The Joyful Hour
We bring you wellness and personal development insight and information along with empowering and inspiring stories of people who are living their truth. The information is compelling and cutting edge, and the stories are meaningful and authentic. The threads that run through our episodes are healing, purpose and authentic self-expression. According to neuroscience, joy is our natural emotional state. Meaning that being in a state of joy — having a deep sense of well-being and peace — virtually all the time, is not only possible — it is actually how we are designed!!! Yet we struggle day to day, feeling stressed, anxious, fearful, overwhelmed or depressed instead. There are many inspirational resources out there, but it can be difficult to translate those messages into reality in our own day-to-day lives. And so we created The Joyful Hour Podcast to help you learn easy ways to allow your natural state of peace and joy to bubble up more often, to help you build your "joy" muscle.💫 Host Bianca Erickson is Miami's Personal Development + Wellness Expert whose big heart 💗 and background in Psychology, Public Health Research (Epidemiology), charitable work, Neuroscience, Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence inform the enlightening conversations. Welcome!!! We are excited to have you join us on this journey back to joy! 🤩
Episodes
Welcome to Season 2!! Coach Jeremy is a powerful, positive force using gratitude, movement and joy to make a massive impact on the world. In our conversation today we talk plant 🌱medicine, trauma and healing, family and waking up to your own power. Enjoy ✨!!
Travel blogger Kashlee Kucheran is a minimalist. She sold 90% of her material belongings to travel the world, typically staying in one place for 5 to 6 months where she and her husband really settle in to the lifestyle, rhythm and culture. Kashlee thought Instagram was an important tool to promote her business and found herself comparing herself to others, feeling like she was not enough and spending hours to get the "perfect" phot...
Today's Guest is Jamie Lerner, pyshchotherapist and author of The Ever-Loving Essence of You. Jamie shares her experience of living a truly joyful life that feels good virtually all the time. Jamie believes that we are all conscious creators and she helps her clients to access their own power to create the life that they most desire. Jamie's consistent message is that we always know what is best, or right, for us…that our answers l...
A rare and life-threatening type of ectopic pregnancy almost took Bekah Goldenholz's life earlier this year, spurring her to take her Pro-Choice stance public. Bekah believes women need to tell and share their stories and she's hoping to create a community where women support each other and share openly about their difficulties with pregnancy, starting a family, loss and more. With an amazing and loving support system, Bekah and he...
Barry is expansive, beautiful, enlightening and full of love — he literally beams light and positive energy. He wasn't always like this — at one point Barry "had it all" — an extremely successful career, financial abundance, a marriage, health, kids, travel and YET — he felt like he was on autopilot. It turns out he was missing profound connection to himself and others. We talk about how ...
Traci Blank is a hypnotherapist. First of all, all hypnosis is self-hypnosis — you can only go under hypnosis if you believe you can, you want to and you feel safe. Secondly, hypnotherapists believe that you are the expert in your own life. Their work is to help you access your own inner wisdom and to reprogram beliefs that are holding you back. Our subconscious beliefs create the world that we see — whether we realize it or not an...
@StephGeeBeauty and her partners (mom Miriam and sisters Natalie and Celene) are the Founders of @GeeBeauty. A self proclaimed extrovert and youngest of the team, Steph leads content creation and social engagement for the company. She loves creating insightful and inspiring beauty and wellness content to help others, and she loves interacting with her audience. Today we talk body image, friendships, dating, beauty from the inside o...
Leila Centner believes our children will be the generation to save the world. After experiencing a difficult childhood, Leila moved out at the age of 15. Since then, she has been on a journey to create financial independence, and to heal herself. While Leila and her husband David have achieved tremendous success, she still felt something was missing. Until a year ago when she experienced healing at a very deep level. Leila is now o...
@BeforeYouShoot is a movement to humanize the lives of Black men in America in this era of shooting unarmed men of color. We have all been socialized to view a man of color as a threat through repeated messages and images in the media. This film paints a fuller, more accurate picture of Black men as humans with lives and families, fears and hopes. Listening to Film Producer @mdsimmonsproductions made me think of @BreneBrown writing...
