Throughout his life, Doug Hensch has helped people to be more resilient, happier, and to achieve greater levels of success. His journey began with coaching football at University of Chicago, progressed to organizational development for telecom companies like Sprint Nextel, and evolved to creating online resources for increasing happiness. He was co-founder of Happier.com, a web site that launched in 2008 that helped thousands increase their happiness and resilience. And now, he’s an executive coach and writing a book on resilience, due to be published in early 2017.

We discuss:  

• Career stepping stones including coaching youth baseball
• Achieving success by following what interests you rather than pursuing the expected career path. In Doug's case this meant pursuing a job applying positive psychology rather than website product development.  
• Being in the right place, at the right time, with the right attitude
• Benefits of talking to people wherever you are - at Starbucks, a taxi cab, an airplane...
• Making a role your own
• Meditating 
• The evolution of Doug's book deal
• Resilience practices 
• Perceptions of luck
• Three addictions in life (as defined by Peter Worrell):