Joy speaks with startup fairy Vinisha Rathod about strategies to building an online presence, developing timeless skills, balancing spirituality with commercial success and the importance of authenticity and meaningful connections. In this fun and impactful conversation we discover how to align ourselves for more traction and agency. How do we build trust in this ever expanding world of AI, set ourselves up to be empowered with tech and dissolve the challenges we face, in particular for women wh...
Jun 26, 2025•1 hr 19 min•Season 11Ep. 5
Joy speaks with award-winning communicator and journalist Briana Blackett. With her extensive global news experience, we explore how to tell a compelling story and authentically connect with people. We explore how to navigate misinformation and disinformation whilst telling our own impactful stories. Briana is currently Future Women’s Head of Content, was a founding member of AI Jazeera English in Qatar, worked for Associated Press Television News based in London, for Greenpeace International in...
Jun 04, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Season 11Ep. 5
Joy shares best practice of what and who we consume online and how to ferociously apply digital strategies to support ourselves and our kids. We can build authority, be more googleable, discoverable and sprinkle that digital confetti across the internet - to build our profiles and businesses for more opportunities and greater human connection. We explore the costs, methods, systems and strategies deployed on us and challenge the ways to do digital better. For the listener with a burning desire t...
May 27, 2025•33 min•Season 11Ep. 4
Joy shares about courage to amplify your story online and the creative steps to take to show up onstage and on a podcast. She talks about stage craft, X -factor and listening to Darren Hayes narrating his memoir Unloveable. Joy shares a personal story of working on one of his unforgettable shows at the Sydney Opera House and his pure artistry. Joy gives 3 practical actions to take away to move the needle on showing up online and developing your voice. It is not easy but with great intention and ...
Apr 24, 2025•23 min•Season 11Ep. 3
Joy speaks with funeral director, death doula, celebrant and end-of-life educator Bec Jackson, to explore death, grief, and end-of-life care. Joy and Bec discuss the importance of normalising conversations about death, the roles of death doulas, funeral directors, and the significance of rituals, personal choice, natural death and grieving. Conversations and knowledge is important to prepare you to move through the process of dying for yourself and your loved ones. It's one of life's milestones ...
Apr 05, 2025•55 min•Season 11Ep. 2
Joy & Dom share ideas to show up on camera for social media, build confidence, share advice on networking and stepping out of your comfort zone to maximise online presence. A "how to" on being more engaging and discoverable for greater opportunities. Dominique Anders is a former TV producer & director turned video marketing strategist & content creator. She has used her 20+ years in the entertainment industry to help clients create video content to market their businesses & conne...
Mar 07, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Season 11Ep. 1
Joy talks about discoveries she's made immersed in social media and digital tech for the last 6 years. What makes us unique to the millions out there on social platforms and what drives her to produce Nerds of Joy sharing thoughts, ideas and important voices. She explores the brevity of our lives, how we will be remembered and choosing action for good plus the ways social media has been designed to tame and shame us for engagement and that we are the unpaid digital workers whose data, creativity...
Dec 10, 2024•20 min•Season 10Ep. 4
Joy talks with Celeste Mergens, bestselling author, sought after speaker and Founder of Days for Girls, a global award-winning organisation that has reached over 3 million women and girls in 145 countries. We explore how big challenges can also be big opportunities, serendipity, purpose, quantum physics and the importance of menstrual equity. Let's explore - every girl - everywhere - period Let's - listen - invite - respond A wonderful listen that will leave you inspired to take action in your d...
Nov 17, 2024•51 min•Season 10Ep. 3
Navigating social media can be challenging for all humans and Joy shares her observations and reflections on what you could do to safeguard your time, energy and attention. Joy shares some best practice to save you and your kids from digital trouble. This is a great dive to find clues into the ways sly operators, influencers and grifters game humans for engagement. Joy shares how to notice if you are being manipulated and how to make your feed a healthy and happier scroll. Now go touch some gras...
Nov 05, 2024•28 min•Season 10Ep. 2
Joy reintroduces herself and gives insights on what it is to be a Podcast Producer and the key to becoming a successful guest. She uncovers the premise of Nerds of Joy and ways to stretch your ideas, use your voice to get your message out there and grow your business brand. Embedding ethical tech and wellbeing, rolling out all things digital to our kids and how to push back on the algorithm and maximise privacy are shared in this episode. Joy comes from an intersection between tech, creativity a...
