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Glee Season 3! Glitterbombs! Half Off Joy Juice! Today Only!

posted 20th September 2011    Written by: Molly Mahar    CATEGORY: Molly, Stratejoy the Biz

There is no other point to this post except to say that “Glee Season 3 starts tonight!”   Yaaaaaaayyyyyyyy!  I wish I was obsessed with something that more hip, but alas, it’s Glee all the way for me…

To celebrate — I’m offering the Joy Juice Journaling Prompts at 50% off.  Instead of $38 they are just $19! For ONE DAY ONLY!  This gleeful offer is good starting *NOW* until 8 am PST on Wednesday September 21st. After that, it all goes back to normal. Why?  Honestly- it just feels like such a joyous day!  I wanted to share that with YOU!  Glitterbombs!  Slushies! Quinn with Pink Hair!

Click Here to Purchase the Joy Juice

I’m so excited. It’s slightly embarrassing to admit, but there is nothing like a good episode of underdogs singing and dancing to light me up.  I will admit — I’m a total Gleek.  I even saw the 3D movie!  And watched the Glee Project!

Enjoy the Juice!  And the premier of Glee Season 3!

XOXO

Molly

p.s  I definitely feel like I’m defying gravity today!  I do not have cable, so I will faithfully avoid Twitter and Facebook tonight, because I’ll need to watch in on Hulu tomorrow.

p.p.s. Don’t stop believing in yourself, babe.  You can share your true colors with me anytime.  And if you’re a loser like me, we’ve got this amazing freedom to light up the world on our own terms.

p.p.p.s.  I promise to reign in my exclamation points after today… (!)

p.p.p.s.  There are 4 spots left in Monday’s Fierce Love and Inner Confidence Training Group.  Registration closes tomorrow, so if you want in, now is the time.

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Marian – 6 Months Later

posted 18th August 2011    Written by: Marian    CATEGORY: Marian, Season 3, What I've Learned

Remember Marian? She was one of our Season 3 Rockstars. She’s back, with an update on what’s happened over the last 6 months in her world. You can read her full journey from beginning to end by checking out the Marian Archives!

I wish I had good news for you, I really do.

We left off just after I arrived in New Zealand. This move was full of promise. Sure, I was having a little culture shock, but I was with my partner, traveling the world, doing my thing.

And then it, ever-so-slowly, fell apart.

It took around 8 months for everything to completely turn to shit. It was a gradual process. First, I had a cockroach phobia. The things are super common in NZ and they started giving me panic attacks. Even at the time I knew I was projecting my stress onto whatever I could find. Moving to the opposite side of the world, not having a job or money or real support system and not even being able to schedule Skype dates with my family due to a fun 18-hour time difference took its toll.

(Granted, cockroaches still scare the crap out of me, but I couldn’t sleep for months thanks to the little buggers.)

Then, the job thing hit. Being so far away from home meant people weren’t as keen to hire me. New Zealanders didn’t trust me, Americans thought I was too far away and didn’t understand the concept of hiring someone based in Hobbit-town.

So I started looking for a “real” job. Months went by.

Then I started distancing from the few people I actually knew and loved in New Zealand, .who took the brunt of my difficulties in the move and didn’t say a damn word.

Eight months of unhappiness later and I’m writing this from a creepy old hostel in Melbourne, Australia. I ended up getting a fantastic job in Auckland, but circumstances (re: not being able to handle Auckland or my life there anymore) sort of dictated I couldn’t stay. Lucky for me, I have the best bosses on the planet and they’re letting me work from the road.

I’m on the trip of a lifetime. I have unlimited time, no real obligations and a modest stream of income.

I’m writing this on Day One, where I’m feeling lonely, scared beyond all possible belief and sick to my stomach that I just threw away everything good in my life because I was “having trouble settling in.”

Basically, it’s six months post-Stratejoy and it’s not pretty. I don’t know what’s going to make me happy. Location, career and mental health just weren’t cutting it.

The thing is though, Stratejoy taught me to play to my strengths. To try and be as self aware as humanely possible in terms of where I feel my life should be, even if I don’t know what that is yet.

And if I’m anything, I’m proactive. And impatient. Together, this makes for one determined girl. I’m trying to see this grand upheaval in some sort of positive light: Instead of sitting on my ass in a situation that made me unhappy, I left. I’m seeking happiness. On the road, by myself.

