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From Seek The Joy Media, the creator of Seek The Joy Podcast, comes a new space dedicated to sharing your stories, in your words. There is real power in storytelling, and when we come together around shared love, loss, laughter, joy and vulnerability, we build connection, create inspiration, and come together in community. Every Monday and Thursday, we're sharing your stories, in your words. We all have a story to share and a voice that is meant to be heard, and we want to share yours. To learn more and submit your story visit www.storiesofinspiringjoy.com
Episodes
Monday Sep 21, 2020
Monday Sep 21, 2020
Anza Goodbar is an empowerment coach, motivational speaker, and entrepreneur. She uses her coaching, speaking, and writing to inspire, empower, and challenge women to elevate their lives - and that's exactly what she does in this month's episode.
In today’s episode, Anza shares her story of self-acceptance through overcoming negative body image and difficulty with her weight, combined with wanting to be invisible in order to ensure that she'd be safe after experiencing sexual abuse as a child. Through her own journey, Anza has developed a passion and a love for working with women who are committed to living out their dreams, but may lack the confidence to ask for what they want. She helps them really go for it - the same way she has in her own life.
To learn more about Anza, her story, and her work as a coach, trainer, and speaker, visit her website anzagoodbar.com and you can connect with her on Instagram @anzagoodbar and on Twitter @anza_goodbar and on Facebook @coachanzagoodbar and you can join her Facebook group here
Stories of Inspiring Joy is a production of Seek The Joy Media and created by Sydney Weiss. To learn more and submit your story, visit www.storiesofinspiringjoy.com
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Gia Duke is a life coach, speaker and author with a heart 10x the size of Texas, so some have said. Not to mention a soon to be podcaster, nonprofit founder, and foster youth and rescue pup advocate. She’s also the author of Get Your Heart On: The How-To Guide for People Who Want to Make a Difference.
In today’s episode, Gia shares her journey working to make a difference in the world from a space of heart, compassion, and determination to make it happen. Gia shares with us her love and passion to help people, who want to help people, take action to make a difference in the world. Gia’s goal is to inspire people to think about how we’re all connected and to remind them that most of us really want the same things. To love and be loved. To feel like we matter. She’s on a mission to brighten the world by creating more love, compassion, and understanding, and in this week’s new episode she offers her top tips to take care of ourselves, while taking care of others.
To learn more about Gia and her work you can visit her website and you can find her book, GET YOUR HEART ON® // THE BOOK here her podcast here and on Instagram @giaduke and Facebook @giadukeproductions
Stories of Inspiring Joy is a production of Seek The Joy Media and created by Sydney Weiss. To learn more and submit your story, visit www.storiesofinspiringjoy.com
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Monday Sep 14, 2020
Monday Sep 14, 2020
Kesha Austin is an empowerment coach for millennial women, and she specializes in individual, family and group coaching. She has a unique, engaging & highly effective approach to help people dig deep to discover their true potential. She’s dedicated to helping women discover their true purpose & learn to overcome adversity in the process.
In today’s episode Kesha profoundly and vulnerably shares her story of overcoming adversity to find joy, peace and fulfillment. We’re all meant to learn from our experiences, and Kesha’s reflections on her decisions and the impact they’ve had on her life will remind you that each stage in our journey is there for a process. Kesha’s refections surrounding overcoming abuse and trauma, eviction and losing her car, will remind you of the power in surrender. Over time she moved from being a homeless mother of two children to becoming an assistant VP at one of the nation’s leading financial institutions. Her decision to open herself up to new opportunities, to trust in the path that is here for her to follow, and what she’s built and created for herself and her family along the way, will remind you of the power of allowing yourself to fly.
