House of Joy- Christian Life Coaching

We're kicking off a whole series on the art of enchantment today, and I'm starting with the word itself. It comes from Latin, and at its root, it actually means to sing. That's exactly what I want to be: a woman who still hears the song, who notices the change in the September air, who gets a little obsessed with baby cheeks and poetry and the yarn in her hands.

This has been such a hard year for us. And I've learned something true in the middle of it: you can be devastated and still enchanted with your life at the same time. That's not denial. That's emotional wealth.

So today, ten things enchanting me right now:

My brand new kitchen journal — recipes, handwritten notes, and tiny printed photos of the grandbabies eating whatever I just made

My current knitting obsession, a squishy red sweater called the Lakes Jacket by Ozetta

Tom's middle school football games, knitting in the stands and hunting down his number for video

A new diffuser blend I'm creating, appropriately called Enchanted

Reading poetry again — Wendell Berry and Mary Oliver, after Wendell Berry's passing last week

Baby cheeks. All six grandbabies' baby cheeks. No further explanation needed

The first whisper of fall in the air

Being a total beginner at English horseback riding, and loving what that humility teaches me

Something brand new I'm creating for the program that I can't fully reveal yet, but that feels like a dream come true

My actual, ordinary, everyday life — my porch, my kitchen light in the morning, watching Stevie get stronger

If you want to keep being enchanted with me this month, I'm doing Enchantment Diaries on Instagram, documenting all of it in real time. And if this resonates, I'd love for you to join us for our upcoming workshop, The Art of Enchantment: How to Make the Last 90 Days of the Year Matter, September 23–25 at noon Eastern.

Links Mentioned:

Register for The Art of Enchantment workshop (September 23–25): https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/enchantment

Subscribe to the House of Joy Substack: https://ediewadsworth.substack.com/

Follow along with Enchantment Diaries on Instagram: @ediewadsworth

The Lakes Jacket pattern by Ozetta: https://www.ozettaknitwear.com/patterns/p/lakes-jacket

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Today's episode is a masterclass I taught live, and I recorded it the day after we lost Dolly Parton. If you hear extra emotion in my voice, that's why. She was the queen of my heart, and it turns out her whole life was the perfect example of everything I wanted to teach that day.

Dolly took the raw materials she was born with — poverty, a huge family, a mountain nobody thought much of — and turned them into the most gorgeous, generous life anybody's ever lived. And I think most of us are waiting for better materials before we start creating ours.

Here's what we get into:

Why so many of us are waiting for different circumstances — more money, a different body, a more supportive spouse — before we let ourselves start creating a beautiful life

The shift from a life of consumption to a life of creation, and the one powerful question that makes that shift: what can I make from this?

Why even the hardest color you've ever been handed (for me, this year, that was cancer) can become raw material for something beautiful

The seven skills I believe every woman needs to build a genuine masterpiece of her life — including how to create possibility in your mind, how to build emotional wealth, how to stay with yourself in the messy middle, and how to live enchanted right now instead of waiting for someday

Why good intentions were never going to be enough for Dolly, or for you — these are skills you learn and practice, not just things some women are naturally born with

You don't have to know what the whole blanket is going to look like before you learn how to knit. You just have to be willing to learn the skills.

Links Mentioned:

If you're catching this in the first day or two it's out: we're doing a 72-hour flash opening of Life Mentoring School — join here: https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/join

The Alpenglow Blanket pattern mentioned in this episode (Purl Soho): https://www.purlsoho.com/create/2024/08/22/alpenglow-blanket/

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Today's episode is a little different. We're sharing a coach panel recorded during our Next Level Life Summit, where several of our House of Joy certified coaches got completely honest about what it actually looked like to say yes to certification.

You'll meet Angela, Michelle, Becky, Susan, Shannon, and Jamie — a teacher, a hairstylist and salon owner, a homeschool mom, an author and podcaster, and more. Every one of them said yes in a season that looked nothing like the "right time."

