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This week I have a conversation with author, speaker, and podcast host, Mary Marantz.  She grew up in a single-wide trailer in rural West Virginia is the first of her immediate family to go to college, and went on to earn a law degree from the nation’s top-ranked law school, Yale. After ditching six-figure-salary law firm offers in London and New York, she started a photography business with her husband, Justin.  

Mary released her first book, “Dirt: Growing Strong Roots in What Makes the Broken Beautiful,” in September and we go through her life journey getting to this point talking about self-worth, shame, building walls, breaking them down and so much more!

You can find full show notes and links to things we mention at https://yourjoyologist.com/podcast-mary-marantz/

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You can find Mary at https://marymarantz.com and @marymarantz

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Derek Beres is a multi-faceted author, media expert, and fitness instructor based in Los Angeles. He is the co-host of Conspirituality and co-founder of EarthRise SoundSystem. His latest book is Hero’s Dose: The Case for Psychedelics in Ritual and Therapy.

We get into a lot in this episode including:

his journey in career in both journalism and yoga. 

what inspired him to write his newest book on psychedelics

How being critical about things you love is important 

How admitting you are wrong is gratifying. And changing your mind is not a bad thing. 

how memory works

what inspired the launch of the Conspirituality podcast and what their goals and hopes for the podcast are

vaccines and where my hesitance comes from and his deep research and intellect around vaccines and the ant-vaxx movement

And so much more!

You can find full show notes and links to things we mention at https://yourjoyologist.com/podcast-derek-beres

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You can find Derek at https://www.derekberes.com and @derekberes

And check out the Conspirituality Podcast https://conspirituality.net and @conspiripod

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ROSIE MERCADO has been recognized as one of the “top 25 most powerful Latinas” by People en Español and named one of the “Top 6 Latinas You Should Know” by Latina Magazine. She is a bilingual certified Life Coach, Latina model and was a co-host on the talk show "Face the Truth" - produced by Dr. Phil McGraw.  Rosie's journey losing 240 pounds as a single-mother of three was covered in Cosmopolitan, People, Tiempo, Daily Mail and the New York Post.

We go through the journey of her life and talk about all this and more:

getting bullied at a young age and starting to believe what the bullies and others said about her

how we often stay in relationships and friendships that don’t serve us and make us feel good and why we think that happens

hitting her heaviest weight at 420 pounds and being invited to do Miss Plus America and how that changed her life seeing these confident, beautiful women

getting clear on her priorities and what that looks like in her everyday life

weight can not determine yourself worth

self-forgiveness and allowing ourselves to heal from our past

You can find full show notes and links to things we mention at https://yourjoyologist.com/podcast-rosie-mercado

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You can find Rosie @rosiemercado and https://rosiemercado.com

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Harper Spero is a business coach who specializes in working with service-based newbie solopreneurs and small business owners. She works with clients to create businesses they love, determine how to get their idea out into the world and discover the freedom that comes with entrepreneurship. Harper is also the host of Made Visible, a podcast dedicated to people living with or affected by invisible illness. 

We talk about how a major health scare forced her to put herself first, get clear on what type of work she did and did not want to do.  What inspired her to start her podcast and the challenges of those with invisible illnesses and so much more!

For full show notes go to https://yourjoyologist.com/podcast-harper-spero/

You can find Harper at @harper_spero and www.harperspero.com 

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Ben Lee was discovered as a 14 year old indie punk rocker in Sydney Australia by Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth. That began a career that has lasted over 25 years of making albums, producing, composing for film and tv as well as exploring many areas of personal interest from working with the dying to psychedelics to political activism. He has collaborated with a variety of artists like Ben Folds, Sarah Silverman, Lena Dunham, Harmony Korine, and most recently legendary US author Tom Robbins on a “childrens psychedelic musical about alcohol" called ‘B is for Beer'.

We go through his journey from forming his first band and getting a record deal at 14 to where he is today with all of the lessons he learned along the way of pushing limits, losing himself in what some would call cults, being a death doula and more.  

