FLAME with Brad Hook
What If Joy Is Always Available? — Dr Andreea Vanacker
After a life-altering brain operation, entrepreneur Dr Andreea Vanacker went looking for what joy actually is — and built a global movement on what she found.
Andreea's story starts where many stop: a brain operation that rearranged her sense of what matters. Instead of returning to business as usual, she began a research-backed quest into joy — not as a mood that happens to you, but as a capacity available even in adversity. The result is One Million Years of Joy, a movement built on research, storytelling and connection.
We explore the difference between happiness-chasing and joy-access, the practices that make joy findable on hard days, and how an author of four books and TEDx speaker thinks about meaning after staring down mortality. Light in tone, serious in substance.
In this episode
- Joy as a capacity, not a mood that happens to you
- What a brain operation taught Andreea about what matters
- Happiness-chasing vs joy-access
- Practices for finding joy on hard days
- The One Million Years of Joy movement
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