Valerie June -- Grammy-nominated artist, poet, author, certified yoga and mindfulness meditation instructor

This week Tara Miller, a mental health professional who is the director of a local community mental health agency in rural Vermont joins me.   We get an into her mental health journey from misdiagnosis, to being hospitalized to becoming a professional.    We talk about the biggest response to a question I asked on social media, about what people wish other's were more open about.    And we talk about how the holidays can often bring up a lot of emotions.    You can find Tara on Instagram at @tara_nicole_tri   Listen, Follow the podcast, share the episode and tag @claimitpodcast @_triciahuffman   Go to  PazazzApple.com and find a grocer retailer near you to keep this GOOD MOOD FOOD on hand. An easy snack that supports both your physical and mental wellbeing.    Join my DAILY TEXT SUBSCRIPTION to get loving messages to nudge you out of your way, remind you what matters, motivate, nurture and empower you - right to your texts! Use code "joy3" to get a discount for the first 3 months - cancel anytime! https://yourjoyologist.com/text/ Get access to THE DROP IN messages my private clients have raved about for over a decade - easily accessible on a private podcast feed! 2-3 new short powerful drops per week! https://yourjoyologist.com/dropin/ Get immediate access to my SHAKE UP journey NOW to accept all of yourself, heal shame, and be locked into who you are - in the now! https://yourjoyologist.com/shakeup/ Get my book at  ftheshouldsdothewants.com and If you have it - PLEASE leave a review on Amazon + Goodreads! Shop my products before they are gone at shop.yourjoyologist.com Please subscribe to the podcast and leave a review! Screenshot it and send it to [email protected] and I will send you a gift from my shop!

I have been asking Sarah to come on the podcast for years and we finally made it happen!  Tune in to learn why I love her so much and knew she would make an amazing guest.  We go through her journey that has led her use her voice to make personal growth accessible to “plus size women old enough to remember life before the internet" and more. Leading with radical vulnerability, heart, and (sometimes colorful) humor, Sarah has helped hundreds of thousands of women learn to navigate the sticky place between self-acceptance and self-improvement. Her first book, Soul Archaeology – A (Totally Doble) Approach to Creating a Self-Loving and Liberated Life came out a few months ago - get it now! Go to https://www.sarahsapora.com/ to get her book and learn more about her and her work.  Listen, Follow the podcast, share the episode and tag @claimitpodcast @_triciahuffman   Go to  PazazzApple.com and find a grocer retailer near you to keep this GOOD MOOD FOOD on hand. An easy snack that supports both your physical and mental wellbeing.    Join my DAILY TEXT SUBSCRIPTION to get loving messages to nudge you out of your way, remind you what matters, motivate, nurture and empower you - right to your texts! Use code "joy3" to get a discount for the first 3 months - cancel anytime! https://yourjoyologist.com/text/ Get access to THE DROP IN messages my private clients have raved about for over a decade - easily accessible on a private podcast feed! 2-3 new short powerful drops per week! https://yourjoyologist.com/dropin/ Get immediate access to my SHAKE UP journey NOW to accept all of yourself, heal shame, and be locked into who you are - in the now! https://yourjoyologist.com/shakeup/ Get my book at  ftheshouldsdothewants.com and If you have it - PLEASE leave a review on Amazon + Goodreads! Shop my products before they are gone at shop.yourjoyologist.com Please subscribe to the podcast and leave a review! Screenshot it and send it to [email protected] and I will send you a gift from my shop!

