A happiness researcher walks into her own podcast episode and admits she's not happy all the time. And it turns out — that's exactly the point.Dr. Gillian Mandich holds three degrees from Western University, founded the International Happiness Institute, and has appeared on The Social, Breakfast Television, and two TEDx stages. In this conversation, she dismantles the toxic myth that happiness means feeling good all the time — and replaces it with something more honest, more actionable, and backed by science.From what her 41-pound French bulldog Jocko teaches her about savoring, to the guilt she carried about money as a grad student, to integrating happiness research into CBT in psychiatry — this is a conversation about what it actually takes to build a life that holds up.
