The Wreaking Joy Podcast

Today’s episode was not on the schedule. It’s not the usual Reclaim style episode with one practical tip for one specific situation. Or maybe it is? It’s me, riffing on a theme that goes something like ‘let’s put all the rage and despair and existential angst from the most recent enshittifications firmly back where they belong - on the heads of those who are pushing hard for the repression of wome...

Hello, and welcome back to Wreaking More Joy. I’m Janette Dalgliesh, and in this season, Reclaim, we’re digging into the nuts and bolts, the practical solutions, as we continue exploring how women can disrupt outdated BS in our heads and rekindle the romance with our purpose, especially in our working lives. Last week we talked about cui bono, the question of who benefits from any given rule rattl...

Hello, and welcome back to Wreaking More Joy. I’m Janette Dalgliesh, and in this season, Reclaim, we’re digging into the nuts and bolts, the practical solutions, as we continue exploring how women can disrupt outdated BS in our heads and rekindle the romance with our purpose, especially in our working lives. Today I want to start with a client story, told with permission. Names have been changed t...

Hello, and welcome back to Wreaking More Joy. I’m Janette Dalgliesh, and in this season, Reclaim, we’re digging into the nuts and bolts, the practical solutions, as we continue exploring how women can rekindle the romance with our purpose, our joy, and our personal power — especially in our working lives. Today I want to tell you about the worst professional decision I ever made. Many years ago, I...

The Perfectionism Trap Tagline: your impossible standards are a survival strategy, not a personality flaw Hello, and welcome back to Wreaking More Joy . I’m Janette Dalgliesh, and in this season, Reclaim , we’re digging into the nuts and bolts, the practical solutions, as we continue exploring how women can rekindle the romance with our purpose, our joy, and our personal power — especially in our...

Hello, and welcome back to Wreaking More Joy . I’m Janette Dalgliesh, and in this season, Reclaim , we’re digging into the nuts and bolts, the practical solutions, as we continue exploring how women can rekindle the romance with our purpose, our joy, and our personal power — especially in our working lives. Today, we are talking about the worst boss most of us have ever had: the one who lives rent...

All the details and an invitation to Season 2, Reclaim. Where Rekindle was a 'set the scene' kind of introduction to concepts and ideas, Reclaim will be a more nuts and bolts exploration of the specific aggravations, issues and solutions for women whose joy in their purpose has dimmed. If you have a specific idea or issue or topic you'd like me to explore, let me know! Thanks for tuning in. This i...

Welcome back to Wreaking More Joy . I’m Janette Dalgliesh, and in this season, Rekindle , we’re exploring how women can rekindle the romance with our purpose, our joy, and our personal power — especially in our working lives. If you’ve been here from the beginning — or even if you’ve joined partway through — I want to begin this final episode of Season 1 with gratitude. Thank you for your attentio...

Welcome back to *Wreaking More Joy*. I’m Janette Dalgliesh, and in this season, Rekindle, we’re exploring how women can rekindle the romance with our purpose, our joy, and our personal power — especially in our working lives. Today, I want to talk about something very tender, and very human. That deep longing most of us carry: the longing to contribute, to be useful, to matter. Not in an abstract...

Welcome back to Wreaking More Joy. I’m Janette Dalgliesh, and in this season, Rekindle , we’re exploring how women can rekindle the romance with our purpose, our joy, and our personal power — especially in our working lives. We are always being told that creating change means “getting out of our comfort zone“ but I don’t know about you: every time I hear that bit of advice, I can NOT stop my eyes...

Welcome back to *Wreaking More Joy*. In the last episode, we spent time with Venus and her unique capacity for unapologetic desire. We talked about naming desire without shame, without urgency, without needing to justify ourselves. Today, we meet her lover, Mars, another planetary ally with a twisted reputation. To the ancients, Mars was the representation of brutal imperialism, patriarchy, and ex...

