5 Flavors of Happiness

Can photography actually rewire the way you see yourself?In this powerful episode of 5 Flavors of Happiness, Susan Pieper sits down with transformational photographer Gregory James Thelian to explore how negative self-talk, self-criticism, and low self-worth can be challenged through proof, psychology, and self-perception.Gregory shares how his three-day photography experience integrates principles from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), neuroscience, anchoring, and cognitive dissonance to help clients override their inner critic and rebuild confidence.This isn’t about looking beautiful.It’s about believing you are.Inside this conversation:Why we are our own worst criticsHow self-perception shapes identityThe psychology behind confidenceWhy proof beats negative self-talkHow to reframe limiting beliefsWhy self-love isn’t selfishThe deeper meaning behind the Dove Real Beauty SketchesIf you’ve ever struggled with comparison, self-doubt, or feeling “not enough,” this episode will challenge the narrative in your head — and offer a new one rooted in truth.Because when you change your perception of yourself, you change everything.Subscribe to 5 Flavors of Happiness for more conversations on personal growth, confidence, healing, intuition, and living in alignment with your soul.

Are you successful… but secretly unhappy?In this powerful episode of 5 Flavors of Happiness, former Hollywood stuntman and two-time world record holder Curtis Rivers shares how he walked away from a high-profile career to pursue alignment, purpose, and authentic happiness.If you’re feeling stuck in your job, considering a midlife career change, or questioning whether success equals fulfillment, this conversation will speak directly to you.We explore:• How to overcome fear when changing careers• The psychology of fear beyond fight-or-flight• How to reprogram your subconscious mind in 30 days• Why so many high achievers struggle with self-worth• Success driven by childhood conditioning• How to transition careers without quitting overnight• The mindset shift required to reinvent yourself• Where real happiness actually comes fromCurtis breaks down the “wobble zone” — the uncomfortable space between your old identity and your new path — and explains how daily action rewires your brain for lasting transformation.This episode is for entrepreneurs, professionals, creatives, and anyone navigating a career pivot, identity shift, or personal reinvention.If you’ve ever asked yourself, “Do I want 20 more years of this?” — this conversation is your starting point.

What if work-life balance isn’t the goal — and chasing it is actually making you more exhausted?In this deeply honest conversation, I sit down with Carol Enneking — former corporate vice president, leadership mentor, and author of The Rebalancing Act — to talk about burnout, ambition, health wake-up calls, divorce, surrender, and redefining what success really means.After decades inside high-performance corporate culture, Carol began noticing something few people admit out loud: the more successful people looked on the outside, the heavier they often felt on the inside.We talk about:Why work-life balance is constantly shiftingBurnout and stress signals you shouldn’t ignoreWomen, guilt, and the pressure to “do it all”The art of saying no without self-judgmentSocial media comparison and perfectionismDefining your five guiding valuesCreating a legacy you actually want to leaveFaith, surrender, and rebuilding after heartbreakCarol shares her personal journey through breast cancer, health struggles, divorce, and ultimately finding deeper joy and sustainable success — not by doing more, but by realigning with what truly matters.If you’re ambitious but exhausted… driven but questioning it all… this episode will meet you exactly where you are.Download Carol’s free Rebalancing Tools + Legacy Blueprint:https://bit.ly/m/rebalancingtoolsThis is a conversation about purpose, identity, resilience, and building a life that feels good on the inside — not just impressive on the outside.Welcome to 5 Flavors of Happiness.

Trauma healing, PTSD recovery, sexual assault survival, nervous system regulation, meditation for trauma, inner child healing, survivor’s guilt — this episode is for anyone ready to break the cycle and reclaim their life.In this deeply honest conversation on 5 Flavors of Happiness, Susan Pieper sits down with Tracy Smaldino, host of Trauma Rockstars, to explore what it truly means to move from trauma to transformation.Tracy shares her story of surviving a devastating childhood car accident, enduring sexual assault as a teenager, and spending decades suppressing unresolved trauma. She opens up about living in survival mode, shutting down her nervous system, making decisions from unhealed wounds, and what finally shifted when she began facing her past.This episode explores:• How trauma impacts the brain and nervous system• Signs you may be suppressing trauma without realizing it• Survivor’s guilt and long-term PTSD symptoms• Why high-functioning, busy lives can mask unprocessed trauma• The power of boundaries and how they shift your energy• Meditation, journaling, and mirror work for emotional healing• Self-forgiveness as a critical turning point• How healing trauma changes relationships and self-worthTracy also discusses alternative healing tools such as guided meditation, hypnotherapy, and MDMA-assisted therapy for trauma recovery — and how these experiences helped her reconnect with her authentic self.If you’ve ever felt stuck, numb, disconnected, people-pleasing, or unsure why certain patterns keep repeating in your life, this episode offers practical starting points for healing.Trauma is not a competition. Healing is not linear. And transformation is possible.Subscribe to 5 Flavors of Happiness for conversations on trauma recovery, resilience, personal growth, purpose, emotional healing, and becoming whole.

