In this episode, I interview my youngest brother Tim Carroll, owner of 908 Athletics, and all-around amazing human being!!  In this episode, Tim talks about what’s helping him thrive during this time of the COVID pandemic, how he transitioned from Wall Street to opening his first Crossfit gym in 2009, as well as the changes he has witnessed in his own life over these last 10 plus years as a business owner.  You won’t want to miss this one!!

How do you recharge your mind, body and spirit?  Do you find it easy to rest and recover?  In this episode, I talk about the 5 key factors that used to prevent me from fully allowing myself the time to rest and recover and enjoy my downtime.

We all feel it.  Although it might manifest itself differently in each of us, resistance comes up for us in all areas of our life.  One of the biggest hacks that we can learn to use to help us navigate through resistance and come out stronger on the other side is (once again!) the power of our minds.  As one of my greatest mentors, Tracy Litt,  has taught me is that we are not our mind...we are a being with a mind. 

I did a meditation for one of my fitness communities one night during the COVID-19 pandemic and the topic was “What do we carry in our backpack of life?”  The reality is that we have one big backpack of life that we carry with us on our journey of life.  However, not only do we put all of the wonderful things that we’ve experienced in that bag, but we also put all of the not-so-wonderful things in there as well.  This leads us to carrying around an overloaded, extremely heavy backpack that could be preventing us from experiencing new, amazing opportunities. 

The word “joy” has been on my heart and mind for a long time, so when it was time to choose a podcast name (after toying with many titles!), I finally came to a place of peace with this name!  Although technology is not my strong suit (I am learning!  LOL!), I continued to push forward because this dream was so big on my heart.  I also dive into one of my favorite topics of “What are we feeding our minds?”

In this first official episode of the Thriving Joy podcast with Katie Carroll, I share with you all who I am and my story.  I want to let you all know how influential podcasts have been in my life, and why one of my biggest goals was to launch my very own podcast.  My mission is to help empower as many women as I can in my lifetime, and this is one of the best ways that I know how to pursue that goal!

Join me as we move towards living our best lives and crushing our goals one step at at time!!!