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.

 

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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.

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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.

 

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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

 

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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

 

 

 

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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

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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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