The Elma Joy Podcast: Recent Episodes
Elma Joy Trinidad
I’m Elma Joy, a girl living in San Diego, CA and this podcast is my project for #The100dayproject. I’ll be sharing a daily inspirational quote along with my musings about anything from current events, life, updates, and more. Follow along as I learn and grow as a podcaster and person one day at a time.
“look, tomorrow you will wake up and feel a bit better, a bit calmer. you are going to figure things out eventually, it dosnt have to all be done tonight. take a deep breath, relax your shoulders, and get some rest. you will manage.” - Lovely Suggestions
“kinda cool to think how someone somewhere is having the best day of their life today. someone's hearing "i love you" for the first time today. someone's gonna meet the love of their life today. someone's gonna get the job of their dreams today. it's someone's best day today. and guess what? tomorrow it could be ur best day so keep going” - B Lyn
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points and heartbreaks only make sense as we look back, rather than as we are experiencing them. So we might as well live life as if – as the poet Rumi put it – everything is rigged in our favor.”— Arianna Huffington
“Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.” - Arianna Huffington
“Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.” - Amelia Earhart
“Don’t worry about failure. Worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Sherman Finesilver
“When you want something, the whole universe conspires to make it happen.” - Paulo Coelho
“I am always doing what I cannot do yet. In order to learn how to do it.” – Vincent Van Gogh
“It is not important to be better than someone else, but to be better than you were yesterday.” ― Jigoro Kano
Today is a special edition of “Hey Friends!” featuring my friend since elementary school Ben! We talk about our memories over decades (!!!) of friendship and our shared love for food and music. I hope listening to these conversations inspires you to connect with a new or old friend!
“This is your nightly reminder to do something that makes you happy tonight...You are doing so great.”
“True happiness comes not when we get rid of all of our problems, but when we change our relationship to them, when we see our problems as a potential source of awakening opportunities to practice, and to learn” - Richard Carlson
December 2, 2020 - Happy December friends! Today I reflect on time and encourage you to take care & ask yourself what is in front of me right now?
“Friendly reminder that you don’t have to wait until the weekend to live and enjoy your life.” - Espresso Fleur
“The quieter you become the more you can hear.” - Unknown
Today is the last day of September 2020 & the “fiscal” or work year. Reflecting on getting quiet and what we can learn if we go inward.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Soon is not as good as now.” - Seth Godin
I am back & determined to finish these 100 podcasts. Today I’m talking about perfectionism, absolutes, & sentimentality.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“We don’t get to choose what happens to us but we can choose how we feel about it. And why on earth would you choose to feel anything but good?” - Ryan Holiday
Today, I look back on my weekend and how I am reminding myself that while it is good to have plans, it is also helpful to let go and surrender the outcome.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Rest and be kind. You don’t have to prove anything.” - Jack Kerouac
Today, I reflect on how I’m feeling and the projects I’ve been working on.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do.” - Frida Kahlo
Today, I discuss perspectives and compassion for all (no exceptions!).
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Joy is what happens to us when we allow her self to recognize how good things really are.” - Marianne Williamson
Today, I talk about how we can change the world and our reaction to it through a change in perspective.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift – there’s nothing small about it.” - Florence Nightingale
Today, I talk about how we can change the world and our reaction to it through a change in perspective.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“It’s okay to leave a little room for living." - Martina Martian
Today, I reflect on forgiveness and finding peace in simply being.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it.” - Salvador Dali
Today, I get back to podcasting after overcoming feelings of perfectionism and I’m glad I did!
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Take a deep breath and focus on what’s really important.” — Wayne Dyer
Today, I flip through my planner again and share my most memorable moments and lessons learned in the first half of 2020.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“It isn’t the big pleasures that count the most; it’s making a big deal out of the little ones.” — Jean Webster
Today, I flip through my planner and reflect on the good things that happened in June 2020.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“This must be the place.” - The Talking Heads
Today, I talk about my hometown and encourage you to check out my episode about San Diego on my friend’s podcast “Calbinyo”.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Nothing of consequence gets done without courage." - Malcolm Gladwell
Today, I recap and reflect on my weekend.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” ― Jack Canfield Today, I talk about one of my June habits and choosing faith over fear.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real.” - Unknown
Today, I reflect on what fosters connection and encourage you to be authentically yourself.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Home is the nicest word there is. - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Today I talk my hometown San Diego to commemorate 6/19 or San Diego Day!
