Today we’d like to introduce you to Doe Zantamata.
Hi Doe, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
In 1998 I was a pretty unhappy person. I was in my second to last semester at Florida State University for a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology. The plan was to go on to medical or dental school, but my heart was never in that path. I had a lot of pain and anger in my mind and my heart. I was struck out of the blue with meningitis, and ended up in the hospital for a week. During the first night there, I had an N.D.E., a near death experience. Before that, I had believed in Heaven and Hell, solid Christian belief system, and no room for open mindedness. However, during the N.D.E., nothing was what I thought it would be. Long story short, there is no Hell. And the afterlife is absolutely pure bliss and love. It is unity. As you transition, with the leaving of the body behind, so are the emotions and feelings of anger, sadness, revenge, worry, guilt, and all of the negative ones. Those are all a part of the duality of life on Earth. When we shed our body, those go, too. The last one to go, and the heaviest, is regret. Regret of living life in love and joy and appreciation, regret of ever being mean to or lying to anyone. Regret is a heavy burden to drop. The life review is real. There is no external judgment, just the karma, or feeling firsthand the feelings you made others feel with your words and actions towards them. When I was mid-transition, I was given a choice to come back or not. I decided to come back with the purpose of figuring out why I had been so far off the truth in my own life, figuring out how to emerge from anger and sadness while on Earth, and sharing that with anyone and everyone I could, through movies or books, or both. I didn’t tell anyone at the time. It was 1998 and I didn’t even own a computer. Social media didn’t exist, and at the time, I honestly thought I was the only person in the world this had ever happened to. It felt personal, and I knew that if I had not experienced it firsthand, I wouldn’t have believed it. I would have judged the person and called their story blasphemy. So in my work, I haven’t mentioned the N.D.E. at all. If asked, I will talk about it, not hide it, and they’ve become more well known in the 26 years since I had mine. But the point is the work itself, which has become my “Happiness in Your Life” Book Series. 12 books in total, with 5 available at the time of this interview, and the other 7 still yet to come. I’ve also written a few others outside of the 12 series books; “Improve Your Life in 80 Days,” the “How to Love Yourself Workbook,” and “The Happiness in Your Life Answers Within Guidebook.” The Guidebook contains quotes from all 12 of the series books and you choose your message for the day by flipping to a “random” page, or by thinking of a number between 1 and 301 and going to that page to see your message. It’s like an oracle deck, but in a book form.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
Definitely not! An N.D.E. provides a forever life-changing point of view. This is as good as it is bad! That is the nature of the duality of Earth, though. Everything is 50:50. A lot of things that most people are drawn to or motivated by hold no charge for me. And other things that I’m very interested in are weird or boring to a lot of people. So in a way I understand much more, but in another I understand much less than most everyone I know and meet. But I definitely would not change it, because before it happened, I was so caught up in stuff that seemed meaningless afterward. So even if this life is more difficult in certain ways, it feels more often like a puzzle to solve or adventure to live, rather than a problem to have to deal with as before.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I started my Facebook page for Happiness in Your Life in April of 2011. I had no idea or plan for it, except that it would be a place that I could share about the books as they became available, and in the meantime, share inspiration or insights from daily life. It didn’t catch on very quickly at first, but then after just over a year, it started to catch on like lightning. I had 100,000 followers after around a year, then over a million before the second year, and now just over 4 million. I started other social media sites as well; Youtube, Instagram, formerly Twitter, and Pinterest, but it was very time consuming to do all of them plus all the original writing and posts myself, so I put most of my effort into Facebook. I have more recently started a TikTok, but I haven’t quite figured that out yet. I am most proud that it’s all my work. I do the graphic design for all the posts, the writing comes from my life, and the inspiration for the style comes from my own mind. To be original takes a lot more time and effort, but it’s worthwhile. It’s you.
We love surprises, fun facts and unexpected stories. Is there something you can share that might surprise us?
I am a one person show. I have a blog, newsletter, books, videos, social media, and I do every single thing involved. Even the book formatting and covers! I didn’t know how to do, well, any of it. But if you are determined enough, it’s amazing what you can learn to do. I always figure they make these things as user-friendly as possible and other people do them, so it is possible to do. Some things are still much easier than others, and there is frustration involved at times, but on the other end of that is the feeling of achievement.
Pricing:
- Books – Included in Audible and Audible Plus
- Books – Paperback $13.95 on Amazon
- One on One Coaching $121.00 per session https://hiyl.live/candc
- Ebooks – $4.95 or less on Payhip https://payhip.com/happinessinyourlife
- Autographed Book Set (paperback): $75.00 https://hiyl.live/v0p
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.thehiyl.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/happinessinyourlife/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Happinessinyourlife/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@HappinessinYourLife
