The JOY
Discipline

A leadership practice that helps people and teams build resilience, strength, and forward action in the moments that matter most.

That is not an accident.
That is The Hard Work of Joy™.

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The Hard Work of JOY™

JOY is a STRATEGY

Most people treat JOY like a reward.
Something you feel once the pressure lifts. When something good finally happens.
JOY is a discipline. A practice.

But we live in a world that constantly draws attention to the negative. News cycles amplify crises. AI reshapes industries overnight. Constant change has become the permanent condition.

Social media rewards outrage. Conversations default to stress, frustration, and complaint. Over time, people become conditioned to look for what’s wrong — before they ever notice what’s possible.

The result isn’t just burnout. It’s a loss of perspective.

Leaders are expected to deliver results while carrying more emotional and cultural weight than ever before.

And the playbook most organizations reach for — push harder, pivot faster, survive longer — is quietly costing them everything.

JOY is not soft. It is not a consolation prize. It is not a feeling you get to have once the hard stuff is over.

JOY is a discipline. A practice. The thing that keeps high-performance cultures performing when the pressure does not let up.

The question is not whether your people will face hard moments. They will.

She does not speak about resilience from a textbook. She speaks from the hardest chapter of her life.

After losing her son Lewiston to Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Jessica faced the question she now asks every audience: Do you stay in survival mode, or do you fuel up and thrive no matter what comes next?

She was not a credentialed expert. She was not qualified by a title or a degree. She was simply determined that it could be done better — and she showed up with relentless belief until it was. That decision led to the founding of Love for Lewiston, a national foundation that has raised over three and a half million dollars and changed newborn screening policy across Canada — ensuring no baby goes undiagnosed.

What makes Jessica exceptional is not the story. It is what she does with it on stage. She takes audiences from the gut punch of real loss to the practical language of leadership resilience. She makes rooms laugh hard and go completely silent in the same keynote. The feedback lands in the same place every time: we needed this, it was so relatable, and the tools are so simple and easy to implement immediately.

She is a bestselling author, a philanthropist, a force on stage.
And she is just getting started.

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Love For Lewiston

This foundation began after Jessica lost her son, Lewiston, to a rare genetic disease, SMA. The foundation spreads love and support to families across Canada living with SMA. It raises funds for medical equipment, physiotherapy, critical items for accessibility, respite, and more. LFL directly supports the SMA community and The Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation.  

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AUTHOR

Bring The Joy

In Bring the Joy, Jessica Janzen shares her experience in following those nudges of her heart to find true and lasting joy. Through her hilarious, inspiring stories and refreshing honesty, Jessica challenges you to start looking for ways to bring more joy into your life and the lives of those around you. Life lived to the fullest can only happen when you bring the joy. 

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MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER 

For more than 10 years Jessica has been sharing her life experiences, research, and motivating and inspiring others to embrace resiliency, lean into personal growth, claim big dreams and achieve them, use pain as rocket fuel, and find joy in both the mountain top moments and dark valleys. 

She speaks on Health & Wellness, Motivation & Inspiration, Mental Health & Resiliency. Jessica  empowers from the stage and relates to audiences with vulnerability and honest story telling. 

At the core of her message, Jessica is focused and determined to inspire and motivate others to move from Problem Mindset to Unlimited Possibility Mindset.

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    Motivation | Inspiration

    The presence of motivation and inspiration provides the necessary encouragement and support to turn dreams into reality and embrace personal growth. In Jessica’s Keynote The Hard Work of Joy she shares her story of heartbreak, tragic lessons and how her pain became her rocket fuel to create the change she desired to see in the world.

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    Mental Health | Resilience

    In today's world, mental health concerns are more prevalent than ever before, making it crucial to understand how to navigate them effectively and foster greater resilience. In Jessica’s keynote she walks you through her top 5 tips for mental health, how to embrace seasons rather than striving to achieve perfect balance and helps you move from problem mindset to possibility mindset with science backed tools to help you rewire your brain.

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    Health | Wellness

    When our health and wellness become a top priority we enable ourselves to become the best version of ourselves. In Jessica’s keynote she shares her journey to success with her transformational health habits, how she built a community to achieve her goals, and how being of service shifted the posture of her heart. This keynote will leave the audience inspired and give them solid tools and strategies to apply in both their personal and professional lives.

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