Welcome to episode 237 of Live Happy Now. I'm your host, Paula Phelps, thanking you for joining us again this week.

25 years ago, author Sarah Bon Bronic inadvertently launched a global movement with her book, Simple Abundance.

Her organic approach to gratitude and a simpler, happier life sparked a movement that sold millions of books and changed not just her life, but the lives of countless readers.

This year, she has refreshed that book for Modern Times, and she sat down with me to talk about her revised and updated edition of Simple Abundance, 365 days to a balanced and joyful life.

Sarah, welcome to live happy now.

Thank you, Paul.

It's a wonderful place to be.

Well, it is such a treat to have you on the air.

I read your book for the first time, like many people, when I was going through a difficult

time, when it first came out.

And it was so life-changing for me that I went ahead and bought

it for my best friend. And then she bought one for her mom. And that's what happened with a lot of people.

You were like going viral before going viral was a thing. Well, I think what it was was that

simple abundance was like the first woman's blog blog because every day we were talking about something

different that all women seemed to share.

And as horrifying as it seems, we didn't have actual blogs back then.

No, we couldn't read them.

That's right.

That's right.

Now, when you wrote Simple Abundance 25 years ago, you absolutely had no idea that it would have such a huge influence on a global scale.

And one thing I found really interesting in this refreshed edition is you talk about how you wrote that book that you wanted to read.

Can you tell us a little bit about that first time of writing it and what made you write this book and how it came

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