Welcome to episode 191 of Live Happy Now. This is your host, Paula Phelps, thanking you for joining us. March is going to be here before we know it, and that means it's time to start thinking about celebrating one of our favorite days. Now, we're not talking about St. Patrick's Day, even though we have nothing against leprechauns, but what we want to talk about today is the

International Day of Happiness. Since 2012, March 20th has been celebrated as the International

Day of Happiness, and Live Happy has been hosting events around the world for the past six years.

Through our Happy Acts campaign and our signature orange happiness walls, we've worked to spread the message

about the International Day of Happiness and to encourage people to keep that happiness going

365 days a year.

This week, Live Happy Marketing Manager Brittany Chan and editor Chris Libby, join us to talk about

what's being planned for this year's celebration and how you can be a part of it.

Well, Chris and Brittany, thank you for coming in to talk to us a little bit about Happy Acts. Welcome. I think this is, Brittany, this is your debut in the studio. It is. I'm a little nervous, so bear with me, but we'll see how I do. Oh, you're going to be great. Because first of all, this is a topic that you, of, people, should be here to talk about with us because you're going to tell us about the Happy Acts campaign.

And I know this is something we do every year, but now you guys are really, we're getting it rolling earlier.

And so can you, first of all, explain what Happy Axe is all about?

Yeah, I can do that.

I'm not Brittany. I'm Chris. But yeah, every year at Live Happy, we have this campaign to raise awareness for acts of kindness

called hashtag Happy Acts.

And on the International Day of Happiness, we like to host these, we call them, happiness

walls. It's a destination

where people can come by and fill out a little note card and explain how they share happiness.

And it's kind of grown in the last, Brittany, five or six years. Five years. And it's gone from a few

walls to over 700 walls all over the world.

I mean, it's happening in Mexico.

It's happening in Australia.

It's happening in India and all over the country.

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