Welcome to the very first episode of Happiness Unleashed with Brittany Durenbacher, presented by Live Happy.

Each episode, we're going to look at how our pets bring us joy, help us heal, and just make us better humans.

To kick things off, Brittany is talking with me, Live Happy Now host Paula Phelps, about what to

expect from this new podcast, why we're doing it, and why it's so important for us to get in touch

with our animals.

Then we'll talk about why petting other people's pets is scientifically proven to be good

for you and why you should stop fubbing your pets.

Hi, Paula.

Thank you so much for coming on the very first episode of Happiness Unleashed.

I am so excited.

First of all, I'm honored that I get to be your very first guest.

And I am just so excited to see this finally coming to fruition. Congratulations on making this

happen. I'm really happy for you. Thank you so much. I can't think of a better person to kick off

the show with. I know why Live Happy wanted to do this. Why don't you tell us, like how this all came

about and why it's so important for us to do this podcast that's devoted to pets

and happiness. Well, first, what I love is that really animals brought us together. So just in us

having conversations on live happy, I think everyone was kind of able to see just how much people

wanted to hear about our relationships with animals, how much people really tuned in for that. And so it kind of able to see just how much people wanted to hear about our relationships with animals,

how much people really tuned in for that. And so it kind of validated just how much we wanted to

talk about animals and bring that to public knowledge. And I really think that we are doing

ourselves a disservice and future generations a disservice if we don't include the human

animal bond in our research. Research on animals' interactions with us is still relatively new.

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