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EPISODE · Apr 24, 2025 · 1H 23M

70: GUEST: Join The Joy Revolution with MARC CORDON

from The Everyday Awesome Project · host Polly Mertens & Samantha Pruitt

What if personal growth isn't enough? What happens when you achieve everything society told you to want, yet still feel empty inside? Marc Cordon @marccordoncreative knows this journey intimately and is with us this week to download his unscripted path to finding purpose and passion.  Growing up as a first-generation Filipino-American, Marc found himself caught between worlds - too Filipino to be fully American, yet too American for his Filipino relatives. After dutifully pursuing a neuroscience degree and master's in public health to fulfill his immigrant parents' dreams, he rebelled by forming "the best Filipino band in the South." Yet even after achieving his childhood dream of becoming "the Michael Jackson," a persistent question haunted him: "Why am I still unhappy?"The answer came through an unexpected encounter with "the sociology of happiness" and Dr. Cory Keyes, revealing that one can experience both momentary joy and long-term purpose simultaneously. This epiphany launched Marc's "Joy Revolution" - not a program to turn depressed people happy, but rather a nine-week transformative experience helping those who are already doing well (7/10 on the happiness scale) break through to extraordinary fulfillment (10+) through service to others.In this conversation brimming with laughter and profound insights, we explore how joy can be as contagious as anger but infinitely more constructive, how growth can come from both suffering and ecstatic experiences, and why creating spaces of "collective effervescence" might be exactly what our divided world needs right now.As Marc brilliantly summarizes: "In a world where distinctions are made between work and play, why not do both and let others figure out which is which?" Check out Marc's Joy Revolution at joyrevolution.com or join his free Storytelling Summit on May 24th! Contact Marc at [email protected] Send us Fan Mail Follow Coach Polly @getbusythriving and Coach Sam @thesamanthapruitt Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/everydayawesomeprojectFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/everydayawesomeprojectLinktree for ALL THE THINGS: https://linktr.ee/everydayawesomeprojectWebsite/About Us: https://everydayawesomeproject.com/about-us/

What if personal growth isn't enough? What happens when you achieve everything society told you to want, yet still feel empty inside? Marc Cordon @marccordoncreative knows this journey intimately and is with us this week to download his unscripted path to finding purpose and passion. Growing up as a first-generation Filipino-American, Marc found himself caught between worlds - too Filipino to be fully American, yet too American for his Filipino relatives. After dutifully pursuing a ne...

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