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Challenge Yo Self is inspiration for the shining, the stuck, the salty, the striving, the sabotaging, the sleepy, the superhero, the soulful, and the stoic woman and supporters of women. Featuring Ashley and Joy + guests and a short, but supersized dose of motivation, The Daily Challenge. In Season 2, the theme is Relationships, Passions, and Obsessions. Join us for blogs and podcast: thatwednesdaylife.com Email us: hello@thatwednesdaylife.com Friend us - IG/FB: @Challenge.courage Follow us ...
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Finding Life Balance and Avoiding Burnout with Dr. Judy Wright empowers listeners to achieve work-life balance and avoid burnout through actionable strategies and expert insights. Dr. Judy Wright, a family physician turned corporate wellness strategist, brings over 20 years of experience to the table. Her approach combines practical self-care techniques with the importance of setting healthy boundaries. Through keynote speeches, workshops, and jargon-free guidance, Dr. Wright’s mission is to ...
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Dr. Alicia Shelly, an internist and obesity medicine physician, shares her inspiring journey with host, Dr. Judy Wright. They explore to journey from becoming a doctor to using her passion for running marathons and triathlons to help patients find joy and balance in their weight management journeys. She dismantles the myth that weight loss is simpl…
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This conversation tackles the critical issue of exhaustion and burnout among medical professionals. It highlights the potential dangers and consequences, showcasing real-life examples of healthcare workers who have experienced accidents or made mistakes due to fatigue. Self-care and well-being are emphasized as key defenses against burnout. Dr. Jud…
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Summary: Dr. Dominique Carson, an award-winning freelance journalist and licensed massage therapist, shares her inspiring journey from initial skepticism to global recognition in the world of massage. This episode dives into the transformative power of massage therapy, not just for clients, but for therapists themselves. We'll explore the importanc…
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In this episode of the Balance to Excellence Show, Dr. Judy Wright tackles the concept of balance in modern life. She starts by questioning the idea of "work-life balance" and suggests a more holistic approach: life balance. Why "Work-Life Balance" is a Myth 👉🏾 Societal pressures and economic realities can make true balance seem impossible. 👉🏾 The …
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In this episode of the Balance to Excellence podcast, Dr. Judy Wright, Life Balance and Wellness Strategist, interviews Dr. Giovannie Jean-Baptiste, MD, MBA. Dr. Jean-Baptiste is the Senior Vice President of Employee Health Services at Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas Health. Dr. Jean-Baptiste shares her inspiring career path, which began with a desire…
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Dr. Judy Wright interviews Dr. Roberta McNeil, Chief Medical Officer at US Family Health Plan, as she discusses her inspiring journey in medicine, including her transition to population-based care. Dr. Roberta Mc Neil sheds light on the challenges faced by women of color in the medical field and emphasizes the importance of work-life balance and fi…
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Dr. Judy Wright, family physician and life balance and wellness strategist, shares her powerful story of overcoming burnout and achieving life balance. This episode is jam-packed with actionable strategies for conquering stress, setting healthy boundaries, and prioritizing essential self-care. Learn how to achieve a sustainable work-life balance an…
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Welcome to the Challenge Yo Self Season 2 finale. Sorry not sorry… we are taking a long break. We have decided to go on hiatus to focus on various individual projects. Perhaps you are in a season of transition too.Don't fret, We have left you with a plethora of free podcasts, wisdom and information and we hope you take full advantage of these resou…
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Got 10 minutes? Great! Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s theme is “facing what scares you first” hosted by Ashley Marcel. Don't forget to take notes:Write out the scariest tasks of your dayDo the hardest thing firstFocus on the task at hand and don't …
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Got 10 minutes? Great! Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s theme is “selfishness” hosted by Ashley Marcel. Listen to hear more about selfishness and why "sometimes" it is good to put others first. And don’t forget the end for a special motivational sing…
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NEW EPISODE! Do you remember those classic reality shows: Real Housewives of...., Love and Hip Hop, or maybe even Love Island for those of you who are new to reality relationship shows. Looking back, do you ever remember seeing healthy relationships? Or even calm conversations at that? Well there was no lack of yelling and fighting but to us this i…
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Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s theme is “You want them, but do they want you?” hosted by Dr. Joy Well. Sometimes the person we want doesn’t want us. Let’s talk about some ways to process this gray area today. Take notes. Share with a friend. We wan…
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Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s theme is “How to Address and Support those who grieve and mourn” hosted by Dr. Joy Well. We all will experience loss in our life time, but when it knocks on the door, whether unexpected or expected, it is gut-wrenchin…
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Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s Message is “Go Deeper” hosted by Ashley Marcel. If you are ready to go deeper in all areas of your life, listen to today's episode of the Daily Challenge.And don’t forget the end for a special motivational singalong j…
