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Andrea Owen on How To Stop Feeling Like Shit (A Lookback Lesson)

Andrea Owen on How You Can Make Some Noise, Speak Your Mind and Own Your Strength

Andrea Owen is back for a third time, and she’s here to talk about her brand new book (released August 31, 2021): Make Some Noise: Speak Your Mind and Own Your Strength. You’re going to love this interview! Andrea and I are talking about the many ways that you can make some noise, own your […]

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The Top Five Most Memorable Conversations of Season 6 (The Season 6 Finale)

Season 6 of Jump Start Your Joy has been all about finding joy in the messy middle. In the season finale, I’m looking back and the 5 most memorable conversations I’ve had with guests over the last year. For each one, I’m sharing a bit about what stood out about our conversation, and, playing a

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Embracing Your Creative Process with Best Selling Author Fred Waitzkin

The Creative Process and Writing ‘Strange Love’ During the Pandemic with Author Fred Waitzkin

In this episode, I’m delighted to have Fred Waitzkin return for his second interview, this time to talk about his brand new book “Strange Love.” Fred is the author of “Searching for Bobby Fischer,” which is based on his experiences with his son Josh who was a chess prodigy at age 7. In this new

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The Importance of Taking Care of Yourself, Your Health, and Your Own Happiness When You’re a Mom with Heather Chauvin

It’s a pleasure to have Heather Chauvin back for a second interview on Jump Start Your Joy. She is the podcaster behind “Mom is In Control,” and she has just released a brand new book, “Dying to be a Good Mother.” She has been a social worker, and is the mom of three boys. She

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How You Can Choose Love and Acceptance in Hard Times with Barron Steffen

Barron Steffen is a Siddha Yoga practitioner, a big band crooner, and a widower. He is also the author of the book, “The Final Gift of the Beloved: Her Disappearance – 13 Days,” where he shares the story of the death of his wife Dr. Seana Lowe Steffen and the 13 days that follow. It

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Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter with Lan Cao and Harlan Margaret Van Cao

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 the Vietnam War. She raised

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Blake D. Bauer on Giving Yourself Permission to Say That Your Joy Matters

Blake D. Bauer on Giving Yourself Permission to Say That Your Joy Matters

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 purpose wove through the conversation.

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Molly McGlynn Knoderer on Starting a Business and Writing Your First Book

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 passion in her career in

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Dr. Jeff Spiess on Being Present in Life and Dying with Ease

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 working with people were facing

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