Can a media company help people live better?
We believe it can.
Grit Originals uses storytelling as a platform to build tools and experiences that bring more meaning, connection, and joy into everyday life.
We believe what we consume Can shape how we live
Most content is made to fill time.
We want to make work that stays with people — and opens up new ways of seeing, feeling, and living.
That belief sits at the heart of everything we build.
The Science of Happiness
With the world’s happiest man.
Most of us know what's supposed to make us happy.
It's not working.
The Science of Happiness is a 12-episode documentary series that travels across 12 countries to find the cultures that have quietly figured something out - and films the real people living that answer, every day.
Not as theory. As practice.
We believe storytelling is the most powerful instrument for human change. Not because it informs, but because it makes you feel the truth of another life long enough to carry something home from it. In a world this loud, this anxious, and this lost - that matters.
Meik Wiking has spent two decades measuring human happiness as a science. As founder of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen, advisor to the Global Happiness Policy Report, and author of six books with over 2 million copies sold, he is the world's leading authority on why people flourish.
Time Magazine named him the World's Happiest Man. He built this series with us.
Each episode decodes one untranslatable concept - Hygge. Ubuntu. Pura Vida. Whanaungatanga - and builds it into something you can actually use.
Twelve cultures. Twelve formulas. One practical guide to living better.
We begin with storytelling.
We turn insight into tools.
We build for everyday life.
We’re building at the intersection of media, technology, and better living.
We begin with premium content, then carry its ideas into products, tools, and experiences designed for everyday life.
Across everything we create, the ambition is the same: to turn meaningful ideas into lasting ways people can engage, reflect, and live better.
People
Grit Originals is led by a creative and entrepreneurial partnership shaped by a shared belief in thoughtful, well-made work.
We are drawn to work with emotional clarity, cultural resonance, and the potential to live meaningfully in the world.
Muhammad Danish
Founder | CEO
Umran Shaikh
Co-Founder | Director