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Welcome to the Joy Broadcast with me, Ali Mortimer. I was once upon a time an IT consultant recoding systems in the retail industry to function better. And now I'm turned a life consultant and joy coach where I'd like to think I reprogram and recode hearts, minds, souls and lives to feel better. This podcast, the Joy Broadcast, is a way to bring joy to your life, whatever the weather, whatever you're doing. So you feel a pocket or of positivity in every single day. If, like me, you've once upon a time found yourself wondering whether you will ever be happy again, or if you're just staring at the kitchen sink wondering how you'll get through the next 10 minutes, this podcast is for you. Get you a glimmer of hope, a dose of happiness or an infusion of joy right here, right now. Welcome to the Joy Broadcast. Welcome back to the Joy Broadcast, the very first Joy Broadcast I'm recording of 2026 and I feel like I haven't recorded one for age because we had all of those wonderful guests over Christmas. I hope you enjoyed the Christmas Festive series. What an incredible lineup. So thank you to all my wonderful guests who have joined me over the last month or so. I want to share three words with you today. Three words and words. Because words are my love language. If you've ever come across the love languages, the five love languages. Mine is words of affirmation. So words to me have always meant so much. I love quotes and words and I have a whole Pinterest board and I have a whole kind of section in my phone of screenshots of words and quotes that inspire me, that I love, that really deeply connect and resonate with me. I love words and I think it's been since 2019, I've always had a word for the year and over the years that word has meant different things. But this year, as I move into 2026, there's a real energy of this word that I want to use. But before I dive into kind of like feel that I'm diving straight into the masterclass podcast today, I probably should just catch up and talk a little bit about Christmas. And I hope you had a wonderful Christmas or if you celebrate, if you had a wonderful festive period or holiday break, whatever you had, I hope you're feeling fully rested, fully recharged, or maybe you're not. Maybe you're just feeling like, oh my goodness, that was one of the hardest Christmas ever. One of the most difficult Christmases wherever you are. I hope and I'm so pleased that you're here to just take a moment just for you, you know, just on you, for yourself to listen and tune into Joy. And that's really what this podcast has always been about. I mean, I can't even believe that we've been doing podcasts now for a year. I started recording the podcast a year ago, and it was launched in February, a very auspicious date for me. But I reflect on my own Christmas. And the December that we had was. Well, it was one of real celebration. December is always a big month for us in our family. December is the. The anniversary of our marriage. We got married on the 10th of December. So this year it was 20 years. I can't quite believe 20 years has gone. It was also our eldest son's 18th birthday, and that was celebrated a lot, you know, celebrating just the fact that he is one of the most gorgeous human beings on the planet, celebrating that, you know, we've raised an adult. It was also a celebration of, you know, Christmas, our faith, our family, our friendships. It was celebration after celebration after celebration. And I sat at the beginning of December, and it was so interesting. I looked in my diary, the. My devoted diary that I use every Monday when I sit down and I map out my week, and I looked at something that I wrote at the beginning of December. It had been two months that I'd been really struggling with tension headaches and migraines. And I do really believe it was part hormonal, part tension, because Christmas was coming. And as I've said, with lots of celebrations. We were still in midst and throes of a very disruptive renovation. Did I tell you this? I can't even remember, but we came home from skiing last year, and I found water flooding our basement. And we have a bathroom down there, and in the bath, it was very brown, dirty, disgusting water. So I literally. Our house was swimming and shit. And it transpired that the old trees that surround our house, the roots had grown through the old Victorian clay pipes that run underneath our house. And the only way to access those pipes was underneath our kitchen extension that was put in in the 1970s. So we had to knock down part of the kitchen in order to get to the manhole, in order to get to the tree roots. So the whole of last year, our kitchen was really quite disrupted as we took part of it out in the pantry. And then in the latter half, and in December, we were just waiting for those final pieces because how on earth do you cater for 30 teenagers and then multiple Christmas parties without a Kitchen. So I think that was largely due to my tension. Plus, we decided to get a German shorthaired pointer puppy in August. And for any of you who know the breed, they are literally quite wild. So I'm not surprised. I was struggling with tension headaches and migraines along with everything else. But I decided I digress. And I come right back