@Alex Shannon i hope you are having the best day paddling in FL!!!!!!! I know you are in your happy place living your best life!

Today is Self Promotion Saturday and we’re doing it differently. Not salesy. Not pushy. Not performative. Joyful. If you have something you’ve built, created, written, launched, designed, coached, started, or dreamed up… Share it. Your work is part of how you contribute to the world. Your gifts are meant to circulate. Your ideas deserve air. Drop your: ✨ business ✨ offer ✨ event ✨ project ✨ podcast ✨ book ✨ nonprofit ✨ passion Links are welcome. And then stay and support each other. Comment. Encourage. Connect. We were not designed to create in isolation. Self promotion isn’t ego. It’s generosity when done with integrity. Let us see what you’re building. 💛 Because the world needs more of what you carry.

When you give - time, attention, encouragement, help - something real happens inside your body. Your brain releases dopamine, the same neurotransmitter linked to motivation and reward. You get a boost of oxytocin, the bonding hormone that increases feelings of trust and connection. Your nervous system often shifts toward safety, lowering stress and supporting emotional regulation. Researchers sometimes call this the “helper’s high.” But it’s more than a fleeting good feeling. Giving has been associated with: • reduced stress • increased life satisfaction • stronger social connection • improved mood • even better long-term health outcomes Why? Because giving reminds your nervous system that you are not alone and that you matter in the lives of others. It moves you out of isolation and into relationship. Out of rumination and into purpose. Out of contraction and into expansion. Joy isn’t just something you feel. It’s something you participate in. Today’s Joy Prompt (J - Join in Giving): What is one small way you can give today - your time, your attention, your encouragement, or your presence? Small counts. Quiet counts. It all counts. That’s joy in motion. 💛

We did it! @Brandon Decremer spent another hour talking about joy - and how our brains respond to - and create pathways for joy. Take a listen .... and then let us know what will you do in the next hour (whenever you listen) to do something to add to your joyful life!!! We want to hear from you!

I posted this in my communities today and wanted to share here...because, well JOY of course... I’ve been around the figure skating world longer than most non-skaters — not because I laced up the boots myself, but because my mom did. She was a skater in her youth and has remained deeply connected to the sport ever since, building friendships with skaters, families, and coaches over the years. So by default... I grew up paying attention. And what Alysa Liu just accomplished? Absolutely remarkable. Yes — breaking a 24-year gold medal drought for U.S. women is historic. But honestly... it’s how she did it that deserves to be highlighted and broadcast. Not white-knuckled intensity. Not desperate, all-or-nothing pressure. Not the “I must win or else” energy we’re so often told champions must have. There wasn't talk about discipline and endless workouts (although, no doubt, both of those factors contributed). Instead? JOY. Pure, unmistakable joy in the moment. Comfort on the ice. Lightness off the ice. A young woman fully present in the experience of her life. Her words said everything: “I don’t need this,” she said about the hunk of gold. “But what I needed was the stage... and I got that, so I was all good no matter what happened.” Read that again. That is the heart of a champion. And then — just to drive the point home — she laughed and said: “If I fell on every jump, I would still be wearing this dress.” 🔥 That right there is FREEDOM. And in her words as she was walking off the ice yesterday... "That's what I'm Fucking Talking About" HERE'S THE TAKEAWAY… this is bigger than figure skating. So many people today are: • chasing the win • gripping the outcome • measuring their worth by the scoreboard • postponing joy until “someday” But Alysa just modeled something powerful: ✅ Showing up is a win ✅ Showing up with JOY is championship energy ✅ Showing up unattached to the outcome... and STILL crushing the competition? That’s one-in-a-million special.