Broadcasting Happiness

Broadcasting Happiness will "inspire you and change your life." -Parade Magazine

Broadcasting Happiness is a wake up call. It is about the messages you send into the world every single day, and how those broadcasts shape your confidence, your relationships, your work, and your future. Whether you realize it or not, you are always broadcasting something. And the people around you are reacting to it.

As managers, colleagues, parents, and friends, we are constantly broadcasting cues that shape how people feel and how they perform. Those broadcasts either create our success or hold us back.

In this book, Michelle Gielan, a former CBS News anchor turned positive psychology researcher, shares what she discovered when she stepped out of the breaking news cycle and into the science of communication and optimism. Her research shows that small shifts in how we speak, listen, and lead can create powerful ripple effects in our teams, our families, and our own internal narratives.

Drawing on studies from psychology and neuroscience, Michelle explains how simple changes in communication can lead to higher productivity, stronger performance, better sales, and lower stress. She translates that science into everyday habits that are easy to learn and surprisingly effective. These habits have been featured on her PBS program Inspire Happiness and Oprah's 21 Days to Happiness.

Through real stories from organizations, schools, and families, you will see how people used these tools to transform their cultures and their outcomes. Leaders created more connected, resilient teams. School districts raised graduation rates. Families shifted long standing patterns of negativity and found their way back to each other. The changes were not dramatic overhauls. They were small, intentional choices in how they communicated.

In Broadcasting Happiness, you will learn how to fact check challenges to reduce stress, lead conversations with positivity, rewrite limiting thoughts, handle difficult people with more ease, deliver hard news in a way that builds trust, and help others shift from negative to positive in seconds. These are practices that expand your influence, strengthen your relationships, and create the kind of optimism that endures.

This book is a practical, research backed guide to showing up with clarity, purpose, and a broadcast that inspires others to rise. When you change your broadcast, you change your impact. And when you change your impact, you change what becomes possible for the people around you and for your own life.

Praise for the book:

"Broadcasting Happiness is an inspiring book on rethinking the way we communicate. Michelle Gielan is a gifted storyteller who shares powerful science and practical insights." - Adam Grant

"Broadcasting Happiness is a truly exceptional book that will help you be more effective in work and life right away." - Tom Rath