to where I was talking about in my diary, that I made a decision. I'd had enough of these migraines and this pain and having to function and force my way through these headaches. And I was talking with my own mentor. You probably heard her in the last podcast. I was like, joanna, I'm just. This is just not good. I need to work through this with my own process, and I'm going to use joy. And this was when I realized that JOY was the acronym for just on you. It's just on me. It was, I need to use my joy methodology. Go right back to the basics of 2018. When I wrote that joy list and I got it out, dusted it off, and I was like, right, it's going to be focus on Joy, on me, on my time to relax, to break the tension, to break the adrenaline and the cortisol, to without shame or guilt or any reason other than I want to end December on a high. I want to look back and go, that was the best December I've ever had. I want it to be full of celebration and laughter and love and light. And in declaring it and writing it down in my diary, that's exactly what happened. It was like stake in the ground. No more Joy. Joy. I can't believe I'm going to say this, but JOY cured my migraines and my tension headaches, focused time on me to allow myself to really intentionally meditate. I really chose meditations in the morning, to really deeply breathe, to slow every down, to pause, to get in the hot tub to ease my tension, to write, to journal, to walk in nature, to not stress so much about the things that stress me out, like money and finances and picking up the boys and, you know, organizing the best parties and, you know, making sure that everything was perfect. It was like, no, let's just enjoy this process. Go back to that definition that I chose in 2023 when we're like, we just. We're here to enjoy my life. We're here to enjoy life. And so I look back now at, you know, what are we. This is the 7th of January, and I think, oh, my God, that was the best December I've ever had. The best Christmas I've ever had. It was full of love and light and laughter and fun and just not taking everything so seriously. And it feels so good to be in that space. And what I recognize when I look back through December that I want to take forward with me into 2026 is that joy, obviously joy for me, joy in the dark, joy in the hard, joy and everything. But also recognizing that actually when I look back at December, we made so many memories. And it's kind of like I'm in that after party celebration, the celebration of the celebrations. I'm celebrating the celebrations of the celebrations. And just thinking, wow, that was amazing. The reflections of, the reminiscing of all of the funny things that happened, all of the great things, the unexpected, and also laughing over the disastrous bits is actually some of the most fun. So when I think about 2026, I don't really. And I'm not really setting any huge, lofty, aspirational goals or targets or milestones, because actually the bits that I remember from last year are the unplanned are the funny bits when things went wrong. And that's the joy. And that feels like such a relief. And it feels totally wild and rebellious against my usual self because for the last eight years, I've always started the year with reflections and intentions and planning, and I have many programs on it, my favorite being Cocktails and Dreams, the one that I wrote last year, which is everybody loves in my membership and all my clients love, because it's so formulaic and so strategic and so clear and so clarity bringing. And I don't think there's anything right or wrong. It's like, I know I've got a framework that if I do want to be intentional, strategic, I've got it. But it feels so good this year just to go, do you know what? I'm going to go a little bit with the flow, but I'm also going to pinpoint an anchor around these three words. I'll go back to those three words. And I always love to have a word. As I said, there's always been a word that I've loved to anchor on. And as the years have gone by, it's not been something I've chosen. It's been very much more. A word has revealed itself to me often in those quiet mornings when I first wake up, when I first love to do you know that intentional mindfulness, that meditation when I'm literally doing a body scan and just checking in with myself and being grateful for the fact that I've Woken up for another day that I'm lying next to the most gorgeous man in the most beautiful home and our children are both healthy and happy. And I about to get up and do something that I know I'm going to love to do when it comes to work or purpose, whether it's here within my coaching practice, or whether it's for our property business or something to do in life, it's. It's in those moments and I was thinking, I wonder what my word for the year is going to be next year. And as I was lying there and just letting my mind wander, the word came in very clear in like bold capital letters. I'm quite visual or it's almost a sense. It's like a visual in a sense. It was like it started to reveal itself and it was just like, the word is wild. And I was like, you are joking. I am anything but wild. There is nothing wild about me. I'm such a good girl. What on earth is this wildness coming from? Where's it coming from? And I kind of sat with it for a bit