Welcome to House of JOY, the Go-to podcast for personal growth tips for christian women over 40 (& their daughters), who want to live with a positive mindset, thriving relationships, & healthier habits. Are you tired of feeling stuck in the same old cycles & routines with your relationships, your habits, & your negative thought patterns? Do you just want to feel better? Do you desperately desire to finish each day with that deep sense of purpose and fulfillment, but you find yourself disappointed in how you spent your time? I’m so excited you’re here! Learn how to let go of what’s keeping you stuck and create a life you’re obsessed with. It’s way easier than you think to create a resilience mindset, nourishing habits, & thriving relationships, so that you can unleash your amazing gifts on the world. Let us help you live as your true self & create your best days, no matter what stage of life you’re in. Hello, dear one! I am Dr. Edie Wadsworth, your favorite Christian life coach! I help women who want to build mental and emotional resilience and rewrite their stories so they can live with more joy, freedom, and purpose! I am a speaker, physician, life coach, best-selling author, and creator of LIFE MENTORING SCHOOL where I help thousands of women rewrite their stories and live with more passion and intention. This show features solo episodes with myself (Dr. Edie) on how to make true change in your life and heart to heart conversations with my daughter Emme as we dare to make JOY and connection our goal.. We chat about all the ways we’re growing (and sometimes struggling) in life, health, home, relationships, habits, style, and so much more. You'll also find inspiring interviews with some of our favorite people who are doing the same.
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410. How to Stop Resisting Your Life & Start Enjoying It!
mardi 22 septembre 2026 • Durée 38:53
Dear ones, today we're talking about one of the sneakiest habits that steals our energy, our creativity, and our sense of enchantment: arguing with reality.
But underneath all that resistance is often an emotion we're simply afraid or unwilling to feel.
In this episode, I'm sharing what I've learned about dropping resistance, processing our emotions instead of carrying them around with us, and recovering so much faster when life doesn't go according to plan.
Because an enchanted life isn't a life without disappointment, grief, fear, or hard things. It's a life where we're willing to experience all of it—and still notice the coffee, the breeze off the lake, the grandbabies, the hint of fall in the air, and the beautiful sweater we're knitting.
Maybe the goal isn't to create a life where nothing hard happens.
Maybe it's becoming a woman who can hold a bigger, richer, more beautiful life.
In this episode, we talk about:
The hidden cost of resisting your reality
How to recognize when you're arguing with what is
Why "should" is often a clue that you're stuck in resistance
How unprocessed emotions drain your energy
The difference between survival mode and creation mode
Why feeling an emotion doesn't mean something has gone wrong
How emotional capacity allows you to hold a bigger life
Why resisting the painful parts can make us miss the beautiful parts, too
How to recover faster when things don't go according to plan
The simple question: What do I want to create from here?
My invitation for you today is simple: notice where you're resisting your life. Ask yourself what emotion is underneath that resistance. Let yourself feel what's actually there—and then decide what you want to create from here.
There's so much beauty waiting for us when we stop arguing with the life we have long enough to actually receive it.
Follow me on Instagram to watch the “Enchanted Diaries” @ediewadsworth
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409. The Real Reason You're Disenchanted With Your Life (And How to Break the Spell)
mardi 15 septembre 2026 • Durée 22:05
I had my grandbaby boys, Eli and Noah, this weekend, and watching them, I got reminded of something. Little kids are either completely enchanted with everything or completely disenchanted with everything — there's no in-between. We rode bikes in the rain, ran through mud puddles, played way too many downs of flag football with rules that kept changing, and read Green Eggs and Ham to a five-year-old who could not understand why this man kept getting asked the same question over and over.
It made me realize something about why it's so much harder for us as adults to be that easily delighted.
