The One About The Different Forms Of Love with Josie Balka

The Papaya Podcast

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

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In this heartfelt episode, Josie Balka returns to discuss her journey through profound life changes, creativity, and the importance of embracing authenticity. We explore topics like handling grief, the power of writing, navigating online rejection, and the beautifully complex nature of love and friendship.

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0:00.0	Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess, Try and Hermostis, Sarah Nicole,
0:10.2	and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom
0:15.6	or something like that. So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real, because we are all in this digital
0:23.3	space together. Today's guests we brought back because I think this was the top listen to
0:31.8	episode of 2025. We ended up re-airing it over the Christmas holidays, and now she's back.
0:38.5	Please welcome Josie Volka.
0:40.2	Hi, thank you for having me back on.
0:42.5	The Voice of a Generation.
0:45.8	You're too nice to meet.
0:47.6	No, but also, like, you are.
0:49.4	Isn't it weird?
0:51.1	It's actually gotten to the point now where, because I know you in real life,
0:55.0	it's so bizarre to be just like watching commercial sounds and it's your voice or watching
1:01.0	like thousands of reels and like your voice is like a trend. And I think that that is like
1:06.1	one of the coolest things to witness in real time like over the years happen. And yeah. if it's weird for you, imagine it for me. I like, I, like, I'll be scrolling through TikToks with my husband and be like, we'll just land on one where it's my voice and I'll just like it and what past. He's like, you really like just like that. And it's you talking and you don't really soak it in. it's crazy it really is you have such a gift we talked about this on the first time we
1:31.4	record It's you talking and you don't really soak it in. It's crazy.
1:27.7	It really is you have such a gift.
1:30.1	We talked about this on the first time we recorded, but do you have such an ability of
1:33.5	like taking emotions and putting them into these palms that just hit in a way?
1:39.6	And what's so lovely about it is we've also gotten to watch you go through so many different
1:44.0	iterations of
1:45.0	life. I think one of the first things you went viral for was your journey with your body and the fact
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