In this episode I talk about…

• What I mean when I say “shine”
• Misconceptions around what it means to shine
• Why I advocate for shining in your own way

Journal Prompts:

• Who are the people in your life who see your light?
• What does shining mean to you?

Quotes:

• You shine when you stand confidently in the truth of who you are
• You shine when you stand confidently in your value and in the gifts you bring to the world
• Shiny doesn’t mean you have to be loud or extroverted
• Shiny does not mean happy all the time
• You don’t have to be perky to shine
• You can’t shine if you’re on the edge of burnout all the time
• Become an observer of what makes you shine
• Shining is best when it’s in 360
• You shine brighter and stronger if you can integrate all parts of you
• You cannot force yourself to shine
• Shining is not about forcing or shoulding yourself

Announcements:

You can’t shine if you’re on the edge of burnout. Learn my tried and true ways to keep burnout at bay in my free, virtual workshop “How to Avoid Burnout in Your Pursuit of Having It All” on May 6 and 7. Sign up for the class at joanna-platt.com/burnout. Can’t make it live? Don’t worry there will be a replay sent, so make sure to register!

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS

 

Friendship as an adult is a whole different ball game. In this Q+A style episode, we’re talking about friendship. Questions include…

• What tips do you have about friends who have lots of toxic/negative/judgy energy?
• How has the fear of being “too much” shown up for you when it comes to friendship? And how are you moving past it? @clarityonfire
• How do you deal with growing apart from friends? @astride86

 

I also talk about…

• how I want to do friendship
• the desire to reach out to a friend but not because of the feeling you’d be bothering them
• my rules for the phone

 

Links:

• Episode 17 – Boundaries and Needs with Dr. Lauren Appio
• Episode 75 – The Frequency of Love and Wrong
• Episode 11 – Finding Your Zen-go with Alli Luchey

 

Journal Prompts:

• How do your inner critic and inner protector show up in friendship?
• If you weren’t afraid to bother her, who would you call right now?

 

Quotes:

• You have agency to change the topic or walk away from a conversation
• It’s okay to be the one to go there in the friendship
• Your inner protector just wants to keep your younger self safe in a box so they don’t feel any pain
• The only way to have no-BS relationships is to be 100% who you are
• Relationships ebb and flow, and that’s okay
• Growing apart from friends isn’t a finite state
• The things that connect us are not our differences, it’s what the same
• The phone still works
• Pick up the phone and leave the inner critic at the door

 

Announcements:

• Have you ever wondered what it’s like to work with a life coach? I’m now offering one-time coaching sessions called Coffee + Coaching. These sessions are perfect if you’re going around and around on a problem, can’t seem to get unstuck, and want help figuring it out. One client said, “this is the best 60 minutes I’ve spent on myself in the last year.” You can book your session at https://joanna-platt.com/coffee. There are only 8 of these sessions available each month and when they’re gone they’re gone so book your session now.
• Have a topic you want to hear covered in the future or questions for an upcoming episode, visit joanna-platt.com/hearttoheart to submit your question or topic.
  • May – Money
  • June – Sex

 

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS

 

Today, my friend Brit Kolo and I are talking about her recent sabbatical. Brit Kolo is the Creator of the Marketing Personality Type Framework at MarketingPersonalities.com, the Host of the Marketing Personalities Podcast, and an all-around wise, loving human being.

 

You’ll hear…

• limiting beliefs on what a sabbatical is
• why Brit took a month off
• how giving yourself permission to do something may inspire others to do the same
• Brit’s reasoning for using the term sabbatical
• how the sabbatical allowed her to enter back into normal life more intentionally with a better handle on her true self
• social media and the inner critic
• Brit’s criteria for who she follows on social media
• what her sabbatical was like
• Brit’s plan for a sabbatical in 2019

 

Meet Brit:

Brit Kolo is the Creator of the Marketing Personality Type Framework at MarketingPersonalities.com and the Host of the Marketing Personalities Podcast. Through her framework, designed to match you with your best marketing strategy based on your Myers-Briggs Personality Type, she’s here to shake up your approach to marketing and inspire you to grow your business in a feel-good way. Meet Brit and get ready to go deep, find your true self, and grow that business of yours WITHOUT feeling fake and salesy at MarketingPersonalities.com.

