ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
The Finding Joy podcast provides a space for you to explore what it means for you to find a life that is your own.
Too many of us are building lives around who we think we should be instead of who we really are.
Hosted by speaker, leadership facilitator, coach, and author Leona deVinne, Finding Joy explores the conversations that help us reconnect with ourselves, find the courage to stop performing, and start living with authenticity, not apology.
Through honest conversations, powerful stories, and practical insights grounded in psychology, neuroscience, leadership, and lived experience, Leona explores what helps us live with greater clarity, confidence, courage, and meaning.
Some episodes feature ordinary people navigating extraordinary circumstances. Others unpack ideas around identity, resilience, burnout, confidence, boundaries, leadership, relationships and what it takes to create a life that actually feels like your own.
Because joy is not something we chase.
It finds us when we finally own who we are.
Too many of us are building lives around who we think we should be instead of who we really are.
Hosted by speaker, leadership facilitator, coach, and author Leona deVinne, Finding Joy explores the conversations that help us reconnect with ourselves, find the courage to stop performing, and start living with authenticity, not apology.
Through honest conversations, powerful stories, and practical insights grounded in psychology, neuroscience, leadership, and lived experience, Leona explores what helps us live with greater clarity, confidence, courage, and meaning.
Some episodes feature ordinary people navigating extraordinary circumstances. Others unpack ideas around identity, resilience, burnout, confidence, boundaries, leadership, relationships and what it takes to create a life that actually feels like your own.
Because joy is not something we chase.
It finds us when we finally own who we are.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 23 days
Average audio length:
16 minutes
English
United States
22 episodes
since June 10, 2025
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
What do you do when the unthinkable happens and life as you knew it simply vanishes? Dani Elm's answer is not what you might expect – and it just might change the way you see your own struggles.
In this deeply moving episode, Leona sits down with Dani Elm, author of Our Last Steps, who shares the …
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Most of us are running on autopilot – adult software on childhood algorithms – missing the version of ourselves that's waiting to emerge.
In this episode, Leona unpacks the research-backed framework of clarity, confidence, and courage as the essential map to intentional living. You'll discover why…
Joy Is More Than a Feeling: The Neuroscience of Joy and Why it Matters
What if the reason joy can feel so elusive has less to do with your circumstances and more to do with what your brain has learned to notice?
In this episode of Finding Joy, Leona talks with neuroscientist and behavioural psychol…
Ever notice how the moment you let yourself truly want something, shame shows up like an uninvited guest? What feels like selfish desire might actually be your inner wisdom trying to guide you toward the life you're meant to live.
In this episode, Leona explores the "shame slough" – that murky, un…
Registered dietitian Kristyn Hall reveals why midlife demands we abandon the calorie-counting games of our younger years and embrace a radically different approach to nourishment – one that prioritizes elevation over manipulation.
In this conversation, Kristyn introduces her two-bucket framework f…
What if everything racing through your mind right now – your endless to-do list, that low hum of urgency – doesn't actually matter as much as you think? Research shows that our dopamine-driven, checkbox mentality can become as addictive as a slot machine, keeping us productive but rarely fulfilled.…
What happens when life forces you to completely reinvent yourself in your thirties? Leadership coach and former principal ballerina Kerrie Alanen discovered that losing everything she thought defined her was actually the key to finding who she really was.
In this thoughtful conversation, Kerrie sh…
Why do so many of us struggle to live authentically, even when we know who we are deep down? Leona deVinne reveals that finding joy isn't about positive thinking or life hacks – it's about doing the brave work of owning who you really are.
Through the JOY framework and three powerful personas, thi…
What if everything you chased – success, validation, achievement – wasn’t what truly mattered?
Leona deVinne sits down with her partner, Rod Miller, to explore how trauma, identity, and a life-changing cancer diagnosis reshaped his definition of fulfilment. Rod shares raw reflections on resilience…
Ever had a day where joy felt impossible to find? In this minisode, I unpack the ‘3 Ps’ of resilient people, from Martin Seligman.
Next time life gets messy – remember the key takeaway: Check your thinking, stay centered, and come back to joy. You’ve got this.
Connect with Finding Joy:
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