Marianne Curtis is an amazing woman — attorney and athlete — incredibly inspiring and really self-aware. She is super motivated, goal oriented and offers so many practical tips for choosing a positive mindset and creating your life. I also think she's the happiest lawyer I've ever met. We discuss her being married to a (Jewish) woman and her Catholic faith, the importance of her central family unit, her pursuit of playing collegiat...
Today's show is an amazing conversation with Alix Lebec. Alix leads investor relations and marketing for WaterEquity, an outgrowth of water.org, the organization co-founded by Gary White and Matt Damon that has empowered 21 million people globally with access to safe water and sanitation. Water Equity puts capital to work to deliver universal access to safe water and sanitation. Alix recently closed WaterEquity's flagship $50 milli...
Dr. Tracy Dennis-Tiwary is a Professor of Psychology and Director of The Stress, Anxiety, and Resilience Research Center at Hunter College. We have an extensive conversation that dives into the human experience with anxiety, stress, technology, relationships, social support and emotional wellbeing. We also discuss how the general consumer has NO IDEA what data technology companies collect and how they use our information, and what ...
Today's show is with Erica Groussman, Co-Founder of TRUWOMEN, a company creating female friendly, nutritious and delicious protein powder and bars that are vegan, dairy-free, soy-free, gluten-free, non-GMO and kosher. They're also launching two new cookies this month which I can't wait to try! I love that Erica and her co-Founder Stephanie Pyatt prioritize women as customers, women owned and lead business partners and take a stand ...
Do you think the world is unraveling? Because that's what God says. Through life's mysterious working, @IreneMarie was lead to co-found the Foundation of Heaven, a small group called to do the work of God. Receiving messages through a channel, they journeyed to the Java Sea in 2011 to open the Vortex between the World of Light, home to the Illuminated Beings, and our human earth. God asked for his Heaven under the Sea to be reveale...
@Juan9F whose @9fcreative agency likes to work with clients who are changing the 🌎 (Anitta, Carolina Herrera, Discovery Channel). A native of Colombia, Juan moved to Miami by way of Argentina on the heels of a crushing 💔. It turns out that is exactly what he needed, as he found the man of his dreams and built an amazing business here. We discuss social media trends, coming out, overcomi...
Uly "The Monster" Diaz is my guest today. With a troubled past that includes street gangs, fighting and prison, Uly knew he needed to straighten out his life. He came out of prison and went straight into being security for his childhood friend @PitBull. At 35, @Uly_Monster finally followed his heart and launched his boxing career and now has a 10-1 (9KO's) record. Uly is living proof that if you really want something, nothing and n...
Patrick Frost is creator of Frost Fit Training and a Master Trainer for Nike, one of only 25 in North America. Through @FrostFitTraining Patrick offers self-guided monthly fitness programs, one on on online training and retreats and group fitness programs. This is a beautiful episode, with Patrick sharing his coming out story, how he got his amazing abs, his struggles with depression and drugs as a teenager, his move to NYC, and hi...
Dr. Melissa Lazarus is a top Miami dermatologist with extensive experience and expertise in general, cosmetic, pediatric, and surgical dermatology. Melissa gives her tips for keeping your skin healthy and tells us about the hottest new treatments for skin care. We also dive into Melissa's personal journey with a pregnancy complication and how to handle not being heard by your doctor. I loved connecting with Melissa, and hope you ge...
Aldo Jansel and I discuss overcoming trauma through Improv, releasing repressed feelings through meditation and Aldo's passion project — compost toilets 🚽. Aldo left his job as an Engineer in Miami to pursue Sustainable Sanitation. Recognizing that #cleanwater is a pressing issue globally, and that sewage water contaminates water all over the world, Aldo is creating toilets that are non...
@Valerialvaarez, Organizer of #TedxWynwoodWomen and Founder of Modern Women, a non-profit org aimed at empowering women through story telling and community as well as providing middle and high school girls the knowledge and skills to grow into the best version of themselves. Val shares the personal struggle that inspired her work — one that she hid for many years — and how once she opened up, she felt much happier, stronger and at ...
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