How to Tap Into Your Happiness Again: One Woman's Move from Corporate Burnout To A Worldwide Movement

What if feeling happy again wasn’t about a major life overhaul but instead about paying attention to what’s already there? This week, I sit down with Brielle Neumann, founder of Smile Stories: The Movement, an award-winning social impact brand built on one surprisingly powerful question: What made you smile today? What started as a Post-It wall in a corporate job that didn’t fit, has grown into school programs, public installations at Penn Station and Union Square in NYC, and a kindness movement reaching people worldwide. In this honest conversation, Brielle and I dig into what it actually costs to stay in a life that looks fine on the outside, what it takes to build something real from scratch with no blueprint and no backup plan, and why reclaiming your happiness isn’t a luxury. It’s the foundation everything else gets built on. In this episode: Why smiling is free, science-backed, and wildly underused by adults! What Brielle walked away from to build this, and what it actually felt like in real time The honest hard part that the Instagram version never shows Why happiness and confidence are more connected than most people realize The one question that might tell you more about yourself than a year of therapy If you’ve been going through the motions and wondering when you get to feel like yourself again; this one’s for you! CONNECT WITH BRIELLE 📲 Instagram: @smilestories.themovement 🌐 Website: www.smilestoriesthemovement.com   Ready to get The Reclaim Blueprint™ ; The free framework to help you rebuild confidence and clarity, starting exactly where you are? 📲 DM RECLAIM to @thedishwithdeb on Instagram 📍 Instagram: @thedishwithdeb   Between the Laugh Lines is the podcast for women who are done feeling invisible and ready for honest conversations about beauty, confidence, and who they actually are right now. Hosted by Deb, a CPA who carried personal debt, a beauty obsessive who did the research, and a sandwich generation survivor building something real in the throes of a very full life. No hustle culture. No toxic positivity. Just truth, delivered warm.  Follow the show on Podbean | Apple Podcasts | Spotify