Sharon Stevenson | Host of Joy of the Hang | Connection Advocate
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Real stories, connection, and reinvention.
Joy of the Hang pairs intimate life stories with practical questions about belonging, agency, wellness, and change. Sharon Stevenson moves between solo reflection, family conversation, and guest interviews with an easy, personal rhythm.
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Joy of the Hang is a conversation show about the human work of staying connected. Sharon Stevenson frames connection as something people practice through family, friendship, work, memory, and daily presence. The show often begins in a relaxed, chatty place. Shoes, weather, birthdays, recording gear, and dinner plans all have room to breathe. Then the conversation turns. A talk about homeschooling with Sam Sorbo becomes a larger question about educational freedom, parental agency, and how families decide what learning should look like. A birthday solo episode becomes a reckoning with turning 60, childhood loss, reinvention, risk, and the ways life can build a person without making the process painless. A family episode with Haley Stark moves easily from impressions and improv memories into disability, pediatric hospital life, optimism, endurance, and performance. The tone stays intimate. It does not sand off emotion, but it also does not treat hardship as the only point of the story. Guests bring their own lanes: Paula Woodring talks about real estate, single motherhood, entrepreneurship, and finding love while building from the ground up. Linda Krysinski brings style, confidence, and reinvention into a room where fashion is allowed to be playful and personal. Across episodes, the show returns to agency. Who gets to decide? What can be felt rather than avoided? How does someone build a life on their own terms without losing the need for other people? Sharon's style is warm, direct, and conversational, with enough spontaneity to make the microphone feel like a kitchen table rather than a stage. Joy of the Hang suits listeners who want personal stories with emotional texture, practical reflection, and a steady belief that connection is part of health.
Made for: For listeners drawn to personal stories about aging, family, resilience, wellness, education, entrepreneurship, disability, and starting over. It works especially well for people who prefer reflective conversation to rigid self-help formulas.
What sets it apart: The show blends everyday hangout energy with serious life material, letting humor, family shorthand, and lived experience sit beside questions about agency and belonging. Its conversations feel less like interviews chasing takeaways and more like people thinking out loud together.
Joy of the Hang is more than a podcast — it’s a movement.Hosted by Sharon Stevenson, former competitive bodybuilder and certified Health and Wellness Coach, this show explores the missing link in modern wellbeing: connection.After years of studying the eight pillars of health — Physical, Emotional, Social, Intellectual, Environmental, Financial, Occupational, and Spiritual well-being. — Sharon discovered something profound. We can optimize every area of our physical health and still feel lonely. We can achieve, perform, and succeed… and still feel disconnected.That realization changed everything.Joy of the Hang was created as a platform for real people — leaders, entrepreneurs, creators, pa.…
The meaningful conversation is step one; Sharon Stevenson wants to know what you will do next.
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Homeschooling is treated as a matter of who gets to decide, and the most concrete discussion comes when the episode turns to state-by-state procedure.
The episode keeps its attention on schooling, parental choice, and the practical realities of beginning at home. Its guest is introduced as a former Hollywood actress, writer, and producer who left her career to homeschool her three children for over a decade, and that…
A loose mother-daughter hang that pairs comedy with hospital memories and hard-won perspective.
Joy of the Hang keeps a mother-daughter catch-up centered on comedy, hospital memories, and the way humor can sit beside hardship without pushing it aside.
Jodi Mayo tells Sharon Stevenson that a 2021 brain hemorrhage, cognitive changes, double vision, and a misdiagnosed epilepsy diagnosis preceded discovery of a golf-ball-sized brain tumor.
Joy of the Hang host Sharon Stevenson interviews Bridget Gengler, a Long Beach educator and children’s author with 31 years in California public education, about encouragement, storytelling, and children’s emotional growth.
Karina Brazil, founder of The Collective and Revive Connects, explains why women can enter the right rooms yet leave without turning conversations into opportunities.
Butch Phelps compares strength training to gasoline and stretching to oil, unwinding a twisted rubber band instead of pulling taffy.
Joy of the Hang™ episode 79 features Sam Sorbo, who is introduced as a former Hollywood actress, writer, producer, and homeschool parent of three children.
Host Sharon Stevenson shares eight life lessons on wellness, connection, and personal growth as she reflects on turning 60 and her childhood experiences.
Sharon Stevenson opens Joy of the Hang with Haley Stark, her daughter and Harvard graduate, after riffing on Robin Williams' Good Morning Vietnam line and Harvard improv.
This episode features an interview with Paula Woodring, founder and CEO of Reltco, discussing her journey from becoming a homeowner at 18 to building a real estate business while navigating single motherhood, entrepreneurship, and personal relationships.
The hosts welcome guest Linda Krysinski to discuss style, confidence, and reinvention while sharing fashion anecdotes and personal stories.