She Finds Joy

Ep 76 | Women Who Invest in Themselves Are Happier

As a coach, I’ve seen that women don’t invest in themselves enough. Whether it’s time, money, a new pair of workout shoes, or a household nick-nack, women always have a reason why they are not allowed to invest in themselves.
As women, we are trained and shown by the other women in our life that we are to take care of everyone else BEFORE we are allowed to honor our own needs. We spend a LOT of time investing in other people – our children, our families, our communities, our schools… but when it comes to investing in ourselves? Forget it.
But it’s time to flip the script and know that we can value and love ourselves enough to invest in ourselves. We are worthy of starting right now. 
What’s in the episode: 
Why women struggle to invest in themselves
Overcoming feelings of guilt
Why self-care and self investing are not selfish
Learning to establish boundaries and create space
Why you are worth loving yourself
“When you take good care of yourself and put resources toward your well-being, your happiness, your success, it means the people in your life get the very best of you.” - Kim Strobel
 
If you enjoy this episode and it inspired you in some way, I’d love to hear about it and know your biggest takeaway. Take a screenshot of you listening on your device, post it to your Instagram Stories and tag me, @kimstrobeljoy.
I would also love if you subscribed to the podcast and left a review! 
Kim’s Happy Academy Waitlist!
If you’re tired of putting yourself on the back-burner and ready to learn powerful strategies for increasing your happiness levels and reclaiming your life, you might want to grab a spot on the Happy Academy Waitlist. Over 17,000 people signed up for this 10-month program last year, so you are gonna want to be one of the first to know when we open the doors! Get on the waitlist here. 
You can follow Kim’s journey on Instagram at @KimStrobelJoy, and in the free private, She Finds Joy Facebook community.

Ep 75 | From Welfare to Millionaire: The 3 Biggest Tips with Sandy Forster

Sandy Forster is the money mindset mentor for women worldwide who are ready to experience more abundance and freedom in their life. Sandy went from welfare to millionaire, been featured in Oprah’s Aussie Secret, and loves inspiring and empowering women to break through their blocks, manifest more money, and create a life they’re truly passionate about.
Sandy went from having over $100,000 in debt to creating an income of $150,000 the next year. And now she is a multi-millionaire and she didn’t graduate high school. Our relationship with ourselves is the key to wealth and abundance.  However, this isn’t the path most of us follow. We think we have to work like crazy just to get ahead. But it actually starts with going within ourselves and changing our internal blueprint to become co-creators of our lives. It starts with taking on the identity, experiences, and opportunities right now that will bring you more of what you want to accomplish and achieve. It started with the inside of ourselves first. Sandy walks us through what it truly means to become an active participant in designing a life of great success and fulfillment. 
What’s in the episode: 
Why learning and understanding the Law of Attraction, quantum physics, and neuroscience are important in achieving true abundance in life;
Understand why you should take action as you do the mindset work when walking the path towards change
Discover how you can shift from welfare to millionaire through tips and insights based on science and a millionaire’s experience.
How to align your body, mind, and spirit to achieve and succeed in your goals.
Powerful daily practices to embody your abundance and success.
“You can’t just think and visualize your goals. You have to embody and take action.”  Sandy Forster
 
If you enjoy this episode and it inspired you in some way, I’d love to hear about it and know your biggest takeaway. Take a screenshot of you listening on your device, post it to your Instagram Stories and tag me, @kimstrobeljoy.
I would also love if you subscribed to the podcast and left a review!
 
Sandy’s Links
Sandy’s Website
Sandy’s Wildly Weathy Bundle
Sandy’s Facebook
Sandy’s Instagram
Kim’s Happy Academy Waitlist!
If you’re tired of putting yourself on the back-burner and ready to learn powerful strategies for increasing your happiness levels and reclaiming your life, you might want to grab a spot on the Happy Academy Waitlist. Over 17,000 people signed up for this 10-month program last year, so you are gonna want to be one of the first to know when we open the doors! Get on the waitlist here. 
You can follow Kim’s journey on Instagram at @KimStrobelJoy, and in the free private, She Finds Joy Facebook community.

