The Business Of Happiness

Tarryn MacCarthy
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When you feel good, you do good. In business and in life, we can do better and have a greater impact on the lives of others when we align our intentions and our actions with inner fulfillment. The Business of Happiness Podcast ignites the conversation of redefining our modern definition of success and how to find happiness in our work and, ultimately, in our lives. I am Dr. Tarryn MacCarthy, and in the first 2 decades of my career, I reveled in culturally recognizable success and drowned myself in personal turmoil and depression. Since then, I have embarked on a quest for greater purpose and joy in business and in life. Welcome to the conversation as each week we discuss together, and with successful business owners and leaders, how to strive for happiness. Together we will adventure to discover the secrets to finding true purpose and impact and to redefine our understanding of success. This is The Business of Happiness.

  1. 5D AGO

    #414 - The Biggest Reason To Stop People Pleasing Isn’t You

    Are you saying yes because it feels right, or because you are afraid someone will be upset? In today’s episode, Dr. Tarryn McCarthy speaks to high-achieving, deeply passionate healthcare professionals and high-achieving women in dentistry who are tired of carrying everyone else’s comfort. She shares why people-pleasing is so common in medicine and dentistry, how it can damage patient care, team culture, leadership, and personal happiness, and why strong boundaries can actually be a higher form of service. This episode is a clear reminder that you can be kind, caring, and excellent without losing yourself in the process. Listen now and learn how better boundaries can make you a stronger, calmer, and happier provider. Show notes: (1:54) How people-pleasing hurts dental leaders (3:31) When one patient crosses boundaries (6:18) Why pleasing patients lowers care (9:02) People-pleasing team members into resentment (11:01) Why do medicine and dentistry train pleasing (16:08) You are not responsible for pain (21:17) Better care starts with boundaries (26:12) Outro _______________________ IMPORTANT LINKS: Empower Her Retreat: Dates: October 1–4, 2026 Location: Taos, New Mexico Website: empowerherretreat.org Connect with Dr. MacCarthy: Email: tarryn@drtarrynmaccarthy.com Book a call with Tarryn: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/bookings/happiness-and-prosperity-strategy-call Unlock your inner peace and reclaim joy in your profession with the Nervous System Regulation For Dentists Course: https://www.thebizofhappiness.com/calm Please join my Facebook group, Business Of Happiness Hive, so we can all take this journey to find fulfillment and happiness together. Click here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2047152905700283 Where to find me: Website: www.thebizofhappiness.com Facebook: facebook.com/thebusinessofhappiness IG: @thebizofhappiness It would mean the world to me if you subscribe, leave a review, and share this podcast with your friends, co-workers, and families. This will help the trajectory of this podcast and allow others who are seeking true happiness to find the podcast.

    27 min

  2. APR 27

    #413 - Your Self-Judgment Is Killing Your Happiness and Your Success

    In this episode of The Business of Happiness, Dr. Tarryn MacCarthy speaks to high-achieving healthcare professionals who appear successful on the outside while quietly carrying the weight of self-judgment within. She sheds light on how shame, people-pleasing, burnout, and imposter syndrome can shape the lives of dentists, doctors, and women in healthcare, even when they seem to be doing everything right. With warmth and honesty, Dr. Tarryn offers a different way to look at that inner voice that keeps saying you are not enough. This episode is a reminder that success does not have to feel so heavy. If you have been holding it all together while feeling worn down underneath, this conversation will likely hit home. Press play before your inner critic starts running the shift. Show notes: (1:18) How self-judgment starts early (6:16) When self-criticism shows up (9:52) Success without feeling fulfilled (13:25) Why shame blocks rest (15:06) Choosing a new inner voice (18:44) Becoming your own cheerleader (20:54) Outro _______________________ IMPORTANT LINKS: Empower Her Retreat: Dates: October 1–4, 2026 Location: Taos, New Mexico Website: empowerherretreat.org Connect with Dr. MacCarthy: Email: tarryn@drtarrynmaccarthy.com Book a call with Tarryn: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/bookings/happiness-and-prosperity-strategy-call Unlock your inner peace and reclaim joy in your profession with the Nervous System Regulation For Dentists Course: https://www.thebizofhappiness.com/calm Please join my Facebook group, Business Of Happiness Hive, so we can all take this journey to find fulfillment and happiness together. Click here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2047152905700283 Where to find me: Website: www.thebizofhappiness.com Facebook: facebook.com/thebusinessofhappiness IG: @thebizofhappiness It would mean the world to me if you subscribe, leave a review, and share this podcast with your friends, co-workers, and families. This will help the trajectory of this podcast and allow others who are seeking true happiness to find the podcast.