Instagram | Website

 

Links:

• Sunday Scaries (Love Always, Jo Episode 54)

Journal Prompts:

• Think of something you really want to do. Now, put that thing in this blank:  “What if I _______?”

Quotes:

• Your sabbatical doesn’t have to be a month – it could be a year or a few minutes – @marketingpersonalities
• Many great things start with a “what if” – @joanna_platt
• The quality of your life is determined by the quality of the questions you ask @jameswedmore
• If you take time off, you may inspire others to take time off too – @marketingpersonalities
• When you give yourself permission to do something big you’re also giving others the permission to do the same – @joanna_platt
• You’re not less of a business owner or a professional if you have big things going on in your life – @joanna_platt
• Rest and time away matters more than showing up and faking it – @marketingpersonalities
• You can’t go at full speed all the time – @marketingpersonalities
• Allow for transitions to help you ease back in – @joanna_platt
• Rest is a practice, not something you arrive at – @marketingpersonalities
• Work moments of sabbatical into your daily life – @marketingpersonalities
• When you slow down and give yourself space you become a better human – @marketingpersonalities
• Give yourself the option to take time off – @marketingpersonalities

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS

Are you on the frequency of love or the frequency of wrong? That’s the central question and the main idea of this episode. In this episode, you’ll hear…

• what the frequencies of love and wrong are
• what it feels like to be on each of them
• how the inner critic comes into play here
• two personal stories from my life that illustrate the frequency of love and the frequency of wrong
• two ways to get back onto the frequency of love

 

Links:

• A Course in Miracles (course)
• Getting the Love You Want (book)

Journal Prompts:

• Are you on the frequency of love or the frequency of wrong?
• What is a creative way that I can meet this need for myself?
• What are your unmet needs?
• How are you going about getting your needs met?
• In what ways are your unmet needs already met right now?
• How are you wanting your unmet needs to be met?
• How likely is it that your needs will never be met?
• What other ways can you get your needs met?

Quotes:

• If you are on the frequency of wrong, there’s an underlying fear there
• The frequency of love is the normal, natural state for all of us
• On the dial of the frequency of wrong, there are two settings: needs met, needs not met
• It’s not right and wrong but aligned and not aligned
• Whatever frequency you’re on is how you’ll view the world
• When you’re on the frequency of love, you’ll realize that both of your needs can be met
• Genuine gratitude is the fastest way to shift your frequency
• Take a step back and ask yourself what do I need right now

Announcements:

• You can now book a one-time session with me. This is perfect if you’re stuck on the merry-go-round that is the frequency of wrong and want help getting off it. Email me: joanna@joanna-platt.com to learn more.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS

 

Questions:

• How do you leave your job because you’re being disrespected but you also hate letting people down?
• How do you navigate starting your career when you don’t know what you want to do?
• How do you balance goal setting with surrender? @jacq_fisch
• How do you know if/when it’s time for a career change? What are some of the signs you’re ready to take that leap?

 

Two final thoughts:

• Work + purpose
• Work + screens

 

Links:

• Write like a MOFO
• Heart to Heart on Goal Setting

 

Journal Prompts:

• What role do you want your job and career to play in your life?

Quotes:

• Don’t worry about career, start with what one job seems interesting
• Tasks will stretch to fill the time allotted
• You’re not going to be in this job forever. How can you like where you’re at in the meantime?
• Your work may be the way you live your life purpose. And it may not be the way you live out your life purpose.
• You can live out your purpose exactly where you are right now.

Announcements:

• Spoiler alert! I have a new service coming soon. A one-time coaching session. I don’t have anything about this on my website yet, but if you want to book a session, you can access my calendar here: https://joannaplattcoaching.as.me/session
• If you’d like to send questions, thoughts, concerns or advice for the April Heart to Heart on friendship, you can do so at joanna-platt.com/hearttoheart

 

This month’s heart to heart questions and advice on work and purpose. In this episode of Love Always, Jo I’ll be answering questions about navigating your career, how to leave your job, balancing goal setting with surrender and more.

