The Joy Experiment Podcast

Roberta Ravella

The Joy Experiment is for women who are done forcing, performing, and pushing through life just to keep everything working. Because you've built the life. The business. The success. Maybe even the relationships you thought you wanted. But somewhere along the way, you disconnected from yourself. Here, we explore creating success from alignment, nervous system regulation and wholeness instead of pressure. Because joy, ease, and alignment aren't the cost of success. They're the foundation of it. New episodes every Wednesday

  1. 4d ago

    From Corporate Career Disappointment to Published Novelist | Victoria Wright

    Victoria Wright spent years building a successful corporate career before reaching a point where she asked herself, "Is this all there is?" That question eventually led her away from banking, into a healing journey, and toward becoming an author, speaker, and creator. In this episode of The Joy Experiment, Roberta and Victoria explore how that transition unfolded—from navigating a relentless inner critic to unexpectedly writing multiple books after never considering herself a writer. Victoria describes how journaling became the starting point for her creative work, why she writes without outlining, and the advice from her partner that helped her keep going: "Nobody has to read this." The conversation also moves into creativity itself: why it doesn't always happen in a straight line, how curiosity can lead to unexpected opportunities, and why sometimes the best thing you can do is simply start where you are. In this episodeVictoria's transition from corporate banking to creative workLiving with a relentless inner criticWriting books without a traditional writing processIndependent publishing and creative confidenceWhy "Nobody has to read this" unlocked creativityThe role of curiosity in creative workLetting go of linear thinkingThe skydiving conversation that became a discussion about floatingIdentity, creativity, and making space for something newGuest: Victoria Wright Learn more about Victoria and her work at Healing Words Online. JOIN THE COMMUNITY! 📩 Get weekly insights, resources, and early access to episodes: https://thejoyexperiment.live/#three CONNECT WITH US! Roberta’s Website: https://thejoyexperiment.live/#three https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertaravella/ https://www.tiktok.com/@robertagravella Victoria Wright’s Website: https://www.healingwords.online/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/vwright1 https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B08WX6S6FN/allbooks 📖 Roberta’s Book: Open for Business: How To Build A Business You Love Without The Hustle And Grind Get your copy: https://www.amazon.in/Open-Business-Build-Without-Hustle-ebook/dp/B0G98TXZFP About the show: The Joy Experiment Podcast is where success and soul finally meet. Roberta Ravella blends heart and science to help women entrepreneurs discover how alignment becomes action, and how success becomes something you feel, not just something you chase.

    From Corporate Career Disappointment to Published Novelist | Victoria Wright
  2. Jul 22

    What If Business Is More Like Birth Than Battle? Rethinking Hustle Culture

    In this episode of The Joy Experiment, Roberta Ravella speaks with Irish writer, facilitator, and consultant Megan Macedo about identity, creative work, and allowing her work to change as she changes. Megan describes identity through the image of sand dunes. Some parts are rooted and stable, while others shift gradually or change after a storm. She connects this image to intergenerational trauma, intergenerational resilience, and the vulnerability involved in letting go of roles that once provided certainty. The conversation explores Megan’s discomfort with the language of battle, pushing, and punishment often used in business. She shares how her experience of childbirth led her to think about creative work as a process of birth rather than battle. Roberta and Megan also discuss surrender, nonlinear productivity, and the conditions that can support creative work, noticing physical signs of readiness, and the uncertainty that can come with allowing work to emerge in its own time. In This ConversationIdentity as something rooted and continually changingIntergenerational trauma and intergenerational resilienceThe certainty people can receive from roles and labelsMegan’s move away from web design and marketing consultancyJoy, discomfort, and the spark of alivenessBusiness as battle compared with creation as birthThe creative reflexSurrendering control over timing and outcomesRest and nonlinear productivityCreative practices that may not look like workCreating financial and time buffersRecognizing what is ripe in the workMentorship and physical signs of readinessMegan’s experience of moving away from numbnessConnect With MeganWebsite: meganmacedo.com Megan’s website includes her email list and a free talk about taking an artistic approach to every aspect of work. JOIN THE COMMUNITY! 📩 Get weekly insights, resources, and early access to episodes: https://thejoyexperiment.live/#three CONNECT WITH US! Roberta’s Website: https://thejoyexperiment.live/#three https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertaravella/ https://www.tiktok.com/@robertagravella Megan Macedo’s Website: https://meganmacedo.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/meganmacedo/ 📖 Roberta’s Book: Open for Business: How To Build A Business You Love Without The Hustle And Grind Get your copy: https://www.amazon.in/Open-Business-Build-Without-Hustle-ebook/dp/B0G98TXZFP About the show: The Joy Experiment Podcast is where success and soul finally meet. Roberta Ravella blends heart and science to help women entrepreneurs discover how alignment becomes action, and how success becomes something you feel, not just something you chase.

