The JOY Broadcast

Dressing for Joy (and Why Well-Dressed Is a State of Mind) with Dahlia Stroud

What do you wear on the day you've been made redundant? The day your confidence is on the floor? The day you're trying to remember who the hell you are without the job title? This week on The Joy Broadcast, I'm joined by the wonderful Dahlia Stroud, someone I haven't seen for the best part of 15 years, since our Asda House days in Leeds. Dahlia went from Head of Commercial with a full diary and a ringing phone to "here one day, gone the next" overnight. And out of that lost-purpose, all-dressed-up-with-nowhere-to-go season, she built Stressed But Well Dressed, a podcast (and a philosophy) about the link between clothes, confidence, and mindset. This one is for every woman who has ever asked herself, who am I now?  and every woman who already knows that what she puts on in the morning is never really just about the outfit. Favourite moments > "I was all dressed up with nowhere to go." — Dahlia, on the season that birthed the podcast"Joy isn't fluff, it's fucking physics.""The opposite of happiness isn't sadness — it's hopelessness.""Dress for the best-case opportunity that could absolutely happen." — Dahlia"Well-dressed is a state of mind, not a fashion statement." — Dahlia Find Dahlia * Podcast: Stressed But Well Dressed , out every Friday, wherever you get your podcasts * Instagram: @stressedbutwelldressed_podcast * LinkedIn: Dahlia Stroud Continue your journey with JOY If this one stirred something, the question of who am I now, or the quiet wondering about whether you're dressing for the day you're actually hoping for — come and stay close. * The Joy Brief [ https://www.alimortimer.com/newsletter]  the weekly edit for women who know that joy is the most powerful place to create from, be first to know about the podcasts, Substack articles and exclusive weekly offers. * The Joy Rebellion [https://www.alimortimer.com/the-joy-rebellion] the membership community for women choosing joy as their competitive edge * Joy in HD™ [https://www.alimortimer.com/joy-mastercourse-2026]  the mastercourse that teaches you your unique blueprint to amplify your JOY and accelerate your success in health, wealth & matters of the heart. * alimortimer.com [https://linktr.ee/alimortimer_thejoycoach] for everything else Remember, JOY is Just On You. Put something on this morning that the 80-year-old you will be glad you wore. Ali x https://www.alimortimer.com/ [https://www.alimortimer.com/]

The Joy of Colour: How Your Home Can Change Your Life with Becky Harrison

There's a reason you walk into some rooms and immediately feel at ease and others that leave you flat without knowing why. This week's guest has built her whole practice around that mystery, and the answer almost always comes back to one thing: colour. Becky Harrison is an interior designer, psychology graduate, and Joy Rebellion member who brings a beautifully grounded, science-meets-soul approach to how we live in our homes. After 16 years in corporate project management — where her love for buildings quietly grew — she made the leap into design. Now she helps families create homes that don't just look good, but feel good. And she's doing it right now from inside her own renovation project, which makes this conversation all the more real. We talk colour, obviously. But we also go much deeper: into fear, judgment, Feng Shui, the psychology of clutter, and why the first question Becky asks a client has nothing to do with their favourite shade. Becky's quick-win tips you can use right now: Create a joy corner — a dedicated spot in your home with the things that bring you joy close at hand: candles, crystals, books, whatever's yours. Having it set up means you can access joy quickly without hunting for it. Build happy views — little vignettes at your desk or at the table. A piece of artwork, some flowers, something that catches your eye and delivers a small shot of dopamine while you work. Bring in pops of colour through nature — daffodils on the windowsill, a yellow vase, an orange throw. Small changes to the colour in a room lift the energy, which lifts your mood. Connect with Becky: Instagram: @beckyharrisondesigns [https://www.instagram.com/beckyharrisondesigns/]  Website: beckyharrisondesigns.co.uk [https://www.beckyharrisondesigns.co.uk/] Becky works primarily across the south west of England but will travel for the right project. If you want to embrace colour in your home, she's your person. Loved this episode? Come and join us inside The Joy Rebellion [https://www.thejoyrebellion.com] — the community Becky calls her reset. £22 a month.  And if this conversation sparked something, share it with a friend who's been staring at Farrow & Ball paint cards for six months and still hasn't committed. The Joy Broadcast is hosted by Ali Mortimer - Joy coach, Private Life Confidante, Human Design guide, author, and founder of The Joy Rebellion. https://www.alimortimer.com/ [https://www.alimortimer.com/]

