The Edge Between Performative Positivity and Genuine Happiness with Michele Phillips

When was the last time you actually felt energized by your life—not just getting through it?

What if real happiness isn’t about eliminating darkness — but learning how to integrate it?

Real happiness may begin where performance, perfection, and people-pleasing end.

In this episode, we’re pushing right up against that edge.

Today we are #LiveintheHive with Michele Phillips, author of Energize Your Happiness, and we’re getting into what it really takes to break patterns, reclaim your energy, and stop living on autopilot. Michele models and inspires the courage necessary to OWN your happiness and optimism, in a world committed to pessimism, outrage, and, at times, blatant cruelty.

Michele is a globally recognized leadership coach, speaker, and author who helps individuals and organizations harness personal energy to create extraordinary outcomes.

She is the author of Happiness Is a Habit: Simple Daily Rituals That Increase Energy, Improve Well-Being, and Add Joy to Every Day (Cedar Fort Publishing, 2013) and Energize Your Happiness: Tap into Personal Energy and Shape Your Destiny

Michele is the host of the Write Your Outcome podcast, where she interviews leaders, changemakers, and visionaries about the inner work behind meaningful success—exploring how energy, intention, and conscious choice shape both leadership and life.

In this episode we explore…

• The Happiness Habits that are so simple and yet so life changing.
• What is the concept of “positive psychology”? https://ppc.sas.upenn.edu/our-mission
• Emotion is ENERGY. What are the 20 energy rules that Michele teaches for clients to learn and master?
• In our patriarchal, left brain dominated society, we are not taught how to deal and work with our emotions. Is this why we’re in a crisis of consciousness?
• Some call it “creative flow”, others “in the zone.” Michele calls it Personal Energy Alignment. What is it? What are the steps you can take to increase your personal energy alignment?
• The “Ladder Up Technique” – what is it and the small, yet powerful choices you can make to energize your optimism, while completely acknowledging trauma, depression, and other challenging situations.
• What is the truth about happiness that people don’t want to hear?

“It’s Your Game and Your Rules”! – Michele Phillips

Find Michele and order her books:

www.EnergizeYourHappiness.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michele-phillips-9409707/

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