The Joy Lab with Anna Brinkworth

What happens when you’ve built the life you wanted, but you don’t feel fully alive inside it? Recorded on a hike at Mount St. Francis, this episode of She Who Moves explores two parts of the high-performing woman: the savage  who knows how to work hard, persevere, and create results (often times at the cost of herself, her relationships, her presence, her own aliveness), and the soft who want...

Steal My Mantra: "Easy Work, F*cking Privilege" Ok, bear with me, the audio is not great on this epsiode, but the message is powerful AF and is well-worth the 13 minute listen. Come with me on this one — it's raw, it's sweaty, and it's exactly the message I needed to embody myself this week. I share the real story behind the Instagram post: an 18-mile hybrid gravel ride with Johnny, over 1,800 fee...

22. Moving through FRICTION to create FLOW (Why Alignment Will Never Stop Requiring Work, and Why That's the Good News) This is one of those drops that people keep coming back to, and once you hear it you'll know exactly why. Flow Isn't always the Goal. Leaning into the Friction Is. Anna takes her clinical background as a doctor of physical therapy and turns it into the most visceral explanation o...

This one's personal, recorded back in May of 2026 but I'm just sharing it now. Forrest went on to set a school record in the 400m dash, set records at track regionals and again at the State level in his 8th grade track season. I share the story of walking beside my son Forrest through one of the hardest seasons of his life so far — his ACL injury and recovery — and what moving alongside...

This one wasn't recorded in a studio. It was recorded on a walk, leaves crunching underfoot, in the middle of an actual identity shift happening in real time. I share the unfiltered story of being invited into a high-level mastermind by a mentor who saw something in me before I could fully see it in myself — and the forty-eight hours that followed. The doubt. The "I haven't ear...

Medicine + the Mountain: What 25 Years of Poetry Taught Me About Letting Go of Performing Come with me into one of the most tender drops I've ever recorded. I open up about my Achilles heel, the performative mode I slip into without noticing, the trying-too-hard that's actually what keeps me stuck, and how finding my college poetry journal, and 25 years of poems I've written to my husband Johnny,...

This episode is Anna live, mid-expansion, catching herself in real time. She walks you through the concept of invisible contracts — the silent agreements with yourself that created your current identity, your current safety, your current results, and are now the exact thing capping your next level. Not necessarily big traumatic stuff. The quiet ones. "That's not who I am." "I don't need that." "Ar...

There are only two ways this works: your delusional optimism works, or your delusional optimism works. Literally. And that's a quality we dismiss too easily as high performers, because we love the checklist, the strategy, the "what's the work" — when underneath all of it is the real question: your frequency, your vibrational inner landscape, and whether you're in coherent action with who you say y...

If you've struggled with your fitness and health journey, if you're forcing yourself to work out but it's still 'not working', if you find yourself with the common excuses of "not enough time, not the right genetics, trying before and it didn't work, your age, etc"...you are not alone AND these thoughts are not serving you or where you want to go. In this episode I share common limiting beliefs ar...

If you've struggled with your fitness and health journey, if you're forcing yourself to work out but it's still 'not working', if you find yourself with the common excuses of "not enough time, not the right genetics, trying before and it didn't work, your age, etc"...you are not alone AND these thoughts are not serving you or where you want to go. In this episode I share common limiting beliefs ar...

As a human, it's so much easier to "cry about it" than to BE ABOUT IT.  In fact, most of us don't even realize when we're "crying about it" because blaming, whining, justifying, doubting, playing small is our default programming, and the Ego LOVES to cry about it. But you can consciously start to BE ABOUT IT, instead. And THAT'S when life changes.  If you want something, you've got to BE...

As a human, it's so much easier to "cry about it" than to BE ABOUT IT.  In fact, most of us don't even realize when we're "crying about it" because blaming, whining, justifying, doubting, playing small is our default programming, and the Ego LOVES to cry about it. But you can consciously start to BE ABOUT IT, instead. And THAT'S when life changes.  If you want something, you've got to BE ABOUT IT....

