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Episode 49: How to Find Your Silver Linings
Do you fixate on what's going wrong in your life? Poet and "recovering pessimist" Maggie…
Episode 48: Can Margaret Cho Get Any Better?
She's one of the most accomplished comedians of her generation. But Margaret Cho wants to…
Episode 47: Can You Humanize a Zombie?
Should we try to find common ground with the villains in our lives? Comedian Zahra…
Episode 46: Making Kindness Contagious
We gave our Happiness Guinea Pig a mission: Do five random acts of kindness in one day.
Episode 45: Facing Your Fears
Heights. Public speaking. Death. Our Happiness Guinea Pig explains how she overcomes her…
Episode 44: How Michael Lewis Finds the Funny
How can you unearth humor in everyday life? Best-selling author Michael Lewis goes looking…
Episode 43: How to Keep Love Alive
After more than a decade together, our Happiness Guinea Pig tries to bring the spark back…
Episode 42: Who Makes You Feel Connected?
Our Happiness Guinea Pig, the creator of Cartoon Network's We Bare Bears, finds a way to…
Episode 41: A Better Way to Talk to Yourself
Her husband has been in prison for 23 years. Our Happiness Guinea Pig tries a new approach…
Episode 40: What to Do When You Feel Like a Failure
The loss of a job, the pain of a breakup -- it's easy to get down on ourselves when things…
Episode 39: Delight in the Unexpected
A high-five from a stranger, a hummingbird on a busy city street. Poet Ross Gay shares his…
Episode 38: How To Let Go of Anger
Are you still mad at someone who hurt you in the past? That can eat away at your health and…
Episode 37: What Are Your Strongest Reminders of Connection?
What kinds of objects, images, and words surround your home or office? Our Happiness Guinea…
Episode 36: Do You Know How to Eat a Raisin?
Do you have trouble slowing down enough to actually enjoy your life? Our Happiness Guinea…
Episode 35: Finding Awe in Every Step
How can we feel connected to the world around us? Singer Diana Gameros tries to cultivate a…
Episode 34: Finding Your Strengths
Do you fixate on your flaws and shortcomings? Our happiness guinea pig tries the opposite:…
Episode 33: Trying Compassion on Capitol Hill
Can you extend compassion toward a difficult person in your life? Congressman Tim Ryan…
Episode 32: A Lesson in Thanks and Vulnerability
A junior high school teacher spent his life defying stereotypes about how men should…
Episode 31: Notice the Good in Your Life
Comedian Maz Jobrani tries to pay more attention to the good things in his life by writing…
Episode 30: The Power of Expressing Your Deepest Emotions
He started Afghanistan's first post-Taliban rock band when he was 18 years old. A decade…
