Jun 16, 2026 · 20 min · 9 segments
How much joy are you actually experiencing right now? Not how much you are achieving, not how productive you have been this week or whether you are on track for your targets. Joy, the felt sense of…
Lucy ShrimptonHost
I want to ask you a question and I want you to actually sit with it rather than rushing past it to get to the comfortable answer.
How much joy are you experiencing right now? Not how much are you achieving, not how productive you've been this week or how many things you've ticked off the list or whether you're on track for the targets you set yourself at the start of the year.
I mean, joy, the actual felt sense of being glad to be alive and doing what you're doing.
How much of that is present in your days? Because here's what I keep observing.
And I've been in rooms with entrepreneurs at every level from people just starting out to people running multiple seven figure businesses.
And what I see is a pattern in all of them that I think we need to talk about openly.
A pattern that nobody really wants to admit to because admitting to it feels like ingratitude or like failure or like proof that you're doing it wrong or something.
They're building, growing, producing, achieving, and privately behind the highlight reel, they're running on empty, wondering when the feeling of enough is going to arrive.
If any of that resonates with you, even a small part, this episode is for you.
I want to ask you a question and I want you to actually sit with it rather than rushing past it to get to the comfortable answer.
How much joy are you experiencing right now? Not how much are you achieving, not how productive you've been this week or how many things you've ticked off the list or whether you're on track for the targets you set yourself at the start of the year.
I mean, joy, the actual felt sense of being glad to be alive and doing what you're doing.
How much of that is present in your days? Because here's what I keep observing.
And I've been in rooms with entrepreneurs at every level from people just starting out to people running multiple seven figure businesses.
And what I see is a pattern in all of them that I think we need to talk about openly.
A pattern that nobody really wants to admit to because admitting to it feels like ingratitude or like failure or like proof that you're doing it wrong or something.
They're building, growing, producing, achieving, and privately behind the highlight reel, they're running on empty, wondering when the feeling of enough is going to arrive.
If any of that resonates with you, even a small part, this episode is for you.
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