Jump Start Your Joy

Category: choosing joy

  • Ep110: Looking at Risk, Vulnerability, Joy, and Possibility (plus an NKOTB Cruise Recap) with host Paula Jenkins

    Ep110: Looking at Risk, Vulnerability, Joy, and Possibility (plus an NKOTB Cruise Recap) with host Paula Jenkins

    Please upgrade your browser This week on the podcast, I’m taking a look at the role that risk and vulnerability play in finding our joy. It’s all about saying yes to joy, and to possibility. I know it’s not a new term, but I love the idea of being a…

  • Ep102: How To Rediscover Joy When Something You Love Feels Heavy

    Ep102: How To Rediscover Joy When Something You Love Feels Heavy

    Please upgrade your browser As I was wrapping up Season 2, I had the joy of speaking with some of the most beloved guests, all dear women who I adore. At the end of the discussion, we did a flash round where I asked everyone what their favorite recent book…

  • Ep101: Season Two Finale: A Round Table On Joy, Finding Inspiration, and Self Care in Difficult Times

    Ep101: Season Two Finale: A Round Table On Joy, Finding Inspiration, and Self Care in Difficult Times

    Please upgrade your browser This week marks the end of Season 2 on Jump Start Your Joy, and to celebrate, I invited several of the most popular guests from this season to return for a round table format. I’m catching up with Laura Simms, Michelle Ward, Deb Cooperman and Kate…

  • Ep95: Choosing Love and Finding a Relationship When You’re Single with guest Kira Sabin

    Ep95: Choosing Love and Finding a Relationship When You’re Single with guest Kira Sabin

    Please upgrade your browser This week, Kira Sabin joins me to chat about choosing love and finding a relationship when you’re single. She’s the Troop Leader over at the League of Adventurous Singles where she encourages single women to embrace the awesomeness of singleness, take responsibility for what is “theirs,”…

  • The Astonishing Power of Choosing Joy When You Feel Stuck

    The Astonishing Power of Choosing Joy When You Feel Stuck

    As someone who has “Joy” as their platform, it’s been a rough go since the election. It’s probably been a rough go for many people; regardless of your political stance, you are likely triggered in one way or another. I’ve been questioning what role joy “should” play in my life…

  • Embracing Joy & Living Your Bucket List After Brain Surgery with Sharon Aldeguer

    Embracing Joy & Living Your Bucket List After Brain Surgery with Sharon Aldeguer

    Sharon Aldeguer is an inspiration, and a beautiful example of embracing joy and living your bucket list after brain surgery. Several years ago, she had brain surgery to remove a brain tumor found by her neurosurgeons, and before she went through the surgery, she promised herself that “If I survive…

  • Using Intuition As Your Guide When You Are Struggling

    Using Intuition As Your Guide When You Are Struggling

    I found this poem tucked away in a journal, something I wrote about 2 years ago as I was struggling with my last job in advertising. What strikes me in that I was already using intuition as my guide, as I struggled to make sense of what didn’t fit about…

  • How to Fall In Love with The Messy Middle

    How to Fall In Love with The Messy Middle

    As you start to work towards something new in life, you always hit that new, unfamiliar, not so comfortable stage before you hit your stride with it. This is what I have come to call “The Messy Middle,” a term I first saw on a DIY home improvement blog, but quickly…

  • I Want to Help Others Fly

    I Want to Help Others Fly

    A year and a half ago, I was working with a life coach, and was looking to leave advertising, and wanted to find a job that would give me better balance, that would shorten my 4 hour daily round trip commute. At the time, I was also trying to decide what…