Sundance Exclusive: Inside My New Series "The Roadmap to Happiness"

0:03Elijah Wood:Welcome to Super Life with me, Darin Olien, a podcast where we explore, discover, and share solutions that promote a healthier life and a better world. Together, we'll ignite possibilities, inspire change, and build sovereignty, creating a roadmap towards a super life for you and for all. Get ready to start living your super life.

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2:24Jason Momoa:quietly filming something very special. Traveling, sitting down with people, digging in, adventuring, listening, gaining insight, finding solutions, as well as sitting down with incredible people and conversations and celebrities across cultures and landscapes. If you're following my social media, you may have seen a few headlines out of Sundance. We finally released a teaser trailer to the project. And you may have seen a few familiar faces. Shailene Woodley, Jason Momoa, Elijah Wood, and Alec Baldwin. And we are still filming, which is why we're not revealing everything. I'm going to share a little bit from the insight of Sundance and a little bit of insight into the show so that you can join the movement.

3:17Jason Momoa:Because the movement has started.

3:20Alec Baldwin:But this project was never about celebrity. It's about one question, maybe the most important question.

3:27Jason Momoa:What actually makes us happy?

3:30Darin Olien:That was the birth of Roadmap to Happiness. So if you want to stop right now and check out RoadmapToHappy.net,

3:40Jason Momoa:make sure to tune in on that and we have a social handle as well.

3:44Alec Baldwin:But I want to let you know about this special moment at Sundance because we're not done with the project, but getting to reveal it was very special.

3:53Jason Momoa:And with me was on a panel. Alec Baldwin made it. Elijah Wood made it. Shailene was working. And of course, Jason is always working. So they couldn't make it. Shailene and Jason couldn't make it. But Elijah and Alec made it. And we did a panel together. It was unbelievable. And it was fantastic. And it's all over the media. And it's just a creative adventure when you get to see something and they saw the trailer for the first time and get to see not only the audience's raw reaction to this extraordinary adventure that we are on, but to see your fellow co-hosts because each celebrity did one episode with me.

4:37Jason Momoa:Again, we have more to come. We're about halfway done filming. But I want to bring you into Sundance a little bit in this event. So I'm going to replay the questions that they asked me and give you the answers. And that will give you a cool insight into not only that event, but also what it is that we are doing. Again, I'm not revealing so much here because we're not done. And we are building this thing up to be an incredible movement as well as a TV series. So at Sundance, I was asked something that really stopped me. The question that the interviewer had was, as a host, you're not just observing, you're participating.

5:23Jason Momoa:How did these journeys challenge or reaffirm your understanding of happiness?

5:27Darin Olien:And my answer was, the truth is, the road affirmed something deep about us as humans.

5:36Jason Momoa:Getting to travel and immersing myself in many cultures and talk to so many people

5:41Darin Olien:made something so very clear to me. That when people are given the opportunity of health, generosity, community, security, purpose, access to nature, balance, a sense of freedom to be and in their life, it creates an incredible

6:01Jason Momoa:framework for this expression of contentment and happiness.

6:06Darin Olien:It's not about perfection. It's not

6:08Jason Momoa:about constant joy, but this contentment for a greater opportunity to truly be happy.

6:15Darin Olien:It sets that tone. It sets that table for us. So these are foundational.

6:22Jason Momoa:The next question they asked was, what did this series reveal about happiness as a global experience? Well, it always continues to surprise me. And even after decades working in the wellness and sustainability and longevity space, no matter where we are from as people, no matter what economic situation, no matter what

6:46Darin Olien:country or invisible boundary we come from, everybody wants to be happy. Everyone wants joy. Everyone wants to feel safe. Everyone wants a life that feels meaningful. Everyone wants love and connection and community. And when people have many of these things, they are content. They have more happiness, which means they're less reactive, they're more or less afraid, and they're able to express more, maybe even open up their heart more. That's what we're going for. And on top of that, you have more expression of who someone is and more generosity. This journey continues to reinforce the powerful idea that the majority of people are good and they want a good life.

7:40Darin Olien:And the third question they asked was, each episode takes place in a different part of the

7:46Jason Momoa:world with a different culture and guide.

7:48Darin Olien:And people ask me, what connects all of these stories? The answer is pretty simple. When people are given the opportunity, when they feel seen, respected and safe, they are more kind. They are more open. They're coming from their hearts. They share themselves. They share stories. They want to connect. This is us. This is all of us.

8:12Jason Momoa:Across every place we filmed, which again, I'm not revealing, there is a deep desire to live from that sense of freedom, that joy, that connection, that community.

8:24Darin Olien:And to share that, The people we talked to and interviewed and met with wanted to share themselves. We saw this on Down to Earth as well.

8:34Jason Momoa:So as these conversations unfolded, clear themes kept emerging that were really the pillars,

8:43Darin Olien:not rules, not hacks, but foundational things, at least from the context of happiness. Of course, you have subjective happiness. What do you like? Do you like reading? Do you like hanging out with your family? Like all of these things, many things are subjective, right? I love to be outside. I love to play with my dog. These are subjective happiness. But there's pillars. There's foundational things from a community, global type of family, that government family, whatever you want to call it, that when there are more pillars of these things that I'm going to get into, that sets the table for a container of some of these great expressions

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13:12Darin Olien:So first is generosity. Happiness expands when it's shared. When you share and give to others, you immediately feel happy, regardless of the outcome. And regardless of that person even knowing that you gave them something, paying for someone's

13:32Jason Momoa:groceries and being anonymous, right? You say, you know, I did this once many years ago. I got to do it again because it's fun to do. I did this years ago where three people, I just randomly, three people from me, I didn't even look at who it was. I gave the cashier like 200 bucks. They said, this goes to the third person from me. Don't tell them it was me. What happens when that type of generosity is given? We can do this just by telling someone I love you without it being warranted, right?

14:01Darin Olien:That you're immediately uplifted chemically, biologically, your spirit, and that person is affected. That is generosity. Purpose is another huge pillar. purpose of not just the title of your job, but the knowing that what you do and what matters, and of course, finding your big thing, what really matters to you that you want to put in the world, doesn't always have to be how you make money. Purpose is powerful. Community, community. People can't thrive when you're stuck in survival. So when you surround yourself with like-minded people and lift each other up, you can affect more than we can possibly imagine.

14:46Darin Olien:Also, community security, that's another pillar. People feeling safe. There are places that we went to that literally people felt safe and they felt protected by their own governments, by their own communities. Wow, right? What a concept. Access to nature was always something. Not overworking bosses, not pushing employees to just produce, but to go, hey, go outside, have a two-hour lunch, like all of this stuff. Access to nature, cities built where you can literally walk most places, not be in a car. This is a biological need. When employers know that when people are happier, they work better, they contribute more naturally.

15:32Darin Olien:And of course, health is a pillar. Mental health, physical health, real health is the ability to have so you have more energy, clarity, resilience. So again, I spent a career doing this stuff, surrounding ourselves with whole food and eating and good. I mean, there were places we went, again, I can't say right now, but there were places we went, the whole huge city had glacier water in every building in the city, right out of the tap. What? That's, that's power. That's what we should do. Freedom. The sense of feeling free to be who you are, what you are. This is huge. Having the freedom of a little more time rather than pressure.