Thank you for joining us for episode 377 of Live Happy Now.

This is a special day for us at Live Happy, so we've brought in a special guest for the occasion.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm happy to be sitting down with Deborah Heise, CEO and co-founder of Live Happy, to talk about an important podcast

milestone that we truly could not have reached without you.

Let's listen to that conversation and then be sure to stay tuned all the way to the end

for a special offer on our all-new Live Happy Now podcast T-shirt.

Well, Deborah, I'm so glad that you could drop in.

We have a special occasion,

and I can't think of anybody better to make this announcement than you. I'm excited to be on the

podcast today, as usual, Paula, and this is an especially memorable and momentous one,

because this, we just passed five million downloads of our podcast.

Whoever thought we'd do that?

We were so happy when we got like our first 10,000.

I know, it was exciting.

Oh, my God, that's amazing.

And it's like, wow, we have 10,000 a week.

It's just incredible.

Now we're far above that.

And it's, you know, really a momentous occasion that we passed five million downloads.

I hope all of those downloads got listened to, but, you know, it's a little overwhelming if you think about it where we started where we are now.

Well, I wanted to talk about where we started because I was sort of involved at the beginning, but I wasn't hosting.

I appeared as a guest a couple of times,

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