Powered by Joy Podcast

In this episode of Powered by Joy, I'm joined by my son Jayke to explore how his passions for fitness, competition, and hunting have shaped his life in ways he never could have imagined.
From pushing through the steepest hills to discovering the power of discipline, gratitude, and self-reflection, Jayke shares how challenging himself has built confidence, deepened his connection to nature and faith, and opened doors to unexpected opportunities.
We talk about embracing failure as an opportunity to learn, the importance of finding community and mentors, and how sometimes the greatest rewards of pursuing a passion have nothing to do with the passion itself.
His journey is a reminder that growth happens when we're willing to challenge ourselves, take chances, and keep showing up—even when it's hard.
And sometimes, following what lights you up leads to a life you never could have planned.
✨ Follow what lights you up.
Come Play in My World
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What would our world be like without music? Have you ever stopped to think about just how deeply music is woven into our lives?
In this episode of Powered by Joy, I'm joined by Andelin to explore her passion for music and the surprising wisdom we can discover through listening, creating, and playing it.
From the freedom of individual expression to the magic of creating harmony with others, we explore how music mirrors life itself. We talk about improvisation, embracing mistakes, practicing patience, and learning to listen—not just to the music, but to ourselves and one another.
And what happens when we stop striving for perfection and simply allow ourselves to play?
Whether you're a musician or simply someone who loves music, this conversation is an invitation to discover the lessons, joy, and connection that music brings into our lives.
 
To Learn More and Connect with Andelin:Instagram: @andelinpriceEmail: info@andelinprice.com
 
✨ Follow what lights you up.
Come Play in My World
Want to explore more pleasure, play, curiosity, joy and aliveness in your own life?
✨ Explore my latest offerings, experiences & ways to work with me:https://erika-frances.com
💗 Discover your unique Pleasure Archetype:Your Unique Pleasure Pathway
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What if the thing you're passionate about isn't one particular thing—but the joy of learning itself?
In this episode of Powered by Joy, my friend Christina shares how she discovered that learning is one of her deepest values—and how that realization gave her permission to see a lifelong pattern in an entirely different way.
Like so many of us, she had absorbed the idea that learning a new skill, gaining knowledge, or pursuing an interest needed to go somewhere. There should be a purpose. A plan. Maybe even a way to monetize it.
But what if curiosity doesn't need to become a business?
What if you're allowed to learn simply because something fascinates you?
Christina shares what changed when she gave herself permission to pursue knowledge for the joy and pleasure of learning itself, following her curiosity into wildly different subjects without needing to justify where each one would lead.
Our conversation also moves into a deeper layer of expansion: it's one thing to raise your resonance and magnetize the things you desire—but what is your capacity to actually receive and hold them once they arrive?
We explore that inward spiral of noticing what may be restricting our capacity, doing the inner work it calls us toward, and allowing that growth to create space for even greater expansion.
Sometimes pursuing a passion isn't about figuring out what you're going to do with it.
Sometimes the passion gets to be the experience itself.
To Learn More and Connect with Christina:
IG: @work.with.the.moon
Website: https://www.thewisewomanworld.com/
 
✨ Follow what lights you up.
Come Play in My World
Want to explore more pleasure, play, curiosity, joy and aliveness in your own life?
✨ Explore my latest offerings, experiences & ways to work with me:https://erika-frances.com
💗 Discover your unique Pleasure Archetype:Your Unique Pleasure Pathway
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What happens when you stop dismissing the thing you’re curious about—and give yourself permission to explore where a passion might lead?
In the first episode of this new season of Powered by Joy, we’re exploring what happens when people are brave enough to pursue a passion—and how following what lights them up can change their lives.
For my guest, that passion was travel and the pull toward becoming a digital nomad. But pursuing it didn’t mean immediately uprooting the life she already had. Instead, she took small, intentional steps to test out traveling first, allowing herself to learn what worked before making bigger changes.
She also found mentors and a community of people who were already successfully living as digital nomads, giving her resources, support, and a path forward that helped accelerate the process.
We talk about fear, courage, passion, curiosity, and the question worth asking yourself: Years from now, will you be more disappointed that you tried—or that you never found out what was possible?
Following a passion doesn’t always require one giant, brave leap. Sometimes it begins with listening to the curiosity that keeps calling you, taking one small step toward what lights you up, and seeing where it leads.
To Connect with Giselle:
Instagram: @spotlightlocally
YT:  ⁨@spotlightlocally⁩ 
 
