Welcome to episode 287 of Live Happy Now.

As we get older, it's common to start thinking about what kind of legacy we're leaving behind.

But what if we started thinking about living our legacy instead of leaving it?

This is Paula Phelps, and this week we are talking with Cody Shuin, author of Everyday Legacy,

Living Your Life with Purpose Right Now.

Cody's career in the funeral industry gave him unique insight into death and the realization

that everyday matters. Today, he's here to talk about how each of us can discover our own legacy

and learn to live it to the fullest.

Cody, welcome to Live Happy Now, Paula, thank you so much for having me.

Now, you've written a really unique and very inspiring book, and it's not something that we've really talked about before.

So can you tell us, first of all, what you mean when you talk about living

your legacy? So my background, as you know, is as a funeral director. And I spent many, many

years in that world. And there was a series of events, one in particular, a funeral of an older gentleman who I was conducting.

And there was this moment in his service where I was standing outside of the chapel,

listening to these stories, be told about a gentleman who I would have liked to have known.

You know, there was moments where people were sobbing, you know, from tears and others where they were

sharing these beautiful stories and the room was filled with laughter. And I was struck with this

notion that everything I had ever thought about legacy was wrong, that everything I'd ever thought

about legacy was that it was something that came after we were gone. And I thought, what a shame if

the gentleman

at the room didn't understand the depth and breadth of the impact that he had made on the

lives of those attending his funeral. And if he had, in fact, understood that he could make an

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