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Chasing Happiness

by Crystal Steers

An honest podcast about finding happiness, what it really means and the process of getting there. This podcast will focus on conversations with people from around the world who explain what happiness is to them, how they found it (or are working on finding it in life) and what lessons they've learned along the way.We can all learn from each others life stories, struggles and triumphs. We live in this amazingly diverse world where life, culture and daily life varies day to day. By hearing from people who come from different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles we will explore how we are all simply looking to live a life full of joy and purpose every day.

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Episodes

  1. Taking The Next Six Months Off

    This is probably one of the hardest podcasts that I have ever had to post. The podcast is going to take the next six months off, as I take the next six months off from my business and everything that I have created with Chasing Happiness. I will explain this a little bit better in the blog post…

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  2. Replay - In Honour of being at Walt Disney World this week - A Conversation with Lou Mongello from WDW Radio

    This week will start some of the replay episodes that I will be playing from the last seven years. We have had a lot of great guest, and a lot of wonderful conversations over the last seven years as this podcast has grown. I thought you would start our replay episodes in honour of Walt Disney...

  3. Women's Health & Starting A Business In A Pandemic, A Conversation with Jackie From Ovry

    Starting a business can be terrifying, starting one in the middle of a pandemic even more so. Add to that, creating a business for women by women and you may just think "what was I thinking" but thankfully for us the ladies who started Ovry were willing to take the risk. Ovry is a business…

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  4. It's been a crazy year

    Sometimes we all need the reminder that taking a step back, and taking time away is needed. We should not feel bad or guilty about it.

  5. Life Lessons - A Conversation With Author Theresa Contaxis

    What do you do when you feel lost? How do we find our purpose when we feel like we have none? Can learning bring you joy? What happens in your life if you open yourself up to the possibility of creating something a little different for your life? This week on the podcast, I chat with the author...

  6. March 2023 Update

    An update to let you know where things are sitting with the podcast and happy spring loves

  7. Replay Episode : Design a life you love - A conversation with Krystal Holm -Top 5 Episodes of 2022

    Do you love your space? What about the life you're building? How do we make the changes to our spaces to declutter & make those spaces we call home feel like home to us? With how our lives have changed over the last couple of years the life we are creating and the spaces we are doing that in are...

  8. Replay Episode: How do we live our life well ? A conversation with Dr Kevin Payne - Top 5 episodes of 2022

    How do we live our lives well when we often face things out of our control? Sometimes things that are related to our health hit us with the unexpected bad news that we left to cope with without a guidebook to help us through it all. This week I chat with Dr. Kevin Payne about all of this and…

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  9. Replay Episode: Finding Calm In The Chaos: A Conversation With Jane Kleiman - Top 5 Episodes of 2022

    How do you navigate challenges in life? Jane shares with me how Yoga helped her throughout her life to do just that. She talks about what inspired her to create her business The Calm Within The Chaos (https://www.thecalmwithinthechaos.com) She shares her personal lessons through her journey of...

  10. Replay Episode: Healthy Love A Conversation With Stephanie Martin - Top 5 episodes of 2022

    Do you have a healthy relationship with yourself? Are you in a toxic relationship? How would you even know? This week on the podcast I chat with Stephanie Martin about how we can have healthy relationships with others but also with ourselves. She shares how her personal journey out of a toxic...

  11. Replay Episode : Healing Our Bodies A Conversation With Beth Manning - Top 5 episodes of 2022

    Our bodies communicate daily; how often do you stop listening to what yours tells you? This week I'm replaying a chat with Beth Manning, A Master Psychic Healer and Medical Intuitive, about how we can all become more aware of how our bodies speak to us. We chat about why this matters when we live...

  12. Mental Health Uncensored A Conversation With Keri Cooper

    Are you talking more to the people in your life about your mental health? Are you talking more to your children about their mental health? Are you worried about what mental health looks like after Covid? Are you concerned about how your children or yourself processed the last few years as we went...

  13. Post Birthday Update

    Changes are coming to the podcast this year. We have one more new episode before our 2022 year-end review and replay

  14. Happiness Is Hard (the science proves it), with Katie Jefcoat

    What is Happiness? Why is it so dang hard to "Just be happy" ? This week on the podcast I chat with Podcast host Katie Jefcoat about the science of happiness and why we should even care about that research. We talk about Katies Podcast (link below) and why she has created a life around learning...

  15. Christmas Storm and Changed Plans

    For most of us who live on the East Coast this year, Christmas looked a little different. With what they called the storm of the century, thousands of people got snowed in, got stranded away from their family, and had a Christmas that looked very different than what they had expected. No matter…

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  16. Anxiety is on the rise - A conversation with Dr. Caroline Buzanko

    With anxiety on the rise and the holiday season upon us, this week is the perfect time for us to have a conversation about anxiety. About stress and how to manage it with a Doctor who does the research and knows what will make a difference. Let's face it, with the last couple of years being as...

