The JOY Broadcast with Ali Mortimer
Episode: The Joy of Having ‘Self Worth’ (The Heart Chakra)
Date: April 25, 2025

Overview

In this episode, Ali Mortimer, life consultant and self-styled “JOY Coach,” explores the intricate and transformative power of the heart chakra. She unpacks how this energetic center—often conflated simply with love—is actually the seat of willpower, ego, desire, self-worth, and healing. Ali weaves together personal anecdotes, human design insights, and practical guidance. She also leads listeners through a meditative visualization to help open and heal the heart. The overall theme: true self-worth and lasting joy are rooted in love, compassion, and the courage to both give and receive.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Heart Chakra: Beyond Love

• Willpower & ‘Why-Power’ ([01:00])

  • Ali reframes the heart chakra not just as love, but as the source of willpower. “Whenever I speak to anybody about willpower, I talk more about why power. Because the why is what is going to drive you to keep on going with that will.”
  • Reference to Simon Sinek’s Start With Why for finding your true driving force.

• Self-Worth, Ego, & Desire ([02:30])

  • The heart is also the seat of ego, self-worth, desire, and even healthy competition.

• Physical Connections ([03:00])

  • Body parts linked: heart, gallbladder (“where your bile is created”), thymus (immunity), and breasts.
  • Illustrates the mind-body link: not tending to heart energy can manifest as physical illness, as in the case of a follower’s emergency gallbladder surgery.

2. Signs of a Healthy (and Blocked) Heart Chakra

• Traits of a Balanced Heart ([04:00])

  • Confidence and competence
  • Healthy, collaborative competition
  • Courage (“‘Courage’… comes from the French ‘coeur’—heart”)
  • Capacity to forgive, hold compassion, and love unconditionally

• Traits of a Blocked Heart ([06:00])

  • Obsessive comparison, resentment, judgment, arrogance
  • Overly materialistic or superiority complexes
  • Unapologetic or always needing to be right
  • “Overactive” aspects: relentless hustle, overcompensation, and proving oneself

“I told you it was complex. I told you it was complicated and often conflicting.” - Ali ([07:30])

3. Material Abundance and the Heart

• Heart, Money, & Crystals ([09:00])
  • Green and pink crystals (rose quartz, aventurine) are linked to both heart and abundance.
  • Reframes money as positive when pursued, given, or invested with love.
  • Shares a favorite quote:

    “Money isn’t the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.” ([09:43])

4. Practical Pathways for Heart Healing

• Foods & Elements ([10:33])

  • Green foods (alkaline veggies), green tea, strawberries (heart-shaped).
  • “Element” is typically air, but Ali also chooses music, dance, and movement as heart-healing practices.

• Intuitive Healing ([11:00])

  • Encourages tuning in to your own needs: “How are you going to move the energy within your bodies? …very much a soul thing, a soul knowing. Listen to your heart. What does it need?” ([11:20])

Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On why self-worth is inseparable from love:

  “The heart is willpower, driven by love in my opinion.” ([02:00])

• On compassion:

  “Once you can have a compassionate heart for yourself…then you can start to have compassion for all. And isn’t that what we want? A healed heart creates a healed world, a healed home, happy homes, happy communities, happy workplaces.” ([05:30])

• On embracing complexity:

  “My husband often says to me, he says, ‘Ali, you’re so complicated…’ And I say, ‘Thank you, darling. Who wants to be boring?’” ([02:45])

• On vulnerability and openness:

  “To love unconditionally, to open my heart to love again after being hurt so much…this was a huge one for me.” ([05:00])

Guided Heart Meditation ([12:13] - [22:59])

Structure:

• Invitation to find a comfortable pose and close your eyes
• Gentle breathwork
• Place a hand over your heart to connect

Key Imagery & Affirmations

• Visualizing the heart as a rose:

  “Imagine a beautiful rose where your heart is and it’s in a tight bud. A pale pink rose with a beautiful green stem.” ([13:40])

  • The rose is a symbol of resilience—strong, protective, yet delicate and always able to blossom again.

• Opening the rose (and your heart) with each inhale and exhale

  • Green and pink energies radiate from the heart

• Loving-kindness mantras:

  “May I be happy, may I be healthy, may I be safe, may I be loved.” ([16:59])

  • Offered for self, loved ones, and even those who may have hurt us

• Collective visualization:

  “Imagine you are in a rose garden, surrounded by all of the people with roses in their hearts, sending love and healing to the world around them.” ([19:40])

• Concludes with the invitation to “walk with the mantras of loving what you do, loving who you do it with, and loving yourself.” ([21:45])

Closing Messages

• Ali’s Mission:

  “My mission is to spread love, joy, peace and abundance…so that every person knows that they don’t have to walk alone in their darkness.” ([23:02])

  • Invitation to share the episode and the “ripple of joy.”

Important Timestamps

• [01:00] – Introducing the heart as willpower; willpower vs. ‘why-power’
• [03:00] – Physical associations of the heart chakra
• [04:00] – Signs of a healthy heart chakra
• [06:00] – What a blocked heart chakra looks like
• [09:00] – Money, material wealth & love; heart crystals
• [10:33] – Heart-supportive foods and elements
• [12:13] – Start of guided heart meditation
• [16:59] – Mantras for heart healing
• [19:40] – Rose garden visualization and collective healing
• [23:02] – Ali’s closing mission and message

Tone and Style

Ali’s language is gentle, inviting, and nurturing, steeped in metaphors and personal examples. The overall mood is encouraging and compassionate, with a practical spirituality that is accessible and warm.

For Listeners Who Missed the Episode

This episode dives deeply into how our heart—energetically, emotionally, even physically—is the source of willpower, self-worth, and our ability to connect, forgive, and thrive. Ali provides both conceptual and practical wisdom, tools for healing, and a lovingly guided meditation to help you open and nourish your own heart.