Just Audacity

Welcome Back to Just Audacity with Jourdan and Jordanaé!

Racist AF AND Thirsty AF? We have a lot to talk about. This week on Just Audacity, we’re unpacking Season 1, Episodes 3 and 4.

Should Molly have been the one to talk to Rashida just because they’re both Black? Could Jared have been a good fit for Molly? Was Daniel showing up at career day weird? And what did that couch really represent?

We’re also asking ourselves some tough questions. When your friend is venting, do they need a devil’s advocate or someone to just listen? How do you balance a day job with big dreams? And what’s your number, the amount you’d need to go all in on everything you want?

Rewatch with us, or just tune in for the unpacking!

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Just Audacity is a weekly podcast dedicated to the Audacity it takes to tell your story and go after everything you want in life. Join hosts Jourdan and Jordanaé for empowering conversations that explore the intersection of passion and profit.

Tune in to discover how to harness your own boldness and finally claim the life you’ve been envisioning.

Welcome Back to Just Audacity with Jourdan and Jordanaé!

This week on Just Audacity, we’re kicking off our rewatch of HBO’s Insecure, starting with Season 1, Episodes 1 and 2!

We’re revisiting this iconic series with a fresh perspective, exploring themes of conflict resolution, friendship, community, and the lessons we can take from the characters’ experiences.

Rewatch with us, or simply tune in to hear our thoughts as we unpack the moments, decisions, and dynamics that made Insecure such a staple!

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Just Audacity is a weekly podcast dedicated to the Audacity it takes to tell your story and go after everything you want in life. Join hosts Jourdan and Jordanaé for empowering conversations that explore the intersection of passion and profit.

Tune in to discover how to harness your own boldness and finally claim the life you’ve been envisioning.

This week on Just Audacity, we tackle a topic many of us tend to shy away from: jealousy in friendships. Inspired by a clip of Oprah declaring that “you can’t really be friends with anybody who has even a hint of jealousy,” we’re unpacking what jealousy actually looks like, where it comes from, and whether it has a place in healthy friendships.

Do you agree with Oprah, or do you think a little jealousy is a normal part of being human? We’re getting into what we were taught about jealousy growing up, our experiences navigating it on both sides of a friendship, and how we can learn to celebrate the people we love while working through our own insecurities.

We hope this conversation helps you reflect on your friendships, navigate jealousy with more self-awareness, and consider whether the presence of jealousy necessarily means a friendship has run its course.

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Just Audacity is a weekly podcast dedicated to the Audacity it takes to tell your story and go after everything you want in life. Join hosts Jourdan and Jordanaé for empowering conversations that explore the intersection of passion and profit.

Tune in to discover how to harness your own boldness and finally claim the life you’ve been envisioning.

Welcome Back to Just Audacity with Jourdan and Jordanaé!

As we both pursue our own solopreneur ventures, we were so excited to sit down with Ivy, founder of Liv Paper Co. We quickly learned that Ivy is an avid reader who has developed a practice of documenting her reading journey with multiple apps, journals, and notebooks. When her organization system started to feel a little less organized, she created a solution to her own problem: the Liv Paper Co. 2025 Reading Journal. It’s a stylish archive designed to help readers stay on track with their goals, reflect on their reading journey, and, best of all, record everything in one place.

In this conversation, we explore Ivy’s founder origin story and what keeps her motivated today. Ivy also reveals how the pursuit of perfection can actually be one of the most detrimental things in a solopreneur’s journey. She reminds us that making something exist and functional outweighs everything else. We hope you’re inspired by Ivy’s authenticity and reminded that you don’t need all the tools to start but audacity, hard work, and your unique point of view can go a very long way.

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Just Audacity is a weekly podcast dedicated to the Audacity it takes to tell your story and go after everything you want in life. Join hosts Jourdan and Jordanaé for empowering conversations that explore the intersection of passion and profit. 

Tune in to discover how to harness your own boldness and finally claim the life you’ve been envisioning.

Welcome Back to Just Audacity with Jourdan and Jordanaé!

We bet you didn’t know that the woman behind some of the most swoon-worthy young adult romances is also a Publishing Marketer. We sat down with Ebony Ladelle as she gave us a look into the reality of a multi-hyphenate creative and professional. To our surprise she does not have any secret tips up her sleeve. Instead, she impressed upon us the importance of recognizing the cost of our choice: when you choose to give your time and energy to one thing, you inevitably have less to give somewhere else.

In this conversation with author, marketer, and editor Ebony LaDelle, we explore the many roles she balances, what currently deserves her attention, and the projects she hopes to pursue in the future. We hope you walk away from this conversation with the audacity to give your time where it’s needed and pull back where it’s not. Counting the cost is not about potential loss but being intentional about gains.

**During this episode Jourdan describes a psychological pattern where survivors of abuse are repeatedly attracted to partners who resemble their original abuser, this term is called Repetition Compulsion.