    22 min

  3. APR 22

    #412 - When Everything Depends On YOU Being in Control

    The pressure to hold it all. In today’s episode, Dr. Tarryn MacCarthy speaks to high-achieving women in dentistry and deeply passionate healthcare professionals who look capable on the outside but feel stretched thin on the inside. When success, responsibility, and constant pressure start to shape every part of life, it can become hard to tell the difference between leadership and survival. This episode shines a light on the hidden stress many women in medicine and dentistry carry, and why the drive to keep everything together can quietly steal peace, presence, and joy. If you have been carrying too much for too long, this conversation will meet you there and point toward a different way forward. Press play before your nervous system sends the next invoice. Show notes: (3:48) Feeling responsible for everyone (10:03) Control as a stress response (12:30) Why control is an illusion (18:32) What you can control (23:57) One hour to let go (27:20) Outro _______________________ IMPORTANT LINKS: Empower Her Retreat: Dates: October 1–4, 2026 Location: Taos, New Mexico Website: empowerherretreat.org Connect with Dr. MacCarthy: Email: tarryn@drtarrynmaccarthy.com Book a call with Tarryn: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/bookings/happiness-and-prosperity-strategy-call Unlock your inner peace and reclaim joy in your profession with the Nervous System Regulation For Dentists Course: https://www.thebizofhappiness.com/calm Please join my Facebook group, Business Of Happiness Hive, so we can all take this journey to find fulfillment and happiness together. Click here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2047152905700283 Where to find me: Website: www.thebizofhappiness.com Facebook: facebook.com/thebusinessofhappiness IG: @thebizofhappiness It would mean the world to me if you subscribe, leave a review, and share this podcast with your friends, co-workers, and families. This will help the trajectory of this podcast and allow others who are seeking true happiness to find the podcast.

    29 min

  4. APR 15

    #411 - Is Perfectionism Your Glass Ceiling?

    What if trying to be perfect is the very thing making you unhappy? In this episode, Dr. Tarryn MacCarthy speaks to high-achieving, deeply passionate healthcare professionals who feel weighed down by pressure, self-doubt, and the need to always get it right. She shares how perfectionism takes root in medicine and dentistry, why it can look like excellence on the outside, and how it quietly steals joy, freedom, and peace. This episode is especially meaningful for high-achieving women in dentistry who carry so much and still feel like it is never enough. If success looks good on paper but does not feel good in real life, this conversation may help you see what is really standing in the way. Hit play and let this be the episode that breaks your old rules. Show notes: (3:03) The programming of perfectionism begins (5:08) School teaches that perfection earns love (9:23) Perfection spreads into every area (11:47) Perfectionism is not a value (13:47) Perfectionism keeps high achievers small (21:47) Awareness creates freedom and choice (26:19) Outro _______________________ IMPORTANT LINKS: Empower Her Retreat: Dates: October 1–4, 2026 Location: Taos, New Mexico Website: empowerherretreat.org Connect with Dr. MacCarthy: Email: tarryn@drtarrynmaccarthy.com Book a call with Tarryn: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/bookings/happiness-and-prosperity-strategy-call Unlock your inner peace and reclaim joy in your profession with the Nervous System Regulation For Dentists Course: https://www.thebizofhappiness.com/calm Please join my Facebook group, Business Of Happiness Hive, so we can all take this journey to find fulfillment and happiness together. Click here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2047152905700283 Where to find me: Website: www.thebizofhappiness.com Facebook: facebook.com/thebusinessofhappiness IG: @thebizofhappiness It would mean the world to me if you subscribe, leave a review, and share this podcast with your friends, co-workers, and families. This will help the trajectory of this podcast and allow others who are seeking true happiness to find the podcast.

