Joy Stories
For me Joy Ambition is about intentionally falling in love with your life. It’s creating your very own Love Story, the thread that weaves through everything you do.
And the energy that you infuse your life with.
I’ve been coaching for years and collecting ‘testimonials’ has always felt like a missing sock in the laundry, so I used my Joy Ambition tools to ask - how could I turn this into a joyful opportunity?
How could I make it simple and playful and fun?
Easy. By deciding to share just one Joy Story each day. And delighting in collecting and sharing the inspiration for you to get energised by!
So this space is dedicated to sharing the Joy Stories of my clients & community along with some notes on how they used the Joy Ambition method combined with their innate strengths and experiences to alchemise the failures along the way.
Where there are projects to share or humans to connect with, I’ll add their links and if you have questions or want to share your own story then use the button to email me and share!
Being a coach is about holding the vision for you, about seeing what you can do and keeping that energy even when you feel it’s too hard, because we can see you, 360 degrees and we’ve been in your shoes and we know, that like my yoga teacher who could see my feet were 1cm away from the ground and I thought they were half way up the wall, just how very close you are to being the person who creates everything and so much more than you could even imagine right now!
Emma x
Joy Story #3
Balancing an existing small business aligned with her values of regeneration and sustainability whilst wearing all the hats that entails, marketing, producing, customer service, finance whilst also exploring and developing other creative projects and making space for intrepid cycling trips
— Frances, UK🇬🇧 Life Atelier Member since 2023 - read her beautiful Substack right here ‘Snippets from my notebook - about running a cut flower garden in Cumbria, pressing flowers, calligraphy, veg growing and adventures in cycling.’
Emma’s Notes
Fear and our relationship to it is such a big piece in moving forward with our work, while we will never eradicate fear completely what we can do is recognise how our brain uses it as a tool to try to stop us from doing something new and then instead of stopping use various tools in our toolkit to work WITH the fear and keep exploring.
This joy story brought me so much joy because of how it shows the steps in coaching and the journey of our brain rewiring and learning new tools, instead of judgement which creates friction Frances uses curiosity to explore how she’s responding to the challenges that appear and decides what to do with them from a place of power and intention instead of fear and reactivity!
She’s using tools from pillar 1 - creating space, taking decisions and pillar 2 by updating her self-perception as someone whose voice is valuable and valued as well as pillar 3 - the fear and failure flow!
Joy Story #2
Balancing language learning with a PHD, busy job in a hospital, relationships, self-care and future business goals.
Like many of our Life Atelier members, the goal is creating harmony without compromising on ambition which means prioritising health and social time? Not optional. It’s the fuel
— Silvia, Spain 🇪🇸 Life Atelier Member Since 2025 & 1:1 Coaching Client
Emma’s Notes
One of the most popular tools in The Life Atelier is a short training called Ten Minute Tasks, and it’s a way to interrupt our brain’s existing programming which is very skilled at keeping us in procrastination until the magical day we have ‘enough’ time.
Which, if you’ve found that day? Let us know please 😆
Instead we start to train our brain to work in 10 minute bursts that energise and build our sense of achievement so that we create momentum and learn that fear does not need to slow us down, we build the skill of achieving our big goals by practising with the ‘small’ goals.
Joy Story #1
Work, relationships & a professional pivot
“I can see that the work I did with myself and my relationships meant that I was ready for this incredible job opportunity with these people who feel so aligned with my values and Emma your support and approach is for me and many other people a perfect mix, and I know that life can keep getting even better as I continue to do this work so I’m so happy to have you around me, living these concepts yourself and I know that anytime I want I can just go grab some content or be in touch with you and this will make the expansion and joy even deeper and this is so precious, thank you Emma.”
— Kasia, Poland 🇵🇱 Life Atelier Member Since 2022 & 1:1 Coaching Client
Emma’s Notes
Layered coaching in The Life Atelier and using the resources whether that’s coming to group calls, connecting with our WhatsApp group or just revisiting the concepts in The Joy Ambition Library mean that Kasia has really integrated coaching into her daily life, I love to think about coaching as like having a yoga or meditation practise, you’re never ‘done’ you just keep evolving and becoming more skilled and in this situation she has beautifully taken ownership of how she has created success in other areas of her life to move through the fear and paralysis that can come with that to make changing industries and finding a job that could align with all her values feel like an adventure, and generously sharing the journey with us along the way! I’m so proud of her!