Happiness-Matters in Midlife - for Professional Women

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Series 3 – Episode 4: BONUS – Join Julia for her recent lecture as part of the Masters in Happiness Studies on Taking Wholebeing Happiness to the next level - for you & Planet Earth.

Explore Interbeing; its definition, where it comes from, who’s behind it and why it’s important to you and to the Happiness Revolution.

We’ll touch on the systemic view of happiness from Western thinking and how this relates to the concepts such as dependent origination from Buddhist philosophy.

Along the way, we’ll meet Buddhist nuns from Thomsaling in India, clouds, Peter Senge, Thich Nhat Hanh and sunflowers.

Together, we’ll create an embodied experience of Interbeing that you can take on your own Happiness journey. You’ll learn some powerful self-coaching tools to help you navigate your relationship with yourself and with others, including with our Planet Earth.

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Series 3 – Episode 3: INTERBEING – Join Julia to dig a little deeper into what Interbeing actually means and how embracing it will expand the way you see your Midlife Happiness - how we can embrace life and death in our wholebeing and how we can leverage our extraordinarily interconnected for happiness within ourselves, with others and in the wider world.

What does it mean to bring the idea of “inter-are” into how you view yourself and your relationship with the loved, the neglected and the rejected parts of you.

Get a taster of the new journey we’re embarking on - from Peter Senge’s systems thinking, butterflies, pieces of strings, clouds and Russian wedding bands; joined by poet, David Whyte and Zen master, That Nich Hanh.

This episode I say goodbye to my beloved Mother and step into my own “next phase” on board a plane to Italy and the World Happiness Summit. Do join me to start living into your deepest happiness, today.

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Series 3 – Episode 2: BONUS - Looking for a post-pandemic adventure? Join Julia Seal on her new 20-month journey to a Masters degree in Happiness Studies!

It's a journey she’s embarking on from this week until May 2024 - a journey to deepen her work here in Happiness-Matters; spiralling deeper into what Happiness is around the world, for you as clients and for herself.

It's not just another qualification, it's something that's unfolded for Julia in the liminal space of this post-pandemic world... building a community to expand The Happiness Revolution, wallowing in the materials & building a deeper connection to what's greater than us.

Join Julia #LIVE on Facebook every Friday to see what's next in this Masters adventure!

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Series 3 – Episode 1: INTERBEING – Welcome to the start of Series 3 where we’ll be crafting our Wholebeing & expanding our Interbeing through the 3 Relationships that are at the core of Midlife Happiness.

Embrace it all with me in this new Series – all the scientific knowledge, all the wisdom of our ancient traditions, all the learnings from our multi-cultural world to explore the biggest puzzle of them all... through the lens of THE single biggest contributor to happiness in life.

So if you’re feeling jumbled up, puzzled, confused, really busy OR just empty after life has backhanded you with divorce, death, empty nest or retirement, here’s what to do next...

Here’s your journey to uncover what Midlife Happiness means for you, what Midlife Wholebeing is, what Midlife Interbeing is. Here’s where we start to unpuzzle it all together. 3 Core Relationships, 3 Pathways to HOW to actually do it, live it, Be it.

Discover what’s at the middle of your Midlife Happiness... & it’s not the Midlife spread or that persistent muffin top!

Join me to start living into your best life, today.

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Series 3 - Trailer: How can I be happier in Midlife? How can I make the most of this next phase - be more resilient – more creative - thrive – even, evolve?

Join consultant-coach Julia Seal to explore these Midlife questions & more in a happiness-coaching journey where you can transform this next phase of your life, no matter what – no matter what your circumstances are right now... overwhelmed by the changes wrought by Menopause, looking for more meaningful work, caught in stagnant relationships or feeling anxious, unfulfilled, discontent, burnt out, overwhelmed or just, stuck!

Midlife is a calling to your own metamorphosis: to let go of what’s no longer working in your life > to strengthen your Inner Power > to build your Legacy for others > to craft your deepest Wholebeing Happiness... it’s the perfect time for you to solve the puzzle of the Midlife Transition & embark on an exploration of living into the Best Version of you, today.

Create your new Midlife Jigsaw Puzzle by exploring how to get unstuck in Midlife - discover how to coach yourself every day at home, in relationships & at work, how to purposefully manage your own mind & reconnect to your body, how to “hack” your brain with tools backed up by scientific research, how to unwind your unhelpful habits & how to take the best from the world’s wisdom on the pursuit of happiness.

In addition to mini-coaching sessions & step-by-step tools, each episode helps you to take immediate action on the most impactful ways to increase your daily happiness, while supporting you on a longer reinvention coaching journey to living a purposeful & intentional life of Wholebeing Happiness in Midlife.

Join Julia here on the podcast to start living into your best life, today.

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Series 2 – Episode 32: Bonus – Welcome to March, it’s Happiness Month! Join coach Julia Seal for a very special month diving deep into all you need to know about Midlife Wholebeing Happiness… what it’s about, what are the ingredients & how to go about creating it in your life.

So much happening this month, from the World Happiness Report to the UN International Day of Happiness > how do we navigate our Midlife as we emerge into this post-Pandemic world, especially with all that’s happening in Ukraine right now?

Don’t miss out, sign up now - https://bit.ly/3hW6g9w

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Series 2 – Episode 31: INSIGHT – Explore the magic of transitions in your Midlife & how it’s possible to really love the unknown, to embrace uncertainty. Julia Seal shares ways to make sense of the Liminal Space of being in-between, what it means to traverse Ancient Greece’s River of Misery & the Buddhist Bardo states of consciousness with the Ancient Roman God Janus showing us the way.

Find out what it means to step into your own self-evolution by hanging out on The Edge of Comfort, getting really good with Discomfort so that you are truly free to craft an intentional, conscious life - living your purposeful Wholebeing Happiness in Midlife.

Try out three ways to hold steady through change so that you can build your courage & resilience, while having some light-hearted fun & delight along the way.

Change is upon you in Midlife - roles, relationships, responsibilities, purpose, it’s all happening! Today’s episode suggests some tools to help you rest & settle into change, to make it more bearable, even how to wallow & dance in your Midlife creativity!

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Series 2 – Episode 30: MEDITATION – Midlife Meditation 🧘 Liminal Space of Transition, Change & Uncertainty (10 mins) - Join Julia Seal for this meditation to settle into & embrace the Liminal Spaces of your life for your Wholebeing Happiness – whether you’re transitioning from one year to the next, from one job to another, one relationship to the unknown, one day to tomorrow, from now to the next moment.

Discover how to become more comfortable with transition, change & uncertainty, how to come to rest – to settle – to wallow – even, delight in the discomfort of living in-between, knowing & not knowing.

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Series 2 – Episode 20: MEDITATION – Midlife Meditation 🧘 Loving-Kindness Metta to expand the 4 qualities of Love (15 mins) – Join Julia Seal for this traditional Metta meditation to evoke Compassion & Friendliness towards ourselves & others.

This Metta practice intentionally cultivates the four qualities of Love: Friendliness, Appreciation & Joy, Compassion & Equanimity - for yourself, for your most loved ones, for those close to you & then, beyond your circle of influence, outwards to include even those difficult people in your life!

It enables you to settle into the natural beauty of your entire Being, your Wholebeing, to just & rest here.

As you recite these phrases, you’re expressing the intention of LovingKindness & planting the seeds of these wishes over & over again in your heart.

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Series 2 – Episode 28: MEDITATION – Midlife Meditation 🧘 Compassion & LovingKindness for you now (10 mins) - Join Julia Seal for this short guided meditation to rest, settle & allow your natural compassion, love & joy to rise up & expand.

Practice this to deepen your CONNECTION to YOURSELF – to bring love & compassion to YOU, to heal the relationship you have with yourself, your Past Self, your Current Self & your Future Self.

Download the next Midlife Meditation (2.29) to extend this Metta out to loved ones & beyond but don’t rush it!

Instead, rest & settle into LovingKindness, Compassion for YOU first, especially here & now.

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Series 2 – Episode 27: BONUS – Enjoy this holiday special 4-part conversation on Toxic Conflict in your Midlife Relationships & What To Do.

Deep dive into the 4 worst toxic behaviours that show up in our relationships, whether it’s at home with our loved ones or at work in our teams, with coach Julia Seal & Lemon Rebellion founder, Jamie Jenkins.

We discuss the most poisonous of toxic behaviours: Criticism & Blame – Defensiveness – Stonewalling & Sulking – Contempt.

How to identify each one exactly, where & how it’s showing up in your relationships
💪 What do if you’re experiencing it from the other
🙈 What to do if you’re doing it!
Tips to neutralise the hot conflict & get your relationship back on track

Also find out

How to self-soothe so you’re signaling to your brain & body that you’re safe, safe with yourself
How to get from automatic fight-back React Mode to a more neutral Respond Mode when you’re highly triggered & conflict is hot
What’s going on in your Midlife Brain & in your neurological patterning
How to be mindful of your in-built filtering system – are you really seeing toxic behaviours or just perceiving them, what’s the difference
How to step out of the ongoing spiral of Victim & Persecutor roles forever!

Time stamp info for you

Criticism & Blame: 2:15

Defensiveness: 42:25

Stonewalling, Sulking & The Cold Shoulder: 1:32:05

Contempt: 2:09:15

Watch the video clips of Julia & Jamie on YouTube - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl8iTBdrhx2Ui7ejYGWFbOhYDJrrpsrA4

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Series 2 – Episode 26: PATTERNS – Find out today why your Midlife currently looks the way it does – good & not so good – why you’re getting the results you want in your life, why you’re feeling the way you do, why you take action or procrastinate, why your relationships are the way they are, why you’re feeling happy right now or frustrated, sad, despondent, confused... > everything!

We’re talking the MAGIC formula for creating your Wholebeing Happiness in Midlife, how to play with & even change your neurological wiring!

Find out the jigsaw puzzles pieces & Lego building blocks of this magic formula. Then, coach Julia Seal goes step-by-step how to use it & how to to play with it to purposefully mix-up these components of your Inner & Outer world. You’ll be able to use it to create awareness of what’s really going on inside you, to develop a deep understanding of yourself & others in your life & even, to increase compassion – for yourself & others.

Julia uses an example with “difficult Uncle Alec at the Christmas dinner table” & your frustration, irritation, your anger about how he always seems to ruin the day. This is how you can enjoy your Christmas dinner no matter how impossible Uncle Alec is & no matter what he says to stir the family drama!

Could change in your life really be this easy?

Wholebeing Happiness is really just one magic Lego building brick away!

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Series 2 – Episode 25: BONUS – This live Q&A session is full of strategies & tips for managing tense relationships with your family over the holidays... from how to move through Discomfort & how to choose Boundaries as well as what it means to MeSearch & Gamify your holidays!

Join coach Julia Seal & Lemon Rebellion founder Jamie Jenkins talking about family events, relationships & triggers – what you can do towards having an easier holiday season. If you have alot of problems with relationships, discover what might be the cause & how you can use this insight to set you up for happier family gatherings.

Enjoy a quick technique to reset when your emotions get out of control & find out how to set Intentions for your relationships while creating new habits to enhance your Midlife Wholebeing Happiness – evolving yourself every step of the way!

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Series 2 – Episode 24: BODY AS BRAIN – The Dalai Lama has said: “The human mind, at its default setting, is compassionate". Discover how your compassion, your ability to feel empathy & your altruistic motivations are actually wired into you through the action of a specially-evolved bundle of nerves, the Vagus.

Responsible for your body’s automatic activities when it’s at rest – digestion, reproduction, the immune response - the Vagus Nerve is a fundamental biological building block of human compassion & your Wholebeing Happiness in Midlife!

Join coach Julia Seal for a “wander” through the responsibilities of the Vagus Nerve, from being the superhighway between the gut & the brain in your head to fear management & your resilience in times of difficulty as well as how it affects whether you feel compassion at the sight of someone’s suffering.

Essentially, find out ways to activate & tone your Vagus Nerve so you can tap into all its benefits – easy, everyday Happiness Habits – from singing in the shower to Yoga’s Ujaii or Brahmari breathing to gratitude journals & laughing.

A fascinating addition to your self-coaching & a vital piece in your Midlife Happiness puzzle!

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Series 2 – Episode 23: BONUS – Enjoy this recording from the recent Lemon Rebellion Summit where Julia Seal talks about Wholebeing Happiness & particularly, Emotional Wholebeing Happiness.

In this session, explore how to work with your Negative Emotional Wholebeing for your own evolution. Julia shares 4 facts that make stepping into this work a little easier – to help you tap into your own courage & wisdom to walk towards your Negative Emotional Wholebeing.

She touches on the Yin:Yang | 50:50 reality of your emotional life as well as how being “emotionally unskilled” in one area or layering judgment onto everything you feel can get you stuck emotionally in your Midlife.

Then, Julia’s also outlines 3 ways to cultivate your Positive Emotional Wholebeing – hormone hacking, intentional “brain management” & how to actually FEEL our emotions fully in order to experience them, feel them, embody them & then let them go!

