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I'm recording this one from my armchair. Which feels entirely appropriate, because what I'm about to share with you started in a moment of complete surrender. Not a boardroom, not a strategy session, not a list of goals. Just me, trusting that things would work out.
I've just come back from the most incredible weekend at Manifest in Newcastle (Canny Crystals and Mart Tweedy's extraordinary event) and it sent me straight back to the story that became the foundation of everything I now teach about magic manifesting. The story of an Apple Watch.
This episode is a mini masterclass. I'm giving you the complete five A formula, the one I've run as a Magic Manifesting Week multiple times, the one that has seen women in The Joy Rebellion manifest freedom funds, dream jobs, Caribbean trips, visibility they never thought possible, and daughters making football teams. It works. I also share the science that backs it up completely. The reticular activating system, Tara Swart's work on the mind, the Hawkins Scale of Consciousness. This isn't woo woo. This is how your brain actually works.
Come and get comfortable. This one's for you.
Favourite quotes from this episode
"When you get so fixated on the delivery being in a specific way at a certain time, it doesn't always work. But sometimes the universe can blow your fucking mind and it comes out of left field and gives it to you in a way you never expected."
"Our minds are our greatest asset. They can either fire you up or they can fuck you up. And you get to choose."
"Those who are certain of the outcome can wait and wait without anxiety." A Course in Miracles
"I don't have to sell anything. I just have to share my stories of my life. And that is the sell."
"It's like placing the order with Apple or Amazon. Place the order. And then hand it over."
Links mentioned in this episode
Manifest — Canny Crystals and Mart Tweedy's event: [https://www.mani-fest.uk/]The Joy Brief on Substack — this week's edition: what to do when you don't know what you wantMagic Manifesting in The Rose Portal — the full programme including the science, the tools, and the magic amplifiers: Join the Joy RebellionThe Abundance Amplifiers — 20 free three-minute amplifiers on YouTube: Find it at Number Four in the Joy EmporiumComing up on The Joy Broadcast
Ali is heading off on her summer family holiday and she's leaving you in the very best hands. Over the next two weeks, you'll be hearing from some of the most inspiring real women in The Joy Rebellion: women who have been through it, navigated it, and come out the other side with their joy intact. Real stories. Real courage. Real hope.
Connect with Ali
On Instagram: @alimortimer_thejoycoach
On Substack: Ali Mortimer, the weekly edit for women who know that joy is the most powerful place to create from
The answer is always joy. Love always, Ali x
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This week Ali is sharing something close to her heart. Tom, her eldest son, has just finished his final A-level, and with it, an entire chapter of life has come to a close. In this episode she takes you into the lay-by on the side of the road where she had to pull over because the tears wouldn't stop. The full circle moment. The rush of pride, grief, love and terror all at once.
And from that place she asks a question that changes everything: why would you want to regulate this emotion?
This is an episode about emotions and why feeling them fully, all of them, is not something to be managed or controlled but something to be honoured. About the midlife transition so many women are standing in right now. About what it really means when the children start to fly. About why Ali refuses to call it empty nesting and what she's calling it instead.
If you're in this season, approaching it, or supporting someone who is, this one is for you.
In This Episode
The moment Tom walked out of school for the last time and what it stirred up in AliWhy "emotional regulation" is a phrase Ali takes issue with and what she thinks it costs usThe dam analogy and what really happens when we suppress instead of feelWhy Ali pulled over in a lay-by and what happened when she let it all come throughRoller coasters versus teacups and which one Ali is always going to chooseThe bungee ski jump in Austria, the boys cheering at the bottom, and what fear really feels like when you walk straight into itWhy Ali refuses the phrase "empty nest" and what she's renaming this chapterJoy Nesting. Bird launching. And why this era might be the most exciting one yetFiji 1999, the dreams James and Ali cast on that beach, and what it means to have actually built themThe question every woman in midlife needs to ask herself right nowWhy this is your time. Just On You.Quotes From This Episode
"Why would you want to regulate that feeling? I have never felt so alive."
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving completely safe and preserved and pristine. We're going to be skidding up to those pearly gates, totally spent, totally exhilarated, going — holy fck, what a ride."*
"Nothing is wrong. Your feelings are finally getting their turn."
"We're not the people who go to the fairground and ride in the teacups. We're the people who run for the roller coaster."
"Joy Nesting. Because we have created a home with joy, and they will always come back to it."
Mentioned In This Episode
The Hawkins Scale of Consciousness : Number 11 in the Joy Emporium https://www.alimortimer.com/the-joy-emporiumThe Joy Rebellion → https://www.alimortimer.com/the-joy-rebellionConnect With Ali
Website: alimortimer.com
Instagram: @alimortimer_thejoycoach
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This podcast is a A real masterclass, using my eighteen-year-old as the live case study.
