Since I was a kid, I’ve loved a good ghost story, so a few months ago when I saw there was a book coming out with ghost stories specific to a town close to me, I made sure I was one of the first people to get a copy.

My guest today is Liz Pardue. Liz and her co-author Kelly Prestipino just released their book titled: Fuquay-Varina Ghosts Legends and Lore and I wanted to dive into why they make the claim that this little town is the most haunted town in the South.

Oh, and if you’re scratching your head wondering, what a book about ghosts has to do with joyful rebellions, just remember, Every time anyone identifies a passion outside of their day-to-day life and runs with it, that is it’s own joyful rebellion and the only way we ended up with these great stories to captivate us.

Stick around until the end and I’ll tell you how you can win a free copy of their new book.

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Climb aboard the submarine, because we are diving deep today. My guest Gao Motsemme helps people live out their joyful rebellion by addressing the generational traumas that hold them back from living the life they want, and reconnecting them with their sexual energy, which as she explains is the energy of creation. If you are looking to be the captain of your own ship in this life, this is a conversation you don’t want to miss.

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Have you ever experienced self-doubt? I know it’s like asking if you’ve ever eaten pizza. It’s a common human experience that can hold even the best of us back from achieving our true potential.

Today I’m talking with Amy L. Bernstein, a writing coach and author of the upcoming book, Wrangling the Doubt Monster, Fighting Fears and Finding Inspiration. And even though, a lot of our conversation centers on the writing process, you can apply these concepts to so many other areas of life.

I’d love to hear what you got out of this episode. Be sure to connect with me at a joyfulrebellion.com

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Whether we know, or want to admit it, our emotions are a major driver in day-to-day life. It’s easy to walk around, unaware of how our feelings influence our behavior, and if we spend our energy fighting or repressing them, we run the risk of missing out on living the life we always wanted.

My guest today is Kim Korte. Kim saw the need to reframe the explanation of how our brains process emotions through our perceptions and experiences. She’s written a book called, Yucky, Yummy, Savory, Sweet- Understanding the Flavors of Emotions.

It’s a whole new way to think about our emotions, by relating them to something we all know a lot about…food. Stick with us for the next hour, and I bet you’ll come out the other side with more tools for your own joyful rebellion.

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My guest today is Paul Zolman. Around age thirty-five, Paul became aware of his tendency to look for the faults in people rather than the good in them. He wanted to break the cycle of criticism he inherited from his upbringing, so he created a game to demonstrate the principles of love languages.

It's a profound way to learn all five love languages and to give them away to others. The system is so easy that even young children can be trained in this love-giving system, and, spoiler alert: it's a game where everyone wins.

The concept of the five love languages has been around for a while, but this is a fresh take that works with anyone in your life, which is why I’m excited for you to hear our conversation.

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Every one of us has our special brand of self-sabotage holding us back from having everything we REALLY want out of life. We’ve all heard the saying that everything you could ever wish for is on the other side of fear, and my guest today breaks down the fundamental truths of that statement, and most importantly, what we normal folks can do about it.

Liam Naden is a great example of someone who has been through a joyful rebellion of his own. He spent the first half of his life working hard to achieve the success he’d always wanted, only to realize the life that accompanied all of that success made him miserable and stressed him out to the point where he lost everything but the clothes on his back.

While rebuilding his life, he began asking questions about why things happened for him the way they did. This led him to some fascinating insights about how our brains are wired and how we can overcome what’s holding us back from living our best life.

We’ve been misled about food for our entire lives, and it’s killing us. My guest today helps explain why that is, and how a couple of unproven theories from just a few medical professionals in the late 1960s have created an explosion in obesity and related diseases over the past fifty years.

If you’ve listened to this podcast before, then you know A Joyful Rebellion is all about getting more life out of life. It’s hard to do that if your health is compromised, so I’m excited for you to hear this conversation with Dr. John Poothulil. He goes by Dr. John and has written six books on subjects ranging from preventing and reversing type 2 diabetes to preventing and healing from cancer through the foods we eat, and more importantly, the foods we avoid.

The next hour is packed with info, so let’s get our science on!

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Whether you live in or have visited a city recently, you've probably encountered people without a place to call home. Many of us, myself included, experience that awkward tension when we think about how that person might have arrived in that circumstance, and what we would do if we ever found ourselves in their shoes.

Shayne Whitaker became homeless for the first time at age four and wrote a book about his experiences growing up. His book is called, The Homeless Man’s Journal, and it takes us through his journey from being abandoned by his mother, at an early age, then living in a dysfunctional family situation for several years before opting to live in an orphanage and ultimately getting in control of his future.

It’s a story of resilience that echoes the sentiments of what A Joyful Rebellion is all about, and if you stick around till the end, I feel confident you’ll gain a healthy dose of perspective from our conversation.