She Finds Joy

Ep 82 | Sharing Our Shame Stories and Getting What We Need

Shame is a powerful emotion and happens to all of us. It involves looking inwardly in a harsh way with a critical eye while we beat ourselves up even for the smallest mistakes.
We are so overly critical of ourselves, and then we hide or bury our feelings of shame when we need to learn to release them with people who have earned the right to hear our stories.
Through sharing our stories, we free ourselves from some of the pain we are carrying and holding inside of ourselves. 
What’s in the episode: 
Why shame needs words and a voice to be free
Hustling for worthiness to account for our believed inadequacies 
Six types of people not to share your shame story with
How to exercise compassion towards ourselves and others
 
“You have to love yourself enough to reach out for help and support when going through hard things. ”-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 is Open Now!
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, now it's your turn! Register at the link below! 
Register for The Happy Academy now! 
You can follow Kim’s journey on Instagram at @KimStrobelJoy, and in the free private, She Finds Joy Facebook community.

Ep 81| Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

Are you afraid of making decisions? Asking your boss for a raise? Launching your own business? Asking for what you want in your relationship? What prevents us from taking the actions we need in our lives to get to the next level? FEAR!
Fear is one of the greatest obstacles to our success because with fear comes uncomfortableness and many people wait for uncomfortableness to leave before they act. In this episode, I’m going to teach you why you must learn to feel uncomfortable, to feel the fear, and do it anyway!
What’s in the episode: 
Why “action” is the bridge between our inner world and outer world
The inner journey it takes to get the outer results we want
How to move from stuckness to action
The mindset it takes to play in the arena of bigness
 
“Many times our fears are so strong and dramatic that they keep us stuck. ” - 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 is Open Now!
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, now it's your turn! Register at the link below! 
Register for The Happy Academy now! 
You can follow Kim’s journey on Instagram at @KimStrobelJoy, and in the free private, She Finds Joy Facebook community.

Ep 80 | How Gratitude Increases Happiness

Ep 80| How Gratitude Increases Happiness
 
Dr. Masuro Emoto discovered that molecules in water are affected by our thoughts, words, and feelings. Humans are made up of 70% of water, which means the words we expose ourselves and others to have an impact on them.
He discovered that crystals formed in frozen water with positive words written on them formed brilliant, clear, snowflake patterns while negative words directed toward water formed fragmented, dark crystals.
This research proves that when we practice gratitude and send that positive energy towards ourselves, mostly made of water, we get positive results and feel happier in our lives. 
What’s in the episode: 
The science between thoughts and water
How our thoughts affect our lives in big ways
The practice of gratitude creates positive emotions and feelings.
How to practice gratitude 
 
“It’s time to build a life you don’t feel you have to regularly escape from.” 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 is Open Now!
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, now it's your turn! Register at the link below! 
Register for The Happy Academy now! 
You can follow Kim’s journey on Instagram at @KimStrobelJoy, and in the free private, She Finds Joy Facebook community.

Ep 79 | The Magic Keys to Happiness

Is it possible to create more happiness in our life? Should we be interested in happiness, or is that silly?
I feel like we all want to be happier, but we are a bit afraid to admit it because it makes us feel like something is wrong in our lives. But creating intentional happiness habits in our lives improves every area of our lives. But are we focusing on the wrong things?
Yes, we are much of the time, but I’m about to give you an education on the Science of Happiness. 
What’s in the episode: 
The things we chase in hopes of fulfillment
Understanding the components of happiness 
The control you have over your happiness 
A happiness strategy to help when you feel down
“We get to create our happiness from the inside out.” - 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 is Open Now!
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, now it's your turn! Register at the link below! 
Register for The Happy Academy now! 
You can follow Kim’s journey on Instagram at @KimStrobelJoy, and in the free private, She Finds Joy Facebook community.

Ep 78 | How to Get Through Hard Things

Ep 78| How to get through hard things.
 
Don’t take anything personally. That’s the second agreement of Don Miguel Ruiz’s classic, “The Four Agreements.” He states, “Whatever happens around you, don’t take it personally. Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.”
I’ve been criticized many times in my life. Many times it absolutely consumed me. But in this episode, I hope to share some insight I’ve learned over the years and hopefully give you a path through your pain and get you to evaluate it from a new perspective.
 
What’s in the episode: 
A very hard thing I recently went through.
How to move through the pain and muck others throw at you
How to deal with petty trolls
What I differently now when it comes to criticism. 
 
“Within every struggle, every obstacle, every challenge, every injustice, we get a choice to decide how we're going to react and how we're going to let it affect us.”- 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 is Open Now!
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, now it's your turn! Register at the link below! 
Register for The Happy Academy now! 
 
About Kim 
Kim Strobel is Chief Happiness Officer at Kim Strobel Live Events and Retreats. She is a teacher, consultant, motivational speaker, happiness coach, and a mission-minded person whose passion helps others overcome their fears and discover their joy!
 
You can follow Kim’s journey on Instagram at @KimStrobelJoy, and in the free private, She Finds Joy Facebook community.
 

EP 77 | Burnout & Why I Created The Happy Academy

Burnout is a kind of exhaustion that seeps into every aspect of your life. Even though I travel around the country teaching teachers, business people, and more about how to overcome burnout, I can tell you that I, too, have been experiencing it lately. For me, burnout looks like:  
The inability to shut work off, even when I should be enjoying time off 
An incessant need to keep checking my emails
The feeling of obsessively thinking about "everything that needs to get done"
Tiredness, irritability, and frustration with people around me 
I recently asked others in my Facebook Group what burnout out looks like to them and got these responses: 
Knots in my stomach the closer I get to work, despite LOVING my job.
Never having satisfaction with my job and never feeling like I’m doing enough. 
Letting down all of the teachers I’m supposed to be leading, and I feel hopeless.
Dreading going to work every day and counting the days until break.
Never feeling like I’m meeting expectations. 
Being so overwhelmed with tasks and asks that I don’t even know where to start.
Lost desire, unable to focus on anything, and no amount of time off or other activities.
Investing in my own business so I can leave my current profession. 
Overworked (worked daily my entire sick leave), underpaid (completely revamped teaching during COVID/no overtime, no bonuses), and not thought of as a real person.
You are allowed to have heavy emotions. It’s important to give ourselves the grace to feel the way we do and practice some self-compassion. 
Even though I sometimes enter the burnout stage, I recognize the signs of when it’s coming on, and I have a set of habits that get me out of the gutter quicker. You are not alone in the struggle. I am there too. 
What You’ll Learn From This Episode:
How to identify burnout when it’s first setting in. 
Why it’s so hard to get off the hamster wheel of life. 
Why I created a program focused on shifting the inner blueprint of our life. 
How to leverage your mindset and overcome limiting beliefs. 
Why our relationship with ourselves is our biggest asset. 
How to take action to become who you want to be. 
How to step forward with confidence and discover your greatness.. 
“If you can’t see your own value, the world can’t give you value back.” - Kim Strobel
 
Helpful Links 
Get on the waitlist for The Happy Academy now! 
About Kim 
Kim Strobel is Chief Happiness Officer at Kim Strobel Live Events and Retreats. She is a teacher, consultant, motivational speaker, happiness coach, and a mission-minded person whose passion helps others overcome their fears and discover their joy!
 
You can follow Kim’s journey on Instagram at @KimStrobelJoy, and in the free private, She Finds Joy Facebook community.

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.
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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.