Joyful Living

As a society we are growing tired of getting sold the next BIG THING. We’re growing apathetic and disinterested in the search for the magic bullet, the secret pill… the Holy Grail. Why? Because our hearts have been broken too many times. We’re sold told by experts that if we just take these “3 steps” or do “these 5 key things” that our problems will be solved and our life will be amazing.

The epidemic of “experts,” coaches, self-help, advice blogs, Pinterest tips, and the absolute mass levels of information marketing happening at this time can absolutely rain on our parade of desires for more everyday JOY and living lives we truly love (even while in the name of “helping” us get there). However, the sneaky factor in this equation is not in “what” we’re being told to do, it’s that it’s a one-size-fits-all model that requires a pit and a pedestal to continue thriving.

If we perceive these outside voices and opinions as the “Experts,” we put our power outside of ourselves. When they are “wrong” we feel we have been deceived and led astray. We judge them intensely in their “kingship of expertness” and hold them to a higher standard (mainly out of our continual comparison to identify and close the gap between us and them).

However, when we perceive those we coach with and take counsel from instead as excellent resources, then everyone is on equal playing ground. There isn’t a pit or a pedestal anymore. We’re all simply on our own paths learning from each other. No one has “arrived” and so we don’t expect them to act like they have it ALL figured out. We don’t get disappointed when we see their human-ness. We instead value each other’s wisdom and experience as a resource and a support to us, rather than a Savior.

The same is true when we aim to position ourselves as the Expert. When we perceive ourselves as an “Expert” rather than a humble “Resource” then it naturally can put our ego forward. Suddenly we get threatened by anyone else’s “Expert-ness” and we anxiously feel we have to maintain ourselves as the Expert to survive. We place greater weight on being “right” and even “the most right.” We become inflexible and absolute.

If we are maintaining more of a beginner’s mind and perceiving ourselves as a humble Resource, it can allow our essence to be more forward. We show up to serve. We are more open to hear the voices and input of others. We can change our stance and remain more flexible as needed. We understand that our survival is independent of public opinion and so we don’t allow that to distract us. Instead, we stay focused on what’s calling us forward from our Souls and stay firmly rooted on our own unique path. We are happy to help others along the way and to receive help, but we don’t have to be a victim or a Savior in either of these situations for needs to be met.

This episode of Joyful Living is a deep-dive into a life-changing conversation exposing the myth of “Expert” and liberating us into a more compassionate and supportive model of growth.

In this episode I quote one of my mentors, Jody England, who says, “Judgment and comparison are natural ego reactions to feeling shame and fear.”

For deeper exploration into this topic, be sure to listen to “Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid,” a powerful recent conversation by Jody England on her Wild Soul Medicine Radio podcast.

I also shared the following powerful quote by Naomi Wolf in this episode (sp...

In celebration of the 50th episode of the Joyful Living Podcast, I invited listeners to join the conversation on a LIVE call with me. Everyone came ready to dive in and explore the practice of “living joyfully” more deeply. It was beautiful!

Excited for you to listen in and hear some of their stories, struggles and insights in this crucial conversation! We also discussed some very powerful principles that will support us all in leaning more deeply into joy every single day.

SO MUCH GOODNESS HERE!

Also, if you haven’t already registered for the Women’s Balance Summit that I’m speaking at soon, be sure to do so! There’s a free and a $97 option – both are amazing. It’s an incredible online event that you won’t want to miss, packed with powerful, life-changing wisdom and insights.

p.s. Stay inspired to live in greater JOY everyday by subscribing to the Joyful Living Podcast in iTunes or Stitcher. Excited to cheer you on in living a life you love!

The concept of “balance” has almost become a swear word in our society, thrown out as a total myth. There are so many voices out there telling women to just give up on balance ever happening. However, what if balance really IS possible? And what if there are actual, simply, proven strategies to achieve and create it? Dr. Mariza Snyder joins us on this special episode of Joyful Living for a powerful and eye-opening discussion about the nuts and bolts of creating greater balance and JOY.

