Happy Place

Fearne Cotton is a British TV and radio presenter who has built Happy Place into a full lifestyle brand, complete with books, festivals, and this weekly podcast. The format is simple: Fearne sits down with someone and has a genuine, often quite personal conversation about what happiness actually looks like in their life. Guests range from actors and musicians to therapists and everyday people, and the tone stays warm without tipping into saccharine. Recent episodes have featured Will Poulter talking openly about OCD and intrusive thoughts, and Dannii Minogue on resilience through divorce and her sister's cancer diagnosis. Cotton is good at creating the kind of atmosphere where people say more than they planned to. She mixes in her own reflections on mental health struggles, which keeps the show feeling honest rather than like a polished interview series. With 420 episodes since 2018 and a 4.6-star rating, it has built a dedicated UK and international following. The conversations tend to run 45 minutes to an hour, and the pacing is relaxed. If you are looking for a podcast that treats happiness as something complicated and worth exploring rather than a goal to optimize, this one fits. The lack of heavy advertising compared to similar shows is something listeners regularly praise.