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EP #07: In Pursuit of Joyful Authenticity
It can be a tough moment of reckoning to realize that the life you’re leading is perhaps not as joyfully authentic - as truly aligned with your values - as you’d like it to be. But in today’s episode, we embrace the discomfort of this realization and try to identify how we can get closer to the North Star that is joyful authenticity. As a starting point, we delve into specific areas of life where we’d like to experience more joyful authenticity, ranging from the sincerity and fullness with which we show up in our friendships, to how we show up in service of our community and others.
In the process, a perhaps more obvious but necessary question arises: why are we not yet living these lives that we talk about so longingly? If we know we want to experience more joyful authenticity, why haven’t we yet taken the steps to get there? To answer this, we try to identify factors that hinder our pursuit of joyful authenticity with the hope that naming them concretely might also help us in the process of navigating next steps. The factors, we hope, are deeply relatable for you as they are often driven by dynamics we’d like to think are somehow deeply human: fears of disagreement (calling out all people pleasers!), as well as desires to fit into established norms or to be perceived by others in very specific ways.
Of course, joyful authenticity, like all of the themes we engage with on Mixed Media Minds, is a vastly expansive topic whose richness would likely need a podcast of its own to more fully explore. Nevertheless, we hope this episode can be for you what it was for us - a safe, warm place to start.
Episode Breakdown
00:00 - 6:07: Lightbulb Moments
6:08 - 15:22: Creative Lab
15:23 - 16:55: Motivation
16:56 - 35:21: In what areas of life do we want to experience more joyful authenticity?
35:22 - 51:21: What are the limiting factors that hold us back in those areas?
51:21 - 1:04:39: How do we gain the courage to overcome those limiting factors?
Don’t Be a Stranger!
Subscribe to Mixed Media Minds on whichever platform you listen to us on to catch our weekly episodes!
Check out our Substack and subscribe to our monthly newsletter to stay connected to our Mixed Media Minds pluriverse: https://mixedmediaminds.substack.com!
What would a joyfully authentic life look like or mean for you? Or what kinds of challenges or barriers affect your pursuit of a more joyfully authentic life? Let us know what your thoughts are, regarding these questions or today’s episode, by sending us an email at [email protected]!
Sound Credits: see here
References:
Frederik Buechner Quote
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By Sitara Nath and Cristina ŞomcuteanIt can be a tough moment of reckoning to realize that the life you’re leading is perhaps not as joyfully authentic - as truly aligned with your values - as you’d like it to be. But in today’s episode, we embrace the discomfort of this realization and try to identify how we can get closer to the North Star that is joyful authenticity. As a starting point, we delve into specific areas of life where we’d like to experience more joyful authenticity, ranging from the sincerity and fullness with which we show up in our friendships, to how we show up in service of our community and others.
In the process, a perhaps more obvious but necessary question arises: why are we not yet living these lives that we talk about so longingly? If we know we want to experience more joyful authenticity, why haven’t we yet taken the steps to get there? To answer this, we try to identify factors that hinder our pursuit of joyful authenticity with the hope that naming them concretely might also help us in the process of navigating next steps. The factors, we hope, are deeply relatable for you as they are often driven by dynamics we’d like to think are somehow deeply human: fears of disagreement (calling out all people pleasers!), as well as desires to fit into established norms or to be perceived by others in very specific ways.
Of course, joyful authenticity, like all of the themes we engage with on Mixed Media Minds, is a vastly expansive topic whose richness would likely need a podcast of its own to more fully explore. Nevertheless, we hope this episode can be for you what it was for us - a safe, warm place to start.
Episode Breakdown
00:00 - 6:07: Lightbulb Moments
6:08 - 15:22: Creative Lab
15:23 - 16:55: Motivation
16:56 - 35:21: In what areas of life do we want to experience more joyful authenticity?
35:22 - 51:21: What are the limiting factors that hold us back in those areas?
51:21 - 1:04:39: How do we gain the courage to overcome those limiting factors?
Don’t Be a Stranger!
Subscribe to Mixed Media Minds on whichever platform you listen to us on to catch our weekly episodes!
Check out our Substack and subscribe to our monthly newsletter to stay connected to our Mixed Media Minds pluriverse: https://mixedmediaminds.substack.com!
What would a joyfully authentic life look like or mean for you? Or what kinds of challenges or barriers affect your pursuit of a more joyfully authentic life? Let us know what your thoughts are, regarding these questions or today’s episode, by sending us an email at [email protected]!
Sound Credits: see here
References:
Frederik Buechner Quote