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Send us Fan Mail Week Two! How did your journaling go last week?   Welcome to your mid-week, lunch break, journal break! Thank you for joining us again as we explore the research behind journaling and the power of your heart on the page! Grab a your favorite song, a journal, and a pen! It's time to make journaling a joyful habit together! Why not CONTINUE today? Follow us on IG: https://www.i...

Send us Fan Mail And we're back!!!   The Beckoning Joy Podcast followed her heart and is now embodying the joy she's been drawn to since a little girl-journaling! We present to you, The Joyful Journaling Podcast! Season Two of The Writing Well's offerings! Welcome to your mid-week, lunch break, journal break! Thank you for joining us today for our maiden voyage together as we explor...

Send us Fan Mail Tomorrow. Tomorrow. We'll Journal Tomorrow! It's only a day AWAY! Join us Wed. 11.2.22 for our maiden voyage on the Journal Boat! Yes, I'm an 80s kid and I'm ALL good with it and ALL about it! Twenty-two years of teaching and serving as a writing coach, ghostwriter, and book doula have taught me we all start at the same safe place, our journals! Haven't tr...

Send us Fan Mail Mindset is important but so is action. You can't juice the best out of life without putting yourself first and knowing your worth. Holistic Health Coach Maria McKeon is a yoga, pilates, and nutrition coach who helps women find their spiritual alignment in life through healthy choices including diet, body movement, and lifestyle choices. Self-care is a choice and Maria has dev...

Send us Fan Mail When your college BFF, who has walked you through thick and thin, becomes a bad a$$ money coach and momprenuer, you KNOW she's going to offer a MOST valuable conversation for your listeners! Eileen's passion for helping folks manage their money comes from LIFE's hard knocks, and she KNOWS how to help folks mind their money mindset and set their books straight to boo...

Send us Fan Mail As this releases, it's just shy of August! So VERY much has changed since I released my first podcast episode back in April, including the fact that I now have some pretty sexxy sound equipment SINCE talking with Brenda, unfortunately. Gotta love Podcasting School and all its perks!! HEAR this difference in all my future episodes! Today's guest was the VERY first person...

Send us Fan Mail Nicole Spindler was my lead mentor as a part of Eric Koester 's Book Creator's program with New Degree Press . On my personal self-care journey I wrote my memoir thanks to Nicole's guidance. Turns out Nicole's transformation to author began the same way, in self-care!  You can take a peak at Nicole's creations at: Beyond Life's Moments: (non-fiction,...

Send us Fan Mail It's not everyday that you meet a phenomenally qualified individual you can talk self-care shop with and include topics about higher education, balance in life, finding the career to meet that balance, AND how pets can add an entirely meaningful layer to the mix! Yet, my conversation with Dr. Julie Marty-Pearson, one stormy afternoon in early May was ALL that and MORE! I know...

Send us Fan Mail Podcasting is a journey and often an imperfect one filled with  moments where we apply new skillsets, and grow, just like in the practice of life...just like with the practice of peace. In today's episode you'll hear one of the first interviews I ever held with one of the most natural conversations two Moms could have. Author Christine Francisco and I cover it all, from...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Father's Day! Thank you to all the Dads out there, the Dads who have passed on who we hold in loving memory, and to the Moms out there who pull not double, but quadruple duty in my experience when Dads aren't present for whatever reason. Parenting matters! Love the ones you're with today! Welcome from our new home studio in Saranac Lake, the Capital of the Adi...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you have the courage to dive in on your own terms to cultivate self-awareness and creative curiosity? You enter a new level of authentic self-care that helps yourself AND others! Tonight, we welcome Meiling Liu, creative and coach, for our sojourn in self-care. Thank you for joining our conversation! Meiling is a multi-passionate creative & spiritual life coa...

Send us Fan Mail We are thrilled to share our first guest with you on Beckoning Joy! Thank you taking a pause to sojourn with us tonight! As meditation has provided incredible positive shifts in my own life, I sought out Masako to share her powerful story. Masako Kozawa shares her transformative process, from dark night of the soul to now living out her mission: to live the most expansive, fulfill...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Mother's Day! Celebrating Moms and self-care when Moms have departed our lives. Mothering looks different for everyone but is always a reason to beckon joy! This episode is dedicated to my Moms: Adoptive Mom: Karen Birth Mom: Theresa Mother-in-law: Pauline Former Mother-in-Law: Norine Living Mother-in-law: Angela Beloved Godmother: Barby Mom in Spirit and Action: Mrs. K...

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode is dedicated to my son, Raymond, who is always noticing the details on purpose. Last year at this time he was building a miniature French Burgundian city to scale for his final Senior Project. Today, he finds the subtleties in arrangements of Baroque music and the shades of the sunset skies. Good luck on your college finals coming up, Kiddo! We love ya! Tonigh...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is dedicated to my husband, Russell. I love you and appreciate your support as I put into practice the art of an authentic pause. Today, you will hear my love letter to you, listener. You will hear my raw and unedited heart. My goal is for us to sojourn together weekly that you too may know the power of a pause, a practice in self-care, whatever that looks like to you...