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Good Life Project

Melissa Ambrosini: The Joy of Missing Out

Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields / Acast

Education, How To, Self-improvement, Business, Health & Fitness

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2016

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Today we're featuring a very special GLP Guest Riff with Melissa Ambrosini.

Melissa Ambrosini is the bestselling author of Mastering Your Mean Girl, an entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and self-love teacher.

In her signature straight-talking style, Melissa teaches women how to master their inner Mean Girl, smash through limiting beliefs, and ditch the self-doubt so that they can start truly living the life of their dreams.

THer mission is to inspire women across the globe to create a heart centred life that is wildly wealthy, fabulously healthy and bursting with love.

By now, there's a pretty good chance you've heard of FOMO or fear of missing out. In today's guest Riff, Melissa offers a provocative reframe, a little something she calls JOMO or the "joy" of missing out.



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0:00.0

Today's guest riff is from my friend Melissa Amersini and it is a riff which is about something

0:10.1

which is kind of a fun and different term.

0:12.2

We've all heard the term FOMO.

0:14.1

Well you are about to discover a variation.

0:16.8

In fact almost the exact opposite and it is called JOMO.

0:20.1

J-O-M-O.

0:21.9

What is that?

0:22.9

Well you gotta listen to Melissa to find out.

0:25.3

Melissa is an awesome human, lives down in Sydney, Australia.

0:28.2

One of my favorite places on earth and is the author of a book called Mastering Your Mean

0:33.1

Girl and you can find her at Melissaamersini.com.

0:37.1

You can find that link in the show notes as well.

0:40.3

Turning it over to Melissa now for a fun, short and sweet riff for you on JOMO.

0:48.0

Embracing JOMO, the joy of missing out.

0:51.9

In 2013 the Oxford English Dictionary added a new word to their line-up, an important

0:57.4

one.

0:58.4

Now to be fair they add new words every year.

1:02.6

If a word is used a lot to the point where it becomes absorbed into regular daily use

1:08.6

or part of popular culture they'll add it to their list.

1:12.6

Which is exactly how words like twerk and fooshiesle have become part of the lexical

1:17.7

canon.

1:18.7

And no I'm not kidding.

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