Thank you for joining us for episode 508 of Live Happy Now.

This week, as we move toward our happiness month, we're bringing you what you might call

a happiness doubleheader.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and today I'm joined by two influencers of the global happiness

movement.

First up, I'm talking with Deborah

Heise, co-founder of Live Happy, as she tells us what to expect from this year's celebration

leading up to the International Day of Happiness on March 20th. Then you'll meet Karen Guggenheim,

founder of the World Happiness Summit, and hear how her journey to happiness is rooted in unhappiness

and loss and how that led her to launch an initiative that is changing lives around the globe.

And we'll tell you how you can join her in Miami in March to further your own happiness

journey. Let's have a listen. Well, Deb, welcome back to you, Live Happy Now. I'm excited to be here, Paula, and we get to talk about really my favorite time of the year on this episode.

I know.

We talk about it.

It's like our Christmas, but it is our happiness month.

I know we talk about this every year, but heck, people talk about Christmas and Halloween every year, too.

So, and this is way more important in my mind.

So remind our listeners what the Happiness Month is and how we celebrate it.

Certainly. So, you know, we have this day, which is March 20th, which is called the International

Day of Happiness. And that was established in 2012 by the United Nations. And ever since we started, coincidentally, also in 2012, we have been celebrating happy acts in the month of March.

And the reason that we do that is because we want to remind everybody that they personally can do things to make the world a happier place. They can take personal responsibility.

They can do very small things to make their own home life and community, workplace, whatever it is

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