Oct 06, 2024•25 min•Season 10Ep. 1
Claiming your creative worth takes a sure footedness that can only come from doing parts of it, bit by bit and a knowing that it will work out in the end. It is a modality, a training, a skill cultivated overtime that strengthens with great mentors and tutors. "Will they be able to sustain life as artists or will their inherent talent and dedication to craft be even acknowledged and remunerated when a machine can spit out similar pictures in a heartbeat. Will their songwriting be ever heard due ...
Aug 19, 2024•9 min•Season 9Ep. 13
I'm wondering how you are going on your entrepreneurial journey? How much "raw and organic" information can you handle or do you prefer to seek out mentors in your quest to discover more about entrepreneurship? Do you listen to podcasts recommended by your family or friends, do you have a tribe or are you going it alone? I've been part of the judging team for this year's Australian Podcast Awards and it has been an honour to filter the entrants. I'm so excited to see who’s out there in our local...
Aug 05, 2024•11 min•Season 9Ep. 14
Hey entrepreneurs. The first rule of the game is to surround yourself with the right people that have done the things you want to do. People that can mentor and encourage you on this wild journey of entrepreneurship. Every deviation or detour is a possibility for something new. Seize it, be open to the opportunities, or make your own. What might you do today to feel that joy of achievement, something hard won that brings you great success and satisfaction, that makes you proud and grateful for t...
Aug 04, 2024•12 min•Season 9Ep. 12
Why do we have so much fear showing up and feel compelled to hide behind avatars. On digital platforms, why do people desire to be a thought leader or speaker but have to use hype reels and highly edited video to deliver concise information, as they build an audience. How do we make it fun for the listener and include them? Can we show up as ourselves, as we strive to be business leaders, fake or real influencers - eager to hack the algorithm and claw for attention. Lay some digital easter eggs ...
Jul 21, 2024•13 min•Season 9Ep. 11
Joy talks about Attention & Focus. How to stretch out these essential ingredients to be more productive, guard your energy, time and common beliefs that keep us on a perpetual scroll. Learn how to choose better, discover specific techniques to expand your digital, listening and viewing repertoire for better outcomes. In today's hyper cycle of social media, AI discoveries and everyone broadcasting every tiny detail at maximum volume, how will you choose to spend your time and enact proven met...
Jun 26, 2024•38 min•Season 9Ep. 10
Joy collaborates with her bot Brian on this episode, to flesh out how to navigate AI and the even more complex developments being added into every aspect of our lives. If the data is right and we spent at least 4 hours on our smartphones everyday - what impact will it have on our creativity, wellbeing, jobs and relationships? in this episode we talk about getting out control back with social media and how to help your children online, including the difficulties of social media, the exploitative ...
Jun 13, 2024•19 min•Season 9Ep. 9
Joy speaks about the courage to put yourself out on social media as an authority or personal brand - exploring the vulnerability, authenticity, and immense power that comes with sharing your voice with the world. It's a quick bite episode, Joy bullet points the very best impact this has on our lives, businesses, opportunities and legacy. If you enjoy this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it with others who might need a little nudge of encouragement. Want more from Joy? Checko...
May 29, 2024•6 min•Season 9Ep. 8
Who you follow matters! Attention is everything in the digital landscape. How influencers connect with you can often be disingenuous and what do you seek to extract from your time on social media? Joy outsources to AI and speaks to the trickery of bots and strategies for engagement, how to curate your feed well, build confidence online and the latest trends on social media to get you seen. Joy talks about stepping up to a microphone to share your message and ideas with the world, plus a few case...
May 07, 2024•33 min•Season 9Ep. 7
Joy speaks with Phyllis Leavitt, psychotherapist of 30 years about the fracture in society, great trauma and suffering in the world that stops us from reaching our greatest desires. Phyllis provides answers and solutions to questions from an Aussie outsider. We talk about healing human relations, with a focus on America. We explore why greater understanding is critical to know what drives the devastating actions we see on the perpetual scroll of social media and how we can play our part to heal....
Apr 21, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 9Ep. 6
Joy speaks with Dr Ceri Cashell MD, about perimenopause and menopause. So many women have no idea about this stage of life until they are hit with a tsunami of symptoms. If you have found yourself with mystery illnesses and are sleuthing for solutions then this episode is a tonic of ideas and factual information about gold standard treatments to help you navigate better during this transition. For the husbands, mum, sisters, daughters, sons, partners and anyone that is supporting a women experie...
