A Zest For Life
A Zest For Life
Welcome to A Zest for Life — the podcast for high performers ready to step into a deeply fulfilling and expansive life.
A Zest For Life Podcast
This is a space for those who’ve already mastered the art of achievement, but are ready to feel as good on the inside as their success looks on the outside.
In each episode, we explore the energetic principles that fuel high performance, and how to align them with your deeper purpose. We’ll delve into the aspects of life that money can’t buy — authentic happiness, inner peace, meaningful connections, and personal growth — all while keeping you at the top of your game.
What to Expect from A Zest for Life:
- Energetic Alignment to help you recalibrate and expand
- Practical tips for transforming your inner world and attracting your next level
- Inspiration and wisdom on living a life that feels as rich and fulfilling as it looks
- Personal growth strategies to help you thrive in every area of your life
If the episodes resonate with you, you'll find even more tools, support, and transformation through the programs available on the I Dare To Leap website. Learn more at www.idaretoleap.com
Why A Zest For Life?
This podcast is all about living with intention, leading with purpose, and harnessing the full potential of your energetic frequency.
Whether you’re seeking more alignment, more joy, or a deeper connection to your true self, this podcast is here to guide you every step of the way.
Join me on this journey of self-discovery, energetic recalibration, and purposeful living. You’re ready to experience it all.
About Your Podcast Host, Charlotte Carter
Charlotte Carter is the Founder and CEO of I Dare To Leap Ltd., where she empowers high performers to create expansive lives through a blend of high-performance coaching and energetic alignment.
With over 20 years of experience in personal development, Charlotte’s multi-modality approach combines the best of clinical hypnotherapy, transformational coaching, positive psychology, breathwork, and energy healing. As a personal trainer, she ensures her clients approach both mindset and body with intentional alignment for true transformation.
Charlotte’s work is dedicated to guiding high achievers toward inner fulfillment and sustainable success, removing the subconscious and energetic barriers that prevent them from fully stepping into their potential.
A bestselling author and international podcast host of A Zest For Life, Charlotte has been featured in top publications such as Hello Online, Grazia, Marie Claire, and the Daily Telegraph.
Her insights aren’t just theoretical — they’re backed by both her personal journey and the extraordinary transformations of her clients. Charlotte offers real-world, actionable wisdom to help others bridge the gap between outer success and inner fulfillment.
A Zest For Life
83. Your Relationship With Joy Is Controlling Your Potential
We've got joy completely backwards. Most of us treat it like a weekend privilege - something we earn after ticking all the boxes. But what if that's exactly what's keeping you stuck at 33% of your potential?
In this episode, I'm calling out one of the biggest lies we tell ourselves: that we have to choose between achievement and enjoyment. As a high performance coach, I see brilliant people everywhere who've got their lives "sorted" yet secretly worry that pursuing more joy might somehow jeopardise their success.
But joy isn't the enemy of achievement - it's rocket fuel.
When you operate from genuine joy (not forced positivity), you make bolder decisions, become more magnetic, and opportunities start flowing your way. But first, you need to reconnect with what actually lights you up - not what you think should make you happy.
I'll share simple practices to weave joy into your daily routine and help you find that sweet spot between taking aligned action and operating from pure delight. Because you didn't come here to fire on a third of your potential - you came here to be fully, authentically, joyfully you!
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Pure joy is where your zest comes from and it's where you're like, oh my God, I just love it, and you can, and you are able to, and you're available to have it absolutely on your own at any time, any moment, you can allow yourself to go into your wonderful imagination, into your wonderful energy and into that space of make-believe and daydream and allow yourself to be in the space of pure delight. Hello and welcome to another episode of Assessed for Life, and today I really want to talk about the power of joy, something that I see so much in my clients. At the moment, when they have allowed themselves, given themselves permission to create way more joy in their life and give themselves a break and pause and go after the things that they just adore doing, that allow them to feel really free, then the absolute magnetism that is them really starts to build and really starts to shine. Now, joy is such an interesting concept for people. I find it fascinating having this conversation with so many people and it really fills my heart, because having the ability to unlock joy for people is such a great gift, and yet nearly everyone that I talk to knows that that's what they want to do. They want to have more happiness. They want to have more joy, they want to create more space, they want this freedom in their life that gives them the finances to do what they'd really love. But ultimately they want to feel really whole and really complete and for so many that I speak with and just resonate if this is landing for you there's a piece within them that's like do you know what that's like? External to all the things that I'm already doing?
Speaker 1:It seems like it's slightly out of reach or I don't even know the path to get there, or part of me is just unsure and not allowing myself, giving myself permission to have that, because I can't have that and all the other good things I've got in my life. There's always a massive crossover and with the clients that I work with in the spaces that they have some areas their life absolutely nailed, whether that is business, whether that is connection with friends, whether that is health, whatever it may be, something in their life. They're like this bit is absolutely locked in and there's a belief and an energy that they can't have that and all the other good stuff. It can't get better and better and better. It can only stay that and all the other good stuff. It can't get better and better and better. It can only stay good, and then some stuff's going to happen. Pull you off track and then you'll get back to good again, and then some stuff will happen. What if life? And what if you could retrain your brain and allow yourself to really believe that anything's possible and you can keep moving and it can keep getting better and better.