    What If Business Is More Like Birth Than Battle? Rethinking Hustle Culture
  3. Jul 15

    From Toxic Ambition to Joyful Ambition: Build a Business You don’t Need to Recover From

    What if ambition didn't have to come at the expense of your peace? In this episode of The Joy Experiment, Roberta Ravella sits down with entrepreneur and business mentor Bianca B. King to explore the idea of Joyful Ambition—a framework Bianca developed after experiencing burnout and rethinking the way success is often defined. Together they discuss: Bianca's journey from commercial real estate to entrepreneurshipWhy did she stop pursuing inherited definitions of successThe Five A's of Joyful Ambition: Awareness, Alignment, Attraction, Action, and AbundanceThe difference between urgency and genuine ambitionWhy building a business should support your life—not replace itGratitude without guiltFinding peace during difficult seasonsCreating space for intentional action instead of constant motionBuilding businesses that don't require recovery from them The conversation also explores how Bianca navigated a major personal health crisis with her husband while continuing to lead multiple businesses, and how her Joyful Ambition framework became something she lived—not just something she taught. Connect with Bianca B. King Website: https://biancabking.com Learn more about her Joyful Ambition work, assessments, newsletter, and entrepreneur community through her website. JOIN THE COMMUNITY! 📩 Get weekly insights, resources, and early access to episodes: https://thejoyexperiment.live/#three CONNECT WITH US! Roberta’s Website: https://thejoyexperiment.live/#three https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertaravella/ https://www.tiktok.com/@robertagravella Pursuing Freedom Website: https://www.pursuingfreedom.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-bradley/ https://www.facebook.com/PursuingFreedomOfficial/ https://www.instagram.com/pursuingfreedomofficial 📖 Roberta’s Book: Open for Business: How To Build A Business You Love Without The Hustle And Grind Get your copy: https://www.amazon.in/Open-Business-Build-Without-Hustle-ebook/dp/B0G98TXZFP About the show: The Joy Experiment Podcast is where success and soul finally meet. Roberta Ravella blends heart and science to help women entrepreneurs discover how alignment becomes action, and how success becomes something you feel, not just something you chase.

    From Toxic Ambition to Joyful Ambition:  Build a Business You don’t Need to Recover From
  4. Jul 3

    Money, Intuition & Trusting Yourself Again | Best of The Joy Experiment

    What if the thing you keep trying to earn was never something you had to earn in the first place? In this Best of The Joy Experiment episode, Roberta brings together some of the most resonant conversations from Season 1 about money, worth, receiving, joy, ease, intuition, and learning to trust yourself again. You’ll hear from Ryann Gillen on the difference between earning money and creating money, Sarah Walton on learning how to receive, Danielle Francine on what changes when life and business stop being so hard, Jen Gomez on joy as a strategic advantage, Britt Lefkoe on what happens when possibility stays on the table, and Jessica Willis on why relaxing may be the strategy you’ve been avoiding. This episode is for the woman who has spent years over-performing, proving, pushing, or waiting for permission to want what she wants. Because maybe success was never supposed to cost you your joy. Worth was never something you had to earn. And maybe trusting yourself again is where everything starts to change. The Joy Experiment is where we explore creating success from alignment, self-trust, joy, ease, and flow instead of pressure, performance, and hustle. New episodes every Wednesday. Subscribe for more conversations on aligned success, nervous system safety, money, intuition, business, and the real inner work of creating a life that feels good from the inside out. Check out Ryann’s Business Therapy here … Starts July 7th https://livelifeuncensored.com/biztherapy JOIN THE COMMUNITY! 📩 Get weekly insights, resources and early access to episodes: https://thejoyexperiment.live/#three CONNECT WITH US! Roberta’s Website: https://thejoyexperiment.live/#three https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertaravella/ https://www.tiktok.com/@robertagravella https://www.youtube.com/@TheJoyExperimentLIVE 📖 Roberta’s Book: Open for Business: How To Build A Business You Love Without The Hustle And Grind Get your copy: https://www.amazon.in/Open-Business-Build-Without-Hustle-ebook/dp/B0G98TXZFP About the show: The Joy Experiment Podcast is where success and soul finally meet. Roberta Ravella blends heart and science to help women entrepreneurs discover how alignment becomes action, and how success becomes something you feel, not just something you chase.

