Dear Journal Podcast: Recent Episodes
Alyssa White
Dear Journal - Hi Everyone and Welcome! I have never been good at doing just one thing so this podcast will touch on everything from travel to mental health to sports. With each episode I want to talk about topics from my own personal experience or just thoughts in general. I think life can be pretty hard to navigate sometimes so I wanted to start this podcasts with the hope that it will connect or help out someone who hasn’t got it all figured out either.
Welcome back to the Dear Journal Podcast! This week I have on another female footballer Bella Viana who is also a great friend, and who has been playing in Scotland this past year. Join us as we talk about both her and I's experience with trials, isolation playing abroad, and overall challenges with women's football. This is a really great episode if you want to play abroad and are looking to get some details into how we've gone about our journey's and all things in between. Go check her out!Bella Viana's Insta: https://www.instagram.com/_beelllaaa_/
Welcome back everyone to Season 2 of the Dear Journal Podcast! I'm so excited to reboot this podcast after having traveled and lived in Europe for 6 months again. I have new stories and topics to share and delve into with you guys so stick around for more! Today's episode will dive into my journey trying to play professionally in Europe and all the hurdles that has come with it. You'll hear about my process the last 6 months start to finish on what happened during my time trialing in 3 different European countries. Listen to find out more!
Welcome back everyone! This season finale covers some insight into what I've been up to at home and my final thoughts as I head back to Europe to pursue soccer. Being fully recovered now from my ACL injury, I am headed back to Europe in hopes of getting my first pro contract.
I will be continuing my podcast in Europe and documenting my journey and travels.
Welcome back everyone! Today I wanted to talk about how to balance letting loose and knowing when to stay focused. I personally struggle with this a lot especially when factoring in that I'm an athlete it can be hard to know when to pull back. Expect to hear my advise on how to set your priorities, how to not feel so guilty for going out, and much more!
Welcome back everyone! I honestly filmed this podcast knowing some of the feelings I've been dealing with lately about life and figured I'd sit down and chat about it. By not going to college I feel as if my quarter life crisis has been pushed up in a way. Expect to hear me talk about my thoughts on taking risks, seeking novelty, and much more!
Welcome back everyone! Today I'm joined by my friend Jacob Fiveash to talk about the different paths we decided to take after high school and how they've shaped us so far. Expect to hear about how we deal with the uncertainty of not having a laid out path, how we've matured from stepping into the real world early, and so much more!
Welcome back everyone! In today's episode I wanted to talk about the idea of being a hopeless romantic in the modern dating world and what that entails. I'll chat about love bombing, online dating, and much more!
Welcome back everyone! Last week I decided I wanted to challenge myself to see if I could do a dopamine detox for a week. The goal for me was to reset my baseline for stimulation so that my brain doesn't constantly crave these short dopamine grabs. Cutting out social media, music, and any tv for a week forced me to find other ways to fill my time and stimulate my mind. In today's episode I'll go through my experience and my take aways from the past week.
Welcome back everyone! Today I talk about setting aside your opinions and set bias in order to be more receptive to life and people. So often are we quick to disregard others because we don't agree with them and never take the time to be open to their point of views and experiences. Expect to hear about challenging yourself and your values. Plus so much more!
Welcome back everyone! I have a very exciting episode today! My best friend and travel partner, Izzy Donoghue joined me on the show to do a whole recap story time about our backpacking experience last summer. This was an amazing trip and I have so many good memories and stories from it I wanted to share it all with you guys! Expect to hear our struggles on the trains through Europe, things we did in each city, and if it was all worth it.
Welcome back everyone! Today I dive into how a player can get nut-shelled into a certain role as a player either by their own perception of themselves or by their coaches. How that perception can boost you to create a new environment for your development. I also talk about my experience playing in Spain and that compared to my experience growing up playing soccer in the US. Plus much more!