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Hi, I’m Dr. Joy. In the midst of one of the most painful and powerful times in my life, I gained some inspiration from my Dad, who passed away one week ago on my birthday. My father applied greatness to everything he did, and I understand now what he meant, even when I decided to take a different road. Hopefully you’ll enjoy these 14 nuggets of thi…
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Got 10 minutes? Great! Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s Message is “Finding joy in your everyday life” hosted by Ashley Marcel. Listen to find out what it looks like to find a bit of joy in the midst of your day. And don’t forget the end for a specia…
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Got 10 minutes? Great! Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s Message is “Are you showing love to your body?” hosted by Ashley Marcel. Listen to find out what "loving your body" looks like and ways you can begin showing yourself love today! P.S. don't mind…
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Have you ever been friend zoned? Well we don’t do the friend zone around here!What does it mean to put someone in the friendzone anyway? Do they know they have been placed there? Are they okay with that new position in your life? Is a “friend zoned” person really a friend? What is the need to place someone there, do you need a friend? These are onl…
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What is new about this you in 2021?Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s theme is “Attitude: Where is the New Year, New You? ” hosted by Dr. Joy Well. If you do nothing different then you will get nothing different. If you have worked a plan, with goals a…
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What do you do when things don’t go your way? Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s theme is “You Still Have A Say! The Daily Challenge” hosted by Dr. Joy Well. When you hit a brick wall do you stay there? When you hit an accident on the road, do you thro…
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Got 10 minutes? Great! Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s Message is “I love my job” hosted by Ashley Marcel. Listen in to hear why the "I love my Job" name badge had such an impact on Ashley.We want to hear from you! Contact us via email at hello@that…
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Got 10 minutes? Great! Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s Message is “Don't Give Up!” hosted by Ashley Marcel. Today's message is straight to the point... Don't give up, you are right there!! Listen to find encouragement to keep going when you feel lik…
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REMIX. Welcome to the Remixed Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. We did some audio tuning so this should sound much better to you, the listener. Today’s theme is “STUCK in the belly of the Whale” hosted by Dr. Joy Well. When distraction, disconnection, unexpexted and unfortu…
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Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s theme is “Challenge Yo Self! You are a person, not a problem!” hosted by Dr. Joy Well. Simply this…. Stop putting yourself down. Stop kicking yourself. You want the secret to a great life? You’re covered today. Take n…
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Got 10 minutes? Great! Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s theme is “Double Minded” hosted by Ashley Marcel. Listen to find out why being double minded can and will keep you in limbo and why you should move and make decisions even if you are afraid of w…
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Got 10 minutes? Great! Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s Title is “360 Degree Understanding” hosted by Ashley Marcel. Listen to be encouraged that clarity is possible even if you never understand why you went through what you went through. Listen thro…
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What does the word vulnerability mean to you? Everyone can struggle with allowing themself to open up and be vulnerable. More often we hear about Men struggling in this area; however, we tend to not recognize the inner "strong woman struggle" that many Ladies face! Particularly as Women of color, there is the notion that you should always be strong…
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CONGRATS TO US ON 150 episodes of the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Welcome to The Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s Message is “The Last Single Girl on Earth” hosted by Dr. Joy. This is a Daily Challenge especially for the Single Women who feel as though they are the …
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Welcome to The Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s Message is “Faith or Logic” hosted by Dr. Joy. Listen to find out how faith and logic repel each other, attract each other and also the difference between the two. They don’t have to be enemies. They work together. Fa…
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Got 10 minutes? Great! Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s Title is “Let's Begin Again” hosted by Ashley Marcel. I came across this poem which inspired me to record this nugget just for you: "And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growi…
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Got 10 minutes? Great! Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s Message is “You are not behind, You are right on time” hosted by Ashley Marcel. Listen to this motivation nugget and Repeat after Me.... I am right on time! And don’t forget the end for a specia…
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We've got a Youtube channel!!!!! Check us out at our full name - Challenge Yo Self | An Empowered Podcast. In the time of "youngin" brides and 50-year age gaps, it was time for the Challenge Yo Self hosts to bring you a down and dirty episode full of wisdom nuggets and a lot of good pettiness. In today's episode, Joy and Ashley ask the question, wh…
