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Everything Sucks, Now What? A Merriment Method for a Messy World. — 145 episodes
Can People Actually Change? (Why most “self-improvement” is actually self-erasure)
Everything Is Fine… But It Feels Wrong: Clouds, Motherhood & High-Functioning Depression (With Kendall Concini-Moore)
Doomscrolling Is Making You Poor: 5 Ways You're Going Broke Without Touching Your Bank Account
You Don't Actually Want Money - You Want What (You Think) It Buys
Conscious Luck: 8 Ways to Become a Very Lucky Person (On Purpose)
If I Created This, I Can Destroy It: 4 Ways to Feel Empowered Without Denying Your Trauma
Did I Just Find the Exit From Patriarchy?! What Women Can Do to Dismantle Patriarchy Without Starting a Gender War
If You’re About to Give Up on Your Goals, Try These 9 Things First
Looking Back On 2016
“Are You Okay?” - You Don’t Owe the Room a Mood: How To Check In Without Making Others Feel Wrong
Fuck Meditation, Rage The Page Instead: 98 Ways To Use AI To Turn Your Feelings Into Tools
The Best, Most Unexpected Way To Set Goals This Year: A 4-Step Thought Experiment About Time, Priorities, and Real Life
9 Steps + 25 Ways to Wrap Up Your Year and Make New Year’s Eve Feel Fun Again
Why Beige Self-Help Never Worked for Me: When the Advice Is Fine but the Room Feels Wrong
Tiny Billboards of Joy: Jessica Watson & The Have A Nice Day Project
How To Do Solo Dates (AND Do Joy Missions!)
How To Have Fun While You Wait: Why Liminal Spaces Feel Scary
When Good Things Feel Scary: You’re Allowed to Enjoy It Anyway
Life Update: October 2025
Peppercorns Of Pleasure: 33 Good Things
How to See Beauty When You’re Mad at the World
The Skeleton Under My Joy: A Memoir of What It Took To Be This Loud About Love
11K Acts Of Joy in 365 Days: Can We Do It
The Existential Option: Why Meaning Is Your Job Now
The 6 Human Paradoxes: How to Celebrate Your Contradictions
Feel Good ≠ Feel Happy: The F.E.E.L. Process
Your Town Isn’t Boring. You’re Just Afraid.
2013 Mary: The Year I Lived Out Loud (Celebrating 13 Years Of Merriment Making)
Tuning Into Your Luckiest Self: Confidence Isn't Binary
How To Feel Like Yourself Again: 6 Tips To Unmute The Real You
This Isn’t My Definitive Autobiography (But It’s One Of Them): My Interview With Voyage
They Said Nothing Could Be Done. I Don’t Believe Them : How to Reject Hopelessness and Rewrite Your Story
Sacred Disruption 101: Merriment Against The Machine
Comfortably Uncomfortable: Permission to Play with Brigid Gibson
The Joy Toolkit: What Every Helper Needs in Their Emotional First Aid Kit
People Like Us Do Things Like This: How Culture, Community, and Ritual Create Change
Joy as a Professional Tool: How Therapists and Teachers Can Use Delight in Their Work
Run Your Own Joy Experiments: (The S.P.A.R.K.L.E. Method for Personalized Joy)
You Don’t Have to Suffer to Succeed: How Silliness, Softness, and Science are Better than Hustle Culture
You're Not Broken. You're Bored.
The Happiness Immune System: And How It Protects Joy
How to Use Joy to Make a Difference (Even If You Feel Small)
Micro-Rebellions Against the Bullsh*t
When "Getting Better" Sounds Like Too Much Work
You're Not Lazy -- You're Tired.
5 Tips For Burnout: Recovery For Caregivers
The Struggle To Be 'Real' Online: And A Real Personal Update
You Are the Most Beautiful Thing in Your Life: Self-Love as an Anchor
Give Yourself An Olive Branch (Or Piece Of Cornbread) – Making Peace With Every Part of Yourself
Letting Go of Autopilot: How to Live Intentionally Every Day
The Power Of Playfulness: The Ultimate Grounding Tool
Rewriting Your Story: How To Rewrite Your Own Narrative
Embracing The Weirdo Within: 3 Steps To Start Being Yourself
2024 Reflection: Not Being A Narcissist In 2025
Joyful Walkthrough: 5 Minutes to Gratitude
Permission to Feel Good: Embracing Your Right to Happiness
The Inner Critic Trap: Recognizing and Soothing Negative Self-Talk
You Deserve As Much Love As You Give
Breaking Out Of Autopilot: Finding Joy In Small Moments
Why Permission Slips and Disclaimers Are Keeping You Small
Post Election Inspiration - Be The Person You Say You Are
10 Minute Merriment Evening Routine
10 Minute Merriment Morning Routine To Boost Joy
It Might Not Be LAMN, It Might Be Appendix Cancer
My Tumor Is Not Benign; Info on LAMN
What Is Endometriosis Surgery Like?
