Joy Class

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 boundaries. In this episode, I'll walk you through exactly how you can create a joy practice that is authentic to you. An aligned joy practice carries such beautiful energy and high vibrations that life gives you goodness right back. It all starts with dreaming bigger and trusting you can find a way. Let's pull joy in together!

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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 I'm joined by my mentor and friend, Dr. Jessica Drummond, to talk about navigating perimenopause and menopause successfully. Jessica is someone I often call on with questions about health and well-being. I love her ability to combine evidence-based science with practical and doable strategies for the average woman. In this conversation, Jessica and I talk about the physiological changes that occur during perimenopause and menopause, why Jessica refers to perimenopause as puberty in reverse, common symptoms women experience, how you can tweak your diet and lifestyle to ease the transition, Jessica's tips for weight management over 40, and more. I hope you'll love this conversation and that you gain tremendous value from the wisdom Jessica shares with us. Let's pull joy in together!

Ready to cultivate more joy in your life?

Want to learn more about working together 1:1? Send me an email at [email protected]

Join Easy Joy, my 28-day joy challenge (it's easy + joyful;)).

Work with me 1:1 in my private mentorship program called Space To Thrive.

To learn more, visit the show notes at https://www.carolinezwickson.com/10

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 fashionable life of the party, seen as frivolous and girly, or being the person who doesn't care about clothes, seen as serious and smart.

But the truth is, it doesn't have to be like that. There's a lot of space in the in-between once we're willing to step back and tune into ourselves and where our intuition leads us.

Today I'm joined by Aura Stylist® Susanna Merrick, who teaches people how to use clothes and accessories to manifest their desired life. In this conversation, we talk about the connection between how you dress and how you manifest your desires, how we can shift away from the things that no longer serve us, the cultural pressures we face as women, how to start calling in more joy through your wardrobe, tuning into your intuition and the things you love, and more.

Let's pull joy in together!

About Susanna Merrick

Susanna Merrick (https://aurawearnyc.com/) is a highly sought-after Intuitive Energy Reader, Stylist, and Spiritual Coach. And she is the Founder of Aura Wear, a method and brand that focuses on self-expression through color, fashion, and wellness.

Susanna's mission is to empower people to take the reins of their self-expression through their personal style and spiritual practices by managing the health of their closet. Her work has been featured in Goop, Elle Magazine, Well+Good, and Vanity Fair.

Ready to cultivate more joy in your life?

Want to learn more about working together 1:1? Send me an email at [email protected]

Join Easy Joy, my 28-day joy challenge (it's easy + joyful;)).

Work with me 1:1 in my private mentorship program called Space To Thrive.

To learn more, visit the show notes at https://www.carolinezwickson.com/9

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 in guilt and feeling we're not good enough for the things we want. But the voice in your head is not who you are. We can train ourselves to bring more positivity and joy into our lives.

Today I'm chatting with my good friend, Anna Goldstein, about managing your inner critic. Anna helps people to overcome the roadblocks that prevent them from moving forward in their life and career, and she's here to talk about the connection between finding your joy and working with your inner critic. In this conversation, we talk about what exactly our inner critic is, why awareness alone isn't enough to change the inner voices, steps you can take to manage your inner critic, practices you can incorporate into your life, how coaching can help you to shift your perspective, and more. Let's pull joy in together!

Ready to cultivate more joy in your life?

Want to learn more about working together 1:1? Send me an email at [email protected]

Join Easy Joy, my 28-day joy challenge (it's easy + joyful;)).

Work with me 1:1 in my private mentorship program called Space To Thrive.

To learn more, visit the show notes at https://www.carolinezwickson.com/8

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 lives, we must learn to look inward and create a healthy balance between what is needed from out and what we need. Today I'm thrilled to be joined by Ariel Kiley to talk about how you can start owning and elevating your worth. Ariel is a fantastic storyteller and has a gift for diving deep into the heart of things.

In this conversation, we talk about the difference between confidence and self-esteem, healing wounds of unworthiness, why we often prioritize others' perceptions of us, what it looks like to live a life with no compromise, balancing competing needs in your life, uncoupling your self-worth from money, and more. Let's pull joy in together!

Ready to cultivate more joy in your life?

Want to learn more about working together 1:1? Send me an email at [email protected]

Join Easy Joy, my 28-day joy challenge (it's easy + joyful;)).

Work with me 1:1 in my private mentorship program called Space To Thrive.

To learn more, visit the show notes at https://www.carolinezwickson.com/7

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, let's be clear that there's nothing we can do that will transform our lives into sunshine and rainbows all day, every day. That's just not realistic and not at all what I stand for.

Some days are just plain hard, and some seasons in life are challenging. And naturally, in those times, joy is harder to access.

Today I'm sharing how joy blockers and suckers might stop you from creating joy in your life. I'll walk you through the top five joy blockers I've seen in my coaching practice over the last ten years and how you can start to work through them and open up your joy channels. Now, let's pull joy in together!

Ready to cultivate more joy in your life?

Want to learn more about working together 1:1? Send me an email at [email protected]

Join Easy Joy, my 28-day joy challenge (it's easy + joyful;)).

Work with me 1:1 in my private mentorship program called Space To Thrive.

To learn more, visit the show notes at https://www.carolinezwickson.com/6

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 at our core and find ways to build joy into the center of our lives. This is the type of lasting joy that nourishes you and helps you to thrive.

Today I'm excited to bring my friend, Elizabeth Newcomer, to the podcast to discuss how you can figure out your unique joy type through the lens of the Enneagram. Liz is an incredible resource, and she's here to share her insights into how each Type can unlock joy in their lives.

In this conversation, Liz and I talk about what the Enneagram is about, the fundamental characteristics of each type, why Liz fell in love with the Enneagram and wanted to share it with others, how each of the nine Enneagram Types accesses joy, why we need to bring compassion and understanding into our interactions with other Types, and more. Let's pull joy in together!

Ready to cultivate more joy in your life?

Join Easy Joy, my 28-day joy challenge (it's easy + joyful;)).

Work with me 1:1 in my private mentorship program called Space To Thrive.

To learn more, visit the show notes at https://www.carolinezwickson.com/5

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's when I met today's guest and period expert, Nicole Jardim. Together we're exploring the connection between your hormones and your joy. I'm super excited about having this important discussion about female biology and how it impacts the quality of our day-to-day lives.

It's so empowering to know how you can work with your biology and encourage it to work for you. In this conversation, Nicole and I talk about the extensive roles your hormones play, why cortisol and insulin are the queen bee hormones, tangible action steps that all of us can take to support our hormonal health, and more. I'm so excited to share this episode with you. Let's pull joy in together!

Ready to cultivate more joy in your life?

Join Easy Joy, my 28-day joy challenge (it's easy + joyful;)).

Work with me 1:1 in my private mentorship program called Space To Thrive.

To learn more, visit the show notes at https://www.carolinezwickson.com/4

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 have healthy disagreements? Today I'm thrilled to be joined by my friend and founder of Between Us, Verónica Márquez. Verónica joins us to share simple strategies to prioritize love and connection, even in moments of anger.

In this conversation, Verónica and I discuss how Between Us came to be, how you can deepen your awareness of your physical responses to anger, tips for de-escalating a developing argument, what it looks like to hold space for both anger and love, how we can repair relationships after an unhealthy disagreement, and more. Verónica's framework is incredibly helpful, and you'll leave this conversation with practical strategies you can use in your relationships today.

Let's pull joy in together!

Ready to cultivate more joy in your life?

Join Easy Joy, my 28-day joy challenge (it's easy + joyful;)).

Work with me 1:1 in my private mentorship program called Space To Thrive.

To learn more, visit the show notes at https://www.carolinezwickson.com/3

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 Beck, an incredible resource on finding confidence and joy in the parenting journey. Allie is a psychotherapist and pregnancy, postpartum, and parenthood coach in private practice, specializing in reproductive psychology, parenthood, and anxiety and mood disorders across all life stages. She fuses acceptance, empowerment, education, and mindfulness into a comprehensive method to support new and expectant parents.

In this conversation, we talk about why so many parents are struggling with finding joy in parenthood, the societal messaging and pressure we experience, the Toxic Ps and how they feed into a vicious cycle of shame and guilt, the three-step process you can use to bring more joy into your life intentionally and your journey with your children, and more. You're going to get so much value out of our conversation today.

Let's pull joy in together!

Ready to cultivate more joy in your life?

Join Easy Joy, my 28-day joy challenge (it's easy + joyful;)).

Work with me 1:1 in my private mentorship program called Space To Thrive.

To learn more, visit the show notes at https://www.carolinezwickson.com/2