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Series 2 – Episode 22: Bonus – LIVE 🔥 Join Julia Seal to discover an easy, everyday way to create Wholebeing Happiness.

By using the calendar’s Special Days, from Hallmark Holidays to United Nations commemorative days, you can hone the powerful craft of coaching yourself.

Find out why you might even want to try this – how it creates appreciation & joy but also how it steadily unpacks what happiness & unhappiness is for you in Midlife. Discover how to do this using Julia’s Coaching Tool - The Happiness Ladder or join her #UP The Happiness Ladder on social media every Monday (#TGIM) & Friday (#FriYAY).

Julia shares what one week looks like in her life: from Women’s-Equality-Day to Kiss-&-Make-Up Day, Dog-Day & Just-Because Day.

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Series 2 – Episode 21: Meditation – Need an alternative to Meditation practice when it all seems too difficult & your mind is completely mad with thoughts?

Discover 6 techniques to turn Writing into a meditation practice so that you can develop a relationship with your Mind - a Midlife crazy-wisdom skill!

Coach Julia Seal explores how to work with narrative writing, expressive writing, free-flow with journal prompts, Morning Pages & Thought Downloads - even, Professor Dumbledore’s Pensieve!

Using these alternatives to meditation opens the door to seeing the difference between THINKING & THOUGHT where you’re the Observer, the Witness of your own Mind.

You’ll discover how to brain dump, how to thought-download, how to reframe & how to declutter your own Mind, just like you declutter a cupboard in your house!

Brain Management through Meditation or Writing as Meditation is all about how to increase awareness of the thoughts going on in your mind – how to develop impartiality so you can observe your own thinking without judgment (no inner self-critic here!) – how to work with your exact patterns of how you turn Thinking into Thought, where you engage with your thinking mind & then create the Think-Feel-Act patterns that run your life - how to find where unseen bias is holding you back... eventually we even get to explore the independent origination of thought & what this means for your Wholebeing Happiness in Midlife – such a puzzle, so exciting!

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Series 2 – Episode 20: MEDITATION – Midlife Meditation 🧘 Wholebeing Integration for when you’re raw & shredded (20 mins) - Join Julia Seal for her guided meditation to bring your Wholebeing to life.

Use it to settle your entire being when you’re feeling particularly tired & over-stretched – raw & shredded.

Create peace, a sense of connectedness to yourself & bring yourself back into your entire Wholebeing.

Easily connect & integrate your your Physical Body, Cognitive Body, Emotional Body, Subtle Body & Spiritual Body together.

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Series 2 – Episode 19: BONUS – Join Julia Seal at the Lemon Rebellion Summit next week on Monday 19 September at 10:30am (New York) / 3.30pm (London) / 2.30pm (UTC).

In today’s pre-session, Julia talks all about Wholebeing Happiness & how change/adversity are your best opportunity to stop, take stock of your life journey so far & decide how you want to step forward. A crook in the road is nothing less than an opportunity to evolve yourself!

Julia shares what Wholebeing Happiness means to her & how it can help you live in more appreciation for life & more joy.

Join Julia for 2 sessions at the virtual Summit where you can interact live with her & where she’ll coach you through practical steps you can take to become more resilient, creative & thriving.

She’ll also be running her popular, daily Happiness Challenge to apply some of the best science-backed happiness habits to improve your life.

Sign-up to access the entire 5-day Summit at https://www.lemonrebellion.com/ using JULIA5 for your signup discount.

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Series 2 – Episode 18: BRAIN – In today’s next Brain Design episode we meet the Executive in your Head who’s a key player in your Midlife Wholebeing Happiness! Join coach Julia Seal to discover how to tap into your built-in ability to choose yourself, your goals, your happiness first.

Julia looks into the PreFrontal Cortex of the Human Brain to find out who (what) is responsible for reasoning, creativity, decision-making, planning & emotional regulation – who holds all the power in your life to choose yourself first, to choose for yourself – & who chooses to sabotage all your good efforts...

Explore Inner Power & discover your Choice Point – the Powerful Pivot point where all your choice for Wholebeing Happiness lies in your Midlife. She looks at the very special skill you have in-built already & how you can harness & expand this skill to deal with those urges for chocolate cake or what makes you just want to snap at your partner, throw your toys in the boardroom or run off stage during that next speech! Eeek Glossophobia 😄

Practice her easy Coaching Tool, designed for high conflict relationships, in the relationship with yourself. Use it to make the choice away from the instant gratification for those habits you wish you didn’t have. Use it to pivot to delaying gratification in service of your long term goals, your highest self, your future self, your Best Life in Midlife.

Today’s all about our power of choice: the choice to create – to contribute – to move forward – to love.

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Series 2 – Episode 10: Bonus – LIVE 🔥 on The Happiness Ladder

Join Julia Seal for insights into her Happiness Ladder coaching tool – where it comes from & why it’s such a useful Happiness Habit to practice in expanding your Midlife Wholebeing.

She explores how it helps you connect to your Happiness at a very core level, but how it can also hinder your discovery of deep, authentic happiness if not used purposefully & intentionally.

She shares how she’s been using the Happiness Ladder in her own life since 2012 & the impact it’s had over the years.

Julia invites you to join her #UP The Happiness Ladder every week – in her private What’sApp group every day OR on social media on Mondays (#TGIM) & Fridays (#FriYay).

Join Julia here on the podcast & LIVE on social media to start living into your best life, today.

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Series 2 – Episode 16: PATTERNS – Discover where much of your personal power is tied up by the time you get to Midlife. With coach Julia Seal, tap into the delight of playing with Lego bricks as the way to start claiming back this power... how you can build it, brick by brick, until you’ve created your Wholebeing Happiness & then, how you become unstoppable in the world!

All your power for change comes from how you view two essential concepts – your Outer Life Patterns - seeing how they influence Midlife discontent: restlessness in your marriage, boredom with your work, bloated through Menopause, tired friendships, endless household chores, a broken relationship with yourself.

Today, expand your exploration into the DNA of your Happiness - your Inner & Outer Life Patterns. They’re an essential corner puzzle pieces of Midlife Happiness – of the skill you can perfect right here - Brain Management: how to use your entire Being intentionally & purposefully to craft Wholebeing Happiness that sees you moving into your Next Phase with passion, peace & joy... with power.

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Series 2 – Episode 15: BODY AS BRAIN – This week, Julia Seal explores the Mind:Body Connection, what it’s all about & what understanding it means for coaching & living into our long lasting Happiness.

It’s an episode full of surprising delights about our Midlife bodies – from how visualisation can build us muscles even if we’re still in lockdown, away from the gym – where does most of our happiness hormone, Serotonin come from (it’s not what you think) – do we really have a second brain - how can a physical nerve build our feelings of compassion – who are the 40 trillion organisms free-riding in our gut...

Julia shares several ideas on how you can use the power of this Mind:Body puzzle. You can start tapping into the flow between your mind & body – purposefully & intentionally – as part of crafting your Wholebeing Happiness in Midlife.

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Series 2 – Episode 14: BONUS – Join Julia Seal at the Happy & Healthy Midlife Summit where she’s interviewed all about Wholebeing Happiness.

You’ll find out more about what Wholebeing Happiness actually is & what it means for us as Midlife women.

Julia shares ideas & tips on how best to get started with unpuzzling your Midlife, creating your very own version of Midlife Wholebeing Happiness.

There’s a workbook to go with this session as well as a meditation, available in the show notes.

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Series 2 – Episode 13: MEDITATION – Midlife Meditation: Heart Breathing (35 mins) - Join Julia Seal for a guided meditation using her Heart Breathing technique.

Use it to help when you’re feeling unhappy, sad, anxious, angry or frustrated...

AND when you want to feel more Calm, Peace, Kindness or Love.

AND when you want to expand these good feelings out into the world & towards others.

This is a special meditation to celebrate this July’s birthdays of the Dalai Lama & Nelson Mandela.

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Series 2 – Episode 12: MEDITATION – What’s happening inside your brain while you are meditating? Join coach Julia Seal to find out more about your brain wave patterns, which ones are at play when you’re meditating & which ones you might want to increase, when.

Discover how to switch from one brain pattern to another so your brain is working optimally for you, throughout your day, not only when you’re meditating.

Go into more detail on how meditation can change your brain as soon as you sit on the mat, as well as how it can help you alter the very structure & function of your brain, including those really deep-seated Midlife character traits!

Want to feel calmer, more relaxed, peaceful? Meditation can do this – but how about increasing your mental dexterity, giving you laser-like focus, increasing your brain circuitry for empathy & increasing your capacity for creative insights... wow...

Also, find out more about one tricky Happiness Trap just waiting for you when you start out meditating, especially as a Midlife professional woman & how to avoid it, so Wholebeing Happiness & the benefits of meditation can unfold in your life.

Special offer too - Jump on a quick coaching call with Julia to help you with your meditation practice: “UNSTUCK - the magic of Midlife Momentum!”

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Series 2 – Episode 11: BRAIN – Today’s discussion about a small web in our Brain Stem shows you how to make change easier by working with your brain design on purpose.

Julia Seal explores the Reticular Activating System to find out more about its gatekeeping function, how it’s part of an unconscious processing system of 11 million pieces of information per second – something very necessary when you think about what’s out there in the world: just your taste senses alone are capturing 1000 bits of information per second, never mind the 34 gigabytes of information coming in from our online life every day!

Discover how the RAS acts like your very own social media or search engine algorithm – and why switching off Apple’s new App Tracking feature might even be to your disadvantage!

Despite the RAS working below your conscious awareness, it’s possible to use it to our advantage, making change easier for you by reprogramming it. Your RAS is what brings Confirmation Bias & the Law of Attraction to life!

Julia shares ways you can access your RAS, so it’s working for your best life in Midlife, it’s working towards your Wholebeing Happiness.

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Series 2 – Episode 10: Bonus – LIVE 🔥 on Buddha Day - Thoughts on Meditation

Join Julia Seal for an overview of meditation – from Mindfulness & Calming Meditation to Insight Meditation & what follows on...

She shares how she got started in meditation during a very painful divorce & what role it plays in her life nowadays.

Also, how we can work together to establish your own quietening, settling & contemplative practice as we coach on your Midlife resilience, creativity & thriving in Wholebeing Happiness.

As a professional woman in Midlife, how might you find these Thoughts on Meditation useful in your own happiness journey?

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Series 2 – Episode 9: MEDITATION - Midlife Meditation: Belly Breathing for Anxiety & Insomnia (15 mins) - Join Julia Seal for an easy, guided meditation using an age-old technique for managing stress.

Use it whenever anxiety is too much for you – when your body feels as if it’s on fire from anxiety and your thoughts are spiralling.

It can also bring ease to those long nights of sleeplessness during menopause when your body is hot and uncomfortable and your mind just won’t settle.

Perfect to bring you release when your mind is spinning – when it’s just too active with all your midlife responsibilities, particularly in the depths of the night!

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Series 2 – Episode 8: BONUS – Join coach Julia Seal for 8 days to explore 8 Happiness Habits, along with 8 tips to integrate these new habits into your daily life… these are 8 of her personal favourites and the ones she practices every day in her own life.

Listen in to the Wrap-Up LIVE session here. Even if you missed the Challenge, join Julia here to decide what Happiness Habit you might like to add into your life and get consistent at doing. There’s a free workbook that brings the Challenge to life every day.

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Julia will decode these 8 for you AND adds another 2 . . . 🎁 🎁

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Series 2 – Episode 7: PATTERNS – It’s the 4th corner piece of your Midlife Happiness Puzzle – the next step in how to manage your Midlife brain to create the life you want – your Midlife Wholebeing Happiness. Today, kicks off the exploration of Life Patterns, the wiring patterns that start in your brain and end with you taking action (or not!) in the world.

Discover how your Inner and Outer Life Patterns work to connect you with the world you live in and what components make up your Mind:Body wiring. Also, how thoughts, emotions, feelings, body sensations and actions are interconnected and work together to create the life you’re living right now. These Life Patterns are the formula for creating your best life in midlife.

Coach Julia Seal expands your self-coaching with 2 coaching tools to start decluttering your Mind from the myriad of thoughts you have, every day – somewhere between 12,000 & 70,000: of which 80% are negative & 95% are the same repetitive thoughts as the day before!

Today, is all about developing more awareness of the 3 types of Thoughts that run through your brain every day, the difference between Emotions and Feelings, what is your Somatic, Embodied experience of life actually is and why you take the actions or inactions that you do – sometimes despite yourself!

Managing our Midlife brains on purpose and intentionally to create the happiness you want starts here with these 4 corner pieces: understanding our brain’s actual design + meditation, mindfulness + tapping into our body as brain + working with our life patterns wiring formula

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Series 2 – Episode 6: BODY AS BRAIN – It’s the third corner piece of your Midlife Happiness Puzzle! We begin our exploration of the Mind:Body Connection and how to tap into its power for your long lasting happiness.

