Best Joy Rodrigue Podcasts (2025)

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5 Steps to Shift Habits of Perfectionism and People Pleasing with Beatriz Victoria Albina 55:22

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10d ago55:22

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Perfectionism and people-pleasing aren’t bad habits—they’re survival strategies rooted in patterns of emotional outsourcing learned early in life. When you’re conditioned to regulate your nervous system through other people’s approval or needs, it can keep you stuck in cycles of over-giving, self-doubt, and disconnection from your own truth. Shifti…

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4 Bite-Size Mindset Shifts for Stressful Times 23:33

21d ago23:33

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Bite size mindset shifts can make a big difference during stressful times to help you engage intentionally instead of reactively. Compassionate accountability helps us embrace our humanity while challenging our status quo. Here we’re focusing on simple, practical tools, and encouragement as we navigate these difficult times. In this episode of Mind…

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Honoring Menopause as a Life Stage with Marelda Rodrigues 46:07

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Honoring menopause as a life stage, not just a phase to get through acknowledges the weight of this transition. We live in a society that hasn’t given much room to understanding women’s bodies. While there is more information now than before, there are still large gaps in support for the physical, mental, and emotional experience of menopause. Too …

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Flexible Routines for Real Life: Reduce Overwhelm and Improve Alignment 47:11

2M ago47:11

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Flexible routines for real life don’t come from a one-size-fits-all approach — no matter what the countless books and “success” formulas claim. Everyone’s life, capacity, and circumstances are different, and we all need space to account for how both direct and indirect events impact our time, energy, and priorities. Prescriptive systems that ignore…

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Empathy Isn't the Problem: Untangling the Myths and Staying Engaged Without Burning Out 1:01:44

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Empathy isn’t the problem—but lately, some voices claim that it is, arguing that empathy leads to irrational decisions or even “civilizational suicide.” If you’re someone who cares deeply, you probably reject the idea that empathy is a threat to society. In fact, you likely believe we need more empathy in the world, not less. Yet at the same time, …

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3 Steps to Building Self-Support In Your Work with Miriam Raquel Sands 48:39

3M ago48:39

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3 steps to building self-support in your work is essential for anyone experiencing any level of career instability. Whether you're questioning your path and considering a career change, dealing with layoffs, or feeling the strain of unclear goals and shifting expectations, these practices can provide a supportive space to discern your next step. Cu…

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How to Avoid Overwhelm and Access Joy in a time of Change 43:19

3M ago43:19

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How to Avoid Overwhelm and Access Joy in a Time of Change begins with recognizing our shared human struggle to maintain emotional equilibrium during turbulent periods. The journey involves understanding that our stress responses are natural support mechanisms, not personal failures, and learning to engage them with compassion and intentionality. By…

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Finding Alignment and the Ability to Return to Yourself Again and Again with Kim Romain 47:56

4M ago47:56

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Finding alignment and the ability to return to yourself again and again supports resiliency as you navigate the waves of life. Alignment isn’t a fixed state we achieve once and then maintain effortlessly—it’s something we come back to again and again. It’s especially important during times of transition, uncertainty, or change. When things feel off…

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Where Do We Go From Here – Reflections on this Podcast & Layoff Uncertainty 39:54

4M ago39:54

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“Where do we go from here” is a common question when we encounter a crossroads in life. Whether a transition is big or small, each point is an invitation learn more about yourself and choose what is aligned for the person you are becoming. This episode engages two types of transition reflection. First the riptide transition point, when you realize …

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Cultivating an Intentional Community: The Shifts that Create Deeper Connection and Belonging with Nancy and Amy Harrington 47:16

5M ago47:16

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Cultivating an intentional community is a powerful and critical antidote to the disconnection fed by our current societal structures and now is the time to cultivate. I say that because we’re living in a time where those structures are breaking down. Our individualistic, hierarchical culture is hitting its limits, and it feels rather like it’s comp…

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What Is Draining My Energy? Inside an Energy Leadership Index Assessment Debrief [coaching] 58:21

5M ago58:21

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What’s really draining your energy isn’t solely the stressors in your life but the patterns you’ve learned to deal with them. If you’re feeling emotionally drained, constantly second-guessing yourself, or stuck in a cycle of over-responsibility and burnout—you’re not alone, and there’s nothing wrong with you. The ways your unconscious has learned t…

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Unlocking Your Leadership Energy: How to Shift from Stress Response to Intentional Action 37:46

6M ago37:46

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Unlocking your leadership energy isn't just for executives—it's for anyone navigating life's complex challenges. In this episode, I dive deep into how we can shift from reactive stress responses to intentional, powerful action. Whether you're feeling overwhelmed by uncertainty or stuck in unproductive patterns, I'll share transformative insights fr…

