Welcome to Live Happy Now.

This is your host, Paula Phelps, thanking you for joining us today for a special Thanksgiving-themed episode.

This week, we're hearing a lot about thankfulness, and here at Live Happy, it's something we like to talk about all year long.

Live Happy CEO, Deborah Heyes, drops in this week to talk more about why gratitude is so important,

what it really means, and what it can do for us.

Well, Deborah, it's always wonderful to have you in the studio and on the line.

Thank you so much for taking time to talk to us today.

Well, it is my pleasure, and I know we're going to talk about one of my favorite topics,

so that even makes it more my pleasure, you know, getting to spend 20 to 30 minutes talking about stuff you love is never a burden. And as you all know, I love live happy and I love our topic for today. Yeah, this is one of my favorites too. And so that's why I was really excited to talk to you about it because I like it, you like it, it's going to be fun.

So I guess we should let everyone else know that what we're alluding to is gratitude.

Yes, being grateful, a key part of living a happy life.

You know, what's so interesting is that we get so much about gratitude during November.

And Thanksgiving is coming up and we talk

about thankfulness. And outside of live happy walls, it tends to often get neglected the rest of the

year. Like, we don't give a whole lot of attention to gratitude or to being thankful. Do you see that

tide turning at all? You know, I think I do.

And maybe it's because I live in a little bit of a bubble just like you do and that, you know, this is what we do. You know, we're out building this and we talk about it all the time. But, you know, we have a civil discourse problem right now. Really? Yeah, and it's an obvious problem. And for those of you who are going to hear this much later, you've got to know we're recording this on Election Day.

So if you know what I mean by a civil discourse, it's really an incivil discourse right now or an uncivil discourse. And I think there's a bit of a backlash to that in that there's a certain group of the population that isn't grateful and or

expressing gratitude. Perhaps they're grateful, but they aren't expressing it. And there's a lot of

negativity out there and the closer you get to election day, which is today, the more you see it

and the more you hear it and feel it. But I also see buried underneath all that on social media and on social

media channels is a large group of people who are really just trying to promote gratitude and

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