It's not because we're broken. It's because our brains are wired for it, and so is the device in our pocket, and so is the culture we're swimming in. Here's what we get into:
Why your brain's primary job was never to make you feel enchanted — it's scanning for threats, and it will always give more weight to what's wrong than what's right
How the "false self" or ego chimes in on top of that, adding its own list of things to worry about and be afraid of
Why the phone in your pocket supercharges all of it, telling you the same story your brain already wants to tell you
A practical tool for breaking the spell in the moment — asking what your future, wisest self would say looking back on this
Why real enchantment isn't pretending everything is fine or denying real suffering — it's the capacity to stay open and alive to your life even when the hard thing is real
You don't have to wait for your circumstances to change to start practicing this. You can start today, just by noticing how often your brain goes looking for the problem instead of the gift.
Links Mentioned:
Register for The Art of Enchantment workshop (starts next week): https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/enchantment
Join The Art of Enchantment Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theartofenchantment
Follow along with the Enchanted series on Instagram: @ediewadsworth
Subscribe to the House of Joy Substack: https://ediewadsworth.substack.com/
SEEDS: Download the free SEEDS app (https://tinyurl.com/RONSeedsApp) and take one small step today: plant your first seed and see what God can grow.
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408. How to Become Enchanted With Your Life (10 Things Enchanting Me Right Now)
jeudi 10 septembre 2026 • Durée 37:42
We're kicking off a whole series on the art of enchantment today, and I'm starting with the word itself. It comes from Latin, and at its root, it actually means to sing. That's exactly what I want to be: a woman who still hears the song, who notices the change in the September air, who gets a little obsessed with baby cheeks and poetry and the yarn in her hands.
This has been such a hard year for us. And I've learned something true in the middle of it: you can be devastated and still enchanted with your life at the same time. That's not denial. That's emotional wealth.
So today, ten things enchanting me right now:
My brand new kitchen journal — recipes, handwritten notes, and tiny printed photos of the grandbabies eating whatever I just made
My current knitting obsession, a squishy red sweater called the Lakes Jacket by Ozetta
Tom's middle school football games, knitting in the stands and hunting down his number for video
A new diffuser blend I'm creating, appropriately called Enchanted
Reading poetry again — Wendell Berry and Mary Oliver, after Wendell Berry's passing last week
Baby cheeks. All six grandbabies' baby cheeks. No further explanation needed
The first whisper of fall in the air
Being a total beginner at English horseback riding, and loving what that humility teaches me
Something brand new I'm creating for the program that I can't fully reveal yet, but that feels like a dream come true
My actual, ordinary, everyday life — my porch, my kitchen light in the morning, watching Stevie get stronger
If you want to keep being enchanted with me this month, I'm doing Enchantment Diaries on Instagram, documenting all of it in real time. And if this resonates, I'd love for you to join us for our upcoming workshop, The Art of Enchantment: How to Make the Last 90 Days of the Year Matter, September 23–25 at noon Eastern.
Links Mentioned:
Register for The Art of Enchantment workshop (September 23–25): https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/enchantment
Subscribe to the House of Joy Substack: https://ediewadsworth.substack.com/
Follow along with Enchantment Diaries on Instagram: @ediewadsworth
The Lakes Jacket pattern by Ozetta: https://www.ozettaknitwear.com/patterns/p/lakes-jacket
SEEDS: Download the free SEEDS app (https://tinyurl.com/RONSeedsApp) and take one small step today: plant your first seed and see what God can grow.
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407. Your Enchanted Life (How to Turn the Raw Materials of Your Life into a Masterpiece)
jeudi 3 septembre 2026 • Durée 57:30
Today's episode is a masterclass I taught live, and I recorded it the day after we lost Dolly Parton. If you hear extra emotion in my voice, that's why. She was the queen of my heart, and it turns out her whole life was the perfect example of everything I wanted to teach that day.
Dolly took the raw materials she was born with — poverty, a huge family, a mountain nobody thought much of — and turned them into the most gorgeous, generous life anybody's ever lived. And I think most of us are waiting for better materials before we start creating ours.
Here's what we get into:
Why so many of us are waiting for different circumstances — more money, a different body, a more supportive spouse — before we let ourselves start creating a beautiful life
The shift from a life of consumption to a life of creation, and the one powerful question that makes that shift: what can I make from this?