Coach Julia Seal introduces one of her favourite tools, one she uses herself every day and one that is foundational to exploring your body’s wisdom in our Brain Management journey – your Midlife Red Flag warning System.

Look at Red Flags as they’re built into our language in order to identify your own Red Flags – from pirates’ warnings to sharks and wildfires. Find the “Flight or Flight” system that’s unique to you and what’s actually happening inside your body when this system is triggered.

Then dig deeper into the more subtle signals of your somatic experience – the little sign posts on your day’s journey that something is not quite right for you, when you’re off track in your life.

By following Julia’s simple steps to doing this, you can create your own inner reference system and even discover how to use midlife irritation and midlife exhaustion to your advantage – how these can actually show you, moment-by-moment, the way forward to your best life!

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Series 2 – Episode 5: MEDITATION - Midlife Meditation: 3 Breaths Expanded (20 mins) - Julia Seal guides you through this 20 minute meditation to so you can calm your brain, gather your thoughts and relax your entire Being.

Experience how to switch your brain from stressed-out Beta brain waves to the Theta & Alpha waves of wakeful rest & relaxed attention.

Then, see what happens as you reduce the stress hormones Cortisol & Adrenaline and instead flood your brain and body with the Happiness hormones, neurotransmitters: Oxytocin, Dopamine, Endorphins & Serotonin

Discover “The Pause” – a happiness secret that will make all the difference to your Menopause & beyond, especially your relationships and even those hot flushes!

Using this meditation is your doorway into discovering your Happiness Power in Midlife – it’s the perfect tool to get you started with a complete meditation practice. 20 minutes in your day for a for a lifetime of benefits.

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Series 2 – Episode 4: MEDITATION - Midlife Meditation: 3 Breaths to get you started (5 mins) - Join Julia Seal for the easiest way to start meditating so you can enjoy the benefits of calming your brain and slowing your racing thoughts in just 5 minutes.

Experience how to switch your brain from stressed-out Beta brain waves to the Theta & Alpha waves of wakeful rest & relaxed attention, while reducing the stress hormones Cortisol & Adrenaline.

Discover “The Pause” – a happiness secret that will make all the difference to your Menopause & beyond, especially your relationships and even those hot flushes!

This meditation sets you up with a simple & practical breathing meditation habit to help you to tap into the secret of Happiness! Just 5 minutes at any time in your day, wherever you are.

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Series 2 – Episode 3: MEDITATION – It’s the second corner piece for your Midlife Happiness Puzzle! We begin our exploration of all things Mindfulness & Meditation so that you can setup your own Practice, expand it & then establish it into your life, long term. We look at everything from simple but powerful Breathing Practices, Mindfulness & Mindful Meditation, Resting Meditation, the cultivation of compassion & loving-kindness as well as the deeper Insight Meditation – so much fun ahead!

Today, coach Julia Seal (& long term meditator) starts with the easiest – & most foundational of all practices when it comes to Managing our Brains with Mindfulness & Meditation – Breathing!

Yes... this simple hardly noticed automatic behaviour that we all have to do to stay alive is the start of our journey – our journey to go from being stuck in Midlife or suffering in emotional pain & confusion to our Midlife resilience, creativity, thriving – our Wholebeing Happiness – it’s that easy :-)

Julia walks you through a step-by-step process into how to start a Breathing Habit & then expand it into your life permanently, expanding on her free Coaching Tool: 3 Long Strong Breaths.

Also, find out why something so simple has such happiness power - what’s actually happening in your brain & why it works. Look into how to switch from stressed-out Beta brain waves to the Theta & Alpha waves of wakeful rest & relaxed attention. Also, how to reduce the stress hormones Cortisol & Adrenaline, flooding your brain & body with the Happiness hormones & neurotransmitters: Oxytocin, Dopamine, Endorphins & Serotonin.

If that’s not enough for you, you’ll discover “The Pause” that will make all the difference to your Menopause & beyond – a happiness secret ingredient that will transform your life, especially your Midlife relationships!

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Series 2 – Episode 2: Brain Design – It’s the first corner piece for your Midlife Happiness Puzzle! The first episode to begin our exploration into how to manage our Midlife brains on purpose and intentionally, so that we can live into our best lives.

Today’s episode introduces one of coach Julia Seal’s 4 Basics of Brain Management: Brain Design – how understanding the internal structure and workings of your brain can expand your ability to craft and coach your own Midlife Wholebeing Happiness.

Find out how just a simple way of viewing the structure of your brain can make all the difference. Discover how to become more aware of what’s happening when you’re triggered, REACTING automatically to life’s difficulties and when you’re skillfully RESPONDING. What happens in road rage or in arguments with your spouse and children!

Start the journey here to unpuzzle your life & manage your Midlife brain to expand your resilience, tap into your creativity and thrive in your Midlife.

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It’s a special episode today, the start of our Series 2 coaching on Brain Management & your Midlife Happiness!

Join Consultant-Coach Julia Seal for an overview of what’s ahead in Series 2: Brain Management - what’s next in crafting your Midlife Jigsaw Puzzle while discovering how to coach yourself and create your deepest Happiness.

Explore more on why your Happiness in Midlife is so Puzzling and how, by enjoying the current Covid-19 jigsaw puzzle revival, you can create and live into your picture of Happiness in Midlife for yourself - it’s all about your crafted version of Resilience > Creativity > Thriving - your own Wholebeing Happiness formula!

Discover the 4 cornerstones of your Jigsaw Puzzle: the 4 Basics of Brain Management and how these four skills are core to shaping your Midlife Happiness. ..

...from understanding and working with your Brain’s Design and how to use the power of Mindfulness Meditation in your life to why the Mind Body Connection is an essential source of wisdom in our Midlife and how to unwind Habitual Think-Feel-Act patterns and create more helpful habits.

Also, find out how this new venture ahead of you ties into all our coaching on the podcast to date in Series 1: the core 6 episodes and 50 deep-dive episodes where we explored everything to do with how you’re Defining your Midlife Happiness, how you’re measuring it and tracking it and how you’re Visioning your Future.

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How can I be happier in Midlife? How can I make the most of this next phase - be more resilient – more creative - thrive – even, evolve?

Join consultant-coach Julia Seal to explore these Midlife questions and more in a happiness-coaching journey where you can transform this next phase of your life, no matter what – no matter what your circumstances are right now... overwhelmed by the changes wrought by Menopause, looking for more meaningful work, caught in stagnant relationships or feeling anxious, unfulfilled, discontent, burnt out, overwhelmed or just, stuck!

Midlife is a calling to your own metamorphosis: to let go of what’s no longer working in your life > to strengthen your Inner Power > to build your Legacy for others > to craft your deepest Wholebeing Happiness... it’s the perfect time for you to solve the puzzle of the Midlife Transition, your MiddlePause, your Midolescence (Middlescence) and embark on an exploration of living into the Best Version of you, today.

Create your new Midlife Jigsaw Puzzle by exploring how to get unstuck in Midlife - discover how to coach yourself every day at home, in relationships and at work, how to purposefully manage your own mind and reconnect to your body, how to “hack” your brain with tools backed up by scientific research, how to unwind your unhelpful habits and how to take the best from the world’s wisdom on the pursuit of happiness.

In addition to mini-coaching sessions and step-by-step tools, each episode helps you to take immediate action on the most impactful ways to increase your daily happiness, while supporting you on a longer reinvention coaching journey to living a purposeful and intentional life of Wholebeing Happiness in Midlife.

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We’re taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I’ve been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-)

But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we’ll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness.

Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife!

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Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS – Series 1 – Puzzling Your Happiness.

Discover how your Happiness is actually just like Puzzling and how by enjoying the current Covid-19 puzzle craze you can learn to create your picture of Happiness in Midlife for yourself - it’s all about your crafted version of Happiness and Success - your own Happiness:Success formula!

I take you on a walk through the last 14 months and 56 episodes of coaching here on the podcast – so you can see how we’ve explored everything to do with how you’re Defining your Happiness, how you’re measuring it and tracking it and how you’re Visioning your Future.

All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE

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Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS – Balance & your Right to Disconnect

Two big questions: The great Work:Life Divide: what is the debate really about? Work:Life Balance: does it even exist & do we want it? Explore what’s most useful to your own happiness & success with coach Julia Seal. We learn from Prof Jon Kabat-Zinn and poet Jenny Joseph, Superwoman, #TheRightToDisconnect & the Happiness Parenting Gap to decide what artisanal unbalance we might want instead!

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Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS – How Menopause & Work can evolve your Happiness

Join Julia Seal exploring Menopause knowledge while exploring more about how to coach yourself, using free tools for 4 types of negative emotions. Review physical, emotional symptoms & cultural differences to discover why Menopause is your best kept secret to happiness, to evolve & fuel the changes you want in your Midlife. Consider work policies to ensure we’re effectively manage Menopause in today's multi-cultural workplace and then, jump start your own life with Julia's blog:The Menopause Midlife Bardo.

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Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS – Your Superhero, Shokunin version of Happiness.

Review your self-coaching through Series 1 and what you’ve decided is your version of "happy & successful, no matter what". Sense-check it against the world of artisanal craftsmanship, the spirit of Shokunin, your own Inner Power & coach Julia Seal's free coaching tool, The Happiness Checklist. Tap into inspiration from Wonder Woman, the WHO One World:Together at Home concert, Damien Hurst's rainbows, Smile Awhile poetry, Thomas Jefferson & Wonder Woman.

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Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS – Smiles, silly hats & coffee...

This week we celebrate World Smile Day, International Coffee Day and Mad Hatters' Day! Learn more about what these three days are all about with coach Julia Seal and how you can use them for your self-coaching. "Do an act of kindness, help one person smile" comes alive where you can apply all that you've learnt about Smiley, smiling, smiZIng and coaching yourself in your daily life.

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Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS – Coaching in a Nutshell, how it all comes together.

The world needs people who coach themselves beyond their fears & towards kindness & contribution every day! Discover how to respond to a crisis, like COVID-19, so you can be of service to your family, friends & colleagues as well as a contributor to the greater good. With Coach Julia Seal, learn step-by-step tools to coach yourself through spiraling thoughts & emotions, using Neptune's Trident, the Wuhan foot-tap and Copenhagen pandas to guide you.

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Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS – My Best Coaching Tool for toxicity in your relationships.

Explore conflict in your Midlife relationships, looking at what to do when we use toxic behaviours. Discover your 5 afflictive emotions while walking with me through my 3-step coaching process to support you in difficult relationships. Find out why Breathing is so transformative in your daily self-coaching and what "Taking The High Road" has got to do with accessing your Inherent Wisdom behind your Afflictive Emotions.

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Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS – 2 Powerful Coaching Tools to get you started on your coaching journey.

In this episode, start the journey of coaching your Midlife Unhappiness and your negative emotions by pushing Charon's boat out into the River of Misery and jumping in with Wally (or Waldo) joining us. Expand and explore all your negative thoughts and emotions, all the obstacles blocking your happiness and success. I offer you some immediate relief from the discomfort of your negative emotions with 2 of my most powerful FREE Coaching Tools – learn how to clear out the clutter in your brain and create spaciousness with breath.

All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE

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Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife!

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Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS – Special days to practice coaching yourself, bringing our tools to life

These 8 Episodes show you how to coach yourself no matter what the day is – from World Smile Day, Coffee Day, Mad Hatter’s Day and Pay It Forward Day to this week’s focus on Fun at Work Day. These sessions bring my coaching tools into your everyday life where every moment is an opportunity to practice your self-coaching in Midlife.

Special days to practice coaching yourself & bringing our tools to life

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1.7 – Series 1 Coaching – it’s a wrap!
1.15 - World Smile Day with coffee & Mad Hatters!
1.16 - Insight: Pay-It-Forward (1)
1.27 – Coach Yourself on Fun at Work Day!
1.35 COVID-19: Keep Calm & Coach Yourself
1.40 - Artisanal & Shokunin happiness
1.41 – Favourite Insights from Year-1 + a Coaching Gift
1.49 - The Define, Assess & Vision Pieces of your Happiness Jigsaw

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Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS – Clarifying Concepts: Q&As (2)

In these 4 Q&A episodes, I take the most popular questions and explore them more deeply. I look at Work:Life Balance, the shame of Emotional Immaturity, how Employee Engagement applies to you and easy ways to start a meditation habit.

The focus this week is the Q&A episdoe all about the interplay between Happiness & Success in your Midlife and when to use outward or inward measures.

Clarifying concepts: Q&As (2)

End of Series 1 > deep dive Q&As

1.42.Q&A Employee Engagement – the same as Happiness?
1.43.Q&A – Your Happiness vs Success Formula
1.44.Q&A – Meditation tips, Habit hacks & EQ shame
1.45.Q&A – Work:Life Balance – the great divide!

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Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS – Clarifying Concepts: Q&As (1)

In 7 Q&A episodes, I answer a variety of your questions, clarifying the core coaching concepts & tools. It’s your chance to find out how other Midlife women have applied the insights from the podcast into their own lives – from understanding Buffering, using the 2 degree shift and framing to when you might need therapy vs coaching.

