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*Trigger warning: This episode mentions suicide. If you are experiencing suicidal thoughts and are in need of support, please reach out for help by calling 988. We care and we want you to be safe.* My friend, Colette Dalton (she/her) is a queer licensed clinical social worker and certified sex therapist. Colette was my guest on an episode in 2021, so she catches us up on her journey in healing from trauma and living with depression and describes her more recent experiences with finding what she terms as "Queer Joy." Colette also talks about her work with clients at Hearten House in downtown Salt Lake City; she specializes in experiential therapy, reuniting the mind and body, which is particularly important for many queer individuals with LDS backgrounds, due to high rates of internalized homophobia. Colette also meets with clients virtually throughout Utah, Arizona, and Idaho. Colette teaches us about a fantastic, free, resource for queer individuals and allies that she has recently developed, called The Queer Joy Summit (Nov 17-19). The Queer Joy Summit brings together over 20 speakers over 3 days to talk about how they experience queer joy and how you can experience more queer joy in your life, as well. Details for how you can register for the summit are included below. I am grateful to Colette for her courage, and for the important role that her experience and expertise bring to many who are in need of support and kindness at vulnerable times in their lives. Links: Queer Joy Summit: queerjoysummit.com Hearten House: heartenhouse.com Trevor Project and the study they did about queer kids not thinking they'll make it to 35: www.thetrevorproject.org/research-briefs/perceived-life-expectancy-and-life-purpose-in-lgbtq-young-people/ Dr. Brené Brown on Joy: It's Terrifying | SuperSoul Sunday | Oprah Winfrey Network: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKV0BWSPfOw The power of vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvmsMzlF7o

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SHOW NOTES: On this show…we are ringing the bell, taking notice, and adding joy to the world with our own intentional contributions. Guess what, you don't have to wait on the miraculous to happen to feel great pleasure and happiness. You can take charge and create these feelings for yourself. It starts with understanding more about this feeling called joy. Digging deeper into the action of giving joyfully, and then understanding how you can take ownership of adding joy to the world.  Sounds like a worthy mission to me. I mean what's the opposite; misery, despair, trial, and tribulation - no thank you! Give me joy…oops I mean, let me find joy, strive for joy, and spread joy. Deal? I have never quite understood this idea of, it's as good as it's ever going to get OR these are the cards I've been dealt. Or phrases like; that's just the way it is and everyone's got to die of something. No thank you! It brings to mind this meme I saw around the internet where a raccoon on the side of the road, definitely deceased has a mylar balloon tied to his wrist that says “Get Well Soon”.  It's time to take matters into your own hands. Do you want to feel more joyful in your day-to-day life? Would you like to be surrounded by more joyful people? Are you looking for a way to contribute to the health of the world but it feels like an impossible task? Well, you've tuned into the right show today - stay with me!  You are a joyologist! Ok, maybe you aren't right now or today but you can be. You can make infectious joy part of your daily routine.  To get there, we need to know the difference… At compassion.com I found THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JOY AND HAPPINESS At globalleadership.org I found some valuable insight; Brené Brown on Joy and Gratitude Dr. Brené Brown on Joy: It's Terrifying | SuperSoul Sunday | Oprah Winfrey Network Lauren Carpenter shares 10 WAYS TO SPREAD JOY found at indymaven.com The Simple Art of Spreading Joy | Kelly Krenzel | TEDxFargo At betterhelp.com I found Ways that Spreading Love And Happiness Can Benefit You And Others Around You CHALLENGE: activate joy in your life! It resides in your heart and you can share it with others through acts of service. Active joy illuminates your life and draws others to you. I Know YOU Can Do It!

Enjoy this replay from The Joyful Movement Show "greatest hits".“Joyful” movement doesn't mean that every time we exercise it's a nirvana-like state of bliss (although it is nice when that happens occasionally).Rather, it's a way of engaging with our body that's kind, respectful and intuitive.  It's a knowing that whatever we do, whatever we have, who we ARE is enough, brought about by GRATITUDEBrene Brown says that gratitude is the key to a joyful life, and I believe the same holds true for movement.  ---What you'll learn by listening:The difference between happiness and joyHow focusing on gratitude even when things are hard can help you find your joyWhy we sometimes fear and sabotage joy, and how to sustain itSimple tools to practice gratitude (and therefore experience joy) during movement---Mentioned in the show:Dr. Brené Brown on Joy: It's Terrifying | SuperSoul Sunday | Oprah Winfrey NetworkBrene Brown on joy and gratitude“Daring Greatly” by Brene Brown---About the Host---Kim Hagle is a certified Personal Trainer, Registered Holistic Nutritionist, mom of four and founder of Radiant Vitality Wellness. Through mindset coaching and intuitive movement and eating, Kim helps women go beyond the desire to lose weight so they can feel confident in their now body.  --- Can't get motivated to move?  Download “The Motivation Secret” - Kim's FREE guide that will help you understand why you feel stuck.  Inside you'll learn the three secrets to cultivating motivation that lasts and the one mistake we ALL make that is a motivation killer! www.radiantvitality.ca/motivationsecret---Ready to take the next step?  Visit our website to learn more about our coaching programs www.radiantvitality.ca/programs---For health professionals looking to adopt the non-diet approach in your business, visit Kim's mentor, Stephanie Dodier's site for free resources to get started.  https://www.stephaniedodier.com/proseries/?oprid=2324&ref=21517---Let's stay in touch! Kim is on Instagram and Facebook @radiantvitalitywellness.  Or visit her website at www.radiantvitality.ca---Disclaimer.  The information contained in this podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical advice.  Always consult a health care professional about your unique needs.  Support the show

