Ladies and gentlemen, on today's show, we are interviewing a man who seems to have lived

three separate, successful careers all during the same lifetime.

He's been a New York Times bestselling author.

All right, bro Stradamus, I'm taking over the read here.

I feel like I can bring more sizzle, more heat to this read, to this hype intro.

Cue up the hot music.

Get me fired up, let's do this.

And academically speaking, at just the age of 16, he enrolled in UCLA.

He graduated summa cum laude in 1974.

Then, Rick Hanson was chosen by the UCLA Alumni Association to be one of the four outstanding seniors.

He then went on to attend San Francisco State University, where he worked on his master's degree

in developmental psychology and then went on to receive a PhD in clinical psychology from the

Wright State Institute in 1991.

Now he's become renowned as being one of the few people on the planet Earth.

That's the planet Earth, not other planets.

Oh, cue the explosions on him.

This guy's got a proven track record, helping people become sustainably more happy.

Come on, more confident.

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm reading the bio that seems to be false because it's so good, but it's true.

I've missed a Rick Hanson PhD in New York Times bestselling author.

Some shows don't need a celebrity narrator to introduce the show, but this show dies.

Two men, eight kids co-created by two different women.

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