If you wish to follow along with your chart, your child's chart or someone you know, you can download and get your chart here: https://www.alimortimer.com/human-design-introduction
My eldest son Tom finishes his final A level on Tuesday. Eighteen years old, the whole world in front of him, and a thousand possible paths to choose from. Uni, gap year, apprenticeship, something else entirely. How do we guide them without overriding them?
So this week on the Joy Broadcast, I'm doing something a little different. I'm pulling up Tom's Human Design chart in front of you and walking through, line by line, exactly how I'm using it to support him at this pivotal moment. His energy type as a Generator. His emotional authority. His G Centre. His 2/4 Profile. The three gates I'm watching most closely. The Triple Split that means he needs more space than most to make a decision.
I've had Tom's chart in front of me for five years now. It was first gifted to me by a coach back in 2021, and the closest way I can describe what reading it did for me was like looking into a mirror that had been really, really dirty and finally getting to clean it all off. That's what it does. It hands you back yourself. And once I'd had mine, I did Tom's, Will's and James's. We started using these charts almost like guidebooks for our boys, who are very, very different in how they live and how they make decisions. Honestly, I think every parent should be given one of these the moment they have a child.
The thing I want every parent to hear: The more we tell our children who they are, the harder it becomes for them to hear themselves.
So in this episode, I'm not telling Tom who he is. I'm using his chart to help him hear himself. And I'm walking you through exactly how to do the same for your child, whether they're standing at the school-leaver crossroads, navigating a friendship, choosing subjects, or simply trying to figure out who they are in the world.
What I'm doing differently with Tom right now: Stop asking them what they want to do with their life. Start asking them what would feel good right now. What feels frustrating. What feels yummy. What's being offered. What's being shown. That one shift, especially for Generator children, is how they will navigate unchartered waters.
My takeaway: Parenting isn't directing. It's recognising. Your child's design is already inside them, waiting to be seen. Human Design just helps you take the noise off so they can hear themselves, and so you can stop trying to mould them into a version that was never theirs. It's the permission slip for them to be themselves. And honestly, for us to let them.
A very special pop-up | 9th June 2026
To mark the day Tom finishes school, I'm hosting a Pop-Up Joy Day.
Buy one Human Design reading with me, gift one to your child, and my Joy in HD mastercourse is 75% off for one day only. Twelve modules covering every energy type, authority, profile line, chakra and gate, with lifetime access so you can pull and understand as many charts as you like, for the people you love.
Make sure you're on my emails so you don't miss it. All links below.
To continue your journey in Human Design with me:
FREE : Download your chart & be guided through level one interpretation here: https://www.alimortimer.com/human-design-introduction
Pop-Up Joy Day booking | the buy-one-gift-one HD reading offer for 9th June only: Purchase the £555 offer and you get a chart for the loved one of your choice FREE:
Joy in HD mastercourse | with the 75% off for 9th June only: https://www.alimortimer.com/joy-mastercourse-2026 use code JOYINHD75 on 9th June only.
Email signup | so you don't miss the pop-up day or any Joy Pop up days in the future and for my weekly special offers and quick links: subscribe here: www.alimortimer.com/newsletter
Lots of love
Ali xo
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This week I am letting you in on a very real, very honest moment. I went to the doctors for an HRT check this week and the scales told me I had put on three kilos. Once upon a time, that would have sent me into a flat spin. This time? I sat with it, got curious, and decided it was exactly what I wanted to talk about on the podcast.
My health, your health does not have to be complicated. And the women I work with, the ones running businesses and homes and families and ageing parents, do not need another twelve step protocol. They need it simple. They need it doable. They need it to fit into a life that is already full.
So I am walking you through my Three E's. The framework I come back to again and again, for health now and longevity long term.
Eat for fuel. What you are actually doing in your day decides what you need on your plate. Whole foods, good protein, plenty of water. Not fancy. Not complicated. Just real.
Exercise. Walk daily. Move daily. Add weight bearing work for your bones, your strength, your future self. It does not have to be hours in a gym or running a marathon (unless that brings you joy!)
Easy does it. The hardest one for me. Stillness, sleep, joy moments, the breath work, the meditation, the protected pockets of quiet to ensure your cortisol drops, your digestion turns back on, and your brain does its night time clearing out, which I learned through my research into Alzheimer's is so much more important than most of us realise.
This episode is part personal share, part practical framework, part gentle nudge to put yourself back near the top of your own list.
Mentioned in this episode
This week's Substack: The 'F-Ugly' Girl in the Mirror → [read it here]
Lean for Life, the four week programme I co-host with nutritionist Tiffany Rowlands, inside the Rose Library with access through the Joy Rebellion
Ready to go deeper & lock in your joy?
If this episode landed and you want accountability, community and the full library of work I have built on this over the last decade, here are the two best ways in.
