{"podcast":{"title":"Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness","slug":"inspirational-living-life-lessons-for-success-happiness-620316","podcast_index_feed_id":620316,"rss_url":"https://feeds.redcircle.com/0e6e1ab5-84dc-4b80-8da1-c99012ccfbf2","website_url":"https://redcircle.com/shows/inspirational-living","image_url":"https://media.redcircle.com/images/2025/4/15/3/d38919f4-c652-45e4-a7ea-f2187bebda73_41e1-ab3c-c3c66e4123ba_inspirational_living_v2.jpg","author":"The Living Hour","episode_count":653,"summary":"With 25+ million downloads, the Inspirational Living has been offering motivational broadcasts for the mind, body, and spirit since 2016. If you want to find a free online life coach, look no further than the most motivational self-help authors of the past. Each self-development podcast is edited & adapted from the books and essays of classic inspirational writers, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Helen Keller, Booker T. Washington, James Allen, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Orison Swett Marden, Neville Goddard, and Frederick Douglass, as well as self-development authors who have largely been lost to history but deserve to be re-discovered again and enjoyed. Subscribe to our inspirational podcast to receive new free podcasts every week. Live up to the potential of your highest self. Buy our best-selling trilogy of books based on the readings heard on the podcast at: https://livinghour.org/books Or visit Amazon.com Support us on Patreon for full transcripts and access to the series Our Sunday Talks: https://www.patreon.com/inspirationalpodcasts","last_synced_at":"2026-09-04T16:23:46.498617+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inspirational-living-life-lessons-for-success-happiness-620316"},"episode":{"title":"The Power of Laughter & Cheerfulness","slug":"the-power-of-laughter-cheerfulness","published_at":"2026-06-16T03:51:39+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inspirational-living-life-lessons-for-success-happiness-620316/the-power-of-laughter-cheerfulness","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inspirational-living-life-lessons-for-success-happiness-620316","url":"http://livinghour.org/books","audio_url":"https://audio1.redcircle.com/episodes/2e4406b3-a8e1-46e8-8ad2-1f6a6274594b/stream.mp3","summary":"Listen to episode 1130 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Cheerfulness. Adapted from The Optimistic Life by Orison Swett Marden. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt :Joyous people are not only the happiest, but the longest lived, the most useful and the most successful. A sense of humor, the love of fun in human nature, is a normal, natural lubricant which oils life's machinery, makes it run smoothly, and relieves that grinding of the bearings which prematurely wears away so many lives. The 19th century women’s activist Lydia Maria Child used to say: \"I think cheerfulness in every possible way. I hang prisms in my window to fill the room with rainbows.\" This is the right kind of philosophy, the great medicine of the mind, the best tonic for the body. The habit of looking on the sunny side, the laughter-side or ludicrous side of things, is a fortune in itself. I would rather be a millionaire of cheerfulness and sunshine than of dollars. --------------------- Get our popular 3 books of Life Lessons in paperback and e-book on Amazon. Go to: https://livinghour.org/books Get our podcast with full transcripts and without ads by visiting: https://livinghour.org/patron Transform your life in 30 days with our MAJESTY meditation program: https://livinghour.org/majesty . Get 30% off with the coupon code: INSPIRATION Our Sponsors: * Check out Shopify and use my code shopify.com/inspirational for a great deal: https://www.shopify.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy","meta_description":"Listen to episode 1130 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Cheerfulness. Adapted from The Optimistic Life by Orison Swett Marden. Inspiratio…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":604,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/inspirational-living-life-lessons-for-success-happiness-620316/episodes/the-power-of-laughter-cheerfulness/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inspirational-living-life-lessons-for-success-happiness-620316/the-power-of-laughter-cheerfulness.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}