In theory – from the outside – this looks pretty brave. And independently smart (even if my parents don’t think so). On the inside, it feels dark. And twisted. I have no idea if this form of therapy is going to work. Whether my constant running around (running away?) is going to solve anything.

Or whether the “impatient” part of me could have given it just one more chance.

 

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Season 3 Bloggers + Nikki’s 21st Birthday Craze

posted 9th July 2010    Written by: Molly Mahar    CATEGORY: Inspiration, Stratejoy the Biz

I am absolutely thrilled to introduce our upcoming Season 3 SixPack!  These 6 rockstars are going through all different sorts of the Quarterlife Crisis + they are all incredibly talented writers.

Score for us!  And score for you!

We’re going live with Season 3 in August, so this intro is just a quick sneak peak of our newest contributors…  Follow them on Twitter and make sure you give them a warm Stratejoy welcome!

Drum Roll Please…

SEASON THREE

Nikki  @gratefulsparrow
Alisha  @storiesofsommer
Doniree  @doniree
Lindsey @lknee
Marian  @marianschembari
Renee @bellerenee

Seems rather mysterious, doesn’t it?!  Bios, stories, and pictures soon.  I promise!

In other news, one of the perks of being the head honcho over is the opportunity to connect with cool chicks all over the world.  Nikki Yeager is one such woman.  She’s been keeping tabs on what’s going on over here and always reaches out to share what she’s doing…  I love it.  And right now- she’s got an inspiring personal challenge going on.  Thought you might dig, so we whipped up a quick interview!

Molly:  What 5 words describe the authentic YOU?

Nikki:  Quirky, adventurous, happy-go-lucky, nerdy and empathetic (to a fault at times).

M: What’s the big excitement going on in your world?

N:21 Days of my 21st Birthday! Before my 21st birthday I’m setting out to do 21 things I’ve never done before but have always wanted to try (skydiving, learning to skateboard, skinny dipping, etc). I’m a big believer in the saying ‘there’s no time like the present’ so this is my chance to take on some of the major items from my bucket list, while I still have the 20-year-old energy to do it and can enjoy every second of it.

M:  Life lessons. What’s been the biggest one you’ve learned so far?

N:  Knowing yourself trumps all. There have been times in my life where I had to go against the advice of everyone in my life – parents, friends, grandparents, whoever – in order to do something I knew would make me happy. And those are the decisions are the ones I could never regret. The decisions I made because I knew myself inside out and backwards. No one else can ever know you that way.

M: What can’t you live without? What do you wish there was less of in the world?

N: What I can’t live without- My computer. I do everything on it! Blogging, posting videos, Social Media Marketing for my job, Tweeting, writing a book… there’s no end to it all!

What do I wish there was less of in the world? Straight faces. I love laughter no matter what the occasion. So when I see people keep their ‘serious face’ on for too long it makes me a little sad and a little uncomfortable. I think everyone should take a moment out of their day and giggle like a little girl! Often!

M:  Your Story in 150 words or less. Go!

N: When I was 18 years old I signed my first lease on a NYC apartment and took off with nothing but a screwdriver and some disassembled furniture. I spent the entire year working grueling hours for City Year New York and learning more about myself than I ever could have imagined. From there it’s been all craziness and little monotony. I shortly went to Syracuse University and learned right away that school wasn’t the best route for me, took off to Cambodia where I worked in P.R. for an education focused NGO, headed down to the Bahamas to manage another organization and then flew back to NYC. Now I’m following my love (writing) and happily spending my days doing the marketing for a jeans company.

M: Inspiration List. Person? Song? Book? Website? Place?

N: Person- My grandpa is top on my inspiration list. He’s a quirky guy who has a thousand traits that could be deemed ‘undesirable’. However, the man is incapable of giving up on life. He keeps going no matter.I’ll never forget calling him just a few weeks after a quadruple bypass surgery and my grandma answered the phone. Turns out he was already out mowing his 10 acres of land. He’s a seventy-something little energizer bunny.

Place- NYC. The first time I stepped foot in NYC I knew I was home. For the first time in my life I’d found a city that could keep up with me, and even outlast me and my crazy ambition. I love that about Manhattan: there are a thousand activities to do at any given moment and another hundred opportunities to be had on any given day.

If you could share one message with the Stratejoy Tribe, what would it be?

Find your happiness and never let it go. Ever.

Thanks Nikki for sharing.  I wish you nothing but the best with all your adventures ahead! (And that artwork illustration?  The very talented Miss Nikki Yeager!)

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