🌹 The Joy Rebellion — my year long membership and home of the Rose Library, where you get every course and programme I have made, including Lean for Life, Wired and Tired, and Rebel HD. We meet every Monday to align as a collective and set our intentions across every area of life. £222 for the year, or £22 a month. → [Join the Joy Rebellion Here]
🌹 Brilliance — my private 1:1 mentorship. This is where we work deeply on how you feel in your body, so you can outperform in the boardroom and feel good in the bedroom. By application here.
If this episode helped, the kindest thing you can do is share it with a woman who needs the reminder, and leave a review wherever you listen. It helps so much.
With love, joy and peace always, Ali xo 🌹
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Want to follow along with your own chart?
This episode is about cracking your confidence code with joy — and along the way I talk about your fears, how you're wired, and how you lead yourself.
If you'd like to know your own Human Design before you press play, get your free chart here → [FREE HUMAN DESIGN CHART LINK]
You'll need your date, time, and place of birth. No chart to hand? No problem — listen anyway. Everything in this episode applies to you, whether you know your design or not.
About this episode
This week's episode is my keynote speach recorded as a dress rehearsal before I delivered it live at Grantley Hall, for the brilliant charity SmartWorks, who help women back into the workplace after a loss of confidence.
Ten years ago, I had no confidence at all. I'd separated from James, lost my mum, left my corporate career, and I had two small boys and no idea who I was without all the things that used to define me. No title. No team. No map. No salary. No mum to call.
I had to build my confidence back from nothing.
This episode is the recipe I found. The five ingredients — and the one thing that binds them all together.
In this episode I walk you through my five ingredients of confidence: inner strength, self-leadership, courage, truth, and power and the one binding ingredient: JOY. Just On You.
My favourite line of the whole episode: joy isn't the reward for getting confident. Joy is the practice that makes confidence inevitable.
Mentioned in this episode
This week on Substack — Be the Peach, Not the Egg. The values work behind ingredient one and ingredient four. Why your core values are your morning activators, your anchors in a storm, and your antidote to poison arrows. → [SUBSTACK LINK]
SmartWorks — the charity behind the Grantley Hall event, helping women across the country back into the workplace and into their confidence. Please go and find out about them. The event I went to was hosted by the Leeds Office, but it is a nationwide charity. → [SMARTWORKS LINK]
Work with me
Joy in HD™ — if this episode made you curious about how you're actually wired, this is where you go deeper. My Human Design mastercourse and mastermind, where you learn to use your chart across every part of your life. Body. Boardroom. Bedroom. Pull your free chart first (link at the top), then come and learn what it actually means. → [JOY IN HD LINK]
Brilliance — my private one-to-one mentorship, by application. Limited spaces. → [BRILLIANCE LINK]
The Joy Rebellion — my year-long community for women who know that joy is the most powerful place to create from. → [JOY REBELLION LINK]
Stay connected
Sign up to The Joy Brief — my weekly newsletter — and never miss an episode, an offer, or an invitation saved just for my list. → [JOY BRIEF LINK]
Find me on Instagram — @alimortimer_thejoycoach
If this episode lands for you, please share it. With a woman in your life. In a story on Instagram. With a friend who's been telling herself she has no confidence.
That is how the message moves.
With joy, always, Ali xo 🌹
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This week's episode talks about your Fear Gates in Human Design, the specific places fear shows up in your body, your mind, and your decisions, based on your unique design.
If you'd like to know yours before you press play, get your free Human Design chart here → FREE HUMAN DESIGN CHART LINK
You'll need your date, time, and place of birth.
If you don't have it to hand, no problem at all, listen anyway. Everything in this episode applies to you, whether you know your design or not.
About this episodeI have a real bee in my bonnet about the phrase "imposter syndrome."
I want it banished.
In 1978, two psychologists coined a term that gave generations of brilliant, boundary-pushing, ambitious women the worst possible name for the voice inside them. They called her an imposter. They told us to distrust her. Silence her. Override her.
She isn't an imposter.
She is fear. And fear, when you understand her, is one of the most important voices in the room.
In this episode I walk you through:
– Why "imposter syndrome" is the most dangerous label we've handed to high-achieving women
– The only two fears you were actually born with (and what that means for every other fear running your life)
– Your Fear Gates in Human Design — what they are, where they live, and why knowing yours changes everything
– How to invite your fear friends in for coffee instead of trying to kick them out
– Why fear is evidence that what you're doing actually matters
If you've ever called yourself an imposter, or had that voice tell you you're not enough, not ready, not allowed, please listen to this one. And then share it with a woman who needs to hear it.
Mentioned in this episode📖 This week on Substack — Dear Boo, you were right. Vulnerability is the bloody stone. A letter to my 40-year-old self about the wheel I drew on a scrap of paper in 2016 and how it became the whole thesis of my life's work. → SUBSTACK LINK
🌹 Mindfulness Mondays — my new paid Substack series. 100 mindfulness practices to bring you peace, calm in the chaos, and a quiet mind in a busy life. Five practices a week, every Monday morning, for twenty weeks. Sign up before Sunday night and the full meditation album is yours, completely free. → MINDFULNESS MONDAYS LINK
Stay connectedSign up to The Joy Brief — my weekly newsletter — and never miss an episode, an offer, or an invitation saved just for my list. → JOY BRIEF LINK
Find me on Instagram — @alimortimer_thejoycoach
If this episode lands for you, please share it. With a woman in your life. In a story on Instagram. With a friend who's been calling herself an imposter for too long.
