Joy First Audit: with Ai
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The Origins of the Joy First Audit
I officially became a business owner in 2005 at the ripe old age of 23… after a sequence of odd jobs through high school and college, and ‘side hustles’ ranging from babysitting to selling branded bath products, to shooting modelling portfolios for my friends. I jumped in bigtime and built two businesses side-by-side and before I was 30 I achieved most of the goals I’d set for myself, but also burned out twice.
The body of work that has become ‘Joy First’ has been 20 years in the making.
These lessons in ‘how not to do entrepreneurship’ are what sparked my obsession with positive psychology, ‘freedom and fulfilment’ and eventually, joy. From a young age I was plagued by the question: how can we have it all?
The tangible successes AND the laid back lifestyle?
It took me over a decade to find answers for myself (which, as you’ll know if you’re a frequent visitor here - is an ongoing rollercoaster). I’ve spent another decade sharing what I’ve learned along the way with other busy, hard working, high-achieving women, and watching what seems to be true for them.
The Happiness Quiz
Since 2015 the first step in my 'process’ of supporting these women with ‘anti-hustle’ brand-building, business and marketing has been a ‘happiness quiz'.
How can we know what we’ve achieved if we don’t draw a start line where we are now?
Once we starting transforming, it’s actually really amazing to me how quickly we forget just how bad it was, how impossible it felt, or how hopeless we feared things were back at the start.
So we take a pulse. We establish a baseline.
We take our temperature so we have something to compare to (I suggested my clients and students do this once a year, usually in December as a reflective ritual).
The Joy First Audit
As I wrote the Joy First book I revised this ‘happiness’ quiz I’ve used for years to share this practice more broadly. Thanks to the glories of ai, I have now also been able to turn this audit into a truly immersive experience and growth companion that you can return to as you navigate your Joy First journey, instead of just a simple tick-box exercise.
All of our paid subscribers get access to this delicious Audit co-pilot (simply click and it opens up inside your ChatGPT) to help you not only take the audit, but get some clear and actionable first and next steps to tangibly improve your score, your impact, and how it feels to be you.
Free subscribers get the simple analog version (same questions, you’ll just have to do your own math 😂)
WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE AUDIT?
Start here: Listen to this free Joy First podcast episode about the Joy First audit. I share my score and take you behind the scenes of how I’m walking my talk (very, very imperfectly…)