November 6, 2024

You Are Not Alone: Mindfulness, Therapy, and Crossfit with Joy Parrish, LPC of Girls Gone WOD

Group of travelers posing indoors beneath leafy trees, wearing Day of the Dead face paint and floral crowns, with casual clothing and smiling expressions during a cultural experience in Oaxaca.

Our Guest

Joy Parrish is the co-host of Girls Gone WOD Podcast.

She got into the world of podcasting to talk about her passion for crossfit and the crossfit community. She loves running, CrossFit, yoga, food, fashion, music, podcasts, and listening to audio books.

Joy is also a licensed professional mental health manager and has been a fitness instructor for 13 years.

Joy believes life is meant to be fun, happy, and joyful and we can hear her express just that in her episode today.

The Episode

Do you have compassion fatigue?

Are you looking to get past what’s holding you back and become the best version of yourself?

Are you a mindful scroller?

Joy and I talk about her journey creating a massively successful podcast. We also talk therapy, Crossfit, issues facing modern day society, and everything in between. I ask her questions about what it’s like to be a therapist and in this very casual conversation between friends, she drops some amazing pieces of advice on mindfulness and listening to yourself.

I do my best in this episode to understand competition and weight training from a female perspective and talk about the importance about having someone to talk to.

The Girls Gone WOD podcast is a great resource for people to understand they aren’t alone out there and as you can tell from this episode, it’s always a fun listen.

(P.S. Did you know Girls Gone WOD has a sold out trip to Iceland with Custom Experiences?!)

Topics Covered

How the Girls Gone WOD podcast got started
How podcasting helps you feel like you’re not alone
Where people can go to get some self care
Identifying compassion fatigue
Working out and gratitude practices
How focusing on a task like crossfit can bring you to the present moment
Competition from a woman's perspective
How to start feeling better about yourself when you’re having a bad day

Quotes from the Episode

“We try to be appropriately transparent”

“Everyone can benefit from coming in [to therapy] and unloading”

“I was hellbent on beating the boys”

“I think having fun is a little more my style these days”

“I want people to question and be critical of every single thing that they think about themselves”

“Do something for someone else today”

Resources

GirlsGoneWod Podcast

Girls Gone WOD sold out trip to Iceland

Juli Bauer of PaleOMG Live Different Podcast Episode 10

The Girls Gone WOD Podcast Costa Rica Episode

Talkspace Online Therapy

Listen in Now, and get your daily dose of self care!

You can get this episode directly to your iPhone on iTunes, your Android on Stitcher, or on Soundcloud.

AUTHORS

Matt Wilson

Matt Wilson is the co-founder and CEO of Under30Experiences, a group travel company for young adults, and the author of The Millennial Travel Guidebook: Escape More, Spend Less, & Make Travel a Priority in Your Life. He has spent over a decade designing, operating, and reviewing group trips around the world, with a focus on travel safety, logistics, and real-world risk assessment for young, solo, and first-time travelers. His experience includes extensive travel throughout Latin America and Europe, as well as hands-on work vetting destinations, local partners, accommodations, and transportation providers. Matt regularly evaluates destinations using practical criteria that go beyond crime statistics including infrastructure, medical access, transportation reliability, and group dynamics which informs the travel safety guides he writes and updates based on recent travel. He is a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and approaches travel the same way he approaches training: prepared, disciplined, and aware of risk without being ruled by fear. Matt remains actively involved in reviewing itineraries, assessing safety considerations, and creating destination guides for Under30Experiences, with the goal of helping travelers explore the world confidently, responsibly, and with intention.