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About Progress

How to Stop Waiting to Be Happy & Choose Joy Through Hard Seasons | H&K with Sean & Nicole Johnson

About Progress

Cloud10

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

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

What do you do when life isn't where you hoped it would be — and you're just stuck in the waiting? Sean and Nicole Johnson get refreshingly real about how they keep moving forward through infertility without letting the hard seasons consume them. Their approach is simple but powerful: feel it, then redirect. Nicole talks about processing emotions and then consciously choosing to move on, while Sean shares a surprisingly beautiful insight from his service mission — that the Spanish word for "have fun," divertir, literally means "to divert." Sometimes joy isn't about ignoring the pain. It's about making a deliberate choice to stop rehashing what you can't fix right now and pour yourself into something — and someone — else instead. This is a quiet reminder that personal growth and daily happiness aren't about having a perfect life. They're about choosing connection, showing up for others, and refusing to let what's missing define what's possible. What's one small way you could "divert" your attention toward something life-giving this week? Listen to the full episode here: https://www.aboutprogress.com/blog/heather-jenson-achieving-big-goals-in-small-ways ⁠Preorder Sticky Habits ⁠book today! ⁠Leave a rating and review⁠ Check out my ⁠⁠workshops⁠⁠! Follow About Progress on ⁠YOUTUBE⁠! ⁠Full Show Notes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:21.8

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0:26.2

Hi, I'm Monica Packer from About Progress, and this is a hug and a kick, a series where I share a short

0:33.5

excerpt from my extensive podcast archives, one carefully selected to give you the validation

0:39.2

and or motivation you need for the weekend.

0:48.5

What do you two do in order to move forward and progress in your own progress as an individual and as a couple each day?

1:00.0

That's a good question.

1:02.2

I think we, like Sean just touched on, we let ourselves feel it.

1:06.6

I maybe feel it more than Sean, kind of talk out process it and then you know move on and

1:13.6

whether move on means you know do something fun or like make a funny video distract yourself you know

1:22.2

I always laughed on my mission I thought it was funny that the verb for to have fun is divert, which means to divert,

1:30.2

which is really, I always thought like, that's interesting. You're diverting your attention from

1:35.4

other things that maybe are stressful. That's just how I interpreted it. I don't know if a Spanish

1:40.1

professor would say, you're wrong. That's not the origin but it's it's it's the it's derived from

1:45.9

the word divert oh I love that connection so that words yeah I just thought it was an

1:52.4

interest when I learned the word I'm like that's a weird word for have fun divert and and actually

1:56.5

have what I say a diversion is a fun, oh, you're doing a diversion.

2:02.4

Diversion.

2:03.2

But anyway, I think that's what it is for me.

2:06.9

It's just, like Nicole said, you acknowledge it.

2:11.1

Okay, is there anything else we're supposed to do right now to fix it or to progress

2:16.2

towards fixing it?

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