Happiness and Joy During Turbulent Times: Salesforce’s Karen Mangia On How To Live With Joie De Vivre, Even When It Feels Like The Whole World Is Pulling You Down

Provide support to others. Have you ever noticed how much happier you feel when you help someone else? This act of generosity activates a neural pathway in the brain that boosts wellbeing and lowers fear and stress responses, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh found. I “send a friend lasagna’ regularly. Even that act takes the focus off me and puts it onto someone else.

It sometimes feels like it is so hard to avoid feeling down or depressed these days. Between the sad news coming from world headlines, the impact of the ongoing raging pandemic, and the constant negative messages popping up on social and traditional media, it sometimes feels like the entire world is pulling you down. What do you do to feel happiness and joy during these troubled and turbulent times? In this interview series called “Finding Happiness and Joy During Turbulent Times” we are talking to experts, authors, and mental health professionals who share lessons from their research or experience about “How To Find Happiness and Joy During Troubled & Turbulent Times”.

As a part of this series, I had the pleasure of interviewing Karen Mangia.

Karen Mangia is an executive at Salesforce, and her work focuses on strategies for personal and professional success. She is the author of four books: Success with Less: Releasing Obligations & Discovering Joy (Marie St. Press, 2016), Listen Up! How to Tune in To Customers, And Turn Down the Noise (Wiley, 2020), Working from Home: Making the New Normal Work for You (Wiley, 2020), and Success from Anywhere: Your Personal Guide to Creating the Future of Work from the Inside Out (Wiley, November 2021). Thinkers 360 recently named her as one the Top 20 Thought Leaders for Mental Health in the world.

Thank you so much for joining us in this interview series! Before we dive into the main focus of our interview, our readers…