Apr 01, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Season 9Ep. 5
Joy chats with Ben Sorensen, quirky, eccentric and neurodiverse media personality about the why of chasing professional hosting, passion, creation and pro techniques of being on a microphone. We discover Ben's path to MCing huge events from vaudeville performance as a kid, to hosting a hit radio show interviewing major celebrities and how he navigates gigs, agents. sexism, monoculture and diversity. Ben shares how he hacks his brain to harness his autism diagnosis to create engaging content that...
Mar 21, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 9Ep. 4
Joy chats with Liz Simner to explore the mechanics of long term friendship. We think deep on how to sustain it, maintain it, speak of the positives and pitfalls of sisterhood and if you really can build true connection online with virtual friends. Their friendship was forged, before the internet was used by the masses and we explore how to thrive in the digital world, the qualities to keep and maintain nourishing relationships and ultimately what makes a friendship effortless. If you get sucked ...
Mar 07, 2024•1 hr 20 min•Season 9Ep. 3
Who you follow, shapes your world view, so it's critical we curate who we let into our feed. With the algorithm serving up the very worst, irrelevant, polarising and damaging content, how important is it for us to stage an intervention? Joy shares her last 6 years on the internet, her digital journey and the tough pills she has had to swallow to own and navigate better outcomes for success on the perpetual scroll. This is a concise episode to help you consolidate your privacy, who you follow, ho...
Feb 27, 2024•24 min•Season 9Ep. 2
Joy unpacks what Social Bloat is (a term she coined) and how to build social skills and your talent, to be more discoverable to your audience, potential clients and connections. In a world gone wild with AI, how can we authentically create and present ourselves as real life humans with experience, to forge greater opportunities? It's a skill to be developed, a craft and an opportunity to listen keenly and get up to speed on how to be seen on socials and make digital assets - when you don't want ...
Jan 28, 2024•20 min•Season 9Ep. 1
A quick bite taster for Season 9 featuring some of our favourite guests. If you are just stumbling across this podcast - Welcome - where have you been? Conversations with heart that help you navigate your entrepreneurship, creativity, development and ability to be seen and heard digitally. All essential skills to broker more and stand out from the crowd. Featuring good humans, excellent leaders and those with the EQ to share with a wider audience. In a world of niche - go wide!! Joy’s Instagram ...
Jan 25, 2024•54 sec•Season 9Ep. 1
Joy shares her strategy to social media and showing up online. Some practical magic to find your voice, amplify your position and the pits she's fallen down, to help you avoid the struggle and master your digital presence online. Now more than ever as the world wrestles with AI, cloning and privacy, how do you maintain wellbeing and navigate socials your way to be discovered? Build you personal brand online in ways that add to your success and create more opportunities. It's a fine art, a delica...
Dec 31, 2023•32 min•Season 8Ep. 8
Joy speaks with Shawn Smith, about chronic disease, his double lung transplants, setting goals with complex health planning and how to stay optimistic. If health is our wealth then a focussed conversation like this will help you navigate your life challenges with determination and advocacy. Shawn's pulmonary issues started in 1985 when he was 15 years old, was diagnosed with acute respiratory distress syndrome, and spent six months at Children’s Hospital in Seattle where he suffered a stroke and...
Dec 19, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 8Ep. 7
Joy and Dot Hennessy OAM, drill down into the idea of Community. What it is, how to build it and the benefits of service. We discover how to be less isolated in this teched up perpetual scroll, to become part of a community, explore the idea of giving and the recognition that comes through awards. Dot believes in "service above self" and encourages us to have your say, have a go and gives listeners specific action steps to take - wherever you are listening around the world. "It's not about money...
Nov 21, 2023•58 min•Season 8Ep. 6
"Curate your life" is something Joy has said since Day One of podcasting. Your camera roll on your smartphone holds the real life data of your everyday world. Look within the scroll. Can we use the internet to be more discoverable for opportunity and success and how exactly do we do this? How do we create works online and apply curation to our lives in a broader way. Joy debriefs attending the inaugral SXSW Sydney, the realness of festival fatigue, meeting new people, putting yourself out there ...
Nov 01, 2023•18 min•Season 8Ep. 5
Joy talks about the Cannibalisation of Creativity and how we can authentically create. Copy catting and template strategy can gain you attention, but is not a true or authentic source of innovation. So how many new and seasoned creators feel unworthy or like imposters as they attempt to authentically create - Stand firm, you are flexing your creative muscle for rich and generous creations. How might you lay your digital easter eggs out on the internet to be discovered? I hope you see what others...
Oct 02, 2023•15 min•Season 8Ep. 4
