Author: Paula
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Screw “Good Vibes Only” and Toxic Positivity
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You might be looking at this post with the big “SCREW good vibes only” image and be confused. Doesn’t someone one who loves joy also preach the value of good vibes. Yes! Yes I do! I love me some good vibes. The thing here? when you start pushing the “good…
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Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter with Lan Cao and Harlan Margaret Van Cao
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In this interview, I’m joined by Lan Cao and Harlan Margaret Van Cao, who are the mother and daughter team who have written the beautiful duet memoir, “Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter.” Lan Cao immigrated to the United States in 1975, after the end of…
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Marsha Flowers of Five Blessings Candles on Creating “Happiness in The Form of A Flicker”
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This episode’s interview is with Marsha Flowers of Five Blessings Candles in Leavenworth, Kansas. She’s been an entrepreneur for years, making candles and creating “Happiness in a Flicker” with unique scents and joyful names. She has had both a brick and mortar version of her business, and she is now…
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Blake D. Bauer on Giving Yourself Permission to Say That Your Joy Matters
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Blake D. Bauer is the author of the international bestselling book You Were Not Born To Suffer. I’m honored to interview him this week on Jump Start Your Joy, and it was interesting that the theme of initiation, struggle, and hardship as a path to knowing yourself and finding your…
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The Courage to Embrace Joy in a World of Uncertainty and Impermanence (and what Princess Diaries, Battlestar Galactica, and Brené Brown teach us about today’s messy middle)
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This week’s solocast is a follow up from my first exploration of defining the messy middle. You can find it in episode 267, which was the season opener for season 6. In the last week, we have seen a steady surge in the number of coronavirus cases in the US,…
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Molly McGlynn Knoderer on Starting a Business and Writing Your First Book
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This week, Molly McGlynn Knoderer joins me on the podcast. Molly is the co-founder of Legacy Concierge Services in Northern California. She also recently published a chapter in her first book, “Awakening and Deepening to Truth.” She has deep experience as an entrepreneur, and has followed her own curiosity and…
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Dr. Jeff Spiess on Being Present in Life and Dying with Ease
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In this episode of Jump Start Your Joy podcast, I’m delighted to be sharing an interview with Dr. Jeff Spiess. Author of the book, “Dying with Ease: A Compassionate Guide for Making Wiser End-of-Life Decisions,” Dr. Spiess was an oncologist, and later a hospice physician. He spent his medical career…
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Season 6: Finding Joy in the Messy Middle
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Welcome to the Season 6 kick off! I’m really excited about this season, and for diving into the focus, which is all about Finding Joy in the Messy Middle. So much of what we knew to be true at the end of 2019 has been thrown into disarray. Our lives…
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The Six Most Joyful and Wonderful Things We Experienced at She Podcasts Live (Episode 209)
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This episode was recorded at the She Podcasts conference, courtesy of Buzzsprout. Always on the lookout for joy, and noticing when it shows up, my assistant producer, Mallory, and I were blown away by the amount of joy, care, inclusion, altruism, and authenticity that we found at She Podcasts Live.…