Dr. Mariza also shares her insights on how to avoid and shift away from the stress/busy patterns so common and even praised in our everyday lives, including even when it gets really intense and becomes “Rushing Women’s Syndrome.” She also discusses how this impacts our hormone balance and overall health.

This is a potent + powerful conversation! Listen in and be sure to check out Dr. Mariza’s upcoming Women’s Balance Summit to take your life-balance to a whole new level (yes, I am one of the speakers and you are going to LOVE that session of the Women’s Balance Summit!).

p.s. Stay inspired to live in greater JOY everyday by subscribing to the Joyful Living Podcast in iTunes or Stitcher. Excited to cheer you on in living a life you love!

JOIN US AT THE WOMEN’S BALANCE SUMMIT

As mentioned in this episode of Joyful Living, I am one of the speakers at Dr. Mariza’s upcoming online Women’s Balance Summit! This entire event is PACKED with so many valuable insights, strategies and education on how to create greater balance from over 30 presenters. Be sure to register so you don’t miss out on all of this awesomeness!

The Women’s Balance Summit is totally FREE for listening live or only $97 to get lifetime access for all of the MP3 recordings, as well as all of the special bonuses (which are AWESOME)! Honestly, I can’t believe the value Mariza is giving away for free, as well as all she’s giving away for only $97. SUCH a steal + it will pay you back immensely with your health and happiness increasing as a result.

Here’s some more details about the Women’s Balance Summit:

Creating balance for your body and your life may feel impossible at times, especially with the endless to-do list. We have discovered that maintaining a healthy life balance is not only essential for happiness and physical well-being; it can be an incredible boost to your productivity, joy and career success. A well-balanced woman has a far greater ability to feel energized, empowered and focused to live their life in a meaningful way.

The big question is…What does a balanced life really mean? What would a balanced life look like to us? And most importantly, how do we go about achieving it in the midst of our crazy schedules? In the Women’s Balance Summit Dr. Mariza Snyder and 30+ health and lifestyle experts come together to share their best tips and resources to get your body and life back in balance. Let us show you how today!

ABOUT DR. MARIZA

dr.mariza.

In many of our past discussions we’ve looked at the importance of creating in flow in our lives and how this can create greater freedom and joy.

However, as I’ve been deep in my own experience with this principle and have heard from several of you with questions about this process, I’ve identified a few CRUCIAL elements that are needed to support flow and will create greater freedom. Today’s Joyful Living Podcast episode connects the dots and deepens the conversations of “flow” and “freedom” to take us more clearly into FREEDOM + JOY.

Listen in to glean powerful insights and “secrets” into these life-transforming principles.

p.s. Stay inspired to live in greater JOY everyday by subscribing to the Joyful Living Podcast in iTunes or Stitcher. Excited to cheer you on in living a life you love!

I feel as if I’ve just found + tapped into the Holy Grail of Joyful Living! GOODNESS this is SUCH a game-changer in my world! Excited to share these powerful insights with you in the latest episode of the Joyful Living Podcast!

In this joy-filled, yummy episode we dive into how to tap into your own sustainable, renewable energy source (rather than living exhausted and stretched too thin). We explore new possibilities of how to receive and experience even more joy every single day. We also look at why this matters deeply with all that we do and take on in our lives.

This episode of Joyful Living was largely inspired from my experiences with integrating some of the concepts I received from the Surrendering to Shakti episode of the Wild Soul Medicine Podcast with Jody England and special guest Lisa Schrader. I was deeply inspired by the concept of the “tantra of YES!” and letting go of more of our resistance to life. Feel free to listen to that episode HERE. These concepts have also been something I’ve been exploring in depth for the past year or more.

SO MUCH JOY HERE.

Dive in, beautiful soul! Joy is calling for you to come and play.

p.s. Stay inspired to live in greater JOY everyday by subscribing to the Joyful Living Podcast in iTunes, Stitcher, or SoundCloud. Excited to cheer you on in living a life you love!

Goodness! I am so excited to share this passionate, joy-filled episode of Joyful Living with Ben Lee + Ione Skye Lee, two people whose love and light has inspired my own life deeply.