Welcome back everyone! Today I talk about the difference between expectations and standards in relationships and how together they can help us create stronger connections. Having too high of one or the other can cause you to be continuously disappointed but having too low of them can create other issues. Learn how to set your non negotiables and create realistic expectations for the people in your life.
Welcome back everyone! Today I talk about the general pursuit of happiness. Everyone looks at it as a venture only to be taken in certain moments of life. Expect to hear today about why so many of us sacrifice our possibility for happiness now in hopes for it in the future, how enjoying all aspects of the pursuit can bring you joy, and why you should look at your life in a different perspective.
Welcome back everyone! I've been wanting to talk about athletic identity for a while now. As a currently injured player I know how hard injuries can impact your mental health and identity. So today I get into some ways to still have a strong identity in your sport while also leaning into some other interests to expand you as a whole person.
Welcome back everyone! Today I get into attachment theory and how your attachment style affects your relationships. I never hear people talk about this very often and yet it is something very prevalent in relationships and can make quite the difference. Today I help you identify yours and how you can work toward having a secure attachment style.
Welcome back everyone! Today I wanted to share some tips about backpacking through Europe. My best friend and I went backpacking last summer through Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, and Barcelona. It was an amazing experience but it can be tricky too so I hope this helps anyone looking to go to Europe this summer!
And stay tuned because I will do a part 2 soon with more travel stories and tips!
Welcome back everyone! First video podcast!! I'm so excited to share this episode! Today I dive into figuring out your priorities and giving less of a shit about what other people think. Especially these days we get so caught up in what other people think of us and I wanted to shed some light on the fact that as long as you know who you are their opinions don't matter.
Welcome back everyone! Sorry I haven't posted an episode in a while but I'm back! Today I dive into situationships. If you don't know what a situationship is it is basically a term indicating you're not in a relationship but you're also not single. This new category of dating has many different levels and confusion with it so I wanted to share how to identify if you're in one and how to go about navigating it.
Welcome back! If you're feeling lost and have no idea what you're passionate about or what you're going to do with your life, news flash, you're not the only one. In today's episode I talk about how it's such a common experience to feel lost at different pivotal times in your life, and that while it seems like everyone else appears to have it together, no one really does. And that's okay! We aren't supposed to.
Welcome back everyone! Today I talk about how and why you should romanticize your life. Being a recent trend on social media, I touch on how romanticizing your life is a way to practice mindfulness and challenge the way you think about day to day tasks.
Welcome back everyone! In today's episode I talk about how how to manage friendships. How to go about picking who to be friends with and knowing when you can let friends go are some things I touch on today.
Welcome back everyone! In today's episode I talk about everything to do with clothes, thrifting and styling outfits. I think one of the best ways to express yourself is with your style and with all the trends in fashion today it's hard not getting caught up in all the trends. Dive into how to create your own style with me!
Welcome back everyone! Today I talk about how it's been being home and the overall emotions that come post traveling. It's a very common experience everyone gets when coming back from traveling and missing that excitement you experienced everyday doing new things.
Welcome back everyone! In today's episode I dive into change and how when you're overwhelmed it can help to look at it from a different perspective. And today I challenge you to see what changes in your life you can grow from.
Welcome back everyone! Today I wanted to talk about hustle culture and the danger of not having a good work, life, balance. Especially in the US it's impressed on us from a young age to constantly feel the need to be doing something productive. In this episode I talk about what effect that hustle culture has on me and why it's important to check your own work, life, balance.
Welcome back everyone! Today's episode I just wanted to share on of my favorite stories from my time in Spain. That day was a crazy experience and one I'll never forget.
Welcome back everyone! In this episode we dive into the topic of optimism. I think looking at things with optimism is a really important way to go through life and yet at the same time realizing its limits. Today I'll discuss the pitfalls and opportunities that go along with optimism and how to tackle its duality.
Hi Everyone!! I'm super excited to drop this first episode of my podcast. This episode is just kinda an introduction into what to expect from other episodes and a little background on me :) I hope you enjoy!