More Happy Life with Andy Proctor
by Andy Proctor
Add more life to your days and more days to your life by applying science-backed inspiration and research from Andy Proctor, a well-being expert and PhD candidate studying the science of human connection. A podcast seen on New York Times, ABC News and Fox Business. Listen to interviews with New York Times bestselling authors, top researchers, Olympians, TED speakers, influencers and well-being thought leaders. Follow on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/morehappylife/ and join our thriving community at MoreHappyLife.co.
Episodes
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157: Choosing to See the Good Through Cancer and Beyond with Dolphin Trainer & TEDx Speaker, Joy Soto
Joy Clausen Soto is the founder of the annual Dolphin Interaction Program for patients from Rady Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. She is a dolphin trainer, cancer survivor, TEDx speaker, and the director and subject of the documentary “Just One Year –A story of triumph…
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156: Heal Your Body and Mind with Dr. Melina Roberts
Dr. Melina Roberts is a Naturopathic Doctor, Author of Building a Healthy Child, TEDx speaker and Founder of Advanced Naturopathic Medical Centre in Calgary, Canada. She is recognized as one of the top Bioregulatory Medicine practitioners in North America. She is a leading authority in the field…
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155: Social Connection Can Improve Mental Health with Dr. Julie Radlauer-Doerfler
Dr. Radlauer-Doerfler is a leading expert in social connection and social support and uses her experience to create impact within communities, systems, organizations, and individuals. Her approach is collaborative, creative, and curious as she strives to educate utilizing unique avenues including...
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154: Conquering The 5 Messages of Smallness with Dena Patton
Dena Patton is an elite business coach and transformational speaker who has worked with thousands of purpose-driven business owners and world-changing leaders around the globe. She helps her clients to build GREAT companies that break records in their revenue AND their impact. She founded Dena...
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153: Science Behind Good (And Bad) Relationships with Bestselling Author, Eric Barker: Plays Well With Others
Eric Barker is the author of The Wall Street Journal bestseller “Barking Up the Wrong Tree,” which has sold over half a million copies and been translated into 19 languages. It was even the subject of a question on “Jeopardy!” Over 500,000 people have subscribed to his weekly newsletter. His work...
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152: Rewire Your Brain for Self-Love with Jonathan Troen
Jonathan Troen is a Life Mastery Coach and creator of the Self Love Revolution. His mission: To help people find the joy inside of themselves. Jonathan spent 20 years in the music and entertainment business, living the life of his dreams and interviewing the biggest stars in the world. But he…
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151: Perfectionism is the Enemy with @AboutProgress Founder Monica Packer
Monica Packer is passionate about teaching practical transformation. As a podcaster, growth coach, and podcast educator, she guides women to find sustainable growth by adopting progress over perfection. Monica is a former middle school teacher, a forever Oprah and Harry Potter fangirl, a…
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150: Productive and Present with Monk Manual Founder: Steven Lawson
Steven Lawson is the founder and creator of the Monk Manual, a daily system for peaceful being and purposeful doing. After searching high and low for a formula that resulted in fuller living, he found it amongst the ancient path of the monks. Steven lives in Buffalo, NY with his wife and three…
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149: Natural Anti-Depressant "Prescriptions" with Dr. Susan Heitler
Disclaimer: do not change your medications without first consulting with your doctor or health care provider. This can be very dangerous. Please listen to this episode with an open mind, but with the knowledge that one must be careful when changing their medication routine for mental illnesses....
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148: The Science of Bliss in Your Brain with Dr. Dawson Church, PhD
Dawson Church, PhD, is an award-winning science writer with three best-selling books to his credit. The Genie in Your Genes (YourGeniusGene.com) was the first book to demonstrate that emotions drive gene expression. Mind to Matter, (MindToMatter.com) showed that the brain creates much of what we...
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147: Secrets to a More Happy Life - Compilation Episode (12 Guest Soundbites)
This is a special episode where I clip some of the most meaningful soundbites from 12 episodes from the last few years of this podcast. The amazing guests in this episode include Baya Voce, Craig Case, Don Rheem, Nir Eyal, Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Kat Vellos, Kim Christensen, Mauro Gatti, Lyndsey...
