Sarah Ockwell-Smith is a mother of four children, founder of the parenting website GentleParentingInternational.com and author of eight parenting books, including the upcoming release Gentle Discipline.

What you’ll learn in this podcast:

• How to effectively discipline your children for a peaceful, harmonious family life
• How to raise kids who will be emotionally intelligent, confident and independent
• How to control your temper and reduce yelling in the household

Mithu Storoni is an author, physician, and researcher. She qualified in Medicine from the University of Cambridge and trained in Ophthalmology before undertaking research at the National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery, London where she was a Clinical Research Fellow before relocating to Hong Kong.

What you’ll learn in this podcast:

• One behavior that can dramatically reduce the impact of a stressful moment
• Why you need a pleasure ‘piggy-bank’
• Why chronic stress is the price we pay for having a plastic brain

Dr. Partha Nandi is the creator and host of the medical lifestyle television show, Ask Dr. Nandi. Dr. Nandi is also the Chief Health Editor at WXYZ (ABC) Detroit, a practicing physician and a renowned international speaker. His new book Ask Dr. Nandi shares the 5 steps to becoming your own #HealthHero for longevity, well-being and a joyful life.

What you’ll learn in this podcast:

• What it means to be a health hero
• An introduction to his book Ask Dr. Nandi
• The 5 pillars to being a health hero

Elliot Berkman is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon and Director of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Lab. He studies the motivational and cognitive factors that contribute to success and failure at health goals such as cigarette smoking cessation and dieting. His work uses knowledge of brain function, structure, and connectivity to design and improve interventions on health behavior and wellbeing.

What you’ll learn in this podcast:

• Achieving goals is not as important to well-being as striving for them
• Why habits are hard to break and how you can create better habits
• How to overcome temptations to create lasting change

Each week, Live Happy presents #HappyFacts designed to enlighten, educate and entertain you. Here’s a look at what we’re talking about this week:

• People who get paid by the hour are happier by the minute.
• Most of the world is in a good mood.
• Next time you're not feeling well, maybe you need a playlist, not a prescription.

Dr. Tasha Eurich is an organizational psychologist, researcher, and New York Times bestselling author (Bankable Leadership). With a PhD in organizational psychology, she is also the founder of The Eurich Group, where she’s helped thousands of leaders and teams improve their effectiveness through greater self-awareness.

What you’ll learn in this podcast:

• How to make better career and life choices through a better understanding of your values, aspirations, strengths and weaknesses, and impact on others
• The anatomy of a self-aware leader
• How to deal with a boss, friend, in-law or sibling who completely lacks any self-awareness

Explore some of the fun facts that are shared in the October 2017 issue of Live Happy magazine.

What you'll learn in this episode:

• Lifelong learning makes you more optimistic and satisfied with life.
• It’s never too late to find purpose, even if you’ve retired.
• Your boss’ competence is the biggest predictor of your happiness on the job.

Lea Waters is an Australian positive psychology expert and educator who specializes in positive education, parenting and organizations. Her first book The Strength Switch: How the New Science of Strength-Based Parenting Can Help Your Child and Your Teen to Flourish shows how focusing on our children’s strengths rather than trying to correct their weaknesses may be the key in raising a resilient, optimistic and successful child.

What you’ll learn in this podcast:

• What is strength-based parenting and what are its benefits
• How to address your child’s weaknesses
• Two easy tips to implement strength-based parenting