Ep 74 | How to Stay Positive in the Face of Adversity with Angie Carlson

Wow! My interview with my 1992 high school classmate, Angie Carlson, was heartwarming, inspiring, and thought-provoking. Shortly after giving birth to her son, Angie was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) 30 years ago. This disease has left her using a walker, sometimes a wheelchair, and the smallest of tasks takes a monumental effort.  
 
It’s easy to look at Angie’s everyday life and the obstacles she deals with, but she chooses to see her life differently. While she doesn’t deny the extreme fatigue, her limitations, or the hardness of it all, she maintains that she is happy in her life because she CHOOSES to be. She describes her highs, lows, and personal triumphs. 
What’s in the episode: 
Why we must ask ourselves, “How do we want to feel?”
Understanding how our thoughts create our feelings.
Embracing what is and not resisting.
Making conscious decisions that support how we want to live our lives.
Advice on how to see things from a different perspective?  
Choosing abundance, joy, and happiness in the midst of hardness.
“I feel like there is no other choice. That's the only choice I choose because I don’t want to be unhappy.” Angie Carlson
 
If you enjoy this episode and it inspired you in some way, I’d love to hear about it and know your biggest takeaway. Take a screenshot of you listening on your device, post it to your Instagram Stories and tag me, @kimstrobeljoy.
I would also love if you subscribed to the podcast and leave a review! 
Kim’s Happy Academy Waitlist!
If you’re tired of putting yourself on the back-burner and ready to learn powerful strategies for increasing your happiness levels and reclaiming your life, you might want to grab a spot on the Happy Academy Waitlist. Over 17,000 people signed up for this 10-month program last year, so you are gonna want to be one of the first to know when we open the doors! Get on the waitlist here. 
You can follow Kim’s journey on Instagram at @KimStrobelJoy, and in the free private, She Finds Joy Facebook community.
About Angie:
After graduating high school, Angie Carlson earned an AAS degree in Medical Office Assistant and then joined the military. She spent 11 years in the Air Force, where she met her husband. In 2004, they had a son, and two months later, she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. She lives in Maine with her husband, son, and faithful furry friend, Rascal. 

Ep 73 | The Impact of Trauma and How It Affects Our Lives

In this interview, I talk with Dr. Melissa Hankins, a 17-year Harvard-trained psychiatrist and certified executive coach. We had a very open conversation about what trauma is, how it affects our lives, and what we can do to heal ourselves. 
We have all experienced some form of trauma, and many times that trauma plays out in our adult lives. It might affect how we react to our spouse, how we parent our children, and how we navigate our work lives. As Dr. Hankins explained, trauma can affect us in big ways, such as anger, violence, or yelling, but also in not so obvious ways, such as perfectionism, workaholism, and lack of boundaries. Many times it’s the root of our very deep wounds, but we can work to heal ourselves and become better for ourselves. 
What’s in the episode: 
What is trauma, and how does it affect our lives?
The difference between Big T and Little T trauma.
What is a trauma response, and why would someone have one? 
What is the key to reshaping our lives?
How can we approach trauma, understand its effect, and move beyond to heal?
 
“Even though we are not responsible for the traumas that happened to us as children, as adults, we are responsible for healing them.” Dr. Melissa Hankins
 
If you enjoy this episode and it inspired you in some way, I’d love to hear about it and know your biggest takeaway. Take a screenshot of you listening on your device, post it to your Instagram Stories and tag me, @kimstrobeljoy.
I would also love if you subscribed to the podcast and left a review.
Kim’s Happy Academy Waitlist!
If you’re tired of putting yourself on the back-burner and ready to learn powerful strategies for increasing your happiness levels and reclaiming your life, you might want to grab a spot on the Happy Academy Waitlist. Over 17,000 people signed up for this 10-month program last year, so you are gonna want to be one of the first to know when we open the doors! Get on the waitlist here. 
You can follow Kim’s journey on Instagram at @KimStrobelJoy, and in the free private, She Finds Joy Facebook community.
Connect with Dr. Melissa Hankins
LINKEDIN
INSTAGRAM
TWITTER
Schedule a FREE consultation with Dr. Rankins
About Dr. Melissa Hankins
Dr. Melissa Hankins is the founder and CEO of Melissa Hankins Coaching. She is a Mindset and Success Coach for physicians and other high-performers who may “look great on the outside” but are struggling on the inside. Her clients typically struggle with burnout, perfectionism, workaholism, “trying to do all the things” and feeling completely overwhelmed in the process while doing their best not to show it. 

