The Joyful Path Podcast

Have you ever felt like you've lost yourself? In this heartfelt conversation, Megan Wiseman shares how years of people-pleasing, staying quiet, and disconnecting from her own needs eventually showed up in her body and led her on a profound healing journey. Through stillness, meditation, and a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ, she began remembering who God had always created her to be. Togethe...

In this inspiring episode of The Joyful Path Podcast, Kira and Shalese sit down with healing practitioner and founder of the Holistic Wholeness Collective, Emily Powell, to explore a powerful truth: you are not meant to stay broken. Emily shares her personal journey through trauma, loss, healing, and her lifelong mission to help people discover the many resources available to support true healing...

What if the path to greater joy, deeper relationships, and a stronger connection with Christ begins with healing your heart? In this heartfelt conversation, Kira sits down with heart-centered life coach, healing guide, and Tree of Life speaker Shalese Bruce to explore the powerful role the heart plays in our spiritual, emotional, and relational well-being. Together, they discuss how trauma, grief,...

What if healing isn't about fixing yourself, but remembering who you are through Christ? Melani Jacobson's journey is a powerful testament to faith, resilience, and the healing guidance of God. After being hospitalized and misdiagnosed as a teenager, she spent years searching for answers that could bring lasting peace, clarity, and healing. In this heartfelt conversation, Melani shares how persona...

What if nothing in your life has been random? What if the seasons you've struggled through, the detours you never planned for, the dreams that haven't fully made sense yet, and even the painful chapters were all part of a greater unfolding? This conversation with Emily Baker is one of those rare, mic-drop episodes that leaves you seeing your life differently. Emily shares a powerful perspective on...

In this deeply moving episode of The Joyful Path Podcast, we sit down with Camille Smith — founder of Restoration Yoga — to explore Christ-centered yoga, healing through stillness, surrendering control, and learning to trust God more fully through every season of life. Camille shares her journey of discovering Christ-centered yoga, raising a special needs son, navigating marriage and motherhood, l...

In this deeply insightful conversation, Meredith Ashton shares how understanding the menstrual cycle can completely transform the way women live, lead, rest, heal, and connect with themselves spiritually. We talk about cyclical living, the wisdom of the feminine body, birth, motherhood, menopause, self-trust, rest, the Divine Feminine, and how women were never meant to function the same every sing...

In this powerful and deeply healing conversation, Nikki Taylor shares her journey from years of painful menstrual cycles, infertility, chronic pain, and feeling disconnected from her body… to discovering a completely new way of understanding healing. As a massage therapist, Berry Method practitioner, and lymphatic drainage specialist, Nikki explains how the body communicates through pain, inflamma...

In this episode of The Joyful Path Podcast, Kira and Shalese dive deep into the transformative power of gratitude — not just as a positive habit, but as a way of living that can completely shift your identity, mindset, relationships, and connection with God. Together they explore how gratitude moves us from fear to trust, scarcity to abundance, and striving to peace. ✨ Through personal stories, s...

Some conversations don’t just inspire you… they expand what you believe is possible. This episode with Joslyn Rappleye is one of those conversations. We talk about miracles — not as distant stories from scripture, but as something deeply personal, present, and available today. Joslyn shares experiences that challenged her to move beyond fear, beyond perfectionism, and beyond simply “checking the b...

What if the hardest things you go through… are actually shaping your deepest joy? In this powerful episode of The Joyful Path Podcast, we sit down with Traci Parker to hear her incredible story of faith, loss, healing, and unwavering trust in Jesus Christ. After experiencing deep heartbreak—including the tragic loss of her husband in a motorcycle accident—Traci shares how she didn’t fall apart… sh...

There’s a deeper reason behind anxiety, overwhelm, and self-sabotage—and it changes everything once you see it. In this powerful episode of The Joyful Path Podcast, we sit down with Shawna Smith, creator of the Genosa Way, to explore what’s really underneath the patterns so many of us struggle with—and how understanding those roots can transform the way you experience your life. Most of us have be...

