Follow Your Joy Podcast by Marla Diann

About Follow Your Joy Podcast by Marla Diann

I'm your host, Marla Diann! I've been transforming creative entrepreneurs' lives for over 26 years through two businesses. As a success coach and business strategist, I am passionate about helping entrepreneurs collapse the time frame of achieving their desires and goals. It's time to make joy your inner GPS for life and business decisions rather than lean on your logic and reason, first. You'll not only be following what is most authentic to you and for you, but you will live the beautiful life meant just for you. Here at Follow Your Joy Podcast, I aspire for you, the highly talented and passionate creative entrepreneur, to do what brings you joy more often …because you learned to listen to your intuition and take action on that guidance. This is where you'll find inspiring entrepreneurial stories and solocasts that prove listening to your intuition is certainly the doorway to your wisdom, your genius and your joy. Joy is not to be relegated to a good feeling. It's a life & business strategy. When we follow our joy and stay tuned into it, we will live a more authentic life. Not sure how to access, use or trust your intuition living in a logical, intellectual world? Join me in the conversation to find out how!

Publisher

Marla Diann

Category

business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 May 2022

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

110 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   You Don't Have to Choose Between Intuition and Strategy: Knowing What to Trust—and When

   Watch & Subscribe on YouTube @marladiann What happens when the life you've built looks completely right on paper—but something inside you knows better? My guest on this episode of Follow Your Joy, Sydney Campos, has built her life and career by learning to recognize—and act on—what she knows internally. Sydney works at a unique intersection: business strategy, leadership, intuition and human transformation. For more than 15 years, she's built and advised companies, founded three of her own, advised 100+ founders and executives, and worked through a $20M acquisition. Alongside that career, she's spent more than a decade studying and facilitating human transformation as a master clairvoyant, energy facilitator, bestselling author and global retreat leader. For years, Sydney thought she had to choose between those worlds. Business or intuition. Strategy or consciousness. Ambition or inner development. Today, she sees their integration as the work. Sydney doesn't think of intuition as separate from intelligence. She sees it as another form of information. Data tells us what has happened. Strategy helps us anticipate what could happen. Intuition can help us notice what hasn't become explicit yet—an opportunity, a disconnect, something unspoken, or the sense that a seemingly perfect decision isn't actually right. But there's an important distinction: Not every strong feeling is intuition.  Fear, attachment, projection and ego can masquerade as inner knowing. Sydney and I explore why discernment may be one of the most valuable abilities we can develop—especially in a world overflowing with experts, algorithms, AI and other people's opinions. ep110 Sydney Campos Transformat… Inside our conversation: • When the life that looks right on paper no longer feels right • Intuition as another form of intelligence • How to distinguish intuition from fear, ego and attachment • Why more information isn't necessarily what we need • How discernment changes decision-making • Why intuition rarely gives us the entire plan • The courage to act on the next honest step Our responsibility is to become discerning enough to recognize the signal—and courageous enough to act on it. If you're at a crossroads in your life, career or business wondering what comes next, this conversation may help you listen differently. Resources + Links: Facebook.com/sydneycamposmagic Instagram: @sydneycampos LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sydneycampos Visionary Souls Podcast Books: The Empath Experience and I'm Ascending, Now What? PORTAL OF JOY - Sydney's free resources for Follow Your Joy community include guided meditations and practices for grounding, healing, intuitive development, energetic awareness and reconnecting with your own inner guidance. You'll find her resources along with dozens of hand-selected gifts from Follow Your Joy guests inside the Portal of Joy:  https://marladiann.com/podcast/portal/ Marla's Current Mentoring: The Elegant Way Forward Salon. Her methodology integrates all of you—body, intuition, beliefs, spirituality, identity, money, work, relationships, creativity and joy. Because the life you want now requires more than another strategy or mindset shift. It requires an evolved, embodied identity. The Elegant Way Forward Mentorship Salon begins October 21. Get yourself registered: https://conta.cc/4xLTYWK -Marla's Amazon Lifestyle Influencer Store – shop for favorites! https://www.amazon.com/shop/marla_diann

2. 