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“I hope there are days when your coffee tastes like magic, your playlist makes you dance, strangers make you smile, and the night sky touches your soul. I hope there are days when you fall in love with being alive.” - Brooke Hampton
Today, I have my best friend Jonard joins me on my “Hey friends!” segment & I encourage you to have similar conversations with your friends too! :)
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“I am proud of you for taking that step. Even if you think it’s a small step, to me it’s a huge leap.” - Angel Espiritu
Today is another episode of my new segment, “Hey Friends!” where I interview my new, old, and best friends. Me & my friend Calvin from the United Kingdom discuss creativity, adventures, & more.
I encourage you to have heartfelt conversations like these with the important people in your life!
“Be as you wish to seem.” - Socrates
Today, I share a few of my current favorite mantras: “It’s easy.”, “Why not now?”, & “Let it go”.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“That is to give light must endure burning.” - Victor Frankl
Today I talk about self care using the GRAPES acronym & my take on the trade off between burning/working hard & giving light/being a source of positivity.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“There’s a crack in everything that’s how the light gets in.” - Leonard Cohen.
Today I talk about cracking my phone, the Japanese concept of wabi sabi, & embracing life as it is, perfectly imperfect.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” - Vincent Van Gogh
Today, I celebrate with gratitude and reflect on reaching 50 episodes and 1,000+ plays of this podcast! Thank you for being a part of this journey friends!
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present... gratefully.” Maya Angelou
Today, I reflect on being present & the power of the now.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“It's the small habits. How you spend your mornings. How you talk to yourself. What you read. What you watch. Who you share your energy with. Who has access to you. That will change your life.” – Unknown
Today, my cousin Ellexis joins my podcast segment "Hey Friends" and we talk about family memories, the journey of finding your passion, & more!
I encourage you to have heartfelt conversations with important people in your life today.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.” - Marcus Aurelius
Today, I recap my weekend & reflect on the quote of the day.
“All is well. Everything is working out for my highest good. Out of this situation only good will come. I am safe.” - Louise Hay
Today is a very special episode of my new segment, “Hey Friends!” where I interview my bestie Fiona who is celebrating her birthday today! We reflect on our friendship that spans from sixth grade to now.
I encourage you to have heartfelt conversations like these with the important people in your life!
“When you notice your mental health declining, do one small thing that brings you peace. Take a shower, text a loved one, step outside. One little step is all you need to remind yourself that this is not permanent.” - Unknown
Today is another episode of my new segment, “Hey Friends!” where I interview my new, old, and best friends. This episode my friend Angel calls in from London discuss adventures, food, and our love for “The Greatest Showman”.
I encourage you to have heartfelt conversations like these with the important people in your life!
“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have” – Seneca
Today, I explain my new segment & check in.
I encourage you to have heartfelt conversations with important people in your life today.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Time spent with cats is never wasted.” – Sigmund Freud
Today, my best friend from college up to now, Ace is a guest on my segment "Hey Friends" and we talk about cats, going & still going through awkward periods of life, and friendship forever.
