So much love today! Samantha shares updates about her pets, including a new 3-year-old sulcata tortoise named Tag and Linus the unusually calm and giant “dream puppy.”

Melissa gets a hair fixed by stylist, Caroline, at Salon Pure in Flowery Branch after a big hair dye mistake. (You must see the before and after. GOLD) Melissa was unable to make the recording for this episode so Samantha drops hits about what's to come. Come to find out it sparks a fun core memory between Melissa and her brothers growing up! Laughter Yoga!

Cathy Nesbitt from Canada, a worm advocate and laughter ambassador, joins the show, explaining how Toronto’s 2002 landfill closure motivated her to promote indoor vermicomposting for people in condos and small spaces. Kathy describes worm-bin setups (stacked trays or totes), how aerobic composting avoids odor, how worms and microbes process scraps and paper into nutrient-rich “black gold,” and how classrooms can use worm bins as hands-on science projects.

She also explains laughter yoga—started in 1995 by an Indian medical doctor—as laughter and deep breathing for health and stress relief, discusses online laughter clubs begun during COVID, and invites listeners to her free Tuesday 9:30 a.m. ET Zoom club at kathysclub.com.

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This is one for ALL listeners but particularly our male audience needs to hear what our dear friend DJ has to say.

We interview DJ Logory, creator of “Be That Guy,” who helps young men build confidence through action, accountability, and community.

This is one for ALL listeners but particularly our male audience needs to hear what our dear friend DJ has to say.

We interview DJ Logory, creator of “Be That Guy,” who helps young men build confidence through action, accountability, and community.

DJ describes his version of powerful affirmations via an audio narrated by his 90-year-old self. In other words, manifestation on steroids. One of our favorite words of DJ wisdom was changing beliefs by collecting evidence! It is liquid gold for any of us. It was for us as we navigate a bit of imposter syndrome.

Dj leaves us with amples of tips, tricks, and quotes that will keep you motivated to set your goals and track your habits (collecting evidence of progress). He pulls from the words of Matthew Mcconaughey, Tony Robins, David Bayer, Mark Devine, Jason Van Camp and many more.

This conversation hit on the amount of failure you can run into on your way to a breakthrough and that all you have to do is keep going.

"Dreams are more often crushed by fear than failing."

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3. Get your dose of empowerment from Dj Logory, Be That Guy

Kristan Swan, creator of the guided journal Spaghetti on the Wall, discusses how journaling can evolve across life stages—from childhood “emotion dumps” to adult reflection practices—and why a journal can be a safe, nonjudgmental place to say the “scary” or “ugly” things without harming relationships.

The hosts share barriers to journaling, including fear someone will read it and the challenge of not knowing what to write, and describe how Kristen’s journal provides simple prompts that make daily journaling tangible and quick (about 12–15 minutes).

Kristan explains the journal’s structure: a nonjudgmental observer section to record events, and an “experience evaluator” to identify highs, lows, moments of alignment, and “not so much” experiences—designed to reduce reinforcing negative self-talk that can happen with free-form journaling. She shares personal context (being on her third marriage and earlier choices driven by longing for stability, external answers, and fear of self-knowledge) and how journaling can both document progress and, if filtered through self-criticism, entrench shame. She describes creating the first edition about 10 years ago for business-coaching clients to help awareness “bubble up” when conversations felt like repetitive loops.

Post-COVID exhaustion led her to question business coaching, earn a Master’s in Education, realize academia bureaucracy wasn’t a fit, and reflect on “human doing” patterns, over-saying yes, self-worth, self-reliance, and learning to ask for help. The conversation also explores authenticity in professional identity, shedding rigid expectations, and adopting a creative mindset that welcomes not-knowing, curiosity, and possibility.

Kristan emphasizes that getting still and reflecting daily helps people trust themselves, make choices that do less harm to self and others, and reconnect with what genuinely matters.

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3. Get your beginner friendly, spaghetti on the wall journal, by visiting Kristan Swan online.