Everyday Happiness - Finding Harmony and Bliss
Education:Self-Improvement
Another great happiness interview with the exciting full spirited and my friend, Angela Germano. She did our happiness takeover on Episodes 566-570 with a bonus episode right before 566 and she brought the fire. I can’t wait for you to hear how an award winning teacher who has been through excruciating childhood trauma looks at happiness.
Transcript:
Katie: Welcome to Everyday Happiness, where we create lasting happiness in about 2 minutes a day through my signature method of Intentional Margins®, (creating harmony between your to dos and your priorities) happiness, science and musings about life.
I'm your host, Katie Jefcoat, and today I was chatting with my dear friend Angela Germano, and I asked her how she describes happiness. Welcome to the show, Angela. I'm so tickled that you are here. I cannot even believe it. I love this so much. This is the best.
Well, share with us how you describe happiness? What is happiness? What does it mean to you? What do you think about when you hear that? What have you got?
Angela: I love happiness. I love it. I want more of it. Oh, it's great. I want to bring more happiness to this world. But what is happiness? We got to start there. Happiness looks different for everybody. I mean, happiness could be like a striking love affair. It could be a beautiful family that you have that you always dreamt of, your dream home, a nice vacation, a bustling career, good health. I mean, it could be a simple smile.
For me, how I would define happiness. Oh, gosh, what makes me happy? Happiness is being in the moment. It's being alive. Truly alive in the moment, not thinking about the future, not thinking about something that just happened. In the moment and completely appreciating all that moment is. Soaking it all in.
I think it sounds kind of cheesy, I guess, but to me, yeah, happiness is being alive. I had a pretty tragic childhood. It wasn't a great childhood. I don't even know if I got to have a childhood. I was taking care of my mom as she was passing away for five years, and we didn't have money, and my dad took a bike to work when he had work.
So to me, being alive is a complete blessing. That makes me happy. We gotta live it up. We got to live hard. Live hard and just enjoy everything that we possibly can. And we do that by being in the moment.
So happiness, to me, that's an excellent question. It's about being alive and truly living.
Katie: Oh, I love it so much. And you are an epitome of that because you live life so full and I love it so much. Thank you for sharing with me and sharing with our amazing listeners how you define happiness and what that looks like.
So until next time, remember, kindness is contagious. Go out there and spread some kindness in the world today. Thank you, Angela, for joining us. And until next time, go spread that kindness.
About Angela:
Angela Germano is an award-winning middle school Language Arts teacher, Communication professor, multi-faceted professional writer in the global medical and self-care sectors and produces inspirational documentaries. In these roles, she coaches people through their academic, career and life challenges and is devoted to positively impacting people’s lives so they can achieve their dreams.
She is a #1 International Best-Selling and Award-Winning Author in the Inspired Impact Book Series including Women Who Rise, Women Who Illuminate and Leading with Legacy. Mrs. Germano has been featured in The Jersey Storytellers Project, part of The USA Today Network. She has also been a guest on educational, lifestyle and mental health programming such as Everybody with Angela Williamson on PBS, Aggressive Optimism with Jenna Edwards, LaDolce Vita with Virginia Rose and others.
As an Inspirational Speaker highlighting the specific topics of overcoming adversity, building confidence and leadership. Angela also coordinates Selfie Celebrations where children practice positive self-worth activities such as yoga, meditation, positive affirmations, goal setting and vision boards.
Angela earned a Masters in Public and Corporate Communications from Monmouth University, Magna Cum Laude and is currently pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy in General Psychology: Integrating Technology, Learning, and Psychology. Her long-term research interests include studying the learning of students in middle school as a consequence to a specific way of goal setting, where they have buy-in and more ownership of setting their own goals, monitoring and readjusting them, and then understanding how self-produced goals impact learners’ engagement, focus, scores, comfortability, confidence and control levels. To further these research interests Angela intends to use quantitative methods to understand perspectives and experiences of learners to increase long-term learning, success and happiness.
Angela’s long-term professional interests include consulting and developing programs to help learners of all ages, backgrounds and communities reach goals with less stress, continue to write books to inspire self-growth, as well as create university courses teaching the self-produced goal setting methodology and design.
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