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The World Happiness Movement

A global invitation
to choose happy.

A movement is a shared agreement about how we'll show up, for ourselves, for each other, and for the world.

Happiness has Power, together!

Join the Movement → ★ Take the Happiness Test 🌐 Monthly Happiness Report

The Happiness Reporter

Real People. Real Stories. Real Happiness.

Through The Happiness Reporter, Ilene goes out into the world asking one simple but powerful question:

“What does happiness mean to you?”

The answers come from everyday people, different cultures, different experiences, and different walks of life — reminding us that happiness often lives in the simple moments we overlook.

These conversations inspire connection, perspective, and hope while showing that we are more alike than we realize.

Follow The Journey

  • Watch uplifting interviews
  • Share meaningful conversations
  • Discover inspiring perspectives
  • Help spread happiness online
Watch The Happiness Reporter

Our Cause

Fill a Plate. Fill Your Heart.

True happiness isn't something we keep to ourselves. It expands outward. When we fill another person's plate, we naturally fill our own hearts. It's hard to build a practice of happy when you're worried about your next meal, so this movement has a cause: no one should go to bed hungry. Give a little, and feel the good come back.

Give Food

Clear out the surplus in your life. Support your local food drive or community pantry. Turning excess into nourishment is a beautiful way to practice gratitude for what you have.

Give Time

Lend a helping hand. Volunteer packing boxes or distributing meals. There’s no faster way to ground yourself in perspective and connection than working side by side with your community.

Give Money

Fuel the global mission. A direct gift lets The Global FoodBanking Network scale their reach and redirect perfectly good food to the families who need it most.

Whether you bring your food, your time, or your support, you are choosing to be the reason someone else smiles today.
And that is exactly where true happiness lives.

As we grow, the cause we’re reaching out to support is
The Global FoodBanking Network
a nonprofit working to end hunger around the world.
Sign the pledge, and you’ll be the first to know how to help.

Learn More About The Global FoodBanking Network→

A Choice

Happiness is a choice we make every day.

A Practice

Small practices build lasting change.

A Movement

Together, we create a happier world.

The Manifesto

What we believe.

— 01

Happiness is a choice, not a feeling, and like every important choice, it gets easier with practice.

— 02

You don’t have to earn the right to be happy. You don’t have to wait until everything is fixed. You can start, exactly as you are, today.

— 03

Happiness ripples. Every time one of us chooses it, someone nearby is more likely to choose it too. That’s how a feeling becomes a movement.

— 04

Joy is not the opposite of hardship. It’s what we build through hardship, together, with tools, with practice, with people who refuse to let us forget what we’re capable of.

— 05

When we help abolish hunger, we hand happiness to every person we feed. A fed world is a happier world.

Your Pledge

Make it real.

I WILL

  • Choose happy — even on the days I don't feel like it.

  • Practice happiness like the skill it is — daily, imperfectly, generously.

  • Pass it on — one conversation, one smile, one stranger, one ripple at a time.

Sign the Pledge →
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From the Movement

As we grow, the cause we’re reaching out to support is
Feeding America
a nonprofit working to end hunger around the world.

Sign the pledge, and you’ll be the first to know how to help.

Learn More About Feeding America →

Voices from
around the world.

Real people, in real cities, on what happiness has meant to them this week.

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I look forward to coach Ilene’s sessions with our women’s group. She has an incredible gift for creating a warm welcoming environment where everyone feels safe to share, listen and grow. Her sense of humor is a bonus.

RP

Rita P.

Delray Beach, Florida

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I love my experience with Ilene.  You have a special knack for finding the point of the matter and addressing it!  Kudos!  That’s Coaching! 

I highly recommend her. 

SA

Sallie

Valley Stream, NY

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My experience with Ilene is a 10,  My transformation and positive change is a 10.

I will recommend her highly

FB

Flo B.

Delray Beach, Florida

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What I like about this method of coaching is the fact that we move forward rather than rehashing the past.  After many years of therapy, I feel that more progress is made towards happiness with Ilene’s coaching.  The pace of healing trauma is faster and more efficient.  Ilene asks me what my goals are and we work together to achieve them. 
 
