Get Some Joy

Need space to vent? Got something to get off your chest?

Join GetSomeJoy + Cam Crump (of the "When Judy Went Upstairs" podcast) for "On the Mic: What's Your Beef/Grief?" on Wednesday, August 26 to pop off, be affirmed, hear a range of perspectives, and leave feeling lighter.

🍗 RJOY's Charles Anderson will join us as our Petty Panelist.
🍗 GetSomeJoy's Alex Hardy will join as the Mature Panelist.
🍗 Host Cam & GetSomeJoy's Stevie Stringer will join as wildcard panelists.

Come relax, relate, release with us!

🗓️ Wednesday, August 26 @ 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET
➡️ Register here: https://bit.ly/gsj-onthemic1

Join us at tonight's GetSomeJoy Peer Support Group - https://mailchi.mp/getsomejoy/march-peer-support

Starting in the fall of 2025, GetSomeJoy launched a partnership with , a leader in the fight against HIV/AIDS, to bring sustainable creative wellness strategies and joy to their regional CBO leadership conference series.

Since then, we’ve taken our creative wellness tools, our Community Literary Therapy Wall, and our fried chicken stickers to Houston, Oakland, Philadelphia, and Detroit to celebrate, pour into, resource, and learn from leaders, clinicians, advocates, and patients from across the country. Together, we explored ideas for cultivating joy-infused, affirming spaces for care, connection, and collaboration (and how they’re taking care of themselves and others along the way).

See how we’re supporting community builders on GetSomeJoy.com. (Link in our bio)

Starting in the fall of 2025, GetSomeJoy launched a partnership with NMAC, a leader in the fight against HIV/AIDS, to bring sustainable creative wellness strategies and joy to their regional CBO leadership conference series.

Since then, we’ve talked to hundreds of leaders, clinicians, advocates, and patients across the country about cultivating joy-infused, affirming spaces for care, connection, and collaboration.

Learn more about our joy-infused partnership:
https://www.getsomejoy.com/newsandmedia/nmac-regional-cbo-leadership-summits

Spreading Joy @ NMAC's Regional CBO Leadership Summits — getsomejoy GetSomeJoy has partnered with NMAC, one of the nation’s largest HIV/AIDS advocacy organizations to bring joy-infused creative wellness resources to their 4-part Regional CBO Summit series. Literary Therapy Writing Program, leadership development, staff wellness, conference keynote, breakout, keyno...

GetSomeJoy kicked off the new year by bringing creative wellness tools to NMAC's CBO Northeast Summit in Philadelphia.

After a rousing keynote by Sean M. Smith-Garçon, Director of The EPIcenter for Integrated Health @ NMAC, GetSomeJoy co-founder Alex Hardy invited attendees to celebrate themselves and the ways they've shown up for themselves and their communities via a GetSomeJoy Awards ceremony.

Attendees shared beautiful stories and applauded each other, and Alex invited people to

✅ do the exercise with their communities monthly or quarterly, and

✅ continue sharing their awards with him throughout the day in exchange for our beloved fried chicken stickers.

We gave out so many stickers.

And we talked to so many leaders about how they're prioritizing mental health amidst uncertainty and pouring into themselves and their teams.

We shared our griefKit resource guide (getsomejoy.com/griefkit), invited attendees to our biweekly Peer Support Groups (getsomejoy.com/peer-support), and conducted mental health check-ins via the Community Literary Therapy Wall.

Conference food highlights:

🍗 that tiramisu-like situation during the lunch plenary

🍗 the birria grilled cheese @ Continental down the bloc

🍗 the Italian Market Omelet @ Green Eggs Cafe across the street

Excited to spread more joy (and collect local food recommendations) next month at NMAC's CBO Midwest Summit February 23-26 in Detroit.

[Sunday, January 18] Join us tomorrow for GetSomeJoy's Peer Support Group - https://mailchi.mp/getsomejoy/january18-getsomejoy-peer-support-group
+ Spreading joy @ NMAC's Regional Leadership Summit in Philadelphia