The Joy of Reclaiming your Space with Steph McConachy

As part of our Easter inspiration series, celebrating women who inspire me and whose stories I know will inspire you, I'm joined by the wonderful Steph McConachy, founder of Nine Lemons Feng Shui. We met through the magic of Instagram and our mutual friend Kimberly Gallagher, and I have loved watching Steph's extraordinary journey unfold. In just three months, she grew her audience from 3,000 to 30,000 followers and she credits Feng Shui. This conversation is joyful, practical, and deeply moving. We talk about the power of your home to support your life, your business, and your healing, and how making small, intentional changes to your space can create profound shifts in everything from your visibility to your nervous system. What We Cover 🍋 Why nine lemons? The story behind the name, from the power of the number nine in Feng Shui (we're in Cycle Nine!) and a secret nod to Real Housewives, to the Susan Jeffers "nine grid" and why a full life is the ultimate insurance policy. 🗺️ The Bagua Map explained. The nine areas of your life mapped to your home: knowledge, career, helpful people, family, health, children and creativity, wealth, fame and reputation, and love. Steph walks us through how she reads a floor plan and what she can tell about someone's life just from where the bathrooms are. 📈 How Steph went from 3,000 to 30,000 followers in three months by intentionally activating the fame, visibility and recognition area of her home, cleaning the windows, replacing dull bulbs, placing a plant, and setting clear, specific intentions. 🌿 The power of intention setting. Why Feng Shui is not just putting lemons on a bench. How to speak to your home, talk to your plants, and use the nine areas as a 3D vision board for the life you want to create. 🏠 Your home holds energy. Steph shares her deeply personal story of losing her son, buying a house in grief, and eventually using Feng Shui to reclaim her space and move forward. This led to her brand new programme Reclaim Your Space, for anyone navigating a major life transition. 💼 The command position. Why where you sit at your desk matters more than you think, how cortisol levels drop when your back is against a wall, and why so many brilliant women are running seven-figure businesses from a corner of the spare room, shoved aside for a bed that gets used seven nights a year. 🌍 Finding peace when the world feels uncertain. Why your home is your greatest source of empowerment right now, and the small acts of care that bring you back to safety. Steph's Offers *  Let It Go [https://www.ninelemonsfengshui.com/letitgo] — a 7-day container to release "past self anchors" (not just decluttering, but energetically letting go) *  Reclaim Your Space  [https://www.ninelemonsfengshui.com/reclaim]— a brand new 4-week programme to shake the energy of your home through transition, grief, change, or a fresh start *  The Energetic Advantage [ https://www.ninelemonsfengshui.com/theenergeticadvantage] — a 6-month deep dive (next round opening May) * 👁️ One-to-one work — private Feng Shui consultations, email me stephanie@ninelemonsfengshui.com Find Steph 📱 Instagram: @ninelemonsfengshui  [https://www.instagram.com/ninelemonsfengshui/] www.ninelemonsfengshui.com [https://www.ninelemonsfengshui.com/] Loved This Episode? If this conversation sparked something in you, share it with a woman who needs to hear it. Joy shared is joy multiplied and that's what The Joy Rebellion [https://www.alimortimer.com/the-joy-rebellion] is all about. https://www.alimortimer.com/ [https://www.alimortimer.com/]

From Cleaning Toilets to Florist to the Stars : The Joy of Vics Endersby

This Easter, Ali wanted guests with real stories. not picture-perfect ones, but the kind with roller coasters, sharp turns, and joy found in the most unexpected places. Vics Endersby of Wonderland Blooms is exactly that. In this warm, funny, and genuinely inspiring conversation, Vicks takes us through the chapters of her life from the rug being pulled, to cleaning other people's bathrooms, to skydiving alone, to building a wedding floristry business she loves, working with Paula Rooney in Vienna and Italy, and raising a daughter who is already pitching her first wholesale deals at thirteen. This is a story about gut instinct, small daily joys, and what happens when you back yourself completely. What We Cover The rug pull. A decade ago, Vicks found herself cleaning toilets for a living, wondering how her comfortable, cottage-and-wood-burning-stove life had come undone. A marriage she thought was solid had quietly been heading elsewhere. When she found out, she did not wait. Scariest thing she had ever done. Most empowering thing she had ever done. The rebuilding. Single parenting, cleaning jobs, a bakery run by a woman in her sixties who became an unlikely mentor, and eventually a role at Pig and Pastry in York The sky stuff. Four solo skydiving jumps. Gliding lessons. A gyrocopter. All of it done alone, all of it in the period after her marriage ended. Her brain, she says, is quietest in freefall. Ali's theory: when you have already made the biggest leap of your life, throwing yourself out of a plane is just confirmation that you will always pull the chute. The flowers. Vicks had always wanted to be a florist.  It took a marriage, a rebuild, and a bolt-upright moment in bed next to her new husband Mark to say: I am starting a wedding floristry business from this garage. He said yes, dear.  The career that kept growing. From Friday flowers on a broken three-speed bike, Wonderland Blooms has grown into a full wedding floristry business. Vics has worked with florist-to-the-stars Paula Rooney in Vienna. She drove a van through Pisa on four hours' notice. She works alongside Kim at Dreambirds and Carousels on large-scale events.  The loss. Vicks lost her mum recently. She talks about grief with the same directness she brings to everything else  it strips layers, she says. She has no time for imposter syndrome anymore. Life is for living. The legacy. Vicks wants to write a book. A coffee table book, or something more, she is still deciding. She wants her children to know what those early Saturday mornings were for.  Joy, says Vicks, is in the small significant things, not the big dramatic ones. Her favourite colour grounds her on a hard day. That is enough. That is everything. Find Vicks 📸 Instagram: @wonderlandblooms_ [https://www.instagram.com/wonderlandblooms_/]  get in touch via Instagram 🌿 Subscription flowers (local delivery) Resources from Ali 🌸 The Joy Rebellion Ali's membership for women who are done waiting for permission to choose joy. £22/month or £222 annually. Joy Rebellion link [https://www.alimortimer.com/the-joy-rebellion] ✨ Joy in HD The Human Design Mastercourse with three-month bonus mastermind from 1st April. Details here [https://www.alimortimer.com/joy-mastercourse-2026] Remember The littlest sprinkle of self-belief will get you where you need to be. Back yourself. Trust your gut. Pull the chute. love always, ali xo https://www.alimortimer.com/ [https://www.alimortimer.com/]

The Joy of Having a "Me For Me" Mentor - with Jana Kingsford

How do you go from sabbatical to six figures in one year? You find your "me for me" mentor. This week, I'm sitting down with the woman behind the Joy brand - my mentor, my coach, the person who helped me turn a whisper of "I'm a joy coach" into a thriving, purpose-driven, six-figure business. Meet Jana Kingsford: The Big Dreams Genie, creator of the Me Brand framework, author of eight books in three months (yes, really), and the mentor I followed for years before I was ready to work with her. This conversation is about big dreams, personal branding vs. business branding, why your hair doesn't need to be perfect, and what it means to "raw dog" your personal brand (Jana's words, not mine - but I love it). If you've been following someone for years, if you know deep down who your mentor is but haven't clicked the link yet, if you're building something that feels scary and big and true... This episode is for you. What We Talk About On finding your "me for me" mentor On Jana's origin story: The Big Dreams Genie On Oneology: The book that changed everything On personal branding vs. business branding On "raw dogging" your personal brand (Jana's concept) On Jana's hair (yes, really) On the Me Brand framework On Figure Seven (Jana's private coaching) On 2026 and big dreams Key Quotes Ali: "In 2023, everywhere I looked, it just kept saying joy, joy here, joy there, joy this, joy that. When someone said 'what do you do?' I said 'I'm a joy coach.' And that's when it hit me." "Jana, thank you on behalf of me and all of my listeners and all of my clients for helping me bring Joy to the world." "Your Oneology book is like my Bible. Every line crystallises, alchemizes. I've read it so many times and each time I'm like, YES." "I need someone to hold me through the big dick moments." Jana: "I'm the Big Dreams Genie. If we go back to when it started - 2006, pregnant with my second baby at 22, high school dropout signing up to university." "Four months in I knew: I'm not going to get a job in this field. What's the point? Then I got this rush: Janna, you're here to help women feel capable of their big dreams. Later on this is going to make sense. Trust it, do it." "I accidentally wrote eight books in three months. I've lost track of all the others but I think I'm at eight." "If it's ever about THEM for you, it's a business brand. If you're like 'I'm going to create this for this customer' - you're out of personal brand territory." "Personal branding is you being as YOU as you can be. It's saying what you want to say. It's showing us your Christmas parties, wine at sunset, things we don't expect." "My hair is like a client machine. A client paid me £70K and she's like 'it's just your hair, I just wanted to brush it.'" "Raw dogging your personal brand is living in it, being fully in it. It's life-giving. You're on purpose and there's a universal God-given situation that happens." "People will be like 'how is it working? You literally just show up with your yacht photos and here's Me Brand, buy now.' Because people know you inside out, upside down, round and round." Connect with Jana Instagram: @janakingsford (this is where the vibe is vibing) https://www.instagram.com/janakingsford/ [https://www.instagram.com/janakingsford/] Listen now for the conversation that reveals what's really behind the Joy brand - and what's possible when you find your "me for me" mentor. Subscribe to The Joy Broadcast for conversations with the mentors, teachers, and guides who help us build lives and businesses we love https://www.alimortimer.com/ [https://www.alimortimer.com/]