We discussed treasured nuggets like how to “deepen into love” and give our children a spiritual and psychological compass to arm them to for the hard choices in life. We also looked in depth at some of the common distractions from joy, as well as ways to open up more fully to the joy that surrounds us each day.

One of my favorite things we discussed was how to create greater joy in our close relationships, especially in marriage. The Lee’s refer to this as the “spiritual practice of marriage” and stressed the importance of embracing the incredible personal growth and development available to us in these close relationships when we allow it.

We also discussed how to follow your heart and create more of your art in the world by closing your eyes more and leaning into patience and passion. The Lee’s shared why they’re passionate about supporting others around the world in creating financial freedom: because of how it can support us living in greater creative freedom, as well as blessing the world with our philanthropic passion. Ione shared her heart and insights on living as the leading lady of your life story (our full artistic expression).

Truly excited for each of you to listen in to this powerful episode of Joyful Living! Ben and Ione shared their heart and soul. I was inspired and am sure you will be as well!

p.s. Stay inspired to live in greater JOY everyday by subscribing to the Joyful Living Podcast in iTunes, Stitcher, or SoundCloud. Excited to cheer you on in living a life you love!

Ione + Ben’s Heart Project: Skye Lee Essentials

About Ione Skye Lee

Ione Skye has acted in 38 films, 18 tv shows, and 2 plays since 1986.

Ione is best known for the lead in the quintessential 80’s love story Say Anything with John Cussac, directed by Cameron Crowe (Jerry Mcquire). Also in Arrested Development, Wayne’s world, David Finchers Zodiac, and Fever Pitch. Started acting at 15 in Rivers Edge with Keanu Reeves and Dennis Hopper. Ione has also directed and written 4 short films and 2 music videos.

Ione paints and sells her artwork online at IoneSkyePaintings.com and has had a few art shows in Tokyo and Los Angeles.

 

About Ben Lee

Born in Sydney, Australia, I began making music professionally at 14 years old, with my teenage punk band Noise Addict. Some time after that, I also began making solo albums, more acoustically-driven. I have released many albums over the years, side projects, music for tv, movies, commercials, as well as produced other artists.

I began my career in the music industry hungry for fame, attention and validation. With time, effort, failure and success, I gradually lost interest in these goals, and I now continue for different reasons.

I am passionate about the awakening of human consciousness. First and foremost – my own! I truly believe that if we want to change the world, the only place to begin is with ourselves. For this reason, my music has often been both an exploration and a diary of my attempts to open my own heart and mind. There have been victories and failures, successes and missteps, but I have always sought truth and documented my findings, attempting to share what I have learned with my community and audience. From this space,

In this day and age it seems like the sky is the limit for women. More than any other time in history, we have greater freedoms and opportunities than ever before. Are things perfect? Absolutely not. Have we made significant progress? ABSOLUTELY.

With this progress, many of us are feeling (& have felt since the day we were born) the itch to create something bigger, to follow our hearts, and to endeavor on our dreams. However, this can bring up a WHIRL of emotions, insecurities, guilts and fears. The intensity can be so much that so many women still play so small and still aren’t living each day fully alive and empowered. Why is this?

I can certainly relate and I’m sure many of you can as well. Calli and I dive in to look at the subconscious and generational patterns that are so often at play when a women attempts or even just desires to create something more than being a housewife and mother. We also explore how living empowered can actually bring more LOVE, choice, power, vitality, and vibrancy to us in everything we do, especially as mothers, wives, aunts, sisters, girlfriends and friends.

This episode of Joyful Living is JUICY.

It’s a 100% blunt, say-it-like-it-is, filled-with-love, time-to-wake-up, kick-your-booty, deep + lovely conversation.

To your JOY + ALIVENESS!!!

Other favorite episodes with Calli Lewis:

* Joyful Living with Calli Lewis (Episode 8)

* End the Body Weight Struggle (Episode 26)

p.s. Stay inspired to live in greater JOY everyday by subscribing to the Joyful Living Podcast in iTunes, Stitcher, or SoundCloud. Excited to cheer you on in living a life you love!

