Actress Joy Bryant On Forgiving Your Parents, Having The Best Sex of Your Life, & Being Childfree By Choice

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Liz Moody

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Actress Joy Bryant discusses loving yourself at every age, the secret to having incredible sex, her hypothyroidism diagnosis, forgiving your parents for your childhood, being child-free by choice, and more. The pros and cons of turning 50, especially in Hollywood which is a notably ageist culture The sex advice she’d give her 20-year-old self if she could go back in time How Joy’s wellness routine changed after being diagnosed with hypothyroidism The specific practice Joy discovered in her 40s that totally changed the self-love game for her Secrets to making a 15+ year marriage in Hollywood last Being childfree by choice (including navigating hard conversations with her partner, who wanted kids, about it) How Joy was able to forgive her mother for her difficult childhood The secret to true self love and confidence that’s NOT dependent on external validation And so much more For more from Joy, you can find her on Instagram @joybeezy and watch her in The Spiderwick Chronicles on Roku. To join The Liz Moody Podcast Club Facebook group, go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/thelizmoodypodcast. Ready to uplevel every part of your life? Order my new book 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success now! This episode is sponsored by: Seed: go to seed.com/lizmoody and use code LIZMOODY for 25% off your first month. Osea: get 10% off your first order at oseamalibu.com with code LIZMOODY10. ARMRA: go to tryarmra.com/LIZMOODY or enter LIZMOODY to get 15% off your first order. Cymbiotika: use code LIZMOODY on cymbiotika.com to get 15% off plus free shipping on subscription orders. Previous episodes referred to in this episode: The Secret To Making Soul Satisfying Friends As An Adult (Avoid The Mistake Everyone Makes!) What We Get Wrong About Grief: Healing From Loss Of Loved Ones, Pets, Friendship Breakups, & The State of the World 15 Love Lessons From 15 Years In A Relationship: Mine & Zack’s Anniversary Ep! The Liz Moody Podcast cover art by Zack. The Liz Moody Podcast music by Alex Ruimy. Formerly the Healthier Together Podcast. This podcast and website represents the opinions of Liz Moody and her guests to the show. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for information purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professional for any medical questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello friends and welcome back to the Liz Moody podcast I'm your host Liz Moody and I'm a
0:06.4	best-selling author and longtime journalist. This podcast is all about helping you live your
0:11.2	healthiest, happiest life whether we're discovering the secrets
0:14.0	making amazing, soul satisfying friendships
0:16.9	as adults, learning what we get wrong about grief
0:19.9	on a societal level, or hearing the 15 love lessons that Zach and I have learned in the
0:25.2	15 years that we have been together. And yes, those are all real episodes and they
0:29.7	are linked in the show notes if you would like to listen.
0:33.0	Today's guest is actress Joy Bryant,
0:36.0	who's been in a ton of movies and TV shows.
0:39.0	She made her acting debut opposite Beyoncé.
0:41.0	Maybe you have heard of her in Carmen, a hip-hopra, which I was obsessed with when it came out.
0:47.3	She was in Honey, the Skeleton Key, Get Rich or Die Trying, and she starred as Jasmine on Parenthood, which is made by the same guy who made
0:56.4	Friday Night Lights. It's one of my favorite TV series of all time. It is so well written and
1:02.4	it'll just make you ball but in like a happy in a cathartic way
1:07.8	currently she is starting in the Spiderwick Chronicles which you can catch on the Roku channel. I also am a huge fan of Joy's
1:15.5	writing. She has written essays for a number of different publications and they are
1:19.6	always brilliant and honest and really really beautiful. I wanted to have Joy on because she just emanates
1:26.9	such incredible confidence. She is so effervescent, she has so much wisdom. She also comes from an anything but easy background which we get into in this
1:36.8	episode and she's overcome a lot of hardship to build the thriving beautiful
1:41.5	very intentional life that she has now.
1:44.4	So I wanted all of her secrets for that.
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