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 to live more authentically. He is a speaker, consultant and coach and a podcaster himself. On this episode of How to Be Happy we talk about finding meaning in your work even if you don’t like your job, Ashish’s surprising advice when considering throwing in the towel at work, cultivating awareness and self-compassion, and micro-practices for wellbeing and productivity.

Web: The Happiness Squad

The book: Hardwired for Happiness

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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 hypnotherapy. On the podcast Alistair explains the difference between hypnotherapy and hypnosis and how you can use hypnotherapy to achieve goals, overcome problems and move forward in life. We also discuss how people can use hypnotherapy to break free from patterns of suffering and embrace change.

The Mind Academy: The Mind Academy | Hypnotherapy, NLP and Coach Training

Alistair on Instagram: Alistair Horscroft (@alistairhorscroft) • Instagram photos and videos

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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 harder, drank more, used drugs for the first time and found the most dysfunctional relationship she could – all while giving the perception to the outside world that she was thriving. While it all seemed very dark, it was also the beginning of her journey out of the darkness towards a more authentic way of life. Today she coaches men and women about their power and how to find the inner confidence to choose their best lives.

Jo’s Book: Lead Like You: How Authenticity Transforms the Way Women Live, Love, and Succeed

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Jo’s website: https://jowagstaff.com/

Host: Kate de Brito

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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 multitasking is so hard ( and ineffective) and why holding eye contact is exhausting. Does everyone have more friends than me, and why do I keep putting things off? It has given her a very practical understanding of why we behave the way we do and just how normal we really are, even when we don’t feel it.

Dr Jen Martin’s book: Why Am I Like This?

Where to find more about Dr Jen: A/Prof Jen Martin (she/her) | Twitter, Instagram | Linktree

Host: Kate de Brito

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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 woman, with a calm, clear spirit who lives a life helping others. She has some beautiful wisdom to share about how we can all connect better with our inner wisdom to live happier lives.

Megan’s photography site:: https://www.meganlewis.com.au/

Megan’s therapy site: Megan Lewis Therapy – Private Subconscious-Mind Healing

About PSH: https://www.psh.org.au/

Megan’s book: https://www.meganlewis.com.au/conversations-with-the-mob-1

Other books mentioned:

The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

The Myth of Normal: by Gabor Mate

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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 without judgment or anger. But she wants us to talk about why we treat some animals - like our dogs and cats - with love and protection but don’t give the same rights to the animals we farm for food, like pigs, cows and chickens. She also asks the question: What if we are wrong? What if we are not supposed to use animals for food but are supposed to care for them instead? It’s an uncomfortable subject for a lot of people but Pam has a lot of wisdom to share about How We Can Live Happy Lives Without Harming Others.

Online: https://edgarsmission.org.au/

Edgar’s Mission on Instagram

Pam’s TedX Talk

Find details of animal sanctuaries to visit, plus other information at Vegan Australia

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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 father and coach Damir Dokic. She would hide the secret of this abuse for years only finally telling her story after a meeting with journalist Jessica Halloran that then led to the writing of her first book Unbreakable. Since then she has embarked on a mission to reclaim her life from the trauma of her childhood abuse. She has been incredibly open about her mental health challenges and eating disorder but today describes herself as a happy woman.

Her strength, resilience and courage are admirable and she has been a source of inspiration to many others who have found themselves struggling. She’s written a new book about that journey called Fearless: Finding the power to thrive.

Jelena on Instagram

Jelena’s book: Fearless

Jelena’s first book: Unbreakable

Host: Kate de Brito

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Editor: Stephanie Cannavo

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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 successes she always has a drive to more…in her words she has been “hustling all her life”. Today she talks about how she has gone about manifesting a happy life.

Find Trinette on Instagram

Trinette’s website

Trinette’s book: Collette’s Caleb

MidCoast Star

Other books mentioned on the podcast

You are a BadAss By Jen Sincero

Killers of a Certain Age: By Deanna Raybourn

The Fraud: By Zadie Smith

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