“You don’t go through things that you aren’t able to overcome”

Do you want to create more joy in your life?

Do you find joy along the way to the thing that you think will create the most joy in your life?

In other words, do you want to know how to be more joyful?

Then let me introduce you to our guest today, Erica Lasan. Erica is a multi-passionate entrepreneur, wife, and mom on a mission to transform the world through RADICAL JOY!

Starting with a jewelry line at age 13, writing for several outlets, and eventually producing content for various media publications (including EBONY, Black & Sexy TV, and Mom.com), Erica Lasan has built a career around creative expression and service for over two decades.

After being laid off in 2016 (and an unexpected transition into motherhood), Erica looked to “JOYGems” gained throughout her career to establish JOYrney To Purpose™.

Now in her role as a JOY Strategist & Creative Consultant, Erica serves corporations, busy entrepreneurial women, and caregivers in learning how to create more: time, energy, and space to rediscover JOY in life and business. Through her 3-step JOYrney™ process, Erica leads workshops, speaking engagements, community-based challenges, and coaching to build intentional daily habits around JOY in every area of life…ONE feel-good thing at a time!

In today's episode, we discuss:

• What is joy?
• How to find joy during trying times
• How to ask and look for signs that you're being supported
• Why you're always where you need to be
• Why joy is your birthright

Connect with ERICA
WEBSITE: https://www.ericalasan.com/
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/ericalasan/
The JOYrney Daily™ Planner: https://amzn.to/3Ys7L3Q
#JOYGem quiz: http://ericalasan.com/quiz

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“The more you go towards your true path, the more synchronicities will be there to tell you, ‘this is where you should be going. You’ll be okay.’”

Liz Simmons is a freelance writer, astrologer, and tarot reader based in Salem, MA. She views astrology and tarot as another tool in our arsenal to understand the cosmic interplay in our lives.

Currently, Liz contributes astrological articles and horoscopes to StyleCaster and Astrology.com. Aside from writing, Liz serves as the in-house astrologer and tarot reader at ASCEND Get Lifted in downtown Salem, MA.

She has been featured on PopSugar, Refinery 29, Shape, Cosmopolitan, and more.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How rejection from pursuing a career in psychology led her to pursue a career in astrology
• How she taught herself astrology
• Using astrology for predictions and timing on how to best understand what’s going on with your life and why
• How astrology and intuition can work together to help trust yourself more
• Why astrology can be an insightful tool to help with shadow work

Connect with LIZ

Her website: the-crone.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the__crone/

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OTHER EPISODES TO LISTEN TO:

Making Love and Astrology Simple with Astrologer and Author Desiree Roby Antila

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In this impromptu solo episode, Brianne shares what she's been struggling with over the last few weeks, including having a major wake-up call in terms of how she shows up within her relationships and her work. For someone who talks a lot about vulnerability and authenticity, it turns out...she's not as open as she thinks she is! She talks it out, how she's looking to heal, and what she feels are her biggest blocks in life -- hint: not feeling enough! Can you relate?!

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Buy Brianne's books: http://briannehogan.ca/books

Listen to Amy Green Smith's episode here

Listen to What is the Answer to Your What If? (May 2022 Solo)

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“You can speak up for yourself without being a dick.”

Having trouble mastering communication and vulnerability? You and everyone else! You'll love today's episode with Amy Green Smith who'll teach you how to do so in a way that's empowering -- and not anything like a dick.

Amy is a certified and credentialed life coach and hypnotherapist, masterful speaker, and personal empowerment expert. Amy uses her roles as coach, writer, podcaster, and speaker to move individuals to a place of radical personal empowerment and self-worth.

With an acute focus on helping people “find their voice”, she is highly sought after for her uncommon style of irreverence, wisdom, and humor and has been a featured expert in Inspired Coach Magazine and on Fox 5 San Diego.

In our conversation, we discuss:

• standing up for yourself without going into people pleasing
• why respect is bigger than water when it comes to family systems
• why the delivery in your communication – how you say it – is far more powerful and effective than what you say
• A true test of character shows up when you’re in an environment that’s not conducive to your best self.
• how to navigate triggering conversations so you don’t fall into fight or flee mode and get your needs met instead
• why your self-worth depends on your communication skills

Connect with Amy:

Website: www.AmyGreenSmith.com (and grab a free copy of her eWorkbook/Audiobook, Stand Up for Yourself Without Being a Dick: 9 Proven Challenges to Radically Improve Your Self-Confidence and Self-Worth)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heyamygreensmith/
YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/heyamygreensmith
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heyamygreensmith

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Visit Brianne's website: https://www.briannehogan.ca
Buy Brianne's books: http://briannehogan.ca/books

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"Our animals have something to teach us. Let your animals help you. They are masters of unconditional love and are connected to the Divine. "

If you've always wanted to know exactly what your pet is thinking and feeling, then you'll love today's episode with pet psychic and animal communicator, Nikki Vasconez. She'll prove that talking with the animals isn't just for Dr. Doolittle!

