In this episode of Love Always, Jo, I’ll be talking about a Bachelor-themed date that turned into a very valuable, tangible life lesson that I’ll call on again and again.

The doors to my new online community are going to open on Valentines Day (Thursday, February 14, 2019). The community won’t be opening up to the public until later this year, but as podcast listeners, you’re a part of a select group who will be invited to be part of this community in this first phase. Want to get notified when the community launches? Go to joanna-platt.com/community to get on the list.

 

In this episode I talk about…

• Quarterly retreats with my husband, Mike (more on that in episode 15)
• The mini-coaching session with my Uber driver
• The Bachelor-themed date Mike planned for us
• Stepping into new levels of visibility in business
• Life lessons on fear and doubt

Journal Prompts:

• How can you take small confident jumps toward your true self this week?

Quotes:

• When fear comes up, observe it, let it be present
• Trying to pretend your fear isn’t there doesn’t help anything
• When you feel fear, find others to watch or cheerlead
• With each turn, the fear got exponentially less
• Fear is a natural part of life and once you jump the net will appear
• Asking for what you need is going to feel scary, but the more you do it the easier it’ll feel
• In the moments of fear or doubt know you can take a little jump to move toward what you want and see what happens
• Know that the fear is temporary
• May you take confident small jumps toward your true self

Announcements:

• The doors to my new online community are going to open on Valentines Day (Thursday, February 14, 2019). The community won’t be opening up to the public until later this year, but as podcast listeners, you’re a part of a select group who will be invited to be part of this community in this first phase. Want to get notified when the community launches? Go to joanna-platt.com/community to get on the list.

 

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This month’s heart to heart is on setting goals. I chose this topic because this time of year can bring goals and resolutions to the front of our mind. But I had no idea where this episode would go or what would be on my heart when I recorded it. It’s a good one!

In this episode, I give insight into how to make goals differently – the kind that releases the heavy catabolic energy that can be associated with setting goals and helps you see goals in a new way where they’re fun and expansive.

The doors to my new online community are going to open on Valentine’s Day (Thursday, February 14, 2019). The community won’t be opening up to the public until later this year, but as podcast listeners, you’re a part of a select group who will be invited to be part of this community in this first phase. Want to get notified when the community launches? Go to joanna-platt.com/community to get on the list.

 

Questions:

• I love goal setting! Each year I write out my 3 biggest goals and then break them down into smaller goals – quarterly and monthly, so that I don’t get overwhelmed with how big my goals are. I’m not always great at staying on track with them though, what’s your favorite tip for keeping and achieving goals? – @luxandvitadsn
• How do you set a goal and stay detached from the outcome? – @joanna_platt

Links:

• Rachel East – Love Always Jo Episode 4 and take the Passion Profile Quiz
• Lux + Vita
• Book – Rocket Fuel
• Kate Northrup
• James Wedmore’s Business by Design
• How Sweet Eats
• Book – Profit First
• Kristin Kalp – Episode 8 and Episode 48

Journal Prompts:

• Does this goal make me feel expansive?
• What would make this goal feel more meaningful and aligned?
• Do a rough draft of your goals list. Put them all down on paper in a big, long list, and then edit out the ones that don’t feel right.

Quotes:

• Your goals need to mean something to you
• Give yourself permission to adjust or pivot along the way
• Don’t make your goals from a place of ‘should’
• Your goal should be something that pulls you
• Make goals that are meaningful to you
• You’re allowed to be goal-less
• Be very discerning and intentional about what you put on your goal list
• Goal setting should come from intuition and soul first before our minds
• Vision boards give you something to move towards
• When you set a goal, one of two things happens: you get the result you wanted or the lesson you needed @jameswedmore
• Set the goal and then play full out @jameswedmore
• Let your goals be a tool for growth
• Make the journey the focus and not the end result
• Set goals that are expansive

Announcements:

• The doors to my new online community are going to open on Valentines Day (Thursday, February 14, 2019). The community won’t be opening up to the public until later this year, but as podcast listeners, you’re a part of a select group who will be invited to be part of this community in this first phase. Want to get notified when the community launches? Go to joanna-platt.com/community to get on the list.
• 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:
  • February: Fun and Play
  • March: Work/Purpose

 

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Today we’re talking about how (and why) to make your home feel more alive. Listen to this episode to hear more about bringing your home (and yourself) to life.

