"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." ~ Dr. Seuss. Funny thing is, it just seems like a few days ago I posted the first Happier Holidays episode this year talking about how I couldn't believe Christmas was already here. And now in this session I'm talking about it being over. Well, there are really 2 ways to end the Holiday season. Listen and find out what they are. This episode is really important, because believe it or not, how we end 2016 will strongly determine how we sta...
Dec 27, 2016•14 min
Ah yes, the old ugly Christmas sweater. I'm not sure how they got invented, and I'm really not sure how they get worn. I mean, when one mentions "Christmas sweater", "ugly" is usually the first adjective that comes to mind. Although ugly Christmas sweaters are a great and fun way to help celebrate the Holidays, some are far more than just ugly. Listen as I talk about ugly covering up the true beauty of not only Christmas, but of us as well. Check out our Happier Holidays Video Collection at www....
Dec 24, 2016•14 min
Do you ever struggle keeping your sanity during Santa Season? Is it even possible to find tidings of comfort and joy in the chaos of Christmas today? I think so. So, listen and find YOUR happy and rest. This is another podcast in our Happier Holidays series, but the concept will work year round. I'd like to give you the link to our Happier Holidays Video Collection - produced to make your Holidays Happier and your Christmas Merrier! Included are videos for families of all ages, designed to play ...
Dec 19, 2016•55 min
Have you ever walked into a store and sighed or even became irritated as you saw Christmas decorations being put up way too early? Do the Holidays ever seem as long and tiring as a political campaign? Listen and find out how to not only survive the Holidays this year, but how to actually enjoy them. After all, they ARE called Happy Holidays, not crabby ones. It's our desire at Happy Life Studios to help you make this your happiest holidays ever. #HappierHolidays everyone! Here is a video I creat...
Nov 21, 2016•13 min
What do you do when you lose someone or something very close to you? For much of the world, mourning has become a lost and ignored art. However, sometimes the way to happy goes directly through sad. Last weekend I lost not only my amazing father in law, but also my second and last dad. Listen and find out what I learned and how it's helping me cope and keep the happy. StevoHays.com PayPal.me/StevoHays
Nov 07, 2016•15 min
Happy Halloween. Being Halloween I figured it would be appropriate to post a podcast on being brave. Listen and find out the cool thing God did for me, because I think God wants to do the same for you as well. Proof that God does use Facebook. PayPal.me/StevoHays Facebook.com/StevoHays
Oct 31, 2016•13 min
Are we really who we think we are? What if we're wrong? Maybe we're better than we believe. Sometimes we don't see who we are, we see who we want to be instead. So, just who is your #2 fan? And who is you #1? The answer to those 2 questions are essential. This episode is a continuation of the last 2 podcasts "Splat HL64" and "It is what it is HL66". StevoHays.com Facebook.com/StevoHays Twitter.com/SteveHays PayPal.me/StevoHays
Oct 24, 2016•15 min
What do you do when Life doesn't cooperate with your dreams? To be honest, for me, I have found it rarely does. Do I need to find a new dream? Wake up and smell reality? Set the bar a little lower? In this podcast I will share how expectations will effect our happy in a gigantic way and I'll talk about what we need to do about it. This is the podcast I said I wanted to go in to more detail about in last Monday's episode 64 "Splat". Listen and find out how I turned my heavy into happy and how you...
Oct 17, 2016•16 min
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Oct 14, 2016•6 min
Have you ever noticed how some people just seem get the happy, no matter what life throws at them? Do you ever feel like, you could be happy too if you could just be more like they were? It's one thing to get happy, but it's a whole different thing to stay there. Sometimes happy can be very elusive and hard to find, let alone keep. Happy Life is a lifestyle where one secures and sustains joy in every circumstance. So, just how does one keep happy when life hits and hits hard? Listen and find out...
