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Randy Taran: The Adventure of Being Alive
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The Adventure of Being
Alive

Stop managing your life. Start living it.

For 20 years, Randy Taran has helped high-achieving women claim greater freedom and joy.

Backed by Science, Driven by Soul
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“Growth isn’t one more tool to add to the pile. It’s reclaiming what’s already yours: your self-worth, your capacity for connection, your own nervous system’s intelligence, for exactly where you are right now.”
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We All Can Use More Energy: Start Here
What’s actually draining you?
Over-extended and under-resourced Successful but disconnected Running on obligation, no time for you Not quite sure what I even want
Ever Feel That:

You’re tired of taking care of everyone and everything, and putting yourself last.

You’ve checked all the boxes of success – and still feel disconnected from your spark.

You’re overextended, the to-do’s never end, and it still doesn’t feel like enough.

You’ve lost sight of what actually makes you happy.

You want to feel vibrant and clear again – even in the chaos.

You’re ready for a life that fuels you, not one that drains you.

You sense that you’re playing small, but can’t break through feeling distracted or stuck.

Sudden irritability or dissatisfaction, even when everything seems “fine.”

You watch others do what you secretly imagine & feel both inspired and frozen.

You have a deep sense that there is more to becoming who you are here to be.

Want to understand what’s driving it?

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Ready to just start?

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Built for people who are done managing their life, and ready to start living it. You’ll get a clear read on where your energy is actually draining, and the first step back.

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The Method

The CARE Method

Hover over each letter. Clarity first, fix second, in that order, every time.

C
Clarity
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Clarity

See where energy is leaking before adding anything new.

A
Alignment
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Alignment

Match daily choices to what actually matters to you.

R
Resilience
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Resilience

Build a nervous system that can hold real pressure.

E
Expansion
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Expansion

Grow from steadiness, not from burnout momentum.

The Being Alive Cohort
Being Alive

Build a life on your terms.

A small, deeply personal cohort for women ready to stop managing and start living, guided by two decades of evidence-based work, translated into real change.

8–10 women · 6–12 weeks · Guided personally by Randy
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For Organizations

Two ways into the work

Executives
& Companies

Programs

Keynotes, workshops, and consulting on resilience, presence, and leading through change, for organizations who know a happy team is a productive one.

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Speaking
& Topics

Speaking Topics

Keynotes and signature talks built from 20 years on stages at Harvard, Stanford, Google, and TEDx, grounded in story, backed by research.

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Her Story

She spent years building a movement while still hiding.

On the outside, Randy Taran was the Founder and CEO of a global nonprofit, speaking at Harvard, Stanford, and Google, reaching millions through Project Happiness. Sounds like the whole picture, right?

But she grew up the strong one: the kid who kept everything together while her mother battled chronic depression. She buried her own needs and threw herself into making everyone else happy, then poured that same pattern into building a movement.

It wasn't until her mother was on her deathbed, deeply unhappy, unable to find peace, that Randy had to ask herself: was this her fate too?

That was the Hell No moment. She spent the next chapter studying with the best minds she could find, from the Dalai Lama to leading neuroscientists, to build a framework for the resilience she'd never given herself permission to have.

Books by Randy
Emotional Advantage book cover

Emotional Advantage

Foreword by the Dalai Lama.

Project Happiness Handbook cover

Project Happiness Handbook

The curriculum now used in 120 countries.

Project Happiness

A movement that's already reached 2.7 million people.

Randy founded Project Happiness in 2007, beginning with one guiding question: what if we taught happiness the way we teach math? The work grew into a documentary featuring the Dalai Lama, George Lucas, and neuroscientist Richard Davidson, and a curriculum now used in 120 countries.

She served nine years on the board of the Dalai Lama Foundation, and the principles born in Project Happiness became the foundation for everything she now brings to executives, leaders, and high-achieving women through the CARE Method.

2.7M
Lives reached through Project Happiness
120
Countries using the Project Happiness curriculum
20
Years researching what actually rebuilds resilience
In Their Words

What it's like in the room with Randy

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Randy doesn't perform happiness at people; she gives them a framework they can actually use under pressure. Our leadership team is still talking about the CARE Method months later.

RK
Rebecca Kochenderfer
CEO, Homeschool.com & LifeDesignLab.com
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I've worked with a lot of speakers in this space. Randy is one of the rare ones whose research and her own lived story are the same person on and off stage.

LR
Lynn Rose
CEO, Power To WOW & WOWU Talks TV
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The Becoming Alive cohort gave me language for something I'd felt for years but never named. Six weeks in, I recognized myself again.

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From the Blog

Ideas worth sitting with

Connection

The Friendship Famine

We’re more connected than ever, and lonelier than we’ve ever been. Here’s why, and what actually helps.

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Mindset

The Quiet Revolution

Real change rarely looks dramatic. It looks like one small, steady decision, repeated.

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Resilience

What’s Actually Draining You

Ten hidden energy leaks most high-achieving women never think to check.

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The Adventure of Being Alive

Starts with one honest question.

Two minutes to find out what's actually draining you, and the first step back to yourself.

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