It's Called Happenness Angie Jacky & Nicole Ponce

Have you ever felt drained and like your life was just blah even after picking up a new hobby? Did you ever stop to think that maybe the hobby isn’t nourishing the right senses that your inner child is yearning for. 
 
What is our inner child? Do we all have one? The answer is yes, as we age we gain more responsibilities and different tasks, goals, and likes and dislikes, but did we ever think to look back to the core of it all. 
 
In the typical hustle culture it is so easy to drift away from our hobbies, activities that we love, and moment that brings our all our senses back to life. Which in the end what we are doing is healing your inner child while and in return making happenness moments.
 
In this episode, Angie & Nicole talk about how to balance the adult and child within, what are different ways that we can explore our senses in a safe space and/or a new uncomfortable space. 

Do you remember the last time you thought “What if...?” 
Our minds like to takes us through “What if” scenarios usually in moments that we are upset, not feeling our best. We then end up getting even more frustrated and just stop and think what would my life be like if I chose this path or what would my life be like if I didn’t. 
Due to the pandemic and all that we are experiencing right now, we truly understand and most likely appreciate Time more than ever. Time is the most valuable thing that we have in this life. The decisions we make can keep us moving forward or they can keep us at a standstill and make us feel as we are reliving in the past because we can’t let go of the different scenarios we play out. 
We talk about one of the strongest decisions Angie had to make recently of going back home to the US but something that she doesn’t look back on. She shares different tactics to do before you dive into that spiral thought of what-if scenarios. All things we are missing and planning before traveling become available again. 
But the most important point of this conversation is to ask yourself, are you living your life the best way possible that you are not asking yourself anymore, what if? 

Have you ever had a friend tell you about a book and you immediately know that you're not only definitely going to read it, but you know it'll be a book you'll revisit throughout your lifetime? Well that's how this conversation went.
Nicole read The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom about two years ago. It shaped the way she thinks now, and applies the four agreements into her life as much as possible. The four agreements that the author Don Miguel Ruiz wrote about are nothing out of this world, but they are at the same time. They're so simple, yet more times than not we overlook them. Sometimes, you need to see to believe and/or be reminded of things to put them into action.
Tune in to hear what the four agreements are and how they relate directly to happenness. We hope it inspires you to read the book, or in some cases re-read it.

Stephanie Jean Andrews is a multiethnic hobby enthusiast and author of the book The Mindful Hobby: A 30 Day Journey into the Power of Hobby as Self-Care. 
She joined us in this episode and shared with us her happenness moment of The Mindful Hobby. We talk about:
🔸 How a funeral led to the creation of The Mindful Hobby
🔸 Permission to play
🔸 Seasons of hobbies/mood-based hobbies
🔸 The western culture and hobbies
🔸 Sense of community
🔸 Hobby vs mindful hobby
🔸 Hustle culture and self-care
🔸 It’s never too late to start a hobby
🔸 Take time for yourself
She encourages meaningful reexamination of hobbies in our culture and believes hobbies can serve as the ultimate antidote to burnout. Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Stephanie has lived in Oregon, Mexico, and currently resides in San Diego, California with her husband and two cats. She can be found on Instagram @TheMindfulHobby
Tune in to listen to Stephanie’s story and the importance of hobbies and self-care. 
 
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In the current times we are all living in, it is so easy to lose our purpose. Purpose in our actions, jobs, careers, hobbies, but do we ever start with asking WHY we are doing all these things?
The book Start With Why by Simon Sinek explains that the reason why some are more successful than other is because the focus is on the why, not the what. The book specifically talks about success in business, but in this bookmark[it] episode, Angie talks about how we can apply starting with why in our personal, day-to-day lives.
We talk about:
Communicating and being clear on your why.
Your how and what should reflect your why. Building your how and what based on your why.
Focus on the why and everything else will take care of itself. And that's what we call #happenness

We've all tried at one point in time to find what is our natural way of feeding our soul, mind and body with the right foods. Though the idea of what is right or wrong on how to fuel our bodies might be different for everyone, listening to Rachel's journey is the perfect way to start. At the end of the day we all want the same thing and that is to feel our best, which truly starts with properly feeding our body.
Rachel Santana, Founder of Health is Hot and Holistic Nutritionist joined us in a conversation about her holistic journey beyond food. She talks about not only being cautious of the foods and drinks she was consuming but other aspects people don’t usually mention, which need to be brought to the surface in order to understand to break those negative eating habits. Rachel decided to start Health is Hot to give that helping hand to others that wanted to have a healthy relationship not only with food, but also from within and for her clients to love themselves but from the outside and inside.
Some of the things we talk about:
What is @healthishot
Having a healthy relationship with food
Goal setting when starting out a new health journey
Her Happenness moments that started with Plant Medicine
How to find the balance between Joy and Eating habits, because it doesn't have to be just one
She also gives us the inside scoop about some things she’s working on for Health is Hot that you don’t want to miss.
Episode is live! Be sure to tune in to feel inspired by such a wonderful soul that @rachelsantana is (link in bio: @itscalledhappenness)