and I thought, you know what? I'm going to look up the etymology of it. Do you know what the etymology of wild is? It's passionate eagerness. It is a little bit unruly. It forges its own path. And I was like, oh, I love it. It's like the wild rose, the rambling roses that I have growing up the side of the house. And I was like, yes, okay. I now know why wild chose me. That passionate eagerness or that eager passionateness. It's like I have so much passion after healing my migraines with joy and just on you and just on me. And the idea of the joy rebellion came through me at that wild moment. It was like, what is the most wild and rebellious thing I could possibly do is to actually claim the world Wild. And that wild part of me, and I think my soul knew she. The wild part of my soul was like, it's time to bring that part of you forward. She's there, she's here. And it's almost like the movie Inside out, you know, when you have all the characters of the energies in. In the little girl's mind. It was like this little wild rebel in black leather kind of sassiness came forward and she was like, let me loose. And I was just like, oh, my goodness, this year is going to be wild and it's going to be fun. And. And it was. Wasn't in defiance of anything. It was a pure choice to let that part of me come forward. And when I was riffing this out and talking this out, I was just like, oh, this is the rebellious streak in me. It's the rebellious streak in me that chooses me, this wild, passionate version of me to let go of, necessarily the good girl and just come in and claim that word and be it so wild is my energetic theme. It's the energy of this year, it's the playful side of me, it's the rebellious side of me that I've maybe squashed or hidden away in the back. And I think it's. It's so interesting that this word, this part of me, the part of my soul that is coming forth as I'm about to turn 50, it's going to be my wild 50s. And as that came through, it was my first rebellious act is going to be revealed to you and this is going live and you'll probably know it by now. But I was like, oh, goodness, I've always wanted to wake up on my 50th birthday in the Maldives. I don't know, there was something about it. My parents went to the Maldives and I was like, I want to go there. That blue sea, that sand, that total blissful feeling of being able to lie on the beach and just feel the sun and the beauty. And I said to James, in 2023, when he asked me, he started asking me, so, you're. You're 50, what do you want to do? And I was like, oh, my goodness, we've got ages to go. He's like, do you want a party? He's such a party animal, like, Tom, party, party, party. I mean, I do love a good party, but when it's not about me. And I said to him, you know, I don't want a party. Please don't organise a surprise party. I certainly don't want a party. I would just love to wake up with you in the. On a beach, sip some champagne or wander through the waves, swim with dolphins, snorkel, just be totally at one with each other and nature. And he said, oh, I don't know. Because in 2023, we just. I closed down a partnership. He'd left a big job and he was like, I don't know whether we're going to be able to afford that, Ali, that sounds very expensive. I was like, well, I'm going to keep the dream alive. So when last year, he carried on asking me, what are you going to do? It's getting closer, Ali, do you want to party? I'm like, I seriously don't want to party. James, please can hear me. And I've been telling all of my close friends, if James says to you he's organizing a surprise party, please tell him no. And I said, my dream hasn't changed. I want to wake up somewhere with the sun on my face. Whether that's snow or sand, I don't mind, but I would love to be really, truly and honestly, my big dream is to wake up in the Maldives. And he said, do you know what, Ali? I just don't think I can do it. He said, you know, we've got this big merger that's happening. He's running a big program. He said, I can't take that time out of work. And I said, oh. And I thought my dream was dashed until I was having my hair cut by my gorgeous friend. And he said, for Christmas, I'm going to the Maldives. And it was almost like the universe was going, the Maldives is still an option. And I was like, oh, my God, you're going to be there. Shall I come and join you? And he was like, well, I'm traveling around. I was like, oh, my God, I really want to go. I want to go. And so I rang my sister and I said, how about. Do you fancy it for my 50th? James can't come away with me, but you've known me all my life. Or I've known you all my life. Your life? Shall we go? She's had a particularly awful year in 2025. And so I was like, can you take some time off work? And shall we just go? And so in that week between Betwixmas, we were. I was at a party, actually, and I went into the kind of like, laundry room, and my sister was like, shall we do it? Shall we do it? Should we do it? Shall we do it? Shall we do it? And it was just like I felt so naughty and cheeky, and that wild part of me was like, just hit the button, hit the button, Bambi, hit the button. And we hit the button, and we were just giggling away, and it felt so good. So you've probably seen on my socials, but the dream has come true. And I am waking up on my 