The focus episode this week is the Q&A from the mini-coaching journey on your Negative Emotions. Here I look at your Inner Power & Powerlessness: what to do to balance power and when to intervene in unhealthy conflict and toxic behaviours at work and home.

Clarifying concepts: Q&As (1)

Core Coaching episodes

1.1.Q&A How Happy are you at work, really?
1.2.Q&A Your Snakes & Ladders Journey
1.3. Q&A - Where do you want to be? 10/10
1.4.Q&A Going deeper into your 10/10 Happiness
1.5.Q&A What's Stopping your Happiness?
1.6Q&A What's the Toughest Thing for you?

Coaching your Negative Emotions Series

1.31.Q&A – Ending Powerlessness in you & others

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Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS – The Science of happiness

In 8 episodes, we expand the 4 leading academic models of Happiness, looking at what constructs they have included in their definitions and why - as well as the detail of each of the key ingredients of happiness & success.

Today’s spotlight is on the work by Dr Tal Ben-Shahar - creator of Harvard’s most popular course in its history & one of my own teachers - who is the first to develop a field of studies dedicated to an inter-disciplinary academic approach of Happiness.

Find out more about SPIRE Wholebeing and how to expand your own Physical & Intellectual Wholebeing.

Deepening your Happiness Definitions: The Science of Happiness

1.33 The Science of your Happiness
1.34 Science of Happiness: PERMA
1.36 Science of Happiness: GGSC
1.37 – The Science of Happiness: SPIRE & Wholebeing
1.38 – The Science of Happiness at Work: PERK
1.39 - Business Consulting & the Science of Happiness
1.42 Deep dive: Happiness + Engagement
1.43 Deep dive: Happiness + Success

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Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS – Using your Negative Emotions to create Happiness

This mini-coaching journey of 17 episodes addresses how Unhappiness shows up in your life and gives you ideas of how you can choose to use it to fuel your growth, evolve yourself and expand how you define and vision your future Happiness.

I look at the Balance of Emotions, Emotional Intelligence, Buffering, Anti-Fragility, Resilience and Evolution. I offer you a simple yet powerful way to start Allowing your Feelings: the actual process of FEELING and processing your negative emotions.

This is a wonderful coaching skill that you can practice over and over again through these months of the Covid-19 Pandemic - there are so many opportunities to do AND this is such a core skill in your self-coaching toolkit - there really is no better time!

To along with these episodes, download:

Overview to Negative Emotions Coaching Journey
Quotes to inspire you on this Journey

Along the way, we’ll spend time with Dr Seuss, Carl Jung, David Wyhte, Stephen Hawking, Thomas Moore and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross – not to mention: pandas, Charon the River Guide, Wally/Waldo, Guy Fawkes and Cowardly Lion!

These are sessions rich with insights and some of my best coaching tools that I trust will help you along the journey of How to FEEL better.

1.17 – Unhappy is the story of Happy
1.18 – Unhappy, what to do about it?
1.19 – Coaching your Unhappiness
1.20 – Negative Emotions & Emotional Intelligence
1.21 – Emotional Immaturity & your Happiness Wisdom
1.22 – Happiness is 50:50, always!
1.23 – Are you Buffering your happiness away?
1.24 – Are you Anti-fragile? Courageous?
1.25 – Your next step, Evolution!
1.26 – How to FEEL better now!
1.26.Q&A – How to FEEL better now!
1.27 – Coach Yourself on Fun at Work Day!
1.28 – Menopause at Work: coaching your negative emotions
1.29 – Toxic emotions at work – what to do (Part 1)
1.30 – Toxic emotions at work – what to do (Part 2)
1.31.Q&A – Ending Powerlessness in you & others
1.32 – Discomfort change = Happiness!
1.28 – Menopause at Work: coaching your negative emotions
1.29 – Toxic emotions at work – what to do (Part 1)
1.30 – Toxic emotions at work – what to do (Part 2)
1.31.Q&A – Ending Powerlessness in you & others
1.32 – Discomfort change = Happiness!
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Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS - Smiling & Laughing

We revisit Episode #1.8 which is the kick-off episode to the next 9 Insight coaching sessions focused around Smiling, Laughing and Self-Smizing.

Join me to explore how to use these topics to trigger your brain and expose those deeply held beliefs about your Happiness & Unhappiness. We also look into the relationship with yourself and how your Inner Critic shows up, especially when you do this coaching work!

This includes discovering more about the Duchenne Smile, Gelotology, the happiest poem ever, and what Emojis and the iconic Yellow Smiley Face have to do with your happiness!

1.8: Insight – What’s behind Smiley?
1.9: Emojis – your happiness at work?
1.10 - Smile Awhile
1.11: Insight – Laughter for work success
1.12 Self-Smizing Changes Everything (part 1)
1.13 Self-Smizing Changes Everything (part 2)
1.14 Q&A - Everything about Self-Smizing
1.15 - World Smile Day with coffee & Mad Hatters!
1.16 - Insight: Pay-It-Forward (1)
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Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE

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Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS - Core Coaching episodes

We revisit Episode #1.7 which is a wrap up of the CORE COACHING episodes #1.1 - #1.6.

Listen to these to get the most out of Defining, Assessing & Visioning your happiness coaching journey.

These are your go-to episodes if you want an overview of what we’ve been doing over the last year – if you want a refresher or if you’re new and you want a quick catch up.

I walk you through the basics of Defining - Assessing - Visioning your Happiness in these 6 episodes - here you can create your own Happiness Coaching Journey.

There’s lots of coaching, wisdom & fun in these early sessions - I even subject you to my singing... we spend time with The Dalai Lama, Dr Tal Ben-Shahar, Harry Potter and Odysseus not to mention Hello Kitty, Dug the Talking Dog & Coke-a-Cola!

0 – Welcome to the very first Happiness-Matters podcast!
1.1 How happy are you really?
1.1.Q&A How Happy are you at work, really?
1.2 Your happiness “snakes-and-ladders” journey!
1.2.Q&A Your Snakes & Ladders Journey
1.3 Where do you want to be 10/10
1.3. Q&A - Where do you want to be? 10/10
1.4 Going Deeper into your 10/10 Happiness
1.4.Q&A Going deeper into your 10/10 Happiness
1.5 – What’s stopping your Happiness & Success at work?
1.5.Q&A What's Stopping your Happiness?
1.6 – What’s the toughest thing for you?
1.6Q&A What's the Toughest Thing for you?
1.7 – Series 1 Coaching – it’s a wrap!

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It’s a special episode today, the end of our Series 1 coaching on Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness in Midlife!

Coach Julia Seal takes a walk through the last 14 months and 56 episodes of coaching here on the podcast – so you can see how we’ve explored everything to do with how you’re Defining your Happiness, how you’re measuring it and tracking it and how you’re Visioning your Future.

Discover how your Happiness is actually just like Puzzling and how by enjoying the current Covid-19 puzzle craze you can learn to create your picture of Happiness in Midlife for yourself - it’s all about your crafted version of Happiness and Success - your own Happiness:Success formula!

Find out which are the Core Coaching episodes, your go-to episodes if you want an overview of what we’ve been doing over the last year – if want a refresher or if you’re new and you want a quick catch up.

Then, find out more about the three Bonus, Insight mini-coaching sessions that add depth and richness to your coaching journey: Smiling & Laughter + Our negative emotions & Unhappiness + diving deep into the Science of Happiness.

Download our free Series 1 Coaching Overview to help you navigate these episodes as well as the Happiness Wisdom Concepts, Question & Answer feedback sessions, Coaching Tools and Special Days coaching that bring all the concepts and tools to life.

Also don’t forget to join Julia and discover the next step in your Midlife Happiness Journey – in honour of The Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela.

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We’re going “Back to the Future” with Doc and Marty – where there are no roads (yet) with Coach Julia Seal.

We go backwards and forwards through time, between your Current Self and your Future Self in order to to explore the possibilities of your Future Self and your happiness and success in Midlife!

I revisit two free Coaching Tools to bring this time travel to life: Your Future Vision and Your Future Self Journey. Your coaching version of the sporty DeLorean travelling at 88mph!

Walking through these two tools brings us to a deeper exploration of who your Future Self is and who you want to be in this #NewNormal world. It’s also an opportunity to rethink your New Year’s Resolutions mid-year.

Then, by going into detail on how to use our brain’s Reticular Activating System and the power of our mind-body connection through Olympic visualisation, we can bring our Future Self to life and change the reality of our futures, every day from today. We go step-by-step together on how to do this.

Also, draw some future life inspiration from two very special birthdays this month: The Dalai Lama turns 85 and it’s Madiba Day, a day of donating 67 minutes to help others inspired by the legacy of South Africa’s Nelson Mandela.

“Great Scott!”

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We’ve heard it before: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it” – join coach Julia Seal to explore the truth behind the misquote and what it means for our self-coaching.

Discover the 3 ways researchers assess our Happiness and Success and our Happiness at Work, including measuring our smiles, saliva and even, our urine! Also, find out what to watch for in your measurement of choice, when it’s not useful to you and how to watch out for issues of bias – gender, race, language, culture and age.

Julia outlines her free 8-steps Coaching Tool, The Happiness Ladder, that’s based on the Cantril Ladder of Life and used by Gallup for the United Nation’s Annual World Happiness Report. We explore how to use the Tool to support our own definitions of Happiness, our personally crafted Artisanal versions of Happiness, our own Happiness:Success Formulas! Then, join Julia every Monday and Friday to use The Happiness Ladder – Thank-Goodness-Its-Monday and FriYay – and learn how to use The Happiness Ladder as a navigation system in your self-coaching every day. This is the start of creating your own Assessment Tool based on everything you’ve discovered about your own version of Happiness in Series 1 (see webinar at www.happiness-matters.coach).

Also, find out about another 8 tools you can use to measure your Happiness and Happiness at Work – from the PERMA Profiler to the UK Govt Office of Sciences Foresight Programme > long surveys, quick quizzes, apps, traffic lights, trackers and most fun of all, emoji mood tracking!

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We take a deep dive into one of our biggest influences on our current Happiness and our future Success – our Past!

How is your PAST influencing your Happiness & Success in Midlife? Are you using it FOR you or AGAINST you? Are you going through your day with regret, bitterness, sadness about things that have happened to you – do you find yourself wishing things were different or that you “should have done...”?

You might well be sabotaging your own Happiness and Success right now – and your Future, without you even realising it!

Julia revisits our Coaching Tool – the Snakes & Ladders Gameboard to helps you to uncover how your past thinking is affecting your future. We use it to uncover all kinds of things that might be holding us back – our beliefs about happiness and success, all the thoughts we have about our life and how well we’ve lived our lives as well as those inner belief system about ourselves!

Explore 3 unusual ways to think about your Past that might help you unlock some immediate Happiness right now – we use Divorce and Retrenchment in Midlife to illustrate this perspective, along with musicians Led Zeppelin, LL Cool J, Alicia Keys, Lady Gaga & Bruce Springsteen!

Then, we apply 3 coaching tips to turn your Past into a powerful tool for your future – 3 steps to take to unlock your Happiness and Success, to put your past behind you and to setup your Past to fuel your Future.

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Today, let’s unpack two big questions for our happiness and success - The great Work:Life Divide: what is the debate really about? AND Work:Life Balance: does it even exist & do we want it?

In considering the Work:Life distinction, we look into current Workers’ Rights, including hours of work, flexi-time, Menopause policies and #TheRightToDisconnect. We draw some further insights from the Happiness Parenting Gap study and what we’re experiencing now through the Covid-19 pandemic as we all learn to #WorkFromHome.

By exploring these blurring boundaries and spillage as we chase high engagement productivity levels, we ask ourselves if Stanford University’s Ideal Worker archetype is even useful to us, especially in light of learnings from Jon Kabat-Zinn’s ground-breaking Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Programme.

Then, we dive into Work:Life Balance – does it even exist & do we want it? We look at balance in light of our mother’s kitchen scales & smooth-running Wheels of Life and how such useful coaching concepts can become instruments of our own torture!

We get to decide now if we really want to continue to buy into the Superwoman Complex or if there’s a better role model for you now in Midlife – especially with so many great woman leading the world today.

In our self-coaching we can ask ourselves more about what we want in our Midlife, how do we want to live inside, inside our heads and hearts, how do we want to show up in the world, how do we want to lead?

Perhaps we might want instead your own version of Artisanal Unbalance or something hilariously outrageous as poet Jenny Joseph describes in “Warning”?

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Join coach Julia Seal to find out answers to your questions on Emotional Immaturity, Meditation and Habit Hacks.

Firstly, we look at coaching our EQ and examine some of your questions on Emotional Immaturity. I explain why having pockets of being an Emotional Child is so normal and nothing to be ashamed of, even if you’re a successful professional woman!

