Next time you are late to meet someone or late to a meeting, instead of "Sorry I'm late" say "thank you for waiting" instead. "Sorry" puts people in a defensive state and zaps the energy, while "thank you" puts people at ease with gratitude and brings a sense of positive energy. Another tip is to contact the person you are meeting the second you know you will be late. Update him or her on the new ETA and say "I acknowledge I'm late and I'm committed to being on time." This shows responsibility a...
Nov 13, 2020•2 min
Tracy Cousineau isn't your average success story. She moved out of her parents’ home when she was 16 and has been an entrepreneur ever since. After a difficult marriage and divorce, she wound up a single mom who had to hide financial difficulties from her children. Eventually, she changed her mindset and discovered her past did not define her future. Now she is a powerhouse real estate entrepreneur and business coach. She is co-founder of the #1 real estate team in the Atlanta metro area, ranked...
Sep 18, 2020•37 min
If you are looking for good news stories, positivity, and inspiring content in ten minutes or less, you in are the right place! Here's a look at the headlines in this week's podcast: 10-Year-old Boy Using His Birthday Metal Detector for the first time Unearths Centuries-Old Sword Gardener Breaks Record for Growing Britain’s Largest Tomato With Help of Pantyhose Northern California Highway Repaved Using 150,000 Plastic Bottles 2000-Year-Old Redwoods Survive Devasting Fire (Contrary to Widespread ...
Sep 01, 2020•7 min
If you are looking for uplifting, positive content, and good news stories, you in are the right place! Here's a look at the headlines in this week's podcast: Woman Takes Dishwashing Job to See Her Husband in Nursing Home Starbucks Barista Gets $100,000 in Tips after "Karen" Shamed him on Social Media California Condors Coming back from Brink of Extinction Students Urge School Bus Driver to Become History Teacher First Woman Becomes Army Green Beret Women African Safari Guides are Breaking Down B...
Jul 13, 2020•8 min
Hi! I’m back after supporting the blackout last week and back with positive news coming out of a pretty intense time. It's the week of June 9th, 2020. We need to start with the story of Antonio Gwynn Jr. He's a high school senior who spent 10 hours cleaning up after a BLM protest and was rewarded with a Mustang convertible and college scholarship! Other headlines this week include: A 97-year-old Auschwitz survivor showed up to support the Black Lives Matter protest A tattooed White supremacist j...
Jun 10, 2020•6 min
Hi! Welcome to this week’s episode of all the good, happy, and inspiring stories. The Afghan Dreamers, an all-girls high school robotics team in Afghanistan is using MIT's open-source ventilator design to make ventilators that could cost only a couple hundred dollars. There are 200 ventilators in all of Afghanistan. The girls are using car parts from Toyota Corolla's found at marketplaces because they can't order the needed parts online or find them in stores. This team is resourceful and amazin...
May 22, 2020•6 min
Here are the uplifting, inspiring, good, and positive news stories of the week in 10 minutes or less. If you found $135,000 in cash in a bag by the ATM, what would you do? A teen in New Mexico is being rewarded for returning all of it! The oldest woman in Spain at 113-year-old beats COVID-19. She says, “I have done nothing but live.” NYC has gone 58 days without a pedestrian death - longest since record-keeping. From New Zealand to Hawaii and Montana - In those three locations there have been no...
May 15, 2020•5 min
After 8 weeks of sheltering in place, I think a lot of us are hitting a wall. So let’s dive into the positive, uplifting, happier news stories of the week and see if maybe we can feel better in 10 minutes or less. Here we go. 1- In Colorado, a man has won the lottery twice in one day after playing the same numbers for 30 years. Colorado Lottery officials identified 'Joe B' as the winner of two $1 million Powerball prizes in Pueblo on March 25 2- Scientists in Senegal Have Developed A $1 COVID-19...
May 02, 2020•8 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Here are the uplifting, inspiring, good, and positive news stories of the week in 10 minutes or less. Starting in Illinois where a gym owner gave out $40,000 worth of gym equipment to members to use at home, free of charge. According to CNN, owner Drew didn't want his clients to give up on their fitness goals during the pandemic, So, he told members to come to pick up equipment from his gym -- and take it with them. About 80 members of Be Strong Gym took Drew up on his offer, checking out barbel...
Apr 22, 2020•5 min•Season 2Ep. 3
I recorded this episode live during a segment in the Facebook group The Quarantine Network. You may hear the sound of little kids in the background. It’s Tuesday, April 7th and here are the positive, inspiring and good news stories for this week. Students At MIT Develop A $100 Alternative To $30,000 Ventilator Units—And All They Ask Is To Stay Anonymous In Canada, a 13-year-old scout used his 3d printer to invent “ear guards” to help take the pressure off health care workers’ ears from wearing m...