Listen, I've walked through the fire. I've experienced an entire YEAR of "only" signing 2 clients after replacing my W2 income with cash from my coaching business & hitting 5 figure cash months. It was ROUGH AND so damn NECESSARY (We learn & grow when we accept the OPPOSITE of what we "want" as happening FOR US & cont to move FORWARD on our path). I've done over a year of work with my...

Listen, I've walked through the fire. I've experienced an entire YEAR of "only" signing 2 clients after replacing my W2 income with cash from my coaching business & hitting 5 figure cash months. It was ROUGH AND so damn NECESSARY (We learn & grow when we accept the OPPOSITE of what we "want" as happening FOR US & cont to move FORWARD on our path). I've done over a year of work with my coach on wea...

EVERYTHING you are searching for outside of yourself is right in front of you...the joy, the abundance, the presence, the impact, the fulfillment, the inner peace, the balance, the delight, the confidence - is a shift in your perspective away, available at any moment with or without a tangible result simply because of the way you can choose to perceive the world, choose your thoughts, curate your...

EVERYTHING you are searching for outside of yourself is right in front of you...the joy, the abundance, the presence, the impact, the fulfillment, the inner peace, the balance, the delight, the confidence - is a shift in your perspective away, available at any moment with or without a tangible result simply because of the way you can choose to perceive the world, choose your thoughts, curate your...

If you have ever had a pull on your heart that you were meant for something more, but you don't know exactly what it is, and you have so many interests, gifts and talents that it seems hard to pick a path to walk forward on...this episode is for you. I share how to manifest your dream life, body, relationships + business by working 'from the end result' while not having "full certainty" in *exactl...

If you have ever had a pull on your heart that you were meant for something more, but you don't know exactly what it is, and you have so many interests, gifts and talents that it seems hard to pick a path to walk forward on...this episode is for you. I share how to manifest your dream life, body, relationships + business by working 'from the end result' while not having "full certainty" in *exactl...

I share a recent personal and vulnerable example of how I was "getting stuck" in "marketing & messaging rules" that made it feel like *I* was trying to fit into a box in my business instead of creating OFFERS that were niched down (not myself!!). I share what it took to find the clarity and permission I needed to return back to my multifaceted self as a powerhouse woman, wife, mom, coach and e...

I share a recent personal and vulnerable example of how I was "getting stuck" in "marketing & messaging rules" that made it feel like *I* was trying to fit into a box in my business instead of creating OFFERS that were niched down (not myself!!). I share what it took to find the clarity and permission I needed to return back to my multifaceted self as a powerhouse woman, wife, mom, coach and entre...

If deep down you know that your body & energy does not match the success that you've created in every other area of your life, this episode is for you. If you think the answer is "better time management", or "more time in the day" or even wished you had the perfect exercise program and diet...that surely *those things* would give you the answer to achieving your health and fitness goals, then...

If deep down you know that your body & energy does not match the success that you've created in every other area of your life, this episode is for you. If you think the answer is "better time management", or "more time in the day" or even wished you had the perfect exercise program and diet...that surely *those things* would give you the answer to achieving your health and fitness goals, then you'...

If you're like a lot of my clients, sometimes it feels like your kid's schedule & sports, your business, all of your mom duties, and the invisible workload at home...is dictating your life, and you are merely getting the "leftovers". And you know you want to take better care of yourself, eat better, move your body and work out consistently, grow your business, feel connected with your partner...

If you're like a lot of my clients, sometimes it feels like your kid's schedule & sports, your business, all of your mom duties, and the invisible workload at home...is dictating your life, and you are merely getting the "leftovers". And you know you want to take better care of yourself, eat better, move your body and work out consistently, grow your business, feel connected with your partner & yo...

Your "I AM" is one of your most powerful tools for transformation. Are you using it? In this episode we get into the nitty-gritty of the Be Do Have Model and the Law of Attraction for creating results. I talk about the difference between an object-based/result-based referral system (the EGO) vs. a True Self/Spirit Referral system for identifying and BEING and how to know which system you are in. (...