These days, the thought of entrepreneurship for our kids as a viable career option doesn't sound completely foreign or nuts. It may sound risky or unstable and less conventional than becoming a doctor, lawyer, engineer, or accountant – but it's an option that is increasingly getting popular, especially since the advent of the internet. Do you think you have an aspiring entrepreneur in your home? What can you do to nourish her or his interests in launching something one day? How important are school grades? Are there any differences between socioeconomic backgrounds or cultures? Would the idea of entertaining a gap year for your child raise your blood pressure – and should it?  When I was growing up, the internet didn't exist yet I was that little girl who picked up a green book about how to become an entrepreneur. I was fascinated by the ideas that kids could come up with to make money. But that was where the buck stopped for me until 2011 when I launched my own coaching practice.  I love the creativity and imagination that go into figuring out the best solution for prospective clients. This truly fills me up with straight-up joy!  It is with this context that I want to introduce this week's guest Margot Bisnow, a mom of two entrepreneurial sons. Margot offers a lot of valuable insights including some rules you have to think about when raising an entrepreneur child. Don't get me wrong. You can't just take an uninspired kid and send them to entrepreneur camp. It's about raising a kid that's not afraid to take risks because entrepreneurs are risk-takers. Before jumping into today's story and wisdom, I want to be sure you are connected to a completely free group of powerful, driven, and resilient moms with child-proofed coaching or services businesses that can bounce back faster after family interruptions.  What is a child-proof business? The key to business success as a coach, podcaster, or service business professional is that you and your business can navigate the volatile and unpredictable changes – childcare, illness, newborn, homeschool, etc. Join our Facebook group: Resilient Moms With Child-Proof High Impact Businesses: https://bit.ly/curiousmom. Share this with a parent who wants to raise an entrepreneur child in a way that they feel seen, heard, loved, and supported. This is a great conversation that will make you wonder how else can you be a loving and supportive parent to your kid! About Margot Margot Machol Bisnow is a writer, wife, and mom from Washington, DC. She has a BA in English and an MBA from Northwestern University. She spent 20 years in government, including being an FTC Commissioner and in the White House as staff director of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Margot's book, “Raising An Entrepreneur: How To Help Your Children Achieve Their Dreams,” features entrepreneurs and parents discussing how to raise children who are confident, creative, resilient, and happy. Highlights Curiosity: Observe the interests of your child inside/outside of school and let them explore them deeply – explore their persistence/grit Appreciate: Offer your kids the stability of your love regardless of their professional choices and mistakes. Appreciate and support them for all the things they're accomplishing. Options: Consider entrepreneurship as another viable option but it is also one that cannot be forced. Mentorship: It's so important for kids to have a mentor, somebody (not their parents) who is telling them that what they're doing is great, especially if it's in the area that the kid loves.  Control: You can't control how life goes, but you can control how you deal with it, how to approach it, and how to respond.  Success: Believe that your love and support are what they need to succeed, not anything that you thought.  Support: It's a mistake for parents to say to their kids, "spend all your time doing stuff you hate or stuff you're not good at." Don't make your kids feel like they are losers because those don't matter that much. Joy: It's not about parents trying to raise entrepreneurs. But they became entrepreneurs because their parents didn't punish them for failing and were happy when they tried new things. Feedback: Don't punish your kid if you think they fail. Don't call it failure, but feedback. If they broke something, then they have to learn from it and figure out how to fix it.  If you enjoyed this conversation, check out these episodes with similar themes: Hear The Single Biggest Lesson Gary Vaynerchuk Thinks Corporations Need To Learn From Family-Owned Businesses As Well As The Smartest Way To Ask For Equity, Episode 10  Amy Guth Shares About Overcoming Fear and Embracing Discomfort at This Time of the Great Resignation, Episode 109  Links to continue to learn from: Website: https://raisinganentrepreneur.com Book: Raising An Entrepreneur: How To Help Your Children Achieve Their Dreams Facebook: www.facebook.com/raisinganentrepreneur1/?fref=ts Instagram: www.instagram.com/margotbisnow LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/margot-machol-bisnow-a29550b5/ Join the Waitlist I have opened a waitlist for moms who want to be first in line for my book The benefit of signing up for my waitlist today is that every Friday I share with you an insight that I have uncovered about the book-writing process as a mom and I tell you very practically how to implement these insights so that you can start feeling more confident about someday writing your own story or just on how to use your imagination a bit more each day. 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What you'll learn in this episode:   Why people get so concerned with categorizing art, and why some of the most interesting art is created by crossing those boundaries  How Joy balances running a business while handmaking all of her pieces What noble metals are, and how they allow Joy to play with different colors How Joy's residences in Japan influenced her work How Joy has found a way to rethink classical art and confront its dark history     About Joy BC   Joy BC (Joy Bonfield – Colombara) is an Artist and Goldsmith working predominantly in Noble Metals and bronze. Her works are often challenging pre-existing notions of precious materials and ingrained societal ideals of western female bodies in sculpture. Joy BC plays with mythologies and re-examines the fascination with the ‘Classical'. Joy, a native of London, was profoundly influenced from an early age by the artistry of her parents - her mother, a painter and lithographer, her father, a sculptor. Joy's art education focused intensively on painting, drawing and carving, enhanced by a profound appreciation of art within historical and social contexts. Joy BC received her undergraduate degree from the Glasgow School of Art and her M.A. from the Royal College of Art in London. She has also held two residencies in Japan. The first in Tokyo, working under the tutelage of master craftsmen Sensei (teacher) Ando and Sensei Kagaeyama, experts in Damascus steel and metal casting.  She subsequently was awarded a research fellowship to Japan's oldest school of art, in Kyoto, where she was taught the ancient art of urushi by the renowned craftsmen: Sensei Kuramoto and Sensei Sasai. Whilst at the RCA she was awarded the TF overall excellence prize and the MARZEE International graduate prize. Shortly after her graduation in 2019 her work was exhibited in Japan and at Somerset house in London. In 2021 her work was exhibited in Hong Kong and at ‘Force of Nature' curated by Melanie Grant in partnership with Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery. Joy Bonfield - Colombara is currently working on a piece for the Nelson Atkins Museum in the USA and recently a piece was added to the Alice and Louis Koch Collection in the Swiss National Museum, Zurich.Additional Resources:  Joy's Website Joy's Instagram Photos: Photos available on TheJewelryJourney.com Transcript:   While others are quick to classify artists by genre or medium, Joy BC avoids confining her work to one category. Making wearable pieces that draw inspiration from classical sculpture, she straddles the line between jeweler and fine artist. She joined the Jewelry Journey Podcast to talk about why she works with noble metals; the exhibition that kickstarted her business; and how she confronts the often-dark history of classical art though her work. Read the episode transcript here.   Sharon: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Jewelry Journey Podcast. This is the second part of a two-part episode. Today, my guest is the award-winning artist and goldsmith Joy Bonfield-Colombara, or as she is known as an artist and jeweler, Joy BC. Joy is attracted to classical art, which she interprets from her own contemporary viewpoint. Welcome back.    You're alone, and it's always a challenge to me, whether you're a writer or jeweler, to find ways to get out of the isolation. You can only spend so much time alone. How do you figure out a way to do that?   Joy: I love it. I love it because I'm an only child. Often people don't think I'm an only child, but I think that's because we had so many people coming and going from our house when I was a kid. My mom would invite lots of people, and they would stay and go. They all added very much to who I am as well, all those people that came through our house. The thing with imagination, I used to spend so much time on my own. My mom and my dad were always working. They were fantastic parents, but they were oftentimes—I think also when you're a child, time is a completely different realm. You experience it in a completely different way.    I have memories of playing in the garden and looking at flowers, taking them apart, and putting together arrangements of stones or turning a copper box into a spaceship, all sorts of different objects transforming into other things. I still hold on to that aspect of being a child. I think it's important not to lose the ability to play and imagine. I spend hours doing that. I'm now in my studio, and I often really like the early mornings or rare late nights when no one is around. There's a quietness that I find quite meditative. When I'm carving, things can be going on around me, and I'm so focused that everything else disappears. So, I don't mind the isolation because I really enjoy making.   Sharon: I like when it's quiet, but I can only take so much. At some point it starts to affect me. It sounds like you handle it better. In the materials I read about you, it says that you work in noble metals and in bronze, but a lot of people don't know what a noble metal is. What is a noble metal?   Joy: It makes them great. Just the word noble I think is lovely.   Sharon: It is. What is it?   Joy: A noble metal, apart from the metal family in the periodic table, is a reluctant oxidizer combined with oxygen. I have the exact definition for you. Let me find it. “A noble metallic chemical element is generally reluctant to combine with oxygen and usually found in nature in a raw form, for example gold. Noble metals have outstanding resistance to oxidization, even at high temperatures. The group is not strictly defined, but usually is considered to include palladium, silver, osmium, iridium, platinum and the second and third transition series of the periodic table. Mercury and copper are sometimes included as noble metals. Silver and gold with copper are often called the coinage metal, and platinum, iridium and palladium comprise the so-called precious metals which are used in jewelry.”   This also goes back to the fact that I had bad eczema when I was a kid. I remember putting on a pair of costume earrings that had nickel in them and they made my whole head swell up. I don't like the smell of brass. There are certain materials I find an attraction or a repulsion to. Noble metals, because of the way they don't oxidize, can sit next to your skin, and I love the feeling of them.   Sharon: That's interesting, because I've only heard the term noble metals in a couple of places. One was at a jeweler's studio, making jewelry, but it was explained to me, “It's gold, it's silver, but it's not copper.” You said it's copper. I never realized it had anything to do with whether it oxidizes or not.    Joy: Interestingly, copper also is really precious in Japan. Some of the most expensive teapots are copper ones.   Sharon: Oh, really?   Joy: It's a type of copper where you've created a patination, which is beautiful, deep red color. This technique is quite hard to explain and is really highly prized.   Sharon: What's the name of the technique?   Joy: Shibuichi. I'm not good at the pronunciation, but I can write it down afterwards. I love metal patination and metal colors. In fact, that's why I love bronze. Bronze is mostly composed of copper as an alloy. It doesn't smell in the way that brass does, and also I love the reactions you get. Verdigris is one of the techniques I like to use a lot in my work, which is used with copper nitrates. You get these incredible colors of greens. When you think of classical bronze sculptures or bronzes that are found under the sea, they often have these incredible green colors to them. I think about it like painting or a composition, the colors you find in metal colorations. People often question what the color of metal is, but actually the different alloys or treatments you can give to metal can give you an incredible array of different colors.   