Thank you for joining us for episode 478 of Live Happy Now.

Summer is sort of a recess for all of us, but this week's guest is here to teach us how to prioritize play all year long.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm joined by Jeff Harry, who combines positive psychology with play to foster healing

and help individuals overcome their biggest challenges. He's sitting down with me to talk about

why we all need to embrace the power of play and how doing that can improve our well-being

at work and at home. Let's have a listen. Jeff, thank you so much for joining me on Live Happy Now.

Thanks so much for having me. I'm so excited for this conversation. Oh, it's such a great topic.

And it's something we have to talk about because we don't talk about it enough. Tell me, I think I want

to start by finding out and letting our audience know how you discovered the power of play.

Ooh, so I'll tell you my Batman origin story.

I'll tell you the brief version, but did you ever see the movie Big with Tom Hanks?

Yes.

So I saw that when I was in third grade and he got to play with toys for a living and I was like,

that's a job?

So I started writing toy

companies in third grade and I did not stop until I got into the toy industry like I think

like 15, 20 years later. And have you ever gotten exactly what you've always wanted and then

been so disappointed when you got it, right?

There's like, yeah, there was no, it was a toy industry. There was no fun. There was no joy,

no high fives, no kids, no play. They might as well have been selling like pillows or socks.

So I was so like disenchanted. So I left New York. That's where I was at the time. And I came to the

San Francisco Bay Area. And I found a job on Craigslist for anyone that knows Craigslist.

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