✨ Follow what lights you up.
Come Play in My World
Want to explore more pleasure, play, curiosity, joy and aliveness in your own life?
✨ Explore my latest offerings, experiences & ways to work with me:https://erika-frances.com
💗 Discover your unique Pleasure Archetype:Your Unique Pleasure Pathway
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In this deeply honest and powerful episode of Powered by Joy, I’m joined by intuitive guide and alchemical coach Rhonda Skallan of Spark Alchemy. Together, we explore the many layers of trauma—both the big, life-altering events and the quiet, hidden wounds (death by a 1000 papercuts!) that shape us just as much.
We dive into how our personal stories and past experiences affect how we show up in life, love, and success—and how healing these layers, especially through inner child work, is essential to creating a life that feels joyful, empowered, and free to experience success at your highest level.
Rhonda shares insights on working with the nervous system, self-trust, and what it means to come home to yourself after loss, grief, or disconnection. Whether you’re navigating your own healing or supporting someone you love, this episode will offer comfort, perspective, and powerful reminders that transformation is possible—and success, health and joy are still yours to claim.
✨ In this episode, we explore:
How trauma shows up in subtle and surprising ways
The connection between healing and true success
Inner child work as a tool for freedom and self-compassion
Why your nervous system matters in healing
The importance of emotional honesty and curiosity
Tools for reconnecting with your truth and joy
🔗 Connect with Rhonda:
🌐 spark-alchemy.com
🎧 Listen to Rhonda’s Podcast – Alchemy HERizons: open.spotify.com/show
💼 Connect with Rhonda on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rhondaskallandenver
📩 Contact Rhonda: rhonda@spark-alchemy.com
🧭 Resources Mentioned in This Episode:
🌿 Epic Life Chaning Women’s Retreat: thewisewomanworld.com/retreat
🛡️ Sexual Assault Support & Resources (RAINN): rainn.org
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This guided meditation is a gentle, powerful space to begin healing the emotional wounds passed down or received from the feminine—whether through mothers, sisters, friends, or collective patterns.
If you've felt misunderstood, judged, abandoned, or dimmed by the women in your life (or your own inner feminine), this is your invitation to soften, reconnect, and reclaim the unfiltered, whole version of you that’s been waiting to be seen.
Through breath, presence, and intention, we’ll release old pain, call back lost parts of yourself, and awaken the divine feminine within—restoring trust, worthiness, and wholeness. You don’t have to carry the weight of old wounds anymore.
✨ This is your space to feel, heal, and return to your truth—with compassion, clarity, and courage.
🌀 Use this meditation to:
Heal emotional wounds tied to feminine energy
Reconnect with your inner feminine wisdom
Reclaim joy, self-trust, and your full expression
Invite more softness, creativity, and power into your life
🎧 Use headphones and find a quiet space to receive the full experience.
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On this enlightening episode of Powered by Joy Podcast, we get to learn so many ways it matters that we heal and connect with our inner child and intuition. My guest, Sami Bell S.U.R.E. Parenting and Reparenting Realm brings so much insight and practical new ways of thinking. She is a coach for cycle-breakers to become the healed parent they needed as a kid, so now they can raise children, of all different brain types, with respect, empathy, and emotional intelligence. Doing this work has brought light to the importance of our journey to healing old wounds and Sami shares so many aha’s! 
Tune in to hear Sami’s very practical, easy to do tools to switch up perspective AND this brings a chance to heal and rewrite your story! There is always more growth and healing possible, that makes even more space for joy and connection with yourself and those you love.
We also discussed a number of resources and books that are listed below! Including how to connect with Sami if you feel ready or curious about reparenting.
Books:
SURE Parenting Book on Amazon- bit.ly/sureparentingbook
Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect by Jonice Webb, PhD
The Power of Showing Up by Daniel J. Siegel, MD, Tina Payne Bryson
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard C Schwartz
 
Connecting to Sami:
Free Call with Sami- bit.ly/callsami
Instagram- instagram.com/sureparenting
SURE Parenting Website- sureparenting.com
EmpoweringMomsToUpliftKids FB- facebook.com/groups/empoweringmomstoupliftkids
 
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This week on the Powered by Joy Podcast, I’m diving into the beauty of spending time with people who match your energy—those soul-aligned friendships that just click. ✨
We share personal stories of how these kinds of connections lead to unexpected signs, shared thoughts, and uncanny synchronicities—like reading the same books or listening to the same podcasts without ever mentioning them to each other! When you're aligned with someone energetically, the universe seems to have a little extra fun, reflecting that connection back through signs, timing, and deep conversation.
This episode is all about the joy, support, and sense of belonging that come from surrounding yourself with people who truly see you—and the magic that unfolds when you do.
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Have you been feeling a pull to show up more fully as yourself—without the filter, the pressure to fit in, or the quiet voice that says "tone it down"? You’re not alone. In this heartfelt episode of Powered by Joy Podcast, we dive into a timely and deeply resonant conversation about the desire so many of us are feeling right now: the call to live more authentically.
Together, we explore three powerful signs that you're beginning to align with your truest self, and what it looks like when your body, your relationships, and your energy all start reflecting that freedom. From feeling more ease in your body, to attracting the right people, to receiving bursts of inspiration and creativity—these are the natural results of showing up as the real you.
If you’re still unsure what your “authentic self” even looks like, don’t worry—we’ve got tools for that too. Here are some favorite resources to help you reconnect with who you really are:
🎯 Core Value Blueprint : A quick, powerful tool to uncover what matters most to you.
🎧 Episode 47: Knowing Yourself A deep dive into self-discovery with more tools to help you get clear on who you are.
🧘‍♀️ Inner Child Meditations: Guided meditation audios to help you access the curiosity, freedom, and joy you may have lost touch with— two special meditations for dreaming and self-knowing.
 
Guided 10 Minute High Vibration Meditation for Knowing Yourself Even More I E48
 
Guided 15 Minute Meditation-Tapping into My Desires, Dreams & Joy I E54
This episode is a gentle but empowering reminder that when you express yourself with courage, you not only liberate your own voice—you give others permission to do the same. And that ripple effect? Pure joy.
✨ Links to all resources mentioned are in the show notes below.
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🎙️ Episode: Reclaiming Feminine Flow—Less Hustle, More Joy On this episode of the Powered by Joy podcast, I’m joined by Kerry—a seasoned real estate professional with over 20 years of experience—as we dive into the hustle mindset and how it often disconnects us from our deeper selves.
We explore how so many of us default to masculine energy—structure, striving, doing, pushing—and how that can lead to burnout, exhaustion, and a sense that something’s missing. Together, we share our own journeys through real estate, motherhood, and success, and how we found our way back to feminine energy: creativity, intuition, flow, joy, and the art of receiving.
✨ This episode is your gentle wake-up call to reflect: When was the last time you felt true ease, peace, or happiness—without earning it through hustle?
We talk about what it really means to embrace both masculine and feminine energies to create a life that feels more balanced, joyful, and sustainable.
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