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Life Happens*

Life Happens*

By: Michelle R. Williams and Nick Hirst
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Life has a habit of interrupting your plans — sometimes quietly, sometimes all at once. And you don’t always want advice or answers, you just want to know you’re not the only one trying to make sense of it.

Life Happens* is a weekly lifestyle podcast built around honest conversation. Psychology student Michelle R Williams and media veteran Nick Hirst come together from two very different generations to talk about modern life as it’s actually lived — with uncertainty, confusion, hopes and ambitions along the way.

With warmth, banter, humanity and insight, they don’t pretend to have it all figured out, instead they explore how it feels when life doesn’t go as planned.

Because life happens*

*but you can too!

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2025 Michelle R. Williams and Nick Hirst Personal Development Personal Success Social Sciences
Episodes
  • #32 Why Do We Overthink? — Are We Looking for Answers or Certainty?

    #32 Why Do We Overthink? — Are We Looking for Answers or Certainty?
    Jun 30 2026

    You know the situation – you have a key meeting with someone, maybe it was a date or a job interview, and afterwards you keep replaying it over and over in your head.

    Overthinking it!

    Why? You can’t change anything now! Yes, maybe you can learn from it, but that’s not going to give you any sort of closure over this situation.

    Or you are imagining a future scenario and playing different possibilities over and over in your head. Is it helpful – or are you just overthinking it?

    In this episode of ‘Life Happens*’ Michelle, a self-confessed over-thinker, and Nick discuss how overthinking gives us the illusion of control.

    And listen for when Michelle comes up with a novel concept – how to ‘wait faster’!

    Check it out now for a really fun quiz which will tell you what kind of overthinker you are.

    Here’s the link:

    https://undercoverofthewrite.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/what-kind-of-overthinker-are-you-quiz/

    Listen now to ‘Life Happens*’ and find out what overthinking is and whether it’s a good thing. Don’t think about it – do it now!

    You will find everything about Life Happens* here:

    https://linktr.ee/lifehappens.podcast
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    49 mins
  • #31 Why Do We Procrastinate? Laziness, Fear or Something Else?

    #31 Why Do We Procrastinate? Laziness, Fear or Something Else?
    Jun 23 2026

    You know the feeling, there’s something you’ve got to do, probably really want to do, but yet you still put it off.

    Suddenly, there are 14 other tasks that somehow seem more important right now. Why do we do it? And can we find ways to stop doing it and be more productive?

    In this episode of ‘Life Happens*’, Michelle and Nick don’t hang about, diving straight in to a full and frank discussion on why we procrastinate and how we can prevent it. They both admit to being procrastinators and share their own stories of putting off urgent tasks.

    And, as regular listeners know, there’s a related quiz that you can take – here’s the link:

    https://www.tryinteract.com/quiz/what-s-your-procrastination-personality/

    Check it out and discover where you rate on the procrastination scale.

    Listen to ‘Life Happens*’ and find out ways you can battle against procrastination – don’t put it off, do it now!

    You will find everything about Life Happens* here:

    https://linktr.ee/lifehappens.podcast
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    47 mins
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