   16 Sept 2026

   What Brings You Joy and What Might That Joy Be Trying to Tell You?

   Watch & Subscribe on YouTube @marladiann What brings you joy—and what might that joy be trying to tell you? We tend to think of joy as something we experience when life is going well. A reward. A vacation. A beautiful dinner. Time with people we love. But what if joy is much more useful than that? What if joy is information? In this solo episode of Follow Your Joy, I'm taking you deeper into the philosophy behind the podcast and a life and business strategy I've personally relied on for years: Joy is not simply the reward. Joy is your compass. An unexpected invitation to speak to a Kiwanis group about the meaning of Follow Your Joy caused me to look at my own platform with fresh eyes. I realized that underneath more than 100 conversations about entrepreneurship, reinvention, intuition, creativity, and life change is one consistent thread: People change the trajectory of their lives when they're willing to listen to what lights them up—and become curious about where it might be leading them. In this personal conversation, I explore: • Why joy can become a compass for life, work, and reinvention • The difference between happiness and a deeper commitment to joy • Why curiosity may be your intuition tapping you on the shoulder • How to recognize when something you've tolerated is no longer working • Why intuition and body wisdom need a voice alongside logic and reasoning • My own experience with burnout and the journey to Italy that changed how I live and work • Why our culture's devotion to productivity can quietly disconnect us from ourselves • The feminine and masculine energies available to all of us—and why we need both • Why choosing joy during difficult times isn't irresponsible or disloyal • What more than 100 Follow Your Joy conversations have taught me about the human spirit I also share why I believe meaningful change asks something very different of us than simply thinking harder. Heart. Belief. Courage. Trust. Faith. Our rational brains want predictability, evidence, and certainty. But our evolution doesn't always make logical sense at first. Sometimes we need to listen to our body and intuition first—and then invite that beautiful brain back in to help us execute. I also take you inside the burnout that became one of the most important turning points of my life. It eventually led me to Italy, where I experienced a very different relationship with work, quality of life, pleasure, connection, and joy. That experience became the foundation of the feminine-masculine blend I teach today: integrating intuition, creativity, spirituality, play, imagination, receiving and vision with the equally valuable strengths of structure, logic, execution, planning, and action. And I share what's unfolding now with Reverie + Velvet, my reinvention after 18 years of Marla Diann Mentoring International, and my upcoming appearance at the Transformation Gap Virtual Summit, September 24–29, alongside more than 100 experts from around the world. As we close, I leave you with something to sit with, journal about, or simply notice: What brings me joy—and what might that joy be trying to tell me? Because joy is much more than a feeling. It may be pointing you toward your Elegant Way Forward. Resources + Links: The Transformation Gap Virtual Summit | September 24–29 Free registration: https://tinyurl.com/gap-summit The Portal of Joy Explore hand-selected downloads, journals, courses, special offers, resources and gifts from Follow Your Joy guests: https://marladiann.com/podcast/portal/ Kicking off the fall and final quarter of the year, I have several private spots for a 90-minute Identity + Next Chapter Strategy Session 90 – minutes ($100 savings) for women ready to explore where their current identity may—or may not—be supporting the next chapter they desire. It includes preparation before our session, a 30-minute progress session two weeks later, and as a bonus, my Feminine Power Feelings Journal, with prompts designed to help you begin reconnecting with and expressing emotions you've habitually suppressed. Use my Calendly link to have a chat about your identity that is creating your next chapter. https://calendly.com/successcoach-marladiann/connection -Marla's Amazon Lifestyle Influencer Store – shop for favorites https://www.amazon.com/shop/marla_diann

3. 

