Category: choosing joy
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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.…
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How to Right-Size Change or Transformation to Fit Your Life (aka Flylady or KonMari?)
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Let’s talk about the really big aha moment that I had. back when I originally talked to Marla Cilley (also know as the Flylady). Ten to 15 years ago when I was looking for different ways of approaching cleaning my house. And that’s what Flylady is all (about on the…
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Oren Jay Sofer on Meaning What You Say and Choosing Mindful Communication
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Oren Jay Sofer is a communication expert and mindfulness teacher at Spirit Rock in Woodacre, California. He recently wrote the book “Say What You Mean: A Nonviolent Approach to Communication.” In episode 208, I’m delighted to speak to Oren Jay Sofer on meaning what you say and choosing mindful communication.…
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Lessons Learned from Sitting in the Messy Middle: Building a Foundation in the Midst of Upheaval
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Season 5 has been one that’s been very interesting. It’s hard to do a wrap up on things right now, mostly because we are still very much in the middle of things – in the middle of a pandemic, in the middle of an election cycle that is tense, and…