Paula Jenkins

Jump Start Your Joy®

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Jump Start Your Joy is a podcast by Paula Jenkins, a business coach and podcast producer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Inspired by the quote "Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day (Henri Nouwen)," this lively show looks at the inspiration, intention, and action that lead to joy in your life, the world, and other people's lives.

Author

Paula Jenkins

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Society

Podcast website

jumpstartyourjoy.com

Latest episode

Feb 22, 2026

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Episodes

Ep132: A Mastermind Shares Proven Ways to Feel More Confident in Your Work and Life 17.04.2018

A recent hot topic with my mastermind has been that of confidence. About two months ago, we did a webinar for the first time on it, and found that it was such a deep and wide topic. This episode is a two-part one … today you'll get to hear part one on my show and on Wednesday, part two is airing on Liz Applegate's show, Midlife Schmidlife. There are a couple of things I know to be true about confi...

Ep131: Mandy Ford on Following the Joy of Drawing and Illustration (A Lookback Episode) 10.04.2018

As an illustrator, designer, and artist, Mandy returned to drawing after a fairly long absence. What I've noticed about people who have a grasp on joy is that they often are actively making space to do the things they love in their lives. They take the time to listen to what their heart is saying to them, and they are open to the nudges that they get from the universe along the way.   In the last...

Ep130: What You Can Learn from Ants About Actively Practicing Joy Everyday with host Paula Jenkins 03.04.2018

This week on the show, I'm excited to share a solocast all about why joy matters. I recently had a series of aha moments around the interviews with Fred Leblanc and Julia Samuels, along with the work I've been doing in Tiffany Han's Inner Circle - that led me to a realization that joy isn't just a choice, but it's a necessity and it's something we need to make room for everyday, in some way. This...

Ep129: Rayne Parvis on Your Personal Style 27.03.2018

This week's interview with personal stylist and coach, Rayne Parvis is one of those special and fun discussions that really feels more like a chat with an old friend than an interview. Rayne and I hit it off from the start, and we laugh so hard in this interview that it's a total delight to be sharing it with you this week. Rayne has been very joyfully styling clients now for the past few years, a...

Ep129: Rayne Parvis on Your Personal Style 27.03.2018

This week's interview with personal stylist and coach, Rayne Parvis is one of those special and fun discussions that really feels more like a chat with an old friend than an interview. Rayne and I hit it off from the start, and we laugh so hard in this interview that it's a total delight to be sharing it with you this week. Rayne has been very joyfully styling clients now for the past few years, a...

Ep128: Friendpreneur Series: Lara Heacock on Practical Kindness 22.03.2018

This week, I'm delighted to have Lara Heacock joining me for the second installment of the Friendpreneur Series. This series focuses on conversations with friends, who are entrepreneurs. Many of the people are friends I've met either through the show (and have been on before!) or through contacts in coaching. I've found that starting and running a small business is something very new to many of us...

Ep128: Friendpreneur Series: Lara Heacock on Practical Kindness 22.03.2018

This week, I'm delighted to have Lara Heacock joining me for the second installment of the Friendpreneur Series. This series focuses on conversations with friends, who are entrepreneurs. Many of the people are friends I've met either through the show (and have been on before!) or through contacts in coaching. I've found that starting and running a small business is something very new to many of us...

Ep128: Friendpreneur Series: Lara Heacock on Practical Kindness 22.03.2018

This week, I'm delighted to have Lara Heacock joining me for the second installment of the Friendpreneur Series. This series focuses on conversations with friends, who are entrepreneurs. Many of the people are friends I've met either through the show (and have been on before!) or through contacts in coaching. I've found that starting and running a small business is something very new to many of us...

Ep128: Friendpreneur Series: Lara Heacock on Practical Kindness 22.03.2018

This week, I'm delighted to have Lara Heacock joining me for the second installment of the Friendpreneur Series. This series focuses on conversations with friends, who are entrepreneurs. Many of the people are friends I've met either through the show (and have been on before!) or through contacts in coaching. I've found that starting and running a small business is something very new to many of us...

Ep128: Friendpreneur Series: Lara Heacock on Practical Kindness 22.03.2018

This week, I'm delighted to have Lara Heacock joining me for the second installment of the Friendpreneur Series. This series focuses on conversations with friends, who are entrepreneurs. Many of the people are friends I've met either through the show (and have been on before!) or through contacts in coaching. I've found that starting and running a small business is something very new to many of us...

Ep127: Julia Samuel on Grief Works, and the Stories of Life, Death, and Surviving 20.03.2018

On the show this week, I'm delighted to be joined by Julia Samuel. She is a British psychotherapist who specializes in grief and bereavement, and founded the UK Child Bereavement charity, that works with children who are grieving, as well as those who are grieving the loss of a child. She is the author of Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death, and Surviving. Julia is a truly delightful person and I...

