One of the things that I say all the time is joy comes from intention, self-compassion is a non-negotiable, and kindness is a power move.

R-WB, R-WB, we came to make a change.

Hi, everyone.

Thanks for joining us. I'm LaFonda Cousin, a part-time yoga instructor,

self-care advocate, and the chief people officer here at Red Wine and Blue. I'm Katie Paris, and I'm the

founder of Red Wine and Blue. So, Katie, in a few minutes, we are going to be joined by the amazing

author, Karen Walron, but let's start by checking in. How are you

feeling? I mean, I'm pretty excited we're going to speak to Karen Walrond. I had listened to her

in the past and her being someone who has really spent so much of her energy on exploring the intersection of activism and joy

when I feel like, golly, LaFonda, we just got to reach for it every moment, don't we?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think I said good morning to you last Friday by being like, hey, it's Friday.

Let's make this a joyful day.

Yes.

And then we had a lot of stressful shit happen. Because why not? It was a Friday. Why not just throw a couple bombs into a

Friday? Because that's how it goes. And then at the end of the day, I was like, what did I say about

joy? And we both just like, you literally call them for like, let's introduce some joy. And then Friday was like,

actually, let's introduce a few.

Friday said, hold my beer. And then we were like, you know what? Let's just, let's talk about

joy on Monday. We just, we decided we needed Karen here to help. That's all. Yeah. I will say my weekend was

totally exhausting, but also I got me some joy for sure. You know, we had that conversation

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