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Color can be directly linked to our personal vibrancy.  When we tune into the colors we wear and the colors surrounding us, it can impact how we energetically show up.  Have you ever noticed how people react when you wear bright colors that stand out?  You often get noticed because you are choosing freedom:  the freedom to express yourself; the freedom to break out of the neutral/expected zone; the freedom to feel different and embrace it.  For us, it is fun to play with colors. If you have not done this before and you often default to more subdued and neutral colors, we invite you to experiment and try it.  Get out of your comfort zone - choose your favorite bright color, put it on and own it! In our experience, people comment positively on the colorful and your vibrancy projects confidence.  It can transform your day and your personal power.

Joy Note Song: “Vibrant Life” by John Arrowde Albana

Gratitude Rock: Breathe

Listen, reflect, and find a little more joy and gratitude in your day.

Hosts: Nio Queiro & Beth Mercurio

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What if the person who needs to change is you?

In Episode 66 of Joy & Gratitude, Nio and Beth explore what happens when circumstances change—and how we can pause, zoom out, and take ownership of how we show up.

Instead of immediately reacting, what if we approached change with openness and curiosity? Self-awareness and personal accountability can create space for different choices, different responses, and ultimately different outcomes.

The conversation invites us to look inward, recognize what is within our control, and consider how our own actions and perspectives can influence the situations we want to change.

🎵 Joy Note: “Changes” by David Bowie

Listen in and ask yourself: What if the change starts with me?

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Hosts: Nio Queiro & Beth Mercurio

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Beth and Nio talk about their passion for floating - just allowing the stillness to set in and allowing yourself to be held. This is an important and powerful tool in our busy and complex lives.  Can we practice choosing to slow down, pause and just be?  Slack tide is the moment that the current is completely still.  Like slack tide, there is no movement - no before and no after, just the now. When we find time to create slack tide and floating moments we are able to let go, surrender and reconnect to ourselves.  From that place we can show up more choiceful.  Even our pace after can be impacted.  We encourage our listeners to find ways to slow down and create stillness and then notice how you feel and how you show up.

Source:  NY Times Newsletter by Melissa Kirsch called “Gravitational Pull”

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Hosts: Nio Queiro & Beth Mercurio

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In this episode Beth and Nio dive deep into the stories and narratives that can restrict our growth and keep us stuck.  We look at the science behind how our brain can keep us in patterns of behavior that do not serve us. Can we free ourselves from this biased narrator and be present in the moments we are in?  With awareness and intention, we can slow down and choose to “Just Be” instead of spending energy and time creating stories and entering into patterns that bias us before we are even in the current conversation or experience.  Listening and understanding our personal narrator can have long lasting impacts on how we shape ourselves and grow.  The first step is to notice and then choose a different path. You can practice this yourself and start to directly impact your presence and how you show up. This is hard work and a lifelong journey, but owning/reclaiming your narrator is both freeing and energizing.  

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Hosts: Nio Queiro & Beth Mercurio

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A sincere or authentic apology has the power to repair and even build a deeper connection. An inauthentic or insincere apology has the power to further harm and disconnect us.  In this episode, Beth and Nio discuss noticing how an apology lands and using courage and self-leadership to both receive and give apologies from a place of calm and openness. Sometimes space can help us to better identify where the hurt is coming from. Curiosity and inquiry(of ourselves and others) can go a long way in enabling us to apologize with our hearts and work to move forward together.

Gratitude Rocks!:

What makes an apology feel authentic to you? And what helps you truly receive one?

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Hosts: Nio Queiro & Beth Mercurio

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What if we looked at ourselves first when we ask, “How did we get here?”

In this episode of the Joy and Gratitude Podcast, Nio and Beth explore the powerful connection between intention, action, and impact. We cannot expect to create the outcomes we want without being intentional about the actions that drive them.

They talk about owning our role in the impact we create, reflecting when we aren't happy with the results, and making adjustments that can move us toward a different outcome. And when things are going well? How can we intentionally recreate those results through repeat actions and positive reinforcement?

This conversation is an invitation to pause, get curious about our own role, and recognize that we have more influence than we may realize.

Intention + Action = Impact.

🎵 Joy Notes: Trust the Path by Good Vibes Tribe

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Hosts: Nio Queiro & Beth Mercurio

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In this episode we start talking about the simple greeting “Good Morning” and how it can change a person’s day.  This leads us to a much deeper conversation about connection, belonging and being seen.  Something as simple as a gesture or salutation can show acknowledgement and reinforce presence and shared space.  This is our human advantage - we can choose to make people feel seen.  Try it!  Be the human who says hello, gives the peace sign or head nods first and see how it feels.  

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Nio shares courageously about how staying “in motion” helped her cope with her husband’s unexpected stroke and the long road to recovery that they are on. You do not get stuck when you are in motion.  We talk about staying present and remembering that we have choices and there are always moves to make.  Nio’s mother says, “If you want to stay alive, keep moving”. Can we embrace this wisdom in order to stay healthy and vibrant? Let’s choose to move towards each other, help each other feel seen, make each other laugh and see possibility in the hardest of moments.

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Gratitude Rocks!:

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Hosts: Nio Queiro & Beth Mercurio

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It is not always easy to ground ourselves in love and to choose to come from a place of compassion. Empathy is the love connector and there is a strong interrelationship between love and empathy. We need to make a conscious choice to get curious and be open to more love. With empathy and understanding we can find the bridge to more people. Love is different for each person and it is critical to remember that we each give and receive love differently.  Imagine a world where we all want love and work to create a life centered in the flow of love.

Joy Notes Songs:  

Gratitude Rocks!:

Join Beth and Nio for a conversation about love, empathy, compassion, relationships, and the choices we can make to create more connection in our lives.

#JoyAndGratitude #LoveAndEmpathy #Empathy #personalgrowth 

Hosts: Nio Queiro & Beth Mercurio

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Coaching is a valuable skill that can leave your employee, team, children, spouse and others feeling empowered and position them to grow and learn.  Oftentimes, we find ourselves solving for others and rescuing them without realizing that this may not actually serve them.  Can you ask questions that guide and coach versus solve?  Can you create an environment that fosters creativity and independence by allowing for different possibilities, multiple solutions and potential failure.  Next time someone comes to you for a solution can you guide and coach them versus rescuing them.

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Hosts: Nio Queiro & Beth Mercurio

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