Everyday Happiness

Everyday Happiness

Join Vicki McLeod for her Pajama Podcasts on Everyday Happiness. Every show focuses in on one of the multiple dimensions that make for a balanced and happy daily life. The shows cover a variety of topics that include business and career, home and environment, personal growth and spirituality, health and wellness, relationships, and play and creativity. Vicki also shares the stage with her special guests who range form experts in each of these dimensions to ordinary people just like you who want to share their own personal journeys in life that lead them to discovering the joy`s of `Everyday Happiness`

Vicki`s personal golden rule to achieving Everyday Happiness in her life…

“Do what you love, love what you do, online and off.”

What`s Yours?



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15/48 Say Yes to Joy - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with your host Vicki McLeod, who interviews Nathalie Duporteau, aired from December 1/15. Can accessing your soul’s records from past lives help you find more joy today? In this week’s episode, Everyday Happiness host Vicki McLeod, interviews Nathalie Duporteau, an Advanced Akashic Records Practitioner, It’s an unusual business and Nathalie fills us … Continue reading 15/48 Say Yes to Joy
15/38: JOMO – When No Means Yes - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with Vickie McLeod and her guest Lorene Stuart  aired September 22nd-28th What do we mean when we say JOMO? How does the ‘joy of missing out’ impact our day-to-day decisions? In this week’s episode, Everyday Happiness host Vicki McLeod talks with actress Lorene Stuart, who was recently faced with an … Continue reading 15/38: JOMO – When No Means Yes
15/37 Blabbing about Blab - Everyday Happiness: originally aired September 15th-21st. The Pajama Podcasts in this episode host Vicki McLeod takes us on a podcast tour of Blab along with friends and colleagues Steve Dotto of Dottottech and Rebecca Coleman of The Art of the Business. We find out what Blab is, what to watch for, and how to use it, mindfully! ___________________________________________________________________________________     … Continue reading 15/37 Blabbing about Blab
15/36 Leading from Within - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with Vicki McLeod airing September 8th-14th  What does it take to truly thrive in business or in your personal life? Everyday Happiness host Vicki McLeod answers the question with an exploration of personal leadership. How is personal leadership different from positional leadership and how can it help you step up, … Continue reading 15/36 Leading from Within
15/35 Nurturing New Beginnings - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with  Vicki McLeod In this week’s episode, host Vicki McLeod talks about the three phases of managing transitions, based on the work of William Bridges – letting go, the neutral zone and new beginnings. What do we need to be aware of as the seasons change? How do the transitional … Continue reading 15/35 Nurturing New Beginnings
15/34 Zoning Out to Tune In: Tips for Managing Stress - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with Vicki McLeod airing August 25th-31st In this week’s episode, host Vicki McLeod explores stress reactions and offers some tips for dealing with the paralysis that can be a result of overwhelm or overwork. She discusses the nature of ‘realms’, the unskilled state we can sometimes find ourselves in when … Continue reading 15/34 Zoning Out to Tune In: Tips for Managing Stress
15/33 Off With Their Heads: What History Teaches Us About Innovation - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with Vicki McLeod aired August 18th-24th  In this week’s episode, host Vicki McLeod shares the executive perspective on using metaphor to inform change management for businesses.  One of her leadership coaching clients, (let’s call him ‘Dave’), went to Great Britain this summer and after visiting the Tower of London, came … Continue reading 15/33 Off With Their Heads: What History Teaches Us About Innovation
15/32 Kiss Your Excuses Goodbye - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with Vicki McLeod and her guest Christina Waschko aired August 11th-17th This week on Everyday Happiness, host Vicki McLeod interviews The Motherpreneur, Christina Waschko. Christina shares the motivating story of how she kissed her excuses goodbye and opened the business of her dreams. Christina is a world traveller, host of Motherpreneur … Continue reading 15/32 Kiss Your Excuses Goodbye
15/31 How to Make Difficult Decisions - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with host Vicki McLeod airing August 4th-10th  This week, Everyday Happiness host Vicki McLeod offers up a simple three step process for making difficult decisions – let go, tune in, and move forward. Letting go is all about tackling resistance to make room for assistance – the kind we get from … Continue reading 15/31 How to Make Difficult Decisions
