She Finds Joy

Ep 56 | The System’s Mindset: It’s Not Willpower, That’s the Problem This is the last episode of the Mindset Series. We’ve covered the Happiness Mindset , the Self-Care Mindset , the Belief Mindset , and the Manifestor’s Mindset . Now we bring it all together in the System’s Mindset. People feel frustrated when they can’t take the actions they need to make sustainable progress in their lives. It’s...

Ep 55 | The Manifestor’s Mindset Most of us create our lives by default. We haven’t learned how to manifest our desires through the magic of the Universe. We haven’t learned how to access the power of our thoughts and our mind. Ever wanted to know the secret to not just settling, but actually ACHIEVING your BIGGEST goals without working yourself to the ground? In today’s episode, Kim discusses the...

Ep 54 | The Belief Mindset: Change Your Thoughts & Change Your Life To put it bluntly: if you don't have an internal belief system that supports your goals, you won’t be able to achieve those goals. Your beliefs are always driving what you can and cannot achieve in life. Most humans have approximately 70,000 thoughts running through their minds on a daily basis. And from the research, we know that...

Ep 53 | The Self-Care Mindset & Why It’s Critical to Your Health Many of us feel overwhelmed and defeated by life. And we certainly don’t feel like we have the time to even think about our own needs. Loving ourselves is a foreign concept for too many of us. Why can we so easily love our children, our parents, and our dogs, but we struggle to love ourselves? Yet, the most important relationship you...

Ep 52 | The Happiness Mindset: Your Happiness Matters All of us want to be happy, even if we don’t want to admit it or we feel like it’s a frivolous thing to talk about. Some of us want professional success, to find the right partner, spiritual fulfillment, and others yearn for passion and purpose in their life. However, what holds true among almost everyone is that our culture looks at the happin...

Ep 51 | The Arena of Bigness: How to Live a Braver Life Many times we think we are overwhelmed… when in fact we are also underwhelmed. I believe burnout comes from both. When we feel underwhelmed, we feel lost from who we used to be, we no longer know what our hobbies are, or the dreams we want to pursue. Feeling underwhelmed keeps us tied to a job that sucks our soul or stuck in a relationship th...

Ep 50 | Burnout & Why I Created The Happy Academy Burnout is a kind of exhaustion that seeps into every aspect of your life. Even though I travel around the country teaching teachers, business people, and more about how to overcome burnout, I can tell you that I, too, have been experiencing it lately. For me, burnout looks like: The inability to shut work off, even when I should be enjoying time o...

Ep 49 | How to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed in Motherhood with Dr. Nicole Calloway Rankins Today on the She Finds Joy podcast, Kim sits down for a conversation with Dr. Nicole Calloway Rankins. Nicole is a board-certified, practicing OB/GYN and mom of two girls who empowers first-time moms to feel supported and prepared for pregnancy and birth. Over the last 15 years, she’s helped more than a thousand...

Ep 48 | Create a Sustainable, Healthy Lifestyle to Reach Your Wellness Goals with Cassie Riley Part 2 Cassie Riley is a Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach who works with clients by helping them reach their specific wellness goals through healthy meal plans, nutritious food choices, and movement. She helps create positive behavior change through sustainable health habits that go deeper th...

Ep 47 | Tools to Help You Ditch Diet Culture with Cassie Riley Part 1 In this episode of the She Finds Joy podcast, Kim speaks with Cassie Riley. Cassie is a Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach who works with clients by helping them reach their specific wellness goals through healthy meal plans, nutritious food choices, and movement. She helps them create positive behavior change through...

Ep 46 | Angela Robeck: Releasing People-Pleasing Angela Kelly Robeck is well versed in teaching and school leadership, having been a teacher for over 15 years and a school principal for six years before moving into a district-level position. She is a certified coach of The Life Coach School and completed the life coaching program from Martha Beck International, and is the founder of Angela Kelly C...

Ep 45 | Tara Martin: Overcoming Trauma, Advocating for Kids, and Bringing Your REAL Self Tara grew up in a very chaotic and abusive home. She was an “at-risk” student whose life was changed by one caring, kind, and very REAL teacher, which is why she now advocates for every single student and empowers educators across the country to be REAL. REAL Educators are relatable, they expose vulnerability...

Ep 44 | Boundaries, Expectations, and Manuals with Susie Pettit Susie Pettit has been helping women live lives they love for over 10 years. She is the host of the podcast Love Your Life Show and owner of the wellness company Strength: Mind & Body, LLC . Susie is passionate about helping women live lives that feel as good on the inside as they look on the outside. She spent more than half her life...