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146: When NOT to Follow Your Gut with Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, PhD
Known as the Disaster Avoidance Expert, Dr. Gleb Tsipursky protects leaders from disasters by developing the most effective decision-making strategies via his consulting, coaching, and training firm Disaster Avoidance Experts. A cognitive neuroscientist and behavioral economist, Dr. Tsipursky...
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145: The Language of Happiness with Taylor Proctor
Find Taylor Proctor: Happinessabound.com In our discussion, we talk about the power of language for our happiness. How to improve our language for greater well-being How does our inner self talk (silent language) impact us? How words impact our thoughts The impact of conversations we have with...
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144: Put Happiness to Work with Employee Happiness Expert, Eric Karpinski
Eric's new book Put Happiness To Work (that this episode is about) was just released! Make sure to get your copy here: https://puthappinesstowork.com/ More about Eric Karpinski Eric Karpinski has been on the cutting edge of bringing positive psychology tools to workplaces for over 10 years, with...
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143: The Power of One Meaningful Connection Per Day. The Science of Social Health with Kasley Killam, MPH
More About Kasley Killam Kasley Killam, MPH, is the founder of Social Health Labs, an impact organization that leads programs, events, and content related to social connection, loneliness, and health. She completed a master’s at the Harvard School of Public Health, where she deepened her…
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142: Hope After COVID with Virus Hunter (epidemiologist), Dr. Anne Rimoin
More about Dr. Anne Rimoin Dr. Anne Rimoin is an LA-based epidemiologist (expert virus hunter) having worked in public health on the ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for years and now a leading researcher on COVID-19. She's extremely knowledgeable as a scientist, but also very...
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141: Helping Millions to Thrive with Nataly Kogan, Founder of Happier.com
Nataly Kogan is one of the leading global experts in optimizing your emotional fitness and elevating your leadership. She’s the creator of the Happier Method™, founder and CEO of Happier and Happier @ Work™, and author of HAPPIER NOW and GRATITUDE DAILY. Nataly is a highly sought-after...
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140: The Science of Self-Love with Katy Sine
More about Katy: Katy Sine is the director and executive producer of Positive Voices, creating, producing and directing positive media programming with thought leaders, leading academics and influencers in positive psychology. She is an assistant instructor at the University of Pennsylvania’s...
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139: Bouncing Back From Impossible Odds: From Breaking her Back to Gold Medals & Fighting Lyme Disease with Olympian Arianne Jones
In my pursuit of the good life I have built a life-list of things that I want to accomplish or experience. One of the things that I was so excited to do recently was to hug the tallest tree on earth - Hyperion. It was amazing! Another thing on the list is to interview a gold-medal olympian.…
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138: Giving Language to the Intangible - Emotional Intelligence & Inherent Worth with Dr. Julie Hanks
More about Dr. Hanks Julie de Azevedo Hanks, PhD, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist with 28 years experience specializing in women’s emotional health and relationships. She is an assistant professor of social work at Utah Valley University. Dr. Hanks is the founder and...
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137: Six Powerful Strategies to Increase Meaning in Your Life
Today's episode is all about finding more meaning. It's a solo episode that I hope you enjoy. Here is a sneak peek: 1. Decrease Regret by Taking Action What’s something you can just do today to decrease the regret you would have in the future? Here are the top 5 regrets of the dying: I wish I had...
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136: Making News Happier in The Year of The Doomscroll, with Mauro Gatti from The Happy Broadcast
Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the amount of negativity in the news? Do you doomscroll? Well, 2020 is the year of the doomscroll and it can be really hard to avoid the negativity that inundates our digital news feeds. I have spoken about the benefits of taking breaks from the news and the…
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135: Sexuality & Happiness, A Positive View of Sex and Sexuality with Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife
Sexuality and Happiness is a topic I have not discussed on the More Happy Life podcast. I have wanted to for quite some time, but I wanted to introduce it with the right person and I think Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife is the right person. This podcast talks about all things from the foundation of...
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134: Navigating Life Transitions with NYT Bestselling Author Bruce Feiler
When was the last time something really hard happened to you? How did that change your life? Have you healed and moved on from this? Bruce Feiler's research showed that the average adult goes through a major disruptor about every twelve to eighteen months. And that adults face three to five big...
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133: Liberating Men to Express Emotions; Gratitude, Wonder and Awe with Kristin Petrucci.