Ep 72 | Boundary Setting: Dealing with Guilt and Conflict with Krista Resnick

When we are uncomfortable setting boundaries, it's easy to fall into patterns like people-pleasing to make sure everyone else is happy.  However, this becomes the breeding ground for resentment and anger in our lives.
Many of us suffer from our people-pleasing ways. We do it for several reasons: To be accepted and belong, to receive love, and to find validations. We worry that people may not like us, creating a life of self-abandon and resentment.
In this episode, Kim speaks to Krista Resnick about creating boundaries to protect our space and our relationships. It’s great to make other people happy, but it’s more important to please ourselves first by making self-honoring choices.
Here are the things to expect in the episode:
Are you for yourself, or are you against yourself?
Establishing boundaries and aligning with your purpose
Why self-compassion and self-care is essential to your success
Choosing kindness over judgment
And much more!
What’s in the episode: 
How do you know when to set a boundary?
What fears stop people from setting boundaries?
How to lean into discomfort.
Krista’s top 2 tricks for starting to set boundaries in your life. 
How to quit abandoning yourself for the sake of pleasing others so you can be free.
“Too many times we self-abandon  for the sake of pleasing others?”  Krista Resnick
If you enjoy this episode and it inspired you in some way, I’d love to hear about it and know your biggest takeaway. Take a screenshot of you listening on your device, post it to your Instagram Stories and tag me, @kimstrobeljoy.
I would also love if you subscribed to the podcast and left a review.
Kim’s Happy Academy Waitlist!
If you’re tired of putting yourself on the back-burner and ready to learn powerful strategies for increasing your happiness levels and reclaiming your life, you might want to grab a spot on the Happy Academy Waitlist. Over 17,000 people signed up for this 10-month program last year, so you are gonna want to be one of the first to know when we open the doors! Get on the waitlist here. 
You can follow Kim’s journey on Instagram at @KimStrobelJoy, and in the free private, She Finds Joy Facebook community.
Connect with Krista
FACEBOOK
WEBSITE
INSTAGRAM
The Secret to Empowered Boundaries
Permission Granted Podcast
About Krista:
Krista Resnick is a Master Certified Coach, a podcaster, sought after speaker and mother to 3 boys.
She is a powerhouse of soul, fun, compassion, and vibrancy.  Her honest and curious approach guides the women she serves in a way that is both real, true and supportive.
Her work empowers women to stop settling, and put themselves BACK on the priority list.    Krista supports women by helping them break free of codependent and people pleasing patterns so they can set healthy boundaries and master the art of speaking their truth
Krista is a walking permission slip, inspiring women to show up unapologetically and create the space they need and the connection they crave. 

Ep 71| The Upper Limit Problem: What’s holding you back from more of Everything!

Gay Hendricks wrote this amazing book called “The Big Leap”. In it, he explains that as humans we all have what he calls an “Upper Limit Problem.”
Basically, we have an internal thermostat in our body that says, “I have limited tolerance, for feeling good in my life, I have limited tolerance for how much happiness, I am willing to let myself feel how much love, I'm willing to let myself feel how much success, I'm willing to let myself feel.”  Because of our Upper Limit Problem,  when things are going good for us, we will self sabotage our ability to all the goodness we want to feel in our life. 
He explained that have limited tolerance for allowing our life to go well, for a period of time. And when we hit that internal thermostat of being able to feel good or feel success, we do something that stops our positive forward trajectory.  The good news….we can change our internal thermostats and reset them to higher levels of success. 
What’s in the episode: 
What is the Upper Limited Problem and how does it show up in our lives?
The ways we self-sabotage and why do we do it. 
The four zones of work identified by Gay Hendricks
The zone of incompetence: In this zone, you are engaging in something you are simply not good at. This is me trying to dance in the ballet.
The zone of competence: You can get the job done, but no better than the next person.
The zone of excellence: In this zone, you are doing something you are very, very good at compared to most other people.
The zone of genius: When you’re in your genius zone, are in what author Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi calls “flow.” You’re taking advantage of your natural talents and doing what you earnestly enjoy. You have what could almost be called an “unfair advantage” over your competition.
 
