Welcome to Episode 206 of Live Happy Now.

This is your host, Paula Phelps, thanking you for joining us today.

I'm so excited about this week's guest, and I think you're going to like what we have in store for you.

Mark Nipo is a poet, philosopher, best-selling author, and teacher who has been called one of the finest spiritual guides of our time.

With his latest book, More Together Than Alone, he looks at how, despite our increasingly global

existence, we've actually become more isolated and divided. The stories in his book each hold a

lesson that we can learn from today and use to create a more hopeful world for tomorrow.

So let's hear what Mark has to say.

Mark, welcome to live happy now.

I've got to say, first of all, it's really an honor and a pleasure to have you on the show today.

Oh, thanks so much.

I appreciate being here with you.

You know, you've written a book, more together than alone, that is really fascinating and

really timely.

And what I found interesting was learning that you took 12 years to write this.

But it seems like something that just in the last, say, three years has become particularly

relevant.

So can you talk about what led you to write this and why that process

began more than it's located? Yeah, and you know, and the timing that it was done in the world

now is way beyond me. And, you know, so I started working on this 12, 13 years ago, and I was just really compelled and

interested in stories of moments when we've worked well together and the lessons of those

stories.

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