  17. Holiday Stress

    With the holidays fast approaching, it is that time of year again for most of us to feel overworked, overstressed, and maybe even slightly underappreciated. So this holiday season, give yourself a break and take a couple of minutes a day to remind yourself it's okay to feel however you feel at…

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  18. Moving Update

    Just an update this week to let you all know I made it back across the country again. Moving is stressful and can be a lot of chaos and doing it in the winter around the holidays is just added stress so if you are like me at all, make sure you get a good support system to help you.

  19. Grief - How We Process It & Why We Need To Talk About It - A Conversation With Silke Herwald

    Grief is a subject many shy away from. We now live in a society where we only experience grief and death when it's personal to us. We no longer experience these things as a community and support each other as a community. This week on the podcast I'm chatting with Silke Herwald about how this...

  20. Chasing Happiness Updates

    This weeks podcast is just a quick update while I pack a U-Haul and move my life back across the country once again. Happy holidays everyone.

  21. Travel Teaches You How To Change, Grow and Challenge Yourself. A Conversation With April Bielefeldt

    Travel has a way of opening us all up to new ideas, new cultures and new versions of ourselves. Those are just a few of the reasons why April Bielefeldt decided to create a life that involved travel. As a travel expert, travel photographer and woman on a mission to help teach people creative ways...

  22. Loss Forces Us To Rediscover Who We Are - A Conversation With Carol Banens

    Sometimes our lives lead us down a path we never intended to end up on. This is exactly what happened to Carol as she helped an aging mother, tried to balance raising her family and had to deal with the loss of the love of her life. As you can imagine, this changed her profoundly, and this week…

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  23. World Mental Health Day and Thanksgiving

    This holiday weekend can be hard for some, it's a great reminder that doing what you need fo your mental health is super important. We all deserve to have the space, time and processes we need in order to care for ourselves the way we care for others too Grateful to all of you today and sending…

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  24. Sharing Your Story Can Help You Feel Less Alone : A Conversation With Chelsea Zeferina

    Have you ever thought you were going through life alone? Have you ever struggled thinking no one else has ever been in this position before? Has it felt like for the last two years, you've been living a life that doesn't feel like it makes sense anymore? This week on the podcast I talk with...

  25. How Do We Build Better Relationships? A Conversation With My Jay

    Does understanding yourself better help you to understand others? Can you set boundaries and stick to them in your relationships? This week on the podcast, I chat with Mr. Jay, a relationship coach who explains why we all may have problems setting healthy boundaries and how we can get better at...

  26. Healing our bodies and our trauma, A Conversation With Beth Manning

    Our bodies communicate daily; how often do you stop listening to what yours tells you? This week I chat with Beth Manning, A Master Psychic Healer and Medical Intuitive, about how we can all become more aware of how our bodies speak to us. We chat about why this matters when we live in a society...

  27. Gut Health and Happiness, A Conversation With Donna Monthei

    Research is starting to show that our gut health plays a large role in our overall health, mental health and happiness. This week on the podcast, I chat with Gut Health Expert and Nutritionist Donna Monthei about why our gut health matters and why so many of us may need to take a look at what our...

  28. Podcast Update

    Podcasts have been hit or miss because of technical issues this last couple of weeks, but we are back and weekly episodes will go up every Monday going forward again.

  29. Healthy Love, A Conversation With Stephanie Martin

    Do you have a healthy relationship with yourself? Are you in a toxic relationship? How would you even know? This week on the podcast I chat with Stephanie Martin about how we can have healthy relationships with others but also with ourselves. She shares how her personal journey out of a toxic...

  30. Giving A Damn with Mark Lewis

    How do we change the world around us to be kinder? We start by changing ourselves. We start by showing those around us an example of what we want the world to be. This is why it is so important for us all to give a damn about the world and not just our personal world. This week on the podcast…

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  31. Mind and Body Health, a conversation with Stephanie Shaw

    Health isn't one-sided. There are so many complex things that go into overall health from hormone levels to the food we eat and the things we drink, it can be overwhelming. So this week on podcast I talk to Stephanie Shaw, Certified nutrition strategist about this. Stephanie chats with me about…

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  32. Design A Life You Love - A Conversation With Krystal Holm

    Do you love your space? What about the life you're building? How do we make the changes to our spaces to declutter & make those spaces we call home feel like home to us? With how our lives have changed over the last couple of years the life we are creating and the spaces we are doing that in are...

  33. Update On Podcast

    A quick update on what is happening with the podcast as I take some personal time.

  34. How do we live our life well ? A conversation with Dr Kevin Payne

    How do we live our lives well when we often face things out of our control? Sometimes things that are related to our health hit us with the unexpected bad news that we left to cope with without a guidebook to help us through it all. This week I chat with Dr. Kevin Payne about all of this and…

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  35. Overcoming Burnout with Puja Aggarwal

    Burnout is everywhere and these days is experienced by almost everyone so how do we overcome that when we live in a world that always wants us to be doing more? I chat with Puja about exactly that. As a Neurologist who coaches women on burnout, she has a lot of great advice for us on how to…

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  36. Reclaiming What You Want In Life With Sandra Daniele

    Do you ever asked yourself "What should my life look like?" This week on the podcast I'm joined by Sandra from Wish on Wildflowers, she shares her experience with her "is this it?" moment and how she changed her life because of it. She's now on a mission to help other women do the same and she...

