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Welcome to the Joy Broadcast. I'm Ali Mortimer, joy coach, mentor, and life confidant, and I'm here to tell you something that might surprise you. Joy is not fluffy. Joy isn't frivolous. Joy is not the reward you get after you've ticked all the boxes. Joy is the only strategy you will ever need. It's your competitive edge, your antidote, and your super attractor. It's the power that creates miracles and makes life feel like magic. In my life, joy is the acronym for just on you. Because you matter. Your joy matters, Your life matters, and it's time to act like it. Whether you're in the dark with nothing or at the top with everything, and it's feeling so overwhelming, joy is always the answer. Joy is a strategy for every era of your life. And this podcast is the space for women in the boardroom, in business, and those women who are running the show at home. This is your reminder to choose Joy not as a reward, but the strategy that gives you your competitive edge, the energy that will expand to give you the capacity to hold everyone and everything. Now, before we begin today's broadcast, I have an invitation for you. If you would like to go deeper to prioritize your joy, come and join me in the Joy Rebellion. It's my membership where I invite you to align to Joy every single week and where I support you in clearing the path when it's hard. Or work with me in Brilliance, my mentorship for women who want to bring brilliance to the boardroom because they feel fabulous in the bedroom and in their body. But right now and every week on this podcast, I going to be bringing you the ideas, the stories, and the strategies to make Joy your lifestyle, your strategy, your North Star. This is the Joy Broadcast. Let's go. Hello and welcome back to the Joy Broadcast. I thought today I was not going to be able to record a podcast for you. I woke up with the start of what I knew was about to turn into a horrendous migraine, but I've healed my migraine with Joy. My own strategy. But hear me out. I know you're thinking, that's probably crazy, but it's worked. And I almost kind of, like, did it as a. A way to remind myself, prove to myself that Joy started off as a healer for me, and it still is a healer, no matter what happens in my life now. I've had migraines pretty much all my life, since my twenties, all the way through my corporate career. I used to get them all the time, probably through stress, overwhelm it was my body's way of forcing me to stop, to rest, to slow down. And then I got them again after I'd had my children and I was working again in corporate. And migraines and sore throats would often stop me. But as part of my perimenopausal symptoms, I know that they are quite hormonal. I've worked with some incredible functional medics. In fact, we've had a few of them here on the podcast on the Joy broadcast. You can go back and you can find the wonderful Liz Sargent. She's massively helped me understand my hormones and how to balance them. And then also Debbie Townsend as well. Two incredible women who've really helped me with balancing my hormones. But really, the migraines are perimenopausal. I typically get them once a month. If I get them more than that, then I know it's a real sign of stress or pressure that I'm putting on myself. I know it's me who does that for myself, nobody else. My migraines can get so bad that I'm sick with them. The same with my youngest son, unfortunately. He must have it hereditary from me. He gets migraines too. And sadly, on Christmas Day, he had one so bad. He was so sick. It was awful. But we take strong pills from the doctors, and I have no shame in saying that I do take them, because why suffer? I do everything around it and I can tell when it's coming. I can tell when I'm going to be sick. So it's just like I just take one of these incredible pills. And while it stops the progression of the migraine and it stops that intense pressure on my head from throwing up, it still makes me feel incredibly washed out, worn out, and just takes that awful edgeness that they knock me out. So when I woke up with this this morning, I was like, oh, no. Wednesdays are my days where I love to podcast. It's my days that I have scheduled to do all of my writing for the week. It's where I write my blogs, my substacks, any kind of written form that I want to do. It's my Wednesday, it's my clear day. It's where I'm starting my books. You heard it here first. I've got five lined up. Calm, Thrive, Bloom, build and Magic. I cannot wait to get them published. They will be published for your summer sun loungers. That is me just declaring that that is what is happening. Let's make that happen. So, as you can tell, it was quite Frustrating for me that I could not do that today. And I also had a wonderful guest recording scheduled today with the wonderful Becky who's coming in to talk about the joy of colour. And I had to send her a message and apologize that I wasn't going to be able to record the podcast with her. And she was very understanding. But it was also just this choice to say, do you know what? Put everything down. You know, I could have pushed on through and at one point in my life I would have done. I, I would have pushed on, I would have carried on being so frustrated with myself, you know, forcing my way through. But I know that frustration is my not self theme in human design. I'm a generator. So frustration just means I'm out of alignment of living with my own energy. I'm not honoring my own energy flows. So I'm very, very aware of that. And I was like, do you know what? No. I need to go back to my signature theme in my human design, which is satisfaction. And if I'm not