Surgery Update
Just In Case (Today Is My Last Day)
How To Stay In A Good Mood
Reading From My Diary
Personal Update: Future, Purging, Planning, Quality, Respect
10 Ways To Get Out Of A Bad Mood
Development Isn't For Drones: You're Uncategorizable
If You're Doing This You Will Continue To Be Unhappy
What If You HAD To Make $10,000 More In A Month?: 10X Is Easier Than 2X
Devil's Advocate: There Isn't Just One Truth
36 Year Old Birthday Lessons
Formula For Changing Your Complaints Into Goals
How To Not Avoid Your Anxiety
Don't Waste Your Life
The Inner Harbor Is Swimmable! Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is, Baltimore
Personal Update - May
A Forgotten Cabinet + Losing The 10 Commandments Of EVERYTHING
How I Forgot To Be A Merriment Maker + The Feel Good Troop
Kindness: How To Have Empathy For Anyone
How To Plan For Joy
Merriment Making Podcast with Wendi McLendon-Covey
Is Positive Psychology Bullsh**? How To Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
November Life Update
I Had To Become The Most Miserable To Win The Happiness Game
I’m Happier Than I’ve Ever Been
What Is Good News And How Can We Make More Of It?
21 Tips For Creating New Neural Pathways + Habits
Care Bears: The Ideal Merriment Mascot
Merriment Making with Lux ATL: Daily Joy With A Baby, Storytelling No Matter What, + A Cabin Full Of Strippers
The Reality Of Romanticizing Your Life
Why Saying Someone Is Judgmental Is Judgmental
Why The Barbie Movie Failed At World Peace
Why I’m Not Turning Off My Brain + You Don’t Have To Either
Ketamine and Con Artists: The Anti Embodiment Story
Why You’re Really Scared To Connect With Your Body
5 Ways To Stay Inspired When You’ve Been Creating For A Long Time
10 Ways To Heighten Hope
50 Amazing Things About Everyday Life
Is My Motivation Pure?
Don’t Wait To Be Weird
Becoming Your Future Self (One Quantum Date With A Friend at a Time)
10 Things To Do If You Can’t ”Just Start”
10 Ways To Be Your Own Valentine
10 Ways To Celebrate Life
Why You’re Actually Abandoning Your Planner
Let Your Inner Child Dress You
What I Learned From Being On The Today Show
Why Your Merriment Making Is Saving Us From Being Killed By Aliens
Janice’s Ghost: The No Bullsh*t Psychic
Magic Vs. Science
5 Steps For Starting Self-Love
The Difference Between Cognitive Dissonance And Opposing Ideas
Why I’m ”A Merriment Maker” And Not ”The Merriment Maker”
Why My Membership Group Is Better
17 Happy Habits + Tips To Boost Your Mental Health
A Brain Scare, Relationship Roles, + My Second Book!
I Can Do Anything And I Don’t Have To Do Anything
I Have Autism
A Free Book Chapter On Magic
Getting Split Wide Open
Synchronistic Seal Story
Merriment Making Is Magic
Bullsh*t Breakthroughs
Full Circle Softenings
Be On The Side Of Kindness
Operation Merriment: Why Action Beats Theory
Bringing My Business Back To The Basics
Why I’m Purging Everything Self-Help
Relationship With Life: No Longer Complicated
Why I Struggle With Mental Illness Labels
Gabi Rosie: Creating Our Own Reality
What Is Merriment Making?
Marlee Liss: Restorative Justice - Compassion In The Grey
Jessica Zweig On Being Your Own Brand
Brad Yates: Manifesting A Million Subscribers
Punk Is The Ultimate Self-Love
Self-Care For Chronic Illness
Self-Care For Empaths, Entrepreneurs, & People With Depression
You’ll Always Be Beautiful