What if the thing you’ve struggled with most… is actually your calling? In this powerful episode of The Joyful Path Podcast, Shalese and Kira sit down with Kira’s husband, Tyler Martin, to share the raw and real story of how a deep struggle—addiction to sleep medication—became the very thing that reshaped his purpose, mindset, and life. From the outside, everything looked successful—businesses, fa...

Why does self love feel… uncomfortable sometimes? In this episode of The Joyful Path Podcast, we explore what self love really means—and why it can feel so hard. Kira opens up about her past fear of being perceived as selfish, and together with Shalese, they unpack a deeper truth: ✨ Self love isn’t self-centered ✨ You can’t pour from an empty cup ✨ Your worth isn’t earned—it’s received We talk...

What if joy isn’t something you wait for… but something you choose? In this episode of The Joyful Path, we dive deep into what true joy really is—and why it has little to do with your circumstances and everything to do with your focus. We talk about how joy can exist even in the hard, and how learning to feel, process, and understand your emotions actually opens the door to deeper joy—not less. Th...

Struggling with perfectionism, burnout, or feeling like you’ve lost yourself? Here’s how to reconnect with your authentic feminine energy and finally feel like you again. In this deeply moving conversation with Megan Wiseman, we explore the journey of unmasking perfectionism, healing the roots of fear, and returning to your authentic feminine self—the version of you that has always been there bene...

In this episode of The Joyful Path Podcast, we explore The Hidden Power Behind the Words You Speak and how our words, beliefs, and thoughts shape the reality we experience. Have you ever heard the quote by Henry Ford: “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t — you’re right.” In this conversation, we dive into what that really means and how the words we speak every day influence our subco...

In this powerful episode of The Joyful Path Podcast, we sit down with author, speaker, and coach Robin Johnson to explore what it truly means to develop a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Many of us grow up learning about Christ—but there is a profound difference between knowing about Him and truly knowing Him. Robin shares her deeply personal journey through trauma, depression, and healin...

In this episode of The Joyful Path Podcast, Kira and Shalese sit down with Candice Noss to talk about the real battle behind burnout, depression, and self-hatred—the thoughts we believe about ourselves. Candice shares her rock-bottom moment after having her sixth baby, the sacred prayer experience that shattered the lies in her mind, and how reconnecting with Christ became the turning point that c...

Triggers aren’t here to hurt us—they’re here to guide us. In this episode of The Joyful Path Podcast, Kira and Shalese explore how emotional triggers can actually serve as powerful messengers for healing, self-awareness, and personal growth. Rather than seeing triggers as problems to avoid, this conversation invites a new perspective: triggers reveal the parts of ourselves that are asking to be se...

In this powerful and expansive conversation, we sit down with Meghan Farner, host of the Hidden Wisdom podcast, to explore one of the most transformative and often misunderstood aspects of our inner world — the masculine and feminine within each of us. Masculine and feminine are not about gender. They are energetic principles that exist in all of us, shaping how we act, create, receive, lead, love...

In this episode of The Joyful Path Podcast, we sit down with Mandy Aidukaitis — a gifted healer and trauma specialist — to explore the powerful relationship between forgiveness and true joy. Mandy shares how joy goes far beyond fleeting happiness, describing it as something rooted in soul-level connection with God and the eternal relationships that shape our lives. Through heartfelt conversation,...

In this episode of The Joyful Path Podcast, we sit down with Kira to explore how prayer and meditation have profoundly shaped her life, faith, and entrepreneurial journey. Kira shares exactly how she practices meditation, including mindfulness, intentional stillness, and the power of manifesting through focused thought, prayer, and writing. She opens up about how meditation transformed her sleep,...

In this episode of The Joyful Path Podcast, we sit down with Shalese and dive into her personal journey of faith, healing, and transformation. Shalese opens up about what it means to truly heal the heart and how deepening our relationship with Jesus Christ can change the way we see ourselves, our past, and our future. Through her story, we explore how Christ can rewrite our story, bring greater jo...

The Joyful Path Podcast – Episode 1: Welcome to The Joyful Path What does it mean to truly live with joy, even when life feels uncertain, heavy, or unfinished? In this very first episode of The Joyful Path Podcast, we introduce the heart behind this podcast and the journey that led us here. We share why this season felt like the right time to finally say “yes” to something that had been quietly pl...