Welcome to The Living Joyfully Podcast!
In this short episode, your hosts, Anna Brown and Pam Laricchia, share an introduction to the podcast and to themselves.
In The Living Joyfully Podcast, we are going to talk about many of the different aspects of being in relationship with the people in our lives. Having strong, connected relationships makes everything about being human more interesting and enjoyable. Navigating relationships is rooted in things like connection, agency, compassion, understanding, and consent. These are all of which are wonderful ideas, but we want to talk about what that looks like in real life.
Being in relationship with others also asks us to better understand ourselves, so we’ll be diving into that aspect as well. It’s such rich terrain to explore as we shed the bits from our past that no longer serve us and focus on being the person we want to be now.
We will be releasing new episodes each week, including questions you can use to reflect on the topic through your unique lens.
Let’s dig deep, challenge paradigms, choose connection, and live joyfully!
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TRANSCRIPT
ANNA: Hi, I’m Anna Brown.
PAM: And I’m Pam Laricchia.
ANNA: And welcome to the Living Joyfully Podcast, episode 0.
Episode 0 gives us a chance to share a quick introduction to the podcast and tell you a bit about who we are before we dive into all the things we want to talk about. And there are a lot of things—we already have topics in mind for a year’s worth of episodes!
So, first, what can you expect from the podcast?
We want to talk about many of the different aspects of being in relationship with the people in our lives. Having strong, connected relationships makes everything about being human more interesting and enjoyable. Navigating relationships is rooted in things like connection, agency, compassion, understanding, consent, all of which are wonderful ideas, but we want to talk about what that looks like in real life, what those ideas mean in practice. In our relationships with our partner, our extended family, our friends, our kids, ourselves.
Being in relationship with others also asks us to better understand ourselves, so we’ll be diving into that aspect as well. It’s such rich terrain to explore as we shed the bits from our past that don’t serve us and focus on being the person we want to be now.
And we want to do all of that in bite sized bits that easily fit into your flow. So, we’ll be keeping the length of each episode focused and manageable. We will be releasing new episodes weekly and giving you some questions to reflect upon related to the topic. There will be lots of fodder for conversation and growth and we look to add episodes where we dive into questions and specific situations that bubble up for listeners as well. There will be companion PDFs available to download so you can spend time with the questions and transcripts available if you are like me and like to see actual words.
You can subscribe to the show in your favorite podcast player so that you won’t miss an episode!
And now for a quick introduction: As I mentioned, I’m Anna. David and I have been together for 36 years, married for 30. We have two grown daughters who, gratefully, still enjoy coming back to hangout with us! I worked for several years with families in crisis before turning my attention to helping parents build better relationships with their children and partners. I have been doing that amazing work for over 20 years. Currently, I work in a private practice helping couples and families move through conflicts and create an environment of collaboration and growth. I don’t believe relationships have to be hard, I think they enhance our joy as we move through this life. I look forward to sharing tools and exploring all the ways we can live joyfully together.
PAM: And I’m Pam. My partner and I have been married for 32 years and have three grown children. I’ve long been fascinated by how human beings tick and what it means to be in relationship with the people in my life. Over the last fifteen years, I’ve helped many people cultivate strong, connected, and trusting relationships with their children and partner while navigating the day to day challenges and conflicts of life. I’m really excited to share these ideas more widely through this podcast!
And lastly, we wanted to touch on the name of the podcast. Why Living Joyfully?
We’ll dive into this more deeply in a future episode—and it will become more and more apparent over time through our conversations—but, in a nutshell, we’ve found joy to be a meaningful compass for navigating life and relationships.
And by joy we don’t mean the more surface-level happiness of things always going our way. That’s cool and all, but life doesn’t always go our way. There are ups and downs—sometimes things go sideways, or even deeply awry. There are tragedies alongside the triumphs, and there are large swathes of everyday life. Joy can be a valuable beacon in the midst of all those moments and seasons.
So, that’s a quick intro to the podcast and to us. We are excited to dive into all the things!!
As Anna mentioned, subscribe to the show in your favorite podcast player and we look forward to sharing our first official episode with you next week.
Bye for now!