Intuition, self-trust, decision making, life purpose, personal growth — if you’ve ever questioned your inner voice, this episode is for you.What is intuition, really? Is it subconscious intelligence, emotional reaction, anxiety… or something deeper? In this episode of 5 Flavors of Happiness, Susan Pieper sits down with transformational coach Anna Quigley to explore the science of intuition, the psychology of self-trust, and how to make aligned decisions without feeling irrational or “woo-woo.”This grounded conversation blends neuroscience, mindset, and lived experience to help you understand how intuition works in the brain and body — and how to strengthen it.In this episode, we explore:• The neuroscience behind gut feelings and subconscious processing• How to tell intuition apart from fear or anxiety• “Thin slicing” and fast, accurate decision making• Purpose anxiety and why high-achievers often feel stuck• The difference between surrendering and giving up• How language and visualization rewire your brain• Practical tools to build confidence and self-trustIf you’re navigating a career transition, feeling disconnected from your purpose, or trying to make a big life decision, this episode offers grounded tools for clarity and aligned action.Intuition isn’t magic. It’s intelligence.Subscribe to 5 Flavors of Happiness for conversations on personal growth, purpose, identity, healing, leadership, and living well.

When I found today’s guest on LinkedIn, I thought I had written her post.Same name. Same drive. Same heart for helping people rise.In this episode of 5 Flavors of Happiness, I sit down with executive coach and founder Susan Pieper to talk about scaling a business without burnout, navigating fear, and the difference between success and fulfillment.After selling her company and facing a major life transition, Susan rebuilt with clarity — and now helps founders grow revenue without becoming the bottleneck in their own success.We talk fear, identity, high performance, boundaries, and why your best chapter may still be ahead of you.If you’re building something — inside or out — this conversation is for you.

What happens when the life you were born into no longer fits the person you’re becoming?In this powerful episode of 5 Flavors of Happiness, Susan Pieper sits down with Emily Adams, founder of Leading with Human Design, for a deeply honest conversation about leaving the Amish community, navigating religious trauma, and reclaiming self-trust, alignment, and joy.Emily shares her story of growing up in a closed, high-control religious environment — a world shaped by tradition, silence, and collective identity. After a devastating loss at a young age, she experienced what she describes as a survival moment — the realization that staying meant abandoning herself, and leaving meant stepping into the unknown.Together, Susan and Emily explore the hidden trauma inside closed religious communities, the gaslighting that often follows when someone chooses freedom, and the courage it takes to walk away from everything you’ve ever known. Emily opens up about rebuilding her life from the ground up — finding community, healing through the body, and eventually discovering Human Design as a tool for deconditioning, self-understanding, and aligned leadership.This conversation is for anyone who has ever questioned the roles they were born into, felt the quiet pull toward something more honest, or is learning to trust themselves again.✨ In this episode, we explore:Leaving the Amish community and being shunnedReligious trauma, control, and survivalCourage, self-trust, and spiritual awakeningHealing modalities, including EMDRHuman Design as a path to alignment and leadershipRedefining happiness from the inside out💛 5 Flavors of Happiness is a podcast exploring joy, healing, purpose, and meaningful living through real conversations with courageous humans.🔗 Learn more about Emily’s work at Leading with Human Design🎧 Subscribe for new episodes exploring what it means to live a meaningful, aligned life

Are your struggles random… or written in your birth chart?In this powerful episode of 5 Flavors of Happiness, Susan Pieper sits down with master astrologer, tarot reader, and Hermetic philosophy teacher Aleksandra Ceho to explore fate, free will, and the deeper spiritual architecture behind your life.Does astrology map your strengths and shadow patterns?Can tarot reveal what you’re avoiding?Are you living out karma — or creating your reality in real time?Together, they dive into:• Birth charts and personality patterns• Empathy without boundaries (and hidden resentment)• The 7 Hermetic Principles explained simply• Fate vs. free will in astrology and tarot• Why the world feels so polarized• A collective 3-card tarot reading for this moment• What true happiness actually meansThis is a conversation about self-awareness, spiritual responsibility, and stepping into alignment with who you really are.If you’ve ever wondered, “Is this part of my soul’s path?” — this episode is for you.Connect with Aleksandra:https://www.masterthestars.com/Subscribe to Healing & Personal Growth Conversations | 5 Flavors of Happiness for more transformative conversations.

