American Happiness Project with Michelle Wax: Recent Episodes
American Happiness Project
Sharing how Americans across the USA reach happiness and fulfillment in their everyday lives, and how you can too.
For company and school programs and workshops, head to american-happiness.com!
Allow yourself 15 minutes to reflect on the GOOD that has happened this year. In this episode, Michelle walks you through a simple reflection exercise to head into 2022 strong and shares some of her reflections for the end of the year.
To sign up for our workshop, Ensure 2022 is Your Best Year Yet (regardless of what actually happens), visit www.american-happiness.com/events.
To join Free Your Mind, visit www.american-happiness.com and click on the 'Online Programs' tab.
This episode is perfect for you if you feel like your mind goes in a more pessimistic direction more often than not. JoAnna Brandi and I chat through her journey from a pessimist to becoming a Happiness Coach and the author of "54 Ways to Stay Positive in a Changing, Challenging and Sometimes Negative World".
Connect with JoAnna Brandi at www.returnonhappiness.com!
This episode is perfect if you've been feeling a bit blah, unmotivated, or down lately. In this episode, I chat through the top 3 strategies I use to get out of a negative way or thinking or feeling. We cover:
-What a Blah List is and how to create your own
-The importance of allowing negative emotions to be processed instead of pushing them down or away
-How to write the New Story from the reassuring and very wise future you
To join us for our virtual or in person events on 11/11/21 and 11/17/21 mentioned at the start of the episode, please head to www.american-happiness.com/events to sign up!
If you've ever struggled with negative thoughts, this episode is perfect for you. I chat with John Plouffe from Westerly, RI on his journey to daily happiness. In this episode, we get into what to do when you start to think about why you're not good enough, can't do something, or any other negative thought pattern. John also shares practices for expressing gratitude and how to create more joy in everyday life.
This episode is perfect if you’ve been feeling stuck or antsy in your current life. Michelle shares her personal journey to starting American Happiness Project - and how important leaning into your dreams and excitement are. You’ll discover the small shifts she made to go from being in the food industry to filming a documentary across 50 states and creating American Happiness Project. You’ll also learn a self awareness exercise to conduct to get you started!
If you'd like to join us for our More Joy, More Purpose, More Life workshop in Boston, MA on November 11th - head to www.american-happiness.com/events.
If you’d like one-on-one coaching from Michelle, please send her a message on LinkedIn or email hello@american-happiness.com!
This episode is perfect if you're craving more fulfillment and depth in your daily life. Join me in my conversation with Elvira Chang from Somerville, MA on tapping into your unique strengths and cultivate self awareness in your own life to live more fully. Learn more at www.elviramariechang.com or visit her Youtube channel!
In this solo episode with founder of American Happiness Project, Michelle shares a story from the 50 state documentary filming process surrounding purpose and death.
Learn more and watch the American Happiness documentary at www.american-happiness.com/documenary.
This next episode is perfect if you've dreamed of writing a book or even if you just want to branch out into something new.
Kristi Guillory Reid is the author of 'Harper Counts Her Blessings', a children's book that shows how the events of an ordinary day turn out not to be so ordinary when you truly reflect upon the blessings in your life. It’s a story that highlights themes of reflection, gratitude, and appreciation that both parents and children will enjoy.
To purchase the book and learn more about Kristi, visit www.harpercountsherblessings.com and follow Kristi on Instagram @kristigreid.
This episode is perfect for those who want to create more happiness in their daily life — and let’s face it…who doesn’t?
Pennie Hunt shares her simple tips on how to create happiness, regardless of what’s happening around you.
She went from being depressed and grieving to waking up happy and grateful each day, and now she shares how she implemented this into her own life and how you can too.
A bit more about Pennie Hunt:
Pennie Hunt is an inspirational, entertaining, cutting edge and high content speaker. She is a member of the National Speakers Association and the President and founder of Journey T*hrough, LLC. Her weekly blog, “Writings From The Corner of Spirit & Brave” is read by thousands of people worldwide.