15/30 The Upside of the Downside - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with Vicki McLeod aired July 28th-Aug 4th Have you ever had a streak of ‘bad luck’, lost a great contract, or asked yourself: Why is this happening? In this week’s episode host Vicki McLeod looks at the principles of certainty and uncertainty and explores ways to develop resiliency and equanimity … Continue reading 15/30 The Upside of the Downside
15/29 You Are Beautiful and Everybody Loves You - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podacasts with Vicki McLeod originally airied July 21st-17th In this week’s podcast, Everyday Happiness host Vicki McLeod takes us on a tour of affirmation writing and how we can use it to improve mood, attitude, and well-being. Despite a nasty cold, she shares three very useful affirmation tools, and based on the … Continue reading 15/29 You Are Beautiful and Everybody Loves You
15/28 Making Beautiful Music with Greg Stuart - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with Vicki McLeod and her guest Greg Stuart aired July 14th-20th In this episode, we talk music and happiness with Greg Stuart, a musician, composer, lyricist and audio technician. Greg is why we sound so good on the podcast and his original song “Before and Again” is our theme music. We … Continue reading 15/28 Making Beautiful Music with Greg Stuart
15/25 A Passion for Prose - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with Vicki McLeod and her guest Sylvia Taylor aired June 23rd In this week’s episode of  The Pajama Podcasts, host Vicki McLeod interviews author Sylvia Taylor.  Sylvia is an award-winning freelance writer, editor and educator and is the author of  The Fisher Queen: A Deckhand’s Tales of the BC Coast, a … Continue reading 15/25 A Passion for Prose
15/24 The Art of Business - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with Vicki McLeod and her guest Rebecca Coleman airing June 16th-22nd  In this week’s episode, host Vicki McLeod interviews Rebecca Coleman of the Art of the Business. Rebecca teaches Social Media at the B.C. Institute of Technology and is well known as a social media strategist, blogger, and food and travel … Continue reading 15/24 The Art of Business
15/23 Dare to Heal, Dare to Live - Everyday Happiness Pajama podcast with Vickie McLeod and her guest Drucilla Desabrais airing June 9th-15th.  In this weeks podcast, host Vicki McLeod interviews her friend, mentor and lifelong inspiration, Drucilla Desabrais. Drucilla resides in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico living the life of her dreams. Vicki worked with Drucilla for nearly two decades in Adventures in Living, a … Continue reading 15/23 Dare to Heal, Dare to Live
15/22 Where Purpose Meets Passion - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with Vicki McLeod airing June 2-8th  This week, Everyday Happiness host Vicki McLeod continues the theme of ‘People and Their Passions’ by exploring how our passions express themselves in a purposeful way in the world through work or hobbies. Vicki offers a series of questions that lead listeners to a … Continue reading 15/22 Where Purpose Meets Passion
15/21 Digital Wisdom and How to Use It - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with Vicki McLeod and her guests Sean Smith, Steve Dotto and Bosco Anthony, airing May 26th-June 2nd In this episode, Everyday Happiness host Vicki McLeod interviews three leading social media and digital strategists live from Social Media Camp 2015 in Victoria B.C. Sean Smith, Steve Dotto and Bosco Anthony share insights … Continue reading 15/21 Digital Wisdom and How to Use It
15/20 Business by the Numbers - Everyday Happiness “The Pajama Podcast”  with Vicki McLeod with Guest Kim Louise Easterbrook aired May 19th-25th This week host Vicki McLeod tells the story of how she got ‘unstuck’ in her home office and interviews Kim Louise Easterbrook. An intuitive numerologist, Kim’s work aligns the flow of soul, purpose, career, business and environment. Her work is insightful, her … Continue reading 15/20 Business by the Numbers
15/19 Kim Jackson: Goodness on the Move - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts Vicki McLeod and her guests Kim Jackson airing May 12th-18th This week, Everyday Happiness host Vicki McLeod continues the series on People and Their Passions in a heartwarming interview with Kim Jackson of Driving Miss Daisy Chilliwack. Kim is an inspiring woman on the move who is mixes her passions for … Continue reading 15/19 Kim Jackson: Goodness on the Move
15/18 Where Passion Meets Purpose: The Oracle of Shoes - EveryDay Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with host Vicki McLeod and her guest Steve Robinson aired May 5th/15 This week Everyday Happiness host Vicki McLeod launches a series on People and Their Passions with an interview with Creative Technologist, Steve Robinson of Sociovisual Communications. That is his real title and he fills us in on what it means and offers insight on the … Continue reading 15/18 Where Passion Meets Purpose: The Oracle of Shoes