Oct 10, 2016•14 min
Life can be tough enough the way it is without us adding any trouble to it. What do you do when you just can't perform at the level you think you could be performing at? Oftentimes we find us beating ourselves up. Come listen to this powerful story of one incredible young man and how God actually helped him stop beating himself up...literally. It is so great to be back home after a month away speaking at Camp Daniel, a camp for people with disabilities. Out of the north woods and back to Happy L...
Aug 01, 2016•12 min
I've spent the last month in the north woods speaking to, encouraging and hanging out with the awesome people of Camp Daniel, a camp for people with disabilities. We knew we wouldn't have the correct equipment or time to produce a weekly podcast up there, so we've tried something new by taking Happy Life podcasts live via livecasting on our facebook pages facebook.com/StevoHays and facebook.com/Steve-Hays-1616647698573920/ We hope you've been able to check them out. They are still on those pages...
Jul 19, 2016•17 min
Have you ever entered summer really excited but exited it feeling blah? Is there any way to stop that? Listen as we talk about how to not only make your summer incredible, but make it count as well. We will also let you in on some exciting changes for Happy Life podcasts this summer. We can't wait. It's going to be a great summer here at Happy Life Studios. You have a whole summer ahead of you. How are you going to spend it? Would you like to make this summer stand out or would you rather just l...
Jul 01, 2016•10 min
We all struggle with being or staying happy. To be happy is one thing, but to live happy takes work - it doesn't just happen. Don't be fooled, sooner or later, everyone struggles with happy. Sometimes those that seem the happiest can actually be struggling with it the most. So, be encouraged. See, you're probably happier already. :-) In this episode I talk about the personal struggle I've been having with my happy lately. What does one do when life seems to relentlessly sap the happy? For me, th...
Jun 23, 2016•10 min
Have you ever seen the 80's TV commercials "This is your brain on drugs?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub_a2t0ZfTs In this episode we'll talk about "This is your brain on happy." I will talk about a truth I recently learned about that helped me and my happy and I know will help you with yours. So listen, share, get happy and make others happy too.
Jun 15, 2016•14 min
Have you ever lost a close friend? Ever wish you were better at relationships? Keeping them or making them better? It's pretty difficult, if not near impossible, to live a happy life without good relationships. So in this episode, we talk about a simple truth to make all our relationships better and even restore some wounded ones. PayPal.me/StevoHays GoFundMe.com/HappyLifeStudios StevoHays.com Special thanks to James Kocian facebook.com/james.kocian.1 twitter.com/JamesKocian for providing some o...
Jun 06, 2016•17 min
Happy Memorial Day! Many, if not most, will enjoy a great holiday weekend this weekend. Many with friends, family and BBQ. But those who choose to remember will enjoy their holiday weekend even more. So, we recorded this special Memorial Day podcast to help us remember, and to honor those who have fought and even given their lives for our freedom and our happy. Have a HAPPY Memorial Day, and a HAPPY LIFE!
May 30, 2016•32 sec
Ever felt broken or found your life in need of repair? The good news is that God loves to fix things. The bad news is many are embarrassed their life needs any kind of improvement at all. So, instead of giving God the hammer, many decide to try and fix up their lives on their own, when the master architect, designer and builder is waiting right outside the front door of our life, ringing the doorbell with His tool belt on. This is backward thinking. In this episode I talk about one of my wife's ...
May 23, 2016•13 min
When it comes to our goals, dreams and plans, most would pick the interstate so they could arrive there as quickly as possible. Because when it comes to success who wants to drive 55? After all, Life is a Highway and I want to drive it all night long. However, sometimes life takes the back roads instead. But that's OK. The back roads actually have a lot to offer that one will never ever get from taking the highway. I know this, because not only do I march to the beat of a different drum, I also ...
May 16, 2016•13 min
This week’s podcast is a continuation of last week’s episode (Happy Wrong HL53) where I interviewed a hero and friend, Tony Piantine. We talked on the way from the airport, about what to do when suffering tries to steal our happy. In this episode, we continue on with that conversation and deal with another thief that may be even worse than suffering when it comes to stealing one’s happy. It’s a topic not many talk about. In fact, I've read that the less someone talks about it, the more they prob...
