I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps

some nuggets of wisdom along the way.

This is your invitation to slow down with us.

Welcome to slow more. Today's guest is my long time ally in happiness and my dear friend, Mark Williamson.

Mark is the founding director of Action for Happiness, a movement of people taking action to create a happier and kinder world.

With an active community of over a million supporters, he is passionate

about creating a more balanced caring society that focuses more on helping people and communities to thrive.

In that sense, Mark and I share the same goal in bringing awareness of how to be happy to the masses. Like myself, Mark is an

engineer. He also holds an MBA and a PhD in engineering which has given us great parallels in our approaches to spreading

happiness.

Mark is a dear friend and every time we speak he drops those interestingly well-thought gold nuggets of wisdom that I think you will enjoy.

Hello my friend. Hey, Mark, it's been such a long time.

It's been what, four years now, three years and a half.

Yeah, three years, yeah.

Well, I'm definitely in working from home mode and have been quite some time now.

So I want to talk about what matters, you know, exploring what matters, but I first want to introduce you to my audience as the friend that I got to know you.

So if you remember the first time we met, I don't remember where I didn't know anything about London then,

but it was in a wonderful train station or something like that.

Somewhere near your offices, 2017, if I remember correctly, it was March, must be 25th,

because I had just finished my talk at the World Happiness Summit, which was on the 18th,

launching Solfor Happy. And then we met, and the first thing you told me was how you gave up a career and an engineering background to pursue action for

happiness which was definitely not the London thing to do if you want.

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