
Vibrant Happy Women
The Vibrant Happy Women Podcast is for women who want to expand their capacity for joy. If you crave a more authentic, heart-centered, and balanced life, you’ll love learning with Happiness Expert Dr. Jen Riday as she interviews vibrant women and shares proven tools that will help you “get your SPARKLE back” in all areas of your life. You’ll be inspired by discussions of authenticity, healthy boundaries, emotional healing, time management, confidence, adventure, spirituality, conscious parenting, marriage, friendship, identity, self love, and more! And if you enjoy this podcast, you’d love Vibrant Soul, the place to heal, transform and expand your soul with likeminded friends. Join us at JenRiday.com/vibrantsoul.
Latest episodes

Jul 12, 2016 • 2min
Happy Bit: How Do You Want to Feel?
How do you want to FEEL a year from now? What feels the best to you and how can you arrange your life to make that more frequent? Learn how in this HappyBit!

Jul 11, 2016 • 29min
17: Embracing Life as an Undocumented Immigrant with Kenia Calderon
Kenia Calderon was born in Santa Ana, El Salvador and migrated to Iowa when she was 11 because her country was becoming extremely dangerous due to gang-related crimes. Kenia is now 22 years old and will be a senior at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa this fall, majoring in management and entrepreneurship. Since being in the U.S., Kenia has learned to embrace her struggles as an undocumented immigrant and has become a strong immigration activist, helping others to succeed despite their hardships. You can find her on her blog at www.coffeewithkenia.com.

Jul 8, 2016 • 1min
Happy Bit: Get Your Hands Dirty
When is the last time you purposely got your hands dirty? Here are some ideas on why and how you can do that. :)

Jul 7, 2016 • 34min
16: Trusting in the Sacred Pace of Life with Jaime Myers
Are you seeking clarity, peace, and personal growth in life? Jaime Myers shares the lessons she has learned about following her intuition, listening to her body, nurturing her needs, and allowing life to unfold at its own sacred pace. Jaime will help you understand how everything in life happens FOR you rather than TO you. All links discussed in this episode can be found on the corresponding Show Notes page at www.jenriday.com/16

Jul 5, 2016 • 2min
Happy Bit: Putting Creativity Before Your To-Do LIst
Should you work on your to-do list, including laundry and cleaning. Or drop it all and do something creative? Find out in this HappyBit...

Jul 4, 2016 • 32min
15: Lessons on Clarity & Creativity While Living with Chronic Disease with Sarah Dobson
The upbeat and community-minded Sarah Dobson is making a difference in the world, even though she has had 5 brain surgeries due to having Camurati-Engelmann Disease, which affects her skull. In this episode Sarah shares how her disease has motivated her to prioritize what's really important and to learn to be vulnerable and ask for help rather than always putting on her "happy face." All links discussed in this episode can be found on the corresponding Show Notes Page at www.jenriday.com/15

Jul 1, 2016 • 4min
Happy Bit: Time Tracking 101
Do you always run out of time for what you really want to do? Listen to this HappyBit for a solution.

Jun 30, 2016 • 30min
14: Love What Makes You Special with Lori Jones
Several years ago Lori Jones was devastated to learn her soon-to-be born baby had a severe heart defect. Lori relied on her faith and looking inward and allowed this struggled to become a time of growth. Now, 12 years later, Riley is doing fine and Lori has chosen to "give back" by sharing her book Riley's Heart Machine and spreading a message of loving what makes each of us special. Lori's optimistic outlook on life will leave you feeling uplifted and thinking of ways you, too, can serve, laugh, and love yourself just as you are. Show notes available at www.jenriday.com/14

Jun 28, 2016 • 2min
Happy Bit: Adore Your Body
Do you focus in on your body's flaws? Have you ever considered showering your body with gratitude. This HappyBit will teach you how, and you'll be surprised how much happier adoring your body can feel.

Jun 27, 2016 • 38min
13: How to Live a Slower, More Authentic Life with Kris Vaughan
Kris Vaughan was always a go-getter, moving at 100 miles per hour, feeling great pride in her ability to do it all with great efficiency. But that all changed when she decided to run a half marathon, which finally put her already-delicate health into a downward spiral ending in a thyroid crash or what some call adrenal fatigue. After 2 years of nourishing herself with healthy foods and having lots of quiet time just “being,” Kris has restored her health and continued to make it a priority to live slowly, deliberately and with authenticity.