Welcome to episode 220 of Live Happy Now. I'm your host, Paula Phelps, thanking you for joining us as we begin

Season 5 of Live Happy Now. Live Happy CEO, Deborah Hise recently returned from the International

Positive Psychology Association's Sixth World Congress in Australia.

And we thought a great way to start this new season would be to talk with her about how positive psychology is changing and how the way the world embraces it is changing too.

Well, Deb, it's a start of a brand new season, season five, if you can believe it.

We're starting our fifth season of Live Happy Now. And what better

way to start it than to have you come in and talk to us for a little bit? Well, I'm excited to be here

and I can't believe it's our fifth season. How did that happen? One season at a time, I guess.

One episode? Yeah, okay. Don't be too logical.

Well, this is also perfect timing because not only do we have this brand spanking new season starting, but we have, you've just returned from Australia where you attended the International

Positive Psychology Association World Congress.

I did.

I did.

It was phenomenal, actually. Obviously, I go there and it to learn,

and it just fills me up to be around those people and to be around all the research and all

the wonderful stuff that's coming out in the area of positive psychology. And, you know,

it was their sixth World Congress. So they've been doing this for about 12 years. But it really,

for me, it's a bucket filler. You know, it really gets me excited about what we're doing all over again.

Mm-hmm. And you've been going to the World Congress since it began. Is that correct?

No, I took a couple times for me to discover it. So this is my fourth. Oh, okay. All right. Well, one thing that I really wanted

to talk about was what you've seen change about the way we're approaching positive psychology,

because it's really getting legs. You know, it's a fairly new way of thinking. And the advantage

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