    Money, Intuition & Trusting Yourself Again | Best of The Joy Experiment
  5. Jun 24

    Who You’ve Been Is Not Who You’re Becoming with Tracy Litt

    What if every version of you was necessary for who you are becoming now? In this episode of The Joy Experiment Podcast, Roberta Ravella sits down with Tracy Litt, founder of The School of Becoming, for a conversation about worthiness, identity, self-love, fear of failure, and the freedom that comes from taking radical responsibility without turning it into shame. This episode challenges the idea that you need to fix yourself before you can feel whole. Instead, Tracy shares how understanding every version of yourself, past and present, becomes essential to growth, and how unworthiness can hide inside humility, over-giving, shrinking, proving, and self-doubt. Key Takeaways: Why every version of you was necessary for who you are becomingHow your brain remains malleable throughout your life, allowing you to choose who you become nextHow to recognize the beliefs, labels, and worldviews you inherited but did not chooseWhy searching for worth in job titles, bank accounts, achievement, or status leads to burnoutHow worthiness changes your relationship with fear, failure, accountability, and self-respectWhy loving yourself changes what your children, relationships, work, and community receive from youHow radical personal responsibility becomes freedom when it comes from wholeness instead of shame About the Guest: Tracy Litt is a transformational speaker, bestselling author, TEDx speaker, and founder of The School of Becoming, where she helps high-achieving women and leaders unlock their next level through neuroscience, consciousness, and personal evolution. From overcoming significant personal challenges to building a multi-seven-figure company, she is recognized globally for her powerful approach to leadership, transformation, and human potential. JOIN THE COMMUNITY! 📩 Get weekly insights, resources and early access to episodes: https://thejoyexperiment.live/#three CONNECT WITH US! Roberta’s Website: https://thejoyexperiment.live/#three https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertaravella/ https://www.tiktok.com/@robertagravella https://www.youtube.com/@TheJoyExperimentLIVE Tracy’s Website: https://www.theschoolofbecoming.com/ Follow Tracy on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetracylitt/ Download The School of BecomingApp here: https://onelink.to/tsobapp The Choice Method: https://www.theschoolofbecoming.com/a/2148168821/gcQYQiSe 📖 Roberta’s Book: Open for Business: How To Build A Business You Love Without The Hustle And Grind Get your copy: https://www.amazon.in/Open-Business-Build-Without-Hustle-ebook/dp/B0G98TXZFP

  6. Jun 17

    Why Receiving Feels So Hard for Women with Sarah Walton

    Are you always giving, doing, and holding everything together while leaving yourself out of the equation? In this episode of The Joy Experiment Podcast, Roberta Ravella talks with business coach and wealth consciousness expert Sarah Walton about why receiving feels so hard for so many women. Sarah shares the moment she realized she knew how to organize, anticipate, give, and take care of everyone else but she did not know how to receive. Together, Roberta and Sarah explore people pleasing, hyper-independence, worthiness, emotional exhaustion, money, healing, and the small daily choices that help you begin letting in support, love, ease, and success. Because you cannot out-hustle a worthiness wound. Key Takeaways: Why so many successful women become experts at giving, managing, and shape-shifting while leaving their own needs out of the equation.How hyper-independence can become a survival response and why it may be blocking the support, love, and ease you actually want.Why receiving is a skill you can rebuild through small, everyday moments.How your Reticular Activating System helps you notice what is already available to receive.Why healing worthiness is not about fixing yourself but coming back to your own wholeness.How Sarah “keeps her agreement with the universe” by honoring the work she knows she is here to do. About the Guest: Sarah Walton is a business coach and transformational mentor, specializing in helping women reclaim their inner power through healing, self-love, and authentic receiving. Her journey from burnout to breakthrough demonstrates how inner work creates extraordinary results in all areas of life. JOIN THE COMMUNITY! 📩 Get weekly insights, resources and early access to episodes: https://thejoyexperiment.live/#three CONNECT WITH US! Roberta’s Website: https://thejoyexperiment.live/#three https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertaravella/ https://www.tiktok.com/@robertagravella https://www.youtube.com/@TheJoyExperimentLIVE Sarah’s Website: https://sarahwalton.com/ https://www.tiktok.com/@thesarahwalton https://www.instagram.com/thesarahwalton/ https://www.youtube.com/@TheSarahWalton 📖 Roberta’s Book: Open for Business: How To Build A Business You Love Without The Hustle And Grind Get your copy: https://www.amazon.in/Open-Business-Build-Without-Hustle-ebook/dp/B0G98TXZFP About the show: The Joy Experiment Podcast is where success and soul finally meet. Roberta Ravella blends heart and science to help women entrepreneurs discover how alignment becomes action, and how success becomes something you feel, not just something you chase.