Sharon: I'm curious. I agree, but I see the world through a different perspective. I might look at the statue you've taken from the under the sea and say, “Somebody clean that thing.” I don't clean things that have a patina, but that would be my first reaction, while you appreciate that right away. Why did you go to Japan?   Joy: The first time I went to Japan was through The Glasgow School of Art. There was an exchange program you could apply for, and if you were awarded, there was also a bursary that you could apply for. The first time I went, I was awarded this bursary. One of my friends while I was studying at The Glasgow School of Art was Japanese, and she said to me, “Go and stay with my grandmother. She will absolutely love you.” I went to stay in her grandmother's apartment in Japan, and I studied at the Hiko Mizuno College of Jewelry, which is in Harajuku. I don't know if you've heard about it before.   Sharon: No.   Joy: This school is really interesting. Actually, when I was there, they hired Lucy Saneo, who recently passed away. They did an exhibition of hers at Gallerie Marseille. She was there as a visiting artist, and she was lovely. We had some interesting discussions about different perceptions of materials and jewelry between Europe and Japan. I was there on a three-month exchange, and I met Lucy as well as the teachers that I was allocated.    One of them, which I mentioned before, was Sensei Ando. He taught to me how to make Damascus steel. I made a knife when I was there, but the whole process had a real philosophical theory around it, with how difficult Damascus is to make. Often in modern knife making, you have pneumatic hammers. The hammering is done by a machine, whereas we have to do everything by hand in 40 degrees Celsius with 90% humidity outside with a furnace. We had to wrap towels around our heads to stop the sweat from dripping into our eyes. It was really difficult, but the end result was amazing. He said, “Life can be hard, but if you push through it, you can find its beauties.” It stayed with me, the way he had the philosophy, that process, and what that means to put yourself into the piece.    I also did metal casting and netsuke carving with Sensei Kagaeyama. It was in Tokyo that I first saw netsuke carvings in the National Museum in Tokyo. They really fascinated me, these tiny carvings. Do you know what a netsuke is?   Sharon: Yes, a netsuke, the little things.   Joy: They're tiny carvings. If anyone doesn't know, in traditional menswear in Japan, you would have a sash that goes around your kimono to hold your inro, which is your pouch which would hold tobacco or money or medicine. You would have a sash buckle to stop it moving, which was sometimes simply carved. Other times they were incredibly elaborate and inlaid. It could be this tiny bird so that the underside of the bird, even the claws, are carved. It was only the wearer that would necessarily see those details. In the same way that really good pieces of jewelry have that quality, the back is as important as the front.   Sharon: Oh, absolutely. My mom sewed, and it was always, “Look at the back of the dress, the inside of the dress. How's the zipper done?” that sort of thing. The netsuke, they were only worn by men?   Joy: They were only worn by men. It was combs that were worn by women, which were a social hierarchical show of your wealth or your stature. They were also given as tokens of love and were the equivalent of an engagement ring. They were given in this way. A comb is something I've always found interesting. I didn't know the scope of the importance of the comb in Japan, specifically in the Edo and Meiji periods.   Sharon: Are you considering adding combs to your repertoire? Maybe the comb part is plastic with a metal on top.   Joy: Combs are one of the things I explored within my degree show. I did a modern iteration of Medusa as a body of work, 17 different bronze sculptures that were a collection of combs with all different bronze patinas, but those were sculptures. They were not actually wearable. There was a whole wall of these pieces. My whole degree show was about metamorphosis and the ability to change. It was a combination of sculpture and jewelry.    For “Force of Nature,” the exhibition Melanie invited me to do, I did one wearable comb. It was called Medusa. The bristles were moving, and they had fine, little diamonds set between all the bristles so they would catch the light in certain movement. It also had a pin at the back so you could have it as a sculpture or you could wear it.   Sharon: It sounds gorgeous. You mentioned classical art, and I know classical art is a big catalyst or an influence on your jewelry today. Can you tell us about that and where it came from?   Joy: Growing up in London, London has some of the most amazing collections of ancient art. Also modern collections, but if you think about the V&A or the British Museum, there are artifacts from all over the world which are incredible. As a child, they were something my parents would take me to and tell me stories or show me things. There was also a moment when my mom took me to Paris when I was about 13 years old, and I saw the Victory of Samothrace, which is this huge Hellenistic statue which is decapitated. She doesn't have a head and she doesn't have arms, but she has these enormous wings and retains this incredible sense of power and movement, and that stayed with me. I've always found particularly the Hellenistic—not the Roman copies, but the older pieces—incredibly beautiful. I don't why, but I've always felt this attraction to them.   When I studied at The Glasgow School of Art, there was also a collection of plasters of Michelangelo's Enslaved and the Venus de Milo. They were used since the 1800s as examples of proportions, and you would use them in your drawing classes. I used to sit with them and have my lunch and draw them and look at them. I started to look at the histories or the stories behind some of them, and I didn't particularly like how they were often silencing women. Some of the stories were quite violent towards women, so I started to deconstruct and cut apart these classical figures.    I also looked to Albrecht Durer's book on proportion, because they had a real copy of it at The Glasgow School of Art that you could request to look at. I also believe that to understand something, you can deconstruct it and take it apart. Like a clock, if you start to take it apart, you understand how it works. So, I started to take apart the proportions, literally cutting them apart, and that's how the deconstructed portrait series started. It was not just the form; it was actually what classicism stood for. Many of the collections at the V&A and the British Museum were stolen or taken in really negative ways. They're a result of colonialism and the UK's colonial past. There are often darker sides to those collections.    That was something I had to confront about this attraction I had towards these classical pieces. Why was I attracted to them? How could I reinvent it or look at that in a new way? I still love these classical pieces. My favorite painter is Caravaggio, and my favorite sculptures are the bronze and stone pieces from the Hellenistic Greek period. It didn't stop me from loving them, but it made me rethink and redefine what classical meant for me.   Sharon: Is the deconstruction series your way of coming to terms with the past? Besides the fact that they're beautiful, ancient statues, is it your way of reinventing the past in a way?   Joy: Absolutely. The past, you can't erase it. It's been done, and the fact that these pieces have survived all of this time is testament to their beauty. Something survives if it's beautiful or evocative or has a power about it. I think it's interesting that Cellini, who was a sculptor and a goldsmith, is known more famously for his bronze statue of Medusa in Florence. He made lots of work out of precious metals, but they didn't survive. It was the bronzes that survived.    Translating these works into precious metals also makes you reflect or think about them in different ways, and it makes the cuts or the breakage something positive or beautiful. The way I placed diamonds into the breakages or the cracks is also to celebrate our failures or celebrate our breakages. That moment I had the accident and everything in my life fell apart, it was also through that process that I discovered the most. We need creation and destruction, but it's a cyclical thing.   Sharon: Interesting. My last question has to do more with the dividing lines. Do you consider yourself an artist who works in jewelry, or do you consider yourself a jeweler who happens to make art through your jewelry? There are a lot of jewelers who don't consider themselves artists; they just make jewelry and that's it. How do the two rub together for you?   Joy: I see myself as an artist. I think within the arts, that encompasses so many different disciplines. A beautiful piece of literature written by Alice Walker, I think, is as moving as an artwork or a painting. The same with a composition of music. I see jewelry as another art form and expression. I don't divide them. However, I don't like all jewelry, in the same way I don't like all paintings or sculpture. The way in which we look at or define art is so subjective, depending on your norms, the way you were brought up, which part of the world you grew up in, how you have been subjected to certain things. When people ask me what I do, I say I'm an artist and goldsmith because I particularly work in noble metals and bronze. There's still a jewelry aspect of my work. It is very much jewelry. You can wear it, but it is also sculpture. It is one and the other; it's both.   Sharon: Have you ever made a piece of jewelry in gold where you said, “This is nice, but it's not a work of art. It doesn't express me as an artist; it's just like a nice ring”?   Joy: Definitely, and definitely through the period of time when I did my apprenticeship. I learned a lot. I made pieces where people would bring me albums or pieces they wanted to reinvent and find modern ways of wearing. I thought that was pretty interesting and I enjoyed that work, but I don't necessarily see it as an artwork that moves the soul or has the same effect as one of my deconstruction portraits or the Medusa series. I still think it has its place and it means a lot to that individual, and I enjoy the process of making it, but it's different.   Sharon: I know I said I asked my last question before, but I'm curious. Did your friends or colleagues or people in the street see something you had on and say, “Oh, I want that”?   Joy: Yes, definitely. I think if you like something and wear something because you like it enough that you wear it, usually someone else will like it, too. That's definitely part of it; I started making things and people still wanted them. I think my mom and dad were also sometimes the first port of call I would test things on to see whether they liked it. My dad is much more challenging because he doesn't wear a lot of jewelry. I made him a piece recently and he does wear it occasionally. He's quite a discerning artist. He won't sell his work to certain people. He's very particular about how he works and who he works with. But yes, that did start happening, and it's grown. I'm not sure how else to answer that question.   Sharon: I'm sure it's validating to have people say, “Oh, that's fabulous. Can you do one for me?” or “Can I buy it from you?”   Joy: I think that sense of desire, of wanting to put your body next to something or wear it, is one of the highest compliments. I went yesterday to a talk at the British Museum about an exhibition they're about to open called “Feminine Power: The Divine to the Demonic.” I went with a friend of mine who's a human rights lawyer. I made a piece for her recently which is very personal and is about various important things to her. Seeing her wear it made me feel really honored because she's an incredible person, and I could make her something that's part of her journey and that she loves so much that she wears it. Knowing it gives her power when she wears it is an incredible feeling. Also knowing that she may pass it down; that's another aspect with jewelry.    My mom has this one ring that was passed down in her family. My parents were struggling artists in London, and she sold most of her elegant pieces. I also find that aspect of jewelry really incredible, that it could transform by being sold so she could continue to do projects and things she wanted to do. I think jewelry's amazing in that way, that the intrinsic value can transform and be handed down and changed. I think that's interesting, but there was one ring she didn't sell because it's a miniature sculpture, and we all agree that it's incredibly beautiful. The rest of the pieces weren't things my mom or I or anyone really engaged with, but this one ring, to me, looks like a futurist sculpture in a seashell. It's a curved form. I think it's the Fibonacci proportions, and it's incredibly beautiful. Going back to your very first question, I think that may have had a strong influence in my appreciation and realization that I liked jewelry.   Sharon: It sounds like you're several years into a business that's going to be around for a long time. I hope we get to talk with you again down the road. Thank you so much for talking with us today, Joy.   Joy: Thanks for having me.   Thank you again for listening. Please leave us a rating and review so we can help others start their own jewelry journey.  

