Ep. 21 Heavily Influenced w/ Josi Pellicano
Recovering From Reality
Dear Media, Alexis Haines
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
“It’s important to use our platforms as a way to connect with others and to be able to share.”
In this episode, I sit down with my childhood friend and true inspiration, Josi Pellicano! I met Josi in middle school, and have always admired how resilient she is. She has a really interesting story to share that I know you guys will learn a lot from her strength. We talk about her dad’s incarceration for most of Josi’s life, her shifting family dynamic now that he’s out, and how she has adapted to all this trauma and adversity. Josi also shares her experience getting her Master’s degree, and how that guided her to where she is today.
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I love that Josi is using her platform to open up about this story. When a family member goes to prison, the entire family goes along too. Josie is creating a safe space to discuss this issue and reminding us to embrace when we’re not okay and talk about our shame. The tough times shouldn't be kept a secret.
Here are some more points we covered:
- Shifting family dynamics and how we cope
- How our families were different from the “norm” in our cushy California neighborhood.
- Josi’s current relationship with her father.
- US mass incarceration rates.
- Shame culture and why it needs to change!
To keep up with Josi and her killer Instagram feed, follow her @averagejoblog.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we're sitting down with my friend Josie Pelicano. Josie has such an interesting story you guys. |
| 0:06.4 | She is an amazing Instagram influencer whose feed I just love and she's all around just such a good person. |
| 0:15.7 | But she has an amazing story to tell when Josie was young her father went to prison for most of her life. |
| 0:24.4 | She just recently got out and she's sitting down with us today to talk about what that experience was like for her because it was very public. |
| 0:31.9 | And it definitely wasn't something that was just easy to get over. It was really hard losing her dad. |
| 0:39.1 | And so we're sitting down. We're talking about how that affected her and what her life is like today. |
| 0:45.4 | And I hope you guys really love and enjoy this episode. |
| 0:54.4 | Hey, it's Alexis Haynes and this is my podcast Recovering From Reality. |
| 1:24.8 | Today I'm sitting down with Josie Pelicano who I have known since probably like fifth grade. |
| 1:32.5 | Hi Josie. Hi. I'm so happy to have you on. I'm excited. |
| 1:37.0 | So when I started the Recovering From Reality podcast I ran into Josie. This was before, I mean I think you were working at a sushi place. |
| 1:46.1 | Yep. And I told you like what I was doing and as I was telling you to you walk away and I'm sitting down with Evan. |
| 1:54.6 | State night and I'm like I need to have Josie on the podcast. |
| 1:57.3 | So let's talk a little bit about it. So why don't you tell us your story? |
| 2:03.1 | Okay. So I grew up in this like gorgeous town in Oak Park. I mean Alexis and I grew up together. |
| 2:11.2 | And it's just like this little like almost like stepford suburban area and I grew up in like |
| 2:17.2 | I still have dreams about this house. Like the prettiest house that I absolutely loved and you know |
| 2:21.8 | just like a really honestly over the top life because my dad was pretty successful at his job at the time. |
| 2:28.0 | So we were really fortunate. We lived in you know a nice home. We got everything we wanted which |
| 2:33.3 | you know made us kind of like spoil the props when we were younger but it was it was nice. |
| 2:38.0 | And so that was great up until the age I was 10. And then when I turned 11 my kind of reality of what |
| 2:46.9 | I had sort of got totally shaken and the world that I was living in that like fluffy cushy life |
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