“Our internal thermostat setting determines how much love success, creativity, happiness, well-being we allow in our life.”  Kim Strobel
 
If you enjoy this episode and it inspired you in some way, I’d love to hear about it and know your biggest takeaway. Take a screenshot of you listening on your device, post it to your Instagram Stories and tag me, @kimstrobeljoy.
I would also love if you subscribed to the podcast and left a review.
Kim’s Happy Academy Waitlist!
If you’re tired of putting yourself on the back-burner and ready to learn powerful strategies for increasing your happiness levels and reclaiming your life, you might want to grab a spot on the Happy Academy Waitlist. Over 17,000 people signed up for this 10-month program last year, so you are gonna want to be one of the first to know when we open the doors! Get on the waitlist here. 
You can follow Kim’s journey on Instagram at @KimStrobelJoy, and in the free private, She Finds Joy Facebook community.

Ep 70| Radical Acceptance: The Secret to a Happy Life

Kim reflects on a lesson she took to heart this past year, and she reflected on year 48 of her life and what is taught her, how she grew, and the work she’s done on herself.  She worked on Radical Acceptance, which means that she is working on releasing bitterness and resentment over things she couldn’t and can’t control. 
It wasn’t easy work, but once she quit resisting the way certain things or people were in her life, she experienced a whole new level of peace and freedom. And because she did this work on herself this last year, she has experienced new levels of abundance, happiness, peace, and wellbeing.
What’s in the episode: 
What is radical acceptance and why does it work?
How does practicing acceptance free us from the binds that keep us in bitterness?
How can we accept ourselves and our situations while also wanting to change in positive ways?
What gets in the way of our ability to accept and how to break free.
Where our power lies and how to step into it. 
“I've discovered is that I'm a lot happier and more at peace when I accept people or circumstances or situations as they are rather than wishing it was different.”  Kim Strobel
 
If you enjoy this episode and it inspired you in some way, I’d love to hear about it and know your biggest takeaway. Take a screenshot of you listening on your device, post it to your Instagram Stories and tag me, @kimstrobeljoy.
I would also love it if you subscribed to the podcast and left a review.
Kim’s Happy Academy Waitlist!
If you’re tired of putting yourself on the back-burner and ready to learn powerful strategies for increasing your happiness levels and reclaiming your life, you might want to grab a spot on the Happy Academy Waitlist. Over 17,000 people signed up for this 10-month program last year, so you are gonna want to be one of the first to know when we open the doors! Get on the waitlist here. 
You can follow Kim’s journey on Instagram at @KimStrobelJoy, and in the free private, She Finds Joy Facebook community.

Ep. 69 | Mindset: Change the Way You think to Step Into Your Potential

A mindset is simply a set of thoughts and beliefs that shape how you make sense of the world and yourself. It influences how you think, feel, and behave.  Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck says, “Your beliefs play a pivotal role in what you want and whether you can achieve it. It has a significant role in determining your achievement and success.
In this episode, Kim dives into why change is hard and goals keep getting left in the dust. Most of us approach change and goals backwards. We use our logical, conscious mind and think if we can yield enough willpower, we can make it happen. But Kim shares why this doesn’t work and the formula she has used to create massive success in her life. She will talk you through Robert Dilts’s “Hierarchy of Change” and show you how to reverse engineer the formula for how you go about achieving your goals and creating more success in life. 
What’s in the episode: 
How our mindsets drive our actions and behaviors.
Why you are not your thoughts!
The hierarchy of change and the six layers of thinking.
Learn to take on the identity right now of who you wish to become
 
