Season 1
Episodes
32 | Becoming Your Own Superhero When No One Comes to Save You
Lisa sits down with Adam Frugoli to explore what it really means to choose yourself when life doesn’t offer a safety net. Adam shares his journey from poverty, instability, and dropping out of high school to becoming...
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31 | The One Who Stays: Calling and Courage with Jesse Bless
In this deeply moving episode, Lisa sits down with Christian music artist and foster care advocate Jesse Bless to explore identity, calling, and what it truly means to love without conditions. Jesse shares his journey...
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Episode 30 | When Healing Gets Uncomfortable: The Path that Leads to You
In this episode, Lisa and Mari explore what happens after the breakthrough — when awareness is high, patterns are exposed, but life still feels tender and unfinished. This conversation lives in the messy middle of the...
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Episode 29 | From Park Avenue to Park Bench - How Joe Rivera Reforged His Life
In this raw, hope-filled episode of Journey to Joy, Lisa sits down with Joe Rivera—former Wall Street high-flyer turned transformational coach—who went from seven-figure success to near death from opioid addiction…...
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Episode 28 | One-Way Tickets to Self-Trust—Mattie MacGregor’s Turbulent Journey
In this soul-baring episode of Journey to Joy, Lisa meets Patricia “Mattie” MacGregor—writer, solo traveler, and poet—whose five years of one-way tickets became a masterclass in intuition, independence, and healing....
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Episode 27 | Graduating From Self-Rejection: Choosing Yourself Without Apology
In this deeply personal episode, Lisa celebrates a powerful inner graduation — releasing lifelong patterns of self-rejection, dismissal, and achievement driven by proving her worth. Through reflection, coaching...
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Episode 26 | Onward on the Journey: Learning to Have Grace With Yourself in the Unknown
In this reflective episode, Lisa shares honest truths from the top of the Koko Head in Hawaii — about loneliness, transition, and the quiet courage it takes to do things you’ve never done before. She opens up about...
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Episode 25 | Learning to Feel What We’ve Been Avoiding: The Gateway to Real Joy
In this powerful solo episode, Lisa shares the real story behind her move to Hawaii—and the emotional unraveling and healing that followed. What began as a physical relocation became an initiation into deeper...
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Episode 24 | When Survival Ends and Joy Begins: Redefining Who You Get to Be
In this episode, follow Mari’s story update! What happens when you outgrow the version of yourself that survived — and step into the version of yourself that gets to live? This conversation explores the fear,...
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Episode 22 | Release the Grip: Letting Life Support You
In this episode, Lisa shares the behind-the-scenes story of selling her home, moving to Hawaii, and finding the exact ocean-view condo where she’ll write her book — not through force or hustle, but through trust,...
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Episode 21 | The “Shocking Moment”: When Growth Feels Like Chaos
Sometimes joy doesn’t come wrapped in clarity — it comes wrapped in chaos. In this episode, I share what it felt like to pack two suitcases, fly to Hawaiʻi, and suddenly question everything I thought I was sure about....
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Episode 20 | Rooted, Not Restless: Choosing commitment over comfort
On a pine-lined roadside with a shredded tire, I saw my newest pattern in full color: calling “freedom” what was really avoidance. Selling my house, resigning as mayor—right choices—but my rush to feel untethered was...
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