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
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