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Identifying Your True Goals: Finding and Leading from Your Truth Center with Amy Pons 50:29

6M ago50:29

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Identifying your true goals is the starting point to transforming your life from the inside out. In this powerful episode of Mindset Unlimited, I sit down with fellow Chicago-based life coach, Amy Pons, to unpack the powerful journey of breaking through learned limitations and discovering your authentic path. We explore how to lead from your truth …

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Planting Seeds of Hope: Mindset Strategies for Women Leaders in a Time of Uncertainty 37:12

7M ago37:12

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Planting seeds of hope is a radical act of resilience during times of uncertainty and upheaval. When fear threatens to paralyze us, hope becomes our most powerful tool. Spring invites us into the sacred work of seeding dreams—not for immediate gratification, but with generational wisdom. We may not personally witness the full bloom of our efforts, …

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Vulnerability and Tending to What Is Important - Bonus episode with Cher Hale 26:40

7M ago26:40

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Vulnerability and tending to what is important is particularly critical in a chaotic time. After my wrapping my interview with Cher Hale, she inquired into my next steps around demanding attention. As listeners who gift me your attention, it seemed appropriate to share with you my own in the moment reflections on attention and what’s important abou…

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Navigating Change in the New Year 35:06

9M ago35:06

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Navigating change in the new year without the overwhelm can feel like a lot—especially when life feels messy, uncertain, or heavy. Real change starts with understanding the waters we swim in (ie the pressures of our social norms) and engaging our internalized patterns as well as the emotions and discomfort of stepping into the unknown. We must unho…

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Healing Our Relationship with Attention With Cher Hale 40:29

10M ago40:29

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Healing our relationship with attention begins with noticing the ways in which our natural need for attention has been damaged. In a society that commodifies attention and polices who and what is allowed attention, we develop a distorted relationship with a core aspect of how we connect to each other. This disconnection feeds feelings of isolation …

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Responsive Practices to Create a Supportive Relationship with Your Teen with Donna Lynne Booher 45:27

10M ago45:27

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Responsive practices to create a supportive relationship with your teen starts with acknowledging your own inner child’s unhealed wounds so that you can create space in yourself to hold space for another. These wounds often become activated when we see them mirrored in our children’s behavior. Unfortunately, the tools we were taught to address thes…

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Navigating Tough Conversations with Emotional Awareness 37:18

11M ago37:18

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Navigating tough conversations with emotional awareness is a critical skill as we are all likely to need to engage difficult dialogues, especially during this time of heightened political and social tensions. These types of conversations can be emotionally taxing, and it's important we approach them with both strong self-awareness and self-care. Ou…

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Learning Self-Advocacy to Strengthen Collective Action with Jenique Jones 44:53

12M ago44:53

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Learning self-advocacy to strengthen collective action is a critical component of sustainable social change. Those of us socialized as women are often conditioned to prioritize supporting others, which can make self-advocacy more difficult. However, by connecting to our own value and values, and speaking up for ourselves even when it’s uncomfortabl…

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Embracing Periods of Reflection 44:55

12M ago44:55

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Embracing periods of reflection, introspection, and processing is a crucial but often overlooked and devalued aspect of personal and societal growth and change. To create real shifts in the world’s imbalances, we must first engage with the internalized patterns and conditioning that hold us back. This self-work not only deepens the impact of our ef…

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Being Intentional with When to Say Yes 31:46

1y ago31:46

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Being intentional with when to say yes isn’t just considering yes vs no. Intentionality also involves how you engage internal resistance to what you say you want to do. There are many reasons you might experience tension and resistance even when you want to do something. First, it could highlight an area that needs clarification or additional disce…

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Supporting Changes in Your Life 30:39

1y ago30:39

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Supporting Changes in your life means reconnecting to your power in your relationship to change. It allows you to transform the patterns that aren’t serving you during the transition period, rather than carrying them with you into a new space. Unfortunately, what often happens is that changes in our life feel in some way like they're imposed upon u…

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Collaborative Leadership from Boardroom to Patient-Centered Caregiving with Heather Maurer 43:24

1y ago43:24

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Collaborative Leadership from Boardroom to Patient-Centered Caregiving is essential for fostering effective relationships between CEOs and board members, as well as between healthcare professionals and patients. This approach not only enhances organizational dynamics but also improves patient outcomes by prioritizing communication, trust, and share…

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Micro-Actions to Manifest Big Change with Taina Brown 41:33

