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Insights for Joyful Living and Social Justice

Get a glimpse into my ongoing reflections, stories, and research as I explore the science of joy, the realities of racial justice, and how our digital world shapes both.

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✨ Joy and Timely Connections ✨

I highlight joy as a practice that strengthens resilience and deepens human connection.

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🔥 What Tries to Kill Joy… and How Joy Wins 🔥

I share how I use joy as a tool for survival and liberation, offering three ways to protect and strengthen it amid life’s challenges.

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The Quiet Joy That Brings Us Home

A reflection on using joy as liberation and resilience when life brings negativity, with three intentional practices to protect and nurture joy.

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What if we have it all wrong?

A thought-provoking reflection on integrating joy into technology, innovation, and daily life — challenging the belief that rigor and progress must exclude joy.

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💼 Rebuilding Culture with Joy

A practical guide to bringing joy into the workplace through JoyPlans and joy stacking — tools that help leaders and teams reconnect, collaborate, and thrive amid uncertainty.

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Committing to Joy Through Pattern Recognition

A personal reflection on anxiety, joy, and intentional living — paired with a simple pattern recognition exercise to help leaders and individuals build a joy plan that works.

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🚀 Officially launch JoyNet

The official launch of JoyNet — a digital platform co-created with youth, social workers, designers, and computer scientists to center joy, healing, and thriving in online spaces.

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🟡 Joy Plan Mantra: Set The Room

Inspired by wisdom shared in Jamaica, this post reframes joy as a strategy for leadership and agency. “Set the room” is a call to intentionally shift energy, lead with joy, and transform environments.

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Pride Is Joy Work

A Pride Month reflection on joy as protest, community care, and sacred survival — reminding us that Pride is not a performance, but a practice of resilience and love.

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