For the women listeners who want to support the men in your life, this is the episode for you. For the men who need support from other men or women, listen in. I loved Kristin’s thoughts in this episode to help liberate men to express themselves. Personally, I have struggled to feel comfortable…
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132: How Loneliness and Social Connection Impact Your Health - with Dr. Julianne Holt-Lunstad
In Episode 132, I speak with Dr. Julianne Holt-Lunstad, THE leading researcher on social isolation, loneliness, social connection and how those things impact health. Maybe you have heard the statistic that loneliness is worse for your health than smoking up to 15 cigarettes per day. Well, we dive…
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131: Personality Isn't Permanent with Benjamin Hardy, PhD
Who do you intend to become? Are you satisfied with where you are at right now or do you want to witness a positive evolution of yourself? If you desire a change, this episode is for you. I honestly believe that this has to be one of the most life changing episodes I have ever recorded because it...
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130: How to Strengthen Adult Friendships, with Author Kat Vellos
How do you make friends as an adult? And if you have made a friend, how can you keep them and strengthen that friendship? In today’s episode we talk about the importance of friendship as an adult as well as how to build and strengthen friendship in our lives. I interviewed Kat Vellos, the author…
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129: Resilience Through Listening to Your Body with Leslie Santos, MAPP, M.Ed.
In this episode we talk about increasing resilience through listening. We go into depth on many ways this is possible, but the one we really focus a lot on is getting present with our body. I loved this conversation. It calmed me down and I hope that it helps to calm you down as well. Here are…
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128: 5 Strategies for Coping with Anxiety and Panic - Solo Episode
Even if you don't watch the news, there is a lot going around right now about the coronavirus that can really be unsettling. This is why I decided to republish an episode that I created before about how I overcome anxiety and panic. The best way to protect yourself against a virus that has no...
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127: Tackling Loneliness With The Friendly Bench – With Founder Lyndsey Young
Talking to strangers may seem like an anxiety producing task, but not if you have a place that is set aside to be friendly with your community. Today’s episode highlights community activist Lyndsey Young, the founder of The Friendly Bench, CIC. In this episode we discuss why loneliness and social...
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126: A Powerful Cure For Loneliness: Ritual Connection - With TEDx Speaker Baya Voce
Have you ever felt lonely? Unfortunately, most people would answer yes. There is a loneliness epidemic going on in the world today and I am on a mission to help fight against it. So is Rite of Passage designer and TEDx speaker, Baya Voce. As I was researching loneliness, I found Baya's TEDx talk...
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125: How You FEEL At Your Work (NOT Pay) Determines Whether You Will Stay; with Forbes Author Don Rheem
The future of work will be determined more by how we feel than how we are paid. This was said by Don Rheem in his TEDx talk given in 2018. I was sitting on the front row, riveted by his speech. I couldn't wait until it was edited and on YouTube so that I could start sharing it with my colleagues...
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124: How to be Indistractable with NYT Bestselling Author, Nir Eyal
Read the full show notes at https://MoreHappyLife.co/indistractable Do you get distracted? Do you struggle to stay on task and get taken down the digital rabbit hole more often than you would like? If the answer is yes, you’re not alone. With all the technology that exists, if you aren’t…
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123: How Good Customer Experience Makes the World Happier with Forbes Author Stacy Sherman
In episode 123, I speak with Stacy Sherman about the power of a transformational customer experience. Everyone is used to interacting with a business in a transactional way, but when a business can make a transaction into a transformation, that's when magic happens! In our conversation we discuss...
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122: Surround Yourself with Greatness - Mini Episode
This episode comes from a chapter of my book Live Your Mission and it is all about surrounding yourself with greatness. If you feel like you are in a rut, take a step back and look at who you spend your time with each day and each week. If you don't believe in your dreams, then you need to...
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121: The Happiness Paradox with NYT #1 Best-Selling Author Richard Eyre
In today's episode I interview #1 New York Times best-selling author, Richard Eyre about his new book The Happiness Paradox. Richard's experience is that there are three main obstacles to happiness and joy: Control Ownership Independence When we are obsessed with seeking after these alone, it…
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120: How To Meet Your Highest Self with Doug Cartwright, Founder of The Daily Shifts
If you feel like you are not enough or that your life needs to change for you to be happier and healthier, Episode 120 is for you. In this episode I interview the founder of The Daily Shifts, Doug Cartwright. The Daily Shifts is an app that encourages you to engage with your mind and body in a…
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119: Rediscovering Self Worth Through a Children's Book with Rose Stanek
There was once a girl With a hole in her heart. Little Love was her name. Where was she to start? It was not of her doing. She was not to blame. But the hole in her heart Was there just the same. In this interview, Rose and I talk about how easy it is to get caught up in allowing other people to...
