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How to be Happy

by Kate de Brito

Looking to bring more happiness into your life ? Join our podcast How to be Happy where host Kate de Brito talks to experts, celebrities and ordinary people about their secrets for a happy life. We uncover the tips, tricks and innate wisdom of happy people on how to live well. Positive, helpful and affirming, this is the advice for life we have been seeking.

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Episodes

  1. How To Find Happiness And Flourish At Work - Even If You Don’t Like Your Job.

    Ashish Kothari is the author of the book Hardwired for Happiness and founder and CEO of The Happiness Squad a company that helps businesses and individuals to flourish. He’s an inspiring guest who transformed his own life prior to writing his book and has first-hand experience and advice on how…

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  2. How you can train your subconscious to get what you want in life.

    Alistair Horscroft is a philosopher, hypnotherapist and hypnotherapy trainer who teaches clients how to master their emotions and work through traumas using hypnotherapy. He is founder of the Mind Academy which provides courses and programs to learn and earn qualifications in coaching, NLP and...

  3. The Secrets To Leading A More Authentic Life

    Jo Wagstaff had it all. Or so she thought. At 32 she was an executive at a leading wealth management company. She had the career, the fancy car, a beautiful home, husband and baby. Until it all began to unravel. That year her marriage ended and her dad died of cancer. To numb the grief Jo worked...

  4. Don’t worry - you’re normal! Why we think the way we do.

    Have you ever felt like you are the only person thinking or feeling a certain way? Dr Jen Martin has researched and compiled an amazing list of questions and answers about how we tick that will show you that you’re definitely not alone. Everything from why we have a fear of missing out, to why...

  5. Reconnecting With Your Inner Wisdom

    Megan Lewis is a Walkley award winning photographer who also has a special gift. She is an energetic healer, an ability she first discovered in her teens. She now works with people doing Subconscious Mind Healing as well as continuing her work as a documentary photographer. She is a beautiful...

  6. Living A Happy Life Without Harming Others

    Pam Ahern lives each day in tune with true happiness. She is the founder of Edgar’s Mission, a farm animal sanctuary in Victoria where she - and others - care for abandoned animals and animals rescued from factory farming. A loving advocate for the rights of animals, Pam approaches the subject...

  7. Jelena Dokic: Becoming Fearless

    Jelena Dokic is an extraordinary and inspiring woman. A former tennis international who achieved a top ranking of number 4 in the world, she has also had a personal and professional life beset by challenges. Throughout her childhood and teenage years she was abused physically and mentally by her...

  8. How To Manifest The Life Of Your Dreams

    Trinette Faint has done it all. She’s worked as a model and an actress, and at one stage was a personal assistant to Matt Damon. She has run her own online beauty company, has written two books and she is also a podcaster back in Boston where she lives with her dog Avery. But despite all her...

  9. How to Stay Mentally Fit In A Hectic World

    Ep 17: Belinda Elworthy is the CEO of Gotcha4Life a charity founded by radio and TV personality Gus Worland after the tragic death of a dear friend from suicide. It started as a charity to help men talk about their mental struggles but it’s evolved into a service supporting all people now. On the...

  10. Getting Out From Under The Mental Load

    Robyn Miller is a life saver for many women who find themselves overwhelmed by the responsibilities of running a household, especially after having children. A pediatrician as well as a wife and mother, Robyn created the Mental Load Project to help women more fairly divide household...

  11. Life’s An Adventure. Don’t Be Afraid To Take A Risk!

    Hannah Stenning has spent the last year travelling around Australia in a campervan with her husband and five-year-old twins. Along the way she’s met a few snakes and emus and learned how to be resourceful with whatever food is available. But she’s also had a magical year learning how to be more...

  12. Finding Your Tribe and Loving Them Hard

    Danika Johnston is a powerhouse, as well as one of the loveliest women you will meet. She has had a successful career in the media, working with companies such as Channel 10, Mamamia and Tiktok. She is now chief commercial officer at WeAre8 - a global social media app that puts people and planet...

  13. The Art of Changing Minds

    Michael McQueen is a modern-day fortune teller. He’s a social researcher and trends forecaster - which means he’s usually one step ahead of the rest of us. He’s also a master at understanding how people make decisions, why they get stuck in certain mindsets and how you can learn specific tools to...

  14. PREPARING FOR AND DEALING WITH LOSS

    Dr Rob Battisti has a hard job, but he makes it look easy. He is the Senior Clinical Psychologist at the Cancer Centre for Children at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead where he works with young cancer patients and their families. He is also the Clinical Director at Mind Plasticity, a...

  15. How to spot (and avoid) life’s psychopaths

    They walk among us, yet they are not like the rest of us. In a slightly unsettling chat, successful author David Gillespie talks about toxic people, including that most toxic of all, the psychopath. Far from being the stuff of fiction and movies, they are seemingly ordinary people who are missing...