Wow! Rebecca Rolland is a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and serves on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. She has worked as an oral and written language specialist in the Neurology Department of Boston Children's Hospital. As a nationally certified speech-language pathologist, she has worked clinically with populations ranging from early childhood through high school and has provided teacher professional development. She has an Ed.D. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, an M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology from the MGH Institute of Health Professions, an M.A. in English from Boston University, and a B.A. in English from Yale.   We go into her journey to learn what had her taking this route that led to her writing her amazing book. Art of Talking with Children, which isnow available from HarperCollins.   To learn more about her and get her book go to: http://www.rebeccarolland.com     Listen, Follow the podcast, share the episode and tag @claimitpodcast @_triciahuffman   Go to  PazazzApple.com and find a grocer retailer near you to keep this GOOD MOOD FOOD on hand. An easy snack that supports both your physical and mental wellbeing.    Join my DAILY TEXT SUBSCRIPTION to get loving messages to nudge you out of your way, remind you what matters, motivate, nurture and empower you - right to your texts! Use code "joy3" to get a discount for the first 3 months - cancel anytime! https://yourjoyologist.com/text/ Get access to THE DROP IN messages my private clients have raved about for over a decade - easily accessible on a private podcast feed! 2-3 new short powerful drops per week! https://yourjoyologist.com/dropin/ Get immediate access to my SHAKE UP journey NOW to accept all of yourself, heal shame, and be locked into who you are - in the now! https://yourjoyologist.com/shakeup/ Get my book at  ftheshouldsdothewants.com and If you have it - PLEASE leave a review on Amazon + Goodreads! Shop my products before they are gone at shop.yourjoyologist.com Please subscribe to the podcast and leave a review! Screenshot it and send it to [email protected] and I will send you a gift from my shop!  

Samara's the author of the 2023 Penguin Random House bestseller PERMISSION TO SPEAK: How to Change What Power Sounds Like, Starting with You. Behind the scenes, she coaches everyone from Hollywood celebrities to rising leaders in business & politics and high school girls ready for a new kind of leadership. She speaks around the world on the new sound of power -- a question-everything unlearning about what speaking in public is all about. Namely less fear, more love.    We go through her journey from dreaming of being a traveling actress performing Shakespeare to working with actors like Gal Gadot, to supporting candidates running for election to writing Permission To Speak!   Go to www.samarabay.com for more and follow her on IG at @samarabay   Listen, Follow the podcast, share the episode and tag @claimitpodcast @_triciahuffman   Go to  PazazzApple.com and find a grocer retailer near you to keep this GOOD MOOD FOOD on hand. An easy snack that supports both your physical and mental wellbeing.    Join my DAILY TEXT SUBSCRIPTION to get loving messages to nudge you out of your way, remind you what matters, motivate, nurture and empower you - right to your texts! Use code "joy3" to get a discount for the first 3 months - cancel anytime! https://yourjoyologist.com/text/ Get access to THE DROP IN messages my private clients have raved about for over a decade - easily accessible on a private podcast feed! 2-3 new short powerful drops per week! https://yourjoyologist.com/dropin/ Get immediate access to my SHAKE UP journey NOW to accept all of yourself, heal shame, and be locked into who you are - in the now! https://yourjoyologist.com/shakeup/ Get my book at  ftheshouldsdothewants.com and If you have it - PLEASE leave a review on Amazon + Goodreads! Shop my products before they are gone at shop.yourjoyologist.com Please subscribe to the podcast and leave a review! Screenshot it and send it to [email protected] and I will send you a gift from my shop!

​​Katie Horwitch is a nationally recognized writer, speaker, mindset coach, and activist who has spent over a decade working to shift the cultural self-talk paradigm. I have had Katie on the podcast several times before! First to go into her life journey as usual, and twice for current life conversations AND now she is back because her amazing book WANT YOURSELF is out in the world! Tune into get some amazing insights and tips on what self talk is and how Katie's approach isn't just talk but really gets you to look at what you are saying  and thinking and SHIFT it in a real way.   Katie has spoken across the country about self-confidence, living fearlessly, and shifting the stories and habits that help shape our negative self-talk patterns.   Katie is the founder of the multimedia platform WANT: Women Against Negative Talk and the host of The WANTcast: The Women Against Negative Talk Podcast, which gives you tips, tools, motivation and inspiration to shift your self-talk patterns. She has been featured by SXSW, NBC News, Lululemon, The Cut, and more, has coached some of the most prominent brands and leaders on building confidence and creating impact, and has been praised by CNN as a “woman empowering others around the world.” She believes that shifting your self-talk is an essential part of shaping the world you actually want to live in—and is more important now than ever before. Her debut book, WANT YOUR SELF: Shift Your Self-Talk and Unearth The Strength in Who You Were All Along, is out  wherever books are sold. To listen to more of her life journey check out episode 85, the first time she was on! https://yourjoyologist.com/podcast-katie-horwitch/ Listen, Follow the podcast, share the episode and tag @claimitpodcast @_triciahuffman Join my DAILY TEXT SUBSCRIPTION to get loving messages to nudge you out of your way, remind you what matters, motivate, nurture and empower you - right to your texts! Use code "joy3" to get a discount for the first 3 months - cancel anytime! https://yourjoyologist.com/text/ Get access to THE DROP IN messages my private clients have raved about for over a decade - easily accessible on a private podcast feed! 2-3 new short powerful drops per week! https://yourjoyologist.com/dropin/ Get immediate access to my SHAKE UP journey NOW to accept all of yourself, heal shame, and be locked into who you are - in the now! https://yourjoyologist.com/shakeup/ Get my book at  ftheshouldsdothewants.com and If you have it - PLEASE leave a review on Amazon + Goodreads! Shop my products before they are gone at shop.yourjoyologist.com Please subscribe to the podcast and leave a review! Screenshot it and send it to [email protected] and I will send you a gift from my shop!  