We revisit what’s actually going on in our brains when we’re being an emotional child > Reacting like a petulant brat rather than Responding intentionally and purposefully, like an Emotional Adult. We also take a look at Emotional Responsibility and what that might mean for you. Then, consider why self-criticism completely halts your growth and development and download the tools to move beyond self-judgment and your Inner Critic.

Then, we talk about how to easily start a Meditation or Sitting/Breathing Practice, using Julia’s easy-to-use free coaching tools.

Then, Julia shares some ideas from her own life and her clients on how to remind yourself to coach yourself every day, how to make new habit formation easy. There are 5 hacks to set up a reminder system and get organised – on Paperclip Day (yes, really!) as well as ideas on how to use Intentional Reminders: Red Flags and Positive Intentions.

And lastly, a reminder what it means to “experiment on yourself” with all these coaching tools and tips!

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We're looking at your Happiness;Success Formula this week! Join coach Julia Seal in this Q&A episode to investigate your definition of success, where it comes from and what you've included.

At first, the Happiness:Success link seems like a real chicken-and-egg dilemma with everyone weighing in on what comes first, Happiness or Success? Everyone - from Success Magazine, Spike Milligan and Ingrid Bergman to Aristotle and Mark Twain. We create some clarity by diving into the latest research from Standford, Harvard, Gallup and Berkeley on how to be successful - and what it means to be professionally and personally happy at work.

Then, we take a look at your outward measures of Success AND your inward measures, including your happiness misalignment and buffering activities, such as overworking, overeating and overdrinking - even over-playing Solitaire on Solitaire Day!

This ensures our versions of success are as robust and individual as the versions of Happiness we've been creating on the podcast > so your version of the Happiness:Success formula is useful and inspiring in your Midlife. All the free coaching tools from Series 1 will help you here.

To help us think more deeply about our own Happiness:Success formula we end off considering THE killer interview question as well as the work of famous Russian author Leon Tolstoy, Buddhist teacher on dying, Stephen Levine and Ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius.

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What's the difference between Engagement & Happiness?

How do Happiness, Flow, Engagement & Employee Engagement fit together?

What's the new frontier for us as business leaders engaging our teams AND for ourselves as engaged employees?

Explore these questions with consultant-coach Julia Seal to get clarity on what lies at the core of Employee Engagement > how discretionary effort is its golden nugget, perhaps even its Holy Grail!

Julia explains two models from her consulting work in Employee Engagement to help you make sense of how these concepts all work together.

We pull together our Think-Feel-Act patterns into her Engagement Profile and all the work being done worldwide in HR and Employee Engagement into her Engagement Equation and look at how this stacks up against Wholebeing Happiness and SPIRE.

Discover the new frontiers for Employee Engagement and what this means to you as a leader and to yourself at work.

What is business' next opportunity to reach out beyond the normal work:life divide?

What is is our own individual opportunity to claim back responsibility for Self-Driven Engagement - being happier, more engaged and more successful at work on our own terms

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It's May Day - it's Workers' Day - it's our first birthday!

Join coach Julia Seal for a celebration of the best clips from this year's podcast.

Remember Hello Kitty and Coke-a-Cola, the River of Misery and the 2 Degree Shift? How about Where's Wally, the Socrates Paradox and the Happiness Treadmill? Or changing up your brain patterns, the yin-yang of our lives or toxic emotions? Resilience - Antifragility - Laughter - Connection - Contribution - Meaning - Flow...

Enjoy looking back at the coaching we've done in Series 1: Defining - Assessing - Visioning as we craft our very own versions of "happy and successful, no matter what" - our crafted view on life and happiness that we want to devote ourselves to in this next midlife phase of our lives.

Let's celebrate with the best chocolate cake ever, Marmite scones, Champagne and a very special coaching gift for you!

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Now, we're taking all our Series 1 coaching work and putting it together to craft your own version, your own definition of "happy and successful no matter what".

We explore the idea of an artisanal approach to developing your definition. First by looking at how marketing has "artisan-washed" so much around us - from cocktail ice and Scotch eggs to coffee and fancy toast! Then, focusing on the essence of the word, we discover how considering our happiness as artisanal supports our self-coaching.

We add to this by understanding what it means to have Shokunin Kishitsu for our Happiness and what we can learn from Japanese master woodworkers about purpose, contribution and patience.

Lastly, we revisit Powerlessness and cultivating your Inner Power. We apply what we learned in previous episodes about our 3 Inner Choices to our Happiness picture.

Coach Julia Seal takes all this, including the discoveries from all 47 past episodes, and combines it into the new free coaching tool - The Happiness Checklist.

Use this to sense-check your definition, your coaching goal of Artisanal - Shokunin Happiness and to ensure you've created a robust definition for yourself, one is based on solid research, the world's wisdom and your own life experience, and not one-sided or limited based only on what you’re finding difficult or unpleasant in your life right now - a definition that's well worth your while, well worth your precious human life...

This episode is also a celebration of Pay It Forward Day - the WHO One World:Together at Home concert, veteran Captain Tom Moore, artist Damien Hurst, epidemiologist Professor Salim Abdool Karim and social reformer Lily Hardy Hammond.

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Learn from 35 years of work and 30 million employees around the world about what's essential to your happiness and success at work!

Join consultant-coach Julia Seal to review the excellent research on happiness at work being led by global research houses and management consultancies and what they've found as the benefits of being happy at work - for companies and for you personally.

Examine Gallup's Q12 Employee Engagement Survey and how it can help us assess our own happiness. We find out more about Q10: Do you have a best friend at work? and why it's the game changer in your happiness and success at work, especially for working women - no matter whether you believe this is appropriate at work or not!

Consider the Trust Index Model by the Great Place to Work Institute, looking at the 3 types of trust relationships that are essential to your productivity, resilience, creativity and engagement at work. We focus on one of the 5 Trust dimensions: Camaraderie and the elements that will best improve your work experience.

Through the session, use the well-known consultants' tool, Gap Analysis in your self-coaching as we continue to build our own robust definitions of happiness. Discover how to find your happiness gaps and then, find out whether the Happiness Parenting Gap applies to you, especially as so many of us #WFH this week!

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This week, coach Julia Seal introduces the 4-pillar academic framework of the Science of Happiness at Work from the University of Berkeley's Greater Good Science Centre. As we adapt to the new-normal of working remotely, working from home - and celebrating National Wear Your Pyjamas to Work Day - we discover what's included in PERK: Purpose - Engagement - Resilience - Kindness and what each of these mean to your own work happiness and success.

Using two assessment tools - Wheels or Chairs - learn a quick way how to assess your balance in these 4 happiness dimensions.

Then, dive deep into understanding E: Engagement and how to increase your own Engagement - for yourself, your own happiness and success - rather than leaving it up to your company's El Khomri-type policies or leadership goodwill.

Get to know the 8 characteristics of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's Flow for yourself and try out some simple tips so you can experience it more often.

Then, use a combination of Julia's coaching tools, with insights from Einstein, Proust and Mindfulness, to practice coaching yourself to reach Flow in your everyday working life; and not only in the jobs that you find interesting! Happy and successful, no matter what!

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This week, we overview the SPIRE Wholebeing model of Happiness, the 4th happiness formula in the Science of Happiness.

Developed by Dr Tal Ben-Shahar, we discover what he means by "the experience of whole person wellbeing - of Wholebeing” and what's included in the 12 principles of SPIRE: Spiritual Wholebeing - Physical Wholebeing - Intellectual Wholebeing - Relationship Wholebeing - Emotional Wholebeing.

Since it's World Health Day today, with a focus on nurses, we consider what's included in the Physical dimension of Wholebeing Happiness and how understanding the science behind these insights we can fulfill our potential, our happiness.

From Tokyo 2021 Olympic athletes, little finger workouts and Roger Bannister's 4-minute mile in 1954, we learn how to exploit what science now knows about the Mind-Body connection and Rene Descartes Dualistic Mindset. Using our Future Vision coaching tool, we learn how to coach ourselves through visualizing how we want to show up at home and at work in this Pandemic world and afterwards.

Then, we take a moment to learn from the enormous achievements in the Space Race and this week's International Day of Human Space Flight in order to enhance our Intellectual Wholebeing. Coaching ourselves in this dimension shows us how Curiosity and Openness help us make the most of what life has to offer.

Again, we follow a step-by-step process to leverage what we know about Curiosity and our Happiness and learn how to use Shoshin, Beginner's Mind to grow our capacity for our sustainable long term success and happiness.

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This week, we dip into how the University of Berkeley's Greater Good Science Centre researches and defines Happiness. We explore how Happiness and the related constructs of Gratitude, Empathy, Mindfulness, Wonder, Optimism, Affection and Self-Compassion fit into the Science of a Meaningful Life.

In a time of social distancing and self-isolation, coach Julia Seal focuses on 3 key happiness areas to help us through this time - as individuals and towards our societies and the greater good: Positive Emotion + Social Connection + Cooperation.

Firstly, we look at the essential role of Positive Emotion in our Happiness - from Joy, Gratitude and Mindfulness to Kindness, Self-Compassion and Tenderness - and how they open us up and change the boundaries of our minds and hearts. Then, we find out how taking advantage of the biochemical benefits of these positive emotions on our body and minds results in us being smarter on tests, more resilient in adversity, seeing "oneness" and even enhances cellular renewal in our bodies every day!

Next, we explore why our social connections, our "social capital" is one of the most important and enduring sources of Happiness, how our "ultrasociality" can even predict our happiness levels.

Dig deeper into Empathy and learn how to cultivate it in times of social distancing and even find out how to enhance the 10-part Empathy Circuit in our brains with Roman Krznaric's 6 Empathy Habits.

Lastly, we discover what "pro-social" behaviours and the science of Cooperation and Reconciliation have to do with our happiness. How we are wired for instinctive Cooperation and how Cooperation has the same effect in on our brain's Reward System as eating chocolate!

Lastly, Julia walks you through a new Coaching Tool - Awesome Awe Writing as a way to enhance your Happiness and expand feelings of Awe and Gratitude during difficult times.

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The world needs people who coach themselves beyond their Fears and towards Kindness and Contribution every day!

Discover how to respond to a crisis, like COVID-19, so you can be of service to your family, friends & collagues as well as a contributor to the greater good.

Why learning self-coaching skills to direct our inner traffic of thoughts; to feel more deeply and into our humanity; and to use our emotions on purpose to fuel the best actions is so vital now... what is the point of learning how to be happy and successful if it's only sustainable in good times?

With Coach Julia Seal, learn step-by-step tools to coach yourself through this time, putting into practice all that we've been learning at Happiness-Matters.

Discover a simple, step-by-step process on what to do if you're spiraling, feeling feeling anxious or out of control - suggestions on practices to establish daily self-coaching habits, while you are self-isolating - ideas on how to deepen your self-coaching in order to use this time as an opportunity for growth and evolution, using the 3-prongs of Neptune's trident and Shiva's trishula to guide you.

And why you might want to limit your exposure to news and social media through this time and what you could be doing instead...

A Wuhan handshake or rather, foot-tap and elbow pump for you - thank-you for showing up for yourselves and the world!

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Our coaching this week, takes place against the backdrop of the United Nations' International Day of Happiness, the World Happiness Fest in Spain, Happytalism, the Global Happiness Movement and the annual World Happiness Report as well as March being #HappinessMonth.

This week, we jump into the first academic model we're using to build our own definition of happiness and success - PERMA - as well as the 10 steps we can take to advance the happiness, wellbeing and freedom of all life on earth by 2050 - "Happiness For All, Forever".

PERMA is Positive Psychology's leading model for the Science of Happiness and is really the most popular one today and currently, the most influential in happiness conversations worldwide.

We take a brief look into the field of Positve Psychology and where it fits as the "4th wave" after Psychoanalysis, Behaviourism and Humanism, with Sigmund Freud, BF Skinner, Ivan Pavlov, Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow. We introduce the change from the "Disease Model" of traditional psychology, using the Diagnostic + Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM) to its "positive" counterpart, the Character Strengths + Virtues (CSV) manual.

We adopt an understanding of Positive Psychology as the "the scientific study of positive human functioning and flourishing on multiple levels that include the biological, personal, relational, institutional, cultural, and global dimensions of life".

Then, we look into the detail of PERMA: what each construct means - Positive Emotion + Engagement + Relationship + Meaning + Accomplishment.

Our coaching uses PERMA as a way for you to assess your own happiness and success against the 5 top constructs of Well-Being Theory. As an assessment tool of your current happiness definition, we can see, what you've been prioritizing over the long term and what you're doing every day when living your life.

With our first coaching tool, we learn how to use daily Positive Questions to start building a positive perspective, a positive orientation to our lives. Julia shares her own personal Positive Question she uses every day in her self-coaching practice.

Then, we also explore what to do if this PERMA assessment wakes up your Inner Critic and all you see are the deficiencies in your current happiness. Julia's coaching tool and earlier 3 episodes on Self-Smizing help us here.

In our coaching with PERMA, we discover there are no wrong answers, nothing has gone wrong here!

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We're off this week to deepen your definition of Happiness and Success - what is Happiness for you, exactly!