feeling satisfied, then it's probably that I'm running on empty. Satisfaction to me is deliciousness. It's full up. I feasted on life and I'm full to over brimming. So if I'm feeling frustrated and a headache for me and a migraine is saying, you have completely depleted yourself, it's okay. We have to use the strategy that I know that works and the strategy that I teach and the strategy that I've been speaking about so much is joy. I needed to take a joy day. I needed to joy. Because what I've realised is that joy isn't just a noun, it's a verb to joy. To spend time focused just on you. A choice to choose me, joying so that I can become joy, so that I can be joy, so that I can say I am joy. That's how we do it. It's my strategy. And the very first time I ever did this was intuitively. And that was where I got the daily dose of joy. The dopamine, the oxytocin, the serotonin and the endorphins. And if you have not listened to my very first podcast, I suggest you go all the way back, scroll to the bottom, go and find it, or I'll put it in the show notes. But I talk about that story and what that means and how joy healed me. It's chemistry. It's how I change my hormones from the inside out. It's how I healed myself happy, the daily dose of joy. And it all started from a joy list. So I reminded myself of that. And you know what I've got here in my hand? I have the OG joy list on a tiny scrap of paper. What I love to do for me, other than just a family to run exercise, research on health, food, mind spirituality, write my blog, write for others, cook for fun, meet friends, work as a team, help others. I also know that obviously that on that list were hugging my children. I kind of feel like that that went without saying. Meditation was also another thing that I had on my list or I added to my joy list to help me heal. So what I recognized this morning that the only thing I needed to do was to do me. I had to do it. So I started off by walking the dogs as I do every day, but it felt like it was doing it in a very different energy rather than doing it in, this is my exercise for the day because obviously I haven't been able to exercise from a knee injury from skiing. So walking was my exercise. It was purposeful. It's like, let's just get this done. Let's tick this off the list as exercise and obviously walking the dogs. But actually I just went and I thought, oh, I'm just going to take my time. It's a beautiful spring day up here in Yorkshire. It's the first fully sunny day that we've had in a really long time. The temperatures have been touching 20 and I just enjoyed the sunshine on my skin. I enjoyed it for pleasure. We took our time. I let the dogs sniff and I bumped into God. Have I told you about God before? I love God. God is a gentleman who I used to meet on my walks quite frequently and have a lovely conversation with him. He was such a gentleman. And one day James was joining with me and I said, oh, look, here comes this lovely gentleman. I don't know his name, but he's coming up. And James said, oh, my goodness, that is Richard. And it turns out that Richard was the vicar who christened, baptized both James and his sister and who was an incredible character, well loved man of the village that they grew up in. And they greeted each other with such huge, you know, love. And it was so beautiful that obviously ever since then I've called him God. And I always know that when I bump into God on my morning walks, it's going to be the most magical day. And I haven't seen God for several weeks. And I said to him, I haven't seen you for ages. And he said, I know. And I said, well, do you know what? I've missed you. And today is going to be the most magical day. And it was. And I knew that that was just such a blessing to bump into him. When I got home, I decided that I would pop the dogs away because they were a little bit manic and I put them in their cages and I thought, I still don't feel like I can do anything. I can't do anything off my list. I'm still feeling kind of like overwhelmed, quite heady. But it was a gorgeous day and I thought, you know, I'm going to sit. Our front doorstep is quite a beautiful sun trap. And so I opened the doors, I let the fresh air into the house, and I actually got my laptop and I thought, you know what? I do feel like I'm up to a bit of writing, but not writing because I have to. Writing because I want to writing because I've got something to say. There's something on my heart, there's something that I want to talk about. And I just sat in the sun with my slippers and a hydration drink because I was trying to make sure that I was keeping myself hydrated because sometimes that can be a symptom of my migraine. And I wrote two beautiful sub stack articles. One was all about energy. One is all about the energy of devotion. This is such a powerful energy for me and it's one of my words for this year. I have three words. World being the energy that I want to create in. You probably heard me talk about the world. I think I've done a podcast on it. But world being untamed passion. The process I'm using this year is devotion. And it's an energy and a process that I've been using for the last two or three years, ever since I came back from the Caribbean, when I realized that this was the word that I wanted to use. And the title of the substack is Fuck discipline. I know a better way. Excuse my French. But it really is. It was recognizing. And it was really interesting because I was talking about this to a client this week and I got out my diary where I break this down. It was recognizing that I had created an incredible year in 2023, from nothing to sitting on a beach in the Caribbean going, oh, my goodness, how did