Ep126: Content Planning and Strategy for your Podcast, Retreat, or Blog 13.03.2018

This week on the show, I'm explaining the basics and tactics of content planning and strategy for your retreat, podcast, or blog on this solocast. Learn how to take your idea to a solid plan that you can execute using project management and inspiration. It's one of my favorite topics: Figuring out the building blocks of content strategy for your own brand. I'll be explaining how this can be applie...

Ep126: Content Planning and Strategy for your Podcast, Retreat, or Blog 13.03.2018

This week on the show, I'm explaining the basics and tactics of content planning and strategy for your retreat, podcast, or blog on this solocast. Learn how to take your idea to a solid plan that you can execute using project management and inspiration. It's one of my favorite topics: Figuring out the building blocks of content strategy for your own brand. I'll be explaining how this can be applie...

Ep126: Content Planning and Strategy for your Podcast, Retreat, or Blog 13.03.2018

This week on the show, I'm explaining the basics and tactics of content planning and strategy for your retreat, podcast, or blog on this solocast. Learn how to take your idea to a solid plan that you can execute using project management and inspiration. It's one of my favorite topics: Figuring out the building blocks of content strategy for your own brand. I'll be explaining how this can be applie...

Ep125: Energy, Joy, and Cowboy Mouth with guest Fred LeBlanc 06.03.2018

Fred LeBlanc is the powerfully energetic drummer and lead singer of the band Cowboy Mouth from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I could not be more excited to have him on the show this week. What draws me to Fred is his true dedication to joy, to choosing it, spreading it, his dedication to elevating the vibration and awareness of everyone at his shows. From his lyrics and the way he gets a crowd excit...

Ep124: How to Shine with Confidence with guest Tanika Mason 27.02.2018

Confidence coach, marketing mentor, and dancer Tanika Mason joins host Paula Jenkins to talk about how to shine with confidence. Tanika shares how to build confidence as an entrepreneur so that you can build a dream business you love.

Ep123: Self Advocacy: Going Beyond Self Care with guest Christy Tending (Friendpreneur Series) 22.02.2018

Self care expert and activist Christy Tending joins host Paula Jenkins for the Friendpreneur Series to talk about self advocacy, becoming a mother, and running a business. Mompreneurs unite!

Ep122: Defining Boundaries, Embracing Kindness, and How to Live Your Most Joyful Life with guest Amy Smith 20.02.2018

Amy Smith joins the show to talk about how to set loving boundaries, honor what you need, how to have hard conversations with compassion, self love and kindness. As two life coaches, and joy experts, Paula and Amy have a light and joyfilled discussion.

Ep121: Choosing Love over Fear with guest Ellie Bassick-Trovato 13.02.2018

Ellie Bassick-Trovato, a life coach, joins me to talk about choosing love over fear, and how choosing love has changed her life. Inspired by "Conversations with God," by Neale Donald Walsch.

Ep120: The Imposter Syndrome: What it's Trying to Tell you (and How to Deal with it) with host Paula Jenkins 06.02.2018

The Imposter Syndrome pops up when you're following dreams, and it can make you question if you're a fake or a fraud. Host Paula Jenkins talks about how to deal with feeling like an imposter, and how to deal with it if shows up.

Ep119: Living 'Mighty Well' with Chronic Illness with guest Emily Levy 30.01.2018

Emily Levy of wellness company Mighty Well joins the show to talk about living with Neurological Lyme Disease, starting a company, and becoming a 24 year old CEO. Inspired by her own dissatisfaction with PICC covers, she set out to create something new.

Ep118: The Crossroads of Illusion, Magic, and Joy with guest Vitaly Beckman 23.01.2018

Magician and illusionist Vitaly Beckman joins host Paula Jenkins to talk about how he became an illusionist, his time on Penn and Teller's "Fool Us," how he creates new illusions, and how it all ties into creating joy and wonder.

Ep117: Creating an Inspiring, Actionable, and Joy-filled Bucket List with host Paula Jenkins 16.01.2018

In this episode, learn how to create a bucket list that is full of meaning, and learn how to do some of those things that have been sitting on your list for way too long. 

Ep116: Bare Naked Bravery with guest Emily Ann Peterson 09.01.2018

Musician Emily Ann Peterson shares about developing an Essential Tremor and how courage, bravery, improvisation and defiant expectations have helped her find joy.

Ep115: How to Stop Feeling Like Shit and Live a Kickass Life with guest Andrea Owen 02.01.2018

Andrea Owen of Your Kickass Life joins to talk about her new book, How to Stop Feeling Like Shit. Andrea is an author, mentor, & certified life coach who helps high-achieving women let go of perfectionism, control & isolation & choose courage & confidence.

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