15/16: The Wisdom of Disturbance - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with Vicki McLeod aired April 21st-27th  In this week’s episode host Vicki McLeod explores the sometimes turbulent nature of relationships and how feelings of disappointment, anger, resentment and fear are allies in the personal journey and gateways to wisdom. She proposes disturbance as an ally and tells us how to navigate … Continue reading 15/16: The Wisdom of Disturbance
15/15 How to Have a Lovely Soul - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with Vicki McLeod airing April 14th- 20th In this week’s episode host Vicki McLeod takes a look at beauty – from the inside out. What defines our notions of beauty? What is the impact of aging on us as we cycle through life’s changes?  Vicki shares her observations as a … Continue reading 15/15 How to Have a Lovely Soul
15/14 Making Meaning from Metaphor – - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with Vicki McLeod: When a butterfly isn’t just a butterfly. Aired April 7th.  In this week’s episode, host Vicki McLeod explores how metaphor can help us understand what is trying to get our attention. She discusses personal symbology, and the collective unconscious, and how we can access emerging wisdom and gain … Continue reading 15/14 Making Meaning from Metaphor –
15/13 Connected Kids: Keeping Them Safe Online - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with Vicki McLeod and her guest Karina Cebuliak. In this week’s episode, Everyday Happiness host Vicki McLeod, interviews Social Chick Karina Cebuliak who shares how she blends her passion for social media with her passion for children’s health and wholeness. Karina shares her tips and insights on helping your kinds find … Continue reading 15/13 Connected Kids: Keeping Them Safe Online
15/12 Facebook Friends: Online Life – Love it or hate it? - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with Vicki McLeod AIRING March 24th-30th  In this episode host Vicki McLeod wraps up a month of looking at staying real, finding happiness and navigating life and business in cyberspace with the results of a Facebook poll where she asked Facebook friends and fans to weigh-in on online communications and … Continue reading 15/12 Facebook Friends: Online Life – Love it or hate it?
15/11 The FOMO-JOMO Episode - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with Vicki McLeod airing March 17th-23rd In this episode, host Vicki McLeod explores FOMO, the Fear of Missing Out, of being left behind, the sense of urgency and psychological dependence related to being online. She shares five signs that you might need to unplug, and tells the story of her … Continue reading 15/11 The FOMO-JOMO Episode
15/10 Life in Cyberspace with Steve Dotto - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts hosted by Vicki McLeod and her guest Steve Dotto airing March 10th-16th  In this week’s episode, host Vicki McLeod interviews Canada’a favourite geek, Steve Dotto. Steve is a Youtube icon, one of North America’s leading experts in the digital arena, and known through his many years on television and on … Continue reading 15/10 Life in Cyberspace with Steve Dotto
15/09 Mind Your Manners, Vicki’s Guide to Social Media Netiquette - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with Vickie McLeod  In this week’s episode, host Vicki McLeod leads us through the labyrinth of social media norms, etiquettes, and cultural expectations. She shares the context and principles that govern positive digital and social media interaction, and gives us the Emily Post perspective on what’s changed and what hasn’t … Continue reading 15/09 Mind Your Manners, Vicki’s Guide to Social Media Netiquette
15/08 Virtually Real: Engaging Authentically, Online and Off - Aired February 24th on Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts  with Vicki McLeod  In this episode, host Vicki McLeod begins a series on communicating online and off. Based on her experience in digital and social media marketing, she explores what is real, and asks how we can convey and reveal our true selves and create meaningful … Continue reading 15/08 Virtually Real: Engaging Authentically, Online and Off
15/07 Change your Space, Change Your Life - Airing February 17th-23rd on Everyday Happiness with Vicki McLeod and her guest Kathleen Hatley It’s time to get your house in order – in more ways than one. In this week’s podcast, host Vicki McLeod interviews My Clutter Coach, Kathleen Hatley. Studies show that there is a link between depression and the amount of clutter in … Continue reading 15/07 Change your Space, Change Your Life
15/06 Learning to Love Yourself, (just in time for Valentine’s Day). - Airing February 10th on Everyday Happiness The Pajama Podcast with Vicki McLeod  In this episode, host Vicki McLeod offers insight into romancing the most important relationship in your life – the one with yourself. Exploring the notion of positive action, personal integrity and self-responsibility as acts of love, Vicki issues a Valentine’s Week Challenge, asking … Continue reading 15/06 Learning to Love Yourself, (just in time for Valentine’s Day).
15/05 Art Journaling: Playtime with Purpose - Originally Aired from February 3rd-9th on Everyday Happiness with Vicki McLoed and her guest Tracey Lewindon In this week’s Everyday Happiness pajama podcast, Vicki interviews Tracey Lewindon of Nature’s Heart. Tracey is an aromatherapist and an art journaling teacher devoted to growing wellness and cultivating harmony.  Tracey and Vicki discuss the art journaling process and how … Continue reading 15/05 Art Journaling: Playtime with Purpose
15/04 The Pajama Podcasts – Cheerfulness and Choice - Airing from January 27th on Everyday Happiness with Vicki McLeod  In this episode Vicki introduces the notion of ‘incremental happiness’ and how to increase daily happiness the way “a child strings beads in kindergarten – happily absorbed and adding one bead at a time.” She shares how she finds zen in the kitchen and explores … Continue reading 15/04 The Pajama Podcasts – Cheerfulness and Choice
15/03 Everyday Happiness: - Debut Show Airing from January 20th on “Everyday Happiness” with Vicki Mcleod In her first show, Vicki rings in the new year with a look at the six dimensions that together make for a balanced and happy life. She’ll offer a simple way to assess your level of personal satisfaction within each dimension and practical … Continue reading 15/03 Everyday Happiness:
15/02c Vickie and Living Everyday Happiness - Airing January 13th-19th on Positive Living Vibrations with Sara Troy and her new PLV host Vickie Mcleod Living in Everyday Happiness is a conscious choice, we want our tomorrows memories to be good, so invest in your today and embrace the gift of the present. Vickie Mcleod is our new PLV Host sharing with you … Continue reading 15/02c Vickie and Living Everyday Happiness
15-47 Self-Discovery. Why Bother? - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with Vicki McLeod aired November 24th-30th Self-Discovery. Why Bother? In this episode, Everyday Happiness host Vicki McLeod explores (and explains) the self-discovery process, and what occurs when we stop and take time to be present to ourselves. How do our aspects – mental, emotional, physical and spiritual – join together on … Continue reading 15-47 Self-Discovery. Why Bother?
15-46 When Too Much Information is Just Enough - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with Vicki McLeod aired November 17th-24th  After a four-week hiatus, everyday happiness host Vicki McLeod is back on the air with some self-disclosure. What was up during those four weeks? We’re has she been? Along with an amazing trip to Europe, Vicki shares why, sometimes, you just need to go down … Continue reading 15-46 When Too Much Information is Just Enough
15-40 Thriving or Surviving? - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with Vicki McLeod and her guest Sean Smith originally aired October 6th In this week’s episode we check in with Sean Smith, That Social Media Guy, Cadi Jordan of Jordan Consulting and the Social Chicks, Karina Cebuliak and Lori Graham  on the joys and challenges of self employment. What is it like to … Continue reading 15-40 Thriving or Surviving?
15-39 JOMO: Author Christina Crook and the Joy of Missing Out - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcast with host Vicki McLeod and  author Author Christina Crook  Christina Crook of #JOMO: The Joy of Missing Out, Finding Balance in a Wired World. Christina and Vicki talk about the intersection of technology, relationships and joy based on Christina’s experience of  a 30-day technology fast, chronicled in her book.  Christina will join Vicki … Continue reading 15-39 JOMO: Author Christina Crook and the Joy of Missing Out
15-27 Wholesale Happiness – Having it All with Mike Vardy - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with Vicki McLeod and her guest Mike Vardy airing July 7th- In this week’s podcast, Everyday Happiness host Vicki McLeod interviews Mike Vardy, Founder and President of Productivityist.  Before founding Productivityist, he served as Managing Editor of the popular productivity blog Lifehack, and as an editor at The Next Web and … Continue reading 15-27 Wholesale Happiness – Having it All with Mike Vardy
15-26 Finding Your Ham - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with Vicki McLeod and her guest Lorene Stuart airing June 30th-July 6th In this week’s episode, host Vicki McLeod interviews singer and actress Lorene Stuart of Grene Genes Productions. Lorene tells us how she ‘found her ham’ and her sense of belonging on the high-school stage. She shares the journey from … Continue reading 15-26 Finding Your Ham
15-17 Conscious Business brings Commerce from the Heart - Everyday Happiness: The Pajama Podcasts with Vicki McLeod aired April 28th In this week’s episode, host Vicki McLeod talks about how to create a heart-centred conscious business by applying five key personal development principles to the way you set goals, respond to the market and brand your product or service.This episode closes with a short … Continue reading 15-17 Conscious Business brings Commerce from the Heart

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