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118: The Power of Intentional Discomfort with TEDx Speaker Em Capito, LCSW
Have you ever experienced something difficult or traumatic? If you're listening to this, the answer is probably yes. I believe that a huge part of happiness is the skillset we have built up that enables us to bounce back from the difficult things that happen to us. A few weeks ago, I went to the...
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117: The 5 Components of Change with Dr. Adam Moore
Today I interview the very knowledgable Dr. Adam Moore. We talk about how we go about making a change happen in our life. He relates changing to launching a rocket into space to escape the world's gravity. The elements are: Institute a unique approach Believe and Hope that you actually can…
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116: Your Permission To Be Happier - Personal Bill of Rights
Today I just wanted to share something one of my therapists shared with me years ago that has helped me. It was what they called my "Personal Bill of Rights". It has helped me over the years to remember that I have permission to be human. Often we don't give ourselves this permission and we need…
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115: Empowering People to Empower People with Louis Alloro, MAPP
How do you empower people to empower other people? The more I talk to people about positive psychology, the more I realize that the thing that most people want to know is how they can become a change agent themselves. In this episode, I interview Louis Alloro, an shining star in applied positive...
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114: Eleven Science-Backed Ways to Boost Energy Without Caffeine
Do you want to boost your energy without having to pound another RedBull or go for the afternoon cup of Joe? This episode is for you. A lot of people struggle with fatigue, or are just sapped of energy on a regular basis. I believe that increasing energy is one of the most powerful ways to have a...
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113: Make Your Commute the Best Part of Your Day, Backed by Science
Studies show that our wellbeing can be greatly impacted by our commute, but that it's what we believe about our commute that makes the difference. Here are 8 tips that can help you tell the right story and make your commute the best part of your day. Mindfulness - don’t close your eyes, connect…
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112: The Science of FUN with Mike Rucker, PhD
When was the last time you felt overwhelmingly happy? When I have asked this to people in the past, it has almost always paired with a time when they were having fun. We have talked about play before (episode 105), and in this episode Mike differentiates play from fun and shares some great tips…
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111: Making Sleep Cool Again With Julie Flygare, J.D.
In this episode we talk about all things sleep and much more! How does sleep impact our energy, mood, and clarity? How much sleep do we need each night? How did you discover your Narcolepsy? How can we improve our sleep patterns? Should naps be allowed and supported at work? Let's talk about…
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110: Blanketing 1,000,000 Homeless with Bob Dalton from Sackcloth & Ashes
Have you walked down the street and seen a homeless person and thought: "they just need to get a job"? You're not alone. Bob Dalton also thought this before his well-educated, hard-working mother became homeless in 2013. It was at this time that Bob decided he needed to do something not just to...
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109: How to Create Life-Changing Insights with Craig Case, Coauthor of BIG IDEAS
"Insight never comes to a fatigued mind" - Helmholtz When was the last time you had a big idea? Not just any idea, but a life-altering breakthrough that carried you through the next year (or five years) of your life? Today's episode features Craig Case, the Coauthor of the book Big Ideas: How To...
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108: The Life Changing Power of Radical Motivation with Allie Gardner
In this episode we talk about the amazing power we all have to climb out of the depths of trauma and misery using what Allie Gardner calls "radical motivation". Allie Gardner is a highly acclaimed musician who, in 2017, lost 14 of her dear friends and family to death. Can you even imagine?! She...
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Add more life to your days and more days to your life by applying science-backed inspiration and research from Andy Proctor, a well-being expert and PhD candidate studying the science of human connection. A podcast seen on New York Times, ABC News and Fox Business. Listen to interviews with New York Times bestselling authors, top researchers, Olympians, TED speakers, influencers and well-being thought leaders. Follow on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/morehappylife/ and join our thriving community at MoreHappyLife.co.
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