Let's get real about overcoming fear, burnout, and anxiety through finding real joy.

And I'm joined today by an incredible guest, Amanda Gore.

Amanda is an Australian author, a USA Hall of Fame speaker, a business woman, and the CEO of The Joy Project.

She's won a ton of awards as an incredible keynote speaker, but her real passion is

eradicating the three core fears that she says everyone has so that they can live a more joyful life.

Hello Amanda, thank you so much for being on the Clutterbug

podcast. How are you?

I am very well and thank you very much, Kest, for having me. I'm thrilled to be here especially with the Canadian.

And you're obviously Australian. I love your accent so much. I introduced you but I would love you to tell the listeners just a little bit about yourself and

how you fell into this whole spreading joy. This is really what you do. You spread joy and you teach people to find

joy. That's the theory and it's really interesting, Cass, that you said fell

into because I literally fell into it well actually not falling over however.

I was a physical therapist. I had, I didn't even know you could be a speaker and I was doing a lot of training and teaching and someone

I had to call with a book. Someone asked me to speak at a conference and my memory of

the conference is that it was about 20 people but it must have been more because they had an MC.

And the MC was an American who was living in Australia, but a professional speaker.

And still to this day, the best speaker I've ever seen and he said to me

afterwards you should be a speaker and I said what's a speaker and like I have no clue didn't know you can make a career out of it. So he mentored me into the business and you know I started off because I was passionate about teaching people how to stay well.

And I was into wellness back in the days when people would say,

well, what's that?

Sounds like a wank to me.

I started off in wellness and stress because stress was

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