That is how the message moves.
With joy, always, Ali xo 🌹
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After listening to this episode and you know you want to do this work properly? The I Know Me, I Love Me Life Lab is the workshop that walks you through finding your core values, so you can love yourself, and the woman you are, by actually living them.
It's free in Monday 11th May 2026 edition of The Joy Brief, or it lives permanently inside The Joy Rebellion membership. Links at the bottom. ↓
About this episodeThis might be one of the most important conversations Ali has ever brought to The Joy Broadcast. It's the work she returns to with every Brilliance client. It's the work she returns to with herself, every morning, before her feet hit the floor.
Your values.
Not the easy answer of "integrity and honesty". The real ones. The ones you can rattle off when someone asks who you are. The ones that become your path, your conviction, your courage, your antidote.
Because as Ali says: when you know who you are, you can stand tall when the poison arrows come. You don't need to zip yourself up in an energetic sleeping bag. You don't need to be the eggshell, terrified of cracking. You get to be the peach, soft on the outside, with a kernel so strong the world can't break it.
What's inside this episodeA genuine, behind-the-scenes share, Ali reading from her own journal, walking you through:
Why values matter more than your job title, your achievements, or your CVThe peach vs. the egg: how values become inner strength rather than outer armourWhy values are the better, freer alternative to boundariesHow values become the antidote when someone tries to define you, attack you, or shrink youThe exercise: blank sheet, brain dump, cluster, distil. Finding the one word that carries it allAli's own six core values and what each one really means to her: Genuine, Generosity, Gratitude, Grit, Growth, GraceWhy she added Grace as a sixth value at the end of 2024: softening, surrender, dignified strengthHow to use your values as a lens on your big goals. The journal exercise Ali did when she declared she wanted to make a lot of money, have a lot of fun, and help a lot of people, and had to clean up every place that desire collided with who she is
A line worth holding onto"My values are the path I walk every day. I don't need boundaries, because I know who I am, and I know the path I'm walking."
Your invitationIf something in this stirred you, triggered you, activated you, that's the friction worth listening to. Go and do the work. Get the blank sheet. Write everything down. Cluster. Distil. Define. And then live them.
Links & next steps🌿 The Joy Brief, Monday 11th May edition (free I Know Me, I Love Me Life Lab): Subscribe for weekly exclusive JOY Brief offers.
✨ The Joy Rebellion, where the Life Labs live, plus the full library, the community, and Ali in your week: Join the Joy Rebellion. £22/month or £222/year
💛 Brilliance, Ali's six-month private mentorship for women with big dreams, big goals, and the readiness to do this work properly. Apply here.
🎙️ Subscribe to The Joy Broadcast so you don't miss next week's episode.
📲 Come and find Ali on Instagram and continue the conversation. She'd love to hear what came up for you.
The answer is always joy. Love always, Ali x
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Welcome back after the Easter break. This week I'm sharing two tools I've been using personally and walking my Brilliance clients through over recent weeks — because when I find myself saying the same thing on repeat in private sessions, I know it's time to broadcast it.
The first is what I've started calling the shit and the diamonds — the recognition that life rarely hands you triumph in every area at once. Your career might be hitting milestones while your home life is heavy. Your relationship might be thriving while work is falling apart. The trick isn't to pretend the hard stuff isn't there. It's to stop letting it smother the good stuff. The woman in you holds the emotional work. The CEO in you leads the diamonds. Two hands. Don't clap them together.
The second tool is one I've been teaching for years and had a fresh personal breakthrough with this week — the Russian Doll effect. I don't believe in finding yourself or becoming her. I believe every version of you you've ever been is still valid, still wise, still part of who you are now. But sometimes, after a betrayal or a trauma, we leave a doll behind. We abandon a version of ourselves we decided wasn't safe to be anymore. This week I went back for two of mine, the trusting woman I left in 2016, and the financially independent corporate professional I left in 2014, and the relief of putting them back inside me is what this episode is really about.
This is deeper work than usual. Take it as an invitation.
"It's like you've got a pile of shit in one hand and a bag of diamonds in the other. Don't clap your hands together.""I don't believe in finding yourself. I believe in remembering yourself.""Every version of you is valid."
Favourite Quote:
Work with meThe Joy Rebellion: my membership where we lock in your joy every single week. Coaching, mentoring, celebration, community. Doors are always open. Joy Rebellion link
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If this episode landedSend it to a woman who's currently holding diamonds in one hand and something much heavier in the other. And if you have a Russian Doll story, a version of yourself you're ready to welcome back, I'd love to hear it. My DMs and inbox are always open.
