{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/66ed4a97c63b952f9ac375ff/69cd79ab3908885dc4e4f2fc?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Joy Audit","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/66ed4a97c63b952f9ac375ff/1775073694124-dbdaef82-9724-4e8e-90de-ca6db25f0175.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>I'm recording this episode from my bed, at 6:30pm, surrounded by laundry, with a partially sedated dog, and with maybe 15 minutes before my kids come home. I cannot think of a more perfect setting for a conversation about joy.</p><p><br></p><p>Because joy usually isn't the Instagram version. Sometimes it's survival. Sometimes it's taking 20 minutes out to nip to the garden centre to get covered in manure to make a place for happy plants before the dentist appointment and the school run, and attempting to figure out dinner for everyone in a kitchen with no floors and industrial fans and dehumidifiers making you mysteriously nauseous.</p><p><br></p><p>Sometimes it's putting the kids' clothes away with love and intention, instead of racing through it.</p><p><br></p><p>This is the Joy category of the Joy First Audit: welcome to the real face of joy in the messy middle.</p><p><br></p><h3><strong>Key things we get into:</strong></h3><ul><li>The four versions of joy (and why most of us only count one of them)</li><li>What the big battleground that feels really present this week</li><li>My score: what it means and what it doesn't</li><li>Why the gap between \"laughter and play\" joy and \"survival\" joy matters</li><li>Some BIG BIG news I've been dying to share with you: a milestone that feels very connected to everything this season has been about</li></ul><p><br></p><h3><strong>Links: </strong></h3><p><br></p><p><strong>Take the Joy First Audit: </strong>https://joyfirstworld.substack.com/p/the-joy-first-audit</p><p><strong>The 'Joy Codes' episode:</strong> https://joyfirstworld.com/blogs/joy-first-podcast/finding-your-joy-codes</p><p><strong>Find us on Substack:</strong> joyfirstworld.substack.com https://substack.com/@joyfirstworld</p><p><strong>Watch on YouTube:</strong> https://www.youtube.com/@JoyFirstWorld/videos</p>","author_name":"J.Nichole Smith"}