The Happiness Podcast

12/22/2025

The Oxford Word of the Year for 2025 is 'Rage Bait,' a perfect term for the online content that is engineered to hijack your attention by deliberately triggering your anger. In this episode, we will explore the psychology behind why the digital world wants you mad and, most importantly, how you can choose to opt out. It is time to stop taking the bait and reclaim your internal peace.

New Episode of the Happiness Podcast with Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.

Video link: https://youtu.be/zq9B03j1CcA

11/14/2025

Is your mind growing weeds or roses? In this eye-opening episode, we explore the powerful metaphor that your mind is fertile soil—it doesn't judge what you plant; it simply makes it grow. Whether you plant seeds of doubt, fear, or inspiration and success, the soil obliges. Learn how to stop being an accidental farmer and start becoming a master gardener of your mind. We cover essential techniques for "weeding out" negative self-talk, choosing the right "seeds" (thoughts and ideas), and ensuring the right "nutrients" (media, relationships, exposure) lead to a thriving, positive, and productive life.

New Happiness Podcast episode with Dr. Robert Puff, Newport Beach Psychologist

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/oiLnkn4AruM

11/07/2025

We spend so much energy chasing happiness by avoiding stress. But what if the path to true well-being is using stress as fuel? In the next 15 minutes, we're diving into antifragility—the revolutionary concept that shows you how to stop merely surviving life's chaos and start getting stronger, smarter, and happier because of it. Let's start building your antifragile advantage.

New Happiness Podcast episode with Dr. Robert Puff, Newport Beach Psychologist

YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/eCWtU-lagWQ

11/03/2025

We've all been sold the same idea: sacrifice your happiness today for a richer, better "someday" once you finally achieve your big goals. But what if that entire mindset is a trap that guarantees you never actually learn how to live well? In this episode, we're dismantling why this chase so often fails and uncovering the practical secret to finding fulfillment and happiness right now, in the middle of the journey.

New Happiness Podcast episode with Dr. Robert Puff, Newport Beach Psychologist

YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/jSGAgcK79yU

We've all been sold the same idea: sacrifice your happiness today for a richer, better "someday" once you finally achieve your big goals. But what if that en...

11/03/2025

Do you ever feel like true happiness is just out of reach, perhaps because everything isn't perfectly aligned all the time? We're diving into the secret belief many of us hold: that happiness equals constant perfection, and why that idea might actually be holding us back. Join us as we explore how to redefine happiness beyond the flawless facade.

New Happiness Podcast episode with Dr. Robert Puff, Newport Beach Psychologist

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/i3z2V76WOcc

The Perfection Trap: Why Perfection Isn't True Happiness Do you ever feel that true happiness is out ...

10/28/2025

What's the single biggest threat to your happiness? It’s not your job, the news, or even social media. It’s the quiet, daily choice to numb ourselves.

We all do it: we check out with endless scrolling, we overeat, we overwork, and we use fleeting comforts to avoid our feelings. These habits give us temporary relief, but they kill our potential for true joy and deep connection.

Today, we're exposing the numbing epidemic for what it is. More importantly, we're giving you the playbook to stop numbing, finally face what you're avoiding, and start living a fuller, more authentic life.

If you’re ready to finally beat this hidden threat, stick around. Let’s dive in.

YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/7DQwAuDIIHM

New Happiness Podcast episode with Dr. Robert Puff, Newport Beach Psychologist

Stop Numbing, Start Living: The Hidden Habit That’s Destroying Your Happiness (And How to Break Free) ’s sta...

10/24/2025

Life can feel like a series of endless challenges, setbacks, and hardships. But what if we told you that the universe isn't punishing you, but rather, it's polishing you? In this episode, we'll explore how to transform your perspective on struggle and find the growth opportunities hidden within every difficult experience.

New Happiness Podcast episode with Dr. Robert Puff, Newport
Beach Psychologist

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The Universe Isn't Punishing You, It's Polishing YouLife can feel like a series of endless challenges, setbacks, and hardships. But what if we told you that ...

10/12/2025

The constant pursuit of positive thoughts traps us in the cycle of thinking. True freedom, calm, and happiness are found not in managing the content of our thoughts, but in consciously creating space from them, leading to pure presence.

New Happiness Podcast episode with Dr. Robert Puff, Newport Beach Psychologist

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/D_lvWIlRnvs

10/03/2025

The universe is always in conversation with us, especially when we are living in a state of happy, present-moment awareness. Those perfect, unexplainable coincidences are its language—little winks to say "good job, keep going." We're here to explore how to listen more closely and follow these signs to a more joyful life.

New Happiness Podcast episode with Dr. Robert Puff, Newport Beach Psychologist

Podcast link: https://www.happinesspodcast.org/555-the-synchronicity-of-happiness-when-the-universe-winks/

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/O4DT-LsWsTI

The Synchronicity of Happiness: When the Universe WinksThe universe is always in conversation with us, especially when we are living in a state of happy, pre...

09/05/2025

We are all profoundly shaped by the people we associate with, often adopting their habits, beliefs, and definitions of happiness. But what happens when the herd you're following is leading you away from a life you truly want? This is "Herd Mentality," the podcast that explores how to break free and answer the question: Whose life are you really living?

New Happiness Podcast episode with Dr. Robert Puff, Newport Beach Psychologist

Podcast link: https://happinesspodcast.org/herd-mentality-whose-life-are-you-living/

08/29/2025

When a young lawyer named Mohandas Gandhi was thrown from a train in South Africa, that single moment of injustice became the catalyst for a global movement. This is a podcast about those pivotal challenges, exploring how a personal crisis can either break us or galvanize us into our greatest purpose.

New Happiness Podcast episode with Dr. Robert Puff, Newport Beach Psychologist

Podcast link: https://happinesspodcast.org/galvanized-how-adversity-shapes-us/

08/22/2025

In a world that feels increasingly unpredictable, we are all searching for an anchor of security. We're going to explore how that anchor isn't found by trying to control the world around us, but by forging it within ourselves through the power of our own response.

New Happiness Podcast episode with Dr. Robert Puff, Newport Beach Psychologist

Podcast link: https://happinesspodcast.org/finding-security-in-an-unsecured-world/