I leave each session feeling very confident and optimistic.  That feeling stays with me all week.  I see myself changing towards my goals each day.  I am going from surviving mode to thriving.  I am learning to love myself and my life more and more each day.

I am so grateful to have Ilene as my life coach. 

E

E.

Delray Beach, Florida

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Dear Ilene,
This is a small token of appreciation and gratitude for all the preparation and effort you put forth to make The Women’s Group sessions so special and meaningful to us. Being so open about your own life experiences has led the way for all of us as individuals to explore and discuss events impacting our own lives. Your sense of humor, honesty and commitment are a gift!  We are so happy to be beneficiaries of it!
 
With Love and gratitude.

WG

The Wednesday night Women's Group

Delray Beach, Florida

"

Ilene is a dynamo! She helped me move from hesitation to focused commitment, giving me the clarity and momentum I needed to take meaningful action in building my business. I now feel much more ready to step fully into what I have to offer, and I’m grateful to have her in my corner. 

SS

Sky S.

Summit New Jersey

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Episode 10

How to Practice Happiness When Life Falls Apart

From the Movement

Voices from
around the world.

Real people, in real cities, on what happiness has meant to them this week.

Delray Beach, Florida
I look forward to coach Ilene's sessions with our women's group. She has an incredible gift for creating a warm welcoming environment where everyone feels safe to share, listen and grow. Her sense of humor is a bonus.
Rita P.
Valley Stream, NY
I love my experience with Ilene.  You have a special knack for finding the point of the matter and addressing it!  Kudos!  That's Coaching!  I highly recommend her. 
Sallie
Delray Beach, Florida
My experience with Ilene is a 10,  My transformation and positive change is a 10. I will recommend her highly
Flo B.
New York, New York
A sweet way.  She has such a great sense of humor which can ease any anxiety I might have on a particular issue.  She doesn't know it but I refer to her as beautiful Ilene.  She is beautiful inside and out.  I am grateful to have connected with her because my life is better with her in it.  Thanks for being my coach. 
Linda B.
Delray Beach, Florida
Dear Ilene, This is a small token of appreciation and gratitude for all the preparation and effort you put forth to make The Women's Group sessions so special and meaningful to us. Being so open about your own life experiences has led the way for all of us as individuals to explore and discuss events impacting our own lives. Your sense of humor, honesty and commitment are a gift!  We are so happy to be beneficiaries of it! With Love and gratitude.
The Wednesday night Women's Group
Summit New Jersey
Ilene is a dynamo! She helped me move from hesitation to focused commitment, giving me the clarity and momentum I needed to take meaningful action in building my business. I now feel much more ready to step fully into what I have to offer, and I'm grateful to have her in my corner. 
Sky S.
Delray Beach, Florida
What I like about this method of coaching is the fact that we move forward rather than rehashing the past.  After many years of therapy, I feel that more progress is made towards happiness with Ilene’s coaching.  The pace of healing trauma is faster and more efficient.  Ilene asks me what my goals are and we work together to achieve them.  I leave each session feeling very confident and optimistic.  That feeling stays with me all week.  I see myself changing towards my goals each day.  I am going from surviving mode to thriving.  I am learning to love myself and my life more and more each day. I am so grateful to have Ilene as my life coach. 
E.

A Note From Ilene

Why I started this.

I started The World Happiness Movement because the world is a little cranky right now, and I think we can fix it.
(And honestly, I needed it too.)

I’d built a coaching practice, a video series, a body of work I’m proud of, and I kept noticing the same thing in every conversation: people were waiting. Waiting for the right time. Waiting to feel ready. Waiting for happiness to arrive like a delivery.

It doesn’t work that way. Happiness arrives because you start practicing it, out loud, in public, in community. So I’m asking you to start, with me. Not because I have it all figured out. Because none of us do, and that’s exactly why it works better together.

A global charity partnership — in the works.

We’re in conversation with a global charity partner to turn pledges into measurable good. Details soon — for now, join the pledge and you’ll be the first to hear.

Be Part of It

One choice.
One pledge.
One world.

Happiness multiplies when shared. Sign the pledge, add your city to the map, and help make this a movement worth joining.

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