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It's time to reframe how we think about JOY. Instead of treating your joy as the reward at the end or the cherry on top, what if you started to treat joy as what it really is: your most powerful tool in creating a beautiful, magnetic, and energized life that you can actually sustain –without burning out or sacrificing your relationships or your health. The best part? You can learn how to intentionally cultivate and unlock your joy even in challenging times. Inside of JOY CLASS, we go on a we ...
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30: Realistic Time-Management To Decrease Stress and Increase Calm with Kelly Nolan
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“Time management is so personal. People should listen to their preferences and tendencies and have a system that molds to them in their life.” - Kelly Nolan At its core, time management is a tool to help you to be more present in your life. One of the biggest hurdles that stops us from taking care of ourselves is the feeling that there’s just not e…
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29: Healthy Habits That Last Even When Your Life Is Really Full with Lindsey Kaszuba
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“I show up for the things that feel good, and the things that don't, I stop doing.” - Lindsey Kaszuba So many of us are weighed down by all the things we “should” be doing for our health. Just because a habit is good for us doesn’t mean it will come easily, and even habits helping us feel better can sometimes be challenging to stick to. Add to that…
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28: Healing Resentment & Re-Building Connection In Your Relationship with Jordan Dann
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“If you can deal with anger as it arises, none of its cousins - like resentment and contempt - will come in.” - Jordan Dann In the last couple of years, I’ve seen an overwhelming amount of resentment building in many relationships around me. With the drastic changes that came about because of the pandemic, the dynamics and systems we were accustome…
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“Authentic confidence comes as the reward for taking action.” Self-confidence is not something you build up once that lasts forever. It’s more like a living, breathing organism you need to nurture and care for. You will have phases in life where confidence comes easily and others where it’s hard to access. These seasons are a part of life; what mat…
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26: How To Advocate For Yourself and Get Your Needs Met At Work with Julia Stephanides
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“Most people are not taught to be in touch with their needs.” - Julia Stephanides We live in a hyper-capitalist society where it’s better for the system if we don’t have needs. We should work hard, never stop, and do our jobs quietly - as close to robots as possible. But at some point, we must stop, reclaim our humanity, acknowledge our needs and f…
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25: Using Feng Shui to Improve Our Lives with Alejandra Brady
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“Enough of the world is out there fighting you. You have to have a haven, you can't come into a space that is fighting you as well.” - Alejandra Brady I’ve always believed that the physical spaces we live in influence our inner spades, how we feel in our lives, and what we think we’re capable of. Beyond that, our spaces have healing power and can i…
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24: Hormonal Changes & Weight Loss in Your 40s with Erin Parekh
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From a young age, society tells women how our bodies should look and judges us when we don’t match up with the unrealistic standards we’re fed. From idealized body shapes to how quickly we’re expected to lose baby weight, the whole topic of women’s weight can be triggering. One of the most challenging times to manage this is around perimenopause wh…
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Turning 40 often comes with a lot of mixed emotions. Some of us feel trepidation, some are excited; for others, it’s just another day. The good news is that despite that, most of us end up on the other side feeling empowered and loving the new decade. This birthday wasn’t easy for me, and I turned to my journals to process my emotions. What came ou…
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22: 5 Key Ingredients For An Amazing Relationship
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“The quality of our relationships determines the quality of our lives.” - Esther Perel My relationships are everything. That's true for my friendships, my extended family, my kids, and of course, my husband, with whom I'm co-creating our entire life. But even though romantic relationships are so meaningful, they can be some of the most tricky to na…
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21: Get your best skin in your 30s, 40s, and 50s
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Skincare is a long game. How you treat your skin now will have a massive impact on how your skin looks and feels in the next twenty years. When your skin is vibrant and healthy, you feel much better in your body and life. For me, skincare has become a significant joy driver and something that makes me feel happy, nurtured, and nourished. As we get …
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20: From Chaos To Calm: A Guide For Parents
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“Calm is not something we're born knowing how to access. It's a muscle that needs to be flexed, grown, and nurtured.” - Jenna Hermans Most of us didn’t grow up in a naturally calm, easy, and grounded setting. The world around us is very active and busy, and we’re constantly bombarded with messaging about hustling and productivity. Finding calm in c…
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19: Feeling Sexy And Reviving Your Pleasure
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“Self-worth is an inside job, but it's also okay to want to hear that you’re attractive.” - Dana Myers If you feel like your libido disappeared or you’re struggling to feel sexy after having kids, you’re not alone. From my experience and the conversations I’ve had with clients and friends, I can tell you that this is something that many women strug…
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18: Letting Go Of Perfection So You Can Enjoy Your Life with Simi Botic
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Perfectionism is a common struggle for many people. Over the last ten-plus years of coaching, I've seen so many women - who technically have everything they need - jeopardizing their growth and joy because they're so tightly wound up in perfectionism. So many individual and societal factors can feed into perfectionism, but we can strengthen our rel…
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17: A Functional Medicine Approach to Anxiety with Dr. Ellen Vora
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True healing requires addressing the root cause of the problem, not just suppressing the symptoms. When it comes to things like anxiety, the conventional medical approach is to go straight to medication. Unfortunately, these can often lead to undesirable side effects, which are then treated with additional medicines, and the snowball effect continu…
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16: Grief, Joy, and Why Sometimes You Have To Burn It All Down with Jeannine Yoder
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"Our darkness is also light; they're not separate." - Jeannine Yoder At first glance, grief and joy seem to be on opposite ends of the spectrum. But what if they could coexist? We all have or will experience grief and loss in one form or another. Whether it’s losing a loved one, experiencing heartbreak, or living through a traumatic event, none of …
