All three hosts tied their answers about intentional joy back to the same insight: it's the smallest, most repeatable moments — not milestones — that actually deliver.
May's framework came from a documentary about a dying friend: watching someone fight for every last second reordered her priorities toward family walks and morning coffee.
Fortune's grief and a health scare with her mother converged at the same time, forcing a similar reckoning. The spiral stopped when she stopped fighting it.