50th birthday this week with the sand on my toes. And although I'm so sad not to be with James, the love of my life, I'm going to be with the other love of my life, who's my sister. And maybe this is exactly how the universe wanted it to play out. And my mum died 10 years ago, so maybe she's orchestrated it, too, for us to be together. I love that. So that's wild. The wild rebellion, the wild rebellious years. As I start my 50s is the world energy that I want to live my life in. It's the anchor point that I will come back to. Is this how I'm feeling? Is this eager and passionate? Am I eager about this? Am I passionate about this? Does this feel good? Does this take me where I want to go? Can I meander this untamed, unruly rose? Can I allow myself to not have a defined path and just let myself go where it wants to go? I love the word wild. I've fallen in love with it after resisting it for so long. The other thing I've often done after I've had a word of the year is I've often gone down to my beautiful redwood tree. You probably heard me talk about that. She's the queen of trees. She's magical. You can feel her energy when you go near her. And I place my hands on her bark and I say, right, I've got my word for the year. Can you tell me how I'm going to support this? My soul, I always feel, gives me the word and my spirit comes through the the tree and gives me the path. The spirit guide gives me the path. So the words that she gave me were one of my favorite words that I've been using for a long time now. Devoted, be devoted, know your truth and live in consciousness. Devoted. Truth and consciousness were my path, my process that I'm going to be using. And devoted is a really interesting word. I've written the blog post about it this morning and I will leave it in the show notes. But it was in 2023 when I was on a sabbatical and I knew that I wanted to start a new coaching business and a new coaching brand. And I was thinking, right, galvanize, you know, let's get disciplined, let's get determined, let's be. Oh, I always forget the third D. Disciplined, determined, dedicated. Those were kind of like, strap on my armor, my gauntlets, my hot pants. It was like, yes, these are the words that I need. Let's go. Let's go into battle. Let's go and get this business going. And then I felt myself slump. I was like, oh, that feels like. They felt like heavy words. They felt like too heavy for me to wear. They felt like balls and chains and whips, like, crack the whip. Get going. Drag yourself along. It's like, these words don't feel like my words. These feel Wrong for me in 2023, 2024, as this was coming through, and once again I sat in that stillness of silence and meditation in the morning, I was like, if it's not these words, what's the energy that I want to live by, create my life by? How am I going to keep, I suppose willpower, momentum, keep to the task at hand. And it was so interesting, the word that came through, because I'd already set my intention for that year to live and love my life in 2023. I'd lost a very dear friend of mine. And, like, when my mum died, it reminded me of the importance of this one life that we're given, this one body, that we're given this one chance to suck the most out of life that we can at this point in time in our lives. And the word then that really resounded clearly to me was devoted. Be devoted to living your one true life, your one true purpose. Be devoted to the health of your body, to look after it so you can live as long as you possibly can. Be devoted to the family and friends and the people that support you and love you. Be devoted to them. Be devoted to your purpose, your life's mission, your life's work. I knew what that was by this time. It was joy. It was helping the masses with joy. It was helping people move through darkness by using joy. It was helping people enjoy themselves when they had everything to actually choose themselves. Because when we're at the top, life can still be hard. It's a big lie to say that when you've got everything you've ever wanted and when you feel like you've got all of the trimmings of success, it's still hard. And you have to choose joy to remain at the top and to keep going. So it was like, be devoted to your purpose, to your mission, to your life, to your health, to your adventure, your passion, your romance. Be devoted. Be devoted. And I was like, yes, be devoted to my mission of living my one true life and purpose. And so devotion became the word. Devoted became the mantle that I took and chose from 2023. Devoted is the one thing that I tell all my clients when they're struggling, when they can't get up, when they don't have the. It's like you don't need determination, you don't need discipline and you don't need dedication. You just need devotion to yourself, your life, how you want to remember it in hindsight. And so devoted is what my tree whispered to me. Again, be devoted. Tell the truth. What's the truth of your soul? What's the truth of my heart? What's the truth of what I want to say to people? Tell the truth. I think sometimes, you know, when I'm with my private clients, when I'm with them, I tell the truth. I don't stand for bullshit. I'll call them out on their untruths and their truths. And I want to be more truthful in all areas of my life, and especially online. I