Thank you for joining us for episode 466 of Live Happy Now.

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and while we look at mental health all year long,

this is the perfect time to take an even closer look at something we all should be talking about.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and today I'm joined by Live Happy CEO and co-founder Deborah

Hise to talk about Gen Z and Mental Health.

According to recent studies, Generation Z is experiencing unprecedented levels of anxiety,

depression, and other mental health concerns.

Today, Deb and I are talking about what's causing this mental health crisis among young people

and what we all can do about it.

Let's have a listen.

Deb, thank you for coming on the show.

Thanks, Paula.

It's always a joy when I get to spend some time with you talking about things that, you know,

we're both passionate about.

Yes, and May is Mental Health Month.

We're doing this as the last episode of April. Tomorrow we start a shiny new month looking at

mental health awareness. And this was a fantastic time to sit down and talk to you. You and I had

had this conversation offline about the World Happiness Report and specifically its findings on Gen Z. And so

that conversation was so good, it's like, let's do this on the air and talk about it.

I think the World Happiness Reports, for us, it's kind of a landmark thing. It turns out we

started Live Happy while they were working on the World Happiness Report. We, of course,

didn't know that at the time. So it's kind of, we're parallel Happiness Report. We, of course, didn't know that

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