Navigating Joy Together
Episodes
79 episodes
Dealing With Dystonia While Reaching Goals With Becky Johnson
During this episode, you may notice that Becky is struggle with her speech. This is one of the side effects of Dystonia and some days are better than others. But she continued through and shared her incredible story on this episode!<...
Summer Recap and What is Coming UP on NJT
Listen in as I share why we didn't publish any new episodes this summer and what the future holds.
Encore Episode: Revisiting Consciously Choosing JOY with Jenna Brocious
Jenna B is a wife, mother, and spiritually intuitive. Jenna has worn many hats in life trying to find her own purpose outside of the home. With a very supportive husband, Jenna had the time to sit and pray to find what she was meant to do. Jenn...
JOY With Dystonia with Becky Johnson
This week I have a very transparent and real conversation with Becky Johnson.In 1997, she had to make the heart-wrenching decision to quit her senior year as a college swimmer due to a debilitating condition that caused her neck to invol...
Encore Episode: Still Finding Joy After the Death of a Child with Michelle Ruddell
My guest today is Michelle Ruddell. Michelle is a speaker, author, and semi-retired teacher who lives in Central Texas. She speaks to women's groups about how to find joy in the middle of tough circumstances. her book, "Welcome to the Clu...
Encore Episode: A "Death Day" Party and JOY with Tanya Hackney
In this episode, I have the privilege of talking to Tanya Hackney. Tanya graduated with a B.A. from Middlebury College in 1997, where she majored in English and double-minored in French and Education. She married her high school sweethear...
Encore Episode Revisiting Changing Your Body Chemistry for More Joy with Hunter
This episode is hosted by Hunter. To be completely honest, we were having a hard time finding a moment we could all sit down together to record so he took the bull by the horn and did his own episode.We had no idea what he was going to ...
Revisiting The Power of Music
How does MUSIC bring one JOY?IN THIS EPISODE, WE TALK ABOUT:Benefits of musicHow we have used music to:Lift a family member upStart our day joyfullyAlleviate a long car ride
Dinner Dialogue: Addison Wants A Later Curfew
This topic came up at the end of our dinner time. Addison announced she wanted to talk about something. This is the usual in the Raymond Household. Important topics come up during our dinner time. I pulled out my phone and started the voice rec...
Dinner Dialogues: The 13 Year Old Wants Instagram
Ahhhh, social media! The bane of my existence with my children! The 13 year old is pitching his reasons why he wants Instagram! We let his sister get Snapchat when she was 13 and if we could rewind, we would NOT have allowed that for at least a...
Dinner Dialogues: Notification Distractions and Screen Time Amount
This episode was recorded right before the holidays. I found an interesting article in the AARP magazine that talked about memory and steps on how to improve your memory. Even though AARP is for "old" people there were some great pieces of info...
Joy Through Art with Intention with Jennifer Colombo
Jennifer Faye Colombo is a watercolor artist living in Connecticut. Her intention is to give the viewer an opportunity to tune into calm, peace and joy through her various collections. Jen is super grateful to live near the water, her happy pla...
Encore Episode: Revisiting How To Have A Positive Mindset With Jason Wolbers
In this episode, I interview Jason Wolbers. Jason is a successful business owner, husband, dad, positive influencer, and author of the book The Power of a Positive Mindset! His purpose is to help people to develop and maintain a more positive m...
Dinner Dialogues: The Arch Nemesis; Cleaning the House and More
I love our family dinners! This is the time for us to connect about our day, what is happening personally and to hold family meetings. Our favorite place to hold these meetings is at the dinner table. This week we discuss our puppy...
Encore Episode: How Young Adults View Joy
SPECIAL GUESTS: My niece Toni and her boyfriend Austin.Being in their early 20's they will share how they view:JoyWhat brings them JOYWhat takes them out of JOYHow they get back to...
Reigniting The SPARK Within, With Carla White
This episode is a conversation with Carla White. Carla is a Spark Igniter!She’s on a mission to empower high performing women to heal emotional overwhelm &exhaustion so they can finally give themselves...
Encore Episode: Revisiting Powerful Moments
What are Powerful Moments?Why are they important?Hear some examples from the book The Power of Moments by Chip and Dan HeathAddison shares how she created a powerful moment for a teacher.Hunter shares ho...
Encore Episode: Revisiting A Year Of Joy With Liz, Carroll
This episode is a wonderful conversation with Liz Carroll who shares her experience with JOY. Liz Carroll is a life-long student and teacher of making mindful money moves. Originally believing she was "bad with money," Liz did the har...
Zak Frank, The Health King
This episode is a FANTASTIC conversation with Zak King. Zak runs The Center For Advancement In Cancer Education (aka BeatCancer.Org).They are a 47 year old non profit organization helping people heal or prevent cancer using holist...
Encore Episode: Revisiting Bug Therapy, Mental Health and JOY!
Another one of my favorites that I can listen to again and again!In this episode, we talk with Michael Jann and Michele Jourdan. Michael is an Emmy-nominated late-night comedy writer for
Finding Joy While Living With An Invisible Disability; With Michelle Steiner.
This week I chat with Michelle Steiner. Michelle lives with an invisible disability. She has articles published on The Mighty, Non-Verbal Learning Project, Dyscalculia Blog, The Reluctant Spoonie, Kalopina Collective, Imagine the Wo...
Encore Episode: Revisiting Mental Health, Positive Communication, Digital Awareness, and So Much More With Adam Brooks.
This conversation with Adam Brooks is very informative. He has some great tips for parents on how to navigate screen time and social media with children.Learn how he went from a special education teacher to speaking to and working...
Dinner Table Talk: Setting Up Our Summer for JOY
It is SUMMER!!!! School is out, activities and sports are done, now it is time to play and relax! How do we still make sure we read, limit screen time, not argue about the things that frustrate us, and use our time together to have ...
Encore Episode: Revisiting,..Sharing JOY through "My Aloof Vagina" with Martha McBride
I'm so excited to share this conversation with Martha McBride. We connected over social media and found we have a lot in common, especially our goal to live in JOY daily.Martha shares her experience with a bad breakup that led to depres...
Simple Techniques Toward Change and JOY With Linda Rossi
This weekś episode is a conversation with Linda Rossi. Linda was born in Greensburg PA and now resides in Pittsburgh. She acquired her Associate Degree in Human Service which led to her 16 year career with helping to offer her support,enc...