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.

My guest today is widely known as the Indiana Jones of positive psychology because his research has taken him to lots of places around the world, places that you wouldn't expect to find a lot of

happiness. He went to Greenland, to India, to Kenya, to Israel. He worked with the Amish and many, many other cultures.

He's a leading authority on the topic of strength, culture, courage, and happiness,

and is known for his pioneering work in the application of positive psychology to coaching.

Dr Robert Bizois-Diner has offered more than 60 peer-reviewed academic articles.

He has written more than seven books,

including the Courage Cochin,

the award winning

winning 2007 book called Happiness and the New York Times Best Seller

the upside of your Dark Side.

I think this is a conversation that you will enjoy because while I love

Robert's work we don't always agree especially on that dark side bit.

Let's see how this goes.

Hey Robert, how are you?

Thank you so much for joining me.

I'm doing pretty well. It's been a tough year, but yeah, I mean incredible. I mean I think it's easy to say it's dividing people but we're all going through the same thing so in some ways it's bringing us together but I personally have had a really tough year I don't

how's your year been? I had a tough is indisputable every one of us in every aspect of our life I'll say openly I mean there is so much challenge to deal with every day But at the same time I have to say it's been a

blessing in many ways. It was quite interesting when you really think about it

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