Live stream: How to tap into your Tall Girl Energy & lead with kindness

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Joy Farley joins QC Life host Jana Angel for an episode of Coffee & Conversations to talk about developing your Tall Girl Energy and choosing joy as a form of resistance.

Watch a live stream of this episode at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 11 in the video player up above. Video not working? Click here to view the stream on our website.

Have you ever felt yourself shrinking in a room, or changing little things about yourself to make everyone else comfortable? Are you ready to step into your main character energy without losing an ounce of your kindness?

If so, this one is for you. And to my tall girls everywhere, this is especially for you! Let’s get into it.

Jana Angel writes: This week on Coffee & Conversations, I sat down with Joy -- and y’all, the name fits.

Joy grew up surrounded by a whole lot of love and a whole lot of grit. She carried that into her days as an athlete, and now pours it into housing development and real estate, helping build the places that people call home.

When she’s not doing that, she’s showing up for countless charities and nonprofits. She most recently served on prom court for QC SWAP (Socials With A Purpose) to raise critical funds for a great cause.

In this episode, we talk about what it really means to choose joy as an act of resistance; why standing up and standing out at any height is something you have to cultivate with confidence; and how to lead with kindness without dimming your shine.

What I love most about Joy is her transparency. She’s open about the real moments; the wins and the hard days. That vulnerability gives everyone around her permission to open up, too, and to ask for what they want and need.

She also reminds us we have to be the first to give.

Grab your coffee for this one, and get ready to meet your new hype girl and front-row friend! Find her on social @jumpforpurejoy.

About Community Matters Cafe: This local spot might seem like a great place to get caffeinated and fill up on delicious eats, but it is so much more than that. Community Matters Cafe is a live learning lab where graduates from the Charlotte Rescue Mission complete a 180-day life skills and rehabilitation program to build confidence and restore hope. This was the perfect place for Coffee & Conversations, because we are all brewing something beautiful together.

Click here to watch all Coffee & Conversations episodes on our website.

What Coffee & Conversations is all about

Jana Angel writes: Coffee & Conversations. Two of life’s greatest pleasures.

In a world that’s generally peppered with more chaos than calm, there’s nothing like unwinding with a cup of coffee and a chat with someone you care about.

Or someone you just met. Or someone who simply has something interesting to say. (And, let’s face it: Everyone has a great story to tell.)

I’ve always felt like the proverbial coffee house brings a feeling of being grounded, especially during a hectic time. But I’ve also always felt that coffee houses are just ... cool.

Maybe it’s because I was raised on “Friends,” and saw the coffee shop (aka Central Perk) as the place where the cool kids always hung out. The place where the brews pulled people in, and pulled out their stories.

I desperately wanted to be an intellectual with a laptop and a cappuccino typing away at some life-change prose that someone would read someday. The coffee shop was filled with a community of people who all seemed to be doing something so important.

It took me forever to actually like the taste of coffee. And I never felt like I fit into the “cool” category.

But now that I’m a “grown up” (winces slightly), I’m taking a step out of my comfort zone and into that coffee shop. I want to not only meet the cool people in our community, but also learn from them.

With my new WBTV series Coffee & Conversations, I’m going chat with people who are working to get the most out of their lives. People who are making choices every day to brew the life they’ve dreamed for themselves.

I want to bring to life stories about the choices we make to fill our own cup, and then pour into others. Stories that can help you and I feel more confident to dream bigger, be bolder, and just do the things we want to do.

Stories of people right here in our Charlotte-area backyard that we can all learn and grow from.

These stories will be from people you may have never heard of, or maybe people you haven’t met yet. Whoever they are, we’ll meet at a coffee house and brew something beautiful together.

Be sure to tune in to Coffee & Conversations, where our stories will leave you feeling inspired, vulnerable, playful, encouraged, and invited to dream really freaking big! I hope it will mean as much to you as it does to me.

You can find each guests’ full interview and article on the Coffee & Conversations page here.