Coaching for the hard middle of change.
Better Than Happy turns everyday stuck points into coaching problems: quitting goals, money anxiety, self-love, sales discomfort, marriage strain, and unwanted thoughts. Jodi Moore uses concrete reframes to move listeners from emotional drama toward steadier action.
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Better Than Happy is a coaching show centered on emotional growth, personal responsibility, and practical change. Jodi Moore speaks from the register of a coach who expects listeners to apply the work, not merely feel better for an hour. The subject matter is broad, but the pattern is consistent. A problem is named plainly. Then the episode looks for the thought, story, habit, or belief system that keeps it alive. Recent topics include quitting important goals, self-love, persistent unwanted thoughts, selling without sounding pushy, and the hidden cost of being too nice. Money and health appear as repeat testing grounds because they expose how quickly people abandon plans when progress slows. Business goals, marketing, job searching, saving, investing, parenting strategies, and marriage all sit inside the same broader question: what keeps a person moving when the result has not arrived yet? Moore often returns to the distinction between facts and interpretation. She calls it separating the math from the drama. That phrase captures the show’s core strength. It does not treat emotions as irrelevant, but it does ask listeners to notice when emotion has turned into a story that stops action. The coaching can be direct. Being too nice, for example, is framed less as harmless politeness than as a kind of pretense that costs integrity and connection. Self-love is handled as something observable in the mind, not just a self-help slogan. The show also carries a clear LDS-women audience thread, especially around money, goodness, achievement, and permission to succeed. At the same time, many episodes are built for anyone drawn to mindset work and behavior change. Brooke Castillo appears in an episode on connection in marriage. Better Than Happy suits listeners who want firm encouragement, clear frameworks, and a repeatable way to keep going through the awkward phase before change feels natural.
Made for: Better Than Happy is for listeners drawn to mindset coaching, emotional growth, and practical self-development, especially around money, health, marriage, parenting, business, and confidence. It particularly speaks to LDS women while keeping many lessons broad enough for a general personal-growth audience.
What sets it apart: The show combines direct coaching language with everyday examples from health goals, family life, entrepreneurship, and money. Its signature strength is turning vague emotional stuckness into a cleaner distinction between facts, stories, tools, and next actions.
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A plain-talk guide to staying with the work when progress stops matching effort.
Better Than Happy turns the familiar frustration of doing everything right and still not seeing results on schedule into a question of tools and strategy, not a verdict on whether the effort matters.
A practical reset for redirecting persistent negative thoughts before they take over attention.
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A blunt coaching episode about why people quit and how to keep going.
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Jodi Moore explores why people quit on important goals like health and finances, identifying three core reasons: limiting beliefs, poor attitudes, and not making the process enjoyable.
Jodi Moore uses her college memory of writing “I’m so tired of waiting” to examine how future milestones and past memories can displace the present.
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This episode explores practical ways to understand and practice self-love, moving beyond abstract concepts to actionable insights from coaching experiences.
This episode explores how being too nice can be a form of lying or lacking integrity, why people engage in this behavior, and how to eliminate it to transform one's life.
This episode teaches listeners how to sell effectively without being pushy or aggressive, using coaching principles to empower personal and professional growth.
Separate out the math from the drama, because "I've tried everything" keeps creating the same result.
This episode explores strategies for dealing with persistent, unwanted thoughts that hinder success, happiness, and confidence.
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