Wow, I took an unplanned break from recording for a bit and sharing some of the things that have been coming up for me a lot AND I felt even stronger during my month of not sharing as much while I was fighting a bad cold that left me not talking much. You matter period. Your identity is not defined by what you do. Please find fulfillment DAILY outside of what you do and inside of it!   Listen, Follow the podcast, share the episode and tag @claimitpodcast @_triciahuffman Join my DAILY TEXT SUBSCRIPTION to get loving messages to nudge you out of your way, remind you what matters, motivate, nurture and empower you - right to your texts! Use code "joy3" to get a discount for the first 3 months - cancel anytime! https://yourjoyologist.com/text/ Get access to THE DROP IN messages my private clients have raved about for over a decade - easily accessible on a private podcast feed! 2-3 new short powerful drops per week! https://yourjoyologist.com/dropin/ Get immediate access to my SHAKE UP journey NOW to accept all of yourself, heal shame, and be locked into who you are - in the now! https://yourjoyologist.com/shakeup/ Get my book at  ftheshouldsdothewants.com and If you have it - PLEASE leave a review on Amazon + Goodreads! Shop my products before they are gone at shop.yourjoyologist.com Please subscribe to the podcast and leave a review! Screenshot it and send it to [email protected] and I will send you a gift from my shop!

This week I am re-releasing my conversation with the beloved social media chef Kat Can Cook, Kathleen Ashmore in honor of her first cookbook BIG BITES now being available for pre-order! This conversation was recorded in the fall of 2021, so things have evolved since then, but we get into her life journey from prepping food for real estate open houses, to becoming a classically trained Chef and knowing she did not want to work in a restaurant to taking her skills to The Martha Stewart Show and what inspired her to start cooking on Tik Tok and more! Pre-order Big Bites now at https://kathleenashmore.com/big-bites/ And find Kat at @kat_can_cook on IG and @katcancook on TikTok Listen, Follow the podcast, share the episode and tag @claimitpodcast @_triciahuffman Join my DAILY TEXT SUBSCRIPTION to get loving messages to nudge you out of your way, remind you what matters, motivate, nurture and empower you - right to your texts! Use code "joy3" to get a discount for the first 3 months - cancel anytime! https://yourjoyologist.com/text/ Get access to THE DROP IN messages my private clients have raved about for over a decade - easily accessible on a private podcast feed! 2-3 new short powerful drops per week! https://yourjoyologist.com/dropin/ Get immediate access to my SHAKE UP journey NOW to accept all of yourself, heal shame, and be locked into who you are - in the now! https://yourjoyologist.com/shakeup/ Get my book at  ftheshouldsdothewants.com and If you have it - PLEASE leave a review on Amazon + Goodreads! Shop my products before they are gone at shop.yourjoyologist.com Please subscribe to the podcast and leave a review! Screenshot it and send it to [email protected] and I will send you a gift from my shop!

