Episode
The Joy First Experiment Begins
- Podcast
- Joy First®
- Published
- Jan 21, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 2463
- Processing state
not_requested
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/joy-first-7061767/episodes/the-joy-first-experiment-begins/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/joy-first-7061767/the-joy-first-experiment-begins.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
The Joy First Experiment Begins After three years of podcasting about joy, colour, and business, I'm doing something different. Something scarier. I've spent two decades teaching entrepreneurs how to build brands that create desire, joy, and transformation. But as I've sat down to write this Joy First book, it feels like I've really been tested. It's been a really challenging 18 months and I've been asking myself, who the heck am I to share this work? But on reflection I feel like my experience with testing, and imperfectly embodying these joy first principles and practices is the way joy REALLY looks. Joy isn't just aspirational, sometimes it's actual survival. So, in this season, in an aim to continue to define share the real face of what 'joy first' actually means, 'm becoming my own guinea pig. Over the next six months, I'm auditing six key areas of my life, vitality, relationships, work, creativity, all of it, and documenting what happens when a someone who has obsessively built shiny, perfect 'afters' (but who feels perpetually like a 'before') attempts to really explore what the 'joy of the journey' actually looks like. This season isn't about teaching you how to be joyful. It's about what joy really looks like for a 44-year-old woman dealing with perimenopause, anxiety, weight loss, two kids, marriage and a couple businesses. To explore this 'Joy First Experiment' we're going back to our bi-weekly schedule on the public feed, with deeper, more vulnerable conversations happening over on the new Joy Journal Substack (link below). If you've been stuck in the messy middle, that gap between who you are and who you're becoming, pull up a chair. Let's get honest about what the real work of becoming the person you need to be to live the life you actually want actually…