In Happier News

In Happier News

Positive, uplifting and happier news stories in 10 minutes or less as well as episodes with inspiring people. This is a podcast for people who believe in the power of positivity and want to take inspired action to make the world a better place. Host Deanne Goodman is a former tv news reporter and anchor who spent years reporting mostly bad news before having a life-changing experience that led her to her current mission.

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November 12, 2020 2 mins

Next time you are late to meet someone or late to a meeting, instead of "Sorry I'm late" say "thank you for waiting" instead. "Sorry" puts people in a defensive state and zaps the energy, while "thank you" puts people at ease with gratitude and brings a sense of positive energy. 

Another tip is to contact the person you are meeting the second you know you will be late. Update him or her on the new ETA and say "I acknowledge I'...

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Tracy Cousineau isn't your average success story. She moved out of her parents’ home when she was 16 and has been an entrepreneur ever since. After a difficult marriage and divorce, she wound up a single mom who had to hide financial difficulties from her children. Eventually, she changed her mindset and discovered her past did not define her future.

Now she is a powerhouse real estate entrepreneur and business coach. She is co-fou...

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September 1, 2020 6 mins

If you are looking for good news stories, positivity, and inspiring content in ten minutes or less, you in are the right place! Here's a look at the headlines in this week's podcast:

10-Year-old Boy Using His Birthday Metal Detector for the first time Unearths Centuries-Old Sword

Gardener Breaks Record for Growing Britain’s Largest Tomato With Help of Pantyhose

Northern California Highway Repaved Using 150,000 Plastic Bottles

2000-...

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If you are looking for uplifting, positive content, and good news stories, you in are the right place! Here's a look at the headlines in this week's podcast:

Woman Takes Dishwashing Job to See Her Husband in Nursing Home 

Starbucks Barista Gets $100,000 in Tips after "Karen" Shamed him on Social Media 

California Condors Coming back from Brink of Extinction 

Students Urge School Bus Driver to Become History Teacher&n...

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Hi! I’m back after supporting the blackout last week and back with positive news coming out of a pretty intense time. It's the week of June 9th, 2020. 

We need to start with the story of Antonio Gwynn Jr. He's a high school senior who spent 10 hours cleaning up after a BLM protest and was rewarded with a Mustang convertible and college scholarship! 

Other headlines this week include:

A 97-year-old Auschwitz survivor showe...

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Hi! Welcome to this week’s episode of all the good, happy, and inspiring stories.

The Afghan Dreamers, an all-girls high school robotics team in Afghanistan is using MIT's open-source ventilator design to make ventilators that could cost only a couple hundred dollars. There are 200 ventilators in all of Afghanistan. The girls are using car parts from Toyota Corolla's found at marketplaces because they can't order the needed parts o...

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Here are the uplifting, inspiring, good, and positive news stories of the week in 10 minutes or less. 

If you found $135,000 in cash in a bag by the ATM, what would you do? A teen in New Mexico is being rewarded for returning all of it! 

The oldest woman in Spain at 113-year-old beats COVID-19. She says, “I have done nothing but live.”

NYC has gone 58 days without a pedestrian death - longest since record-keeping. 

F...

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After 8 weeks of sheltering in place, I think a lot of us are hitting a wall. So let’s dive into the positive, uplifting, happier news stories of the week and see if maybe we can feel better in 10 minutes or less. Here we go.

1- In Colorado, a man has won the lottery twice in one day after playing the same numbers for 30 years. Colorado Lottery officials identified 'Joe B' as the winner of two $1 million Powerball prizes in Pueblo ...

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Here are the uplifting, inspiring, good, and positive news stories of the week in 10 minutes or less.

Starting in Illinois where a gym owner gave out $40,000 worth of gym equipment to members to use at home, free of charge.

According to CNN, owner Drew didn't want his clients to give up on their fitness goals during the pandemic, So, he told members to come to pick up equipment from his gym -- and take it with them.

About 80 member...

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I recorded this episode live during a segment in the Facebook group The Quarantine Network. You may hear the sound of little kids in the background.  It’s Tuesday, April 7th and here are the positive, inspiring and good news stories for this week. Students At MIT Develop A $100 Alternative To $30,000 Ventilator Units—And All They Ask Is To Stay Anonymous In Canada, a 13-year-old scout used his 3d printer to invent “ear guards” t...
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After a "purposeful pause," the In Happier News podcast is back by popular demand. Who doesn't need some positive news right now with everything going on with COVID-19?! Here are happier, inspiring stories from around the world in ten minutes or less. 

Today is March 25, 2020: 

1- Oceanside, CA Kitchen Takes Donated Restaurant Food, Volunteer Chefs Turn it into Meals and Volunteers Delivering it to Elderly, Immune-Compris...

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On October 9th’s episode, I told you how I manifested $777 except that I did it backward and ended up manifesting the money coming out of my account instead of into it. It’s a pretty story so if you haven’t heard it, listen to that episode.

After that happened, I laughed because I knew the universe was sending me a message! If you want to manifest something, get very clear! On that show, I declared a new manifestation of $1313 by J...

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The holidays are a fun and festive time but can also be a sad, lonely, stressful or anxious time for many. Chelsea (Hurt) Johnson holds a master's in clinical psychology and is a licensed marriage and family therapist. Her experience includes working with clients dealing with psychosis, anxiety, mood disorders, addiction, and trauma, among many other difficulties. She has great suggestions that everyone can put to use this hol...

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Hello and welcome! Lots of good news and lots of dog stories this week for the happier news roundup in 10 minutes or less!

Here are the positive and inspiring headlines of Episode 51 for the week of October 28th:

Hug Stops Student with a Gun at Parkrose High School

49’ers Football Team has an Emotional Support Dog

The Dog God story you have to hear! 

Man brings dog to a furniture store to get her paw of approval

Couple searche...

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Hello, hello! Welcome to episode 50 of the In Happier News podcast! Thanks for being part of the journey!  I’m setting a goal to do another 50 episodes and continue to grow the community of people like you and me who see the value of positive news and how it makes us happier, nicer human beings. This week our theme is goals (October is a time many people work on their goals). Needing some inspiration for your own goal setting? I go...
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 In this 5-minute bonus episode, I discuss how to manifest what you want. The first time I tried to manifest something I decided to manifest seeing a zebra just to test out the process. It worked! More recently, I saw a posting asking how much you'd like to manifest financially. The number that popped into my head was $777. I declared that was what I wanted to manifest.  I ended up manifesting it, just not the way I thought it woul...
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If you knew you were getting laid off and told to bring an emotional support person with you, would you ever think to bring a clown? One man did and it's a pretty funny story! Plus a crane operator meets a fellow crane operator in an unlikely place and the two become fast friends. How virtual reality is helping people with dementia light up with joy, a professor uses a lab coat to create a baby carrier to hold a little one and teac...
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This week's positive news roundup includes a dream job for coffee lovers, a bachelorette party to the Bahamas that turned into a relief mission, a cruise ship for healthy adventure-seekers is coming 2021 (and we should make in the In Happier News cruise and all go on it!), a 25-year-old pediatric nurse is adopting the baby she helped in the NICU, the Netflix mini-series you need to watch now, and Disney characters will tell your ki...
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