Happiness in Progress

About Happiness in Progress

An Emmy-award winning journalist hosts Happiness in Progress. You'll hear from some incredibly inspiring people and get motivation each episode to better your life and find your own happiness.

Publisher

Danielle Craig

Category

education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Sept 2017

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

27 of 282 episodes have a transcript.

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   6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   #255 Love Worth Everything, Life After Loss ft. musican Will Anderson

   Musician Will Anderson shares his profound journey of love and loss, honoring his late wife Courtney Kampa through music and poetry, in this interview with host Danielle Craig.

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   27 Jan 2026TRANSCRIPT

   #254 Your Biggest Obstacle is Believing in Yourself Ft. Dr Shadé Zahrai

   Dr. Shadé Zahrai discusses the importance of self-trust and its impact on personal growth, highlighting the four pillars of acceptance, agency, autonomy, and adaptability in this interview episode.

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   13 Jan 2026

   #253 The Stress Reset Every Overworked Woman Needs to Hear ft. Marina Wright

   Isn't it cute how we have to respond to an email, but our nervous sytem thinks it's a bear? In this episode, I sit down with Marina Wright, author of The Cortisol Reset Plan, to talk about what's actually happening inside our stressed-out, overworked bodies. In this conversation, you're going to learn what exactly cortisol is and why modern life is asking ancient systems to do impossible things. Marina explains that we often try to go right to psychological fixes when we are stressed out. But in her reset plan, she offers several physical focuses that can cut our stress. In this conversation, you'll learn: What the two causes of stress are (psychological and physical) Why there's a mismatch between what our nervous system is meant to do and what it's being asked to do Five steps to reset your cortisol Easy tools to implement into your life today Get the book* (https://amzn.to/49uHKHO) Connect with Marina (https://www.marinawright.com/) Connect with Danielle Marina Wright is a functional nutrition practitioner, health coach, and author of The Cortisol Reset Plan. She helps people build resilience to both physical and psychological stress, supporting lasting physical, mental, and emotional well‑being. Marina earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Navarra in Spain and holds certifications from Functional Diagnostic Nutrition and the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She has also trained in Nutritional Psychiatry through Deakin University's Food and Mood Academy and in Somatic Stress Release with The Embody Lab. Bridging the gap between science and holistic healing, Marina translates complex concepts in nutrition, stress management, and lifestyle medicine into simple, practical habits. Her mission is to empower people to take charge of their health, cultivate resilience, and thrive in body, mind, and spirit. *This is an affiliate link. I make a small commission when you buy. Thank you for using my link.

Inside a recent episode

#255 Love Worth Everything, Life After Loss ft. musican Will Anderson

Published 6 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] You have way less photos together than you think. You just expect there to be more. I was talking about this the other day with someone. You expect there to be more photos and more videos, but they never show up. You know, you're not going to find some secret hard drive where all the the millions of photos you took together and you can get new ones every day. So for me, this this book and specifically the poems in it were so vital to my memory of her that I think instinctively I knew, even in the shock of it all, I was just like, I can't lose any of this writing because to me that was Courtney, you know, like that's where she worked her thoughts out. […]

Who has been a guest on Happiness in Progress

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• Will Anderson
• Dr Shadé Zahrai
• Pema Sherpa
• Brendan Barca
• Greta Morgan

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

472,340

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

175 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

15 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 94 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

96

Social presence

97

YouTube

86

Engagement

95

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