Obsessions: Jamila Woods On How Journaling Keeps Her Grounded
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Delving deep into the minds of our favourite people's deepest obsessions, this week we're joined by the amazing Jamila Woods. The singer, songwriter and poet is chatting to us about how journaling has transformed her creative process; from clearing her mind each morning, to clarifying her thoughts, and ridding her of writers block when she needs it most. Ione, Olivia, and Jamila are also chatting about the parts of ourselves we share online, how the internet has changed from an archiving perspective, how to find balance in digital spaces, and why creating real life documentation of your thoughts, feelings, and emotions is more important than ever.
Every other week we'll be picking the brain of a different creative about something they admire that has nothing to do with how they generate their income.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Ioneli |
| 0:03.0 | Hi, Odie. |
| 0:17.0 | Hi, Olivia, and hello to the listeners. |
| 0:21.1 | In particular, hello to another good dog. |
| 0:23.4 | What a great screen name? |
| 0:24.9 | Who left us a review, five stars, one of my favorite podcasts. |
| 0:29.5 | Listening to the polyester podcast is one of my favorite parts of my week. |
| 0:33.8 | The convoes are thought-provoking and refreshingly feature kind and creative folks who are |
| 0:38.9 | fighting the good fight with their work, which is a lovely review. That is so nice. But for now, |
| 0:45.1 | welcome to the podcast. I'm I'm Ioni and I'm the founder and editor of polyester, online and |
| 0:49.7 | imprint and everywhere else. And I'm Olivia, the co-host producer and editor of the podcast. We |
| 0:54.0 | publish weekly episodes at the Sleepover Club one week and Obsessions the next. This week, it's the Obsessions episode where we talk to a person. We admire about something they're obsessed with that has nothing to do with how they generate their income. And next week is the Sleepover Club where Ioni and I have all those gorge conversations you usually have |
| 1:11.1 | with your girlmates at a sleepover and at the end there's three recommendations to get you |
| 1:15.5 | through your week in lockdown. So, obsessions. Have you got any obsessions this week? |
| 1:20.8 | Olivia. Well, my, this week's obsession, funnily enough, is an obsession of mine, as you will |
| 1:27.1 | hear in the recording |
| 1:28.4 | where I'm like, I love it. I do it as well. Okay, well, we'll get onto that in a minute because all week I've been like, oh my God, I know what my obsession is going to be. And today I wake up and I completely forgot it. But I remembered again, I was racking my brain. I was like, Is it this? Is it that? Is it that? |
| 1:44.1 | And basically, it was I already sent you the link to the video. |
| 1:47.3 | Doja Cat. again. I was racking my brain. I was like, is it this? Is it that? Is it that? And basically, |
| 1:45.0 | it was I already sent you the link to the video, Doja Cat, doing an emo performance at the |
| 1:51.0 | EMAs, I think it was, European Music Awards. I don't know, whatever, but obsessed. |
| 1:57.0 | Stunning. Everyone's going absolutely mad for it. Absolutely, my accent went then, did you hear? Everyone's going absolutely mad for it absolutely my accent went then did you hear everyone's |
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