Joy Zone with Lisa McCourt

You are continually creating your life in every second that you live it. Joy School teaches that what we create "Out There" is always the result of what we have going on "In Here." Lisa explores this dynamic with bestselling author, creative guide, and founder of The Institute for Creative Living, Jacob Nordby. "Healing" is just another word for shedding more and more of what separates you from yo...

Love is who you are -- your very essence -- but you have layers of human stuff between that truth and your moment-to-moment experience of it. Lisa explores the unlayering with her cherished friend Scott Stabile, author of Big Love and Just Love in this episode of Do Joy! You will see yourself through new (kinder) eyes after hearing this paradigm-shifting conversation.  Learn more about your ad cho...

'Tis the season for stillness, quietude, and tenderly nourishing your dreams. Yet beneath this stillness, "the roots are riotous," according to Rumi -- and to Lisa's charming guest, accomplished painter C Wilder Oakes. Get your "spiritual sap" flowing with this gentle exploration of the powerful balance between doing and being.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s the time of year for introspection, improved clarity, and the opportunity to move toward more meaning and joy in the coming weeks and months. A New Year resolution is simply a declaration of something we want. Lisa takes you through an exercise to make sure you’re “wanting correctly” in this powerful episode of Do Joy!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The start of a fresh year invites new dreams, new aspirations, and new commitments to living a vibrant and passionate life, no matter what challenges stand in your way. Let Lisa's friend Dan Caro inspire you to greatness with his extraordinary resilience, perseverance, and commitment to "Live hot!" despite staggering obstacles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s a festive, wonderful time of year, but all the go-go-go can leave us spent-spent-spent. How are you taking care of YOU this week? In this episode of Do Joy! you’ll be led through an energy-assessment tool for finding balance and alignment. Listen and claim your energetic equilibrium with Lisa and her guest Aimee Bernstein, so you can enjoy all the peace and beauty of the season.  Learn more a...

As one calendar year comes to a close and a new one looms -- all fresh and inviting -- before us, we're invited to take stock of where we ARE at this moment in time. How well have we stayed on track in aligning our lives with what's most meaningful and true for us? Lisa and her guest, Dharma Circle's Julie Serot, take you through these questions and more in this episode of Do Joy! Learn more about...

It's the hap-happiest time of the year. Or maybe it's not. And that's okay too. Despite the lyrics of the songs we're incessantly hearing, and all those commercials with joyful, tacky-sweater-clad, poultry-carving families, 58% of folks admit to feeling severely depressed this season. Lisa and Grief Expert Paula Meyer offer comfort and tools in this episode of Do Joy! Learn more about your ad choi...

Lisa interviews her delightful friend -- inspirational speaker, coach, and author Meg Nocero. Karl Jung has famously said: "The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are." Lisa and Meg share tips for disarming the personal kryptonite that keeps us from this practice and embracing the power of PLAY in this high-vibe episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice...

Lisa and her longtime friend Dr. Steven Farmer – world-renown author, shaman, and psychotherapist – lead listeners in exploring a beautiful, time-tested method for deepening connection with the natural world and the voice of their true, inner knowing.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There’s a question you’ve been programmed to ask throughout your life. It feels like it’s important. It feels like it’s keeping you safe. It’s not. Training yourself to STOP asking this question creates a substantial opening for joy to flow into your experience. Lisa takes listeners through an eye-opening visualization in this episode!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice...

How do you discern the wise voice of your true inner knowing from the voice of those erroneous limiting thoughts you’ve become so practiced at thinking? Lisa explores this distinction and other powerful joy-boosting concepts with her brilliant coach friends Andi and Lee Vallely.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lisa shares a powerful vibration elevation tool by leading listeners in identifying and working with the "Ipso Facto Switch" so they can stop making lemons out of lemonade.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lisa interviews poet and internet sensation S.C. Lourie about embracing the full spectrum of emotions and developing a perception filter that works in favor of our deep-down, sustainable joy.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lisa explains the function of our feelings and how to fully embrace all of them, recognizing their value in understanding what makes up our unique perception filters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lisa interviews her longtime friend and teaching partner, Celebrity Happiness Coach Rob Mack, the Oprah-endorsed, Ivy-League-trained Positive Psychology Expert who shares invaluable spot-coaching in her Oasis groups.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Lisa explains why you can't believe your thoughts and how getting distance from your habituated thought patterns is a powerful tool for raising your vibration and elevating your Joy Setpoint.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joy is the full expression of your truest inner being. It's not our negative feelings that deplete our joy, but our habituated relationships to those feelings. Join Lisa McCourt as she explains how to break ties with negativity and develop relationships with feelings of joy and happiness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices