Making Room for Fun and Creating Space for What Actually Matters

The Healing Power of Play

What if play wasn’t just something children do, but one of the most powerful ways we connect, heal, communicate, and come back to life? In this heart-opening episode of The Fun & Bliss Show, Monick and Moneeka sit down with DinaLyn Rosenbusch, speech-language pathologist, parent coach, consultant, speaker, and host of The Language of Play podcast. With more than 30 years of experience helping children and families navigate communication challenges, DinaLyn brings a warm, practical, and deeply human perspective to speech, parenting, and connection. She reminds us that communication is not just about words. It is about curiosity, safety, belonging, and helping the people we love feel seen and understood. DinaLyn also shares her powerful personal story of losing touch with laughter during hard seasons of life, including divorce, single motherhood, illness, and recovery. After a serious health collapse, she began to understand fun not as a luxury, but as nourishment, medicine, and a pathway back to joy. Together, we explore how play can transform parenting, deepen relationships, soften stress, and help us reconnect with the parts of ourselves that life may have buried under responsibility. In this episode, we talk about: * Why play is essential for communication and connection * How children’s behavior can be understood as communication * The power of curiosity in parenting and relationships * Why fun is not extra, especially during difficult seasons * How guilt can block joy, especially for mothers and caregivers * DinaLyn’s healing journey and how laughter became part of her recovery * How to bring more play, ease, and aliveness into everyday life This conversation is a beautiful reminder that fun is not frivolous. Play helps us listen better, love better, parent better, and live more fully. Fun is the practice. Bliss is the lifestyle.

The Joy of Letting Go

What if fun was more than entertainment? What if it was a pathway back to your confidence, authenticity, joy, and even healing? In this episode of The Fun & Bliss Show, Monick Halm and Moneeka Sawyer sit down with Kim Somers Egelsee, author, speaker, intuitive, life and business coach, and founder of Publishing Joy. Kim shares how her lifelong passion for helping people step into their authenticity grew into a powerful body of work centered around confidence, happiness, positive power, and joy. Together, they explore why women often need permission to have fun, how letting go reconnects us with our inner child, and why embracing imperfection can be one of the most freeing paths to confidence. Kim also opens up about her own healing journey, including breast implant illness, sobriety, and the life experiences that made her more compassionate, brave, and nonjudgmental. This conversation is warm, uplifting, and deeply human. It is an invitation to stop performing, start playing, and remember that your joy is not extra. It is part of who you are. In this episode, we explore: * Why fun helps us reconnect with our inner child * How joy can support healing during hard seasons * The difference between confidence and performance * Why authenticity feels lighter than ego * How women can rebuild confidence after shrinking or second-guessing * Why embracing imperfection helps us love ourselves more * Simple ways to bring more fun, bliss, and self-acceptance into everyday life

What if Money Was Fun?

What if money didn’t have to feel heavy, stressful, or intimidating? What if creating wealth, investing in women, and expanding your impact could actually feel fun? In this powerful and energizing episode of The Fun & Bliss Show, Monick Halm and Moneeka Sawyer sit down with Catherine Gray, executive producer of Show Her the Money, venture capitalist, author, keynote speaker, TEDx speaker, host of the Invest in Her podcast, founder and CEO of She Angels Investors, and co-founder of the She Angels Foundation. Catherine shares how her passion for film, storytelling, and women’s empowerment led her to create Show Her the Money, a documentary and movement revealing how dramatically underfunded women founders still are and why that needs to change. She breaks down venture capital in simple, accessible terms, explains why women often make powerful investors, and invites listeners to think differently about money, risk, wealth, and impact. This conversation is equal parts inspiring, educational, and fun. From making money while skiing, to investing in women-led companies, to changing culture through media, Catherine reminds us that money can be a tool for joy, freedom, power, and positive change. In this episode, we explore: * Why money gets to feel lighter, more joyful, and more expansive * What venture capital actually is and why women need to understand it * Why women founders are still underfunded * How investing in women creates both impact and profit * The cultural power of film, television, and storytelling * How women can become more confident, conscious investors * Why fun, wealth, and purpose can absolutely belong together If you’re ready to feel more empowered around money and more inspired about the role women can play in shaping the future, this episode is for you.

Finding Your People in the Fun & Bliss Collective

In this heartfelt and joy-filled episode, Monick Halm and Moneeka Sawyer share the deeper “why” behind the Fun & Bliss Collective, a community for women who look like they have it all together on the outside but are craving more aliveness, connection, play, and belonging on the inside. They explore loneliness, the power of practicing fun daily, and why joy is not something to postpone until life is perfect. They also introduce the idea of the “dark playground,” a space where women can bring their grief, rage, sadness, fear, and messy emotions, not to bypass them, but to play with them, express them, and alchemize them into something healing. This episode is an invitation to stop doing life alone and start remembering that fun is not frivolous. It is foundational.

Blissing is a Verb

In this joyful and energizing episode of The Fun & Bliss Show, Monick Halm and Moneeka Sawyer sit down with business transformation coach, speaker, author, and podcast host Caterina Rando for a conversation about what it really means to “bliss” in your life and business. Katerina shares how one powerful moment in her café helped her realize she was not in the “business business,” but in the empowerment business, and how that insight shaped decades of helping women thrive as entrepreneurs. Together, they explore freedom, money, authentic work, beauty, travel, rituals, and why your business is supposed to be your bliss. This episode is a beautiful reminder that joy, impact, and success do not have to be separate. They can become the same path.