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The Welcome back to Nomad podcast. I'm Tim Nash and for the first time in 2025. This is Joy Brooks.

Hello. Does your name reflect your emotional state joy as we enter this new year?

It depends how you define joy, doesn't it? So we could get we can... I don't know how to define it.

No, exactly. It's something that people have endlessly debated, isn't it? I don't know how to define it. No, exactly.

It's something that people have endlessly debated, isn't it?

So, yeah, it's quite the name, isn't it, when you think about it in terms of what it is meant to mean?

It's a high-pressure name, isn't it?

Yeah, it can be.

It really can be.

But, yeah, entering 2025, I think there's just the whole range of feelings

about entering 2025, and some of them are positive and cheery, and some of them are probably

gloomy and dark. My name means honouring God, apparently, but kind of mercifully, it's cloaked

in Greek. I think if my name was literally honouring God, I'd have amassed even more spiritual baggage.

Do you know what I mean?

Yeah, I'd struggle as well with the whole addressing you.

Hi, honouring God.

Oh, I've just got triggered by your name.

But yeah, there's a lot to be genuinely concerned about in this coming year. But, oh, I've just got triggered by your name.

But, yeah, there's a lot to be genuinely concerned about in this coming year, isn't there?

But, of course, for you, Joy, on top of everything that's going on in the world, you've just turned 50, haven't you?

I'm now in the wise sage territory, I think.

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