We center joy.

GETSOMEJOY is a creative wellness agency that supports communities and organizations with joy-flavored trainings and experiences that foster connection and creativity, invite collaboration and vulnerability, and prioritize community wellness.

(and we bring fried chicken stickers)

About GetSomeJoy

…cause we been out here.

  • Founded in 2016 by Alexander Hardy, Enesha Stringer, and Mario Starks after the #GetSomeJoy: A Blackstravaganza for Mental Health Awareness at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, NY

  • Launched SelfCareCheckin.com to share wellness resources + tools to be great(er) at work, school, home, and wherever people are peopling

  • Launched Self-Care Check-In Experiences to spread joy in unexpected places

  • Partnered with Crisis Text Line so you can text JOY to 741741 to connect with a trained crisis counselor 24/7

  • Received Everytown for Gun Safety grant

  • Facilitated a Black LGBTQ peer support group in-person + online, creating a safe space to explore mental and emotional wellness, engage community support, and connect to medical care and wellness resources

  • Produced Mental Health Monday, talking to creators and community builders what helped them cope mentally and emotionally in the Age of the Rona

  • Developed and launched interactive Literary Therapy writing workshops as cathartic creative healing spaces for social, non-profit, corporate, municipal, and other community groups

  • Launched Virtual Cook-alongs to foster connection and spread joy through food and fellowship

  • Facilitating conversations around mental health, caregiving, disability rights, creativity, and food in two weekly GetSomeJoy Twitter Spaces as part of the Twitter Spaces Spark Program.

Recent joy-infused situations

You should have been there.

…and these, too

Alexander Hardy

Alexander Hardy is a grits-powered writer, home cook, dancer, lupus survivor, and National Trainer for Mental Health First Aid USA. He is on a lifelong quest to make better empanadas.

He battles spiritual ashiness as CoFounder of GetSomeJoy, a creative wellness agency supporting communities and organizations with joy-flavored trainings and experiences, soulful storytelling, and accessible wellness resources. Alexander has written for outlets such as Ebony, CNN.com, Food & Wine, Esquire, Courvoisier, The Root, Saint Heron, and Very Smart Brothas.

Will Alexander ask you about delicious meals you’ve had or prepared? Does he accept restaurant recommendations and joy-inducing recipes? Yes.

He supports communities and organizations with English and Spanish Mental Health First Aid trainings, grief and loss workshops, Literary Therapy writing sessions, resource development, and other wellness-infused experiences.

Alexander does not believe in snow or Delaware.

Enesha Stringer

Enesha is a Marketing and Communications strategist invested in the real world applications of the social determinants of health—with 10+ years advising fast-growing tech companies, creative agencies, and social impact organizations.

Enesha applies an interdisciplinary framework to brand strategy and program design to optimize individual + community joy and wellness. You can find her dancing at crosswalks and spreading joy in unexpected places.

Meet Our GetSomeJoy

Wellness Ambassadors.

Community Wellness Ambassadors are village members with authority + expertise in their respective industries, who inform and advise our programming, methodologies, and impact strategies through event collaboration, mutual support, and amplification of their community work.


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We’ve made magic with these people & others

We’re connected.

GetSomeJoy is a proud member of the Greater New York Chamber of Commerce.

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You’re so pretty.

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