We start this exploration with an overview of our 8-foundational pillars of Happiness Wisdom from around the world and through history. This includes outlining the 4 leading academic models coming out of the scientific study of happiness.

This is the start of our exploration of constructs, such as Flow, Engagement, Purpose, Kindness and Achievement and where you get to decide which of these is essential to your own version of happiness and success.

As we start coaching ourselves from this angle, Julia Seal introduces Socratic Ignorance or Socratic Wisdom as a way to kick-start the changes you want to make in your life, on our happiness coaching journey together.

She links the coaching ahead with the coaching we've done so far in Series 1 - from the core Coaching episodes to the insight sessions and through the recent negative emotions mini-coaching journey. This session is full of useful links to past episodes and free Coaching Tools.

It's also Julia's birthday this week - on a day when the world's mathematicians are reciting Pi and eating pie and it's the week of the World Happiness Summit (WOHASU) - home of the Global Happiness Movement too!

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This week, coach Julia Seal dives into the topic of Change and Change Management as it applies to us and changing ourselves on our happiness coaching journey.

We explore why change is hard, why we believe "You can't teach an old dog new tricks" and we find out why it's just so difficult to stick to our goals, our New Year's Resolutions - why we're not like Billy Ocean's song "When the Going gets Tough..."!

Discover how we continue to add to our unhappiness and emotional suffering every day just by resisting the Reality of Change. How resisting the reality of impermanence, one of Buddha's 4 Noble Truths, gets us stuck in the Circle of Chaos and Pity City. Knowing how and why our brains resist change holds a key secret for us.

Then, find out why changing ourselves is actually NOT HARD > why we're actually good at it... and how to use our current change skills for our happiness coaching!

Use the discoveries in Neuroscience, led by William James and Michael Merzenich, to change how we think about our brains in change and how we can use this knowledge to further our self coaching.

Then... we "add wood to the fire" just as experienced meditators do, in order to understand why "getting used to being uncomfortable" is such a vital skill in your happiness - why "discomfort is the currency of your dreams.

Finally, learn how to coach yourself "over the edge" of your changing horizons by understanding the world of Edge Work from ORSC team coaching - Julia shares an example here from her own self-coaching around procrastinating her To-Do List.

And of course, learn more about how the Midlife transition of Menopause is your best opening for this work of change - your best time for metamorphosis, your best chance for deep Happiness, ever!

Lastly, Julia briefly wraps up the 17-part Negative Emotions mini-coaching journey within Series 1: Defining - Assessing - Visioning - just so we can see where we are before we embark on our next exciting step.

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In this Q&A for our negative emotions coaching journey, we look at Inner Power and Powerlessness: what to do to balance power and when to intervene in unhealthy conflict and toxic behaviours at home and work.

We discover why powerlessness is at the root of all this toxicity and what we can do about it - for ourselves and for others.

Firstly, Coach Julia Seal, looks at exactly what's happening in our brains when we're in relationships where power is abused, exploring what's happening whether we are Victims or Persecutors. This guides us to use the best response of all, taking The High Road, balancing the power. Here, we discover the magic of the whole thing: we need be the only ones to do this, no matter who is indulging in Contempt, Criticism, Blame, Defensiveness or Stonewalling!

How to find our Inner, rather than external, Power leads us to a step-by-step process of building Inner Power and practicing it every day - how to coach our own powerlessness, using our Coaching Tools to support you.

Then, Julia looks at powerlessness and what to do if you're a manager or HR and have to intervene to "sort out that difficult person". She explains how to intervene in unhealthy conflict effectively from a coach's perspective that includes some intriguing ideas: cleaning up the inside of your brain, getting yourself to neutral, activating your inner wisdom as well as the power of role-modeling and the art of invitation into change. You can end Kindergarten-like conflict behaviour!

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Gandhi, Donald Rumsfeld, Socrates, Scottish band Runrig and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission add further insight into this last episode on coaching our negative emotions, our unhappiness and how to FEEL better.

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In the second of this 2-part coaching session with Julia Seal, we continue to explore conflict in your relationships, looking at what to do when we use toxic behaviours ourselves!

Coach Julia Seal outlines a path for how you can handle toxicity in your relationships in a way that strengthens and expands your Happiness and your Inner Power, both at home and at work.

Dig deeper into the "Think - Feel - Act = Results Cycle" that lies behind all your happiness and unhappiness, all your success and all your failures - our unhelpful patterns of negativity that drive us to use contempt, defensiveness, blame, criticism and stonewalling with our family and colleagues.

Meet the Afflictive Emotions underpinning all these toxic behaviours, negative emotions and your unhappiness - the kleshas of Ignorance, Anger, Craving, Pride and Jealousy and why they are often heightened through perimenopause and menopause.

Then, go step-by-step through a coaching process designed to support you in times of conflict in relationships around you, using our two free Coaching Tools to support you.

Learn how to shift your brain from automatic, unhelpful reactions to considered, deliberate responses that create your happiness, success & inner power. Find out why Breathing is so transformative in your daily self-coaching and what "Taking The High Road" has got to do with accessing the Inherent Wisdom behind your Afflictive Emotions.

And then, find out why we don't know what we don't know...

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We explore the edgy topic of toxicity - negative emotions and toxic behaviours in our relationships at work, and at home, in the first of a 2-part coaching session with Julia Seal.

Firstly, we look at relationship conflict through the analogy of The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse from Revelations in the Bible, discovering why the top four toxic behaviours of Criticism/Blame, Defensiveness, Stonewalling & Contempt are considered to be the most lethal and poisonous to all relationships; the predictors of divorce, remedial coaching and getting fired.

We bring some lightness to this discussion with a look at Valentine's Day this week and how you can use the day to reduce and neutralise conflict while bringing some respect and kindness to your most difficult relationships.

By shedding light on what toxins you might be employing yourself in your relationships, we discover how to stop escalating conflict and to stop creating more negativity. Then, we see how Menopause can escalate how we use or experience the toxins.

We meet Dr John Gottman and find out about the most extensive study ever done on marital stability and how we can use these insights to further help us with conflict and toxicity at work. Especially, outlining the Antidotes to neutralise these poisonous behaviours - tools to use when a colleague, employee or even your boss are displaying some of these behaviours.

Lastly, listen to Brittany Spears' Toxic music while practicing how to move from React to Response mode in your relationship conflict, how to draw on the conscious on-purpose actions to change completely your relationship with toxic emotions and toxic behaviours.

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Menopause, our midlife transition is our most powerful and empowering secret!

Together with coach Julia Seal, find out why it's our best opportunity to evolve ourselves at the deepest level, using our negative emotions, our unhappy thoughts and our difficulties at home and at work. It's time to use Menopause to fuel you, to fuel your courage to look deeply inside, to fuel your commitment to your own self-care and to fuel new thoughts, feelings, actions and habits in how you show up for yourself and for the world.

With coaching tips and free tools to download, we consider how best to respond to the midlife Bardo, the menopause midlife transition, and especially how to use the 4 different types of negative emotions we experience as our inner guidance systems.

We also explore current Menopause thinking worldwide. We look at the biochemical, physical symptoms and emotional difficulties we experience and how they affect us at work. Then, we consider the Nature-Culture divide in our cultural narratives in shaping how we experience Menopause differently worldwide - from USA, UK and Japan to Italy, Sweden and India - deterioration and decline to a time of liberation and wisdom. All essential knowledge as we navigate multi-cultural working environments and celebrate our diversity.

We look at what's happening in the working world, including policies and guidelines currently in use that support the menopause conversation and we challenge the Work-Life distinction as we consider our Wholebeing Happiness, our happy and successful, no matter what.

Sign-up today for Julia's blog where she talks more about the Bardo, the transition time of Menopause and Midlife and how to use it to kick start your life going forward. Book a free 20 minutes consult session with Julia to look at your Menopause experiences and how we can coach together.

There really is no better time to do this work together!

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Today is officially Fun at Work Day! Instead of discussing various "funativities" to try with your team today, coach Julia Seal looks at your thoughts and opinions of this day to demonstrate how you can coach yourself to get the results you most want in your life - happiness & success.

She demonstrates the basic process of coaching yourself, using examples, and how you can apply Buddha's experimental method to change your lived experience of today.

Together, examine your deeply held beliefs about work and fun at work, such as the Robert Owen's 1817 well-known slogan "8 hours' labour, 8 hours' recreation, 8 hours' rest". Then, explore some paradigm-shifting Thoughts to try on and practice for the day including "Hard Work is Fun", "Fun at Work is always available to me", "I am fun" or "Life as 50:50 is fun".

This episode is a simple outline of the coaching process we have been on together in Series 1 - from our Defining - Assessing - Visioning step-by-step coaching process to our mini-coaching programme looking at your unhappiness, your negative emotions in detail.

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We explore your questions and comments from Episode #1.26 – How to FEEL better now!

Hear what other listeners have discovered and take the opportunity to ask Julia Seal about her free 8-step HOW TO Process Coaching Tool, your experiences applying it and tips to deepen your self-coaching.

Find out more about taking the plunge if this tool seems too daunting and you don't want to call up your negative emotions or re-experience them. Discover what is actually the worst that can happen if you do this work, how you're at a crossroads of your own evolution and how it can transform your inner life forever!

And learn more about Squirrel Appreciation Day and International Hug Day in your exploration of coaching your negative emotions...

There really is no better time to do this work together!

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EIGHT is the lucky number this week! It's our end-of-year special episode where you can learn HOW to FEEL better right now in Julia Seal's 8-step coaching for your negative emotions, your emotional suffering, your pain, your discontent and your unhappiness.

Navigate the Christmas holiday season, dealing more easily with your fraught emotions and tricky relationships.

Find out what it means to allow your feelings, instead of resisting, avoiding or acting out. Discover the way to evolve yourself emotionally while working work through the actual process to coach all and any of your negative emotions.

Find out what it means: "If you are willing to feel everything, you can do anything!" and how to do it whenever and wherever you need it.

Then, try out our family's favourite gammon recipes and make Brandy butter for those mince pies, while enjoying some Silly Season fun facts - all about Happiness-Matters and the number 8!

We wish you a very special end-2019!

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Today is an invitation to step into your own evolution - and it's Human Rights Day and Nobel Prize Day! In the SEVENTH step in coaching your negative emotions with Julia Seal, discover what it means to evolve as an individual, what conscious evolution is and why our EMOTIONAL EVOLUTION is the essential next step to our individual and collective happiness and success.

Here we explore what is the real opportunity available to each of us when it comes to our negative emotions - how they are the way into our transformational self-development, the path to leveling up our mindset, habits, daily routines, relationships and actions.

We journey to the Galápagos Islands with a man of "enlarged curiosity" to find out more about the evolutionary process of tortoises and finches to see what we can learn about our own self-growth. Then with the help of leading positive psychology researcher, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, best-selling author Paulo Coello and a Pennsylvania management consultancy, we consider what it means to be the best version of ourselves, stepping into our Genius and fulfilling our Personal Legend, our destiny.

Take up the challenge to evolve beyond the way your brain is structured, beyond the behavioural patterns you've learnt from people around us and beyond what you absorb every day from life around your. Move beyond your stuck point of no progress, your primal dissatisfaction with life, your unhappiness...

"It isn't freedom from. It's freedom to" - Jean Paul Satre, philosopher

There really is no better time to do this work together!

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In the SIXTH step in coaching your negative emotions with Julia Seal, discover our new Happiness Wisdom Concept: Anti-fragile Lion-hearted Emotional Courage!

Find out how to explore the pockets of your Unhappiness using this new self-coaching tool - inspired by one of today's most influential thinkers, Professor Nassim Taleb, the Ancient Greek's Hydra creature, singer Gloria Gaynor, author Peter Bregman and Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz!

Unpack your way of responding to life's challenges to discover how you might be defining yourself: Fragile, Robust, Resilient or Anti-Fragile. Then, look into ways that you are already Anti-Fragile and how you can use this quality to help you with your current unhappiness, your dissatisfaction with life, your discomfort and your emotional suffering.

Also, find out what Emotional Courage really means and how it applies to this journey of coaching your negative emotions - how to get stronger from your Unhappiness, your challenges and your negative emotions.

Discover why Emotional Courage is what's behind real leadership and is the bridge between the theory and practice of leadership, the intersection between employee engagement and leadership development. Developing your emotional courage muscle and becoming anti-fragile enables you expand your self-leadership - to stand up for what you believe, skillfully navigate others' anger and respond well to criticism.

There really is no better time to do this work together!

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Buffering is the perfect Red-Flag Warning System to help you on your self-coaching journey to happiness and success at work! Learn how to turn your bad habits to your advantage with Julia Seal as we continue onto our FIFTH step in HOW TO FEEL BETTER in the midst of your negative emotions, your unhappiness.

We unpack the 4 aspects of Buffering in order to discover exactly what you are doing to distract yourself from your negative emotions. Also explore how this skews your 50:50 Emotional Balance to the negative, creating a net negative effect in your life and teaching your brain to setup a habit that you don't even want!

