Choose Joy with Nancy Nance

The only obstacle in your way… is you. There was a moment in my life when breathing was not automatic. It was a choice. When Emily died… my next breath became the only thing that mattered. I remember the mantra that floated into my consciousness like a life raft: The only obstacle in your way is you. And I held onto it. The way a drowning person holds onto air. Because in trauma, panic comes fast....

Inspiration. I am so excited. I am so blessed. I walk in the footsteps of those before me — and I am inspired. And then… I step beyond their footprints and begin to make my own path. I take one step in faith. Maybe another. Above me — blue sky. Possibility. Expansion. Promise. And then the shadows roll in like clouds. Darkness moves across the light. I grow timid. Afraid. The blue disappears. Doub...

The power of infinite love… and gratitude. There are three lessons on the journey to owning MY power. Not borrowed power. Not inherited power. Not permission-based power. Mine. And maybe… yours too. First — Living life powerfully takes the courage of a lion. Not the absence of fear. Not the absence of doubt. But the willingness to rise anyway. To stand anyway. To move anyway. Courage is not always...

Today I want to invite you to see something differently. What if an attitude adjustment is actually an altitude adjustment? When a plane wants to rise, it doesn’t fight gravity. It adjusts its angle. And when you want to rise in your life, you don’t have to fight everything around you. You adjust your thinking. You release old, outgrown beliefs. You let go of thoughts that once protected you but n...

There was a time I was reckless and destructive. And I thought it was strength. But it wasn’t strength. It was trauma. I didn’t know how to heal… so I chose anger. Anger felt powerful. Vengeance felt purposeful. Wrath gave me a mission. I seethed. I justified. I harmed others. I harmed myself. I invested years building my version of justice — the kind I believed was deserved. I wore armor and call...

Are you like me? A people pleaser? Have you given your power away? Do you want it back? Do you want to be authentic? Did you buy into someone else’s idea of who you are? Are you ready to face your fears… your shadows… the parts of yourself you’ve avoided? Good. Let’s do this. How? By being authentic. By owning our power. This is Beautiful Beast Mode. Where your softness and your strength become on...

Choose Joy Podcast Season 1 Episode 7 You Are Not Broken I hate suffering. Not because it makes us weak — but because I know it isn’t who we truly are. I am unbelievably driven to help people awaken. To remember who they are beneath the fear, the conditioning, the old stories. There is nothing more powerful than watching someone’s eyes shift — the moment they realize they are not broken… they are...

There are two kinds of motivation. Push motivation Willpower. Force. Grinding it out. White-knuckling your way forward. It works… until it doesn’t. Willpower is limited. Self-focus has limits. When everything revolves around “my comfort, my feelings, my needs,” resilience shrinks. The self-care conversation had value — healing matters. But when self-care becomes self-absorption, we get stuck. We r...

This moment in history is not just disruption. It is a massive creative opportunity. We are creators meant to create. Tools are meant to create. And when the tools change — we must re-tool. AI is not just changing tasks. It is shaking identity. For generations, we answered the question “Who are you?” with “What do you do?” I am a truck driver. I am a coder. I am an accountant. I am a roofer. But w...

We are not meant to manage stress, circumstances. We were meant to create them. Are you caught up in making a living or designing a life. 3 most important skills 1 pattern recognition- when you can recognize patterns you eliminate fear. Fear comes from uncertainty this has never happened before. I don’t know what this is - chaos. We’ve never been in this place politically! We’re gonna have a civil...

Algorithms are engineered to capture attention — and attention shapes emotion. When your feed amplifies outrage, comparison, and catastrophe, your nervous system pays the price. You don’t need to fear technology. You need tools to master your state inside it. Here are the tools: 1️⃣ Micro-Learning (15 Minutes a Day) Instead of 15 minutes of scrolling… Choose 15 minutes of growth. Learn about AI. S...

Individualism without connection can become isolation. Isolation turns into depression when our deepest needs aren’t met. Human behaviour is not random. It’s driven by needs. You named them well: The Six Human Needs 1️⃣ Certainty – Safety. Stability. Predictability. Too much? You get bored. Too little? You live in anxiety. 2️⃣ Uncertainty / Variety – Surprise. Adventure. Growth through the unknown...

Let’s talk about something powerful today. Every single moment of your life, you are making three decisions: 1️⃣ What are you going to focus on? 2️⃣ What meaning are you giving it? 3️⃣ What are you going to do next? Most people believe they’re simply experiencing life as it is. But the truth is — you don’t experience life. You experience the life you focus on. If you focus on what happened yesterd...