    27 min

  5. APR 8

    #410 - Why There Isn’t Enough Time In The Day

    In today’s episode of The Business of Happiness, Dr. Tarryn MacCarthy speaks to high-achieving, deeply passionate healthcare professionals, especially high-achieving women in dentistry and medicine, about the hidden cost of constant busyness. She shares why slowing down can feel so hard, how stress and overworking can shape your identity, and why real happiness, clarity, and work-life balance begin when you stop living in nonstop motion. This episode is for women doctors and dentists who feel overwhelmed, exhausted, or unsure of what comes next. If you want less burnout, more peace, and a healthier way to lead and live, this conversation will meet you right where you are. Show notes: (2:35) Why busy never feels enough (4:38) Busyness is learned, not you (8:03) Success can still feel empty (10:22) Slowing down brings real joy (15:27) What happened when she stopped (17:49) Proof life will not collapse (24:29) New thoughts that make rest safe (27:30) Outro _______________________ IMPORTANT LINKS: Empower Her Retreat: Dates: October 1–4, 2026 Location: Taos, New Mexico Website: empowerherretreat.org Connect with Dr. MacCarthy: Email: tarryn@drtarrynmaccarthy.com Book a call with Tarryn: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/bookings/happiness-and-prosperity-strategy-call Unlock your inner peace and reclaim joy in your profession with the Nervous System Regulation For Dentists Course: https://www.thebizofhappiness.com/calm Please join my Facebook group, Business Of Happiness Hive, so we can all take this journey to find fulfillment and happiness together. Click here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2047152905700283 Where to find me: Website: www.thebizofhappiness.com Facebook: facebook.com/thebusinessofhappiness IG: @thebizofhappiness It would mean the world to me if you subscribe, leave a review, and share this podcast with your friends, co-workers, and families. This will help the trajectory of this podcast and allow others who are seeking true happiness to find the podcast.

    28 min

  6. APR 1

    #409 - It’s Time To Reclaim What Is True For YOU

    When success stops feeling right. In this episode, Dr. Tarryn MacCarthy speaks to the high-achieving women in healthcare who have built the life they thought they wanted, only to realize something still feels off. This conversation touches on burnout, purpose, self-trust, identity, and the hidden patterns that can leave even the most capable leaders feeling disconnected from themselves. If you have been moving on autopilot, second-guessing your next step, or wondering why success no longer feels fulfilling, this episode will hit close to home in the best way. Press play, get honest, and maybe stop letting your calendar make all your life choices. Show notes: (3:15) Success without self-recognition (7:54) Questioning old beliefs and patterns (10:06) Programming that blocks inner clarity (13:06) Stress, burnout, and people-pleasing (15:29) Why women stop knowing what they want (20:47) A reclamation of self (24:33) Reclaiming power as women leaders (27:22) Outro ________________ IMPORTANT LINKS: Empower Her Retreat: Dates: October 1–4, 2026 Location: Taos, New Mexico Website: empowerherretreat.org Connect with Dr. MacCarthy: Email: tarryn@drtarrynmaccarthy.com Book a call with Tarryn: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/bookings/happiness-and-prosperity-strategy-call Unlock your inner peace and reclaim joy in your profession with the Nervous System Regulation For Dentists Course: https://www.thebizofhappiness.com/calm Please join my Facebook group, Business Of Happiness Hive, so we can all take this journey to find fulfillment and happiness together. Click here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2047152905700283 Where to find me: Website: www.thebizofhappiness.com Facebook: facebook.com/thebusinessofhappiness IG: @thebizofhappiness It would mean the world to me if you subscribe, leave a review, and share this podcast with your friends, co-workers, and families. This will help the trajectory of this podcast and allow others who are seeking true happiness to find the podcast.

    28 min

  7. MAR 25

    #408 - How Do You Know When You Are Bypassing?

    Host Dr. Tarryn McCarthy speaks to high-achieving women in healthcare, leadership, and service roles who look capable on the outside but feel worn down underneath. She shows how overworking, overhelping, scrolling, binge eating, and micromanaging can become quiet ways of bypassing your own needs. With honesty, warmth, and sharp self-awareness, she reframes these habits as indicator lights pointing to burnout, emotional avoidance, and the truth your body has been trying to tell you. This is a powerful listen on self-awareness, emotional health, healing, and work-life balance that may feel uncomfortably accurate in all the right ways. Press play before your coping habits ask for a promotion and a corner office. Show notes: (2:36) Stop bypassing your own needs (6:14) Distraction becomes a form of bypassing (10:47) Your habits act like indicator lights (16:14) Hard conversations are part of healing (19:14) Identify your personal bypass pattern (22:48) Stop bypassing your own needs (26:07) Outro ________________ IMPORTANT LINKS: Empower Her Retreat: Dates: October 1–4, 2026 Location: Taos, New Mexico Website: empowerherretreat.org Connect with Dr. MacCarthy: Email: tarryn@drtarrynmaccarthy.com Book a call with Tarryn: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/bookings/happiness-and-prosperity-strategy-call Unlock your inner peace and reclaim joy in your profession with the Nervous System Regulation For Dentists Course: https://www.thebizofhappiness.com/calm Please join my Facebook group, Business Of Happiness Hive, so we can all take this journey to find fulfillment and happiness together. Click here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2047152905700283 Where to find me: Website: www.thebizofhappiness.com Facebook: facebook.com/thebusinessofhappiness IG: @thebizofhappiness It would mean the world to me if you subscribe, leave a review, and share this podcast with your friends, co-workers, and families. This will help the trajectory of this podcast and allow others who are seeking true happiness to find the podcast.

    27 min

  8. MAR 18

    #407 - There Isn’t A “Better” Job Out There

    In this episode of The Business of Happiness, Dr. Tarryn MacCarthy challenges the belief that your job, your team, or your circumstances are the reason you feel stuck. Speaking straight to high-achieving, deeply passionate healthcare professionals and women in dentistry, she shares a powerful message about self-trust, clarity, and building a life that fits you instead of shrinking yourself to fit someone else’s version of success. If you’ve been chasing peace through the next opportunity, the next title, or the next big move, this conversation will hit home. It is honest, freeing, and full of the kind of mindset shift that changes more than your career. Press play before you let another “great opportunity” boss your soul around. Show notes: (3:43) A dentist facing practice ownership (7:17) Create your life vision first (9:12) Your job should serve life (11:52) Slow down and ask yourself (15:22) Raise how you feel inside (18:33) Look back at how far (20:51) Go inward and choose yourself (22:03) Outro ________________ IMPORTANT LINKS: Connect with Dr. MacCarthy: Email: tarryn@drtarrynmaccarthy.com Book a call with Tarryn: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/bookings/happiness-and-prosperity-strategy-call Unlock your inner peace and reclaim joy in your profession with the Nervous System Regulation For Dentists Course: https://www.thebizofhappiness.com/calm Please join my Facebook group, Business Of Happiness Hive, so we can all take this journey to find fulfillment and happiness together. Click here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2047152905700283 Where to find me: Website: www.thebizofhappiness.com Facebook: facebook.com/thebusinessofhappiness IG: @thebizofhappiness It would mean the world to me if you subscribe, leave a review, and share this podcast with your friends, co-workers, and families. This will help the trajectory of this podcast and allow others who are seeking true happiness to find the podcast.

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When you feel good, you do good. In business and in life, we can do better and have a greater impact on the lives of others when we align our intentions and our actions with inner fulfillment. The Business of Happiness Podcast ignites the conversation of redefining our modern definition of success and how to find happiness in our work and, ultimately, in our lives. I am Dr. Tarryn MacCarthy, and in the first 2 decades of my career, I reveled in culturally recognizable success and drowned myself in personal turmoil and depression. Since then, I have embarked on a quest for greater purpose and joy in business and in life. Welcome to the conversation as each week we discuss together, and with successful business owners and leaders, how to strive for happiness. Together we will adventure to discover the secrets to finding true purpose and impact and to redefine our understanding of success. This is The Business of Happiness.

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  • Creator
    Tarryn MacCarthy
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    415
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 The Business Of Happiness
  • Show Website
    The Business Of Happiness

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