Follow Your Curiosity - My Conversation with Joy Overstreet

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Joy Imboden Overstreet has followed her curiosity for eight decades. When she finds herself flummoxed by a problem, she figures out how to work through it, then shares the process to empower others in similar situations. This pattern is the one through line in a dizzying variety of careers—guitar teacher, food writer, health educator, computer geek/tech writer, feng shui teacher and color consultant.

Joy is the author of The Cherry Pie Paradox: The Surprising Path to Diet Freedom and Lasting Weight Loss, is based on Joy’s revolutionary workshop program, Thin Within. She created it in 1975* to deal with her own weight struggles, then shared this framework for self-discovery with hundreds of others in the San Francisco Bay Area, giving participants the tools they could adapt to their own circumstances. The book steps the reader through a sequential process with personal stories, writing prompts, guided meditations, and eating/tasting exercises.

Joy has a Bachelors degree in Music from Wellesley College, a Masters degree in Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley, and has yet to stop taking classes or trainings. Currently she sees clients for personal color analyses from her condo in downtown Portland Oregon. For more about that: visit www.ColorStylePDX.com.

Her articles and essays have been published in The New York Times, Working Mother, Parents, HealthStep, Readers Digest, Computer Currents, The San Francisco Chronicle and others.

During the pandemic she began a weekly newsletter, “Alive! with Joy,” to cheer and encourage her readers to engage their own curiosity in seeking joy amidst life’s challenges.

At her author website, www.joyoverstreet.com, you can download a juicy excerpt from The Cherry Pie Paradox, subscribe to her newsletter, and learn about special events or offerings related to the book. The book will be released in print, ebook and audiobook format in September.

*I sold the business to my partner in 1980 and have been a serial entrepreneur ever since. Thin Within became an evangelical Christian program after I left…nothing like my original program.