The Women's Happiness Summit is a free event to empower well-being worldwide, and ultimately end the women's depression epidemic. Statistically, women are twice as depressed as men and according to a University of Pennsylvania research study, women today are less happy than women were 30 years ago. We have more advantage, more opportunities, and more misery. And even if we're not "depressed," too many women feel stuck, lost or just down. Because women make up nearly half of the workforce, and women are still the primary caretakers of children and the home, women’s well-being impacts everyone. You know the phrase - when mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. It impacts businesses, the economy, and families. But we deserve better - and the Women's Happiness Summit will show you how. We've gathered 24 of the world's leading experts in happiness to give you free, powerful advice, including best-selling authors, powerful practitioners, researchers, and healers. The Women’s Happiness Summit is all about changing the world one woman at a time because when a woman thrives, the world thrives, too. Welcome!

How the Summit came about:

On October 18, 2017, our founder, Carin Rockind, MAPP, had her second miscarriage. At 43, she had conceived around her birthday and found out she was pregnant on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. She and her husband, Josh, were sure it was meant to be. However, on October 18, they went in to see the heartbeat and there was none. In that moment, Carin, a women's life coach and motivational speaker who is an expert in positive psychology, the science of happiness, broke down. Over the coming week, she fell into a deep depression, continuously telling Josh that she didn't want to be alive. Yes, she teaches happiness for a living, but she couldn't imagine ever being happy again.

Carin's "Sisters" banded around her. Girlfriends sat with her and let her cry. College friends left their own families to fly into town and be with her. Clients from all over the world checked in on her daily and sent care packages. Sisterhood saved her life.

She also used her own tools. She went on retreat by herself and let herself scream the anger into the woods, hitting old rocks with a baseball bat to get it out. She danced out her grief, moving sadness through her body. She made herself healthy food, read, journaled, meditated, and used positive psychology mindset tools to heal and grow through this trauma.

In meditation, she kept asking higher power, "Show me what I'm here to birth."
The message came through loud and clear: Empower women worldwide. She had the vision of women gathering in small circles around the globe to learn positive psychology, the science of happiness and human flourishing, and on October 18, 2018, we held the first Women's Global Happiness Day with 98 events in 19 countries on 6 continents.

While in graduate school, Carin learned about the women's depression epidemic and was furious. Why is it that we work so hard to do so much for everyone while making less money - and we're suffering?? Carin has been passionate about empowering women her whole life. She herself has suffered from depression and anxiety throughout her life and time and time again, comes back to the simple fact that when we know and love ourselves (AS IS - warts and all!), when we live true to ourselves, when we allow ourselves our real heart's desires and let ourselves live fully, we're happy. We've just been told that we're wrong for having emotions, for having a belly, for having grey hair, for wanting big dreams, for wanting to stay home - pretty much, we've been told we have to be perfect according to someone else's standards, and it's not working. So years ago, Carin started building Sisterhoods. She created her first Sisterhood for women in their 40's and it has expanded to women of all ages through her retreats, group programs, and podcast, The PurposeGirl Podcast. In her research, Carin has identified 8 major reasons why women are less happy and has mapped proven constructs and interventions for them all.

We are so happy you're joining us on this Women's Happiness mission!

And if you want a more traditional bio...

Carin Rockind is a leading expert on life purpose, women's thriving and positive psychology, the science of human flourishing. She is the creator of PurposeGirl, a movement to empower purpose driven living and the founder of Women’s Global Happiness Day, the first-ever worldwide initiative to eradicate the women’s depression epidemic, which had 98 events in 19 countries and 6 continents in its inaugural year, 2018. Having overcome armed robbery, domestic abuse and divorce, Carin has a way of connecting with others and showing them how to be the creator of their own lives, overcome challenges, grow from trauma and turn pain into purpose. As the former "Happiness Guru" on SiriusXM's morning show for women, and a keynote speaker for conferences and companies including Capital One, Victoria's Secret, AAA, BMW, and Progressive Insurance, she has helped thousands of people live to their fullest potential. Carin was one of the first 250 people to receive her master's degree in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where she then served as adjunct faculty. She is currently on faculty at The Flourishing Center in New York, she is the host of the globally ranked self-help show, The PurposeGirl Podcast, and she is a best-selling author for her contribution in Pebbles In The Pond: Wave 3. Carin is a runner, writer, and dancer and lives outside of Philadelphia with her husband, Josh, and their labradoodle, Charlie.