I do this? And how can I share this with others? I wrote down three words. It's not, you know, discipline, dedication, determination, drive. That's four words. And I was like, oh, God, no, that just sounds awful. That sounds like I'm cracking the whip. I was like, no, I Don't need more of that. And I don't feel like I did that either. It was devotion. So I've written a whole article on that. You can read that. I'll pop it in the show notes. But then also I wrote another one because while that was an energetic piece, it was like, so many people want a strategy. And one of the conversations I've been having this week with many of my clients and also in the Joy Rebellion, is that people want more time. They want more time, they're running out of time and they keep adding more to their list and they just have no time for themselves. And so I brought back an old strategy. It was actually one one of my very first coaches taught me. She said, you need to remember the four Ds, the four Ds of time management. I was like, I've never heard of that before. 4Ds is ditch, delay, delegate or do. But I've subsequently recognised within myself and also in sharing with many of my clients, that while that's a very simple strategy, to recognise and to know the actual implementation of it can be very tricky because we feel resistance in delegating or ditching or dropping or delaying. So we don't. We just do it all ourselves and that's why we get overwhelmed. So I've written a whole article on that one as well, so you can go and read that. But it felt really, really good and cathartic to write them because it was such a pleasure just for me. It was almost like I was writing them for me as a reminder. Then I went to bed, because why not? I was feeling quite exhausted after doing that. I thought, I'm just going to do some lovely meditations. I put on some binary beats and then I thought, you know what I actually need? I think I need to take myself through an energy cleanse. And this time last year, I did. I channel it. I don't know, but I felt the same. It was almost like maybe it was a spring clean for my chakras. I felt the same thing again. And I remember waking up very early because obviously the light's getting earlier. And I would come down into my office and I would literally just record a meditation for a chakra. And I did nine days of chakra cleansing this time last year, and I ran it in a group and I thought, I need to do the same again. And I did them again this afternoon, clearing of all of my energies, the spring clean of my chakras. And it was incredible, just incredible. I've literally took myself into transcendentational state. I literally left my body, especially the one with the mind. It woke me up with such a start, and when I got to the root, I was in tears. It was an incredible, beautiful release. I mean, each of these meditations is about seven or eight minutes long, so it only took me an hour, but it was an hour just on me. It was an hour of cleansing. And, yes, that sounds incredibly indulgent, but you know, what has happened since. Since I did that, I felt so much better. I got up, I ran the doctor, I said, I need some more pills. They said, you've got to come in. I said, okay, I'll come in. So I went in at the same time, I went into town and did all of my errands. And then I've come back and I thought, I feel so good. I'm going to record my podcast and tell everybody about what I've done today and how I've used joy to heal my migraine. As if by magic. I've done so much more than I thought I needed to do that I had on my list this morning. I've done it all, and I've done more. I've created some beautiful reels today because I did it, because I wanted to, because I was enjoying it. I had stuff to say. It's felt like magic. And do you know what? It's so interesting because on Monday night, I have Michael with my own mentor, and we've got my strategy for my business growth and where I want to take my business. I mean, she's a marketing coach. She's brilliant. She's a business coach. So she's helping me in business. I know how to coach. I'm brilliant at what I do. But I needed somebody to help me with. How do I get my message out there? I'm not a marketing specialist. She is. And we've got the most incredible strategy that we've written together that's perfectly aligned. For me, it's all about joy. And this week, we're like, now we just need to bring more magic. Now we just need to focus more on the energy. How can you bring more joy into it? And again, we created a plan of all the things I know I need to do in order to bring the joy. But you know what? I felt like today was gifted. It was my reminder that actually in slowing down, in choosing me, in focusing on me, in allowing myself to just slow down and chill and rest, that's the magic. I've suddenly had so much more energy and got everything done that I Needed to and more. This was a forced reminder that I need to joy. I don't need to. Wrong word, wrong turn of phrase, right. But to joy is a verb to do. Joy is how we create more joy, more energy. And joy is the energy of being able to do more. And it always goes back to that primary message of joy. Joy is a healer because joy is that healer that creates a chemical change in your body that makes you feel good. Joy is the is physics on. When we look at the Hawkins scale, joy is right up there in the highest frequencies to magnetize everything that you need, that you and desire that you want from the quantum field. That's what we do. That's where I've been playing today. So a real reminder that joy and to be devoted to your joy, to be devoted to the strategy of joy, of choosing joy just on you, is how you get more done. It's how you