Hello, and welcome back to *Wreaking More Joy*. I’m Janette Dalgliesh, and in this season we’re exploring how women can rekindle the romance with our purpose, our joy, and our personal power — especially in our working lives. Today, we’re meeting Venus. This is one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented of the planetary allies, along with Moon. The two major planets of the zodiac assigned fe...

Hello, and welcome back to Wreaking More Joy. I’m Janette Dalgliesh, and in this season, Rekindle, we’re exploring how women can rebuild a joyful, sustainable relationship with our purpose and the ways we express it through our working lives. In the last episode, we spent time with Saturn, the planet of structure, focus, and chosen limits, and we talked about how self-authored constraint, when it’...

Hello, and welcome back to Wreaking More Joy, I’m Janette Dalgliesh; and in this season, Rekindle, we’re exploring how women can reconnect with and reclaim the joy of fulfilling our purpose in the world, whatever that might be. Today, I want to talk about focus , because there is so much going on in the world right now. We’ve got a bunch of stuff happening in Australia. We had a big hate crime hap...

In our last episode, I challenged the whole concept of having to constantly prove ourselves by being better all the time. Today, we’re going to flip things around and talk about our inborn, burning desire to do a good job, our desire to pursue excellence, to become better and better at expressing our purpose in the world. Yes, it’s a contradiction. And also, it’s not. Joy comes from being able to...

Hello, and welcome back to *Wreaking More Joy*. I’m Janette Dalgliesh, and in this first season of episodes we’re exploring how women can rekindle the romance with our own purpose, joy, and personal power in our working lives — without draining ourselves dry in the process. Since this is going live at the very end of 2025, when many of us are making plans for next year, I want to drag a particular...

Hello, gorgeous, and welcome to the very first episode of Wreaking More Joy. I’m Janette Dalgliesh, and I’m here to talk to women about this incredible pain, the very real, very common pain that we feel, when it feels like we have fallen out of love with our important work in the world. No matter what we think our purpose is, no matter how well we’ve expressed it in the past or how much it still m...

I’m thrilled to announce the formal launch (or relaunch) of my upcoming podcast, Wreaking More Joy, now fully dedicated to serving women who want to fall back in love with their important work in the world. It’s a welcoming space for thoughtful, purpose-driven women; for professionals, creatives, healers, solopreneurs and, yes, change-makers - the ones who want to revive and reclaim all the joy, c...

I was contemplating breakfast options this morning, and after running through everything from omelettes to french toast, I realised what my body actually craved was something from childhood: a hot steaming bowl of porridge (in the USA, I believe the equivalent is ‘oatmeal’ though I’ve never had it there so I couldn’t possibly comment). Thanks for visiting Wreaking More Joy! Subscribe for free to r...

True confession time. I recently hurt my neck, overdoing things at the keyboard. And it was easy to see that I had fallen back into an old pattern of fulfilling other people's needs before listening to my own. (The good news is, I have a very good chiropractor and I am following instructions to the letter; and I was recently challenged by someone to pick up my old podcast and move it to Substack....

Try this simple hack as a starting point. And if you need more help, come visit my website www.janettedalgliesh.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit janettedalgliesh.substack.com

Life lessons from this unapologetic and self-assured (and noisy!) Aussie bird This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit janettedalgliesh.substack.com

Everyone has Venus somewhere in their chart; and this often-misunderstood goddess gives us huge clues to our own Empress nature. Want to know how to unlock your own Venus and fuel up the empire of your life? Listen on!  And if you'd like my eyes on your chart so you can truly take advantage of this beautiful energy in your own life, I have spots available in my calendar - https://www.janettedalgli...

There are two paths to any kind of change. One path is fully empress-ey and therefore easier and more effective. The other path is waaaaaay harder, less effective - and it’s the path most of us have been taught. If you're ready to take the easier, less-travelled path, let me help with that. www.janettedalgliesh.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers...

In which I explore what the patriarchy has to do with how my friend's tea was served to her. If you need help taking up space fully in your own life, get in touch and we'll start figuring it out together - https://www.janettedalgliesh.com/coaching This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit janettedalgliesh.substack.com