Heidi Lovejoy

Heidi Lovejoy is the creator of Love, Joy, and Languages podcast. She began her language journey as an adult when she and her family moved to Italy for work, and she quickly found that she had no idea what she was doing.

After years of trying every method and resource out there, Heidi realized that her biggest obstacle was herself. She started to chip away at her life-long, deep-rooted perfectionism and realized that most of her language learning struggles were tied to how perfectionism showed up in her life.

Heidi's internal work with perfectionism helped her realize how much she loves languages and finds joy in learning them. This provided a much more stable foundation when her family later moved to Germany, and she had to start all over with another language and a new culture.

Heidi started her blog-turned-podcast to share her language learning struggles and be a voice for those of us who don't fit into the "ideal" language learner persona we once believed we should be. Her mission is to share her language story, which is always evolving, and inspire others to do the same in order to normalize all the struggles that are...well...normal.