   26 Aug 2026

   Beyond Survival Mode: What Happens When You Choose Courageously to Rebuild? Tammy Gibson

   Watch & Subscribe on YouTube @marladiann What happens when life changes so dramatically that you barely recognize the person—or the life—you had before? And once you've survived it… how do you find your way back to yourself? My fascinating guest on this episode of Follow Your Joy, Tammy Gibson, knows that experience in a way few of us can imagine. After more than two decades in fashion and business, Tammy became critically ill. She spent months in the hospital and ultimately lost her right leg. Her life changed completely. How she worked. How she showed up. Even how she saw herself. But what emerged on the other side wasn't simply survival. It was clarity. Today, Tammy is a speaker, writer, and founder of Tough Like Tammy, using what she lived through to help women move beyond survival mode and make intentional choices about who they are now and how they want to live. Inside this deeply moving conversation, we explore: • What happens to your identity when life changes without your permission • Why resilience isn't simply surviving something difficult—it's how you choose to rebuild afterward • The difference between functioning in survival mode and truly living again • How Tammy found her way back to herself after months in the hospital and losing her leg • Why intuition became an important guide in her life and business • The quiet inner nudge that told her, "This isn't just for you" • How sharing the story she initially wanted to keep private opened an entirely new chapter of purpose, speaking, writing, and impact • How small, intentional choices can help us move forward without blowing up our lives or starting over One of the things I love most about Tammy's story is that her comeback wasn't about returning to the woman she used to be. Life had changed her. The opportunity was to discover who she had become. Tammy describes the process as "editing forward"—getting honest about what no longer works and making one intentional decision at a time based on who you are now, rather than who you used to be. And there's another beautiful part of her story. After everything she'd been through, Tammy could have quietly rebuilt her life and kept the experience private. Instead, she kept hearing a persistent inner message: "This isn't just for you." She listened. That decision ultimately led to speaking opportunities, meaningful relationships, a new career, and the realization that her experience could help other women see what was possible in their own lives. Tammy is generously sharing her gift: The Comeback Blueprint: Pause. Reflect. Refine. Rebuild. with the Follow Your Joy community. It's a complimentary guide for anyone navigating a season when life has shifted and you're not quite sure what comes next. Rather than pushing harder or pretending everything is fine, Tammy offers a four-step approach for slowing down, getting clear, and rebuilding from strength instead of survival mode. You'll find Tammy's gift inside the Portal of Joy, along with dozens of carefully selected resources from Follow Your Joy guests: https://marladiann.com/podcast/portal/ If life has changed you—or you're simply realizing that the way you've been living no longer fits the woman you've become—Tammy's story is a powerful reminder: You don't have to go back to who you were. You get to decide how you move forward from here. Resources + Links: https://www.toughliketammy.com/ https://www.instagram.com/toughliketammy/ https://www.facebook.com/ToughLikeTammy/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/toughliketammy -Kicking off the fall and final quarter of the year, I have several private spots for a 90-minute Identity + Next Chapter Strategy Session 90 – minutes ($100 savings good through Sept 10) for women ready to explore where their current identity may—or may not—be supporting the next chapter they desire. It includes preparation before our session, a 30-minute progress session two weeks later, and as a bonus, my Feminine Power Feelings Journal, with prompts designed to help you begin reconnecting with and expressing emotions you've habitually suppressed. Use my Calendly link to have a chat about your identity that is creating your next chapter. https://calendly.com/successcoach-marladiann/connection -Marla's Amazon Lifestyle Influencer Store – shop for favorites! Jen's book is inside my store in the travel section https://www.amazon.com/shop/marla_diann (https://www.amazon.com/shop/marla_diann) Loved this episode? Don't stop here, unlock the tools, resources, and free downloads mentioned during the episode. Click here to access the portal of joy. (https://marladiann.com/podcast/portal/) https://marladiann.com/podcast/portal/

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YouTube views

11,281

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

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Podcast Authority Score: 52 / 100

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Social presence

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YouTube

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Engagement

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