Here's what we get into:

The real fears almost every one of them named before signing up — money, timing, whether their husband would be on board

The seasons of life they were actually walking through when they said yes — cancer and remission, empty nesting, the loss of a child, menopause, financial strain

Why this was never really about becoming a coach — it's about becoming the woman your next season is asking you to become

The "go first" principle, and why you can't hand someone a tool you haven't used on yourself

Specific transformation stories — Angela's relationship with her teenage son, Michelle learning to actually feel her emotions instead of just thinking about them, Susan's breakthrough with true self vs. false self, and Shannon's healing in her marriage after the loss of her son Ethan

Why so many of them now see the investment differently — not as an expense, but as something that keeps paying them back

What makes this community different from anything else they've been part of

What they're each doing with their certification now — one-on-one coaching, group programs, a paid counseling role at a church, books, blogs, even a podcast

If you've ever wondered whether it's too late, too expensive, or too much to invest in yourself, I think this conversation is going to be such an encouragement to you.

Links Mentioned:

Learn more about House of Joy Life Coach Certification: https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/certification

Learn more about our Next Level Life Summit: https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/life

Subscribe to the House of Joy Substack: https://ediewadsworth.substack.com/

Meet the Panelists:

Angela Box —

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/daring2reconnect

Instagram: @coachangelabox

Michelle Diercks —

Coaching: https://michellediercks.com/coaching

Substack: https://michellediercks.substack.com/

Becky Cincebox —

Website: https://www.beckycinceboxlifecoach.com/

Instagram: @BeckyCinceboxLifeCoach

Email: Bcincebox7@gmail.com

Shannon Wallace —

Rooted and Rising: https://rootedandrising.shannonwallacelifecoaching.com/rooted-and-rising

Website (Ashes to Beauty): https://www.shannonwallacelifecoaching.com/

Email: hello@shannonwallacelifecoaching.com

Susan (A Vintage Farmwife) —

Instagram: https://instagram.com/avintagefarmwife

Website: http://avintagefarmwife.com/

Clean Heart Club Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1C6gMG4yVb/

Clean Heart Club Podcast: Apple (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/clean-heart-club/id1734446957)

Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/36PrAkJ37EK6shGSRaNHBz?si=bc051ec809754ba5)

Book: Hello, You! Being Yourself in a World That Wants You to Be Everyone Else: https://amzn.to/4scY9cC

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We just came back from a weekend that didn't look impressive on paper. No trip, no big event. Just a porch, a sleeping baby upstairs, and Stevie back up on the wake surf board for the first time since his surgery, already trying a 360 within 45 seconds of getting up.

And sitting there, I kept thinking: this is the life.

This year handed us something we never would have ordered. But I've learned so much these last few months about what it means to stop waiting for the hard part to be over before you let yourself actually live. Here's what this season taught me:

Stop waiting for certainty to feel alive — uncertainty and a full, beautiful life are allowed to coexist

Stop letting the hardest thing become the whole thing — ask yourself, what else is here besides this?

Stop waiting for your life to calm down before you let it be good — hard and beautiful get to be the same season

Stop confusing your circumstances with your emotional power — your circumstances are the raw material, not the boss

Stop preparing for your life and start becoming the woman who can actually live it

Life gives you the raw material. You get to write the story. So decide today that you're going to stop postponing yours.

Links Mentioned:

Join Friday's training where I share the full story behind this season: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87553040644

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Today I'm sharing a conversation that stayed with me long after we hit stop recording.

Skye Lamont has been in Life Mentoring School for under a year, and before that she'd already been a certified life coach since 2002. She's also a fantasy novelist with seven completed books, and for years she believed she could only really pursue one calling at a time — the writer or the coach, never both. This conversation is about what happened when she stopped believing that.

Here they are:

How the creation cycle helped Skye uncover a decades-old, sneaky thought quietly running underneath her marriage — the belief that she'd picked the wrong husband

Why so many women, especially in midlife, live from an "either/or" belief about their gifts — and what changed when Skye started practicing "and" instead

The real story behind why she stayed off social media for eight years, and what it took for her to finally start a YouTube channel

Why the biggest surprise of coach certification wasn't learning to coach other people — it was learning to "go first" and do the work on herself

What made this community different from every other coaching certification she's done, and why she says you don't get the full benefit of the work without it

Her encouragement for any woman who feels made for more but hasn't taken the leap yet

"I said yes to becoming a coach and getting certified. But what I really said yes to was myself."

Links Mentioned:

• YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SkyeLamontCreative

• Website: https://skyelamont.com

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skyelamont

Learn more about our Next Level Life Summit: https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/life

Learn more about Life Mentoring School and coach certification: https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/

https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/certificationwaitlist

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