1y ago41:33

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Micro-actions to manifest big change is key because we can often feel overwhelmed by the changes we want to make in our own life, let alone the change we’d like to see in the world. The best part is micro-actions naturally build on themselves. First and most obviously, they provide momentum as you do the next thing and then the next thing. Second, …

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Realigning Your Core Values 41:44

1y ago41:44

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Realigning your core values requires exploring both what is consciously important to you AND your societal conditioning. Your values, both conscious and subconscious, shape your decisions and motivate our behavior. If you find yourself feeling stuck, drained, or sabotaging what you say you want, it’s likely you have a subconscious values conflict. …

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Navigating our Relationship with Death with Nikki Smith 36:19

1y ago36:19

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Navigating our relationship with death is a profound part of our human experience, yet we often avoid talking about it. This avoidance not only prevents us from asking for and receiving care, it also reduces our capacity to provide care. Additionally, we must be able to embrace our mortality (rather than trying to transcend it) in order to fully em…

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3 Essentials to Maximize Your Experience at an Event 30:10

1+ y ago30:10

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“Three Essentials to Maximize Your Experience at an Event” provides a strategy to keep your planning simple and ensure you get the most out of your investment of time, money, and energy. Some of the obstacles to event ROI include overwhelm, self-doubt, shiny object, peer pressure, FOMO, and other such distractions. Additionally, the so called “mom …

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Redefining Our Relationship to Productivity with Lisa Zawrotny 41:48

1+ y ago41:48

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Redefining our relationship to productivity is a necessary component of preventing burnout and cultivating well-being. Our current societal relationship to productivity is built on Industrial Revolution era conception of work ethic. This conception wraps our value into what we can produce, dehumanizing us in the process. In order to rehumanize our …

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Tending Your Self-Relationship through Values & Shadow Work with Erica Courdae 48:24

1+ y ago48:24

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Tending your self-relationship through values & shadow work helps you engages the roots of your motivation and how you live your life. Our values form the basis of our core motivations. Shadow work helps us acknowledge and heal the wounds that inhibit awareness and access to our full self. While we live in a world full of obstacles to self-expressi…

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Cultivating Collaboration Over Competition 46:09

1+ y ago46:09

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Cultivating collaboration over competition is essential in today's interconnected world. We don't exist in a vacuum; our social understanding and discernment must be engaged collectively. The spaces we inhabit, like social media platforms, exert significant influence on our interactions, sometimes more than our intentions to be collaborative versus…

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Reclaiming Creativity and Healing Through Art with Krishna Kayastha 41:56

1+ y ago41:56

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Reclaiming creativity and healing through art is essential because you’re innately creative, even if you’re someone who wouldn’t label yourself as “a creative.” Many of people learn to disconnect from their creativity as children because self-expression doesn’t feel safe, pressure to do art “right” surrounded it with perfectionism, and internalized…

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Foundations for Authentic Public Relations with Catharine Montgomery 44:17

1+ y ago44:17

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Foundations for authentic public relations support building solid connections whether you are an organization or individual. The value of truly listening to others, understanding different perspectives and pathways toward a goal, and then following through on what you learn cannot be overstated. These principles of communication and relationship bu…

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Understanding the 5 Love Languages 31:24

1+ y ago31:24

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Understanding the 5 Love Languages has helped facilitate communication for many people but it has numerous limitations. While the 5 Love Languages has become an extremely popular relationship tool, it’s not a fix-all and it may not be the right approach for everyone. What about this tool makes it helpful and where it falls short can help you determ…

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Building a Relationship to Pleasure and Intimacy with Daniela Stevens 49:30

1+ y ago49:30

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Building a relationship to pleasure and intimacy takes a lot of intention in this society that still treats talking about sex as taboo. So many people struggle with intimacy due to lack of communication, trauma, and societal conditioning to disconnect from their bodies and desires. Improving intimacy requires us to unlearn harmful norms and relearn…

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Creating Healthy Relationships 28:31

1+ y ago28:31

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Creating healthy relationships in all areas of our life is the focus of this season of Unlimited. A relationship is how we relate to another person, place, thing, or even concept. How we relate to ourselves is at the core of how we relate to others. Yet, how we understand and relate to ourselves is also built from those external relationships. Unfo…

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Season 3 Wrap-up and New Year Transition Tips 37:21

2y ago37:21

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Discover valuable New Year transition tips in this Season 3 wrap-up for the Unlimited Podcast. The period between one cycle and the next is a great time to reflect both on where you’ve been and where you’re going. It’s important to create supportive space to engage and focus that reflection. You can set that foundation through honoring your humanit…

