Navigating Joy Together
We are a family like every other family. We have high points, low points, and struggles. The goal is to start and end our day joyfully. We will be sharing our successes, trials, and tribulations, questions or situations that come up in our family or in each of our lives. We will also share how we support each other in dealing with life struggles. Our intent is to create a take-away of how we problem solve a bad situation into a joyful one.
Episodes
72 episodes
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
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Season 3
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Episode 71
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22:50
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 70
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29:17
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 69
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24:50
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 68
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22:37
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 66
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36:36
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 65
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36:42
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 64
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24:58
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 63
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30:57
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 62
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45:15
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 61
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19:14
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 60
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36:21
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 59
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35:11
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
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Season 3
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Episode 58
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28:55
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 57
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26:41
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 56
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46:29
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 ...
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Season 3
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Episode 55
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23:12
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 54
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48:25
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 54
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28:42
Encore Episode: Revisiting "Couples' Communication: Active Listening
What is active listening?What are our positive active listening behaviors?What are our negative active listening behaviors?Action steps we will put in place for ourselves to create better communication between us.
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Season 2
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Episode 52
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25:35
How Can EFT Help You Find Your JOY, With Belinda Hearn
Today I speak with Belinda Hearn. Belinda is a women's transformation & EFT Tapping coach with a passion for empowering and helping others unleash their highest potential. Belinda is a guiding light on the journey to inner healing, em...
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Season 2
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Episode 51
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30:23
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 50
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36:42
The Importance of Sharing Highs and Lows
In this episode we share the importance of sharing highs and low as a family.They allow a family to connect with each other after a day apart, and opening up lines for deeper communication. We share how we do it and we even share ...
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Season 2
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Episode 49
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13:38
Changing Your Body Chemistry For More JOY!
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 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 48
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7:40