You can find full show notes and links to things we mention at https://yourjoyologist.com/podcast-ben-lee

You can find Ben at @benleemusic and https://www.ben-lee.com/

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Africa Miranda is an internationally known beauty and travel influencer who’s brand inspires women everywhere to embrace their inner light. She is a host, executive producer, beautypreneur and digital personality. Her book StepUp, Step Out and Shine teaches readers how to build their own global brands. Dedicated to empowering other women to step intentionally into the media space - Africa is helping a new generation of creators reach their highest potential through her media workshop, Media Mastery Workshop and training course Shine Media Training. 

We talk her journey from working in politics right out of college, through pursuing her passion of performing, through becoming a model in her 30's, to reality TV, her book, utilizing social media and more!

You can find full show notes and links to things we mention at https://yourjoyologist.com/podcast-africa-miranda

You can find Africa at @africamiranda and more of what she is up to here

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Bronnie Ware is best known as the author of the international bestselling memoir The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, read by over a million people in 32 languages, and with a movie in the pipeline. She is a respected teacher of courage on the global stage, and is a passionate advocate for simplicity and getting out of the way for life to provide some shortcuts.  I LOVED talking to Bronnie and going through the journey of her life and work here are some of the things we talk about in this episode:

 growing up on farms in Australia with parents who were both musicians and took stable jobs to support the family 

choosing a career in banking at age 19 and getting married and thinking she was choosing the most stable and secure life

what pushed her to get out of her marriage with an alcoholic husband

starting to become a songwriter and musician at age 35

how she got into taking care of the terminally ill as a palliative care worker

how the conversations of regrets would naturally come up with her patients and how she used their regrets to look at how she was living her life

starting a songwriting workshop in a woman’s jail because she wanted to work with hope and how that led to her starting her blog

the magical timing that she did get offered a proper book deal on the book that has now become an INTL bestseller

what inspired her two other books and how writing purely for joy led her to writing her first novel!

You can find full show notes and links to things we mention at https://yourjoyologist.com/podcast-bronnie-ware

You can find Bronnie at https://bronnieware.com and @bronnie.ware

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This week's guest is someone I stumbled upon on instagram and had to know more about! X'Zandria's main focus (besides her family) is being an activist for Black Americans and individuals that experience Foster care through Foster Youth Empowerment LLC. She knows that the same opportunities and accomplishments she has should be accessible and attainable for Foster Alums and Black Americans but it is NOT. 

She is always pushing and encouraging others to be their best selves and beyond. If you have a goal she will encourage you to make it bigger. She doesn't do small and believes others shouldn't either.

We talk about her personal journey in life and work and what inspires her to do the work she does, including:

from an early age always feeling that she wanted to help at risk youth and empower people to believe in themselves and what they are capable of

studying criminal justice in college and starting her work in a detention center with at risk youth

the reality at working with and rehabilitating at risk youth and how she does her work

how she relates to the kids she works with and uses vulnerability to create connection and trust

how she came to be so passionate about kid's in foster care

why she also offers support and courses for interacial families and those with black foster care children or adoptive children

what we as individuals can do to support foster care children locally without being foster parents

how we can each make a difference in people's lives and likely do it in ways on a daily basis without knowing it

You can find full show notes and links to things we mention at https://yourjoyologist.com/podcast-xzandria-weil/

You can find X'Zandria and her work at http://www.fosteryouthempowerment.com and @fosteryouthempowerment

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Jeff Willmore is the deliverer of transformational programs to over 200,000 people around the world (including me!), founder of The Entrepreneurship, Accomplishment & Autonomy Course, co-founder of The BlüPrint process, a Father, Husband and Brother.

We go through his life journey to where he is now and talk about this and more:

knowing early on he wanted to contribute to others and make a difference in other’s lives but not knowing how he would do that

selling his businesses after taking a transformational course and being called to immerse himself in the learning and become a leader

how we are often not aware that we are bringing a perspective to everything

how choice is the ultimate form of acceptance 

realizing even though he loved what his work was seeing that if he didn’t make changes in his life we would end up with some serious regrets so leaving with no idea what he would do next

seeing that professionals and so many suffered personally in order to have success professionally, feeling they just had to keep working harder and harder

creating a course for people to revolutionize their work and having it align their career with what they want their life to be about

You can find full show notes and links to things we mention at https://yourjoyologist.com/podcast-jeff-willmore

You can find Jeff and his work at jeffwillmore.org and @jeff_willmore

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