The Sweet Spot of Struggle: Where Hard Meets Heart

Growth lives in the grit. 💪🌱 Life is hard. Staying stuck is hard. Chasing dreams is hard. So… which hard are you gonna pick?

This week on Radical Joy, we’re diving into the sweet spot of struggle—the place where the hard stuff doesn’t just test you, it transforms you. From French cheese to Dutch drama, this episode is about choosing the hard that actually grows you.

Here’s what we get into:

🌍 Culture shock with a French twist
🧀 Brie-lliant lessons from a $12 cheese block
😅 Fail fast, fumble forward, grow anyway
📖 Flops that secretly fuel fierce growth
🗣️ Dutch drama: tongue-tied and tested
🚲 Training wheels on adult life (wobbly but worth it)
📝 Dreams in bold ink, not buried in your brain
🔥 When childhood hopes don’t fit grown-up realities
🎁 The universe’s sneaky habit of slipping you gifts

Because in the end, the sweetest struggles aren’t the ones we avoid—they’re the ones we choose. 💥

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