Every teen has potential. What they need is opportunity and support on this episode of Live Happy Now.

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

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

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

You have some factors in your control.

They can promote the health and resilience and growth of your absolutely most important asset, which is your brain.

And so it all comes down to understanding ourselves.

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

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

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

This is Live Happy Now. Hello and greetings and welcome to another edition of the Live Happy Now podcast. I'm your host, J.R. Houston. thrilled that you are making us a part of your day, wherever you are in the world. However, you may be listening. Thank you for doing so. We also are thanking you for picking up copies of Live Happy magazine. We had one come out. Not too long ago. We're working on the next one, but you can still buy the most recent issue. Had Anna Ferris on the cover, fun times there. You can get it at Barnes & Noble, wherever fine magazines are sold. You can also get a digital edition on the Apple Store or the Google Play Store. So please do that. You can also listen to our radio program, which is like an

extended version of this podcast. We do happy facts. We do happy activists. We'll replay some

interviews, or you can hear interviews for the first time with our positive psychology experts.

You can hear it in the Dallas, Fort Worth area, 98.7K Love. You can also hear it on radio.com by searching for KLUV.

Well, when I was a kid, I really wanted to be a broadcaster. And hey, look at me now.

I had the opportunity and I had the support from people in my community and my parents.

And I was able to follow my dream. Well, our guests this week are all about doing exactly that.

Grip tape.

It's an initiative committed to putting young people in the driver's seat of their learning.

They create opportunities for youth to follow their passions as inventors or designers and producers or radio hosts.

They're actively constructing their path for success and supporting other young people and doing the same

exact thing.

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