Happiness through Creating is a podcast designed to help you experience deeper happiness by awakening to your innate ability to create. Through timeless principles of creation, each episode explores how we shape abilities, relationships, ideas, and meaning—while courageously facing the opposition that refines us. Learn to see opposition as essential to growth and joy, and step fully into your role as a conscious, intentional creator of a purposeful and fulfilling life. Whatever you’re creating—relationships, family, career, or business—this podcast is for you. www.creatorsopposition.com
In this episode of Happiness Through Creating, we explore Katy Perry’s “Roar” and how it transformed difficult experiences into a powerful expression of finding your voice. We look at how Perry and Bonnie McKee drew from their own experiences, as well as older empowering songs, to create something new and meaningful. We discuss how creativity can help us process difficult emotions, reclaim our choices, and give experiences somewhere to go through writing, music, art, or simply starting something small. We leave with the reminder that we don’t have to have everything figured out before we create—we can begin where we are and discover what comes next through the process.
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2 Oct 2026
Episode 123: World Smile Day
In this special World Smile Day episode of Happiness Through Creating, we explore the story of Harvey Ball, the creator of the famous yellow smiley face, and what he taught us about letting go of what we create. We reflect on how Ball responded when his creation took on a life of its own—not by trying to control it, but by creating something new around the meaning he cared about. On a very personal day, we connect that idea to Acacia, whose genuine smile, kindness, and loving character have a remarkable way of creating joy for the people around her. We discover that sometimes the most meaningful things we create aren't things at all, but moments of connection, kindness, and happiness that we leave with other people.
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30 Sept 2026
Episode 122: International Podcast Day
In this special International Podcast Day episode of Happiness Through Creating, we explore what makes podcasting such a uniquely personal form of connection. We look at how a voice, repeated over time and woven into the ordinary moments of our lives, can create a surprising sense of familiarity between creators and listeners who may never meet. We connect that idea to creativity and character, exploring how showing up consistently and creating imperfectly can shape not only what we make, but who we become. And we reflect on the beautiful space between creator and listener, where something meaningful can emerge simply because we chose to make something and someone else chose to listen.
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