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EPISODE · Oct 3, 2025 · 30 MIN

A Conversation with Tamar Hurwitz-Fleming, Author of How To Have a Happy Birthday

from Becoming Your Best Version · host Maria Leonard Olsen

Tamar Hurwitz-Fleming grew up experiencing happy birthdays, disappointing birthdays, and downright terrible birthdays until she turned twenty and realized making her birthday happy was entirely up to her. She wrote How To Have a Happy Birthday: Create Meaning, Fulfillment and Joy on Your Special Day to help people find deeper meaning and joy on their birthdays too. Tamar and her book have been featured on NPR for her "invitation to experience the transformative joy a birthday can provide." Tamar draws upon more than thirty years of observation and experience to provide an insightful exploration into why birthdays matter, why they can be hard for many of us, and what we can do to fully put ourselves in the center of our day.In this episode, we talk about why our birthday can be the most powerful day of the year, why celebrating our birthdays matter, why we sabotage our birthdays, how embracing our age helps us live better lives, how we can prepare for our birthdays, why we might buy ourselves a birthday gift, how we can support others in celebrating their days, how we can craft our birthday wish to maximize its manifesting potential, creating a birthday altar for yourself or another person and more. Tamar, who is also a painter, joined us from San Francisco.Learn more and follow Tamar at:https://howtohaveahappybirthday.comhttps://www.facebook.com/Author.Tamar/https://www.instagram.com/author.tamar/https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamar-hurwitz-fleming-a7885515/

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