Apr 08, 2020•10 min•Season 2Ep. 2
After a "purposeful pause," the In Happier News podcast is back by popular demand. Who doesn't need some positive news right now with everything going on with COVID-19?! Here are happier, inspiring stories from around the world in ten minutes or less. Today is March 25, 2020: 1- Oceanside, CA Kitchen Takes Donated Restaurant Food, Volunteer Chefs Turn it into Meals and Volunteers Delivering it to Elderly, Immune-Comprised and Low-Income Families. 2- Distilleries Making Hand Sanitizer 3 - Busines...
Mar 26, 2020•8 min•Season 2Ep. 1
On October 9th’s episode , I told you how I manifested $777 except that I did it backward and ended up manifesting the money coming out of my account instead of into it. It’s a pretty story so if you haven’t heard it, listen to that episode. After that happened, I laughed because I knew the universe was sending me a message! If you want to manifest something, get very clear! On that show, I declared a new manifestation of $1313 by January 1st. 13 is my favorite number and I very specifically sai...
Dec 30, 2019•7 min•Season 1Ep. 55
The holidays are a fun and festive time but can also be a sad, lonely, stressful or anxious time for many. Chelsea (Hurt) Johnson holds a master's in clinical psychology and is a licensed marriage and family therapist. Her experience includes working with clients dealing with psychosis, anxiety, mood disorders, addiction, and trauma, among many other difficulties. She has great suggestions that everyone can put to use this holiday season. Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chelsea-johnson-953084...
Dec 18, 2019•22 min•Season 1Ep. 54
It’s the holiday season….and I have lots of good news stories to share! Here are the happier news stories making headlines this week of Thanksgiving. Episode 53 includes: People knit mittens for koalas paws burned in Australia fires World’s first airport therapy pig 11-year-old crochet prodigy donates money back to the orphanage in Ethiopia he was adopted from Get paid $1000 for watching 24 Hallmark Movies in 12 Days Tom Hanks is related to Mr. Rogers Netflix Documentary to Watch - The Game Chan...
Nov 27, 2019•10 min•Season 1Ep. 53
Hello and welcome! Lots of uplifting happier news all in 10 minutes or less! Here are the positive and inspiring headlines of Episode 52: Dad who Lost Daughter Gets Wrong Text for 4 Years by Daughter Who Lost Her Dad Nurse Adopts 27-Year-Old So He Can Get Heart Transplant Boy told not to doodle in class gets hired by restaurant to doodle their walls 93-year-old leaves retirement to start boozy cupcake company, cause why not??? If you have a great story to share or feedback, connect at InHappierN...
Nov 07, 2019•8 min•Season 1Ep. 52
Hello and welcome! Lots of good news and lots of dog stories this week for the happier news roundup in 10 minutes or less! Here are the positive and inspiring headlines of Episode 51 for the week of October 28th: Hug Stops Student with a Gun at Parkrose High School 49’ers Football Team has an Emotional Support Dog The Dog God story you have to hear! Man brings dog to a furniture store to get her paw of approval Couple searches for dog for 57 days, wife even quits job...then comes the joyous reun...
Oct 28, 2019•10 min•Season 1Ep. 51
Hello, hello! Welcome to episode 50 of the In Happier News podcast! Thanks for being part of the journey! I’m setting a goal to do another 50 episodes and continue to grow the community of people like you and me who see the value of positive news and how it makes us happier, nicer human beings. This week our theme is goals (October is a time many people work on their goals). Needing some inspiration for your own goal setting? I got you covered! We have the story of an incredibly selfless teenage...
Oct 14, 2019•11 min•Season 1Ep. 50
In this 5-minute bonus episode, I discuss how to manifest what you want. The first time I tried to manifest something I decided to manifest seeing a zebra just to test out the process. It worked! More recently, I saw a posting asking how much you'd like to manifest financially. The number that popped into my head was $777. I declared that was what I wanted to manifest. I ended up manifesting it, just not the way I thought it would happen! Instead of $777 coming to my bank account, it left my acc...
Oct 10, 2019•5 min
If you knew you were getting laid off and told to bring an emotional support person with you, would you ever think to bring a clown? One man did and it's a pretty funny story! Plus a crane operator meets a fellow crane operator in an unlikely place and the two become fast friends. How virtual reality is helping people with dementia light up with joy, a professor uses a lab coat to create a baby carrier to hold a little one and teach when his mom couldn't find a babysitter. Speaking of little one...
Oct 02, 2019•11 min•Season 1Ep. 49
This week's positive news roundup includes a dream job for coffee lovers, a bachelorette party to the Bahamas that turned into a relief mission, a cruise ship for healthy adventure-seekers is coming 2021 (and we should make in the In Happier News cruise and all go on it!), a 25-year-old pediatric nurse is adopting the baby she helped in the NICU, the Netflix mini-series you need to watch now, and Disney characters will tell your kids to go to sleep for free! All that and more in 10 minutes or le...