Wow, what a delight this conversation with Valerie June Hockett was! We go through her journey from growing up living in her family's barn, to what she now see's was her parent's manifesting, how she got started in music and so much more! Valerie is a Grammy-nominated artist who has been hailed by the New York Times as one of America’s “most intriguing, fully formed new talents.” She is a musician, singer, songwriter, poet, illustrator, actor, certified yoga and mindfulness meditation instructor and the author of the children’s book Somebody to Love: The Story of Valerie June’s Sweet Little Baby Banjolele, published by Jack White’s Third Man Books. And you can not get her new book, Light Beams: A Workbook for Being Your Badass Self  HERE.  Find more from Valerie https://www.valeriejune.com/ Listen, Follow the podcast, share the episode and tag @claimitpodcast @_triciahuffman Join my DAILY TEXT SUBSCRIPTION to get loving messages to nudge you out of your way, remind you what matters, motivate, nurture and empower you - right to your texts! Use code "joy3" to get a discount for the first 3 months - cancel anytime! https://yourjoyologist.com/text/ Get access to THE DROP IN messages my private clients have raved about for over a decade - easily accessible on a private podcast feed! 2-3 new short powerful drops per week! https://yourjoyologist.com/dropin/ Get immediate access to my SHAKE UP journey NOW to accept all of yourself, heal shame, and be locked into who you are - in the now! https://yourjoyologist.com/shakeup/ Get my book at  ftheshouldsdothewants.com and If you have it - PLEASE leave a review on Amazon + Goodreads! Shop my products before they are gone at shop.yourjoyologist.com Please subscribe to the podcast and leave a review! Screenshot it and send it to [email protected] and I will send you a gift from my shop!  

Gina's first book just came out and THANK GOODNESS! We all need more grief support because grief does not just come from the death of a loved one. We go through her journey through musical theater, to becoming a therapist, to her work with Holocaust survivors to why THIS is her first book and more! Learn more about Gina and get her book: Moving on Doesn't Mean Letting Go: A Modern Guide to Navigating Loss at https://ginamoffa.com/ Listen, Follow the podcast, share the episode and tag @claimitpodcast @_triciahuffman Join my DAILY TEXT SUBSCRIPTION to get loving messages to nudge you out of your way, remind you what matters, motivate, nurture and empower you - right to your texts! Use code "joy3" to get a discount for the first 3 months - cancel anytime! https://yourjoyologist.com/text/   Get immediate access to my SHAKE UP journey NOW to accept all of yourself, heal shame, and be locked into who you are - in the now! https://yourjoyologist.com/shakeup/ Get my book at  ftheshouldsdothewants.com and If you have it - PLEASE leave a review on Amazon + Goodreads! Shop my products before they are gone at shop.yourjoyologist.com Please subscribe to the podcast and leave a review! Screenshot it and send it to [email protected] and I will send you a gift from my shop! Order my favorite multi-functional protein blends by Sprout Living made with superfoods, adaptogens and nootropics and no fillers athttps://sproutliving.com and use code “claimit20” for 20% off your order. I am obsessed with the Matcha Protein blend and Immunity + Hydration adaptogen powders. Do yourself a favor and stat using Truly Authentic Green Beauty everything from their deodorant, sunscreen, cleanser, serums, and oils are top notch! My skin looks and feels so much better right away with their products! Go to https://blissoma.com/ take the skin quiz and/or order a start set!

Stopping doing these 3 things has created so much more peace, ease, freedom and flow in my life.  I invite you to explore them and try them on in your own life and to look at what you can STOP doing to create more peace in your life.   Reminder your feelings of being enough, fulfilled, successful are NOT in outside quantifiers.  Listen, Follow the podcast, share the episode and tag @claimitpodcast @_triciahuffman Join my DAILY TEXT SUBSCRIPTION to get loving messages to nudge you out of your way, remind you what matters, motivate, nurture and empower you - right to your texts! Use code "joy3" to get a discount for the first 3 months - cancel anytime! https://yourjoyologist.com/text/   Get immediate access to my SHAKE UP journey NOW to accept all of yourself, heal shame, and be locked into who you are - in the now! https://yourjoyologist.com/shakeup/ Get my book at  ftheshouldsdothewants.com and If you have it - PLEASE leave a review on Amazon + Goodreads! Shop my products before they are gone at shop.yourjoyologist.com Please subscribe to the podcast and leave a review! Screenshot it and send it to [email protected] and I will send you a gift from my shop! Order my favorite multi-functional protein blends by Sprout Living made with superfoods, adaptogens and nootropics and no fillers athttps://sproutliving.com and use code “claimit20” for 20% off your order. I am obsessed with the Matcha Protein blend and Immunity + Hydration adaptogen powders.