Thank you for joining us for episode 463 of Live Happy Now.

What if thinking about death could give more meaning to your life?

Well, today's guest says it can, and she has the research to back it up.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and today I'm talking with Jody Wellman, founder of 4,000 Mondays,

a company designed to help people make the most of their time on this planet.

Her TED Talk, How Death Can Bring You Back to Life, has more than 1.3 million views and her new

book, You Only Die Once, How to Make It to the End with with no regrets is being released in just a few weeks.

I sat down with Jody to find out what started this mission and, more importantly, how we all can live

better by counting the Mondays that we have left. Let's have a listen.

Jody, thank you so much for coming on Live Happy Now.

Oh, I'm just downright giddy to be here with you, Paul.

As I told you, I have been so looking forward to this conversation.

We've been emailing for a while.

I kind of had to wait until we were closer to your book coming out, and it's going to be coming out soon.

But even without your book being on the shelves yet, you've been creating some incredible content that reminds

us to live our life and be alive and I wanted to find out your backstory how did that become your

mission well thank you for the compliment and thank you for asking and you know I have been

I would say appropriately interested in our mortality for a very long time.

So since I was probably my early 20s and just to, you know, cut to the chase, you know,

I really do believe that the way that we can wake up to living is through the sometimes stark

and sometimes a bit of a splash cold water in your face reminder

that, right, right, right, we're totally going to die. So how do we use that not to feel morbid?

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