Smiles and Joy

Created with the intent to spread as many *Smiles* and as much *Joy* as possible. Please pass it on and it will come back around and brighten your world! Happiness is a choice, and we have the power to act on it. But to truly appreciate and understand Joy and Happiness in our life, we need to embrace and learn from all of life's hurdles and pitfalls. Smiles and Joy is a podcast to have discussions about what brought about a *Smile* or some *Joy* into your life and the lessons we learn from everyday interactions. We hope our podcast and *Happy Trinkets* store, found on smilesandjoy.com, will inspire, motivate and encourage others to remember the power of a smile. Not just for others, but also for ourselves. "It is not happiness that makes us grateful. It is gratefulness that makes us happy. Every moment is a gift." - Dalai Lama XIV

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Smiles and Joy

WOO HOO!!! 1st Episode of Smiles and Joy!!!

April 01, 2022 • Joy • Season 1 • Episode 1

WELCOME!!!

So grateful to get to share this passion project of mine with the world! Please bear with me on this first episode ever as I'm not a professional, I am just speaking from the heart. I'm a real, flawed human that has found great appreciation for the love and positivity in life, despite going through some devastation and hard times. I want to talk about the obstacles, pain and hardships we have faced in life and how we get through them with positive thoughts, discovering what will help us cope, heal and strengthen us along the way.

Inspiration for this podcast has been found along many steps in my personal journey. One inspiration I found is The Book of Joy by the Dahli Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. They spell out that to truly appreciate and understand joy, you must endure hardship. I would add that it isn't a question of must, but when, as we all will endure hardship. Hardships will take many different forms and will be different for everyone, but it is inevitable. How we choose to react, process and handle the hardship is what is key.

Looking forward to good talks with people that have amazing stories of hardship and their methods of working through the pain, what positive lessons they learned, how they use it going forward and how they are doing now.

**Side note: My sense of humor absolutely loves that my first podcast is being published on April Fool's Day - Love it!!!

Smiles,
Joy

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