To connect with Kesha and learn more visit her website www.keshaaustin.com and connect with her on Instagram @coachkeshaaustin Facebook @coachkeshaaustin or call 214-802-4150
Stories of Inspiring Joy is a production of Seek The Joy Media and created by Sydney Weiss. To learn more and submit your story, visit www.storiesofinspiringjoy.com
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Thursday Sep 10, 2020
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
Jesmane Boggenpoel is the author of My Blood Divides and Unites: Race, Identity, Reconciliation. In her new book, Jesmane explores the importance of dealing with the past and moving forward with purpose.
Jesmane’s story is one of identity and heritage. Born into poverty and state-mandated third-class status, Jesmane was weighed down by self-doubt, feelings of inferiority and shame. “Who am I really?” - is a question we all often ask ourselves, and it’s a powerful question that Jesmane poses in this week’s new episode. She grew up in South Africa during the Apartheid, and in this week’s new episode she shares her struggles with identity, and how through exploring her early life, embracing the difficulties that surrounded her upbringing, and ultimately crafting a new narrative for herself - she’s been able to bring about greater acceptance, inclusion, and boundless possibility.
To connect with Jesmane and learn more visit her on her website https://myblooddividesandunites.com and on Instagram @jesmaneboggenpoel and Facebook @myblooddividesandunites and Twitter @jesmaneboggenp1 and you can purchase her new book here
Stories of Inspiring Joy is a production of Seek The Joy Media and created by Sydney Weiss. To learn more and submit your story, visit www.storiesofinspiringjoy.com
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Monday Sep 07, 2020
Monday Sep 07, 2020
Fiona Joy Hawkins is a mainstream Composer/Pianist/Vocalist with an international following, whom she greets weekly with pandemic-inspired, live-streamed concerts.
In today’s episode, Fiona shares her journey finding music, and the role of the piano in shaping her life. When Fiona was diagnosed with Tourette’s, she realized that it’s often our weaknesses that give us strength. Having Tourette’s taught her about life, and it made her stronger. The piano, and music, became her best friend and comfort. Fiona believes that music is a gift from another world, from ancestors of the past communicating to inspire and give us hope. As Fiona shares, music is a universal language that connects us, speaks to us equally, and yet it’s received by all differently. Fiona’s wish is to open more hearts to the power of music.
To learn more about Fiona and her work visit her website fionajoy.com and flowthegroup.com and on Facebook @fionajoyhawkinsmusic Instagram @fionajoymusic & Twitter @fionajoymusic and her videos on YouTube here
Stories of Inspiring Joy is a production of Seek The Joy Media and created by Sydney Weiss. To learn more and submit your story, visit www.storiesofinspiringjoy.com
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Thursday Sep 03, 2020
Thursday Sep 03, 2020
Latifah Al-Hazza is a travel enthusiast, freelance travel journalist, and the co-owner of Femscapes Sojourns, a woman’s travel company.
In today’s episode, Latifah shares where her love for travel began, and what led her to start Femscapes Sojourns. Latifah’s love for travel began when she was very young, and she started traveling when she was just 3-months old. Over the years her passion only grew, and in her senior year of high school she traveled to Tanzania to create a documentary about school conditions there. It was her first time traveling to a third world country, and the experience opened her eyes to the path she wanted to take.
To learn more about Latifah and Femscapes Sojourns visit their website https://femscapesojourns.com/ and https://www.thealhazzaadventures.com/ and you can connect with Latifah on Instagram @tifahhhh and on Facebook @femscapesojourns
Stories of Inspiring Joy is a production of Seek The Joy Media and created by Sydney Weiss. To learn more and submit your story, visit www.storiesofinspiringjoy.com
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Monday Aug 31, 2020
Monday Aug 31, 2020
Sandra Shaw Homer has lived in Costa Rica for 29 years, where she has taught languages and worked as a translator and environmental activist. For several years she wrote a regular column, "Local Color," for the English-language weekly, The Tico Times.
In today’s episode Sandra shares powerful and beautiful vignettes excerpted from her book, Evelio’s Garden: Memoir of a Naturalist in Costa Rica. An excerpt from a forthcoming memoir of her life in Costa Rica, Evelio's Garden, was published in Oasis Journal in 2014. Her creative nonfiction and poetry have appeared in subsequent Oasis editions, as well as in several print and online travel and literary journals and on a few web sites, notably Allyson Latta: Memories into Story, and her own blog, WritingFromTheHeart.net.
To learn more about Sandra and her work you can visit her blog www.writingfromtheheart.net and on Facebook @writingfromtheheart.net and you can find her book, Evelio’s Garden on Amazon and Kindle, on B&N in print and Nook, and on Powells.com.
Stories of Inspiring Joy is a production of Seek The Joy Media and created by Sydney Weiss. To learn more and submit your story, visit www.storiesofinspiringjoy.com
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Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Thursday Aug 27, 2020
Marilyn Kapp is a renowned spiritual medium and Author of LOVE IS GREATER THAN PAIN: Secrets From the Universe For Healing After Loss.
In today’s episode, she shares her first experience at just two years old communicating with those who passed, her journey channeling and embracing being a medium, and the inspiration behind her new book, “Love is Greater than Pain.” Marilyn reveals the beauty in the transition from the physical to the spiritual plane, helping those who are dying, as well as those left behind. With personal stories and transcripts from channeling sessions, Marilyn teaches us how to interact with the afterlife and to joyfully embrace the reality that love truly is greater than pain.
To learn more about Marilyn and her new book visit her website www.marilynkapp.com and you can find Love Is Greater Than Pain on Amazon here or wherever books are sold.
Stories of Inspiring Joy is a production of Seek The Joy Media and created by Sydney Weiss. To learn more and submit your story, visit www.storiesofinspiringjoy.com
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Monday Aug 24, 2020
Monday Aug 24, 2020
Hanan Vazanio of Happy Rich Hippie, is a Mindset and Manifestation Coach, a dog mom, and a lover of spirituality, business & entrepreneurship, and self-growth. She created HappyRichHippie to connect with like-minded spiritual and enlightened entrepreneurs, creatives, and co-creators who want to bring an idea they have been thinking about to fruition. She teaches her friends and clients how to harness the power of their mind to create the life of their dreams.
In today’s episode Hanan shares her story finding her freedom and her joy through the power of her mind, thoughts, and her self-belief. Her story starts as a little girl growing up in Yemen born into a society that celebrated the birth of males, and dreading the birth of females. At the age of six she moved to Detroit, Michigan. She grew up surrounded by fear, she wasn’t able to express herself, and by the time she was a teenager she started exploring other beliefs. She felt trapped in a world she didn’t belong, and at the age of sixteen she discovered The Secret and The Law of Attraction. It was through her mindset work, online community, and belief in herself that she changed her life.
To connect with Hanan visit her website www.happyrichhippie.com and you can find her on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter
Stories of Inspiring Joy is a production of Seek The Joy Media and created by Sydney Weiss. To learn more and submit your story, visit www.storiesofinspiringjoy.com
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Thursday Aug 20, 2020
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
Amber Camille Liggon is a former business executive who was driven by ego and status. Like many ambitious millennials, she went to college, had corporate success, and made great money. Until one day she was fired from her six-figure job. With no savings and $120,000 in student loan debt it wasn’t long before her money ran out and Amber was facing homelessness.
In today's episode Amber shares her journey growing up in an abusive household, wanting to blend in, and ultimately - hitting rock bottom to find herself. She lost her high paying job, and when she couldn’t find a new job she lost her job, her friends, and most of her belongings. She had to sell everything in order to pay her rent, and at one point she was almost homeless. She realized that she had so much less than she thought she had. Ultimately, it was just Amber and her mess - and it was time to clean it up.
To learn more about Amber check out her podcast, Amber on Podcasts where she releases a new episode every Thursday and on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook and on her website at www.mytalkingdollars.com
Stories of Inspiring Joy is a production of Seek The Joy Media and created by Sydney Weiss. To learn more and submit your story, visit www.storiesofinspiringjoy.com
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