    Why Receiving Feels So Hard for Women with Sarah Walton
  7. Jun 10

    Freedom Over Force: Creating Aligned Success with Erin Bradley

    What happens when you build the business, hit the goals, make the money and realize you’re not feeling the freedom you thought success would bring? In this episode of The Joy Experiment, Roberta Ravella reconnects with Erin Bradley, author and founder of Pursuing Freedom, for a conversation about creating freedom in business and life. Erin shares how she went from building a high-earning business that left her feeling tethered and depleted to using joy, ease, presence, and curiosity as the compass for what came next. Together, Roberta and Erin talk about slowing down, quieting the noise, trusting your inner guidance, and taking action from love, service, and contribution instead of pressure or attachment. This episode is for the woman who wants success that brings joy, peace, freedom, and the income she desires. Key Takeaways: Freedom is not only a future goal. It is a feeling you can begin practicing now.Your business can look successful and still feel misaligned.Slowing down helps you hear what pressure and urgency talk over.Joy, ease, and curiosity can become a compass for aligned action.Income becomes more connected to impact when your work comes from love and contribution. About the Guest: Erin Bradley is the founder of Pursuing Freedom, author of the book Pursuing Freedom, and host of the Pursuing Freedom podcast. She coaches entrepreneurs to build businesses rooted in joy, ease, and authentic alignment rather than grinding hustle. JOIN THE COMMUNITY! 📩 Get weekly insights, resources and early access to episodes: https://thejoyexperiment.live/#three CONNECT WITH US! Roberta’s Website: https://thejoyexperiment.live/#three https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertaravella/ https://www.tiktok.com/@robertagravella Pursuing Freedom Website: https://www.pursuingfreedom.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-bradley/ https://www.facebook.com/PursuingFreedomOfficial/ https://www.instagram.com/pursuingfreedomofficial 📖 Roberta’s Book: Open for Business: How To Build A Business You Love Without The Hustle And Grind Get your copy: https://www.amazon.in/Open-Business-Build-Without-Hustle-ebook/dp/B0G98TXZFP About the show: The Joy Experiment Podcast is where success and soul finally meet. Roberta Ravella blends heart and science to help women entrepreneurs discover how alignment becomes action, and how success becomes something you feel, not just something you chase.

    Freedom Over Force: Creating Aligned Success with Erin Bradley
  8. Jun 3

    How to Stop People-Pleasing and Build a Business Without Losing Yourself

    How do you build a business without losing yourself in it? In this episode of The Joy Experiment, Roberta Ravella talks with Remeny Armitage, founder of Brilliant and Human, about people-pleasing, honest feedback, client relationships, and leading from values you actually live. Remeny shares how one of the hardest losses of her life taught her the power of real listening, not fixing, not smoothing things over, but letting someone be honest, human, and heard. This conversation is about humanity, honesty, courage, boundaries, and building a business that feels sustainable for your energy, your values and your life. KEY TAKEAWAYS: People-pleasing in business can disconnect you from your values. If you are constantly saying yes, over-delivering, or adapting to what everyone else needs, your business may grow while you lose connection with yourself.Honest client feedback can feel scary, but it creates stronger business relationships. The truth your clients are afraid to say may be the exact information you need to improve, set better boundaries, and build more trust.A sustainable business is built from humanity, honesty, and courage, not just growth goals. Real success is not only about scaling, revenue, or strategy. It is about building a business that supports your energy, values, relationships, and life. About the guest: Remeny Armitage is the founder of Brilliant and Human, a consultancy that brings genuine humanity into the relationships between creative agencies and their clients. She is a truth-teller, a deep listener, and a living example of what it looks like to build a business that is founded on your values JOIN THE COMMUNITY! 📩 Get weekly insights, resources and early access to episodes: https://thejoyexperiment.live/#three CONNECT WITH US! Roberta’s Website: https://thejoyexperiment.live/#three LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertaravella/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@robertagravella Remeny’s Website: https://www.brilliantandhuman.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/remeny/?originalSubdomain=uk Twitter/X: https://x.com/remenyarmitage 📖 Grab Remeny's Agency Client Benchmark Repor: brilliantandhuman.com 📖 Roberta’s Book: Open for Business: How To Build A Business You Love Without The Hustle And Grind Get your copy: https://www.amazon.in/Open-Business-Build-Without-Hustle-ebook/dp/B0G98TXZFP About the show: The Joy Experiment Podcast is where success and soul finally meet. Roberta Ravella blends heart and science to help women entrepreneurs discover how alignment becomes action and how success becomes something you feel, not just something you chase.

    How to Stop People-Pleasing and Build a Business Without Losing Yourself

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The Joy Experiment is for women who are done forcing, performing, and pushing through life just to keep everything working. Because you've built the life. The business. The success. Maybe even the relationships you thought you wanted. But somewhere along the way, you disconnected from yourself. Here, we explore creating success from alignment, nervous system regulation and wholeness instead of pressure. Because joy, ease, and alignment aren't the cost of success. They're the foundation of it. New episodes every Wednesday