Thank you for joining us for episode 428 of Live Happy Now.

It's a new month, and for Live Happy Now, it's the start of a brand new season.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week, as we launch Season 9, I'm talking with Live Happy CEO and co-founder Deborah Heys about some of the great new things

that you can expect.

We're rolling out some new ways to help you discover happiness, and we're excited to share

these with you.

So let's get to it.

Deb, always a pleasure to have you on the show.

Thank you so much for sitting down with me today.

Well, I wasn't going to miss it today.

It's the first episode of our

ninth season, which either means that we're really old, we're having too much fun. One or the other. I think it's a little both. Yeah. I mean, it's amazing when I sit down and say, oh my gosh, yeah, we're starting our ninth season because when we started this, we didn't know if anyone was going to tune in and lucky us, they did. Yeah, you know, podcasts were just getting started. I think we had the serial podcast, which really took off was like right after we started this one. So that was really interesting. You know, we got into podcasting originally as a way to expand on the magazine and do some interviews because we always got to interview these great people.

And, you know, getting to do those interviews on tape, so to speak, that really shows my age.

But getting interviews live and then share those, that's really why we started the podcast.

And then, of course, the whole podcast thing took off.

And it's still the most fun and my favorite thing that we do.

Yeah.

And if we can just figure out how to combine true crime and happiness, we're going to have the biggest hit podcast of all time.

Yeah. Speaking of serial, true crime and happiness. Yeah, you know, it's interesting. The true crime

genre is certainly the one that I think most people think of when they think of podcasts or or if they don't, they at least are aware. Either that or business help podcasts, self-help, personal

podcasts, a lot of those are really successful. And I guess we kind of fit into that.

Happiness will certainly help business. We don't fit into true crime. But I kind of look at it as

...