the Live Happy Now podcast.

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

Thrill that you are making us a part of your day wherever you are in the world and however

you may be listening.

Now, we always say that this is not a one-way conversation. We want to hear from you, and we are putting our swag where our mouth is. That just sounded dumb. I'll never say that again. Remind me never say that again. But we are going to give you some free stuff for your opinion. Possibly. We want to hear from you with a quick two-minute survey about the Live Happy Now podcast. All you had to do is go to live happy.com slash survey, fill it out, and there is the possibility that you will win some of our fantastic Live Happy merchandise. We've got T-shirts. We've got cups. We've got caps. We've got wristbands. We've got all kinds of stuff. And it could be coming your way. And all you've got to do is tell us your opinion. Everybody's got one, not that hard. We would appreciate hearing yours. Now, on to the business of the podcast, I'm really excited about this one. Dr. Shrikamar Rao has helped thousands of executives and entrepreneurs all over the world discover deep meaning, and his methods

have enabled them to achieve quantum leaps in effectiveness.

I mean, just leaps and bounds better than where they were.

Graduates of his workshop have become more creative and more inspiring leaders.

He conceived the innovative course, creativity, and personal mastery course that he teaches

in London and New York.

And students found it so overwhelmingly powerful that it remains the only business school course in the world to have its own alumni association, like a university.

Let's take a listen to our conversation with Dr. Strickamaw, Rao.

Well, Dr. Rao, first of all, thank you so much for taking some time out to join us.

You're a very, very busy man.

We're very appreciative that we've got the chance to talk to you.

It's entirely my pleasure.

You've got a course in creativity and personal mastery that you offer up when you go around the world, really, teaching folks things.

What does that mean of creativity and personal mastery?

How do you define that? Okay. It's called creativity and personal mastery because persons become very

creative in crafting a wonderful piece of art.

And the wonderful piece of art that they craft is their life.

And if you want to be an artist and create this wonderful piece of art, which is your life,

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