Welcome to episode 355 of Live Happy Now.

Throughout the month of March, we're celebrating the International Day of Happiness and a whole month of happy acts.

And as part of this year's celebration, we're looking at the theme of unity.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm joined by Jesse Kanzer, author of

Don't Just Sit There, Do Nothing. Much of Jesse's work looks at social media and how we can

become more mindful about it to minimize its negative impact. So sit back and let's hear what

Jesse has to say. Jesse, welcome to live happy now.

Thank you so much, Paula.

This is the perfect time to talk to you,

not just because your new book is out,

but because we are doing this whole month

celebrating the International Day of Happiness on March 20th

and really doing a whole month of happy acts.

And our theme this year is unity. And anytime we

have a discussion about unity and conflict, it seems that social media comes up. And this is

something that you talk about. And I wanted to talk today about how it affects the way we feel

about ourselves and the world around us. And to kick it off, can you talk about

why this one thing called social media is so powerful? Yes. And I do talk a lot about it because,

like you said, it's so prevalent. So before we talk about what's wrong with it, let's just,

let's just acknowledge what a big part of our life has become. fact in my book don't just said there do nothing i have a chapter called stop the thumb which you can interpret it as you will but it's about stopping that scrolling thumb that never stops itself and i do think that it's easier said than done. You could easily just tell people,

just get off social media. I've heard that so many times. Just get off of it. But realistically

speaking, for a lot of us, for creatives, like myself, for podcasts, there's a lot of need for social media for the businesses and for the positive

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