Finding My Own Podcast: Recent Episodes
Jovana
Finding My Own is a personal narrative podcast about the beautiful and complicated journey of self-discovery, hosted by Jovana. Jovana is a Zillennial (Gen-Z/ Millennial crossover) with a Masters in Education and Bachelors in Communication. This podcast serves as a way to explore and empower womxn on their own self-discovery journeys. Jovana shares personal stories, lessons learned, and conversations with friends about the difficulties and triumphs of finding yourself. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/findingmyown/support
This week, Jovana discusses her new beginning. She is excited, nervous, and ready to have her first leap into adulthood without the structure that is a part of education. She shares about the comfort she has moving forward, she knows that this won’t be an easy journey, but she will do what she needs to do to continue the life of her dreams.
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In this week’s episode, Jovana shares the creative endeavors that have led her to begin to pivot her podcast. She has noticed she wants to narrow down her audience and create a more targeted experience. She came across this adjustment as she’s preparing for more content and more stories as COVID regulations change, and life begins its new, new normal… She shares the importance of being willing to change and grow and how that has enhanced her life.
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Becoming an adult already provides its own set of challenges outside the small details of being able to support oneself. Currently, Jovana is continuing to prepare for her upcoming move. During this process, she's had many realizations about the lack of education she received prior to becoming an adult, specifically regarding "adulting". She even found a common trend of her questions being around one of the biggest “taboo” topics, finance.
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In this week’s episode, Jovana discusses her observations and experiences in making forward progress. She is finally at a point in her life in which she can directly experience the impact of the decisions she made years ago.
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In this week’s episode, Jovana reflects on her life over the last year. She reflects on the change and growth that has happened and some of the many emotions that have surfaced as she observes those having in-person ceremonies. She discusses her life visions and challenges of life after college, both of which were bookended by graduation.
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In her first episode back, Jovana discusses her excitement and renewed grounding thanks to her “spring break”. Jovana shares the importance of taking time to be present in one’s own life due to how easy it is to get wrapped up in life’s expectations. She dives deeper into what she was going through which led her to realize how important it was to take a break. She talks about the job search process, feeling stuck, and making changes.
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In this episode, Jovana discusses the need for a break. This is the last episode of the first half of Season One. She shares that it is important she does as she says, even when it is not easy. She has opted to take some time for herself to live in the now and rest up. She is going to use this break to give more to her podcast and prepare for her return in June!
New episodes returning in June!
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In this episode, Jovana continues the discussion of her recent reflection, this time focusing in on social media and its impact on her life. She talks about taking a step back and using this podcast as something that brings her joy and focusing on herself and important relationships. Jovana is working on a lot right now and hopes to one day be able to put more into her podcast, but for right now she just needs to focus on her.
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This is the first episode recorded and uploaded within the same week. Over the last few week's Jovana has been reflecting on her choices and experiences that have led her to where she is today. This reflection turned into her needing to reiterate over and over to herself that as people, we are far from perfect. Early on, Jovana struggled with perfectionism, constantly questioning every decision she has ever made. As she got older, she realized perfectionism is thoroughly unattainable, and instead the strive for perfectionism is the thief of joy. So instead of constantly asking herself if she made the right decision, she decided to put it into an episode. With the hopes that it will help someone else with their struggles of perfectionism.
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This episode begins with some original audio from 2020 when Jovana was just beginning her podcast journey. The audio may be difficult to hear, as it had to be amplified to match today’s added audio. This episode is all about shifting her focus on her true goals in life, rectifying the American educational system.
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In this SPECIAL two-part episode, Jovana discusses the ups and downs of waiting. The process of finding her dream career and figuring out what her ultimate purpose in life is. These podcast episodes share more of her story as she continues to push herself to share more and trust in God and His perfect timing, even though it takes time.
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In this SPECIAL two-part episode, Jovana discusses the ups and downs of waiting. The process of finding her dream career and figuring out what her ultimate purpose in life is. These podcast episodes share more of her story as she continues to push herself to share more and trust in God and His perfect timing, even though it takes time.
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In this episode, Jovana continues her conversation with Danielle. They discuss getting older, becoming independent, and attempting to understand life. They share stories and laughs as they are in the midst of what some call the most challenging years of one’s life.
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In this episode, Jovana brings on her college roommate, sorority sister, and good friend, Danielle, to discuss her goals and aspirations. Danielle and Jovana discuss the challenges they’ve faced and obstacles they’ve overcome to progress towards their dreams.
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In this episode, Jovana gets personal as she shares some challenges that she has faced with her mental health. She discusses a low moment she faced last week as looking to the future has become difficult. This is a vulnerable moment for Jovana, as she opens up about the thoughts and feelings when her anxiety hits.
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In this episode, Jovana discusses her own personal journey with gaining self-confidence. She discusses the challenges she faced and how she learned how to overcome the difficult days. This episode is deeply personal and shares tips and tricks for you to also achieve your own confidence.
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In this episode, Jovana continues her conversation with Bree. This time digging deeper into some of the fundamental impacts of the United States’ current public school education system. They discuss stories of their own experiences as biracial Black women and current barriers students face to an equitable education.
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In this episode, Jovana interviews her friend and colleague, Bree. They discuss Bree’s goals and aspirations in life as well as how Bree came about finding her passion for education. They begin to discuss systemic issues in the public school system and their desires to have an impact on the world of education.
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In honor of Black History Month, Jovana shares her hair journey and how it helped her connect with her Blackness. She shares some insights into the complicated journey of Christianity in American History and the importance of acknowledging Black History as American History. She was inspired by the incredible book, I’m still here, by Austin Channing, as it helped get her through some tough times.
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This is part two of a two-part interview with special guest, Eryn. In this episode we discuss, her dream job, her inspirations, and what 2020 taught us. We dive deep as we discuss education, racism, Title IX, and so much more.
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This is Part one of a two-part interview with a special guest, Eryn. In this episode, we discuss some pivotal life-changing moments that have shaped Eryn into the young woman she is today and some of the challenges that have come along with these moments.
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In this episode, Jovana discusses her experience in growing her connection to God. Parts of this episode were previously recorded when Jovana was working in a past job. The episode was delayed as Jovana worked on getting her podcast together and found her courage to post the episode.
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In this episode, Jovana introduces her inspiration behind creating finding my own and discusses her own personal self-discovery journey.
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Finding My Own is a Podcast dedicated to the beautiful and complicated journey of self-discovery. Join Jovana, the host, as she shares her own personal journey through education, travel, and religion. Also, hear from her friends and family as they share their own journeys of self-exploration!
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This bonus track is a poem I wrote about 2020. In honor of this being the last day of 2020, I decided to record and release the poem on my podcast.
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