S5 Ep167: Life and Laughter in Paris with Joy Eggerichs Reed
Live Well Anyway
MacKenzie Koppa
4.6 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Today on Cultivating the Lovely, host MacKenzie Koppa talks with Joy Eggerichs Reed, founder of Punchline Speakers. Joy and her husband Matthew live and work in Paris, France with their daughter Millie. MacKenzie and Joy just have a fun chat covering a wide range of topics including Joy’s fun Instagram stories, home birth and living in France during the pandemic. So sit back, relax and enjoy this lively conversation!
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- Joy talks about how she and her husband ended up in Paris and what life is like there
- MacKenzie talks about her experience being a single working mom while doing school at home as well
- Joy shares how the quarantine has affected her family in Paris
- How Joy has navigated not speaking French and having her babies in France following a more natural approach
- MacKenzie shares a little about her own birth experiences and how she decided to have home births
If you don’t move to a place and have a posture of trying to laugh at things or try to understand them, then you will go crazy.
Joy Eggerichs Reed- Joy talks about making up an alter ego and voice for her daughter
- How and why the Reeds chose to announce pregnancies later than most
- The way the pandemic has changed Joy’s working life
- How the Reeds ended up in their fantastic location
Joy: spending time with Millie and making funny videos with her
MacKenzie: enjoying the flowers dropped off by her friends on May Day
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Movies: Podcasts: Find Joy-You can find Joy on her website PunchlineSpeakers.com. You can also follow her on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
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| 0:00.0 | We both are intrigued by other cultures, and I think if you don't move to a place and have a posture of like, hey, I'm going to either laugh at these things or I'm going to like try to understand them, you will go crazy. |
| 0:13.0 | And you still go a little crazy. |
| 0:32.5 | Yeah. Welcome to cultivating the lovely. I'm your host, Mackenzie Kappa. And around here, we know that life is hard, and we have to do everything we can to just make it a little bit more lovely. So it's my mission to bring you |
| 0:37.7 | great conversations, practical tools and information, and a healthy dose of community to help make |
| 0:42.8 | those things happen. If you want to find out more, you can go to our website at cultivating |
| 0:46.8 | the lovely.com. Visit our amazing membership community at patreon.com slash cultivating the lovely, |
| 0:52.4 | or by connecting with me on Instagram, which is one of my |
| 0:55.0 | favorite places to interact with all of you. You can find me at McKenzie Kappa. Thanks so much for |
| 0:59.9 | joining me today. Oh, ladies, I have such a fun interview to be able to share with you today, |
| 1:07.4 | one that I looked forward to so much, one of those people that I have been watching |
| 1:11.7 | on Instagram for quite a while now, absolutely adore her. She is hilarious and has so many |
| 1:17.8 | fun things to share. Plus, she lives in Paris, which is pretty amazing, even if you're in |
| 1:24.4 | quarantine. And that is Joy Egrich Reed. |
| 1:30.8 | She is the owner of Punchline Speaking and Literary Agency. |
| 1:32.6 | She has an amazing Instagram feed. |
| 1:37.5 | If you go watch her stories, you will become addicted, I'm sure, much as I have become. |
| 1:40.4 | She's absolutely hilarious and has so much to share. |
| 1:43.4 | And I'm so excited to have her on today's episode. |
| 1:46.3 | But before we get into that, I just want to talk about Patreon because you know I love Patreon. You guys, these ladies, we have been having so much |
| 1:51.0 | fun doing our book clubs and everything this spring. We have been reading Persuasion by Jane Austen. |
| 1:56.9 | It's been my first foray into anything with Austin. And we are actually deciding on our next book that we are going to do fiction-wise. We also have a study of Adore by Sarah Hegarty. |
| 2:08.1 | Shel Bruges has been leading that study. We've been doing these calls on Zoom. We've just been getting so much more involved in each other's lives throughout the pandemic, which seems counterintuitive, but it's actually |
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