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Just Enough Joy
Just Enough Joy is a daily micro-podcast. Each short episode offers a gentle burst of inspiration from the Just Enough Joy Calendar (sarahnsays.com). Packed with expert insight, fresh perspective, and honesty, this show honors joy in all its forms: quiet, complex, ordinary, and sacred. Join host Sarahn Sankofa (founder of Sarahn Says) as she explores what it really means to study joy, pursue it, lose it, find it, and choose it — one day and one decision at a time.
Episodes
- Just Enough Joy
2.26 Listen Intently While Someone is Speaking to You
Listening is love and joy in action.
- Just Enough Joy
2.24 Be Kind to Yourself When You Make a Mistake
Talk to yourself like someone you love!
- Just Enough Joy
2.18 Name 3 Things Your Love About Your Personality
...love how you light up your corner of the universe!
- Just Enough Joy
2.17 Learn Something New About Someone You Love
Love and joy grow when we keep asking!
- Just Enough Joy
2.10 Identify 1 way you can be better to those you love
Progress, not perfection—in love and in joy.
- Just Enough Joy
2.9 Say NO with JOY!
Boundaries are joy in disguise. A joyful no makes room for a better yes.
- Just Enough Joy
2.6 Let Someone Help You Today
Help offered is love in motion. Help received is joy in motion.
- Just Enough Joy
2.5 Practice Acceptance...it is what it is!
Let ‘what is’ be enough—for today. Acceptance makes room for ease.
- Just Enough Joy
2.3 Do Something Selfless for a Stranger
Spreading and sharing joy doesn't need any introduction!
- Just Enough Joy
2.2 Do something small your future self will appreciate
A tiny yes today, for a bigger YES tomorrow!
- Just Enough Joy
2.1 Recite Positive Affirmations (Happy Black History Month!)
I am alive! I am healthy, wealthy and wise! Say it loud, I'm Black and I'm proud!
- Just Enough Joy
1.31 Name something you're grateful for at this exact moment!
Yes, like right now! As you're reading this! GO!
- Just Enough Joy
1.29 Make a List of 3 Ways You Can Stay Present
Make it plain, and work the plan! You can do it!
- Just Enough Joy
1.28 Accomplish a Goal You've Been Putting Off
Turn procrastination into purpose...today is the day!
- Just Enough Joy
1.27 Celebrate a Small Win in Your Day
So many moments worthy of celebrating! Just choose the one that gives you the most joy!
- Just Enough Joy
1.23 Enjoy a Meal with Zero Distractions
Nourishment tastes better when you're present.
- Just Enough Joy
1.20 Notice 5 things you can see, hear and feel around you
Joy begins with presence. Presence begins with noticing.
- Just Enough Joy
1.19 Give Time to Developing a Skill
We're celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by focuses our efforts on progression! Onward and upward!
- Just Enough Joy
1.18 Put Your Feet Up
Kick your shoes off, slow the pace, let ease and comfort take their place.
- Just Enough Joy
1.17 Do A Digital Detox for 3 Hours
Log off for a while—your nervous system will thank you.
- Just Enough Joy
1.16 Create a List of 5 Personal Strengths
Knowing your strengths makes joy easier to access. Let yourself be seen by you.
- Just Enough Joy
1.11 Read a Passage from a New Book
Even a single passage can spark delight—because joy often lives in beginnings.
- Just Enough Joy
1.10 Put Your Face to the Sky
Take it all the beauty around you! Feel the breeze on your pores!
- Just Enough Joy
1.9 Take 3 Deep Breaths Before Starting a Task
You owe it to yourself to choose joy and ease, even with a full plate!
- Just Enough Joy
1.7 List 3 ways you will celebrate yourself this year!
Will you be maximizing your PTO, taking that trip or starting that business? The world is at your fingertips!
- Just Enough Joy
1.6 Create a list of 5 things you are inviting into your life
Simplicity, Consistency, Courage, Rest, JOY!
- Just Enough Joy
1.3 Make A 2026 To-Do List
Write the vision, make it plain!...or colorful, dreamy and joyful!