“Our beliefs about ourselves greatly influence our life.”  Kim Strobel
 
If you enjoy this episode and it inspired you in some way, I’d love to hear about it and know your biggest takeaway. Take a screenshot of you listening on your device, post it to your Instagram Stories and tag me, @kimstrobeljoy.
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Kim’s Happy Academy Waitlist!
If you’re tired of putting yourself on the back-burner and ready to learn powerful strategies for increasing your happiness levels and reclaiming your life, you might want to grab a spot on the Happy Academy Waitlist. Over 17,000 people signed up for this 10-month program last year, so you are gonna want to be one of the first to know when we open the doors! Get on the waitlist here. 
You can follow Kim’s journey on Instagram at @KimStrobelJoy, and in the free private, She Finds Joy Facebook community.

Ep. 68 | Overcoming Perfectionism and Embracing Self-Compassion

From an early age, we are taught to color inside the lines, and any color that strays outside the lines is considered a mistake to be avoided. We are supposed to do everything right, which carries over into adulthood.  Perfectionism is a naturally limiting mindset. Imperfection, however, frees us to live outside the lines, where possibilities are infinite, mistakes are allowed, and self-judgment is minimal.
 
It’s not easy to let go of our need for perfection or the old tapes that play in our head that remind us we are supposed to act, do, and perform in a certain way.  In this episode, Kim shares her struggle when things appear to go astray and how she is working to transform how she handles challenges in her own life. When we learn to let go of our “expectations” of ourselves, we begin to see that we have the ability to feel better about just being human beings. We can learn to take back our power and plant the seeds of transformation and inner freedom. 
What’s in the episode: 
What perfectionism looks like and how it shows up in our life.
How to pivot when dealing with hard things.
Learn to manage your feelings better.
Understand how belief systems drive the inner critic
The art of allowing our heavy feelings.
Three ways to practice self-compassion
 
“We must learn to process our heavy feelings rather than avoid them.” Kim Strobel
 
If you enjoy this episode and it inspired you in some way, I’d love to hear about it and know your biggest takeaway. Take a screenshot of you listening on your device, post it to your Instagram Stories and tag me, @kimstrobeljoy.
I would also love it if you subscribed to the podcast and left a review!
Kim’s Happy Academy Waitlist!
If you’re tired of putting yourself on the back-burner and ready to learn powerful strategies for increasing your happiness levels and reclaiming your life, you might want to grab a spot on the Happy Academy Waitlist. Over 17,000 people signed up for this 10-month program last year, so you are gonna want to be one of the first to know when we open the doors! Get on the waitlist here. 
 
You can follow Kim’s journey on Instagram at @KimStrobelJoy, and in the free private, She Finds Joy Facebook community.

Ep. 67 | Life Hacks and Shortcuts to Make Your Life Easier with Rosanna Bernardi

Rosanna Berardi is the Managing Partner of Berardi Immigration Law and the CEO of High WireWoman, where she helps working women create a blueprint to living their lives in a simpler way and take back their most precious commodity: their time.
After saying goodbye to a lucrative corporate gig—and a promising career as an immigration lawyer for the U.S. government—she built a successful, multi-million dollar corporate immigration law firm on her own terms while helping transform people’s lives as they pursue their version of the American Dream.
In this episode, she shares that while these are difficult times and we can’t quit our jobs, we can create simple life hacks that make our lives feel so much better.  We can tap into the world of convenience and start outsourcing our “motherly, wifey, worker bee” job to free up space for time, pleasure, and ourselves. 
What’s in the episode: 
How women can make their lives easier
Why it’s not selfish to pay for convenience
Stop the martyrdom of “do everything yourself”
How she outsources 90% of her life
Embrace and lean into modern-day working and mothering.
 
“I outsource 90% of the things in my life, so I have time to enjoy the things I love.” Rosanna Berardi
 
If you enjoy this episode and it inspired you in some way, I’d love to hear about it and know your biggest takeaway. Take a screenshot of you listening on your device, post it to your Instagram Stories and tag me, @kimstrobeljoy.
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Rosanna’s Links
High Wire Woman Podcast
 
You can follow Kim’s journey on Instagram at @KimStrobelJoy, and in the free private, She Finds Joy Facebook community.