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Welcome to the Joyful Mate® Podcast!Embark on a transformative journey with your Joyful Journey Mentor™, Anthony Hartcher, as he guides you to uncover inner joy and fulfillment. This podcast is not just about listening—it's about the creation of a book on Happiness.
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Connection in a Disconnected World (opens the original)
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Feeling disconnected? In this episode, Anthony explores how unexpected life changes—like getting a new puppy—reveal deeper connections we've been missing. You'll discover why surface-level conversations are actually the beginning of meaningful relationships, how letting go of old habits creates space for growth, and why shifting your perspective transforms tedium into fulfillment. A gentle invitation to see connection differently and find more joy in your everyday life.
Your Career Is the Launch Pad to Your Life | Lata Hamilton on Following Your Heart When You're Stuck in Your Head (opens the original)
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Five career changes before 35. A pattern inherited from her father. A moment where she realized she was living someone else's version of success. In this conversation, Lata Hamilton shares how she broke free from the comparison trap and learned to lead from her heart instead of her head—and how you can too. We talk about: Why analysis paralysis keeps us stuck (and how to get unstuck) The heart-brain alignment that leaders and career-changers desperately need Breaking inherited patterns of what "
Successful on the Outside, Running on Empty: Burnout in High Performers with Poornima Peri (opens the original)
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If you're the one everyone relies on, this one's for you. Poornima Peri knows what it's like to look like you've got it all together while running on empty. In her late 20s she was working full-time, raising two young children and pushing for the next step up, doing for her manager, her colleagues, her family, her newborn, everyone except herself. By 30 she had hormonal imbalances, significant weight gain, hypothyroidism and autoimmune conditions. Then her mum, who did everything "right", was di
R U OK? Day 2026: How to Ask — and Actually Listen (opens the original)
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"Are you okay?" "Yeah, I'm fine." If that exchange sounds familiar, this episode is for you. R U OK? Day falls on Thursday 10 September 2026, and asking the question is only half of it. Most people say they're fine because they don't feel safe, they're worried about being judged, or they don't want to be a burden. Whether they open up depends far more on the state you're in than on the words you use. In this solo episode, Anthony Hartcher — clinical nutritionist and lifestyle medicine specialist
Why That Person Annoys You So Much: The Shadow Work Nobody Talks About (opens the original)
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Ever notice how one particular person's behavior gets under your skin way more than it should? In this episode of the Joyful Mate Podcast, Anthony Hartcher breaks down why that intense, disproportionate annoyance is almost never actually about the other person. Anthony explains the real mechanism at work: mirror neurons (first discovered in monkeys in the 1990s) that fire when we observe someone else's behavior, and Carl Jung's theory of projection, which shows how the traits that irritate us mo
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