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JOY Unfiltered: Joy is the strategy
Joy Unfiltered is the podcast where joy gets real, grounded, and useful.
Hosted by Rachel Bents, author of Joy Is the Strategy, this show explores joy not as a reward you earn, but as a practical strategy for living, leading, and feeling better in real life.
Each week, you’ll hear honest conversations, solo reflections, and guest episodes that unpack how joy impacts leadership, wellbeing, resilience, mindset, and connection without bypassing hard things or pretending life is perfect.
This podcast is also the heartbeat of two growing movements:
📘 Joy Is the Strategy (the book)
A deeper exploration of how joy works, why it matters, and how choosing it can change your life and leadership.
✨ The Joy Project
A global, joy-first community built on connection, conversation, and collective momentum.
If you’re tired of hustle culture, burned out on forced positivity, or curious what changes when joy becomes the way forward, you’re in the right place.
Joy isn’t the reward.
It’s the strategy.
JOY Unfiltered: Joy is the strategy
Coming Home to Your Body: Nervous System Healing & the Courage to Feel
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In this powerful and honest conversation, I sit down with Jennifer J. Grove, Nervous System Whisperer and Venting Coach, to talk about what it really means to stop performing “fine” and start feeling safe again.
Jennifer works with high-functioning, emotionally exhausted women who look like they have it all together… but feel anything but. Through breathwork, EFT tapping, somatic tools, and real emotional release, she helps women soften, regulate their nervous systems, and come back to themselves.
Together, we explore:
- Why so many high-achieving women live in chronic stress mode
- What nervous system dysregulation actually feels like
- The difference between coping and healing
- How breathwork and EFT tapping help the body release stored emotion
- Why venting in a safe space is not weakness but medicine
- The connection between emotional safety and sustainable joy
Jennifer shares practical tools listeners can begin using immediately, along with compassionate insight into why pushing harder is rarely the answer.
If you’ve been holding it together for everyone else, this episode is your invitation to exhale.
About Jennifer
Jennifer J. Grove is a Nervous System Whisperer and Venting Coach who helps high-functioning, emotionally exhausted women soften, release stress, and return to themselves. Through breathwork, EFT tapping, somatic practices, and honest emotional release, she creates spaces where women stop performing “fine” and start feeling safe in their bodies again.
She is also the host of the podcast Gettin’ in the Grove, where she shares real-life nervous system support, self-care that truly heals, and the courage to feel what’s been buried.
Connect with Jennifer:
JGroveWellness
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Listen to Gettin’ in the Grove
Connect with Rachel:
Book: Joy Is THE Strategy
The JOY Project
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