  37. Living Vicariously Through Yourself with Angela Marshall

    Life can be a struggle for everyone, even those who you think have perfect lives. This week Angela shares why she found it therapeutic to write her story. She shares why she decided ultimately to share that story with the world and chats with me about how other people's expectations of the…

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  38. Being A Full Time Caregiver with Melissa Miller

    Sometimes in life we are thrown a curveball. That's exactly what happened to Melissa. Just as her and her husband were starting their family they discovered he had a chronic illness. This week on the podcast Melissa shares with me what that process looked like for her and her family. How she has...

  39. Now What Moments with Cassandra Rosa

    Have you ever woken up and thought "Now what do I do with my life?" or been given some news that changed your whole life plan and you were forced to figure out what to do next? This week on the podcast I'm joined by Cassandra Rosa to chat about this. About how her 'Now What' moment led her to a...

  40. How Do You Find Inspiration With Ben Levin

    Ben has been in love with stories ever since he was a little boy and has written many throughout his life. So many in fact that I can't list them all here so check out his website to see them (link below). Ben joins me this week to chat about where he finds his inspiration as a young author. Ben…

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  41. Taking Control Of Your Health With Vernon P. Davis Jr

    What do you do when you're suddenly hit with medical news that changes your whole life? This week on the podcast Vernon shares with me how finding out he had Type 2 diabetes changed his life. We chat about what that means to someone's overall health and why he decided to not take the medications...

  42. Finding and Following Your Passion With Denise Wester

    We all have a purpose here in this life, but how do we find it? This week I chat with Denise Wester about how we can all get more curious in life and how that leads to finding our purpose and our passion. She shares why she believes that journaling is such a powerful tool for all of us and how…

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  43. Building Trust Within Yourself With Katherine Loranger

    This week on the podcast I'm joined by Katherine from Katalyst Coaching and we chat about how building trust within ourselves as women is such an important part of our personal growth. She shares how building that trust in our intuition is like any other exercise, it's something we need to keep...

  44. Empowering Women Through Boudoir With Kristen Nicole

    As a woman seeing yourself as beautiful, sexy or even desirable can be difficult in today's world. Today on the podcast I'm joined by Kristen Nicole and we chat about how she is using Boudoir Photography to help women see themselves in a new light. She explains how Boudoir isn't just sexy photos,...

  45. From Pain to Purpose with Amla Mehta

    Finding out at 16 that you will lose your sight to a genetic disorder is not easy. Learning to cope and deal with that as you grow up isn't easy either. Today on the podcast Amla Mehta shares with us how she has turned her pain into purpose and now speaks out about Self-Love, the importance of...

  46. Women Need To Talk About Finances with Liz Sowers

    Do you know your net worth? Can you tell me what you have in savings and investments? Financial literacy is something women haven't typically been allowed to be curious about but Liz Sowers is helping to change that. She joins me today to chat about how we as women can educate ourselves in baby...

  47. Finding Confidence With Martha Mok

    Women struggle with self confidence and self-worth. Martha is on a mission to help women reach their full potentail and embrace their confidence. She chats with me about why she believes that every failure in life is a learning opportunity. She shares why asking others for help when we need it is...

  48. Asking Yourself About Your Why With Telma Sanchez

    How do you survive as a parent if you're always operating in survival mode? How does your perspective on life change when you become a parent? Telma sits down to talk with me about this and why she feels that as busy working parents are overwhelmed, it's extremely important for them to start…

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  49. Welcome to Spring, Bonus Episodes This Week

    This week I will do one episode a day to celebrate spring, next week we will go back to one episode every Monday. Happy Spring y'all <3

  50. How Do We Define Happiness, A Conversation With Daniela Wolfe

    Daniela Wolfe is a Social Worker with more than 26 years of experience working with individuals on self-care, stress management and mindfulness. She joins me this week to chat about how we all view happiness and how filling our lives with options can actually lead to more happiness. She shares a...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

An honest podcast about finding happiness, what it really means and the process of getting there. This podcast will focus on conversations with people from around the world who explain what happiness is to them, how they found it (or are working on finding it in life) and what lessons they've learned along the way.We can all learn from each others life stories, struggles and triumphs. We live in this amazingly diverse world where life, culture and daily life varies day to day. By hearing from people who come from different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles we will explore how we are all simply looking to live a life full of joy and purpose every day.

HOSTED BY

Crystal Steers

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An honest podcast about finding happiness, what it really means and the process of getting there. This podcast will focus on conversations with people from around the world who explain what happiness is to them, how they found it (or are working on finding it in life) and what lessons they've...

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Chasing Happiness publishes regularly with 214 episodes available. Check the episode list for the typical release schedule.

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Chasing Happiness is created and hosted by Crystal Steers.
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