Sep 24, 2019•10 min•Season 1Ep. 48
In Happier News this week, we have a family's wish being fulfilled to send their deceased loved one on a final adventure at sea. A volcanic rock the size of Manhattan drifting towards Australia could be a good thing for the Great Barrier Reef. A smart North Carolina teen used the line for a chicken sandwich at Popeyes to do something good. A boy who loves the University of Tennessee just got the best gift ever. A middle school teacher's lesson on empathy has everyone crying and treating each oth...
Sep 17, 2019•10 min•Season 1Ep. 47
Meet the Saint of San Bernardino, California. She lives a life of service and giving and is wise beyond her years. Ana Perez and I met about five years ago when I got to share her story with the world as a host of 5-Hour ENERGY helps Amazing People. Not only did I get to share her story, but I also got to surprise her with a check for $50,000! It was one of my favorite stories because I truly believe Ana is a saint. She has been helping the homeless for more than 9 years. Watch the video to see ...
Sep 09, 2019•32 min•Season 1Ep. 6
In this week's episode of In Happier News, the positive news includes a story about 97 homeless dogs in the Bahamas that are safe thanks to one woman who pulled them off the streets and into her home before Hurricane Dorian made landfall. Plus, how you can help those affected by the hurricane and more ways to help shelter dogs. In medical news, MDMA, which you may know as Ecstasy is working in clinical trials to treat patients with PTSD. That is huge and now clinics are working on getting the FD...
Sep 04, 2019•10 min•Season 1Ep. 45
Frustrated with all the hostility political news coverage was creating, and finding it harder and harder to get booked as a financial correspondent for national news networks, Vera Gibbons decided to launch nonpoliticalnews.com . She produces a free daily nonpolitical newsletter called NoPo that includes a mix of trending stories from Consumer & Personal Finance; Health & Wellness; Fashion & Beauty; and the latest in Fitness & Diet. Do you keep up with political news or do you av...
Aug 30, 2019•18 min•Season 1Ep. 44
In Happier News this week, it's the perfect time to highlight some amazing educators with the new school year starting back up. Plus, the story of a group of classical musicians who play at crime scenes to help heal the neighborhood, why you should consider matching clothes with your significant other and a doctor who launched a coffee shop that gives 100% of it's profits back to the community. Host Deanne Goodman scours the news each week to bring you the happy, inspiring and positive stories. ...
Aug 26, 2019•8 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Erica Mandy is an award-winning broadcast journalist who is on a mission to build a new kind of media network, starting with her daily news podcast, The NewsWorthy. It provides all the day’s news in less than 10 minutes in a convenient, unbiased, and less depressing way – in what she calls “fast, fair and fun.” She's also been named one of "50 Women Changing the World in Media & Entertainment." I’m such a fan on her podcast, and in fact, it inspired me a lot to rebrand this podcast as the In...
Aug 19, 2019•28 min•Season 1Ep. 42
The news has been dominated by upsetting stories of mass shootings and tragedies. My hope with this podcast is not to have us ignore these stories, but to realize that even with all the bad there is so much good in the world. In this week's episode of the In Happier News podcast, we have information on the healthiest way to react to anxiety-causing bad news, the story of a simple bench that restored a family's faith in humanity, how an act of kindness at an amusement park made all the difference...
Aug 12, 2019•8 min•Season 1Ep. 41
I didn't watch the Game of Thrones finale, but I pretended I did and the lessons I learned as a result were incredible! What if we decided to just listen to someone and validate them instead of interjecting our opinions? Turns out, it makes for a very cool experience. Here's what happened to me... The day after the season finale of Game of Thrones May 20, 2019 I wore my Mother of Dragons shirt. I bought the shirt at Target and bought it for a Game of Throne party I went to for the season premier...
Aug 05, 2019•6 min•Season 1Ep. 41
Welcome to the In Happier News podcast with a roundup of all the positive news and good stories in less than 10 minutes. In the week of July 29, we have so many great stories including one about a carpenter who lived frugally his whole life while he saved up millions of dollars which he donated to send kids to college who couldn't afford it. A woman who can't walk and a man who can't see team up as hiking partners, a happy ending to the red-tailed hawk rescue we've been following, find out what ...
Jul 29, 2019•9 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Welcome to the In Happier News podcast, with host Deanne Goodman. Positive news and good news stories for the week of July 22nd include senior care facilities getting wet and wild, a mail carrier helping a woman get a much needed air conditioning unit, an update on the rescued hawk from episode 37, an In Happier News baby watch update, and the coolest Halloween costumes for kids in wheelchairs! These stories and more in less than 10 minutes! Deanne scours the news each week to bring you the happ...
Jul 22, 2019•7 min•Season 1Ep. 39