Nikki wasn’t always a pet psychic; her career path started out as an attorney. In fact, it wasn’t until her late 20s that she learned animal communication was even possible. In July 2021 Nikki quit her attorney position and went full-time animal communication. She now spends her days connecting with animals, and teaching all of us to connect with animals, in a way modern society tries to convince us is only possible in movies and fairy tales.

In this episode we discuss:

• How she made the leap from attorney to animal communicator
• How she communicates with animals -- and how you can too!
• Tapping into her intuition and her advice for those who want to do the same
• Her experience with going viral on TikTok
• Her advice for those who want to start their own business
• What we can learn from animals

Connect with Nikki

Her website: https://nikkivasconez.com/
Her Psychic Animal Academy: https://nikkivasconez.com/membership
TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@nikkivasconez
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nikkivasconez/

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“Self care is learning how to listen within and responding in the most loving way possible.”

We all need a tune up from time-to-time when it comes to self-care, and Taylor Elyse Morrison is the perfect person to help you!

Taylor turned being bad at self-care—and being firmly convinced of every human’s potential—into a career. She’s the founder of media company Inner Workout, and the author of a book by the same name. Recently named one of Fortune’s 10 Innovators Shaping the Future of Health, Taylor is tired of aspirational 'wellness as usual.' In fact, the first line of her book, Inner Workout, reads, "This is not an aspirational wellness book." Instead, Inner Workout offers a practical and accessible approach to self-care that meets you where you're at.

Her Take Care assessment, which measures well-being across five dimensions, has been taken by thousands of people across the globe. Taylor’s mission is not to change who you are; but rather to strengthen your connection to the wisdom you already have within.

In this discussion, we chat about:

• How self care helps you know yourself authentically
• How self-care helps to prepare and support your nervous system
• Why self-care isn’t one-size fits all
• Why your self-care will and should change over time
• Her five dimensions of well-being and how we can use them to live our best lives
• How she took the leap from corporate life to entrepreneurship and her thoughts on how corporate doesn’t support a self-care lifestyle.

CONNECT WITH TAYLOR

You can find her on Instagram here
Her book, Inner Workout, comes out March 14, 2023.
Her website
Her podcast

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“Very rarely will a healthy person be obsessed with one particular outcome in their life.”

What does it mean to let go of one identity to embrace your most authentic self? We get into that and so much more with today's guest Kelsey Formost.

Kelsey is a Copywriting & Marketing Expert, Podcast Host, and Mental Health Advocate who helps entrepreneurs find their voice and write words that sell, without sounding “sales-y” or feeling gross. She has been featured in prestigious publications like Business Insider, AdAge, Refinery29, and Glamour, and has spoken at some of the top marketing conferences in the country like Hubspot’s Inbound and SXSW.

But before that she was a working actress and was seen in shows like Modern Family and New Girl, a Zac Efron movie, We Are Your Friends, and had a starring role in a Netflix series, Zac & Mia, for Season 2.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Rejecting the idea that “giving up a dream” means you’re a failure.
• How she let go of her old identity as an actress to embrace who she needed to be
• Why peace and presence are her touchstones for self-care
• Letting go of the roles that she had told herself she wanted – that she was supposed to fit into– so it created a vacuum for the magic to flourish.
• What copywriting really is and why she thinks copywriting is the perfect combo of art and empowerment
• Overcoming perfectionism so you can start doing what you love
• Why self-care and taking care of our mental health always needs to come first when it comes to achieving our goals and being the person we want to be

Connect with KELSEY:

WEBSITE
The Copy Class
Copy Class Payment Plan ($77/mo)
3 Copywriting Secrets to Triple Your Profit
Instagram

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"We can’t find ourselves if we’re trying to be someone else."

Who's ready to reclaim your energy and bust through your blocks? Then you'll love today's episode with Brianna Rose! Brianna is an industry leading Kundalini Business Expert. With her 10+ year experience in successfully building impact driven businesses paired with her undying desire to make Kundalini mainstream, she was destined to revolutionize the online business and spiritual coaching industry.

She is the creator of the Light Leader® movement which is filled with thousands of visionary women entrepreneurs and Light Leader Kundalini™, a deeply transformational modernized xperience blending both kundalini and coaching that focuses on the practitioner becoming guru. Through this practice, you are able to transcend limiting beliefs and seamlessly align with your natural rhythm of success .

In this episode we discuss:

• The choice she made from living a successful “normal” life to leaving her 9-5 and trusting the universe to dive into her energy healing and launching her own business
• What is kundalini and how it gets to the root cause of your energy blocks
• What her special form “kundalini” is and how it came to be -- and how she works with her clients
• How awakening kundalini within your body can help you live the life you desire
• Why it's important to accept all parts of yourself, including when it comes to your business
• Integrating business coaching with both divine feminine energy and masculine energy
• Why spirituality needs to be your own and not a cookie cutter version that belongs to someone else
• What happens when our energy gets stuck and how to get unstuck

Connect with BRIANNA
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iambriannarose/
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/risinglightsisterhood
Join the Ascension Academy: https://www.lightleaderascension.com/application-page

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