We ask ourselves the key question with Buffering: How might you be putting your life on hold with your overworking, getting too stressed or being overly anxious, overdrinking, gossiping, overeating or even too much TV and Facebook?

Turn your insights into a quick, 3-step process to practice whenever you are feeling negative, despondent, stressed, anxious, angry or sad and need to ease your negative emotions in a way that ultimately contributes to your long term happiness and success.

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Discover with consultant-coach, Julia Seal, what the Happiness Wisdom Concept: Life is 50:50 is all about and how it is integral to your life, your happiness and success at work.

In this FOURTH step in HOW TO FEEL BETTER in the midst of your negative emotions, your Unhappiness, we explore how Emotional Balance applies to your life, your happiness and success.

Look at how the Chinese philosophical principle of Yin-Yang perfectly illustrates this fundamental ratio and what we can learn about ourselves from its inherent interdependency - and how this all ties together to The Happiness Paradox and The Happiness Treadmill.

We also probe into why you may want to keep your negative emotions, even when its seems counter-intuitive to your happiness!

Also, find out how other people's 50:50 Ratio and the "grass is greener on the other side" can be a Happiness Trap for you, while deepening your use of our free Coaching Tools to feel better in the moment.

There really is no better time to do this work together!

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Take the THIRD step in HOW TO FEEL BETTER in the midst of your negative emotions, your Unhappiness with Coach Julia Seal. Unpack more about your Emotional Intelligence, emotional maturity and emotional childhood, with the help of three of Julia's coaches: Alan Sieler - Ontological Coaching, Marita Fridhjon - Relationship Systems Coaching and Brooke Castillo - Life Coaching.

Dig into the pockets of your life where you're in Emotional Childhood, where you are handing over power in your life and where you are taking the victim role. Explore how this directly impacts your Happiness Set Point when considering our Happiness Wisdom Concepts: The Happiness Paradox, The Hedonic Treadmill and Hedonic Adaptation.

Use our 10 powerful coaching questions to give you further insight into your Emotional Intelligence and your own Happiness Wisdom.

Expand your expanded view of Emotional Intelligence to include social intelligence and relationship systems intelligence, discover how mood fits into your understanding of your emotions, feelings and sensations and what it means to take a Conscious Stance.

Lastly, find out what it means to be an Emotional Learner on your happiness coaching journey and what this means for our coaching together on your "happy and successful, no matter what".

Keep increasing your Emotional Intelligence as you discover how to feel better in your unhappiness, right now today!

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Take your SECOND step in coaching your negative emotions with coach Julia Seal by exploring what negative emotions actually are, in the context of Halloween and Guy Fawkes Day.

We look at the difference between Emotions, Feelings, Sensations and Moods by drawing on the world's wisdom - from the Dalai Lama and Paul Ekman's Altas of Emotions to Chip Conley's work on Emotional Equations. Then, we land a working definition for our coaching journey together.

Then, find out what's relevant for you and your happiness and success from the work done on Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Annie McKie and the Harvard Business Review. Discover the emotional competencies you can develop for your own outstanding performance and success.

Also, learn how to expand your emotional repertoire with the help of Robert Pluchik and Dr Seuss, getting comfortable examining the nuances in your negative emotions with our powerful free coaching tools.

Start increasing your Emotional Intelligence as you discover how to feel better in your unhappiness, right now today!

There really is no better time to do this work together!

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In the first of the "Coaching Your Unhappiness" episodes we kick off our coaching by meeting Charon the River of Misery guide from Hades and Waldo/Wally of Where's Waldo/Wally puzzlebook fame.

Learn the most simple but most powerful Coaching Tool from coach Julia Seal, one that will bring you immediate relief in your current unhappiness but also will transform your life in the long run.

Then, venture together into brainstorming our most negative emotions, the unhappiness that is getting in the way of our happiness and success, using an essential Thought-Download Coaching Tool. Then, learn how to sort through the fog of your unhappiness, looking at the Facts, Thoughts and Emotions until we have enough clarity to start coaching your negative emotions. Poet, David Whyte beckons us forwards into this journey with the beautiful, Everything is Waiting for You.

This episode is the start of a 10-session mini-coaching programme, designed to bring relief to your unhappiness and help you to feel better - an essential part of coaching "happy and successful, no matter what!"

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We start a journey about what to do about your unhappiness and all those negative emotions that are getting in the way of your happiness and success. Coach Julia Seal maps the way ahead for coaching your negative emotions and how you can feel better.

Starting with your unhappiness - the very worst of it and then, over the next 12 episodes listed below, we go step-by-step through an exploration of emotional intelligence, buffering and happiness adaptation.

Learn a powerful way to process your negative emotions so you can use them fuel and power the happiness coaching journey of your life. Then, learn how to apply it all to our life at work and to our lives through menopause.

17 - Unhappy is the story of Happy (15-Oct – last week)
18 - Unhappy, what to do about it? (22-Oct – today)
19 - Coaching your Unhappiness (29 Oct)
20 - Negative Emotions & Emotional Intelligence... Feelings (5 Nov)
21 - Happiness Wisdom & our Unhappy Feelings (12 Nov)
22 - Life is 50:50 (19 Nov)
23 - Are you Buffering? (26 Nov)
24 - Are you Anti-fragile? Are you courageous? (3 Dec)
25 - The Call to Evolve Ourselves (10 Dec)
26 - How to Process your negative emotions (17 Dec)
27 - Practicing processing your negative emotions (7 Jan)
28 - Menopause & your negative emotions (14 Jan)
29 - Work & your negative emotions (21 Jan)
30 - Q&A - Unhappiness & your Negative Emotions (21 Jan)

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Start an exciting coaching journey with Julia Seal - all about your UNHAPPINESS and what to do about it to FEEL BETTER. This introductory episode to coaching negative emotions shares insights from the world's wisdom about happiness and unhappiness.

Hear from Stephen Hawking, the Dalai Lama, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Carl Jung, The Harvard Business Review, David Whyte, JRR Tolkien, Thomas Moore and Dr Seuss! Together, we explore our Unhappiness and start working directly with our negative emotions.

There really is no better time to do this work together!

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Learn more about the Pay-It-Forward concept with Julia Seal and how you can use it every day to enhance your happiness and success at work.

Then, find out all about the world of podcasts and how to get the most out of them for your own enjoyment and self-development. We include step-by-step instructions on how to set up podcasting on your own device, how to subscribe to our Happiness-Matters show and how to get our Tuesday episodes delivered to you automatically and easily.

Also, discover out what sharing on your social media posts means about you - and about us all... and lastly, please subscribe and share The Happiness-Matters podcast with anyone you know who could benefit from being happier at work!

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Special days this week: World Smile Day, International Coffee Day and Mad Hatters' Day! Learn more about what are these three days are all about with Julia Seal and how can we use them for our self-coaching. "Do an act of kindness, help one person smile" comes alive this week as we apply all that we've learnt about Smiley, smiling, smiZIng and coaching ourselves in our daily life at work.

Use what we discover together about #worldsmileday, #coffeepledge and SmileAwhile to expand your own happiness and success at work. Have fun learning about Harvey Ball, Erethism, coffee and employee engagement and Rwandan coffee growers. Then, use these insights to pay-it-forward, making a powerful, positive difference to those around you and enrich yourself and your coaching journey as you do it.

Why is a raven like a writing desk...? Find out more this week!

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Questions, Answers & Insights

We answer your questions on our most recent Insight episodes #1.8 - #1.13, including our Coaching Tool: Self-SmiZing Mirror Work.

Hear what other listeners have discovered about The Yellow Smiley Face, Emojis and Emoticons, The Human Smile, Laughter and Smizing and how to apply these learnings to your everyday happiness and success at work.

Find out more about using all the free coaching tools together for your self-coaching in Series 1: Defining - Assessing - Visioning. Julia Seal will help you make sense of the coaching to date, using "Where's Wally/Waldo", passport photography, fake laughing and emoji irritation to give you ideas towards your own transformation.

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After learning how to use our Self-SmiZing Coaching Tool as an active tool of transformation and "Know Thyself", explore your discoveries with Julia Seal. Narcissus, Snow White, Dorian Grey and Lewis Carroll's Alice will entertain you as we look for something that lives beyond your mirror reflection, something that takes you closer to Your Future Self.

In doing so, we expand how you define your relationship with yourself, discovering four types of thoughts that either serve your happiness and success at work or actively undermine it - thoughts about you, thoughts about your actions, and about your past and your future.

We'll meet your stream of consciousness, your inner monologue self-talk and we might meet the Inner Critic who lives in your head. Could it be The Imposter, The Perfectionist, The Inner Controller, the Guilt Tripper, The Destroyer or The Underminer?

Our self-coaching, on how to dissolve your Inner Critic and reduce it's hold, starts with support from the Dalai Lama, Carole Dweck's Growth Mindset and psychoanalyst, Robert Firestone.

Your coaching as transformation journey is both given depth and a kick-start in Part 2 of our Self-Smizing exploration.

Join Julia for a once-off session for coaching support on your self-smizing work and how your inner critic shows up for you. Bookings at https://happiness-matters.coach

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Enquire into the reactions you had to our Smiling, Smizing and Laughing episodes with Julia Seal and use them deepen your self-coaching work. Learn how, and why it's worth trying today, to ease your current unhappiness at work on purpose and intentionally.

Then, with our new Coaching Tool discover how to unpack the real obstacles to your future success step-by-step.

Socrates, Louise Hay and Sheesha embroidery will help you do this, as you learn to "Know Thyself", easily uncovering the thoughts and feelings that make up your relationship with yourself.

We look at why we want to be “as curious as a fish” in coaching - experimenting with coaching yourself, just like Buddha recommended in the Kalama Sutta and adopting Carole Dweck's Growth Mindset to ensure we are resilient, creative and determined along our transformational journey. (Part 1)

We complete your Self-Smizing exploration in Part 2, the following episode.

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Take a deep dive into Gelotology with Julia Seal to discover the physical, mental and social benefits of laughing and of fake laughing, including why laughing in the morning is like a good cup of coffee.

We'll look into how laughter can help you at work, right now at the start of your self-coaching journey - how it can improve your creativity, analytic precision and productivity as well as that of your colleagues, not to mention how you can be seen as more confident and competent.

With famous personalities chiming in, we'll delve into why laughing is considered a universal human vocabulary and why "ha-ha-ha" is the basic structure of a laugh and ha-ho-ha-ho is physically impossible as well as how laughter spreads like an electric wave in your brain.

Then, we'll apply everything we've learnt to your Future Vision of self-coaching, checking back to see if your coaching is going to deliver the results you most want - your happiness and success at work.

And finally, you'll discover some fun facts about laughter: who laughs the most by far, where to tickle a rat and how to do Laughter Yoga!

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Explore the nuances of The Human Smile with Julia Seal and discover the complex world of the art of smiling. You'll find out how smiling can establish your success at work but also how smiling can hinder you as you venture down the path of coaching yourself to happiness and success at work

We'll define what makes up the smile, how many types there are and which ones are important for you in your career aspirations and happiness. Then, learn how to Duchenne smile and set up your body for happiness, no matter how you are feeling at work.

Also, we'll take a look into the dubious research behind what we know about smiling - from electric shock experiments to mutilating rats in order to understand. Find out why fake smiling is good for us, despite Alice in Wonderland's adventures, how to leverage contagious smiles and when smiling is an interview is a mistake.

Also you'll discover the happiest poem ever!

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Do you love emojis? Do you think emoticons are inappropriate at work? Explore the modern world of these pictorial communications to understand yourself better – how you communicate with others, how you judge and assess others, how you make meaning for yourself each and every day.

Along with Julia Seal, learn how to take your current use or non-use of emojis and emoticons and apply them as 5 self-coaching tools that can directly impact your Happiness Set Point, your relationships and your emotional intelligence.

Italian, Umberto Eco, Japanese, Shigetaka Kurita and American, Scott Fahlman will join you on this journey into the world of manga comics, unicode communications and The Emoji Movie as you deepen your exploration into the influencers and shapers of your definitions and expectations of happiness and success at work in the second of our Series 1 Bonus Episodes.

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Our Series 1 Bonus episodes look specifically at the influencers and shapers of your definitions and expectations of happiness and success at work – join Julia Seal this week for some fun insights as we discover the history and multiple meanings behind the ubiquitous Yellow Smiley Face.

Discover how Smiley has gone from Turkish Hittite pot decoration, to corporate morale building campaign, to 1970s fad badges, to acid house icon and back again – and what this means about your happiness and success at work. Look too into what the colour Yellow means to you and how this has been shaped by your cultural influences – the colour of Monday, the colour of knowledge or the colour of sunshine and hope.

Use our free Coaching Tools, together with your insights into Smiley and the colour Yellow, to unearth your most deeply held beliefs about your happiness and success and learn how to apply them to challenging how you approach your daily happiness, how you can create mini-habits to change the direction of your life today and how your can bring some relief to your most immediate stuckness.