Subscribe so you don't miss next week. And if you've got a moment, a rating or review helps more women find The Joy Broadcast.
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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." — DahliaFind Dahlia
Podcast: Stressed But Well Dressed , out every Friday, wherever you get your podcastsInstagram: @stressedbutwelldressed_podcastLinkedIn: Dahlia StroudContinue 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 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 the membership community for women choosing joy as their competitive edgeJoy in HD™ 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 for everything elseRemember, JOY is Just On You. Put something on this morning that the 80-year-old you will be glad you wore.
Ali x
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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
Website: 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.
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The Joy Broadcast is hosted by Ali Mortimer - Joy coach, Private Life Confidante, Human Design guide, author, and founder of The Joy Rebellion.
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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 — a 7-day container to release "past self anchors" (not just decluttering, but energetically letting go) Reclaim Your Space — a brand new 4-week programme to shake the energy of your home through transition, grief, change, or a fresh start The Energetic Advantage — a 6-month deep dive (next round opening May)👁️ One-to-one work — private Feng Shui consultations, email me [email protected]Find Steph
📱 Instagram: @ninelemonsfengshui
www.ninelemonsfengshui.com
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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_ 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
✨ Joy in HD The Human Design Mastercourse with three-month bonus mastermind from 1st April. Details here
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
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In this week's Joy Broadcast , Ali talks through two phrases you hear absolutely everywhere in the wellness world. Two phrases that most people don’t truly understand, including the difference between them. In this episode, Ali makes that distinction clear. Plus why 'Regulating' is the wrong word in both cases and what you can do and say instead.
In This Episode
Why ‘regulation’ is the wrong word and why it mattersYour nervous system: what it actually is, how it works, and why it’s prehistoric by designThe sympathetic and parasympathetic states and why we need bothThe real reason so many high-performing women can’t lose weight (hint: it’s not what you’re eating)Your emotional system: the ocean inside you, and how the mind makes sense of itWhy you can be emotionally intelligent and still absolutely exhaustedBody first, then brain, the sequence that changes everythingHow to work out which system needs your attention right now
The Key InsightYour nervous system is your physiology, the body, the container. Your emotional system is your psychology, the ocean of feelings held within that container. Most women are working hard on one and bypassing the other entirely. And if your nervous system is stuck in a stress response, your prefrontal cortex has gone offline, which means all the therapy, mindfulness, and emotional intelligence in the world can’t land properly.
Body first. Then the brain. The container, then the ocean.
“We aren’t heating systems with knobs. We are oceans. And you cannot calm an entire ocean with a knob.”
Links & Next Steps
→ Download the Joy List — free in the Joy Emporium
→ Join The Joy Rebellion (membership, £222/year): Joy Rebellion
→ Brilliance private one-to-one mentorship with Ali: Work with me
→ Email Ali: [email protected]
If you’re not sure which system needs attention right now, the body or the emotional ocean, start with the Joy List & the Daily Dose (number one in the Joy Emporium for free) . It works on both. And if you want to go deeper with personalised support, come and find me inside The Joy Rebellion or drop me an email.
Lots of love, Ali xo 🌹
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Ali woke up this week with a horrendous migraine and instead of pushing through or giving up, she did something else entirely. She 'joyed' her way out of it. In this honest, personal, and surprisingly practical episode, Ali shares exactly what she did hour by hour to heal herself using her own joy strategy and why this was a powerful reminder that joy isn't just a philosophy. It is a healer, a strategy, and a verb.
The Key Ideas
Joy is a verb. 'To joy' is to actively, deliberately choose yourself, your rest, your pleasure, your peace is the strategy. Not something you do after everything else. The thing you do first, or nothing else works properly.Frustration is a signal. As a Generator in Human Design, Ali knows that frustration is her not-self theme, the signal that she is out of alignment with her own energy. A migraine is her body's loudest version of that message. When she honours it, everything flows. When she ignores it, everything costs twice as much.Slowing down is not falling behind. In choosing to rest, write for pleasure, meditate, and walk slowly, Ali ended the day having done more than she had planned and all of it felt like ease.Joy is chemistry. The Daily DOSE (Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, Endorphins) is not a concept. It is a biological strategy. When you flood your body with these hormones through small, deliberate acts of joy, you change your internal chemistry. Ali has the OG joy list to prove it, a tiny scrap of paper she has kept since 2016.Resources Mentioned
The Original Daily DOSE Episode scroll to the very first episode of The Joy Broadcast for the full story of how joy healed Ali in 2016. Listen here.
F*ck Discipline. I Know a Better Way — the Substack article Ali wrote in the sunshine this morning on the energy of devotion. Read it here.
The Reason Your To-Do List Never Gets Shorter — the practical Substack article on the 4 D's and the 3 R's. Link: Read it here.