May 09, 2016•21 min
Is it possible to actually do happy wrong? I think a lot of people believe that to be happy, they must eliminate the unhappy; delete, numb or ignore the negative and then increase the positive; do something fun, buy something new etc. If happy depended on circumstances, then why are some of the happiest people in some of the roughest situations? Whenever bad comes along, God often gets the blame. “If God loves me, then why…?” When in reality, God came to give us happy in the midst of the ugly, t...
May 02, 2016•19 min
What would it look like if someone added a soundtrack to our life? If a movie crew followed us around or a writer studied our life and wrote a screenplay of it? Once the soundtrack was added we might see our life counts a little more than we thought it did. Listen and find out more.
Apr 25, 2016•13 min
Does practice really make perfect? Do you ever struggle with your weaknesses - or see how short you actually fall from perfection? I have some great encouraging news for you. Listen to this episode as we continue on where episode "Weirdo HL49" left off 2 weeks ago. In "Perfect Imperfections" we continue to talk on what Radiohead sings about in their song "Creep", only this time we go a little deeper with some soulful John Legend and talk about the song, "All of Me" and how its meaning is a littl...
Apr 18, 2016•12 min
This is a special day for us as we celebrate our 50th Happy Life podcast episode. Listen as Christine and I talk about our surprises and successes. How Happy Life started and where it's headed. So come on and celebrate with us. Here are the links we talked about: If you want to join this big happy family/Happy Life movement, just click here. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1sA2dZSuVo216ADZ6KygP_yXJheVpWQXgF-pGw7oBRac/viewform If you want to help us continue to build our Happy Life Studios, click...
Apr 11, 2016•33 min
Do you ever find yourself wishing you were somebody special? Why do we often struggle with our worth? What do popular and unpopular people have in common? Listen and learn from Radiohead as I talk a little about my life, my past, how I felt/feel about myself and how I survived and continue to survive even to this day.
Apr 04, 2016•11 min
Is Easter really about forgiveness of sins, or is there something more? Listen to this weeks episode and find out.
Mar 28, 2016•13 min
It seems like an offer too good to be true. God, the creator of the universe, wants to be friends...with me?!? And it's easy?!? No Way! Yahweh actually! It's talked about by so many, but so few get there. So, if it's supposed to be easy, and it's great news and wanted by so many, then why do so many fail at being friends with God? There are many things that actually stop us from a friendship with God. In this episode, I talk about 2 of the biggest: religion and perception. What God made simple, ...
Mar 21, 2016•13 min
"Excuse me sir, would you like to buy some Girl Scout cookies?" How does one say no to that?!? It's the hap-happiest season of all. It's Girl Scout cookie season! So, in honor of this happy time, I talk about two things I really like a lot: God and Girl Scout cookies. Believe it or not, they actually have some similarities. Listen and see.
Mar 08, 2016•12 min
When we go on a trip we usually plan it out. We don't get on a road without knowing where that road goes first. The same is true in life. Sometimes we choose a road in life that leads down a wrong path. Things like anxiety, anger or fear quickly jump in our locomotive, play conductor and try to take over our happy. If you're like me, they tend to come at you like a freight train and just run you over. In this episode, I talk about a conversation I had with my son who was struggling with this ver...
Mar 05, 2016•11 min
Happy Leap year. I think it's pretty cool that this episode actually lands on Feb 29. So, we decided to record a podcast in honor of Leap year. Not only will this episode inspire you, we believe it will open up your eyes as well as bring great relief and happy to your busy or stressful world. I came out an extremely high "I" in the "DISC" personality test. "Yeah, but is it any fun?" is one of the most used questions my personality will ask, which is pretty evident in this episode. So listen and ...
Feb 29, 2016•13 min
