The One About Collective Experiences, Body Beliefs, Self Criticism and Using Your Voice with Josie Balka

The Papaya Podcast

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

“I can't remember anyone I've seen at a public pool with such a memorable body, good or bad that I think about it ever again” - Josie Balka, our guest today… and that quote? From a sound bite you’ve likely heard thousands of times across social media. But where did it come from? Josie shares her struggle to accept her voice, find her words and share her lived experience through her “self proclaimed writing” and spoken word. If you’ve ever experienced a changing body (ahem, all of us) or want to find YOUR voice, your story, or just listen to some words to find a place for it all to land, this episode is for you.

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Discussions of plastic surgery, near-death, weight loss and miscarriage topics are all in this episode.

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0:00.0	Hi friends and welcome to the Papaya podcast. I'm your hostess
0:08.3	trying her mostest Sarah Nicole and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that.
0:18.0	So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real because we are all in this digital space together.
0:28.7	Josie people are so excited
0:30.7	that you're coming on the show.
0:32.0	Somebody was like, oh my gosh, it's my two
0:33.6	favorite voices together and I cannot tell you what a compliment that is for me
0:37.8	because I love your voice so that somebody even remotely was like your voice is in the category of
0:45.6	Josie's voice I was like oh God bless you that's such a compliment to me because
0:50.6	I feel like you just have this familiar voice that as soon as I
0:53.0	posted that I was coming on here I got so many messages from my friends being
0:55.6	like what she's gonna talk to you and I was like yeah I know I can't believe it
0:59.8	but I was listening to your podcast at the gym the other day smiling and laughing like while I was on the treadmill
1:05.0	like a freak.
1:06.0	People were looking at me thinking I was the strangest person ever.
1:08.0	Oh, that makes me happy.
1:10.0	No, I'm really bad at asking people to be on my podcast because I get like, I don't know, I don't want anybody to feel like they have to or that like, I don't know, I don't know, I just hate bothering people and I felt like I was sliding into
1:24.6	your dreams being like hey so do you would you ever want to come on you were so
1:28.8	excited and so I was like oh thank God that the response, because I'm just really excited.
1:34.1	You're a newer follow for me, but you're somebody.
1:36.5	And I think for so many people you are as well.
1:39.6	Because your work, I mean, it not only only exploded but it was the way I played the audio I played the
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