After a series of life changing events, Pennie left her career as Executive Director of a state-wide nonprofit where she spoke locally and nationally on healthcare recruitment. She now writes and speaks about how to change, heal and empower your life!
Pennie’s personal successes and challenges have shaped her grateful-for-it-all viewpoint.
She has married her own life lessons with her gift of communication to follow her passion of helping others Journey Through this life with spirit, courage and compassion. Learn life changing strategies from Pennie’s own journey as she teaches people how to Love Their Life – No Matter What!*
If you're not in the ideal spot right now, this episode is for you. When I connected with Pablo Gonzalez originally, he was coming off of the toughest 12 months of his life. During these tough times, he discovered some real tangible truths about happiness that he shares today along with his story and perspective on how to create happiness and fulfillment.
This episode is perfect for anyone who wants to work in a more positive work environment!
Sarah Salbu Young believes everyone can be a culture champion within their organization, it just often takes someone to be that spark for positive change.
We chat about the power of a positive mindset -- and how you can become that culture spark, regardless of your title or how long you've worked at a company. We also discuss the power of positivity versus negativity - and the role it plays in engagement and inclusion in the work place.
Sarah Salbu Young has worked in multiple industries ranging from Public Relations to Human Resources to now being the Senior Employee Experience Manager at Mendix.
If you've ever felt like you didn't belong, this episode is for you. I love how real and open Michael is in this episode, you're going to learn a lot - including his story on how he went from feeling like a complete fraud to truly fulfilled each and every day.
A bit more about Michael Zed Johnson:
My name is Michael Zed Johnson. I was an underachieving student, bully, & high school dropout. I'm now a selfless entrepreneur, mentor, & businessman.
I have a passion for sharing my story and providing inspiration to youths that may be on the same path I was, grew up on welfare like I did, or had addict parents like I do.
My journey as an entrepreneur started when I was 14 years old. My brother and I sold our dirt bikes to buy equipment for a lawn service business to help our mom pay bills
Fast forward two decades, and by most standards, I'm a success based on my entrepreneurial journey. High school age kids would measure my success based on money or material things, as I did at one point.
What I have come to learn is the true meaning of success and the biggest key to getting there. For me success is happiness and living a selfless life and the key to that is the circle of people you bring into your life.
I have traded money for happiness, material things for selflessness, and ordinary people for extraordinary. Michael currently lives in Myrtle Beach, SC with his wife, Vicky and daughter, Ashlyn.
This episode is perfect if you've ever felt like your happiness levels are being affected by anxiety - we chat through how Amy overcame debilitating anxiety at age 30 to live a happy and fulfilled life.
Amy Camodeca has been in healthcare for over 20 years with degrees in Radiation Biology, Human Biology and a Master's in Health Administration and Sciences. She started her career as a Radiation Therapist and worked her way up into Operation management of hospital health care programs/departments. About 15 years into her career, she shifted from Hospital Healthcare to follow her passion in preventative medicine and health education/care via personal training and health coaching. She opened 3 women’s-based boot camps/fitness centers which grew to serve upwards of 1000 individuals. During that same time, she found the ability to utilize DNA/genetic testing, which resulted in the ability to customize her client’s programming to gain faster results in their health and fitness journeys. This ultimately led to the launch DNA Driven which provides robust reporting of the client’s ability to respond to certain food intakes, exercise, nutrient deficiencies based on their genetics. This helps to customize programs that work at the individual level.
Amy soon decided to dedicate 100% of her time to one on one customization for health, wellness, weight management and healthy aging. She sold her gyms, and now combines multiple customized testing to formulate programs unique to the individual’s genetic make-up and lifestyle. This includes, but is not limited to shifting client’s mindsets, personal training programs, customized nutrition, gut/microbiome reset/health, accountability and creating strategies for long term maintenance and success.
This episode is perfect if you've ever wondered 'What If?". In this episode, we chat through how Eric took the plunge from working a full time job to starting his own company. Eric Savage is the CEO of Nobody Loves Jet Lag and host of No Zero Days Podcast. Learn more at www.nobodylovesjetlag.com!