Founded: August 1998

Purpose: The Secret Society of Happy People encourages the expression of happiness and discourages parade-raining. Parade-rainers are those people who don’t want to hear your happy news.

Mission: To help people recognize more happiness and encourage them to talk about it.
Side-effect: Since happiness is contagious if more people are recognizing and talking about it then more people be happy. And ultimately, our world needs more happy people.

Motto: If you're happy and you know it ... tell somebody! If someone else is happy and they know it ... listen!

Members: Thousands from at least 34 countries.

About the Founder
Pamela Gail JohnsonPamela Gail Johnson founded the Secret Society of Happy People in 1998 to provide a missing voice for those who experience happiness and want to express it without other people raining on their parade.

The Society provided her with a unique opportunity to earn a school-of-hard-knocks Ph.D. in the philosophy of happiness thanks to her interactions with thousands of people about their struggles to find happiness, their actual happy experiences and her studies in the science and philosophy of living happily-ever-after.

She is the author of Don't Even Think of Raining on My Parade: Adventures of the Secret Society of Happy People (PJ Press, June 2000).  She has ghost written two other books (including one for Simon & Schuster).  She also does public speaking / workshops and has written articles for magazines and newsletters.

A native Texan, Pamela lives in the Dallas suburb of Lewisville, and works in business development for a Fortune 125 company. In her "free time" she manages the daily activities of the Secret Society of Happy People including its blog and social media activities and working on her next book.

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