PODCAST

Find Joy No Matter What

Join me, Jill Baughan, this season for a podcast full of stories that will show you how to find JOY in the middle of hard places.

Your life may be far from perfect.

Your joy may seem like it’s gone underground.

If so, it’s high time for a resurrection.

For a few minutes each week, I’ll tell you a story–one that just might inspire a way to uncover some joy you might be looking for. Then, together, we’ll consider how it might speak to your own life. And finally, I’ll offer a benediction to send you into your day…or into your night.

So… if you’re up for doing a few joy shots with a friend, my friend…Come and join us!

EPISODES

Podcast Episode 157 (13): Make Some Mischief (June 2023 edition)

Podcast Episode 157 (13): Make Some Mischief (June 2023 edition)

The art of mischief-making dates back to ancient history--like when I was in middle school, and we spent hours during sleepovers playing Truth or Dare and making prank phone calls. If this sounds like your story too, you--like I--probably matured over the years, and...

Podcast Episode 155: Invite God into Loss

Podcast Episode 155: Invite God into Loss

Ever in your life lose a beloved pet? It’s excruciating. For many people, it was our first experience with heartbreaking loss. Unfortunately, none of us would be destined to escape the pain of losing someone or something dear, but one way to make loss more bearable is...

Podcast Episode 154: Be Not Afraid to Bumble

Podcast Episode 154: Be Not Afraid to Bumble

Once upon a time, I attempted to learn to ski. And in the process, I made a colossal misjudgment and ended up “snowplowing” into a very large group of people at the bottom of a very steep hill. I tried yelling something like, “Comin’ atcha!” or “Look out belowwww!” or...

Podcast Episode 153: Share A Healing Experience

Podcast Episode 153: Share A Healing Experience

I had heard of goat yoga, and was really intrigued when I read this description: Our one-hour goat yoga class is taught by a certified yoga instructor and offers a deeply rewarding, light-hearted and unique experience. The instructor will take you through a sequence...

Podcast Episode 152: When Your Body Betrays You, Decorate It

Podcast Episode 152: When Your Body Betrays You, Decorate It

Like you, probably, I have had to deal with a few bouts of body betrayal—times when the body does not cooperate with the desires of the soul--when your body is not behaving in a manner acceptable to you, and you are over it. It may be a serious illness. Then again, it...

Podcast Episode 151: Appreciate These Days

Podcast Episode 151: Appreciate These Days

Having a bad day? Then this episode might be for you. I understand that some days can’t go by fast enough. We just want them to be over. Recently, I found myself saying that I’d be glad when this entire month is done with because of current and looming unpleasantness...

Podcast Episode 150: Shine!

Podcast Episode 150: Shine!

I went to a prom not long ago, and I have to tell you that the night had hardly begun, and already everyone was absolutely, shamelessly drunk …on joy. It was so different from the prom misadventure of my youth. The prom of my adulthood, however, was a different...

Podcast Episode 149: Begin (Because It’s Not Too Late)

Podcast Episode 149: Begin (Because It’s Not Too Late)

Have you ever really wanted to do something, but thought, “Nah, it’s too late in my life for that.” Granted, sometimes over time, our physical abilities make certain endeavors unwise. But sometimes we tell ourselves it’s too late to pursue a dream…when it’s not. There...

Podcast Episode 148: Put Yourself in a Compromising Position

Podcast Episode 148: Put Yourself in a Compromising Position

In 1969 the Rolling Stones released a song that reminded us “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” Mick Jagger sang the lead, and we all sang along with him, agreeing with our whole hearts. Years later, very early in our marriage, Ben and I learned the truth of this...

Podcast Episode 147: Light Up

Podcast Episode 147: Light Up

Author Toni Morrison, in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, once said, When a kid walks into a room—your child or anybody else’s child—does your face light up? That’s what they’re looking for. My children used to walk in the room when they were little- I looked at them...

Podcast Episode 146: Have Mercy

Podcast Episode 146: Have Mercy

Someone gestured at me in traffic yesterday. Apparently I didn’t change lanes fast enough for him, and when he made a right turn behind me, he took that opportunity to honk his horn and give me an angry salute. I felt mad. Defensive. And I told myself all kinds of...

Podcast Episode 145: Generate Joy in Crisis

Podcast Episode 145: Generate Joy in Crisis

You are no stranger to crisis—especially if we define it as a time of great danger, difficulty or doubt when problems must be solved or important decisions must be made; a point at which change must come, for better or for worse.”   And if you’ve lived this...

Podcast Episode 144: Pray Honestly

Podcast Episode 144: Pray Honestly

Sometimes it’s hard to be yourself in front of God and everybody else. Prayer in the presence of others can be especially daunting sometimes because it’s harder to be totally honest when other people are actually listening. I remember standing in prayer circles in...

Podcast Episode 143: Do a Little Thing

Podcast Episode 143: Do a Little Thing

Little things can make a BIG difference. Listen in for a few examples of how this can happen, when I tell you about an “erotic goat,” a lady who committed herself to paying for at least one convenience store customer’s bill every week, and my grandpa, who threw...

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