What you'll learn in this episode:   Why people get so concerned with categorizing art, and why some of the most interesting art is created by crossing those boundaries  How Joy balances running a business while handmaking all of her pieces What noble metals are, and how they allow Joy to play with different colors How Joy's residences in Japan influenced her work How Joy has found a way to rethink classical art and confront its dark history     About Joy BC   Joy BC (Joy Bonfield – Colombara) is an Artist and Goldsmith working predominantly in Noble Metals and bronze. Her works are often challenging pre-existing notions of precious materials and ingrained societal ideals of western female bodies in sculpture. Joy BC plays with mythologies and re-examines the fascination with the ‘Classical'. Joy, a native of London, was profoundly influenced from an early age by the artistry of her parents - her mother, a painter and lithographer, her father, a sculptor. Joy's art education focused intensively on painting, drawing and carving, enhanced by a profound appreciation of art within historical and social contexts. Joy BC received her undergraduate degree from the Glasgow School of Art and her M.A. from the Royal College of Art in London. She has also held two residencies in Japan. The first in Tokyo, working under the tutelage of master craftsmen Sensei (teacher) Ando and Sensei Kagaeyama, experts in Damascus steel and metal casting.  She subsequently was awarded a research fellowship to Japan's oldest school of art, in Kyoto, where she was taught the ancient art of urushi by the renowned craftsmen: Sensei Kuramoto and Sensei Sasai. Whilst at the RCA she was awarded the TF overall excellence prize and the MARZEE International graduate prize. Shortly after her graduation in 2019 her work was exhibited in Japan and at Somerset house in London. In 2021 her work was exhibited in Hong Kong and at ‘Force of Nature' curated by Melanie Grant in partnership with Elisabetta Cipriani Gallery. Joy Bonfield - Colombara is currently working on a piece for the Nelson Atkins Museum in the USA and recently a piece was added to the Alice and Louis Koch Collection in the Swiss National Museum, Zurich.Additional Resources:  Joy's Website Joy's Instagram Photos: Photos available on TheJewelryJourney.com Transcript:   While others are quick to classify artists by genre or medium, Joy BC avoids confining her work to one category. Making wearable pieces that draw inspiration from classical sculpture, she straddles the line between jeweler and fine artist. She joined the Jewelry Journey Podcast to talk about why she works with noble metals; the exhibition that kickstarted her business; and how she confronts the often-dark history of classical art though her work. Read the episode transcript here.   Sharon: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Jewelry Journey Podcast. Here at the Jewelry Journey, we're about all things jewelry. With that in mind, I wanted to let you know about an upcoming jewelry conference, which is “Beyond Boundaries: Jewelry of the Americas.” It's sponsored by the Association for the Study of Jewelry and Related Arts, or, as it's otherwise known, ASJRA. The conference takes place virtually on Saturday and Sunday May 21 and May 22, which is around the corner. For details on the program and the speakers, go to www.jewelryconference.com. Non-members are welcome. I have to say that I attended this conference in person for several years, and it's one of my favorite conferences. It's a real treat to be able to sit in your pajamas or in comfies in your living room and listen to some extraordinary speakers. So, check it out. Register at www.jewelryconference.com. See you there.   This is a two-part Jewelry Journey Podcast. Please make sure you subscribe so you can hear part two as soon as it comes out later this week. Today, my guest is the award-winning artist and goldsmith Joy Bonfield-Colombara, or as she is known as an artist and jeweler, Joy BC. She is attracted to classical art. She interprets it from her contemporary viewpoint, and her work has been described both as wearable art and as miniature sculptures. We'll learn all about her jewelry journey today. Joy, welcome to the program.   Joy: Thank you for having me, Sharon.   Sharon: So glad to have you all the way from London. Tell us about your jewelry journey. You came from an artistic family.   Joy: Both my parents are artists. My mother is a painter and lithographer, and my father is a sculptor. So, from a really young age, I was drawing and sculpting, and I thought this was quite normal. It was later that I realized my upbringing was perhaps a bit different from some of my friends or my peers.   Sharon: Yes, it's unusual that I hear that. They weren't bankers. Was it always assumed that you were going to be an artist or jeweler?    Joy: Not at all. The fact that my parents were artists, I saw a lot of their struggle to try and place themselves within our society. They both were part of the 1968 revolution. My mom is actually from Italy. She left a tiny, little—not a village, but a small town called Novara which is near Verona and Turin, when she was 16 years old. She came to London and fell in love with London. She went to Goldsmiths School of Art, where she met my father. My father is English, and his ancestors were stonemasons from the Isle of Purbeck. So, they both met at art school, and it was much later that they had me.   As I grew up, they were incredibly talented individuals. They also struggled with how to live and survive from their artwork. As I grew older, however, as much as I loved the creative world I'd grown up in, I was also trying to figure out which pathway was right or was going to be part of my life. I didn't necessarily want to be an artist. For a long time, I wanted to be a marine biologist because I was really good at science, in particular chemistry and biology, and I really loved the ocean. I still love the sea. Swimming is the one sport I'm good at, and I find it fascinating. I still find the sea as a source of inspiration.    So no, it wasn't an absolute given; however, as I got older and went through my education, it became evident to me that was the way I understood the world and the spaces I felt most natural in. I'm also dyslexic. I used to be in special class because I couldn't write very well, but my dyslexia teacher said, “You're smart. You just have a different way of seeing the world.” I was always imaginative. If I couldn't write something, I would draw it or make it, and I liked the feeling that would create when someone else lauded me for it. Immediately, I had this connection with the fact that I could make things that people thought were interesting.    So, I studied science and art and theater, and then I went off to travel to Cuba when I was about 18, before I moved to Glasgow. When I was in Glasgow in Scotland, I saw The Glasgow School of Art degree show, and I was taken aback by the jewelry and metalwork show in particular. I don't know if you know the Rennie Mackintosh School of Art.   Sharon: No.   Joy: It's a British Art Nouveau building. In Scotland, it was part of the Arts and Crafts movement. It was a school that was designed by Rennie Mackintosh. He's a world-famous architect.   Sharon: Is that the one that burned down?   Joy: Yes, that year. I was actually there the year the school burnt down. I went to The Glasgow School of Art and I loved it. I did three amazing years there, and in my second year, I was awarded a residency to go to Japan. We had our degree show and we were preparing for it. The night before the fire, I took all of my works home. I don't know why. I was taking everything home to look at before we had to set up for the exhibition, and the school burnt down. At the same time, I had three major tragedies in my life. My best friend passed away; the school burnt down; and my boyfriend at the time had left me. I went through this total mental breakdown at the point when I was meant to start my career as an artist. I was offered the artist residency in the jewelry and metalworking department.    When Fred died, I was really unwell. A friend of mine had offered that I go to New York. I ended up having a bike accident, which meant that I was in intensive care. I couldn't work for three years. It was actually two friends of my family who were goldsmiths who gave me a space to work when I was really fragile. It was through making again and being with them that I slowly built back my confidence. That was my journey from childhood up right until the formals of education. These three events really broke me, but I also learned that, for me, the space I feel most happy in is a creative one, when I'm carving.   Sharon: Were you in the bike accident in New York or in Glasgow or in London?   Joy: In New York. My friend Jenny, who's a really good friend of mine, was going to New York and said, “I want you to come to New York because you've had the worst set of events happen. I think it would be good for you to have some time away.” I said, “Yeah, I agree,” and I came to New York. I was in Central Park cycling. It wasn't a motorbike. I blacked out. Nobody knows what happened. I woke up the next day in intensive care at Mount Sinai Hospital. I woke up in the hospital, and they told me I had fallen off my bike and I had front lateral brain damage, perforated lungs, perforated liver.   Sharon: Oh my gosh!   Joy: I feel really grateful that I'm here.   Sharon: Yes. To back up a minute, what was the switch from marine biology? I understand you were dyslexic, but what made you decide you were going to be a jeweler or an artist? What was the catalyst there?   Joy: I don't think there was ever a specific switch. I feel like art has always been a part of my life. It was always going to be that. I was always going to draw and make. I was also encouraged to do sculpture. I remember trying set design, because I thought that married my love of film and storytelling and theater with my ability to draw and sculpt. I thought, “Theater, that's a realm that perhaps would work well.” Then I went and did a set design course. The fact that they destroyed all my tiny, little things, because they have to take them apart to take the measurements for how big certain props or things have to be, drove me mad. I couldn't deal that I'd spend hours on these things to be taken apart.    I think it was probably the exhibition I went to see at The Glasgow School of Art. When I saw the show, I was really taken aback that all the pieces had been handmade. They were, to me, miniature sculpture. I hadn't considered that jewelry could be this other type of art. Seeing these works, I thought, “Wow! This is really interesting, and I think there's much more scope to explore within this medium.” I think that was the moment of change that made it for me.   Sharon: What is it about sculpture, whether it's large or jewelry-size, that attracts you? Why that? Is it the feeling of working with your hands?   Joy: I think it's a combination of things, partly because my father's a sculptor. I remember watching him sculpt, and his ancestors were stonemasons. They were quarriers from the Isle of Purbeck dating back to the 12th century. I remember going to the quarries with my dad and thinking how amazing it was that this material was excavated from the earth. Then my father introduced me to sculpture. A lot of West African sculpture, Benin Bronzes, modern sculpture by Alexander Calder. Michelangelo and classical sculpture was all around me in Italy when we'd go and visit my grandparents.    I think sculpture has always been something I found interesting and also felt natural or felt like something I had a calling towards. My mom has always said I have this ability with three-dimensional objects. Even as a child, when I would draw, I would often draw in 3D. I do still draw a lot, but I often collage or sculpt to work out something. You often draw with jewelry designs, actual drawings in the traditional sense, but I go between all different mediums to find that perfect form I'm looking for.   Sharon: When you were attracted to this jewelry in Glasgow, did it jump out at you as miniature sculpture?   Joy: Yeah, definitely. Looking at it, I saw it as miniature versions of sculpture. I also find artists such as Rebecca Horn interesting in the way that they're often about performance or extensions of the body. Even Leigh Bowery, who worked with Michael Clark, was creating physical artworks with ballet. These interactions with the body I think are really interesting: living sculpture, how those things pass over. I don't really like categorizing different art forms. I think they can cross over in so many different ways. We have this obsession about categorizing different ways or disciplines. I understand why we do that, but I think it's interesting where things start to cross over into different boundaries.   Sharon: That's interesting. That's what humans do: we categorize. We can spend days arguing over what's art, what's fine art, what's art jewelry. Yes, there's gray. There are no boundaries; there's gray in between.    Tell us about your business. Is that something your folks talked to you about, like “Go be an artist, but make sure you can make a living at it”? Tell us about your business and how you make a living.   Joy: I felt my parents were going to support me in whatever decisions I made. My mom ran away from Italy when she was 17, and she always told me that she said when she was leaving, “You have to live your life, because no one else will live it for you.” She's always had the attitude with me. Whatever direction I wanted to go in, I felt supported. I've always thought that if you work really hard at something or you put in the hours and you're passionate about it, then things will grow from that. Every experience I've had has influenced the next thing. I never see something as a linear plan of exactly how I'm going to reach or achieve certain things. I'm still very much learning and at the beginning of it. I only graduated in 2019 from the Royal College of Art doing my master's.    As I mentioned before, these two goldsmiths had given me an informal apprenticeship, basically. They were two working goldsmiths that had a studio, and they had been practicing for around 40 years. They had given me a space to work on this skill. Even though I studied a B.A. at The Glasgow School of Art, which is a mixture of practical and theoretical, I felt that after going to Japan and working with a samurai sword specialist making Damascus steel—it took him 25 years to get to the point where he was considered a master craftsman, this master in his craft. I felt like I had just started, even though my education in making had started from birth because my parents were artists and exposed me to all these things and encouraged me to make.    Within metalworking and jewelry work, there are so many techniques and so many things you need to take years to refine. Really, it's been like 11 years of education: doing a B.A., then doing an informal apprenticeship, then doing my master's. Only now do I feel like I've really found this confidence in my own voice within my work. Now I see the reaction from people, and I can help facilitate people on their journeys. I really enjoy that aspect of what I'm doing.    I'm still trying to figure out certain ways of running a business because it's only me. My uncle runs a successful business in Italy in paper distribution, and he said to me, “Why don't you expand or mass produce your work or have different ways of doing things?” This is where I find he doesn't necessarily understand me as an artist. For me, it's about process and handmaking everything. Perhaps that might not be the way I make the most money, but it's the way in which I want to live my life and how I enjoy existing. My business at the moment is just me handmaking everything from start to finish. What's really helped me recently is having support from the journalist Melanie Grant, who invited me to be part of an exhibition with Elisabetta Cipriani. It was with artists such as Frank Stella, Penone, who's one of my favorites from the Arte Povera movement who also came northern Italy, from an area where my family is from.    Sharon: I'm sorry; I missed who that was. Who's one of your favorites?    Joy: Penone. He's the youngest of the Arte Povera movement in Italy that came out of Turin. He often looks at nature and man's relationship to nature, the influence of it or connection. The piece of his that was on display was a necklace which was part of a tree that wraps around the décolletage. Then it has a section which is sort of like an elongated triangle, but it was the pattern of the skin from his palm. It's very beautiful. His sculpture, his large pieces, are often trees forming into hands or sections of wood that have been carved to look like trees, but they're carved. There's also Wallace Chan, who is obviously in fine jewelry. Art jewelry is considered—I don't know what to say—   Sharon: That's somebody who has a different budget, a different wallet. Not that your stuff isn't nice, but the gems in his things, wow.    Joy: There was Grima, Penone, Frank Stella. It was a combination of people who are considered more famously visual artists than fine jewelers. Then there was me, who was this completely new person in the art jewelry scene. I felt really honored that Melanie had asked me to put my work forward. I've always known what my work is to me. I see is as wearable artwork. But there was the aspect of, “What do other people see in it? How are they going to engage in this?” The feedback was absolutely incredible.    Since then, the work and the business have been doing so well. I have a bookkeeper now. The one person I employ is an amazing woman called Claire. She has been really helping me understand how my business is working and the numbers. However talented you are, if you don't understand how your business is working, then you're set up to fail. It's really difficult to continue to stay true to my principles and how I want to make, and to try to understand how I'm going to be able to do that, what it's going to take. I'm right at the beginning of it. I'm only in my first two years of my business. At the moment, from speaking to Claire, she was saying I'm doing well. I feel really supported by my gallery also, and that's the big part of it. I think that's going to make the difference.   Sharon: Wow! You do have a lot of support. No matter how talented you are, you do have to know how much things cost, whether you're making by hand or mass-producing them. I've always wanted to stick my head in the sand with that, but yes, you do need to know that.    I didn't realize there were so many artists at the exhibit. I knew you had this exhibit at Elisabetta Cipriani's gallery, but I didn't realize there were so many artists there. That must have been so exciting for you.   Joy: It was super exciting, and it was really interesting. Melanie has just written this book, “Coveted,” which is looking at whether fine jewelry can ever be considered as an art form. That's a conversation I'm sure you've had many a time in these podcasts, about classification. It's what we were talking about before, about how everything becomes departmentalized. Where is that crossover? How does it work? If people say to you, “I'm a jeweler” or “I'm an artist,” you'll have a different idea immediately of what that means.    It was hard to present an exhibition which was a combination of different work with the interesting theme of “force of nature,” just as we were coming out of lockdown. These are artists who've all been working away, and we got to do a real, in-person exhibition that people could attend and see and touch. One of the most magnificent things with jewelry is the intimate relationship you have with it, being able to touch it, feel it, that sensory aspect. I think in this day and age, we have a huge emphasis on the visual. We're bombarded with visual language, when the tactile and touching is the first thing we learn with. To be able to touch something is really to understand it.   Sharon: I'm not sure I 100% agree with that philosophy. I have jewelry buddies who say they have to hold the piece and feel it. I guess with everything available online, I don't know.   Joy: Diversity depends on what your own way of experiencing things is. Also, the way you look at something will be informed by the way you touched it. Yes, we are all looking at things big picture. We know it's made of wood or metal or ceramic. We can imagine what that sensation is. Of course, imagination also influences the ability to understand something, so they work together. I think it just adds different dimensions. It's the same with music. Sound is another sensory way in which we experience things. Music often moves me and helps me relax in ways that other art forms don't do.   Sharon: Right.  

