Gratitude & Joy for entrepreneurs

“Well, I mean, honestly, the Declaration of Independence says, you know, the pursuit of happiness, right? Like, it's, it's kind of like, life is gonna be okay, and everything, and you're gonna have everything you've ever wanted. It's this bill of goods that we're sold, that I think has these unrealistic expectations.”

Joy vs Happiness: Shari Alyse on Finding Light in Pain · 10:36· listen →

“And so, yes, there's nothing wrong with vacations. And there's nothing wrong with checking off boxes and all of the external things. And those will make you happy for a moment until when is that next thing? But joy, joy is eternal. Joy is constant. It is what lives within.”

Joy vs Happiness: Shari Alyse on Finding Light in Pain · 10:58· listen →

“And my patients who put their head in the sand and think, oh, if I just work out enough, I'm going to be able to not grow old and avoid all this stuff. I'll never be sick. I'll live forever. I mean, that's toxic right there.”

Joyspan Over Lifespan: Dr. Kerry Burnight on Aging Well · 2:40· listen →

“Big Joy is all about realizing that we're born for joy and not for deficits. Most of the leaders, most of the souls, most of the amazing people we work with have been taught somewhere in their journey that they're going to have to perform some version of perfection that I never figured out.”

Dr. Jax Black: Redefining Success Through Joy · 4:07· listen →

“I'm grateful for this pillow. I look over, I'm grateful for my husband, grateful for these 3 kids, I'm grateful that I can breathe. I'm, you know, just— and every day you can shake it up or you can do it the same, but it does, it kind of like puts you on a path of saying, I can look at what is wrong or I can look at what is right.”

Joyspan Over Lifespan: Dr. Kerry Burnight on Aging Well · 34:03· listen →

“In the evening, in the evening is journal. Journal things that were what you did well, and especially express gratitude towards yourself and towards the people that you had that show you did something or you received something. And by doing this act of gratitude, it increases our sense of self-worth, it increases our happiness.”

Conscious Leadership: Deciding from Presence, Not Fear · 35:30· listen →

“My first thing that I always say every morning when I wake up is, thank you. Thank you for this day. Because we're not guaranteed it, obviously, right?”

Anthony DeNino: SMART Mindset for Entrepreneurs · 9:04· listen →

“How is this happening for me? Not to me. What is this teaching me right now? Okay, a little patience, a little calmness. So when your brain is working from a higher vibration and it's more positive and optimistic, ideas flow to you easier.”

Positive Activity: Daily Mindset Habits with Lori Rogers · 12:23· listen →

“Our brains work in the opposite way... Be it first before you see it, right? So I don't mean pretend, but I mean, go to the emotion of having it now and then see what happens.”

Positive Activity: Daily Mindset Habits with Lori Rogers · 16:55· listen →

“I think we feel like I'm failing if I'm not doing it every day. I set a goal and I want to be a meditator, but I do it for a month and then I drop off. So I must not be a meditator. And it's like, well, that was for me years of that before it just slowly became that thing. And that's okay.”

Holly Conti: Scaling to 7 Figures with Mindset Work · 22:28· listen →

“At the end of the study, they measured the increase in strength from the group that actually did it versus the other group. And the numbers, and I hope I'm quoting them properly now, was a 57% increase in the people who physically did the action. But there was a 34% increase in the people who just thought about it.”

Anthony DeNino: SMART Mindset for Entrepreneurs · 31:45· listen →

“But part of what joy is to me, or what joy to me is, the full expression of ourselves. It is the connection to ourselves and the full expression of that. And so grief can simultaneously live with joy.”

Joy vs Happiness: Shari Alyse on Finding Light in Pain · 23:52· listen →

“It's, it's funny that you said, like, no one talked about it 20 years ago. They didn't in 1981 either, when it happened to me. And so for me, I didn't understand why at that young age I decided to share the truth of what had happened. But I did. And I ended up in a courtroom on the witness stand prosecuting my abuser at 7 years old.”

Joy vs Happiness: Shari Alyse on Finding Light in Pain · 27:25· listen →

“other times, that's a year because a lot of female entrepreneurs are dealing with things like sexual assault. And that really impacts their capacity. And it's happening to all souls, right? But for female entrepreneurs in particular, it is really impacting their capacity to launch the company or to make the next big pivot.”

Dr. Jax Black: Redefining Success Through Joy · 32:21· listen →

“I always say joy is more than a moment. It is a lifetime of possibilities. Why? Because you unpack the moment to realize there's not just one moment. What you were experiencing were a series of moments. And it just caught up and like all of a sudden in the moment, your breath was taken away.”

Dr. Jax Black: Redefining Success Through Joy · 37:59· listen →

“You know, we move, journal, breathe, meditate to tone mental muscles, which are presence, courage, gratitude, confidence, and resilience. And within each mental muscle, there are different skills that you can cultivate and exercise in order to build that strength.”

Building Mental Muscles with Olivia Bowser · 11:05· listen →

“Can I be more resilient through joy, through the things that enlighten me and light me up and also light up other people? And that's what the whole premise is about. And you know what I found out? Because I'm a big nerd, there's facts that having more joy in your life leads you to success.”

Nicole Van Valen on Joy, Spirit & Resilient Leadership · 11:12· listen →

“A lot of it is just stepping back so that you can bounce forward. So it's kind of the first thing is to just recognize that you're feeling stressed or that you're feeling burnt out, because sometimes you don't even realize it.”