Why even the hardest color you've ever been handed (for me, this year, that was cancer) can become raw material for something beautiful
The seven skills I believe every woman needs to build a genuine masterpiece of her life — including how to create possibility in your mind, how to build emotional wealth, how to stay with yourself in the messy middle, and how to live enchanted right now instead of waiting for someday
Why good intentions were never going to be enough for Dolly, or for you — these are skills you learn and practice, not just things some women are naturally born with
You don't have to know what the whole blanket is going to look like before you learn how to knit. You just have to be willing to learn the skills.
Links Mentioned:
If you're catching this in the first day or two it's out: we're doing a 72-hour flash opening of Life Mentoring School — join here: https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/join
The Alpenglow Blanket pattern mentioned in this episode (Purl Soho): https://www.purlsoho.com/create/2024/08/22/alpenglow-blanket/
Subscribe to the House of Joy Substack: https://ediewadsworth.substack.com/
SEEDS: Download the free SEEDS app (https://tinyurl.com/RONSeedsApp) and take one small step today: plant your first seed and see what God can grow.
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406. Real Coaches, Real Stories: A Coach Panel from the Next Level Life Summit
jeudi 27 août 2026 • Durée 01:05:21
Today's episode is a little different. We're sharing a coach panel recorded during our Next Level Life Summit, where several of our House of Joy certified coaches got completely honest about what it actually looked like to say yes to certification.
You'll meet Angela, Michelle, Becky, Susan, Shannon, and Jamie — a teacher, a hairstylist and salon owner, a homeschool mom, an author and podcaster, and more. Every one of them said yes in a season that looked nothing like the "right time."
Here's what we get into:
The real fears almost every one of them named before signing up — money, timing, whether their husband would be on board
The seasons of life they were actually walking through when they said yes — cancer and remission, empty nesting, the loss of a child, menopause, financial strain
Why this was never really about becoming a coach — it's about becoming the woman your next season is asking you to become
The "go first" principle, and why you can't hand someone a tool you haven't used on yourself
Specific transformation stories — Angela's relationship with her teenage son, Michelle learning to actually feel her emotions instead of just thinking about them, Susan's breakthrough with true self vs. false self, and Shannon's healing in her marriage after the loss of her son Ethan
Why so many of them now see the investment differently — not as an expense, but as something that keeps paying them back
What makes this community different from anything else they've been part of
What they're each doing with their certification now — one-on-one coaching, group programs, a paid counseling role at a church, books, blogs, even a podcast
If you've ever wondered whether it's too late, too expensive, or too much to invest in yourself, I think this conversation is going to be such an encouragement to you.
Links Mentioned:
Learn more about House of Joy Life Coach Certification: https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/certification
Learn more about our Next Level Life Summit: https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/life
Subscribe to the House of Joy Substack: https://ediewadsworth.substack.com/
Meet the Panelists:
Angela Box —
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/daring2reconnect
Instagram: @coachangelabox
Michelle Diercks —
Coaching: https://michellediercks.com/coaching
Substack: https://michellediercks.substack.com/
Becky Cincebox —
Website: https://www.beckycinceboxlifecoach.com/
Instagram: @BeckyCinceboxLifeCoach
Email: Bcincebox7@gmail.com
Shannon Wallace —
Rooted and Rising: https://rootedandrising.shannonwallacelifecoaching.com/rooted-and-rising
Website (Ashes to Beauty): https://www.shannonwallacelifecoaching.com/
Email: hello@shannonwallacelifecoaching.com
Susan (A Vintage Farmwife) —
Instagram: https://instagram.com/avintagefarmwife
Website: http://avintagefarmwife.com/
Clean Heart Club Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1C6gMG4yVb/
Clean Heart Club Podcast: Apple (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clean-heart-club/id1734446957)
Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/36PrAkJ37EK6shGSRaNHBz?si=bc051ec809754ba5)
Book: Hello, You! Being Yourself in a World That Wants You to Be Everyone Else: https://amzn.to/4scY9cC
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405. Stop Postponing Your Life: 5 Things I Learned From the Hardest—and Richest—Season of My Life
mardi 25 août 2026 • Durée 20:14
We just came back from a weekend that didn't look impressive on paper. No trip, no big event. Just a porch, a sleeping baby upstairs, and Stevie back up on the wake surf board for the first time since his surgery, already trying a 360 within 45 seconds of getting up.