 

In this episode I talk about…

• How engaging in your home can make you feel better
• Simple ideas to make your home feel alive

 

Links:

• My favorite morning Spotify playlist
• My favorite candles
  • Rewined Rose
  • Illume Woodfire (Also love their Winter White)
  • Aquiesse Persimmon Figue Vetiver

Journal Prompts:

• How can you make your home feel more engaging?
• What makes your home feel alive?

Quotes:

• Awaken your senses and your space by engaging all 5 senses
• If you’re feeling crabby, move things around
• When your home feels more alive, you feel more alive

Announcements:

• Looking for a resolution-free way to plan for 2019? I’m hosting a Vision Board Workshop in DC on January 17. Tickets here.
• 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:
  • January – Goal setting
  • February – coming soon

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If lack of confidence, low libido, or guilt and shame around your sexuality are the cause of your bedroom woes, (the hot, wild sex you never have any more, or the transition into motherhood that sucked your libido dry), you need Lacey. She’s an integrated sex, love & relationship coach for soulful and successful women who want to feel confident, powerful, and sexy in their own skin.

As a certified sex coach, Tantra, jade egg teacher, Lacey uses deep transformational tools and techniques based in modern coaching modalities, and ancient tantric wisdom and Taoist practices to help women like you reconnect with your sensual self, discover your orgasmic genius inside and experience deep intimacy & connection with your partner.

Follow Lacey:

• Website – sign up with your name and email to learn her secrets to multiorgasmic bliss.
• Instagram
• Facebook

 

In this episode Lacey and I discuss…

• How Lacey got started as a certified sex coach
• Pleasurable birth
• How long the average couple is having sex v. how long it takes to reach female orgasm
• The differences between male pleasure and female pleasure
• 7 categories of orgasm
• Teaching and asking your partner vs. work you need to do yourself
• Starting with yourself
• Rewriting your sexual narrative
• Tantra and what sex can do on a spiritual level
• Using sexual energy to create things in our lives
• What to do if you’re feeling scared, have concerns, or if sex feels like another “should” in your life
• A jade egg practice – yoga for your vagina
• Maps to pleasure

 

Recommended Books:

• Come as You Are – Emily Nagowski
• Vagina – Naomi Wolf

Journal Prompts:

• What would it look like if you dove into your sexual hangups
• What would it look like if you really worked on your sexual hangups and beliefs around sexuality
• Rewrite your sexual narrative. If you had a daughter and you wanted her to grow up in the most sexually supportive environment and have a great relationship with sensuality and her body, what would you say to her? Write a letter and record it.
• What if your sexuality was a path to enlightenment?
• What would it be like to master your sexual desires and energy?
• What would it be like to drop the goals, drop the time constraints in bed?

Quotes:

• Stop judging and criticizing yourself – Lacey
• It’s okay to need more time in bed – Lacey
• Women are more dynamic and fluid in how they experience pleasure – Lacey
• You can still maintain your innocence when you step into your sexual power – Lacey
• Your sexuality is the ultimate celebration of life. – Lacey
• You can use your sexual energy to create whatever it is you want in your life. – Lacey
• Most women are going to go through life playing small. It’s a matter of saying “no, I want more.” -Lacey
• If you have the voice that says “I want more” celebrate that voice and follow it, because it’s taking you somewhere good, sweetheart. -Lacey
• It’s not about I “should” have a better sex life. Screw that. I can’t work with a “should”. -Lacey
• Nothing you do on the outside will change what’s on the inside – Lacey
• Drop the goals, drop the time constraints, and feel what needs to be felt and see how much more pleasure is available to you – Lacey

 

 

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This month’s heart to heart questions and advice on the holidays come from Shannon, Alicia, and Brit. In this episode of Love Always, Jo I’ll be answering questions about letting go of old/building new traditions, managing family expectations, preparing your energy for the holidays, and anxiety around end of the year reflections.

 

Links:

• Become the most important person in the room by Rose Rosetree
• Pre-Holiday Advice by Glennon Doyle

Journal Prompts:

• If you were 100% comfortable with where you are in life, how would you show up this holiday season?
• Where can you lower your expectations for this holiday season?