  16. How changing your thinking can change your life

    David Robson is a UK-based science journalist who has written a fascinating book The Expectation Effect that proves what we expect to happen very often does. David explains all the scientific research that shows how changing your beliefs about something can improve almost any outcome, from…

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  17. The Creative Process with Amanda Betts

    Amanda Betts is a successful fiction writer - she’s just published her sixth young adult novel, One Song. And she is also an inspiring teacher of creativity. Working alongside young people in hospitals, Amanda has seen first-hand the transformative benefit of creativity. She believes people are...

  18. The park bench epiphany that led to a life transformation

    Gregory Smith has led an extraordinary life. But not always a happy one. After years of alcoholism, drug abuse and homelessness, he had an epiphany that led to a remarkable transformation. From that moment, he never again touched alcohol, drugs or tobacco. He went back to school and is now a...

  19. Ancient Wisdom For a Happier Modern Life

    Paul Callaghan is an Aboriginal man from the land of the Worimi people near Newcastle on the NSW coast who has a great passion for storytelling. At 35 – when life looked about as successful as it could get - he suffered a nervous breakdown. He describes it as the best thing that ever happened to...

  20. How to be a Happy Man

    Dr Kieran Kennedy is a doctor specialising in psychiatry who has always had a passion for men’s health. Although he has traditional medical credentials, he is a firm advocate of basic wellbeing and its effect on the mind and body. He has just written a book called The Manual with former Men’s...

  21. What’s Really Going on Inside Your Head

    Lynne Malcolm knows her way around the brain, or rather, how the brain works. Over the course of a decade conducting interviews for ABC radio show, All in the Mind, Lynne has gleaned many insights into living a good life. Now she has written a book presenting some of the extraordinary facts and...

  22. The Gulf Between Being a Parent and a Happy life - and How to Bridge It

    Justin Couslon is a parenting expert extraordinaire. He has six daughters and hosts the hit Ch 9 TV show Parental Guidance. Justin has a raft of strategies and tips on how to raise kids and says being happier as a parent is also the key to raising happy kids. In this podcast he takes us under the...

  23. Setting Good Habits to Get You Through the Best and Worst of Times

    Amanda Hodgson is a healthy habits coach living in Sydney who teaches her clients how to form habits to achieve goals and create a happy mindset. But when her fit, healthy husband was struck down by a life-threatening condition at the end of 2020 Amanda was put to the test herself. The next two...

  24. What Your Clutter Says About You

    Peter Walsh is a personal organiser and life designer with a successful business in the US and Australia. In Australia you will have seen him on shows like the Living Room and Space Invaders. He also appeared on five seasons of Oprah. For Peter, decluttering isn’t about finding a new storage...

  25. The Power of Positive Thinking

    Lisa Messenger is an entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker. She runs the successful multimedia business, the Collective Hub, and is well-known for her contagious positive outlook on life. But she hasn’t always been so positive. She has dealt with periods of depression and also quietly...

  26. Uncovering the real you

    We speak to author and social researcher Hugh Mackay about his new book Inner Self. The experienced social researcher and psychologist talks about the many ways we hide from ourselves and how we can live more authentically and ultimately find a more fulfilling life by being who we are meant to…

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  27. The magic of mindfulness

    Health journalist Shannon Harvey went on a 12 month journey to discover whether mindfulness and meditation could make a difference to her life. The results are fascinating. Part science and part personal memoir Shannon’s podcast session takes the readers on a journey to understand how this…

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  28. Gratitude is the gravy that makes everything taste better.

    Television host Jessica Rowe is a model of how to approach life with enthusiasm and joy. On the podcast Jess talks about how she approaches life’s ups and downs with a positive attitude and thinks finding gratitude for the small things that are going well in your life makes all the difference...

  29. Money won’t buy happiness

    Fashion designer Alannah Hill has had a full life - from a difficult childhood to international success as a fashion designer. Along the way she has cultivated her own self-care routine for dealing with difficult times. She talks about designer handbags and how even though they are lovely,...

  30. The secret to motivation

    James Smith is the world’s fastest-growing online personal trainer. He has an army of devoted instagram and Facebook followers who come to him for advice on motivation, health and fitness, all through a non-toxic and honest lens. James talks about how he gets motivated to make big changes and the...

  31. Creating your own destiny

    In our first episode of How To Be Happy we talk to best-selling author, motivational speaker and athlete Turia Pitt about overcoming adversity. It’s only nine years since Turia - the author of the recently released book Happiness and Other Ridiculous Aspirations - received burns to 65 percent of...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Looking to bring more happiness into your life ? Join our podcast How to be Happy where host Kate de Brito talks to experts, celebrities and ordinary people about their secrets for a happy life. We uncover the tips, tricks and innate wisdom of happy people on how to live well. Positive, helpful and affirming, this is the advice for life we have been seeking.

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