On today's episode, I provide my take on a topic from a listener. S/O to Jose on Instagram. He asked me to talk about if one take on FI/RE is the ONLY way to achieve Financial Independence/Retire Early. I'm here to tell you that I don't subscribe to a "One Size Fits All" mentality. Everyone has a take on what is "definition of the FI/RE" movement; yet we are all on different versions. I share our four lessons as we are on this journey: Run your own lane Comparison is the Thief of Joy It's not "One Size Fits All" Life progresses on Don't allow others methods and philosophies discourage you as you create your own. Stick with your plan and adjust along the way. I would love to hear how you are approaching FI/RE. Feel free to find me on social and let me know. Twitter: @roadtowealthpod Instagram: @roadtowealthpodcast If you found value in this episode, feel free to share it with a friend. It would mean a lot if you rate and wrote a review on your podcast platform. Thanks!

On this week's episode of Awake & On Purpose Podcast, Jennifer talks about how she has created a fulfilled life after rising above a turbulent and traumatic childhood. She discusses how her origins helped form the survival mindset and limiting beliefs she grew to overcome, and how her journey to becoming a coach started with a feeling of not knowing who she was. Jennifer also dives into the multi-faceted nature of achieving a fulfilled life and the key aspect of self-care that many high achievers neglect. Her inspiring story and pearls of wisdom are both relatable and motivational, so be sure not to miss today's episode! It's like you hear all the information and you have all this knowledge. But how are you applying it in action in your life? Jennifer Spor It was Jennifer's own journey of awakening & answering her higher calling that inspired her to create a business supporting Corporate Leaders & Entrepreneurs to achieve fulfillment & live their purpose through their corporate career or business. She used to believe if she checked all the boxes off the list that society teaches us we need in order to achieve success, she would be fulfilled. Jennifer did that. The truth was, despite all she'd accomplished, Jennifer was still unfulfilled. That is where her journey to remembering who SHE IS began. Jennifer invested in spiritual teachers, business coaches, therapists, & she received a lifetime's worth of healing & readings. While Jennifer learned a lot, at the end of the day, she was left feeling more fragmented than she was before. What her heart really desired was someone who could teach her how to integrate God's calling on her life, to live her purpose through having a business that would serve as the vehicle for her to achieve the dreams He put on her heart to support others in realizing their own potential. There is nothing that feels more liberating than taking that leap of faith to shine your light in the world & make an impact.