 

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS

In this episode Alisha and I discuss…

• Wise Women Wednesday
• The importance of community
• Simple joys
• Using morning pages and art journaling to help with gratitude practices
• What abundance is
• Design thinking – what it is and how to utilize it in your life and job
• Tools to reignite creativity
• Using social media in business, life and dating
• What mindfulness is
• Intuition
• Personality types

 

Meet Alisha:

Alisha Wielfaert is a Leadership, Life and Creativity coach who works predominantly with women and lives by the motto “We rise by lifting others”. She is the creator of the Yoke and Abundance Wise Women Wednesday interviews, panels and podcast. Alisha spent 11 years as an award winning internal wholesaler in the life insurance industry. Early in her career in corporate America Alisha became a 500-hour certified yoga teacher and went on to found her own yoga studio, Greensboro Downtown Yoga. While juggling a successful full-time job and running her own business Alisha discovered the tools she used to spark creative endeavors and bring mindfulness into her days were the very tools that made her most successful in all other aspects of her life.   

 

In 2017 Alisha left corporate America to found Yoke and Abundance. Alisha is an avid traveler, writer and speaker who enjoys working with anyone who has a propensity to take action towards their dreams.

 

Website | Instagram | Facebook | Wise Women Podcast

 

Links:

• Morning pages 
• Morning Pages Episode on Love Always Jo
• Bella Grace (Magazine)
• Belong (Magazine)
• The Lively Show (podcast)
• Mirror of Mindfulness by Tsele Natsok Rangdrol (Book)
• Pema Chodron (author)
• Living a Charmed Life by Victoria Moran (Book)
• Dare to Lead by Brene Brown (Book)
• Strengths Finder
• 16 Personalities
• The Artists Way by Julia Cameron (Book)
• The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh (Book)

 

Journal Prompts:

• Who can you send snail mail to this month?
• What are you grateful for and why are you grateful for it?
• Who can you tell that you’re grateful to today?
• What are you intentionally cultivating in your life?
• How do you define abundance?
• How can you love the moment you’re in?
• What are your personal core values?

 

Quotes:

• Loneliness is more detrimental to your health than smoking a pack a day
• Find and cultivate your community
• Feelings are not wrong or bad – what’s bad is getting stuck in them – Alisha
• Abundance is recognizing what you have – Alisha
• Abundance is focusing on and being grateful for what you have – Alisha
• Abundance is focusing on the solution and not the problem – Alisha
• Design thinking is focusing on the solution and not the problem – Alisha
• Start with the solution and end in mind and work backwards – Alisha
• When you live solely by a checklist there isn’t space for what you really want – Alisha
• Feel the fear and do it anyway – Alisha
• Drop the fear – Alisha
• Are you bringing mindfulness to your life and relationships – Alisha
• Meditation and mindfulness is about paying attention to your thoughts – not getting rid of them. – Alisha
• Mindfulness and meditation is about becoming aware of your thoughts – Alisha
• Mindfulness is a practice of touching the present moment – Tsele Natsok Rangdrol
• Intuition is like a muscle – Alisha
• Embrace the woo – Alisha
• Be led by the fun – Alisha

 

In this episode of Love Always, Jo, I interview Alisha Wielfaert, a Leadership, Life and Creativity coach who works predominantly with women and lives by the motto “We rise by lifting others.” While juggling a successful full-time job and running her own business Alisha discovered the tools she used to spark creative endeavors and bring mindfulness into her days were the very tools that made her most successful in all other aspects of her life. Listen to this episode to hear more about creativity and living from a place of abundance.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS

 

In this episode I talk about…

• When I’d felt like my future self
• The feeling you’re after when you envision your future self
• What I imagine my future self would be

 

Journal Prompts:

• What will you feel in the future?
• What do you imagine your future self to be?
• How can you create bandwidth to be your future self?

 

Quotes:

• Inspire others to be their best self
• Your future reality is on its way to you so let it come
• Let present you be where you are
• Let who you are right now be enough

 

Announcements:

Need help navigating your bandwidth? Send an email to joanna@joanna-platt.com or click here to schedule a call.

 

In this episode of Love Always, Jo, I’ll be talking about future me in hopes that it inspires you to think about your future self and what he/she will be like and how you can bring that energy into your day to day life right now. Listen to this episode to hear more about my future self.

 

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS

 

This month’s heart to heart is on fun and play. This is a super vulnerable topic and one that isn’t really top of mind to many adults. That’s exactly why we’re talking about it. If you feel a lot of pressure and “shoulds” around fun, this episode is for you. Listen in to hear a different perspective on fun than you may have heard before.