Ep 43 | Steve Bollar: How to Embrace Your Uniqueness as a Leader Steve Bollar, a.k.a. Stand Tall Steve, is an educational thought leader, former Superintendent of Schools, principal, author and a culture and motivation expert. At 6’7, everyone assumed he would become a basketball player, but instead he pursued a career as an art teacher and eventually as a motivational speaker. In this episode of...

Ep 42 | Amanda Thebe: How to Thrive During Menopause Amanda Thebe is a force of nature for women who are experiencing menopause hell and want to start feeling healthy and fit in their 40s and beyond. With over 20 years of experience in the fitness industry, Amanda is a highly regarded expert on women’s fitness and health. She brings a refreshing humor and no-nonsense approach to subjects usually s...

Ep 41 | Jill Angie: Lessons from a Plus-Size Runner Jill Angie of Not Your Average Runner is a certified life and running coach who wants to live in a world where everyone is free to feel fit and fabulous at any size. She started Not Your Average Runner in 2013 to help women gain confidence and self-esteem through running. She herself is a plus-size runner who helps women of all shapes and sizes s...

Ep 40 | Laura Cathcart Robbins: What it Feels Like to be the Only One in the Room Laura Cathcart Robbins is a writer and the host of the popular podcast, The Only One In The Room . In 2018, she attended a much-anticipated famed writers’ retreat led by two powerhouse authors, Elizabeth Gilbert and Cheryl Strayed. To her dismay, she left the retreat feeling unseen and hurt by their dialogue. She was...

Ep 39 | Lindsay Bryan-Podvin: How to Reshape Your Money Mindset In this episode, Kim interviews Lindsay Bryan-Podvin, a licensed financial therapist. She helps people get their mind and money in balance using financial psychology. Lindsay explains our mindsets around money and how psychology and emotions play a bigger role than we think—it’s not all budgeting and bookkeeping. Kim and Lindsay break...

Ep 38 | Why Grit and Productive Struggle Lead to Growth Mindset In today’s episode of the She Finds Joy podcast, Kim talks all about Angela Duckworth. She’s a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and in her research she has stated that it is neither talent, nor physical strength, nor intelligence that leads to outstanding achievement and success in life. The secret is grit. Du...

Ep 37 | Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset: How They Shape Our Lives Carol Dweck, synthesized in her remarkably insightful book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success — an inquiry into the power of our beliefs, both conscious and unconscious, and how changing even the simplest of them can have profound impact on nearly every aspect of our lives. Dweck reveals in her research that the “fixed mindset”...

Ep 36 | Changing Yourself By 1% Part 2 The reason you can’t create behavior change or habit change in your life has nothing to do with you or your willpower. It has to do with your system. Having a goal isn’t enough to achieve the result. And the size of your goal doesn’t correlate with the size of your results. Instead, put your energy into building a system to support your success in your habits...

Ep 35 | Changing Yourself By 1% When it comes to change, you don’t need to take massive, gigantic action. You only need to implement tiny, 1% shifts in your life to grow yourself. Tiny habits are the compound interest of the self-improvement world. Human beings struggle to develop and maintain habits. We do things like work out like crazy for a week or so, and then stop completely. We go on a supe...

Ep 34 | The Value of Self-Loyalty with Nancy Jane Smith In this episode of the She Finds Joy podcast, Kim has the distinct pleasure of talking with Nancy Jane Smith. Nancy is a Licensed Professional Counselor with thirteen years in private practice, and has spent an impressive 20-plus years working as a counselor and coach. She has written three books on living happier, most notably The Happier Ap...

Ep 33 | Renea Fieck: Overcoming Overwhelm as a Mother In today’s episode of the She Finds Joy podcast, Kim speaks with Renae Fieck. Renae is a shameless mom of three, an occupational therapist, and an advocate for moms who desire more grace, space, and rest within their lives. She has found strength beyond her own to navigate life’s struggles—multiple miscarriages, life with three kids, working mo...

Ep 32 | Using a Poison Pen Letter to Heal Hurts When we hold on to negative energy, it saps us of our creativity, health, and well-being. We let it steal our joy. We become so wrapped up in the wrong that was done to us that we can’t enjoy the present. When we hold onto unforgiveness, it can bring bitterness and anger into our experiences and relationships with others. “Holding onto anger is like...