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Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s Message is “7 Gems To POWER UP your week.” hosted by Dr. Joy.Catch Up with us on hello@thatwednesdaylife.com and make sure to check the show notes of every episode for ways to stay connected to our podcast. Follow us …
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SURPRISE! We have entered YouTube land. Come hangout with us and subscribe to our channel by searching by the full name of our podcast. Welcome to a special edition of the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s Message is “Friendship, Love, Grief, and Acceptance” hosted …
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Got 10 minutes? Great! Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s title is “I am not your 'In the meantime' girl” hosted by Ashley Marcel. Listen to hear the story behind Ashley's "in the meantime girl" statement along with tips on how to be honest with yourse…
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Got 10 minutes? Great! Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s Message is “5 Things I've Learned Working with Students” hosted by Ashley Marcel. Listen to hear the top 5 life lessons Ashley has learned after working with College Interns for several years. Y…
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Have you ever had such a rough week that your only emotion is "Attitude"? No worries, we have all experienced those times where it seems like one thing happens after another; and there is nothing you can do about it. The challenge then is, how to move forward when you are stuck in a funk... On this episode of the Challenge Yo Self podcast, Joy hand…
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Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s Message is “Don’t Give Up... Too Quickly” hosted by Dr. Joy. Listen to determine some practicals for how to work through the challenging moments of your purpose work, and how to determine when giving up is actually go…
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Got 10 minutes? Great! Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s Question is “What Happened to Compassion?" hosted by Ashley Marcel. Listen in to hear more about our compassion problem and ways to cultivate a more compassionate You!Show References:1. Berkeley…
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Got 10 minutes? Great! Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s Message is “Do Something Different" hosted by Ashley Marcel. Listen in to hear why wanting something different requires you to do something different. **Journal Questions for Reflection: What ch…
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Astrology is such a hot subject these days. Have you ever met an amazing Guy "or Other", you are attracted to them and you have great chemistry, so naturally your next move is to ask.... "what's your sign"? Have you ever done this? If so, "why"? We spend too much time focused on unimportant topics such as a person's astrological sign and not enough…
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Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s theme is “How Writing Benefits You” (or something akin to that) hosted by Dr. Joy Well who is spending time with nature in the first half of the episode. How does writing benefit you today? In the Daily Challenge, Dr.…
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Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s theme is “What to do when you’ve let someone down” hosted by Dr. Joy Well. Let’s dive in and examine ways to move forward when someone feels you’ve given less than your best. That doesn’t mean they are right and you a…
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Got 10 minutes? Great! Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s Question is “Do You Know When to Water Yourself” hosted by Ashley Marcel. Listen in to hear more about what it looks like and what you can do to "Water Yourself".And don’t forget the end for a s…
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Got 10 minutes? Great! Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s Message is “Power of Being Honest” hosted by Ashley Marcel. Listen to find out 3 reasons you must begin being honest with yourself and those around you.And don’t forget the end for a special mot…
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Episode Title: "Top 5 Reasons to Rekindle that Old Flame" Sometimes old flames are like that BBW candle you forgot about in the back of your closet.. You may need to dust it off and reignite that flame or it falls and bursts into a million pieces; either way it's the experience that counts. If you are an OG Challenge Yo Self listener you will know …
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Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s Message is entitled “How to Deal with Rejection” hosted by Dr. Joy. Yes I got swept away in the Bennifer phenomenon. In other news, let’s talk about dealing with and overcoming rejection. Rejection is not a bad thing …
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How do you prepare for your race? Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s Message is entitled “Preparing for YOUR Race” hosted by Dr. Joy. Your race is like no one else’s race but there are some key tools you will need for your journey. Let’s talk about it.…
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Listen folks, it’s is ok to be ok. Stop waiting for the other shoe to drop and knock you in the head. Find contentment. Stir up peace. Welcome to Ask Dr. Joy Well. Original creative lyrics by Dr. Joy Well. “I sabotage. So what. I was stuck. So what. As long as I acknowledge it, I’m not gonna lead with it. Self-sabotage to Supernova. I need more tha…
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Got 10 minutes? Great! Welcome to the Daily Challenge, a bite-size, motivational snack for your week, exclusively on the Challenge Yo Self podcast. Today’s Message is “Tend to Your Mind” hosted by Ashley Marcel.Are you living a FULL life? Tune in to hear more about living your life to the fullest as we acknowledge May as Mental Health Awareness Mon…
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