
#1.51.REVIEW - How Smiling & Laughter uncovers your Happiness & Unhappiness
07/28/20 • 26 min
We’re taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I’ve been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-)
But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we’ll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness.
Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife!
You can:
Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS - Smiling & Laughing
We revisit Episode #1.8 which is the kick-off episode to the next 9 Insight coaching sessions focused around Smiling, Laughing and Self-Smizing.
Join me to explore how to use these topics to trigger your brain and expose those deeply held beliefs about your Happiness & Unhappiness. We also look into the relationship with yourself and how your Inner Critic shows up, especially when you do this coaching work!
This includes discovering more about the Duchenne Smile, Gelotology, the happiest poem ever, and what Emojis and the iconic Yellow Smiley Face have to do with your happiness!
- #1.8: Insight – What’s behind Smiley?
- #1.9: Emojis – your happiness at work?
- #1.10 - Smile Awhile
- #1.11: Insight – Laughter for work success
- #1.12 Self-Smizing Changes Everything (part 1)
- #1.13 Self-Smizing Changes Everything (part 2)
- #1.14 Q&A - Everything about Self-Smizing
- #1.15 - World Smile Day with coffee & Mad Hatters!
- #1.16 - Insight: Pay-It-Forward (1)
- All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE
- Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE
Find everything at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach
"May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!"
We’re taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I’ve been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-)
But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we’ll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness.
Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife!
You can:
Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS - Smiling & Laughing
We revisit Episode #1.8 which is the kick-off episode to the next 9 Insight coaching sessions focused around Smiling, Laughing and Self-Smizing.
Join me to explore how to use these topics to trigger your brain and expose those deeply held beliefs about your Happiness & Unhappiness. We also look into the relationship with yourself and how your Inner Critic shows up, especially when you do this coaching work!
This includes discovering more about the Duchenne Smile, Gelotology, the happiest poem ever, and what Emojis and the iconic Yellow Smiley Face have to do with your happiness!
- #1.8: Insight – What’s behind Smiley?
- #1.9: Emojis – your happiness at work?
- #1.10 - Smile Awhile
- #1.11: Insight – Laughter for work success
- #1.12 Self-Smizing Changes Everything (part 1)
- #1.13 Self-Smizing Changes Everything (part 2)
- #1.14 Q&A - Everything about Self-Smizing
- #1.15 - World Smile Day with coffee & Mad Hatters!
- #1.16 - Insight: Pay-It-Forward (1)
- All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE
- Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE
Find everything at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach
"May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!"
Previous Episode

#1.50.REVIEW - Everything about Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness
We’re taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I’ve been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-)
But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we’ll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness.
Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife!
You can:
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Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS - Core Coaching episodes
We revisit Episode #1.7 which is a wrap up of the CORE COACHING episodes #1.1 - #1.6.
Listen to these to get the most out of Defining, Assessing & Visioning your happiness coaching journey.
These are your go-to episodes if you want an overview of what we’ve been doing over the last year – if you want a refresher or if you’re new and you want a quick catch up. I walk you through the basics of Defining - Assessing - Visioning your Happiness in these 6 episodes - here you can create your own Happiness Coaching Journey. There’s lots of coaching, wisdom & fun in these early sessions - I even subject you to my singing... we spend time with The Dalai Lama, Dr Tal Ben-Shahar, Harry Potter and Odysseus not to mention Hello Kitty, Dug the Talking Dog & Coke-a-Cola!
- #0 – Welcome to the very first Happiness-Matters podcast!
- #1.1 How happy are you really?
- #1.1.Q&A How Happy are you at work, really?
- #1.2 Your happiness “snakes-and-ladders” journey!
- #1.2.Q&A Your Snakes & Ladders Journey
- #1.3 Where do you want to be 10/10
- #1.3. Q&A - Where do you want to be? 10/10
- #1.4 Going Deeper into your 10/10 Happiness
- #1.4.Q&A Going deeper into your 10/10 Happiness
- #1.5 – What’s stopping your Happiness & Success at work?
- #1.5.Q&A What's Stopping your Happiness?
- #1.6 – What’s the toughest thing for you?
- #1.6Q&A What's the Toughest Thing for you?
- #1.7 – Series 1 Coaching – it’s a wrap!
All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE.
Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE.
"May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!"
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#1.52.REVIEW – Using your Negative Emotions to create Happiness
Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1
- ALL episodes, show notes, free tools, subscriptions,etc:
We’re taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I’ve been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-)
But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we’ll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness.
Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife!
You can:
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Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS – Using your Negative Emotions to create Happiness
This mini-coaching journey of 17 episodes addresses how Unhappiness shows up in your life and gives you ideas of how you can choose to use it to fuel your growth, evolve yourself and expand how you define and vision your future Happiness.
I look at the Balance of Emotions, Emotional Intelligence, Buffering, Anti-Fragility, Resilience and Evolution. I offer you a simple yet powerful way to start Allowing your Feelings: the actual process of FEELING and processing your negative emotions.
This is a wonderful coaching skill that you can practice over and over again through these months of the Covid-19 Pandemic - there are so many opportunities to do AND this is such a core skill in your self-coaching toolkit - there really is no better time!
To along with these episodes, download:
Along the way, we’ll spend time with Dr Seuss, Carl Jung, David Wyhte, Stephen Hawking, Thomas Moore and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross – not to mention: pandas, Charon the River Guide, Wally/Waldo, Guy Fawkes and Cowardly Lion!
These are sessions rich with insights and some of my best coaching tools that I trust will help you along the journey of How to FEEL better.
- #1.17 – Unhappy is the story of Happy
- #1.18 – Unhappy, what to do about it?
- #1.19 – Coaching your Unhappiness
- #1.20 – Negative Emotions & Emotional Intelligence
- #1.21 – Emotional Immaturity & your Happiness Wisdom
- #1.22 – Happiness is 50:50, always!
- #1.23 – Are you Buffering your happiness away?
- #1.24 – Are you Anti-fragile? Courageous?
- #1.25 – Your next step, Evolution!
- #1.26 – How to FEEL better now!
- #1.26.Q&A – How to FEEL better now!
- #1.27 – Coach Yourself on Fun at Work Day!
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