Why does happiness always feel one step away?

If you’ve ever said, “I’ll be happy when…”—you’re on the hedonic treadmill, a psychological loop where success never quite leads to satisfaction. This episode reveals how to step off the treadmill and build happiness from within.

On this episode of Take the Stage, presented by Haley Marketing, Brad Bialy sits down with happiness researcher Declan Edwards to challenge the centuries-old belief that happiness follows achievement. From positive psychology to emotional intelligence, they explore how cultivating human skills—like gratitude, boundary-setting, and awareness—creates a more sustainable, fulfilling life and career.

This video should inspire you to explore gratitude practice and mindfulness techniques, especially in high-performance, tech-disrupted sectors like staffing and recruiting.

Expect to Learn:

• What the hedonic treadmill is—and how to escape it
• Why most people chase success but never feel happy
• The power of human skills in an AI-driven economy
• How to practice presence and self-awareness
• The ripple effect of happiness at work and home

Noteable Moments:

00:00 The Pursuit of Happiness: A Misunderstanding

02:50 Decoupling Happiness from Success

05:37 The Role of Human Skills in the Workforce

08:32 The Ripple Effect of Happiness

11:29 Navigating Workplace Emotions

14:24 Savoring Success and Happiness

19:15 The Practice of Happiness

27:00 Connection in a Remote World

31:14 The Future of Happiness

33:30 Declan's Journey and Insights

About the Speakers

Brad Bialy is host of Take the Stage and InSights, two of the leading podcast for the staffing industry, presented by Haley Marketing. He has a deep passion for helping staffing and recruiting firms achieve their business objectives through strategic digital marketing. For over a decade, Brad has developed a proven track record of motivating and educating staffing industry professionals at over 100 industry-specific conferences and webinars. As a visionary leader, Brad has helped guide the comprehensive marketing strategy of more than 300 staffing and recruiting firms. His keen eye for strategy and delivery has resulted in multiple industry award-winning social media campaigns, making him a sought-after expert and speaker in the industry.

Declan Edwards is widely known as that happiness guy and as a thought leader in the space of positive psychology, employee experience, and personal development. As the founder of BU Happiness College, a social enterprise dedicated to helping individuals and organisations build the skills of happiness, Declan has built a strong personal brand by standing at the intersection of science, storytelling, and social impact.

His work has shown that happiness is not a fluffy ideal, but a measurable and learnable skill that drives meaningful results in both life and leadership. Through intentional personal branding, Declan has not only elevated his own voice but used it to amplify a movement that is changing the way we think about success, leadership, and happiness in the modern world.

Sales Enablement in staffing is no longer a tactical side function, it's the engine of your entire go-to-market strategy. In this eye-opening episode, Avner Baruch (Author of Project Moneyball) shares how top staffing and recruiting firms are transforming enablement from “content dumping” into measurable impact through coaching, role practice, and feedback loops. This video will inspire you to re-evaluate your GTM systems and explore enablement through the lens of performance coaching and strategic execution.

In This Episode:

• What Sales Enablement in Staffing really means today
• How to build a go-to-market strategy aligned with sales motion
• The hidden cost of relying solely on content (and what to do instead)
• Why role practice and feedback loops are critical for sales acceleration
• How elite teams reinforce skills—without blowing their budget
• The enablement tech stack that makes it all possible
• Avner’s Project Moneyball methodology for enabling outcomes across the customer lifecycle

Whether you're launching a new GTM motion or trying to reverse stagnant revenue, the insights here are built to drive impact across your customer lifecycle.

Timestamps:

00:43 - What is sales enablement? A Moneyball analogy

02:57 - Sales enablement in startups vs. enterprises

03:45 - Why the best companies go beyond content

04:55 - The economic pressure fueling enablement evolution

06:43 - Common pitfalls: Content without context

08:51 - Why content is only half the battle

10:53 - The power of role practice and daily sales routines

12:55 - Real-world staffing challenges and playbook creation

16:29 - Why leaders avoid role practice—and how to fix it

20:52 - Leveraging AI for sales coaching

22:30 - Shifting outdated staffing habits

25:12 - Consistency beats intensity in sales enablement

27:26 - Misalignment of seller skills and roles

31:59 - Coachability and cultural fit in hiring

34:17 - The ideal sales enablement hire

37:01 - Content graveyards vs. actionable insights

41:36 - Meet Avner Baruch and Project Moneyball

44:26 - Moneyball methodology for enablement ROI

46:30 - Avner's favorite book: Crossing the Chasm

About the Speakers:

Brad Bialy is host of Take the Stage and InSights, two of the leading podcast for the staffing industry, presented by Haley Marketing. He has a deep passion for helping staffing and recruiting firms achieve their business objectives through strategic digital marketing. For over a decade, Brad has developed a proven track record of motivating and educating staffing industry professionals at over 100 industry-specific conferences and webinars. As a visionary leader, Brad has helped guide the comprehensive marketing strategy of more than 300 staffing and recruiting firms. His keen eye for strategy and delivery has resulted in multiple industry award-winning social media campaigns, making him a sought-after expert and speaker in the industry.

As an executive GTM and Enablement leader, Avner Baruch has built and led GTM, Sales Enablement and RevOps functions from the ground up for leading Startups such as Walkme, Imperva-Incapsula, Rapyd and more notable SaaS businesses. As a consultant, member of Advisory Boards and Design Partners, he has helped entrepreneurs and scaling startups implement and reinforce their sales methodologies, fine-tune their Product-Market Fit, design, build and scale their selling motion. In 2020 he founded Project Moneyball (a GTM consulting firm) to help early-stage startups and scaling businesses overcome growth challenges. He is a certified sales trainer holding a B.Eng with Honors in Electrical Engineering & Physics from Coventry University (UK) and the Max Planck Institute (France).

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