Nicole Van Valen on Joy, Spirit & Resilient Leadership · 12:30· listen →

“Every one of my patients who has maintained connection in longevity has been the proactive one. Every time I have somebody come in and say, nobody reaches out to me, I don't have anyone, I'm entirely alone, we then say, okay, now tell me about your habits of how you are reaching out to people? And invariably they go, well, nobody reaches out to me. I'm like, exactly.”

Joyspan Over Lifespan: Dr. Kerry Burnight on Aging Well · 20:10· listen →

“I believe every single human being has the beautiful power within them to transform, to come home to themselves, as I like to say. And so my role is really to provide the safety, the love, the education, and the tools that people need in order to kind of cross that bridge into self-transformation.”

Cognitive & Embodied Awareness with Carissa Karban · 2:25

“Everything is a choice. Truly, everything is a choice to wake up, to say yes, to say no.”

Cognitive & Embodied Awareness with Carissa Karban · 6:12

“I said, okay, well, I see the divorce and I raise you. I'm quitting the job, selling the house. I'm gonna go on this travel sabbatical and just, you know, kind of my own little Eat, Pray, Love adventure because I knew that I could handle whatever came my way.”

Cognitive & Embodied Awareness with Carissa Karban · 14:50

“It's really hard for judgment and curiosity to coexist, 'cause if we can truly embody curiosity and say, huh, where does that pattern come from? Why do I think that? What am I afraid is going to happen? Then that's where we're really opening a door rather than judging something and closing a door.”

Cognitive & Embodied Awareness with Carissa Karban · 16:19

“I'm not going to go into the gym on day 1 and try to lift 100 pounds off the rack. You know, I'm going to go with a 5 or 10-pound weight. And then over time, I'm going to slowly increase the amount of weight that I can lift until I get to that 100-pound weight.”

Cognitive & Embodied Awareness with Carissa Karban · 22:30

“I also really love the one, worrying is like a rocking chair. It'll pass the time, but it won't get you anywhere.”

Cognitive & Embodied Awareness with Carissa Karban · 34:58

“I had shown up and fixed this exact problem I was having for so long here in Central New York, but I fixed it for everybody else. And I was very much building, the founder of a startup company, and I was not prioritizing building a support system for myself and making sure that my own social-emotional needs were being met by the people around me.”

Alex Canavan: Building Community Without Burnout · 5:46

“The beauty of events is that if your guests didn't plan the event, they don't know what's wrong. So, if something goes wrong, just cover it up with a smile and ask for forgiveness if you have to. At that point, there's nothing you can do.”

Alex Canavan: Building Community Without Burnout · 10:19

“If I don't move every day in one way or another, things get bad, so I always make that a huge priority.”

Alex Canavan: Building Community Without Burnout · 14:12

“I eat the same thing every day. For the most part, like down to a T. And that might sound like a little much, but honestly, it's made my life significantly easier and less stressful.”

Alex Canavan: Building Community Without Burnout · 19:55

“As a leader, as an entrepreneur, you're constantly having to make quick decisions all day long. You're having to solve everyone's problems. And it's just nice to have one less problem to solve.”

Alex Canavan: Building Community Without Burnout · 23:28

“There's just something so therapeutic about getting your thoughts out on paper and just leaving them there, you know, and not letting yourself ruminate on anything. It's been huge for me.”

Alex Canavan: Building Community Without Burnout · 30:07

“None of it matters if the relationships in our lives don't feel good. So that's something that I'm very proud of, that I can say that I've made that a priority.”

Alex Canavan: Building Community Without Burnout · 35:19

“And it was interesting when we started doing classes at Liberate, the curriculum would ask people to write down like 10 things they liked about themselves, and a lot of people couldn't write down a single thing.”

Building Mental Muscles with Olivia Bowser · 13:53

“I think it's even harder too for younger generations with social media. Like, even if you're not being told you're not enough, you're looking at somebody else accomplish something and you're saying, oh, I couldn't have done that. There's like, it's just constant comparison, which really can create negative self-worth and negative self-talk and all of that. So stay off social media.”

Building Mental Muscles with Olivia Bowser · 16:27

“Imagine you want that person to have it be 80% positive or 70% positive. You have to start changing the way you talk to yourself, cuz of course you're gonna have imposter syndrome if everything you say to yourself is like, oh, you're not good enough. Oh, she's smarter than you. Oh, that outfit's better. Oh, you shouldn't be here. Oh, what are you doing? Like, of course you're not gonna feel good.”

Building Mental Muscles with Olivia Bowser · 20:00

“Or the other one I love is your mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.”

Building Mental Muscles with Olivia Bowser · 23:58

“Even a successful entrepreneur has failed 1 billion times and been rejected 1 trillion times. Like, I have been rejected way more times than I have been accepted. I have failed way more times than I've been successful. At this point, I'm like almost immune to it, at least for the smaller ones.”

Building Mental Muscles with Olivia Bowser · 27:28

“So it's like focusing on the end goal, you know, it's focusing on what matters and why you're doing it is really important for resilience. And then just being flexible, you know, things may not come to fruition in the exact way that you had imagined, but it doesn't mean that whatever you accomplish isn't a success.”

Building Mental Muscles with Olivia Bowser · 28:35

“There absolutely is some added levels of pressure because a lot of the retainer sort of agreements that I look at, people's income can be based off of how many views they're getting. And that's a really kind of difficult position to be put into where a certain amount of money is not guaranteed to you. That can put a lot of strain on you mentally.”

Creator Economy Burnout: Staying Sane as a Content Creator · 15:49