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Aligning With Your Astrology with Babs Cheung 45:45

2y ago45:45

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Aligning with your astrology is a way to explore what works for you. From new year plans to parenting, it’s one thing to recognize that there’s no one size fits all, but it can be hard to step outside the norms without some kind of framework to work from. Not to mention, it’s even harder to think outside the box when you’re already exhausted from t…

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Accessing the True Power of Gratitude: Beyond Individualism 35:14

2y ago35:14

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Accessing the true power of gratitude requires going beyond the individual mindset approach that is typically referenced. Expressions of gratitude have been observed among many communally based species. It supports group functioning. Thus, the true power of gratitude is in collective connection, not individual mindset. Studies show that there are a…

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How to Create Belonging with Amena Chaudhry 54:21

2y ago54:21

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How to create belonging starts with understanding that most of us don’t know what belonging really is. It’s hard to create something that you haven’t first experienced and there is a difference between intellectually understanding vs experiencing something. What most of us do experience is strong conditioning from a young age around fitting in - to…

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Reclaiming Humanity Through Grief 33:34

2y ago33:34

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Reclaiming humanity through grief is necessary for our ability to intentionally create a world that honors each person's humanity. Understanding and having space to grieve and support each other through our grief helps us to connect to our shared humanity. In so many often unconscious ways, we are encouraged to dehumanize ourselves and others. One …

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Rethinking Empowerment and Releasing Comparison 38:09

2y ago38:09

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Rethinking empowerment and releasing comparison go hand in hand in a society where empowerment is treated as a commodity and lifestyle is used as a sales tactic. Lifestyle as a sales tactic encourages us to compare how happy we are to how happy someone supposedly living a particular lifestyle appears to be. When empowerment is the commodity being s…

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How to Cure Comparisonitis 36:24

2y ago36:24

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How to cure comparisonitis starts by understanding the cause and that this isn’t just a “you” problem. It’s something that impacts you, your confidence, your sense of self, and your well-being, so it feels deeply personal. Since it’s internal, comparisonitis feels like a habit of comparing yourself to others in one or multiple areas. It’s usually t…

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Insights from Change Making Feminist Founders with Becky Mollenkamp 44:04

2y ago44:04

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Insights from change making feminist founders are an important type of support for other feminist business owners and leaders. We are surrounded by stories of what success is and what you must do to achieve it that perpetuate exploitation of ourselves, of others, and of our planet. These stories are what is normalized but they aren’t the only way. …

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How to Create A Schedule That Works For You 43:47

2y ago43:47

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How to create a schedule that works for you cannot take a one size fits all approach. Most so called “successful people” strategies play on the false idea that we all have the same 24 hours and should, therefore, be able to get the same amount done. These strategies fail to factor in our humanity, discount our lived experiences, and fuel self-doubt…

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10: Opinions Will Kill Your Calling 26:34

2y ago26:34

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The opinions of both yourself and others will kill your calling if you allow them to. In this episode of Living Life With Joy podcast, we talk about how opinions can quickly kill your calling, how it happened to me, and how to stop it. Thanks so much for listening! Don't forget to SHARE and SUBSCRIBE and follow me on Instagram @livinlifewjoy :) ---…

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How to Cultivate Self-Love 38:25

2y ago38:25

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How to cultivate self-love is also how you develop self-confidence, make room for self-care, and show up as your best self. This episode is an updated replay of the season one episode, Relearning Self-Love. Your relationship with yourself is the foundation for your relationship with everyone and everything in your life. Unfortunately, it is also th…

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7 Ways to Relax this Summer and Beyond 33:12

2y ago33:12

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The 7 Ways to Relax this Summer are also the ways we can learn to bring more rest into our lives. We have seven areas that influence our energy and each needs care as we learn to release, relax, and rest. Our society is infused with stories that pull us away from our humanity, which includes devaluing rest. Part of the process of truly relaxing is …

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How to Navigate Societal Gaslighting and Stay Empowered 55:45

2y ago55:45

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How to Navigate Societal Gaslighting and Stay Empowered is an updated replay of the season one episode “No, You’re Not Crazy.” Most information regarding gaslighting focuses on the psychological experience within individual relationships. However, gaslighting is actually a societal phenomenon with roots in social power dynamics. Those roots are why…

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Resilience Through Unexpected Career Shifts with F. John Potter 40:02

2+ y ago40:02

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Resilience through unexpected career shifts is often something you realize in retrospect. It's natural to feel stress in times of change, especially during unexpected transitions that impact your financial security. It can feel overwhelming when you're walking through them. Once you know that you successfully regained a certain equilibrium in your …