Y'all, this one is going to hit different. 💜

Pam sits down with Joy Lelusche, a mom of three in Tennessee who left the 9-to-5 grind in 2023 to build her own business around something she is UNAPOLOGETICALLY obsessed with: water. Not just any water — better hydration, healing, and helping people build genuinely healthier lives. She jokes her gravestone should say "the crazy water lady," and honestly? We believe her.

But this conversation goes so much deeper than water. Joy and Pam get real about believing in yourself when no one around you understands what you're building, letting go of the "what ifs," forgiving yourself for not being perfect, and figuring out what it actually means to leave a legacy for your kids to watch.

In this episode, we cover:

• (00:15) Meet Joy — from "Joy Gassman" to "Joy Lelusche," creator of Better Hydration
• (00:53) Life as a mom of three in Tennessee, running her own water business, and why she plans to talk about hydration until she dies (literally, it's going on the gravestone)
• (02:03) Who Joy is becoming right now — and the real reason she left her 9-to-5 (hint: it wasn't really about the job)
• (03:22) What she's proud of that nobody sees — believing in herself when everyone around her said online business "isn't real"
• (08:36) The thing she used to be embarrassed about as a woman — and why she stopped letting other people's opinions run her life
• (12:13) What she had to forgive herself for — comparison, the "what ifs," and giving up the pressure to be perfect
• (16:42) Are you the planner friend or the "if you're on time, you're late" friend? A lighter friendship detour
• (19:29) Her green light for new friendships (it's simpler than you think)
• (21:44) What legacy means to Joy — and why her kids watching her build something matters more than anything
• (24:12) What "better water" actually is, and why she's so passionate about helping people get healthier
• (25:55) How to connect with Joy and learn more about what she does
  

A few of our favorite moments:

"If you don't fail forward, you can't go forward at all."

"The biggest investment is in yourself."

"Comparing yourself to others is the biggest thief of joy."

Connect with Joy:

• Instagram: @anchorsuccess
• Facebook: Joybell0322
  

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Ever feel like you're the only one who didn't get the memo on how life was "supposed" to go? 👀

This week Pam & Hannah are getting real (and a little unscripted) about feeling left behind: that gut-punch comparison spiral when you look around and feel like you're not where you "should" be by now.

We're talking about the timeline nobody asked for but everybody got handed, good grades, good college, good job, good man, marriage, house, babies, in that order, by a certain age, and what happens when your actual life doesn't follow the script. Pam opens up about her non-traditional path (GED to military to college at 24, building a business outside her degree field), her current house-hunting heartbreak, and choosing her marriage over her "forever home." Hannah gets honest about her health goals, her financial timeline, and the starter home she's lived in for over a decade waiting on a "someday" that keeps moving.

We dig into:

🩷 Why the timeline was never really ours to begin with

💙 How social media highlight reels warp our sense of "on track"

💜 The difference between letting go of a goal vs. letting go of the deadline

✨ Why your priorities shifting isn't the same as falling behind

🔥 Building your own "tribe," even a long-distance one, so you have somewhere to say "this sucks, help me work through it"

This one's shorter and a little less planned than usual, because honestly, it needed to be said out loud.

Reflection question: What's one thing you thought you "should" have done by now that you're ready to let go of? Drop it in the comments, we'll go first. 👇

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Have you ever felt like you were missing something but couldn't quite name it? In this episode, we sit down with Lynda Leonce, authenticity and parenting coach, to talk about the difference between the "mind-made self" (the version of us built on fear, obligation, and people-pleasing) and the real self underneath it all.

Lynda shares her own journey from a stable tech career into coaching, the moment she chose honesty over comfort even without knowing the outcome, and the flashlight analogy that changed how she sees focus and attention. We talk about how this shows up in relationships, parenting, and those everyday moments when we feel small or stuck, and why the shift always starts with turning the light back on ourselves.

It's only when we fully allow ourselves to put and keep the focus on ourselves that things start to shift for the better. 💜

About Lynda:
Lynda Leonce is an authenticity and parenting coach. Have you ever felt like you were missing something but couldn't figure out what? In her work, Lynda guides women in connecting to the part of themselves they've longed for all their life.

Grab Lynda's free resource: Five Tips for Inner Alignment
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🎥 YouTube: youtube.com/@LiveFromYourTruth
📘 Facebook: facebook.com/livefromyourtruth
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💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lynda-leonce
✉️ Email: lynda@livefromyourtruth.com

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