Quotes:

• Allow space for your inner child to grieve past Christmases
• Deep down people understand that things change
• Remind your inner critic that even if you choose to go your own way, you’ll still be loved
• You get to choose where you go or don’t go for the holidays
• You’re not responsible for making other people understand you
• Don’t forget to hold space for yourself
• You get to choose where your power goes – Brit
• You are not responsible for anyone else’s energy or happiness
• Become an audience member in the holidays rather than the director
• Enjoy your day on purpose

Questions & Advice

• Shannon – I struggle with the balance between letting go of old traditions (that are no longer possible due to people passing away) and creating new traditions. How do I get excited about building new rituals when the feelings of sadness about lost traditions feel especially strong this time of year?
• Alicia Bruce – Struggle: Managing family expectations. Sometimes we would love to stay home for the holidays and just enjoy them together with our dog, but our families always expect that we will visit every year. The times we have tried to say “no, we want to do our own thing and stay home (not traveling) for the holidays”, we are met with guilt and disappointment.
• Advice/insight from Brit: On dealing with family members with interesting energy
• Brit: As an empath, how do you prepare for the holidays?
• Joanna: A friend and I were talking about how this time of year causes anxiety because you naturally reflect at this time of year about where you are and where you “should” be. Do you have advice on this?
• Glennon Doyle’s pre-holiday advice

Announcements:

• If you’d like to send questions, thoughts, concerns or advice about upcoming topics you can do so at joanna-platt.com/heartoheart. Submissions are due by the first of the month. Here are the upcoming topics:
  • December – Receiving
  • January – Goal Setting
• I’ve got something big coming soon — Sparkle Collective! Sparkle Collective is designed to help you reconnect to your sparkle and help you shine at work, home, in your relationships. Interested in being a founding member? Email me joanna@joanna-platt.com with the subject line: Sparkle.

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In this episode Tara and I discuss…

• Why we don’t have this conversation
• How the inner critic and shame get involved
• Tara’s journey to get pregnant
• Why asking for what you need is so important and how to do it
• How to reconnect and develop a relationship with your body
• Monitoring and gathering your energy back to yourself
• How to nourish yourself as a mother before becoming a mother
• How to determine what foods will nourish you and serve your body well
• What nesting is
• Turning on and off genes

 

Meet Tara:

Tara McCann is a women’s health coach specializing in preconception health and fertility. Tara struggled for over 2 years to get pregnant with her first child. All through that journey, Tara learned to trust her body’s intuition, nourish herself with food and speak up for what she knew her body needed. After having her children, Tara found health coaching and immediately knew this was the support she had needed on her fertility journey. She was so inspired, that she became a health coach herself in 2014 when she graduated from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Tara has been empowering women to nourish themselves and optimize their health for fertility ever since. To learn more about Tara, visit her website, taramccannwellness.com.

Follow Tara on Instagram or Facebook

 

Links:

• Taking Charge of Your Fertility
• The Period Repair Manual
• Real Food for Pregnancy (great for preconception too)
• Gifts of Imperfection
• I Thought It Was Just Me
• Dirty Genes

Journal Prompts:

• What are your needs?
• What small steps can you take to start advocating for your needs?
• How can you mother yourself this week?
• What nurtures you?

Quotes:

• Learn to trust yourself – Tara
• Know your body well – Tara
• Be your own best advocate – Tara
• Ask for what you need – Tara
• You are allowed to have needs and ask for them – Joanna
• Celebrate the small steps you make – Tara
• Wear your radical self-care as a badge of honor – Tara
• Practice mothering yourself first – Tara
• You can’t supplement your way out – Tara

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What if the thing you’re currently struggling with is preparing you for something in your future? In this episode of Love Always, Jo, I’ll be sharing a story of how the biggest project in my previous job prepared me for something I’m working on now.

 

In this episode I talk about…

• The things you’re struggling with right now
• How my biggest project at my old job prepared me for an upcoming project
• How to shift your mindset

Journal Prompts:

• What is something you’re struggling with right now?
• Who can you bring in to help you execute what you’re working on right now?
• How does trusting that your current struggle is preparing you for the future, shift your perspective of the struggle you’re in now?

Quotes:

• Let others take responsibility for what they’re working on
• You are not always responsible for the success or failure of a project
• Trust the process
• Trust the work you’ve done
• Trust that your struggle is preparing you for the future

Announcements:

I’m sending invites to my new thing later this month and I’d love to send one to you too. If you want the invite, email me at joanna@joanna-platt.com and say “Send me an invite!”

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