“Joyful” movement doesn't mean that every time we exercise it's a nirvana-like state of bliss (although it is nice when that happens occasionally).Rather, it's a way of engaging with our body that's kind, respectful and intuitive.  It's a knowing that whatever we do, whatever we have, who we ARE is enough, brought about by GRATITUDEBrene Brown says that gratitude is the key to a joyful life, and I believe the same holds true for movement.  ---What you'll learn by listening:The difference between happiness and joyHow focusing on gratitude even when things are hard can help you find your joyWhy we sometimes fear and sabotage joy, and how to sustain itSimple tools to practice gratitude (and therefore experience joy) during movement---Mentioned in the show:Dr. Brené Brown on Joy: It's Terrifying | SuperSoul Sunday | Oprah Winfrey NetworkBrene Brown on joy and gratitude“Daring Greatly” by Brene Brown---Don't forget to submit your questions for our upcoming “Ask Me Anything” episode on Oct. 24.  Send your questions to hello@radiantvitality.ca---About the Host---Kim Hagle is a certified Personal Trainer, Registered Holistic Nutritionist, mom of four and founder of Radiant Vitality Wellness. Through mindset coaching and intuitive movement and eating, Kim helps women go beyond the desire to lose weight so they can feel confident in their now body.  ---Let's carry on the conversation?  Join our FREE Facebook group - The Joyful Movement Show Community where you can interact with a like minded group about the concepts presented here on the show. https://www.facebook.com/groups/785269208739860--- Can't get motivated to move?  Download “The Motivation Secret” - Kim's FREE guide that will help you understand why you feel stuck.  Inside you'll learn the three secrets to cultivating motivation that lasts and the one mistake we ALL make that is a motivation killer! www.radiantvitality.ca/motivationsecret---Ready to get off the start-stop cycle with exercise for good?  “Discover Joyful Movement”, is my movement and mindset program that  will help you transform your relationship with movement while learning how to move intuitively by listening to your body's cues. www.radiantvitality.ca/discoverjoyfulmovement---If you're ready to quit dieting for good by getting to the root cause of your negative body image, then Right Body for Me is the program for you.  This 4 month mindset coaching program will help you reframe your thoughts so you can heal your body image and transform your relationship to food, movement and yourself.  www.radiantvitality.ca/rightbodyforme---For health professionals looking to adopt the non-diet approach in your business, visit Kim's mentor, Stephanie Dodier's site for free resources to get started.  https://www.stephaniedodier.com/proseries/?oprid=2324&ref=21517---Let's stay in touch! Kim is on Instagram and Facebook @radiantvitalitywellness.  Or visit her website at www.radiantvitality.ca Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/radiantvitality)

This is part 2 of our episode with Noah Marlowe on Dating Stigmas. In this episode Noah shares practical and meaningful Do's and Don'ts to show support for those we know who have had a broken engagement. Notes: 1. Noah's Article on Being Single in Smicha: https://www.refuathanefesh.org/singlehood-in-the-life-of-a-rabbinical-student/ 2. Follow Noah on Twitter: @tzvei_dinim 3. Brene Brown talks referenced: Joy: It's Terrifying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKV0BWSPfOw

Joy - It's Not All Sacrifice

Have you ever faced the most unfathomable circumstances? Dawn Barton shares her most trying times and how she was laughing through the ugly cry and finding unstoppable joy! Dawn Barton is the wife of sixteen years to her handsome pilot husband, Craig, and mother of three daughters, and grandmother of four. Plus, she is a wrangler of two horses, four dogs, and three cats. Dawn enjoyed thirty years in sales and marketing, spending her last ten of those years in direct sales. She was the #7 Sales Director in Mary Kay when she took a leap of faith and left it all to write her first book, Laughing Through the Ugly Cry. Dawn lights up the stage as a speaker and joyologist encouraging women to find joy and humor in even the most difficult of circumstances.   "I say I broke up with God, but He definitely didn't break up with me!” ~ Dawn Barton   CONNECT with Dawn Barton BOOK: Laughing Through the Ugly Cry Enjoy the multitude of topics discussed including happiness, surrender, the loss of a child, and #KimsMillion plus so much more. Alone Time Family Oil Business Hot mess Catholic Lite Death of a child Rape Counseling Joy in the unimaginable Grace Today, I choose... Surrender Conversation Love of people #thelittlethings Breast Cancer You get to! Be normal Authenticity #kimsmillion RAK Ugliest Cry Call to Me! (Jesus) Send Hugs Drinking   CONNECT with Dawn Barton BOOK: Laughing Through the Ugly Cry   "Just because one prayer is answered and one is not doesn't mean His love for you is less." ~ Dawn Barton #MyStrengthIsMyStory #CreateYourNow #DawnBarton Quotes and statements within the interview: "One of the greatest things that it did is gave me this ability, which I think paid off in the world of sales and marketing, this ability to meet people easily, make friends easily, adapt easily." "I'm a very naturally happy person, but I'm also very on purpose about working towards that." "I had a very happy childhood and definitely a belief in God, but as far as a deep dive into understanding a beautiful relationship, I didn't have that." "You don't!" "I don't think we're supposed to feel joy in that moment of devastating heartache. But as you look back, you will see it all around that He had you all the time." "It is an on-purpose morning activity say -- I surrender this to You!" "I think you can have happiness without faith, but I don't think you can have joy without God." "My faith is in a constant conversation of -- seriously why did you make me have arms that flap this much! So I'm in a constant conversation with Him." "I hope that in this season people will take one step back and go, 'I get to do this right now! It may be hard, but I get to.'" "We have to have the downs to have the up." "I just needed someone to be real." "Bring ice cream and be real." "God did not call me to lay in bed and watch Netflix." "All you had to do was call to Me!" (Jesus whispers) "Because it's such a common story that I don't think a lot of us are talking about until it's maybe to an extreme level." "I never believed."   What has your story gifted you? Joy "It's a story of continual faith and joy!"   Resources mentioned in the episode: CONNECT with Dawn Barton BOOK: Laughing Through the Ugly Cry Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dawnrbarton/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dawnrbarton/   "One step at a time leads to miles of greatness!"   Subscribe to Create Your Now TV on YouTube. Listen to Create Your Now on Spotify and Pandora. Listen to Create Your Now on iHeart Radio. Click here. 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Are you the person people depend on to be strong? Do you know someone who is strong? Join me as I discuss the misconceptions of those who are considered to be strong individuals. While also addressing the flaws of those who are strong to becoming better individuals in each aspect of the spectrum.First, I'm going to give you my random thoughts off the week.Then, Talk my sh*tFollowed by: "So what you saying is" answering the question of an amazing listener.Transitioning into the "Let it Marinate" segmentClosing with "A Sprinkle of Joy" It's not easy being on either side of the table, so tune in so that we can find the happy medium in which we could all live in harmony and freely express ourselves._____________________________________________________Connect with me:https://www.theunpopularrealist.com/https://www.facebook.com/TheUnpopularRealist@TheUnpopularRealist@IamBrushaeFeel free to visit our website and subscribe for updates and new blog postings._____________________________________________________To submit questions or request advice:Email: Unpopularrealists@gmail.comor send a message via Instagram or Facebook!____________________________________________________Subscribe, Share, and Leave a Review!

Tom Furber is the CEO of High Mowing Organic Seeds, the largest exclusively organic vegetable seed company in the United States. He is the author of Joy: It's Your Choice, Really and the creator of th

Tom Furber is the CEO of High Mowing Organic Seeds, the largest exclusively organic vegetable seed company in the United States. He is the author of Joy: It’s Your Choice, Really and the creator of the Joy Practice. Prior to joining the executive team at High Mowing, he worked with venture-backed and privately held companies, helping them navigate the waters of transitional growth and change in ownership. He has worked with Hannaford Supermarkets, where he was responsible for turning around a business unit, lead pricing/margin performance, and reengineering the company’s financial reporting and decision support systems. He also built the home shopping and delivery division, HomeRuns, which Tom founded and later sold. Tom is passionate about organic food, improving the human condition, and engaging with people and work that make a true impact on the world.   Tom joins me today to discuss how we, as humans, can rise above ourselves and the importance of giving yourself time to process thoughts and ideas before deciding on a course of action. He explains why he makes a conscious effort to quiet his inner ‘rat brain’ voice of insecurity, what the ‘Honoring Friend’ practice is, and how it allows him to be a more present and effective leader. We discuss how society is accelerating at a near-incomprehensible pace and how we can relearn to slow down. We discuss the emotions we typically feel when we ‘take the bait’ to prove our perspective is correct in the midst of an argument or disagreement and how Tom is making a conscious effort to avoid knee-jerk reactions. Tom also explains the importance of being comfortable with who you are, what you want, and embracing the people around you. “Choose whatever baby step works for you because it’s all baby steps.” - Tom Furber This week on Insert:Human Why Tom believes more people are choosing to grow their own produce now compared to the pre-COVID era The detrimental effects of maintaining pattern thinking How your sleep habits impact your ability to stay healthy and perform at a high level Giving yourself permission to pause and process thoughts and ideas before choosing a course of action What the ‘Honoring Friend’ practice is and how to use it to quiet your inner voice of insecurity Understanding the self-improvement journey is a constant, ever-changing process The idea that society is accelerating at a near-incomprehensible pace and strategies to slow down the pace of life The seven stages of grief applied to ‘taking the bait’ to prove our perspectives are correct The importance of getting clear and comfortable with who you are, what you want, and embracing others   Resources Mentioned: Inspiration Sandwich: Stories to Inspire Our Creative Freedom by Sark   Connect with Tom Furber: High Mowing Organic Seeds Book: Joy: It’s Your Choice, Really - Order a copy at honoringfriend.com Email: tom@honoringfriend.com High Mowing Organic Seeds on LinkedIn High Mowing Organic Seeds on Instagram High Mowing Organic Seeds on Facebook High Mowing Organic Seeds on Twitter Tom Furber on LinkedIn   Insert:Human - For a Better Life & Better World Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of Insert:Human. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the show and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts. Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | GooglePlay | Stitcher | Spotify Be sure to share your favorite episodes on social media to help me reach more seekers and problem-solvers, like you. Join me on Twitter, Instagram, and Linkedin. For more exclusive content and to claim your free copy of the first chapter of my upcoming book, Technology is Dead, visit my website.

Support the Informer Daily, Donate to JOY It's National Volunteer Week. Today, we speak to Adrienne Picone from Volunteering Australia about their Wave for Volunteers initiative. And we speak to... LEARN MORE The post Wave for Volunteers! And, how JOY 94.9 is changing how we work with volunteers appeared first on The Informer.

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Jenny Schmal is a relationship coach and author, specialising in working with people who want to find out exactly who they are, what they’re doing here, and how they can find the love of their life.  Jenny joins Lyn this week to discuss the topic of finding the love of your life, and why that love might be a lot closer to home than you think.  KEY TAKEAWAYS When we say “I love you” to someone, we are not really saying it to them, but to ourselves. We are admitting the fact that we are happy, at peace, in love with the moment and ourselves for bringing us this experience.  When we have the awareness and are connected with our own sense of self-love, we remove all the filters and defences we build up throughout our lives.  Jenny recommends this simple 'self-love' exercise - stand in front of a mirror and bow to yourself as a mark of respect. It is quite common for people to feel uncomfortable showing this level of honour and respect to themselves even though they will happily bow to others.  The premise of self-love is that you are the navigator of your own destiny. It is recognising that your life is your own story. Self-love is self-elevation.  Sometimes the issues that seem so important to us, the hang-ups we have about our bodies or self-worth, can evaporate in the wake of a transformation or life-altering experience / event.  Imagine that you are observing planet Earth from the outside and are looking in. If you were going to visit the planet, what would you take there? Most people's answer is “Love”. What does this say about our society? BEST MOMENTS ‘A lot of people have lost themselves’  ‘You are the director and scriptwriter of your own life story’  ‘I choose to be my best self’  ’They’re looking outward and not inward’  ‘I’m more of a laser-focused coach'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Hearts Entwined Podcast ABOUT THE GUEST Jenny Schmal - Coach & Author of "Rejener8 - 8 Steps to Joy" What is blocking your Joy? It is in the moments when we feel we are ‘nothing’, that we can rebirth, recall, rebuild, reframe, redefine, reshape and Rejener8… we have the ability to grow strong again and rejoice – this is an expression of Self-Love … This is how Jenny describes her work: “A Fast-Track Reset Process - to address the cause of the separation from who you are. You are not broken and you don’t need to be fixed. You are perfect, but somewhere at some time, you have taken on some beliefs that you have to change or improve in order to achieve whatever you desire in life. We don’t work to change you, we work to change the beliefs. Each belief you have assumed has taken you further from loving yourself, and therefore, further from what you want to achieve. The road back to self-love is fast; that’s why I call it Reset Coaching. Why resign yourself to months of painfully slow change, when you already know the route back to you? Since you know the route, I am simply the facilitator, the guide to your journey. The Principles of Returning to Self-Love apply to all aspects of life. Website www.rejener8.com Book Rejener8: Eight Steps to Joy www.amazon.com/dp/1981151141   ABOUT THE HOST Lyn Smith – (The Queen of HEARTS) – Love, Dating & Relationship Expert Lyn’s personal story is a very inspirational and harrowing one of how she went from having unhealthy and unfulfilling relationships with men (on the back of several serious traumatic sexual assaults in her teens) to now being in a soul fulfilling relationship which makes her feel alive, is full of passion and gives her inner peace. She has a proven track record as a Love Solutions - Relationship Expert / Trainer / Inspirational Speaker and Best-Selling Author based upon her own vast personal research, experiential learning and training with the world’s leading industry experts. Understanding the polarisation of masculine & feminine energy resulted in her creating massive attraction and a passionate, intimate, fulfilling relationship – that inspired her to design & present her own course programmes to share these break-through relationship techniques with women across the globe. HEARTS Entwined is a world-class service based on care and understanding, which is committed to providing step-by-step high-value love, dating and relationship solutions. Lyn makes a difference by helping you make a difference; she has a vision of contributing back on a global scale – to create a lasting legacy of safety, dignity and opportunity for children and women who have survived rape, abuse and severe trauma as a result of war crimes and sex trafficking – through the setting up of worldwide – ‘you can heal your life’ centres. CONTACT METHOD lyn@hearts-entwined.com

Remember when you’d work your tush off just so that you get handed a shiny gold star in front of the whole class?  Yeah, us too. Our theory is that this behavior is why so many women in business identify as perfectionists today.  When we had a show of hands in our community, there were SO many of you who identified as loud and proud perfectionists. And, we can definitely relate.  But, perfectionism has a dark side. And that’s what we’ll be exploring in today’s episode. Tune in to learn more about how to reign in your perfectionism and find the courage to fail (with pride).   Here’s a peek at what else you can expect: Our own struggles with perfectionism  How the quest for perfection can damage your business Baby-steps to help you get over wanting to be perfect 24/7 Why we embrace the ‘B minus’ Method  Why the perfectionism you picked up at school and uni might not work in business  RESOURCES Seth Godin - Linchpin (and the concept of ‘Ship It’) Know Your Numbers In our business, we're big fans of financial literacy and accountability. Knowing your numbers is an essential aspect of building a successful business and inherent responsibility for any entrepreneur.  What you focus on grows, so pay attention to your money. We use Bench for our bookkeeping. It's simple, elegant and saves us so many hours that would otherwise be spent neck-deep in receipts on the other side of a spreadsheet. Each month our transactions are automatically imported into Bench and we get on-demand financial reports. We even enjoy opening up our profit and loss statement to review each month. When tax time comes around, we are up to date and ready to go. And this is what Financial Empowerment feels like. Use this link to save 20% off your Bench Accounting plan for the first six months! This podcast is brought to you by Namastream   This podcast is brought to you by the Namastream software platform. Namastream is an easy to use platform that helps you build and sell your own courses memberships and live-streamed programs. Go from idea to open for business in just minutes. Unlike other startups, Namastream was created by women for women. If you're looking for a simple, streamlined way to build and grow an online business. You can learn more at Namastream.com   This Week’s Joy: It’s Peloton Bike! (Tune in to hear about Jeni’s newfound love)  This Week’s Hustle: Two words - Inbox. Zero. This week, we finally cleared out our inboxes to zero and are actually surprised by how clean and visible our mailbox looks. Mental peace is an added bonus.

JOY: It's a word we use in Christmas songs and Christian slogans, but what does it really mean? And more importantly, how can we find joy ourselves, even when our circumstances make it hard?

JOY: It's a word we use in Christmas songs and Christian slogans, but what does it really mean? And more importantly, how can we find joy ourselves, even when our circumstances make it hard?

JOY: It's a word we use in Christmas songs and Christian slogans, but what does it really mean? And more importantly, how can we find joy ourselves, even when our circumstances make it hard?

No matter what your age and what your situation It’s a Wide Open Road Ahead. You’re never too old and you’ve never made too many mistakes. You possess Free Will and you live in the greatest time in history. Take advantage of this good fortune. Don’t live your life and let this slip by. Without a doubt, it is possible at this very moment to change your life. From unlearning bad habits to radical life change, this power does reside within you. Stop right now and think. Really think. Free will. You do possess it. Do you deny it? Of course not. Then accept it as Truth. Accept it as your new Law for Life. Today is a new day. Right now is a new moment. Choose and set yourself free. And then keep choosing, day by day and moment by moment. As soon as you intuitively grasp this reality it will light the Fire of Joy within. You will see nothing but possibilities and potential. And hope, excitement and a new Energy will begin to drive you forward. And what better Energy is there for success in this life than Joy? It is positive, powerful and will arm you to handle just about anything. With Joy as your fuel for change, the sky’s the limit. So open up your mind and open up your heart. Think about what it is that will light you up like nothing else. What is it that will be as exciting and rewarding in the pursuit as it will be when attained? And even it never fully realized, what is it that will always be worth the effort? A new career? A new shredded physique? Financial independence? A new love life? A renewed Faith? Or perhaps just you at your very best from now on until your last day; troubles be damned. Ask yourself these questions while considering the fact that you are a man with Free Will. And that you have access to resources, information and technology that even royalty could not even imagine just a couple of generations ago. Not that it will be easy. Nothing in this world that is worthwhile will ever be easy. But you know this. After all, nothing is easy right now. But mix in a new Mission with an abundance of Joy and it becomes a whole new ball game as they say. You’ve got to believe in your Core that you do indeed possess the ability to change who you are. You do posses the ability to change how you live your life.  And you do have the ability to change how you think about things. You can determine your own Destiny You can determine your own fate. And you can control your own Destiny. You can be happy if you decide to be. It’s that simple. You possess both a Soul and a Mind. And each is unique unlike anything else in the universe. Both your Soul and Mind are self directed. Through the use of Free Will each one can make itself better. And each one can also complement the other. A healthy Soul will lead to a healthy Mind. And a healthy Mind will lead to a healthy Soul. Belief in this simple concept is the key because it will give you the power to change. You can change. And you can change right now. Both Soul and Mind can make it so. Will you have difficulties and failures along the way? Sure. Will you have doubts and issues with confidence? Yes. Will everyone you care about cooperate and support you? No. But once again, how is that any different than right now? It’s time to move past all of that. The difference today is you’ve brought to the fore of your Mind and Soul that your life is yours to do with as you wish. You’re fed up with your past. And you’re fed up being fed up. So it’s time to take the gloves off and let yourself loose on the world. Deep down you know what it is you want. You know who it is you want to become. Intuitively you know who you can be at your very best. So you will become that person right now and then get out there and get after it. But let’s be smart here. Give yourself every advantage. Write down who it is you wish to become and what it is you wish to achieve. Be as specific as possible. Make it concrete. Crystallize your ambitions into words so that you cannot f...

In this teaching series, we will look at the major themes of Sukkot. These themes include: *It is known as the “Season of our Joy” *It is known as the “Feast of Ingathering *It is known as the “Festival of the Nations” *It is known as the “Feast of Dedication” *It is known as the “Festival of Lights” Sukkot is a 7 day festival: Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath. And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days. Leviticus 23:39-40 Sukkot is associated with the cloud of glory: And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night. Exodus 13:21 And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence. And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain. Isaiah 4:5-6 For more Eddie Chumney teachings and beautiful worship music, visit us at our internet streaming radio station; http://hebrootsradio.com. Visit our home page at http://hebroots.com Are you being blessed by these teachings? Please consider making a donation at http://hebroots.com and click the donate button. Thank you for listening!

“But what, in conclusion, of Joy?…It was valuable only as a pointer to something other and outer. While that other was in doubt, the pointer naturally loomed large in my thoughts. When we are lost in the woods the sight of a signpost is a great matter. But when we have found the road and […]

Roger Laidig is a life coach, mentor and the author of "Finding Purpose and Joy: It's a Journey".  Coming from an engineering and entrepreneurial background, Rogers opens up about some of the challenges that he's encountered in his life and how he overcome them!