Your Joyful Life Podcast

Life feels complicated.Joy doesn’t have to be.Welcome to Your Joyful Life Project - a refreshingly human look at why we think, feel, and struggle the way we do - and how life tends to get easier once we stop fighting our own minds. Through real conversations and simple experiments, we explore how our thoughts create our experience and how small shifts in attention can change everything.

Your Joyful Life Podcast is a education podcast hosted by Michael Fall and Evan Wainberg, with 25 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Michael Fall and Evan Wainberg hosts Your Joyful Life Podcast, a education show with 25 episodes published.

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  Episode #26

  #26 - What if it's Good to feel Bad?

  Sep 9, 202613 minS1

  What if feeling bad isn’t actually a problem to solve? In this solo episode, I continue my exploration about leaning into whatever experience is happening right now, this time shifting from something actually happening now to what happens when thoughts about past events trigger unpleasant emotions. I look at what happens when frustration, anger, painful memories, or other difficult feelings come up, and whether our instinct to push them away might actually be keeping them around. I share a personal realization about some old feelings that kept resurfacing, and talk about a simple experiment you can try the next time something unpleasant shows up. Maybe you don’t need to feel better right away. Maybe there’s something useful in actually feeling what you feel . As a celebration of our 25th episode, for the month of September our viewers can get FREE access to our online course: The Joyful Life Project. Use this link to apply the promo code: https://www.udemy.com/course/the-joyful-life-project/?couponCode=CELEBRATE25 If you have any issues with that or just want to reach out, you can email us at yourjoyfullifepodcast@gmail.com

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  Episode #25

  #25 - The Way Out Is Through

  Sep 2, 202618 minS1

  Mike is away today so Evan has a solo episode where he talks about some recent 'tests' he faced that gave him the opportunity to put the 'lean in' strategy to the test. As a celebration of our 25th episode, for the month of September our viewers can get FREE access to our online course: The Joyful Life Project. Use this link to apply the promo code: https://www.udemy.com/course/the-joyful-life-project/?couponCode=CELEBRATE25 If you have any issues with that or just want to reach out, you can email us at yourjoyfullifepodcast@gmail.com

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  Episode #24

  #24 - THIS is what you're supposed to be doing

  Aug 26, 202627 minS1

  What if the thing you’re resisting right now is actually worth paying attention to? In this episode, we look at how much of our frustration comes from wanting the present moment to be different, and what might happen if we stopped fighting it quite so much. Evan shares a particularly unexpected insight that came to him while high and trying to meditate, which sends us down a rabbit hole about attention, resistance, physical sensations, and the things we keep putting off. Along the way, we talk about mosquito bites, aching knees, puppies, calling your mom, and why even the things we don’t particularly enjoy might have something to teach us. Maybe there’s a little less to fix than we think. And maybe the next thing you’re being called to do is worth just… doing. ⁠⁠Subscribe to our free Substack Newsletter⁠⁠ Interested in diving into the Joyful Life Project experiments? Check out our online course hosted through ⁠⁠Udemy⁠⁠ .

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  Episode #23

  Episode #23: What are we doing here anyway?

  Aug 19, 202633 minS1

  In this episode, we’re asking a pretty big question: what are we actually doing here? After an unexpected hiatus, Mike and I get back into the conversation by exploring what we’re really looking for when we talk about meaning, purpose, happiness, peace, and living a joyful life. We get into the idea that maybe we’re not actually incomplete. Maybe we already are complete, and the feeling that something is missing comes from the way we think. We talk about the sense of separation we experience, and whether so much of what we’re looking for is really an attempt to reconnect with something we already are a part of. From there, we get into meditation, trust, attention, creativity, nature, social media, and all the ways our attention gets pulled away from what’s actually happening around us. We also talk about those moments when the chatter of the personal mind seems to disappear - whether that happens through music, art, extreme sports, meditation, or simply sitting outside and watching the trees move in the wind. What are those moments telling us? For both of us, the conversation keeps coming back to something surprisingly simple: Pay attention. Be here. Notice what’s happening. Trust what you already know. Maybe there’s less to figure out than we think. Maybe the invitation is simply to become more present to the life that’s already happening. And yes, we spend a fair amount of time talking about trees blowing in the wind. It’s good to be back. #joyfullife #selfawareness #innerexperience ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join our Facebook Group⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to our free Substack Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Interested in diving into the Joyful Life Project experiments? Check out our online course hosted through ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Udemy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ .

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  Episode #18

  Episode #22 - What if you are enough?

  Jun 24, 202635 min

  In this episode, Mike and Evan explore one of the most challenging ideas in personal growth: the possibility that there’s nothing fundamentally wrong with you to fix. Drawing on personal experiences, coaching insights, and the famous Marianne Williamson quote about our fear of our own light, they unpack why so many of us feel inadequate despite constantly striving for more. The conversation touches on self-worth, fear of failure, forgiveness, limiting beliefs, and the role our thinking plays in creating feelings of lack. Along the way, they question whether the search for “enoughness” is actually what keeps us from recognizing it, and explore what becomes possible when we stop treating every self-critical thought as the truth. #joyfullife #selfawareness #innerexperience ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join our Facebook Group⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to our free Substack Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Interested in diving into the Joyful Life Project experiments? Check out our online course hosted through ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Udemy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ .

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