The Joy Rebellion: Ali's membership community. 52 weeks of devoted joy, weekly personalised coaching, and eight years of programmes and trainings. £222 for the year (or pay in instalments of £22), annual members receive a private one-to-one call with Ali. Find the Joy Rebellion
Joy in HD The Human Design Mastercourse. Every element of your unique chart, mapped across your body, your work, and your relationships. Including a three-month bonus mastermind with Ali from 1st April. Currently on pre-sale at £1,111. (prices subject to change depending on when you listen)
Remember
Joy isn't what you earn after you've got through the hard day. Joy is how you get through it.
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In this meaty, educational episode, Ali takes you through one of the most powerful exercises she does with her private clients: identifying your core values. Because when you truly know your values, you have an anchor that nothing and no one can take from you. You have confidence that comes from within, not from external validation. And you have the most powerful antidote to anyone who tries to shame, judge, or hurt you.
This is the work that has given Ali the clarity to stand on stage, be visible, and receive both praise and criticism, all with an unshakeable sense of who she is.
What We Cover in This Episode
Why knowing your values changes everything When your inner world and outer world are aligned, living out of integrity with yourself becomes impossible. Ali shares how this work protected her in a pivotal moment and how it does the same for her clients every single day.
Values as your antidote When someone throws criticism, judgment, or hate your way, your values are the truth that makes their poison dissolve. Ali even uses them to identify why something is hurting, so she can let it go and move on.
Ali's own core values Grit. Grace. Gratitude. Growth. Genuine. Generosity. All beginning with G (because Ali loves alliteration and words are her love language). She walks you through how she arrived at each one, and why Grace was the newest addition and the one she still has to consciously remember.
The values discovery exercise — step by step
Grab a blank sheet of paper and write down everything you value in life. Fill the whole page. Don't edit yourself.Ask yourself: When did I feel really, really good about myself? Why? Who was I being? What was I honouring?Ask yourself: When did I feel really hurt or sad? What values were stepped on?Start grouping your words — find the one word that holds all the others for you.Make your list memorable. Alliteration, acronyms, whatever helps you know them off the top of your head.Living the practice Over the next week, witness yourself. When you feel good, which values are you honouring? When you feel off, which ones have been stepped on? This is a practice, not a one-time exercise. Keep coming back to it.
Resources Mentioned
I Know Me and I Love Me: Life Lab workshop inside The Joy Rebellion. A deep-dive into understanding and truly knowing yourself, which Ali shares with all her private clients early in their work together.
Love for Life: A full programme Ali wrote in 2021 during one of her most challenging chapters, helping you start the greatest love affair you'll ever have, the one with yourself. Only available inside The Joy Rebellion.
Rebel HD: Arriving on 23rd March. A brand new three-part workshop series using Human Design to understand yourself in your Body, Bedroom, and Boardroom. Available exclusively inside The Joy Rebellion.
Joy in HD: The full master course. 12 modules of Human Design, plus a live mastermind element with Ali via Telegram and Zoom. Starting 1st April. Currently on pre-sale at £1,111. Joy in HD Presale until 23rd March.
The Joy Rebellion: Ali's membership where all of these programmes, courses, and trainings live. Join the community - £222 for the year or 12*£22 per month.
Remember to share the joy on your socials, with friends!
Joy = Just On You. And just on you starts with knowing your values.
Love always
Ali xo
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Welcome back to The Joy Broadcast and welcome to Year Two!
This first episode of season two is a declaration. A relaunch. And a reminder of why joy isn't just a nice idea, it's chemistry, biology, and physics. It's the most powerful strategy you have.
Ali opens with a confession: she took a break. She burned things down (very 3/6 of her), sat in the embers, and asked herself what this next chapter of the Joy Broadcast really needed to be about. The answer? Power. Not the soft version of joy, but joy as your sharpest competitive edge.
What We Talk About in This Episode
The evolution of the Joy Broadcast Year one was about survival: how to find joy when everything is falling apart. Year two is about something bigger: how to use joy as a strategy when everything is piling up and coming at you all at once. Same answer, different era.
Joy is not fluffy. Joy is science. Ali breaks down why joy operates across three branches of science and why that completely changes how you should think about it
Chemistry: Joy changes what you're made of. Biology: Joy changes how you function as a living system. Physics: Joy changes your frequency.The Magician card While writing her keynote speech, Ali pulled a tarot card — and out jumped the Magician. The reminder she needed: you are the magic. And magic is always the same formula: power + skill + action.
Fear as a messenger, not a shackle Fear comes up in client conversations every single week. Ali reframes it completely here: fear isn't your foe, it's your friend. It is one of your greatest guides.
Resources Mentioned
The Daily DOSE — your free starting point for flooding your body with the happiness hormones that heal. Download it free from the Joy Emporium — it's number one on the shelf. → Find the free downloads in the Joy Emporium here
The Joy Codes Bundle — seven workshops and workbooks covering the Harmony Principles. Your biology lesson. Yours for life for £55. → Joy Codes Bundle
The Joy Rebellion — Ali's year-long membership community for women who are choosing joy as a strategy. Home to the Hawkins Scale training inside Manifest It, weekly mentorship, monthly sessions, and the full library of Ali's courses and programmes built over eight years. → Join the Joy Rebellion here
The Joy Brief — Ali's weekly newsletter. A two-minute Monday morning read that directs you to everything you need to bring more joy into your life. One stop shop for joy. → Get The Joy Brief here
If You Loved This Episode
Leave a review, it genuinely helps more women find the show.
Share it with the woman in your life who needs to hear that joy isn't fluffy. It's her competitive edge.
And come and find Ali on Instagram, where the reels are landing, the conversations are real, and joy is always the strategy.
The Joy Broadcast is hosted by Ali Mortimer — Joy Coach, Human Design guide, and firm believer that joy isn't a reward. It's a strategy for you to become a superattractor.
https://www.alimortimer.com/
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Special One Year of Joy Broadcasting Offer !
To celebrate the first birthday of The Joy Broadcast, Ali is giving away the Joy Codes — seven in-depth trainings based on the Harmony Principles, plus meditations and workbooks — completely free.
To claim: Leave a review for the podcast, take a screenshot, share your favourite episode on social media (tag Ali - @alimortimer_thejoycoach), and send the screenshots to Ali via Instagram or email. You'll receive lifetime access to all seven Joy Codes.
Or: The Joy Codes are available as a standalone bundle for £55, or included with a Joy Rebellion membership at £22/month.
Find out more about the Joy Codes Bundle here: https://www.alimortimer.com/the-joy-codes-bundle
Find out more about the Joy Rebellion here: https://www.alimortimer.com/the-joy-rebellion
Ali is 800 downloads away from reaching 10,000 in Year One. Share your favourite episode with someone who needs to hear it and help spread the joy!
In this milestone episode, Ali celebrates one year of The Joy Broadcast! 70 episodes and nearly 10,000 downloads since launching on 22nd February 2025.
She takes us on a deeply personal journey through the story behind her work, from the darkest moment of lying in bed in 2016 asking "will I ever be happy again?" to choosing joy as a lifestyle in April 2023 when life delivered a terrifying wake-up call.
Ali shares the origin story of the Seven Harmony Principles, born on a sailing trip in Greece, and walks through each one in detail, revealing the framework that has guided her transformation over the last decade.
She also makes a special birthday offer to her listeners: the complete Joy Codes training bundle for free in exchange for a review and share.
H — Hopes and Dreams (and Missions): Always have something to move towards. Hope stands for Hold On, Pain Ends.A — Act in Spirit: Reconnect with your soul and intuition. Let your inner voice guide your daily decisions.R — Resilience and Wholeheart Health: Be the peach, not the egg — strong to the core, not fragile on the outside.M — Mind Mastery and Mindfulness: Your mind can either mess you up or fire you up. You get to choose. Peace of mind is the foundation of joy.O — Own Your Truth: Speak what needs to be said. Living your truth sets you free.N — Nurture Relationships: Starting with the most important one — the relationship with yourself. When you show others how to love you, they know how to.Y — Your Co-Creation: Take full responsibility for what you can control and surrender the rest to the universe.
The Seven Harmony PrinciplesWith love always
Ali xo
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THE JOY BROADCAST: BOO & BAMBI - A SISTER CONVERSATION ABOUT LOVE, NOSTALGIA & NOT THINKING ABOUT ANYONE ELSE
This February, we're exploring love beyond romance. In this special episode, I sit down with my sister Alex (affectionately known as Bambi or Bird) for an intimate conversation about sisterhood, meaningful connections, and the joy of just being yourself.
Fresh from our Maldives adventure celebrating my 50th birthday, we dive into questions about nostalgia, childhood memories, modern dating disasters, and what it means to truly switch off from responsibility.
IN THIS EPISODE:
On Nostalgia & Memory We explore what triggers our memories – from songs and smells to how differently we each process the past. I share how the anniversary of Mum's death affects me through snowdrops and Louis Armstrong, while my sister reveals she's more like Dad, able to leave the past in the past.
The Gift of Not Thinking About Anyone Else We discuss what made our Maldives trip so special: the rare luxury of focusing just on ourselves. No kids, no partners, no responsibility for anyone else's happiness – and why that's not selfish, it's essential.
The Wisdom of Empathy Alex shares her mantra shift from judgment to empathy – the story about ice creams on a winter school run that changed how she sees people's actions. We explore how we judge ourselves by our thoughts but others by their actions.
Childhood Memories & Growing Up From being mistaken for each other on phone calls to Dad, to childhood holidays where we didn't have to worry about anything, we reflect on how adulthood changes the way we experience time off.
JOY IS THE ACRONYM FOR JUST ON YOU
As I share in this episode, when you're holding so much – children, partnerships, work, household, pets, everything – your main job is to focus on your own energy. You have to spend time every single day focusing just on yourself so you can expand your capacity to hold everything else. Otherwise, you store up resentment, frustration, and exhaustion from over-giving.