And sitting there, I kept thinking: this is the life.
This year handed us something we never would have ordered. But I've learned so much these last few months about what it means to stop waiting for the hard part to be over before you let yourself actually live. Here's what this season taught me:
Stop waiting for certainty to feel alive — uncertainty and a full, beautiful life are allowed to coexist
Stop letting the hardest thing become the whole thing — ask yourself, what else is here besides this?
Stop waiting for your life to calm down before you let it be good — hard and beautiful get to be the same season
Stop confusing your circumstances with your emotional power — your circumstances are the raw material, not the boss
Stop preparing for your life and start becoming the woman who can actually live it
Life gives you the raw material. You get to write the story. So decide today that you're going to stop postponing yours.
Links Mentioned:
Join Friday's training where I share the full story behind this season: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87553040644
Subscribe to the House of Joy Substack: https://ediewadsworth.substack.com/
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404. I Said Yes to Myself: An Interview with Skye Lamont
jeudi 20 août 2026 • Durée 48:54
Today I'm sharing a conversation that stayed with me long after we hit stop recording.
Skye Lamont has been in Life Mentoring School for under a year, and before that she'd already been a certified life coach since 2002. She's also a fantasy novelist with seven completed books, and for years she believed she could only really pursue one calling at a time — the writer or the coach, never both. This conversation is about what happened when she stopped believing that.
Here they are:
How the creation cycle helped Skye uncover a decades-old, sneaky thought quietly running underneath her marriage — the belief that she'd picked the wrong husband
Why so many women, especially in midlife, live from an "either/or" belief about their gifts — and what changed when Skye started practicing "and" instead
The real story behind why she stayed off social media for eight years, and what it took for her to finally start a YouTube channel
Why the biggest surprise of coach certification wasn't learning to coach other people — it was learning to "go first" and do the work on herself
What made this community different from every other coaching certification she's done, and why she says you don't get the full benefit of the work without it
Her encouragement for any woman who feels made for more but hasn't taken the leap yet
"I said yes to becoming a coach and getting certified. But what I really said yes to was myself."
Links Mentioned:
• YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SkyeLamontCreative
• Website: https://skyelamont.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skyelamont
Learn more about our Next Level Life Summit: https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/life
Learn more about Life Mentoring School and coach certification: https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/
https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/certificationwaitlist
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403. 10 House Rules for Living Well (A Peek Into the House of Joy Week)
mardi 11 août 2026 • Durée 16:42
Did you know the House of Joy has actual house rules? A book landed in my mailbox this week called House Rules, and at the very same time we were gearing up for our Week in the House of Joy — and the two collided in this episode.
So here they are. Ten house rules that make life better, whether it's an ordinary Tuesday or something much harder. Here they are:
We don't wait for special occasions — use the china, buy the flowers, wear the good PJs, now
All feelings are allowed here — the goal isn't to feel good all the time, it's to feel anything without abandoning yourself
We tell good stories — the circumstance doesn't get the final say on the story you tell about it
We make things beautiful on purpose — even hospital rooms, even hard seasons
We're always making something — creating moves you out of survival mode and into a life you're actually building
We take care of the woman who lives here — sleep, movement, nourishment, friends, prayer, margin
We take our fun very seriously — dancing, boat rides, tiny ice cream cones on a regular Saturday
We ask ourselves, what would be amazing? — tapping into desire instead of just what needs to be done
Everybody who comes through the door gets to belong — even when they believe or live differently than you do
We leave the door open — because your house of joy was never meant to be just for you
Your house of joy was never meant to be just for you. So consider this your invitation in.