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15: You Are Enough: A Pep-Talk to Boost Your Confidence
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You can create the life that you want. Believing in your enoughness is fundamental if we are to thrive in the long run. It makes us more resilient and allows us to tap into our power and potential fully. On the flip side, people with a strong inner voice telling them they're not enough usually don't have a lot of space for joy and pleasure. Today I…
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14: Intuitive Eating As The Way-Maker For More Joy with Jamie Mendell
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“I’m afraid there's something inside of me that will never stop eating ice cream if I let it.” So many of us carry around a fear that our minds and our bodies are on different teams. That if we don’t hold the reins of our diet tightly and avoid all temptation, we’ll spin out of control. Fortunately, it’s not true. Your body wants to feel good, agil…
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13: Realistic Nutrition For Optimal Gut Health with Sarah Marlette
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It’s not what you eat; it’s what you absorb. - Sarah Marlette Gut health is a foundational pillar for optimal overall health. It’s directly connected to several body systems, from the brain to reproductive health, thyroid, and more. Despite its central importance, the standard Western diet doesn’t do our gut a lot of favors, and many of us find our…
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12: Burnout and Boundaries with Justine Carino
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Most of us experience burnout even though we might not recognize it. Far from just feeling tired, burnout can impact every area of your life and relationships and the topic deserves far more attention than it's already getting. Once you’re in that place, it’s challenging to understand what kind of burnout you're experiencing, where it's coming from…
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Your joy has the power to change your life. By tuning into your joy and becoming an active joy seeker, you will gain joy from seemingly simple and mundane things. That’s when life gets really juicy. By tuning in to your experience on this planet, it becomes much easier to know what you want, what’s meant for you, and where you need to set boundarie…
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10: Navigating Perimenopause & Menopause Successfully with Dr. Jessica Drummond
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“Don’t chase symptoms; optimize systems.” - Dr. Jessica Drummond Most of us have heard the terms perimenopause and menopause, but even though we’ll all experience it, we’re still unsure what to expect and when to expect it. The good news is that despite their scary reputation, you can support yourself in many ways as you make this transition. Today…
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9: Dress For Joy: An Aura Stylist Explains
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Around the middle school years, most of us start to zoom in on creating an identity for ourselves. We begin to round out our self-concept, who we want to hang out with, and how we want other people to perceive us. We’re trying to figure out where we fit into the world. As women, it can feel like we have to pick between two options: being the fashio…
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8: How To Manage Your Inner Critic with Anna Goldstein
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Your outer world will always mirror your inner world. Even though people can't hear your inner thoughts, they can feel them. Adjusting how you speak to yourself and what goes on in your inner world is vitally important if you want to create a life where you thrive. A constant, negative inner dialogue stops the flow of joy. It keeps us bogged down i…
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7: Stepping Into Your Worth with Ariel Kiley
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You’re allowed to want what you want. There’s an inseparable connection between self-worth and joy. As long as you feel unworthy, sustainable joy will not be able to anchor itself into your life. Many of us are carrying around wounds of unworthiness that stop us from tuning in to our intuition and what we want and need. To cultivate deep joy in our…
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I'm on a mission to reframe how we think about joy. Your joy is your life force. It’s a powerful energy generator and where so much of your soul essence lives. We can’t live in the fullest expression of ourselves if we’re constantly blocking our joy in one way or another. When we talk about joy and building habits and rituals that nurture your joy,…
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5: What's Your Joy Type with Elizabeth Newcomer
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The more you embrace your authenticity and uniqueness, the more joy will enter your life. Throughout this whole adventure that is the Joy Class podcast, one of the most important messages I want to share is that there's no one right way to cultivate joy in your life. By embracing the beautiful journey of self-discovery, we can tap into who we are a…
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4: Are Your Hormones Blocking Your Joy with Nicole Jardim
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When you don’t understand how your body works, it’s easy to feel helpless and hopeless. Across the board, women are drastically undereducated about their bodies. Even as someone with parents who are doctors, ten years ago I found myself with a masters-level education, in my late 20s, and with no idea how my period or ovulation worked. Luckily, that…
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3: Healthier Disagreements with Verónica Márquez
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Disagreements and the constant bickering in many relationships are huge sources of stress and unhappiness in people's lives. They do the opposite of bringing us joy. At the same time, it’s unrealistic - and probably unhealthy - to aim for never having disagreements or simply silencing our feelings. So, how can we stay authentic to ourselves and hav…
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2: (Re)discovering Your Joy In Parenting with Allie Beck
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Around the world, so many people are working hard to be incredible parents but finishing each day feeling exhausted and frustrated. With the pandemic, the demands on parents increased even more, and two years in, many parents are still living with that acute stress response. To explore the topic of joy in parenting, I’m joined by my friend Allison …
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1: The Secret to Joy: How to Create a Life You Love and Find Small Joys Every Day
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Joy is the key ingredient for our well-being, relationships, and creativity. But what is joy? For many, joy seems like the rare feeling on a perfect Saturday afternoon when there’s no work to be done. Or, if you’re like me, like a reward that you have to earn. I can't tell you how many people I've worked with over the years were almost chronically …
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When we don’t prioritize the things, moments, experiences, and interactions that bring us joy, life doesn’t work. If you don’t take the time to connect with yourself and find out what brings you joy in this season of your life, you miss the important opportunity to build a strong, healthy foundation that sets the stage for you and everyone around y…
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