Jump Start Your Joy®

Host Paula Jenkins is counting down the top 10 most downloaded episodes on Jump Start Your Joy, Season 3. From coaches, to musicians, to authors and several solocasts, get a feel for the show and YOUR most favorite guests. Who will be #1? Tune in to find out! Also, take the survey about Season 3 by clicking here.

Joy and Grief are two parts of our human experience. Join Paula as she revisits the most impactful and joyful discussions of Season 3, and learn about mindfulness, making space for joy, and embracing all of your emotions with three important guests.

As Season 3 comes to a close, and Fall is just around the corner, I'm finding that I'm ready to slow down. Our summer was purposefully jam packed: We visited England, we went on a family trip to San Diego, and I traveled to Atlanta for a conference. It was fun, it was exciting, and it was exhausting. As the seasons change, I'm longing for a slower pace and an I'm finding myself tired of the busy-n...

This week on the show, let's talk about some great ways to discover the right time to follow your dreams.   How to discover the right time to follow your dreams: 1. Have Patience Sometimes, we think we are ready before we are. What if, behind the scenes, the universe is making that path smooth for you? What if there is something else you need to learn before you are ready for the next step? Tune i...

Feeling stuck and like you have no momentum sucks. The truth is you will more than likely feel stuck at some point in your life, whether that be in your business or around personal growth, or at a full time job. I often feel it, and find myself questioning if I'm "on the right path," even four years into the podcast. This week on the podcast, I'm sharing about how I had an aha moment around "How t...

Feeling stuck and like you have no momentum sucks. The truth is you will more than likely feel stuck at some point in your life, whether that be in your business or around personal growth, or at a full time job. I often feel it, and find myself questioning if I'm "on the right path," even four years into the podcast. This week on the podcast, I'm sharing about how I had an aha moment around "How t...

In this week's solocast, I'm sharing about the profound impact the book "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less" by Greg Mckeown has had on my life. As a project manager and a life coach, I love that this book is both pragmatic on one level, and very philosophical and inspirational on the other. The two key areas that I focus on in this week's show are: Doing less, but better - doing the es...

As the host of Mom is in Control, and the amazing "Dying to be a Good Mother" Tedtalk, I'm thrilled to have Heather Chauvin joining me this week to talk all about abundance, ambition, time management, and how she found her way to a career she loves after being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. Heather is a true inspiration, and I'm delighted to feature her as the last guest for Season 3. In this epis...

As someone who has always been drawn to a myriad of interests and passions, you probably already know that I self-identify as a "multi-passionate" or "multi-potentialite" - which simply means that I'm the kind of person who is drawn to a myriad of interests and have a hard time narrowing down my interests and my career into just one thing. It's a topic that comes up often on the show, and this wee...

This week on the show, I'm excited to be talking about taking messy action with Christine Blubaugh. Christine is a copywriter from Ohio, who has had a very interesting path. She works with entrepreneurs to help other people in being objective about themselves, and craft copy that represents their offerings to the world. Having been a health coach, and food blogger for many years (along with a pers...

This week on the show, I'm excited to be talking about taking messy action with Christine Blubaugh. Christine is a copywriter from Ohio, who has had a very interesting path. She works with entrepreneurs to help other people in being objective about themselves, and craft copy that represents their offerings to the world. Having been a health coach, and food blogger for many years (along with a pers...

This week on the podcast, I'm sharing one of my favorite topics, 8 great reasons to start a podcast. While this episode is a solocast, I've shared this information in various other formats: webinars, as a guest instructor in other courses, and in my own podcasting class, Jump Start Your Podcast. And, I think it's a great perspective for anyone who is considering starting your own show, especially...

This week, I'm thrilled to be speaking to Violeta Nedkova on how to embrace the life of a creative rebel. Violeta is a coach and a creative rebel who believes you can stop following everyone else's rules, be your own boss, and do things your own way … and make a living doing it. She offers courses, coaching, and classes for creative rebels at her website, www.violetanedkova.com . Living in Bulgari...

This week's episode is a lookback lesson with Andrea Owen on "How to Stop Feeling Like Shit." This episode originally aired earlier this year, when her second book came out. Andrea Owen is an author, mentor, and certified life coach who helps high-achieving women let go of perfectionism, control, and isolation and choose courage and confidence instead. She has helped thousands of women manage thei...

Jill Stanton of Screw the 9 to 5 is my guest this week on the podcast. She's a true force to be reckoned with in the online lifestyle entrepreneur space, and I'm really excited to be speaking with her about how she has created a lively, exciting brand and community that's built from an authentic and interesting space. Having started in 2012 with an affiliate skincare site, and changed and shifted...

This week on the podcast, I'm revisiting the conversation with singer and songwriter Morgan Bolender. Morgan is known for her song entitled Mary Oliver, which has gone viral on YouTube. She started her career as a 3rd grade special education teacher and then started on a journey to quite literally find her voice, and listen to her heart. We met at Danielle LaPorte's White Hot Truth event at Grace...

This week on the podcast, I'm delighted to speak to Debbie Augenthaler on grief, trauma, and healing. Debbie is a psychotherapist,  the author of You Are Not Alone: A Heartfelt Guide to Grief, Healing, and Hope, and she has a private practice in New York City. After losing her husband, she was unexpectedly faced with grief, and found that losing someone that close to you causes ripples of effects;...

This week on the show, I'm exploring the 4 pillars of joy: Inspiration, Mindfulness, Action, and Fun. If you've been listening awhile, you know that I think of joy as a wayfinding emotion. I have seen joy dance with people, reach out for people, even when they are in their darkest times or most difficult times. Joy can look like a tiny inkling of hope, a little nudge to call a friend or a doctor;...

This week I'm so excited to have Doña Bumgarner on the show as part of the Friendpreneur Series. This series highlights conversations I have with friends, who are also entrepreneurs, and we dish the behind the scenes realities of starting a business, and what it looks like in real life. Doña Bumgarner is the powerhouse behind the "Nurtured Mama" blog, the voice of the "Nurturing Habit" podcast, an...

Kerri Powers is a singer, songwriter, and musician, and she has just released her latest album, Starseeds. I'm so honored and delighted to have her on the show this week to talk about her creative process, about getting honest and telling your truest story, and about how music is a connecting force. It was a real treat getting to speak with Kerri, who is as soulful as the blues music that she writ...

This week on the show, I'm joined by Emilie Wapnick, Jamie Ridler, and Melissa Dinwiddie for a roundtable on being a multi-passionate person. As a multi-passionate, or multi-potentialite (or scanner, or renaissance soul), we can relate to having lots of different interests and not wanting to narrow our work or creativity down to focus to just one thing. This roundtable focuses on the unique challe...

This week on the show, I'm thrilled to have Lindsay Ambrose and Natalie Sager joining me to talk about their new book, Peaceful Mamas: The Mind, Body, and Baby Connection. The two joined together to write this book after meeting at a conference in Chicago, and bonding together over their love of Hal Elrod's book, The Miracle Morning. Seeing how it could be tweaked, evolved, and applied to the tran...

Suzan Colon is a yoga expert and speaker, and the author of the book, Yoga Mind: Journey Beyond the Physical, 30 Days to Enhance your Practice and Revolutionize Your Life From the Inside Out. I'm thrilled to have her on the show this week to talk about her work and her book. Suzan Colon is a former senior editor for Oprah magazine, Details, Jane, and Harper's Bazaar, and I have found so much inspi...

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...

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...