Today's guest is literally flipping out, but as you'll soon learn, that's a good thing.

Find out why next on Live Happy Now.

This is really funny to me that I learned all these great lessons and, you know, I have this whole mission and stuff,

and it simply just derives from my ability and my love for flipping.

Hello, this is Jeff Sanders, and welcome back to another episode of the Live Happy Now podcast.

This week, we're looking at happiness from a whole different angle.

Pat Graves is a Nashville musician who inadvertently started a movement just by doing something

he loved, a backflip.

Let's listen in as he talks with Live Happy Science Editor Paula Phelps about how backflips

changed his life, turn into a phenomenon called Flipa Day, and launch the Inspire Happiness

Movement.

I wondered if you would start by telling our listeners what Flip A Day is all about.

So Flip a Day is all about basically doing what you love every single day in pursuit

of a happier lifestyle. And that doesn't go for anybody just, it doesn't mean that you have to flip to be happy.

That was what made me happy. I've been flipping since I was about two years old.

According to my mom, she said I would just crawl up on the couch and then try to throw

myself end over end. And when I was four, I saw the 1992 Olympics and that was my first exposure

to professional acrobatts. And from that time on, I had just been fascinated with acrobatics,

just the ability to control yourself in the air and make it look good at the same time. And so that winter, I was up in New York, the winter of 92.

So I was up in New York, I think around Christmas time,

and I was just jumping on my grandparents' bed,

and I started teaching myself how to do backslips.

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