The Joyful Rebel Podcast
“I don't know who I am anymore.” “I miss being happy.”
If either has crossed your mind — while you chauffeur your kids around town as they live their best lives, or stare at a color-coded calendar filled with everyone else's activities — you're in the right place.
You disappeared slowly: dimmed your own light so you'd fit, made yourself easy, said YES a few times too many — until one day you looked up, glanced at your life, and felt 93.8% unrecognizable.
Or a hard season did it in one blow — a divorce, a diagnosis, a house gone quiet, a body that aged you before you were ready.
Either way, you're standing face-to-face with a woman you don't recognize.
You got so good at being who everyone needs that you forgot who you are — highly visible to everyone else, and invisible to yourself.
That disappearing has a name: Good Girl Ghosting™.
It’s painful being left on read.
It's devastating realizing you’ve ghosted yourself.
Welcome to the community where that stops — and where the good woman who's lost herself finds her way back, by becoming a Joyful Rebel: a woman who refuses to live small, numb, or performative, who chooses joy as a form of courage and faith as a lived relationship, and who's done hiding her light to stay safe.
Rooted. Radiant. Unapologetically herself.
I'm Rachel Harris, The JOY Coach — a New York Times bestselling author and identity & reinvention coach for women in the thick of a life transition. I’m a Jesus-loving, wine-sipping, whimsy-chasing rebel. I hand you the why AND the how: real words, playful pinkie-toe steps, and joy-first tools — the Holy No, the Sacred Yes, Shadowlight, the Goldilocks No, and more — so you can unbecome who you built and reveal the woman you were created to be.
Pro-family, a little cheeky, faith woven through (real, never preachy), always joy-first — because joy isn't the reward at the end of the work. It's the way back.
No pretending. No pearl-clutching. No highlight reels.
Real talk? Choosing YOU lets your people know the real you, too. The legacy you want isn't someday, it's the way you live now. Together, let’s create a life you LOVE, so you can live a legacy of JOY.
Are you a Joyful Rebel? Take the free “Are You a Good Girl Ghost?” quiz: https://www.rachelharrisonline.com/ggg-quiz
The Joyful Rebel Podcast
Latest Episodes
Not Too Soft, Not Too Hard: The Goldilocks Line for Saying No (Holy No, part 2)
You already knew the answer was no. So why did it turn into a five-paragraph text with footnotes?In Part 2 of The Holy No, I hand you the actual words. Not the theory — the words. You’ll walk away with three tools you can use the very n...
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The Holy No, Pt 1: The Quiet Yes That's Erasing You
You say yes, then resent it for days. Meet the relief-then-resentment map that finds the honest thing you keep swallowing. (Holy No, Pt 1)You said yes before she'd even finished the sentence. And for three days, you've been quietly furio...
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Your Weirdness Is Your Magic: A Midlife Woman’s Guide to Writing Her Own Creed
You can recite everyone else's beliefs — their rules, their idea of a good woman. But your own? This week we go underneath the rules, down to the bedrock they've been standing on: your credo. What you actually believe.Because your quirks...
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Reclaim Your Joy: The Favorite Things List That Brings You Back in Midlife and Beyond
You can name everyone else's favorites — your kid's, your husband's, your bestfriend's. But when someone asks you? You go blank. This week we fix that.If you've been feeling lost in midlife — foggy about who you even ar...
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Who Told You That? — How to Catch the Silent Rules Running Your Life
In this episode, I get honest about the rules we’re all living by — the ones nobody ever said out loud, that we never agreed to, that somehow still run our whole lives.I take you into my closet (the skirt-and-makeup rule I obeyed for thi...
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