Joyosity

Joyosity

Hosted by: Jenn Whitmer

We believe true leadership requires more than just surface-level strategies — it requires a profound connection to everything that makes us human. Through live interviews with experts and leaders, Jenn Whitmer,...

Episodes

Ep. 121, The Stories Exhausting Your Leadership (And Why They Feel So Responsible)

Season #3

If you’re doing “all the right things” and still feel tired, tense, or quietly resentful… It might not be your workload. It might be the story you’re leading from. In this episode, continuing the New Year. New...
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Ep. 120, The New Year Trope Leaders Keep Believing

Season #3

“New Year. New You.” Hard pass. In this solo episode, Jenn calls time-of-death on “New Year, New You” and offers a far more grounded, powerful alternative: New Year. New Opening.   Instead of reinventing yourself,...
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Ep. 119, Joy Is a Practice: What Writing a Book Taught My Family About Leadership

Season #3

You don't cultivate joy in a vacuum.   You practice it at the dinner table, in hallway drive-bys, during crunch time, and when the person you love most has the office door shut… again.   In this episode, I invited my...
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Ep. 118, Leadership Requires Joy in Community, Disney & the March Girls Part 2

Season #3

Grit isn't it. You need joy in community.   In this second half of our Disneyland conversation, we shift from rides and rain ponchos to something deeper: how community and belonging make joy stick when life is brutal....
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Ep. 117, Leadership Playbook: How Curiosity, Wonder, and Rest Improve Performance, Disney & the March Girls Part 1

Season #3

Real leaders. In the rain. Still celebrating.   In this behind-the-scenes joy experiment, I take you to Disneyland with three of my closest friends—including one who witnessed the birth of the Joyosity book idea…...
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Ep. 116, You Asked. Jenn Answered. (And It Got Real.) Part 2

Season #3

What if the very thing you were told was “too much” is actually your greatest gift?   In this Q&A episode, Jenn Whitmer continues the conversation from last week with listener questions about speaking, writing,...
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Ep. 115, You Asked. Jenn Answered. (And It Got Real.) Part 1

Season #3

Questions aren’t just curiosity—they’re power.   In this special Q&A episode, Jenn Whitmer answers listener questions from Instagram about leadership, life, and the Joyosity™ framework. From how to rest in...
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Ep. 114, Information Isn’t Transformation. Start Doing.

Season #3

Most leaders quit right before growth clicks into place, simply because they don’t understand where they are in the process of change.   In this episode, Jenn Whitmer unpacks the four stages of change every...
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Ep. 113, All Work and No Play Makes Leaders Dangerous

Season #3

All work and no play doesn’t make you dull—it makes you dangerous.   When was the last time you truly played? Not performed, produced, or achieved—but actually played. Most leaders have forgotten how, and it’s...
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Ep. 112, Chaos Costs You More Than Profit: Build Steady Structures That Last

Season #3

Chaos costs more than you think — not just in time or money, but in joy.   Without structures, joy gets swallowed by stress, disorganization, and reactivity   In this episode, Jenn Whitmer breaks down why...
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Ep. 111, The Secret to Joyful, Sustainable Leadership.

Season #3

You can’t lead with resilience if your joy reservoir is empty.   Your leadership depends on one thing most leaders forget to refill — your joy reservoir.   This episode of The Joyosity™ Podcast dives into the...
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Ep. 110, Stress Won’t Break You—Unfinished Stress Cycles Will

Season #3

Stress won’t take you out in one big blow—it’s the daily drip, drip, drip that erodes your joy. The problem isn’t stress itself. It’s getting stuck in unfinished stress cycles that bury leaders.   In this episode of...
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