Season 6

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 to Discover Self Love, Tenderness, and Transformation with Mackenzie Eason

In this interview, I’m delighted to be joined by life coach Mackenzie Eason. She is a love and relationship coach who specializes in helping her clients break free from toxic dynamics, develop emotional mastery, clear up communication, reclaim their power, and cultivate unshakable self love. In other words, she’s the most amazing person to have

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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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Looking at 2021: Six coaches talk about handling the changes, transformation, and all the (messy) parts of 2020

Looking at 2021: Six Coaches Talk About Handling the Changes, Transformation, and All the Messy Parts of 2020

How do we welcome in a new year, after 2020 was full of so many difficult things? In this first interview of 2021, I’m so delighted to be joined by the five podcasters behind “The Best Parts Podcast:” Louise Neil, Nikki Baker Wulf, Laura Lively, Sara Doell, and Kim Romain. Their philosophy is that all

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Finding the “And” in Your Life: How to Find Joy During the Pandemic, and Other Hard Times

In this episode, we’ll be looking at how to bring joy into your life, even when it’s hard. Many of us are sitting in the midst of extremes right now: feeling isolated and wishing for connection, being overwhelmed and wishing for calm. We are sad over the current situation of the world, and also want

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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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Marsha Flowers of 5BandCo and Little Bee Scents

Marsha Flowers of Five Blessings Candles on Creating “Happiness in The Form of A Flicker”

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 all online. Marsh and her

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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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