heal. It's the answer to everything I keep saying. And life keeps reinforcing the message that I want to share and I'm sharing again today. Joy is always the answer. When the chips are down like they were for me today, but also when the chips are piling up and everything is going really well, you still need to remind yourself to take those moments of joy so that everything that you've built and everything that you've created is sustained and that you get to enjoy it as well. So I'm sharing this story. Maybe some of you resonate. And whether you get migraines, whether you get stomach aches, ibs, blood, whatever you get, whatever pains or symptoms you get in your body, I know that joy is going to give you the answer too. And if being devoted to your joy is something that you would like some support and some help with, I've got a couple of places that you might like to consider if you feel like you need that little extra support. So obviously we have the joy rebellion, which is my year long experience, where you get to devote yourself to joy every single week, 52 weeks of the year, every single day. It's about devoting to joy. It's having access to me every single week. To have some personalized coaching to help you stay aligned to that joy path, but also to have access to my library of eight years now of incredible trainings that I've built around my recipe of joy. Peace of mind, health of your body, loving your life, the magic of manifestation and dropping. Next week, human design, all of it is in there. Hours and hours and hours for you to binge watch, to learn, to Integrate into your life and to ask me questions. So that's the Joy rebellion. That's just £22amonth or £222 for the full year. And if you pay in full, you get a private session with me as well to kickstart your joy in your devotion. Now, the second place is if you've been intrigued about what I was saying around the chakra cleansing human design, then I have my master course which is now available on Evergreen. You can go through and take that anytime. It is a beautiful master course to help you understand how to read your human design. But any human design chart that you may wish to learn about it is a human design mastery course so that you can learn everything about your energy and how your energy flows, so that you can amplify your joy in your very own unique and personalized way. Now, this is now a master course so you can access at any time. But as a bonus, I am adding in for one year and one time only, from 1 April, a bonus devoted mastermind. I used to run a mastermind called Devoted, but I'm now adding it to the master course. So what does this mean? A mastermind is a hive of women or men or group of people coming together to talk and discuss and to apply and me there to help coach and guide you so that you can integrate and implement everything that you're learning in the master course of Human Design. And how we can amplify your joy. How we can amplify the joy of those around you, whether that's in your teams, in your boardrooms, in your bedrooms, how you can use it to for your health, in your body as well. It's an incubator. It's every single day 24, 7. Access to me. Well, if I'm asleep, I'm not going to answer, but you can come in anytime. It is an incubator for three months where you get to devote yourself to your joy using human design to personalize it for you. It's mentorship with me in a small mastermind to help you understand your human design, to amplify your joy and understand how to do it all your unique way. So it's an incubator for three months. You have access to me every single day 24, 7. And we have live sessions as well. So that is adding as a bonus at the moment that mastermind to the master course. Next year it will be something that you can buy separately and invest in separately. So you can buy the master course anytime and then the mastermind will be an add on as of next year. But for this, for this year it's included. So it's currently on pre sale of1111. So for that you get the I think it's 12 or 13 modules of the human design course plus the three month daily mastermind with me from the 23rd of March. So depending on when you're listening to this, the price will be on an early bird of 1888. So once again you get both the mastercourse and the Mastermind for that and then it will settle from the 1st of March on 2222 and that will be the ongoing price for the evergreen. And then when I run the mastermind it will be an add on and I have not yet decided what the price will be. But if you want to come in and devote your joy, understand how you can use Human Design to amplify that. Then I will drop all of the links in the show notes. Or you can come and find me anywhere on any of my channels, social media, drop me an email, use the information in the show notes, come and find me. But I've loved being able to record a podcast today. Ah, and now I think I might go and start the first chapter of my first book. Now, if you're subscribed to Substack, you're going to be getting those well in advance. How exciting is that? So much for you to choose from and take your next step in joy. But thank you for the moment for being here with me today on the JOY broadcast. Lots of love. My mission is to spread love, joy, peace and abundance to as much of the world as I possibly can so that every person knows that they don't have to walk alone in their darkness. So if you've enjoyed today's podcast and this episode, I'll be so honored and happy if you would support my mission and share this with your network, your friends and your family. Please feel free to leave me an honest review on Apple or Spotify. And until next time, remember, the ripple of joy starts with you.