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303: Joy is for Everyone with Candace Payne aka Chewbacca Mom

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Self-improvement, Education

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Corrine sits down with Candace Payne, the vibrant author, speaker, podcaster, and joy evangelist best known for her viral "Chewbacca Mom" video. While that viral moment brought laughter to many, Candace's journey goes much deeper. Now, she passionately shares her mission of "defiant joy"—choosing to embrace joy even amidst life's most challenging moments, not by denying hardships, but by allowing joy to exist alongside them. She believes joy is deeply intertwined with self-care and vulnerability, and that we must actively nurture ourselves in all areas of life to truly experience lasting happiness. Corrine and Candace dive into the beauty of being present and real in everyday life, showing how true joy bubbles up when we fully embrace our moments instead of trying to force happiness. Candace shared her secrets for finding joy by prioritizing overall health. They also chat about how powerful it is to use both therapy and faith to tackle life's struggles. They share their personal stories of finding joy even in grief and discuss how to intentionally make room for joy by scheduling it into their day. This episode is a beautiful reminder that joy is something we can actively create by taking care of ourselves in every way! For more from Candace, follow her on all her socials @candacepayne and check all her work on her website candacepayne.fun. You can also find her books here on Amazon.

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0:00.0

I am so excited that I have Candace Payne also known as the Chewbacca lady. Or wait, is it, is it the Chewbacca

0:15.2

mask or the Chewbacca Lady or the Chewbacca Lady? How do you like to?

0:20.0

I don't really, I don't mind any of the monikers

0:23.9

but I think the most common one is Chewbacca mom actually oh Chewbac a mom yeah Chewbac a mom

0:29.5

isn't that wild yeah that is so funny I want to hear let's start with that how did that come

0:34.8

about were you like building a following and then that was like your one

0:39.2

viral video or was that just to your friends and family i've always wondered that so it was

0:44.7

happenstance it was a perfect viral uh storm of all the things you know i had probably at most

0:52.4

about 2 000 friends combined on Facebook and Instagram.

0:56.9

And that was just real friends I'd made over the years.

0:59.9

But I was going live to show my mom friends while they were in the school checkout line,

1:06.1

you know, waiting to pick up their kids, a fun toy that I got myself for my birthday week.

1:10.4

I had no clue what privacy

1:12.0

settings were. I mean, like, I really. Right, right? I didn't have a clue what was viral,

1:20.3

not viral. And it was literally lightning in a bottle. It was just a divine moment, you know. Wow. Yeah. That is so cool. So for anyone who is

1:30.5

not familiar, can you just like give us a little bit of a, I don't know, Cliff Notes version of like

1:38.9

what that day was and what happened? Honestly, it was just so funny because I don't know if you're aware of this,

1:45.9

but when you get a certain age, you don't just get like a birth day. You get a whole birth week

1:52.2

to celebrate, you know? And then the older you get, you just get the privilege of having a

1:57.0

whole birth month. And, you know, at some time, it will become the year of Candace.

2:03.3

You know, I mean, like, this is my year. But it was one of those weeks where it was my

2:08.0

birthday week. I'd gotten some stuff I needed to return. And when I made that return, I just

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