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FranklinCovey On Leadership

Tal Ben-Shahar: Happiness is Here and Now

FranklinCovey On Leadership

FranklinCovey

Business, Management

4.9851 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Is happiness a choice? Today's guest is Tal Ben-Shahar, best-selling author of Happiness Studies and Happier, No Matter What. He also taught two of Harvard's most popular classes, "Positive Psychology" and "The Psychology of Leadership." He consults and lectures to executives in multinational corporations, the general public, and at-risk populations, and is the co-founder and Chief Learning Officer of The Happiness Studies Academy. Tal and our new host, Will Houghteling, discuss whether happiness is truly a choice in the midst of so much turbulence and how we should give ourselves permission to be human through it all.

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Will Hodling and I am thrilled to be the new host of Franklin Covey

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on Leadership.

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I have spent my career helping people realize their full potential.

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I spent many years at Google and YouTube building educational products to reach, teach,

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and transform the lives of tens of millions

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of people globally. After Google and YouTube, I started my own company, Strive, a management

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training and leadership development platform trusted by many of Silicon Valley's fastest growing

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companies. Four years ago, Franklin Covey acquired Stride, and since then I've been serving as Franklin

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Covey's Executive Vice President of Product.

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I am incredibly excited and appreciative to be hosting these conversations with world leaders

0:49.3

about the hard-earned lessons learned along their journeys.

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Thank you for joining along.

0:56.4

Today's guest is Tall Ben Chihar. Tall obtained his BA and PhD from Harvard University in

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Psychology. Wall at Harvard, Tall taught two of the university's most popular courses,

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Positive Psychology and the psychology of

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leadership. Tull's research and writing on this topic have been covered in multiple books that have

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appeared on bestseller lists around the world. In addition to his academic background,

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Taule is also a consultant for many leading multinational companies and is the founder of the Happiness Studies Academy and potential life.

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Taule Benzahar, welcome to Franklin Coveyon leadership.

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So looking forward to it. Thank you for having me.

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Absolutely.

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So I actually want to start today's conversation with something a little bit unconventional, which is instead of asking you questions, I want to start it with a story and a moment of gratitude.

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