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The Brink of Midnight with John Brenkus

Live Happy Now

Live Happy LLC

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:mental Health

4.7522 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

After producing and hosting over 1500 segments of ESPN Sport Science, 6 times Emmy Award-winning host and The New York Times best-selling author, John Brenkus, recognized that “high achievers” tend to share a similar story of attaining success. Through The Brink of Midnight podcast, John explores the moments that guests credit with changing their lives forever. Those moments that pushed them in an unexpected direction, shaping the experiences that followed and molding them into the people who they are today. What you'll learn in this podcast: The inspiration behind The Brink of Midnight podcast What goes into creating life-changing moments Inspirational stories from sports figures, celebrities and more

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0:00.0

Success is often created through hard work, tough choices, and moments that are simply divine.

0:05.8

We'll break them down on this episode of Live Happy Now.

0:09.8

The ancient Greeks defined happiness as the joy you feel moving towards your potential.

0:16.0

To think about positive psychology, it's a science, and it's actually younger than the internet, believe it or not.

0:23.9

The reality is that social connection is in the research, the greatest predictor we have of long-term happiness.

0:31.7

You have some factors in your control. They can promote the health and resilience and growth of your absolutely most

0:38.1

important asset, which is your brain.

0:40.6

And so it all comes down to understanding ourselves.

0:43.6

There's a way for all of us to succeed, but it might take different things.

0:47.6

We're all looking for the same thing, and that's a way to bring a little bit more joy to our

0:51.0

day.

0:51.8

Join us as we look at the many different paths that lead us to

0:54.2

that happy place. This is Live Happy Now. Hello and greetings. Welcome to another edition of

1:00.0

the Live Happy Now podcast. I am your host, J.R. Houston. Please, you are joining us wherever you

1:04.2

are in the world and however you may be listening. Thanks for making us a part of your day.

1:09.1

Thanks to everybody who's been making Live Happy Radio a part of their

1:12.1

Sunday mornings. It is airing on the radio in Dallas, Fort Worth, on 98.7K Love, and worldwide at

1:18.8

radio.com. It airs each Sunday morning at 8 o'clock central time, and we are very thankful for those

1:24.6

of you that are checking it out. We're also thankful for those of you who subscribe to the magazine, whether it's the print edition or the digital edition. Thanks for doing that. And if you don't already, consider giving it a try. You can get the digital edition very easily. It's available in the Apple and the Google Play Store, so you can put it on your phone or your tablet and take it with you wherever you would like to go.

1:45.2

Well, today we're actually going to be talking about another podcast that we really like,

1:49.1

and it's hosted by a man by the name of John Brancas.

1:52.2

And if you don't recognize the name and you're a sports fan, you certainly would recognize

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