think we can be so frightened about telling the truth that we can get trolled or slammed or canceled. We can be polarizing and get hate. I mean, even this Christmas, I had a reel that went completely bananas, and my boys teased me and trolled me in the kitchen, but it was just, you know, they were laughing at me. And actually it was good, energetic exposure to say, do you know what? Anyone can say anything? And I'm okay. Consciousness. What do I mean by consciousness? The consciousness is really what I've been practicing and where all of these words have come from. It's just allowing my consciousness and my subconscious to speak, bring forth what's in my subconscious, bring forth what my soul wants to share, and bring it into my conscious and live by that truth and be devoted to my soul. What's the outcome, then? So my third word I wanted to share with you is bliss. One of my favorite books was by. One of the first of my favorite books that I ever read when I started my personal development journey. When I started on the spiritual path was another book by Rhonda Byrne. It wasn't the Secrets. It was called the Power and the Power she Talks about. And you can summarize the whole book in one line. It was like, just follow your bliss. The feeling and the outcome. The aesthetic I want to create for my life is bliss. It's the feeling that I know that I'm going to be feeling next week, or as you're listening to this, that I am feeling lying on the warm sand. You know when you first step out of your hotel room and onto the beach and your feet sink into the sand and you walk towards the sea and the cool waves lap at your feet, and you're just like. You turn your head to the sun and you're just like, oh, this is bliss. This is heaven. It's how I felt after the celebration of Tom's party. It was the bliss I felt of getting into my bed with James and just saying, oh, my goodness, aren't we lucky? That was amazing. I mean, there was a lot of disasters that happened in the party. But they made the fun bits. We could look back and go, everyone is alive. That was crazy. That was wild. What on earth did we think we were doing? But how fun was that? Well done us. It was a celebration of the celebration and it was just the bliss of I'm in bed, it's done, nothing needs doing. That's the feeling that I want to create through choosing a wild rebellion, through choosing being devoted to my life, the truth of my life, and the consciousness of what's going on in my subconscious. Really, it's all joy. Everything leads to joy. My one big word obviously is joy. And that just wraps around all of these things. It's always going to be my North Star joy just on you, just on me. It's joy in the dark, joy in the hard, joy at the top, joy everywhere. Because when joy is your strategy, when joy is your lifestyle, it becomes a super attractor. And joy is what got me here to the Maldives. I can't believe I'm saying that. So this was a little bit of a catch up, a little bit of how I'm treating and starting 2026, the year I turn 50, as I move into the second half of, I suppose my life, I always see myself as the second half. The first half was amazing, with ups and downs. And I'm a human design generator, sacral authority three, six. So for those of you who know human design, the six is the role model. And as we turn 50, we step into the role model era because we've gathered the wisdom from healing the wounds of our trial and errors and our adventures and our pains. And I feel that that's where I am. And it feels good. And I'm here to lead you in your wild and joyful rebellion. Because to me, the rebellion is not an act of defiance. It's not against or anti anyone or anything. It's for. It's for you. It's just for you. It's just on you. A joy rebellion is just saying, I choose me. I choose me this year and not because of you or in spite of you or despite anyone or anything. It's saying, I'm just, this is me. This is what I want to do. This is how I feel. And I know that by choosing me and that by choosing my joy, everything else lifts. If I lift me, everyone else comes with me. It's like rising tides. I lift myself and in doing so I lift others. I have the capacity to hold more people. So I'm going to end this with an invitation because last week I launched the Joy Rebellion, my membership for women who want to choose joy as a purpose, as an energy, as a reclamation of self, as a purpose. Did I say that already? Joy is everything. Joy is a strategy. Joy is a tool. Joy is a healer. Joy is a lifestyle. Joy is the super attractor for anything that you like in your life, anything you desire in your life. And if you would like to do that with me and come on a wild Rebellion joyful streak with me in 2026, then the doors to the membership of the Joy Rebellion are open and I will leave the links in my bio and I cannot wait to see everybody. And if you're listening to this and you feel inspired to choose words or energies, processes or aesthetics, please do let me know. Come and find me on the socials. Come and let me know. Come and find me in my inbox. I'd love to know. And with that, I'm going to go back to my cocktail on the beach and say cheers. Happy New year and happy 50th to me. 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 would 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.