Shannon Kaiser: ...life is actually supposed to be easy

Nobody Told Me!

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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We had no idea that the path to happiness is simple, but our guest on this episode, Shannon Kaiser, says that it is -- and we believe her! She's the best-selling author of five books on the science of happiness and fulfillment and has been called one of the freshest voices in mental health and wellness. Her latest book is called 'Joy Seeker: Let Go of What's Holding You Back So You Can Live the Life You Were Made For'.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens, and I'm Jan Black. And joining us on this episode is
0:17.6	Shannon Kaiser, who's the best-selling author of five books on the psychology of
0:22.3	happiness and fulfillment. Shannon has been called one of the freshest voices in mental health
0:27.6	and wellness. Her latest book is called Joy Seeker. Let go of what's holding you back so you can
0:33.7	live the life you were made for. Shannon, we thank you so much for joining us. I'm so happy to be here. Thank you. Tell us about your background and how your latest book, Joy Seeker, came about. Yeah, it's interesting because I have been doing this work. This is my 10-year anniversary of being a writer and a teacher and champion in coaching it's been a decade and I wasn't always doing
0:55.5	this work I used to be in advertising I was climbing the corporate ladder and I got very depressed I was
1:00.5	addicted to drugs silently suffering from eating disorders and it was just a very toxic time in my life
1:06.2	and when the doctor diagnosed me with depression I was sitting in the doctor's office, reading a magazine, waiting for her to write a prescription.
1:13.5	And I read an article about how dogs can help with depression.
1:17.4	And my inner voice said, this is the route for you, adopt a dog.
1:21.1	And so instead of going the medication route, and I know that that serves people at certain times, but for me, I realized that there might be another way,
1:28.3	and a lot of my depression was tied to me not being true to myself. And I thought he was doing
1:33.3	what I wanted, going through the motions of what society, culture, family wanted for me,
1:37.4	but I never really stopped to ask myself, is this what I want? And so I realized I do want a dog,
1:42.1	and I adopted a rescue dog, and he transformed my life with him by my side.
1:47.4	It's almost like we rescued each other because his name was Tucker and all of a sudden I found this joy, this
1:53.9	happiness.
1:54.4	I left advertising, left depression, left my eating disorders and found true self-love and started the career.
2:00.2	And then about three years ago,
2:02.0	he passed away. And that's really when I went inside myself and said, I have to learn how to
2:07.1	rely on myself for joy. Because up until this point in my life, of course I was grieving,
2:13.6	but up until this point, I was still relying on happiness outside of me. And so that's what led to this next level of the work, which is joy seeker, learning how to be
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