What if the thing you need most right now isn’t another push — but a pause?In this deeply moving and soul-centered episode of 5 Flavors of Happiness, host Susan Pieper sits down with mental health leader, wellness coach, and pause practitioner Nicole Pertillar for a conversation that feels like a deep exhale.This episode explores what happens when women stop abandoning themselves in the name of hustle, productivity, and achievement — and begin living life with margins.Together, Susan and Nicole unpack:Why pausing is not quitting — it’s creating space to receive wisdomHow hustle culture disconnects us from purpose, joy, and identityWhy self-care isn’t a bubble bath — it’s the rhythm of the life you liveHow grief, burnout, and major life transitions require gentler leadershipWhat it really means to listen to your mind, body, and spiritWhy so many women feel successful — yet not happyHow slowing down helps you reconnect to the purpose that never left youNicole shares her powerful personal journey through caregiving, grief, burnout, and a life-altering “forced pause” — and how that moment reshaped her mission to help women, caregivers, and solopreneurs lead from wholeness instead of exhaustion.If you’re feeling:• quietly exhausted• disconnected from joy• unsure of your purpose• overwhelmed by hustle culture• or stretched thin from giving to everyone else— this conversation is for you.This is not a podcast about doing more.It’s about coming home to yourself.✨ Listen now and discover why pausing may be the most powerful thing you do this year.🔔 Follow 5 Flavors of Happiness for conversations on happiness, self-care, grief healing, purpose, mindfulness, and living well — without losing yourself.

Anxiety, stress, and overwhelm are common signs of nervous system dysregulation — but they’re also powerful signals. In this episode of 5 Flavors of Happiness, host Susan Pieper speaks with Lisa from Soul Design about anxiety symptoms, emotional regulation, intuition vs fear, mindfulness, mental health, and the mind-body connection. This conversation explores anxiety healing, burnout recovery, emotional awareness, and practical tools for stress management and self-growth.From there, the episode gently invites you to see anxiety differently — not as something broken or wrong, but as information. Susan and Lisa share compassionate insights on listening to your body, trusting your intuition, and responding to anxiety with curiosity, safety, and self-trust instead of resistance or shame.#anxiety #mentalhealth #nervoussystem #mindbodyconnection #emotionalhealing #stressmanagement #intuition #personaldevelopment #wellnesspodcast #selfgrowth

Can finding your brand help you find happiness? Listen in as Dima Ghawi, 3x TedX speaker, executive coach and award winning author of "Breaking Vases: Shattering Limitations & Daring to Thrive" and "The Wild Element: It is Time to Rise" shares her thoughts on the subject. #happy #podcast #findinghappiness #DimaGhawi #5FlavorsofHappiness #selfhelp

Listen in as Angela Haas, family law attorney, woodworker, and passionate advocate for families and social justice talks about creating a happier with respect. You'll be surprised by her themed family gatherings.

Listen in as author of "Born - Love - Die", "Living at the Summit" and "From Autopilot to Authentic" Dr. Brett Blair talks the science of happiness and provides actionable tips to help you flourish. Mentioned in the podcast: Dr. Martin Sellgman's PERMA+V Wellbeing theory and 5 Tools to Help You Find Courage, Creativity, and Willpower by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels.

Listen in as Allison Kirk talks finding happiness in solitude, freedom, coffee and cooking. Be sure to like and subscribe to hear more.

Listen in as 5 Flavors sat down with South African native Linda Brown. Hear how Linda finds intentional happiness in nature, dance and in the words of her father.

Listen in as 5 Flavors talks finding happiness in a stressful world. Here how Dot navigates social media, news, finances and more.

5 Flavors sat down with Kim Dorman, event planner, mother of 3, and all-around busy person, to talk about how she found happiness living with ADD.