Links Mentioned
Join us for A Week in the House of Joy:
https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/life
Get a ticket to the Next Level Life Summit: https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/life
The book House Rules mentioned in this episode: https://www.target.com/p/house-rules-by-myquillyn-smith-hardcover/-/A-89609027?sid=&TCID=PDS-22806998620&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22803281030&gbraid=0AAAAAD-5dfYyzK8sQi4BepTJ9_5cFL1wx&gclid=Cj0KCQjw7eXTBhDBARIsAKF-w478NNpbN04KkCwp5tKX0x_UWNWyFpNCb3iAlnTpyrUWDJ-TsgWGV7EaAukKEALw_wcB
Subscribe to the House of Joy Substack: https://ediewadsworth.substack.com/
Last week's episode, 402: Why You Feel Behind, Broke, or Stuck (And What To Do About It):
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/402-why-you-feel-behind-broke-or-stuck-and-what-to-do/id1472947590?i=1000778655014
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402. Why You Feel Behind, Broke, or Stuck (And What To Do About It) — Best of House of Joy // RE-RELEASE
mardi 28 juillet 2026 • Durée 36:00
This is a Best of House of Joy rerelease — one of our most downloaded episodes from the past year, and with August coming up soon (fresh starts, new rhythms, back-to-school energy), it felt like the perfect time to bring it back around.
Scarcity doesn't always look like money. Most of the time, it's hiding in your thoughts about your time, your relationships, your pace, your worth — quietly draining your energy without you even realizing it's there.
In this episode, I'm walking through five sneaky scarcity thoughts almost all of us think without noticing, and what abundance actually sounds like instead. Here they are:
"I'm always behind" — and why this thought quietly keeps you stuck and paralyzed instead of moving you forward
"I don't have enough time" — and the difference between chronos time and kairos time (and how to collapse time instead of losing it)
"I don't follow through" — and why looking for evidence of the opposite changes everything
"It's too late for me" — and why so many of the most successful people didn't even start until midlife
"I need to see proof before I believe" — and why belief has to come before the results, not after
Abundance, in the end, is just faith. Faith that you're provided for, that you're supported, that your best days aren't behind you — they're still coming.
Links Mentioned:
Hiya Kids Vitamins (50% off your first order): https://hiyahealth.com/HouseOfJoy
The Ningxia Red Metabolic Reset mentioned in this episode: https://www.youngliving.com/us/en/myaccount/wishlist?listId=65b91cb46c6367000a127d22&enrollerId=1443424&sponsorId=1443424&userName=Edie
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401. The Invisible Architecture of a Beautiful Life
mardi 21 juillet 2026 • Durée 17:59
There's an old story about three bricklayers.
A traveler stops and asks the first one what he's doing. Without looking up, he says, "I'm laying bricks." He asks the second, and gets, "I'm building a wall." But the third one — same bricks, same mortar, same hot sun — says, "I'm building a cathedral." Eyes sparkling.
We're all laying bricks every single day. Laundry, meals, conversations, rhythms. The question is whether we know what we're actually building.
In this episode, I'm walking through seven invisible, unseen pieces of architecture that build a genuinely beautiful life — and it's probably not what you think. Here they are:
Why your daily rhythms are quietly building your identity, one small decision at a time
Why beauty isn't superficial — it's how God designed the world, and how your nervous system knows it's safe
Why creating more than you consume matters, even in the smallest ways
Why the words you speak build the emotional atmosphere of your whole life
Why hospitality starts with your own nervous system, not your centerpieces
Why play might be one of the most spiritual things you do
Why faith means remembering it was never all up to you in the first place
You're not just laying bricks today. You're building something — whether you mean to or not. So what are you building?
Links Mentioned:
The book referenced on habits and identity, Atomic Habits by James Clear: https://go.shopmy.us/p-73056364
Subscribe to the House of Joy Substack: https://ediewadsworth.substack.com/
Last week's episode, 400: 5 Things Birth Week Taught Me About Loving Well: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/400-5-things-birth-week-taught-me-about-loving-well/id1472947590?i=1000776716504
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