Speaker 1:Now I know, like I know, like I know this is really difficult to hear when you're in that pit, because I've been there. I've been there on multiple levels where I've been like hey, do you know what? This is going really good. Can I hold it? Can I sustain it? And actually, can I allow it to get better? Can I allow this goodness to be my new frequency, normal? Can I then elevate myself more and more and more and more?
Speaker 1:So what I see happen with joy for so many is that they dance in and out of it. Yeah, I'm going to have a holiday. Oh, it's going to be great. I'm going to have that once, twice, three times a year. I'm going to really detach. I'm going to have all this joy, I'm going to do things that I wouldn't normally do, and then I'm going to come home and I'm going to come back to the life where I'm ready for the next holiday, and I talk about joy, micro moments of joy, bringing them into your day every single step of the way and allowing yourself to really shine in that moment and be able to really allow that to come to the forefront for you and know that it's all good, you can have it all. You can have it all. You can have it in a way that feels really light. You can have all the fun. Everything can feel easier and easier, but not easeful. You're able to have that challenge that, oh, this is really going to give me a sense of accomplishment, a sense of achievement, but it doesn't always have to be push hard, struggle. In fact, it actually can be all of the receiving and all of the ease, and yet people seem to put joy separately. I'm going to have a great time when I've done all these things. I'm going to allow myself that really joyful experience, something that I really love to do, even if it's for free.
Speaker 1:I'm going to do that at the end of the week, once I've done my other things, and I say to people what if you just had this afternoon off and you could go and do what you want. Would you even know what to do? Would you know what really brings you joy? And people say, yeah, I would do this, that and the other, they'd have some things. But ultimately they're only scratching the surface, because pure joy is where your zest comes from and it's where you're like, oh my god, I just love it. And you can and you are able to, and you're available to have it absolutely on your own, at any time, any moment.
Speaker 1:You can allow yourself to go into your wonderful imagination, into your wonderful energy and into that space of make-believe and daydream and allow yourself to be in the space of pure delight. I remember Abraham used to say to me it's delight and surprise. Allow yourself to be in that space of delight and surprise and know that in that space, that's where the absolute abundance is, the real abundance, because you've gifted yourself this place of openness, opening your heart, opening yourself to spaciousness. And do you know what? Let's see what can happen in this space. Let's see what can happen. Now I'm not talking, you don't need to do this. Hours and hours and hours. You could create a 15 minute practice, personal practice in the morning, a 90 second practice in the middle of the day and then a round out evening practice.
Speaker 1:Believe me, within a very short space of time you will be creating, attracting, experiencing and embodying way more moments of joy, way more moments of lightness, way more moments of possibilities, of the magic that is within you to really truly unfold. And from that space and place, you make bolder decisions, you're more courageous, you allow yourself to really shine, you are expansive in your nature and when you do that, then you're able and open for the real you, the truth of you, the soul's home of you, to lead the way. So, joy, enjoyment, it's joyful. So allow yourself to really know within your physical self where do you feel joy? Does it fill your heart? Is it incredibly connected to other people? As humans, we love connection, so it's absolutely fabulous when it's connected to other people. It really is. It's a big part of the journey. It really is. It's a big part of the journey.
Speaker 1:But as we are all one, but we are all individual, the truest joy is you within you, you within you, because then you're magnet, magnetic to the other people. They're like hey, I just want you know what you are. So joyful, you are so joyful, you just like represent joy, and when you can allow that part of you to really come forward, then you feel way more abundant, you feel way more alive, you feel way more full of zest and you feel way more at peace. And this takes various guises. So let me just tune in and allow you to see where you are on this journey.
Speaker 1:Are you in that achiever thread where it's like I'm going to achieve all these things and then I will earn my joy? Are you in the carefree thread? I'm going to have all this joy and I'm not going to take the action that's actually going to help me in my business, because I'm just going to bask in the joy. All the time I see this sort of like dynamic. People are like all in on one or all in on the other, and I'm here to help you marry the two, allow you to have that achievement, take that real, courageous, aligned, inspired action that's going to get you towards your desires and allow them to bring them in, and do it vibrationally, at a frequency of joy. So you're like do you know what I'm doing, what I really love? It feels so light, it feels so fun, it feels so free and that's why I do it.
Speaker 1:So tune in. Where are you? Are you achiever? Are you something that's just like? I'm going to be super joyful? Have you lost sight of play? Have you lost sight of, um, the depth of you? Are you playing small? I don't like to use that phrase, but people resonate with it. I like to say are you not allowing the highest version of you to lead your life? Are you dimming what's your actual potential? Are you only firing on 33 percent? Where's the other lot? Where's the other piece? Have you given it to everybody else? Have you given all your power away to everybody else? Another conversation I've had with many people this week Tune into your joy, tune into your passion, your purpose, your real presence in this world.
Speaker 1:What are you here for? Why do you do what you do? Why is it so important and why is it so potent, and why is it that there's nothing else for you to do? And when you marry that purpose, passion and presence with your potential and your ultimate frequency, your greatest gift, your energetics, then you are absolutely ready for the big things. Take care, if you want to know about any way that I can help you, just reach out. I am Charlotte Carter on Instagram or send me an email, charlotte, at I dare to leap and I will come back to you as to where you are, what's going on and we can have a conversation. Take care and I'll see you on the next episode. Bye.