Today’s Joyful Living Podcast episode dives deeply into the hunger that dwells within each of us, as well as how to respond. We also look more deeply at what “joyful living” actually is and how many of our current structures and strategies that promise “happiness” can actually be a MAJOR part of the distraction away from happiness/joy.

Listen in for POWERFUL metaphors to help you go deeper and get more clear on how to feel more satiated and FULL-filled in your everyday living. As you recognize and use these processes to get more clear, you will in turn be liberating yourself and opening up more space for joy every single day.

Exciting + powerful stuff, beautiful soul! Dive in!

p.s. Stay inspired to live in greater JOY everyday by subscribing to the Joyful Living Podcast in iTunes or Stitcher. Excited to cheer you on in living a life you love! Already subscribed and love the show? Be sure to leave a review in iTunes and feel of my deep gratitude!

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” – Albert Camus

The time has come for us to live more LIBERATED. Today on the Joyful Living Podcast we discuss that which is limiting our capacity to experience joy: our current state of mental/emotional health. While many of us may not struggle with intense mental/emotional imbalance, whatever is happening within is coloring our outside world.

The Truth is, you are brilliant, beautiful, incredible, and genius. You are shining light! However, this earth experience is steeped in living what we are NOT so we can more fully uncover the Truth of who we are.

But… do you know HOW exactly to do this? How do we go about cleaning up our mental/emotional space? And WHY does it matter so much that we do?

Can’t we just go on surviving? Isn’t our joy an optional, bonus to life? NOPE.

YOUR JOY MATTERS.

Like discovering the secret garden, life is a a matter of clearing out the weeds and overgrowth blocking your joy from growing and blossoming. Most of us weren’t taught how to do this. However, we’re taking a deep dive into the realities of living in greater emotional/mental balance today. Understanding these concepts and applying them has the potential to open your world to joy in ways you never even dreamed were possible.

Your joy awaits you! The path is here and the time is now.

Link to the Emotional Health Online Classes I mentioned during the show: livejoylove.com

Quoted in the show:

Wherever, whenever you feel carried away,

Rejoicing in every breath,

There, there is your meditation hall.

Cherish these times of absorption —

Rocking the baby in the silence of the night,

Pouring water into a crystal glass,

Tending the logs in a crackling fire,

Sharing a meal with a circle of friends.

Embrace these pleasures and know,

“This is my true body.”

Nowhere is more holy than this.

Right here is the sacred pilgrimage.

Live in alertness for such a moment, my Beloved,

As if it were your one meeting with the Creator.

– Radiance Sutra No. 51 // Lorin Roche

p.s. Stay inspired to live in greater JOY everyday by subscribing to the Joyful Living Podcast in iTunes or Stitcher. Excited to cheer you on in living a life you love! Already subscribed and love the show? Be sure to leave a review in iTunes and feel of my deep gratitude!

Recently I had the joy of traveling on a dream trip to Ireland and England with my soul sister, Kelly King Anderson. Our trip was absolutely EXQUISITE and we are still savoring the joy. Along with all of this, we returned home (to a bit of a rough re-entry back into life, to say the least) and found ourselves absolutely baffled regarding how to adequately express and honor our joy.

Kelly joins me on this special episode of Joyful Living to discuss the challenges of receiving and sharing joy, as well as some powerful insights into how to create our dreams.

All too often we can be tempted to think our dreams will just happen when they are supposed to happen. Years go by and we’re still not seeing any sign of change in our life. We continue to wait for the hopeful “someday,” while wondering why others dreams are coming true and ours seem unrealized thus far.

Listen in to hear the inside scoop on how BIG dreams are created. We hope you feel COMPLETELY INSPIRED after listening to go create your dreams in a bigger way than ever before, while also creating more of an “everyday joyful life.”

p.s. Stay inspired to live in greater JOY everyday by subscribing to the Joyful Living Podcast in iTunes or Stitcher. Excited to cheer you on in living a life you love! Already subscribed and love the show? Be sure to leave a review in iTunes and feel of my deep gratitude!