Here’s what you can expect in today’s Happy Hour:

We’ll toast the people, places, products, and happenings that have us giddy and living and celebrating the good life today in our Cheers to That! segment.

Then we’re off to the Good Life Lab where we’ll check in with our official good life lab experimenter, Kate, and explore how the mission of trying on personal celebrations for size went for her. We’ll see if she benefited from the notion and how it may or may not work itself into her life design. I’ll then dole out the next good life lab mission for us all to tackle. And it’s a fun one that will allow your creativity to flourish, so listen up.

We’ll shimmy on to a new segment called This, I Celebrate, which is inspired by NPR’s series, This I believe. It’s our chance to hear how listeners are celebrating in their own lives. Today, we’ll here how celebration helped form Marie’s life as she grew up as one of 13 children in an Irish-Catholic family in small town Iowa, and how celebration can even show up in even the most unexpected situations.

Epicurean funny man, Andrew, is back with a chill cocktail recipe in our Eat, Brink, and Be Merry segment. He describes today’s cocktail as a “mini, ginger-flavored air conditioner.” With a description like that, you’ve got to grab the recipe for your summertime fete.

And we’ll wrap this happy package up and send you off with a delightful party favor: your positive affirmation of the week. Cheers!

Here’s what you can expect on today’s show:

We’re rolling out a brand spanking new segment called The Good Life Lab – where we try on for size concepts and notions intended to elevate our experience, add pep to our step, energize our spirits, and get down and groovy with our authentic nature. Kate, our official Good Life Lab experimenter will say hello and receive her first mission, which we can all do along with her.

Epicurean enthusiast and champion olive eater, Andrew Brink will be joining us for another new segment Eat, Brink, and Be Merry. Together, we’ll be sharing recipes inspired by the lightness and freshness of summer, and I promise they will be perfect for your chill and laid back gatherings this season.

I’ll be sharing a few blogs I’m loving this week and very well may become favorites of your own.

And as is customary, you’ll receive your morsel of positive self talk, which is yours for the taking to use as you go about your brilliant days – and perhaps it may even help in dusting off the cobwebs that may be mucking up the brilliance that is already there.

Ready to celebrate? Cheers!

It’s a birthday bash! That’s right, I’m turning the big 3-0 on the 18th, so today’s show is one big party.

Explore the fabulousness of designing and creating your own sacred space. I’ve got some questions to help you with the process, as well as tips and ideas to get you started.

Join Andy and I as we toast to all that has a giddy and loving life in this moment – all sure to do the same for you!

Get the recipe for a special take on the traditionally delectable hot chocolate.

Take in your Happy Headline of the week (and learn if you live in a “happy” state).

And I’ll wrap this peppy package up with your positive affirmation (sneak peek: it may be my birthday, but you get to have just as much of the fun with this week’s morsel of positive self talk).

Discover what your ultimate fear may really be (ok – besides the monster under the bed).

Get your Halloween dose of spooky stories as I share some tales of haunted lighthouses across the country.

Enjoy the super simple recipe for a fabulous Halloween cocktail, called Ghost in the Graveyard.

And get your positive affirmation of the week with an added bonus of an empowering, go get-em pep talk!

Happy Halloween!!

Toast the people, places, products, and happenings that has us jumping for joy. Big Brother Andrew from Seattle is chiming in.

Learn how to get your hot little hands on a fabulous desserts recipe e-book giveaway from The Raw Food’s Witch, Nathalie Lussier.

Take in three happy headlines of the week – proving (yet again) that good news is happening everywhere.

Get our Halloween party on with a Halloween punch and roasted garlic cheese dip. Call your friends over because you’re going to want to share this tasty goodness with them!

And receive your morsel of positive self-talk that will have you living the good life in .2 seconds flat.

Cheers!

Toast the people,places, concepts, and happenings that have us giddy this week. Little sis Kate is representing the east coast and chiming in with her good life goods, as well as bringing on the giggle fits.

Explore the pep talk you may need to finally get moving on a new hobby, decision, or idea that you’d love to try out, but fear of the unknown has you holding off.

Listen to fabulous, empowering music by artist Karen Zila Hayes.

Get THE hot cocktail recipe for fall: The Peppermint Patty (chocolate lovers, you may want to sit down for this!)

And, as always, receive your positive affirmation of the week!