And you get to meet the famous Mr Glub!

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We overview the entire Series 1's Coaching: Defining – Assessing - Visioning in order to bring it all together for you. By doing this we create a clear picture of this mini-coaching journey you’ve been on so far, with Julia Seal.

We go over the key topics covered in the last 12 episodes so you can see how all the concepts hang together in this phase of the Happiness-Matters coaching journey. You’ll discover what you missed or refresh what you heard once but didn’t yet get to practice.

We also look at the coaching tools we created for you as well as remind you of the quick coaching tips introduced at this early stage. You’ll see how these Coaching Tools work together to support you as you learn how to coach yourself.

You’ll be surprised and even intrigued at what shifts can take place in your life just through this first Happiness-Matters series.

All the episodes are referenced so it’s easy to go back, listen and download the free Coaching Tools.

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Questions, Answers & Insights

We explore your questions and comments from Episode #1.6 – What’s the toughest thing for you?

Hear what other listeners have discovered and take the opportunity to ask Julia Seal about her coaching tools, Your Future Self Journey and Letter from your Future Self and the tips she introduces on how to coach yourself through the discomfort of change to your own transformation.

There really is no better time to do this work together!

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In this last coaching episode of Series 1: Defining – Assessing - Visioning, we dive much deeper into what’s stopping you from your success and happiness at work and also tie together everything we’ve explored. Together with Julia Seal, review your coaching journey to-date – from your early days of questioning how you define happiness-in-the-moment and then, crafting a Future Vision that is uniquely yours and mapping your journey in-between.

We’re look further into what’s really getting in your way, from the viewpoint of coaching as transformation. We explore why change is hard and you’ll discover how to find the very thing that’s going to have the biggest impact on your “happiness and success at work, no matter what” as well as how to use the red flag guidance system.

To help us, we apply two guidelines to get below the surface of your obstacles – we look at your power in the world and how a simple technique used by air traffic controllers can profoundly change you. We also introduce the concept of Buffering and how you might be using it to unintentionally hold yourself back from the happiness and success you want at work, especially if you take a fancy to South African Nik Naks!

We’ll take our final inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela before we get started with our Series 2: Brain Management and the basics techniques in How to Coach Yourself.

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Questions, Answers & Insights

We explore your questions and comments from Episode #1.5 – What’s stopping your Happiness & Success at work?

Hear what other listeners have discovered and take the opportunity to ask Julia Seal about her coaching tool, Your Future Self Journey and the tips she introduces on how to coach yourself through your obstacles, blocks and traps. Also, explore what’s the difference between coaching and therapy and what’s best for you on your happiness journey.

To be included in these Q&A sessions on the podcast, post your questions and insights in our Facebook Coaching Group - https://www.facebook.com/HappinessMattersCoach/

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We begin the coaching process of mapping out your journey between where you are today and where you want to be in your 10/10 happy-and-successful at work. Together with Julia Seal, take a look at the happiness traps and obstacles you find along the way while taking caution from Cerberus and Charon on the banks of the River of Misery in Hades.

Harry Potter and Odysseus’ will give life to the possibility that your obstacles can become your stepping stones to success, your actual strategies of the path to follow as the quickest way to your Future Vision.

We examine these obstacle-strategies from two perspectives to shed light on the path ahead for you - are they internally or externally based and are they from your past or your future? This will guide us as to where we need to spend our time coaching.

And, we look at why coffee is high on the happiness at work list for so many of us!

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Questions, Answers & Insights

We explore your questions and comments from
Episode #1.4 – Going deeper into your 10/10 happiness.

Hear what other listeners have discovered and take the opportunity to ask Julia Seal about her coaching tool, Your Future Vision and how you can practically apply her 10-Step Future Visioning process to your happiness and success at work.

To be included in these Q&A sessions on the podcast, post your questions and insights in our Facebook Coaching Group - https://www.facebook.com/HappinessMattersCoach/

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We add two new Happiness Wisdom concepts to our coaching on your Future Vision, your 10/10 happiness and success at work. Join Julia Seal to expand your goals of what’s possible through coaching for you with an introduction to The Hedonic Treadmill and its related Happiness Setpoint and the Concept of 50:50.

We’ll take a walk-through exploration of panda enclosures and how yin-yang applies to you; we’ll meet meditation masters Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Pema Chodron and dip into their views on negative emotions and how they can enhance your creative energy; and we’ll explore emergenesis and what it means to changing your life and shifting your happiness set point.

We finalise your Future Vision on this next phase of our coaching journey together by understanding how understanding these wisdom concepts and the academic research ensures that your happiness goals, your goals of coaching are robust, based on solid academic research and not one-sided or limited based only on what you’re finding difficult or unpleasant in your life right now.

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We explore your questions and comments from Episode #1.3 – Where do you want to be – 10/10?

Hear what other listeners have discovered and take the opportunity to ask Julia Seal about her coaching tool, Your Future Vision, and how you can apply it to your happiness and success at work.

There really is no better time to do this work together!

To be included in these Q&A sessions on the podcast, post your questions and insights on our Facebook Coaching Group - https://www.facebook.com/HappinessMattersCoach/.

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epidode:#1.3.Q&A Where do you want to be – 10/10?

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We start the process of purposefully and intentionally visioning your future, your 10/10 happiness. Join Julia Seal to focus forwards and explore: Where do you want to be? What exactly do you mean when you say you want to be “happy and successful at work, no matter what”?

We’ll learn how to create a Future Vision with Brainstorming and VisionBoarding, using rainbows, unicorns and leprechauns to open our minds and expand what’s possible for you. Then to ensure we’re neither creating an unrealistic nor limited definition of happy and successful at work, we’ll explore the first of our happiness wisdom concepts, The Happiness Paradox.

Learning to look at happiness sideways, through the corner of your eye sets you up for success with a robust definition of your Future Vision – one that ensures you’re not wasting your time or efforts in this coaching journey – and ensures you’re not stretching for something you discover you don’t want when you get there.

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Questions, Answers & Insights

We explore your questions and comments from Episode #1.2 – Your Happiness “Snakes and Ladders” Journey!

Hear what other listeners have discovered and take the opportunity to ask Julia Seal about her coaching tool, The Snakes & Ladders Gameboard and how you can apply it to your happiness and success at work.

There really is no better time to do this work together!

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Expand your own definition of “happy and successful at work, no matter what” in today’s coaching with Julia Seal. We examine where your thoughts and beliefs about happiness come from – what have you added to your views on happiness from the media, your family and friends – Bobby McFerrin? Robin Williams? Dug the Talking Dog? Coke-a-Cola?

Then, to uncover more of your beliefs about happiness, we’re going to play a game with your life… we’re creating a map of your own pursuit of happiness through the years. We’re playing our own unique version of the ancient Indian game of “Snakes and Ladders”!

We end off our session with some powerful coaching questions to deepen your insights at the start of your happiness coaching journey with us. For example: What’s the difference between your in-the-moment happiness and your long-term happiness? What’s not in your definition? What have been your snakes? How much are you spending your energy on happiness at work right now, today?

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We explore your questions and comments from Episode #1.1 – How Happy at work are you, really?

Hear what other listeners have discovered and take the opportunity to ask Julia Seal about her coaching tool, The Happiness Ladder and how you can apply it to your happiness and success at work.

There really is no better time to do this work together!

To be included in these Q&A sessions on the podcast, post your questions and insights on our Facebook Coaching Group - https://www.facebook.com/HappinessMattersCoach/.

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How happy are you now, right now – how happy and successful at work are you, right now?

Take the first steps in your coaching journey today coaching with Julia Seal. We assess where you are right now by trying out The Happiness Ladder and then, explore your views of what is “happy and successful, no matter what”. We’ll refine a definition that is uniquely yours, using examples from around the world, through history and across culture to enrich your perspective.

Along the way, discover why we now have a GNH measure for countries and not just GDP and what this means for our own happiness measurement, how Kindness is a key component to your work happiness, why having a best friend at work is a primary indicator of our happiness at work and what David Hume, Aristotle and the Dalai Lama can tell us about the pursuit of happiness.

We’ll have some fun with Hello Kitty, Thomas Jefferson, Epicurus and understanding happiness in Sanskrit – not to mention Julia’s “squirrel” moment about Mars, rockets and methane gas.

There really is no better time to do this work together!

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How can I be happier at work? How can I be more successful? What’s stopping me from getting the most out of my working life, every single day?

Join consultant-coach, Julia Seal to explore these questions and more in a happiness-coaching journey where you can transform your success and happiness at work, no matter what – no matter what your circumstances are: what your boss is like, whether you have a best friend at work or are surrounded by bullies – no matter how much you earn, what country you live in or what kind of work you do…

Discover how to coach yourself easily and simply, how to purposefully manage your own mind, how to “hack” your brain with tools backed up by scientific research and how to take the best from the world’s wisdom on the pursuit of happiness to add life to your own happiness coaching journey.

In addition to mini-coaching sessions and step-by-step guides, each episode is designed to help you take immediate action on the most impactful ways to increase your daily happiness at work, while guiding you on a longer transformation coaching journey.

There really is no better time to do this work together!

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Happiness-Matters in Midlife - for Professional Women: Recent Episodes

Julia Seal

1.7 – Series 1 Coaching – it’s a wrap!

1.15 - World Smile Day with coffee & Mad Hatters!

1.16 - Insight: Pay-It-Forward (1)

1.27 – Coach Yourself on Fun at Work Day!

1.35 COVID-19: Keep Calm & Coach Yourself

1.40 - Artisanal & Shokunin happiness

1.41 – Favourite Insights from Year-1 + a Coaching Gift

1.49 - The Define, Assess & Vision Pieces of your Happiness Jigsaw

1.42.Q&A Employee Engagement – the same as Happiness?

1.43.Q&A – Your Happiness vs Success Formula

1.44.Q&A – Meditation tips, Habit hacks & EQ shame

1.45.Q&A – Work:Life Balance – the great divide!

1.1.Q&A How Happy are you at work, really?

1.2.Q&A Your Snakes & Ladders Journey

1.3. Q&A - Where do you want to be? 10/10

1.4.Q&A Going deeper into your 10/10 Happiness

1.5.Q&A What's Stopping your Happiness?

1.6Q&A What's the Toughest Thing for you?

1.31.Q&A – Ending Powerlessness in you & others

1.33 The Science of your Happiness

1.34 Science of Happiness: PERMA

1.36 Science of Happiness: GGSC

1.37 – The Science of Happiness: SPIRE & Wholebeing

1.38 – The Science of Happiness at Work: PERK

1.39 - Business Consulting & the Science of Happiness

1.42 Deep dive: Happiness + Engagement

1.43 Deep dive: Happiness + Success

1.17 – Unhappy is the story of Happy

1.18 – Unhappy, what to do about it?

1.19 – Coaching your Unhappiness

1.20 – Negative Emotions & Emotional Intelligence

1.21 – Emotional Immaturity & your Happiness Wisdom

1.22 – Happiness is 50:50, always!

1.23 – Are you Buffering your happiness away?

1.24 – Are you Anti-fragile? Courageous?

1.25 – Your next step, Evolution!

1.26 – How to FEEL better now!

1.26.Q&A – How to FEEL better now!

1.27 – Coach Yourself on Fun at Work Day!

1.28 – Menopause at Work: coaching your negative emotions

1.29 – Toxic emotions at work – what to do (Part 1)

1.30 – Toxic emotions at work – what to do (Part 2)

1.31.Q&A – Ending Powerlessness in you & others

1.32 – Discomfort change = Happiness!

1.28 – Menopause at Work: coaching your negative emotions

1.29 – Toxic emotions at work – what to do (Part 1)

1.30 – Toxic emotions at work – what to do (Part 2)

1.31.Q&A – Ending Powerlessness in you & others

1.32 – Discomfort change = Happiness!

1.8: Insight – What’s behind Smiley?

1.9: Emojis – your happiness at work?

1.10 - Smile Awhile

1.11: Insight – Laughter for work success

1.12 Self-Smizing Changes Everything (part 1)

1.13 Self-Smizing Changes Everything (part 2)

1.14 Q&A - Everything about Self-Smizing

1.15 - World Smile Day with coffee & Mad Hatters!

1.16 - Insight: Pay-It-Forward (1)

0 – Welcome to the very first Happiness-Matters podcast!

1.1 How happy are you really?

1.1.Q&A How Happy are you at work, really?

1.2 Your happiness “snakes-and-ladders” journey!

1.2.Q&A Your Snakes & Ladders Journey

1.3 Where do you want to be 10/10

1.3. Q&A - Where do you want to be? 10/10

1.4 Going Deeper into your 10/10 Happiness

1.4.Q&A Going deeper into your 10/10 Happiness

1.5 – What’s stopping your Happiness & Success at work?

1.5.Q&A What's Stopping your Happiness?

1.6 – What’s the toughest thing for you?

1.6Q&A What's the Toughest Thing for you?

1.7 – Series 1 Coaching – it’s a wrap!