I encourage you to have heartfelt conversations with important people in your life today.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“But you know, happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” ― Albus Dumbledore
Today, I introduce one of my best friends Raina on my new segment “Hi Friends!” and encourage you to have heartfelt conversations with important people in your life today.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“More than cleverness we need gentleness and kindness.” - Charlie Chaplin
Today I recap my Friday talking about blue mind, Weathering with You, & a call for justice & kindness.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.” - Abraham Lincoln
Today is a ramble but I’m exercising discipline and honoring an agreement to myself to show up and work on my passion project, this podcast.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” ― Jon Kabat-Zinn
Today, I reflect on surfing the waves of life.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“May your choices reflect your hopes not your fears.” - Nelson Mandela
Today, I recap my Memorial Day holiday and share today’s gratitude list.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Find the thing that in you that is different, that's as sharp as a diamond and jagged as a razor. Hone that, because that's the thing with which you'll cut the world." - Clayton Cubitt
Today, I talk about my Sunday including watching “Your Name”, caring for my plants, a zoom bon voyage party, and writing a letter to my future self.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“At the end of the day we can endure much more than we think we can.” - Frida Kahlo
Today, I talk about resilience and enduring our most challenging days.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.” — Thomas Merton
Today, I recap and reflect on my Friday off.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea”. - Isak Dinesen
Today, I share my ocean meditations.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world.” - Mary Oliver
Today, I explain my absence and process my grandma’s passing through appreciation and vulnerability.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light” - Brené Brown
Today, I share my April reflections on examining our fears.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“I cannot tell you how long you will have to wait. But I can tell you that you are being prepared for what’s to come breath by breath, day by day.” - Morgan Harper Nichols
Today, I reflect on sharing my life on instagram for the past 8 years.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!” - Audrey Hepburn
Today, I talk about one of my personal heroes, Audrey Hepburn.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.” ― Tyler Kent White
Today, I talk about practicing self compassion.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.” -William Shakespeare
Today I recap my Saturday
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today I reflect on April as we kick off the new month of May.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” Winston Churchill
Today, I’ll talk about generosity and one of my favorite books.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Happiness, not in another place, but this place not for another hour, but for this hour.” - Walt Whitman
Today, I recap my birthday and try to make SFR happen!
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.” ― Serbian Proverb
Today, I reflect on life because it’s almost my birthday.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
This episode is about friendship.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.” ― R.J. Palacio
This episode is about the stories we tell.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt
In this episode, I share my thoughts about my Saturday, the movie “Onward”, and hope.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” ― Pablo Picasso
In this episode I talk about purpose and its role in a meaningful life.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.” - Rumi
In this episode I will discuss the lagom or the Swedish art of balanced living.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.” ― Hans Christian Andersen
In this episode I’ll discuss the word of the day: hygge and what it means to me.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Courage is grace under pressure.” - Ernest Hemingway
Today I am talking about courage and overcoming fear.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” ― Oprah Winfrey
In today’s episode I talk about practicing gratitude and being enough.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Surrender to what is, let go of what was, have faith in what will be. ” —Sonia Ricotti
Today I talk about minimalism, sparking joy, and letting go.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Language creates reality. Words have power. Speak always to create joy.” — Deepak Chopra
Today’s podcast takes a very meta turn where I talk about the power of our words and my reflections on the film, The King’s Speech.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” ― Haruki Murakami
In this podcast, I talk about transforming through the storm and applying care and compassion to a stormy mind.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” - Theodore Roosevelt
In this podcast, I celebrate a few life milestones I reached today!
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
”Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” - Carl Jung
In today’s podcast, I reflect on the significance of vision in the year 2020 and beyond.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill
On today’s podcast, I talk about continuing at our own speed.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“We adore chaos because we love to produce order.” M.C. Escher.
On today’s podcast, I talk about how I almost set my couch on fire and survived to tell the tale through an orderly podcast episode after an extremely chaotic Monday.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.” ― John Lennon
On today’s podcast, I talk about weathering storms of life.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.” Maya Angelou
Today I discuss self care and going back to the basics when you’re a person with very little chill.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“So this, I believe, is the central question upon which all creative living hinges: Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?” ― Elizabeth Gilbert
Today I am talking about what it means to be creative.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me! :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”
- John Rohn
Today I share my thoughts about postponing happiness, gratitude, and self care.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
“No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.” - Tony Robbins
Sharing a few mindset shifts that help me when I try something new or feel I am progressing too slowly.
Please listen to, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad
Day 1 #100DaysofPodcasting
“To begin, begin.” - William Wordsworth
An introduction to my podcasting project where I will share a daily quote along with my musings about anything from current events, life updates, and more.
Please rate, subscribe, and share my podcast. It would mean a lot to me :)
Tag me on Instagram @elmajoytrinidad