Thank you for joining us for episode 410 of Live Happy Now.

Is it just my imagination or is the world getting happier?

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm sitting down with Live Happy co-founder and CEO, Deborah Heise, to talk about how we're doing when it comes to happiness.

Every year on the International Day of Happiness, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network

releases its World Happiness Report.

Deb's here to talk with me about some of her takeaways from this year's report and why it

appears that our happiness is improving.

Let's have a listen. Deb, thank you for

taking time from Down Under. See, come on and talk to me about the World Happiness Report.

I am actually excited to be able to do this. You know, this comes out every year on the

International Day of Happiness. And I had a weird experience this year, Paula. I love this.

I got on an airplane. I got an airplane on the 19th of March. And I got off the airplane on the 21st of March because of, you know, the time zone changes. So I actually missed the entire internationally of happiness because I was on a flight to Australia this year. So this is my way of celebrating. Yeah, because we were talking about that. I was in

Dallas with the rest of the live happy team and we were talking about the irony of Deb Hyes

missing the day of happiness, not just not being able to participate. I mean, completely

missing that day. That's right. I had no International Day of Happiness. So talking to you today

about the World Happiness report is my way of celebrating the International Day of Happiness.

I'm super excited about it.

This report, we really waited for it every year.

It's something that I guess we're a little bit of happiness geeks.

And it's very exciting to us to be able to sit down, see what's going on.

And this year's report, you know, it's the 11th year of the report.

And it's really showing that even though we had some really tough years, the last three years have

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