You hear me talk a lot about metrics like gross revenue, hours, number of participants, audience size, and other measurable things. These metrics matter because I want you to make great money and help even more people.

Another metric we need to pay attention to is your joy metric. On our pod in episode 148 , Thea Monyee talked about making business decisions based on what brings joy to her and her team.

One way to bring joy to your business is to set up your signature program in a way that delights you.

As you create an amazing program in which you serve the people you most want to serve and use the methods you really want to use, you've got an opportunity to create something that delights and liberates you.

You can lean into your superpowers and step away from doing things that drain you.

You can ask yourself: What would delight me?

And yet it's too easy to create a program we think people are expecting, based on what we've seen before. It's WAY too easy to create something we don't really love.

We're so used to working in ways that are about settling rather than doing what we find most delightful.

I'm thinking about programs I've been a participant in that helped me see what delight can look and feel like.

A was a participant in Radical Permission this past summer, a program led and created by adrienne marie brown and Sonya Renee Taylor which expanded on their journal: Radical Permission . They insisted on running the program in a way that felt great to them and paid them well.

I'm also thinking about The Freejoy Experience, led and created by Thea Monyeé and EbonyJanice Moore . They questioned absolutely everything about how programs are run and listened to their spirits to create the experience as it moved through them.

Listen to this week's Rebel Therapist Podcast episode to hear about 15 things I do in Create Your Program that delight me. I share them so that you can get your own wheels turning about what you might try in your program. (And certainly so that you can borrow what you also imagine you'd find delightful.)

Show notes at https://rebeltherapist.me/podcast/194