This conversation is a reminder that the deepest connections allow you to just be yourself, say "I want to go to bed" on your 50th birthday at 10pm, and know there's no judgment. That's love too.
Connect with Ali:
Join The Joy Rebellion membership Listen to more episodes of The Joy BroadcastFollow Ali on Instagram for daily adventures in JOY.This episode celebrates sisterhood, meaningful connections, and the revolutionary act of focusing just on you.
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Are you playing it safe when your soul is whispering there's more to life? In this episode of The Joy Broadcast, Ali shares a powerful Joy Code about why movement is essential for happiness and when it's time to rock the boat versus when it's time to hold steady.
Drawing from conversations with Joy Rebellion members and her own experience of capsizing her life (and rebuilding it), Ali explores the tension between stability and growth, between contentment and that persistent inner voice saying "you're meant for more."
If you're feeling stuck in calm waters but restless for adventure or if you're in someone else's storm this episode is your permission slip.
What You'll Learn
Why happiness requires movement (according to Arthur Brooks, the "King of Happiness")The difference between intentionally rocking your own boat versus responding to someone else rocking yoursHow to know when it's the right time to make waves (and when it's not)Ali's South of France childhood memory that perfectly captures the joy of rocking the boatThe questions to ask yourself before making any big life changeHow to start rocking the boat gently without capsizing everything on day oneMemorable Quotes
"When you start to rock that boat, you're starting to make waves. And it's those waves that lead you to movement."
"Happiness to me is always the sense of movement of something better that's coming, something just around the corner."
"If you're playing it safe, how can you know where you're going to go? Safe to me is like hiding, it's staying small, it's staying where you are."
"You can't get to the next level without waves in whatever you want to do, wherever you want to go."
"The common thread in all of these is just to come back to you, just on you—your joy, your definitions, your truth, your knowing, your little voice and your boat."
Call to Action
Are you ready to rock the boat—or do you need permission to hold steady?
Ali would love to hear from you:
Are you going to rock the boat?Are you stabilizing the boat?What are your worries or fears?Join the conversation inside The Joy Rebellion membership where Ali drops Joy Codes every week and women support each other through life's waves—whether you're creating them or riding them out.
https://www.alimortimer.com/
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What if your definition of success was the thing secretly blocking your joy AND your wealth?
In this powerful episode, I'm kicking off a new series called Joy 101—101 ways to create, use, and bring more joy into your life. And we're starting with the code that changed everything for me nearly a decade ago: rewriting my definition of success.
Back in 2015, when I walked away from my 20-year IT consulting career, I wrote down three simple lines:
Success is loving what I do, loving who I do it with, and loving myself in the process.
That definition carried me through a full decade of transformation—from body dysmorphia and not being able to look in the mirror, to building The Joy Rebellion and creating my dream life.
But recently, after returning from the Maldives for my 50th birthday, I realised something had shifted. I'd achieved everything in that definition... and now it felt incomplete.
This episode is about what happened when I revisited that success definition and discovered the missing piece: money. Not money as greed, but money as the ROOF protecting everything I've built. Money as the overflow that benefits my health, my family, and my clients. Money as strategy, not reward.
In this episode, you'll discover:
→ Why your old definition of success might be keeping you stuck (even if it once served you beautifully)
→ The three foundational blocks that must come FIRST before wealth can flow
→ How to add "AND" instead of replacing what already works
→ Why women especially hold shame and resistance around making "a fuck ton of money"
→ The power of safe spaces where we can talk about money without being shamed or cancelled
→ How to write YOUR success definition for who you are TODAY (not who you were five years ago)
→ Why joy and wealth aren't opposites, they're partners
This conversation sparked something powerful in The Joy Rebellion membership, and I knew it needed to reach more women. If you've ever felt conflicted about wanting more money, or if you've achieved "success" but still feel empty, this episode is for you.
Action Steps:
Your Joy 101 Assignment:
Grab your journal and write YOUR definition of success for who you are TODAY, in this era of your life.
Ask yourself:
What does success mean to me RIGHT NOW (not five years ago)?What am I resisting that might be the missing piece?Where can I add "AND" instead of choosing between things I want?What would success feel like every single day?Don't worry about what anyone else thinks. This is JUST ON YOU.
Join the Conversation:
If this episode ignited something in you—if you want to explore your money blocks, rewrite your success definition, or have these deep conversations with women who GET IT—I'd love to invite you into The Joy Rebellion.
This is the space where we hold each other, where you don't have to hold everyone else, and where joy becomes your strategy, not your reward.
Link: https://www.alimortimer.com/the-joy-rebellion
Love always, Ali xo 🌹
P.S. This is Joy 101, Code #1. There are 100 more coming. If you loved this, you're going to want to be inside The Joy Rebellion for all of them.
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