We all have times in our lives that are filled with uncertainty and stress.

Maybe it's career upheaval, a change in our life stages, or the end of a relationship.

And even as we wrestle with the challenges at hand, we wonder what the next step is.

I'm Paula Phelps, and this is Live Happy Presents, a podcast sponsored by the Wholebeing

Institute that looks at what to do when those inflection points arise in our lives.

Megan McDonough is founder of the Whole Being Institute, which is the world's leading educational

organization teaching the science of human flourishing. She is here today to talk about

how the challenges we're facing right now, no matter how daunting they seem, actually hold the

opportunity to explore, strengthen, and reshape your life. Then she'll tell us about an online

program offered by the Whole Being Institute to help you take the next step to move toward happiness.

Megan, this is an incredible program that you're going to share with us today, and I have so many questions, and I'm really excited to hear about it.

But I wanted to start out by learning how did you develop this and what got you here?

So for that, we're going to go back to the year of 1999.

You remember that year?

That was the year.

Everybody was saying, computers are going to crash.

The end of the world.

End of the world.

When computers go from 1-999 to 2-0-0, the world was going to crash. It turns out, thankfully,

that the world didn't crash, but in a way my own life crashed. I remember specifically the day.

I was working for DuPont, and I was in the corporate offices in a meeting. Even the day, I recall, it was a gorgeous spring day, one where the, looked up with the sky,

and it was a beautiful baby blue.

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