 

The doors to my new online community, Sparkle Collective, close tonight, February 19 at midnight EST. Sign up at joanna-platt.com/sparkle.

 

In this episode I talk about…

• My vulnerable relationship with fun
• How I define fun
• The stages of stepping into owning who you are

 

Journal Prompts:

• How do you define fun?
• How can you create more bandwidth in your life for fun?
• What is fun for you? What is not fun for you?

Quotes:

• Fun is vulnerable
• Fun is anything that makes you feel alive
• You have to define fun for yourself
• Don’t let fun fall off your radar
• Own your definition of fun

 

Announcements:

• The doors to my new online community, Sparkle Collective, close tonight, February 19 at midnight EST. Sign up at joanna-platt.com/sparkle.
• If you’d like to send questions, thoughts, concerns or advice about upcoming topics you can do so at joanna-platt.com/hearttoheart. Submissions are due by the first of the month. Here are the upcoming topics:
  • March – Work/Purpose

 

Love this episode? Share it with someone who also might love it! Also, feel free to leave a review on iTunes—reviews help others find Love Always, Jo!

 

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS

 

In this bonus episode of Love Always, Jo, I’m talking about my new online community, Sparkle Collective. Sparkle Collective is a community for people who want to have it all. Meaningful, fulfilling work that makes a difference in the world, rich satisfying relationships with family and friends. Time to sit back and enjoy it all while nourishing your body, mind, soul, and spirit. Listen to this episode to hear more about what Sparkle Collective is and if it resonates with you head to joanna-platt.com/sparkle to sign up.

 

In this episode I talk about…

• What Sparkle Collective is
• How you don’t have to sacrifice personally or professionally
• Creating a group of sparkly people in the pursuit of their best and most authentic lives
• What’s included in the Sparkle membership

 

Journal Prompts:

• When do you feel alive?

Quotes:

• It’s hard to be shiny when you’re pressured to be miserable like everyone else
• Want to change the world? Start with yourself.
• Get ready to detach from the shoulds and come alive again

 

Ready to Sparkle?

Sign up Here

 

 

 

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS

In this episode of Love Always, Jo, I interview Devon Smiley, a negotiation consultant for entrepreneurs, startups, and professionals who are sick of settling and are ready to go after what they want, need, and deserve. Listen to this episode to hear more about asking for what you need.

Devon Smiley is a negotiation consultant for entrepreneurs, startups and professionals who are sick of settling and are ready to go after what they want, need, and deserve. She’s distilled more than 15 years and $5 billion dollars of experience into accessible, actionable guidance that helps you build the skill set you need to #maketheask with confidence. Her expert advice has been featured in the New York Times, Glamour, Chicago Tribune, and has helped clients like Mars Chocolate and Rolls Royce. A strong believer that negotiation isn’t just about boosting the bottom line, Devon is honored to work with pro bono partners including The Clinton Foundation and UN Women.

Facebook  |   Instagram  |  Twitter  |  Website

 

In this episode Devon Smiley and I discuss…

• What a negotiation consultant is
• What you can negotiate
• Small ways to build the confidence to ask for what you need
• The difference between fear and making a decision when it comes to asking for something
• Two definitions of negotiation
• What negotiation is not
• The spirit of negotiation
• How to negotiate in business and life and preparing if someone says no
• Examples of ways to negotiate in your life

 

Links:

• #IMadeTheAsk blog series
• Hilda (book): Website | Order the book
• Captivate (book)

Journal Prompts:

• What’s something small and low risk thing you can ask for this week?
• What’s the worst thing that could happen if you ask for something?
• What is one thing you’ve asked for that went well or didn’t go well

Quotes:

• When it comes to negotiation, start with something small and low risk @DevonMSmiley
• Be more curious @DevonMSmiley
• As long as you’re polite and professional you can ask for anything @DevonMSmiley
• It’s okay to inconvenience someone @joanna_platt
• There’s a difference between being afraid to ask and deciding not to ask  @DevonMSmiley
• You are your own advocate @DevonMSmiley
• Negotiation: transforming a situation that doesn’t work for you into one that does @DevonMSmiley
• How will you transform a situation that isn’t working into one that does? @DevonMSmiley
• Take a stand and ask for what you want @DevonMSmiley
• Get clear on what you want and how you want it @DevonMSmiley
• Negotiation doesn’t need to be serious @DevonMSmiley

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS