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The Happy Hour with Jamie Ivey

HH# 475: The Discipline of Joy and Celebration with Nicole Zasowski

The Happy Hour with Jamie Ivey

Ivey Media

Personal Journals, Religion, Society & Culture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

57.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Nicole shares that this book was birthed out of a realization of her inability to embrace joy because she was too afraid of worst-case scenarios. She gives us practical steps on how to make celebration a rhythm, and even doing so when we’re suffering.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey friends and welcome to the happy hour with Jamie Ivy Podcast.

0:04.0

I'm your host Jamie and I'm so glad you're here.

0:06.8

Each week on this show I invite a friend to join me and we chat about the big things in life,

0:11.1

the little things in life and everything in between.

0:24.0

Hey friends welcome to our show today.

0:26.6

I am super excited about today's guest and she's actually a return guest.

0:30.6

Nicole Zazowski is back and she was on the show in September of 2018, episode number 212.

0:37.8

And here we are all the way, episode number 475.

0:41.2

Crazy.

0:42.2

Nicole had a book that released actually yesterday.

0:44.2

It's called What If It's Wonderful, An Invitation to Release Your Fierce.

0:48.0

Choose Joy and Find the Courage to Celebrate.

0:50.6

And let me tell you, there were two moments in our conversation today that she got me

0:56.4

so thinking about what she was saying and I can't stop thinking about it.

1:01.2

It is about Joy and Moses.

1:03.2

I'll leave you with that and you're going to find out in the end of you those two conversation pieces that we talked about.

1:08.4

But this book What If It's Wonderful is really inviting you as a reader and the listener

1:14.4

to practice a spiritual discipline of celebration.

1:18.0

And that might be the first time you've heard that because honestly, this conversation was one of the first times I've had this conversation.

1:24.0

So many of us are fearful of rejoicing and celebrating for lots of reasons.

1:28.8

In fact, she breaks us all down in the conversation today and she's a marriage and family therapist.

1:33.2

And so whenever she talks, she just want to lean in and listen.

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