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Just Audacity is a weekly podcast dedicated to the Audacity it takes to tell your story and go after everything you want in life. Join hosts Jourdan and Jordanaé for empowering conversations that explore the intersection of passion and profit.

Tune in to discover how to harness your own boldness and finally claim the life you’ve been envisioning.

Welcome Back to Just Audacity with Jourdan and Jordanaé!
There is power, joy, and serious wealth creation when Black women support Black stories. But how do we ensure our culture’s storytellers get the representation, backing, and deals they truly deserve?

In this conversation with Senior Literary Agent LaSheera Lee, we explore the business of Black romance literature and the audacious steps required to elevate minority voices in publishing. 
We hope you’ll listen and gain the audacity to step into spaces made for you, amplify marginalized voices, and build a career grounded in community.

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Just Audacity is a weekly podcast dedicated to the Audacity it takes to tell your story and go after everything you want in life. Join hosts Jourdan and Jordanaé for empowering conversations that explore the intersection of passion and profit. 

Tune in to discover how to harness your own boldness and finally claim the life you’ve been envisioning.

Welcome Back to Just Audacity with Jourdan and Jordanae!

With all the good social media provides, from reconnecting with old friends and making new ones to discovering information and finding endless entertainment, it can also feel like a never-ending funnel of negativity, cancel culture, gaslighting, and misinformation.

In this episode, we discuss our approach to deciding when to speak up and when to leave social media to its own devices. As we build our personal and collective brands, we unpack social responsibility, showing up authentically online, and what it really means to use your voice for impact!

JOIN THE WEEKLY DISCUSSION

Just Audacity is a weekly podcast dedicated to the Audacity it takes to tell your story and go after everything you want in life. Join hosts Jourdan and Jordanaé for empowering conversations that explore the intersection of passion and profit. 

Tune in to discover how to harness your own boldness and finally claim the life you’ve been envisioning.

That is an official wrap on Season 1 of the Just Audacity Podcast! We are incredibly grateful to every single one of you who tuned in, shared an episode, and contributed to the conversation. This season has been an amazing ride, and we couldn’t have done it without our amazing community. 

In this final episode of the season, we share the behind-the-scenes details on our upcoming four-stop, Black-owned bookstore crawl in Atlanta for Juneteenth, featuring a special Breakout anthology author event sponsored by Epic Reads.

ATL Juneteenth Bookstore Crawl Tickets

Reflecting on the journey of our first season, we look back at our favorite moments , the invaluable wisdom shared by our incredible guests , and the tough but necessary conversations we had about, working through disagreements, managing burnout, celebrating our wins, and prioritizing rest. We also look ahead to season two with a taste of what is on the horizon, including our new interactive “Hangover Live” sessions and our ultimate, audacious wish list of dream guests.

Score Red Carpet Tour Tickets

As we gear up for season 2 we have a ton to look forward to. This coming Wednesday, we will be in Miami speaking with the brilliant Kennedy Ryan about her latest release, Score! Right after that, we are heading straight to Atlanta for the Black Romance Book Festival. Community means everything to both of us. Whether we are attending these bookish events, hosting an event, or chatting via podcast, our biggest goal is making sure that every single member of our community feels seen and valued. We are beyond ecstatic for Season 2 and can’t wait to elevate everything we have to offer.

Stay tuned and remember; what do you need in order to get to where you want to be? Just audacity.

Chapters: 

Bookstore Crawl

Season 1 Reflection 

Plans for Season 2 

Reflection Questions: 

1. What episode did you get the most value out of? 
2. What’s an action you plan to take as a result of something you learned on Just Audacity? We will hold you to it! 

Welcome back to Just Audacity with Jourdan and Jordanaé! A weekly podcast dedicated to the audacity it takes to tell your story and go after everything you want in life.

We’ve talked a lot about honoring your gifts, trusting your vision, and building something that is rooted in purpose, community, and audacity. That’s why it was such a joy to sit down with award-winning audiobook narrator, actor, producer, and 2023 Audie Award finalist Wesleigh Siobhan. Someone who has not only mastered the art of storytelling, but has also built a company dedicated to making space for Black voices. 

We are so excited for you to tune in and soak up all of the wisdom, honesty, and creative inspiration Wesleigh so generously shared with us. 

Hearing Wesleigh Siobhan’s recount her journey as narrator and business owner was like a well of wisdom and a reminder to focus on your craft and fall in love with the process.  Her vision for the future of her production company is inspirational and a prime example of what it means to evolve as you turn your passion into profit. We truly believe this conversation will pour into you. Click the link below to tune in via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or right here on Substack, and don’t forget to check out the reflection questions. We’ll see you in the comments!

Chapters: 

19:35 - Early Career 

30:49 - The Importance of Honing Your Craft 

41:08 - Evolving and Building the AWSP Empire 

Welcome back to Just Audacity with Jourdan and Jordanaé! A weekly podcast dedicated to the audacity it takes to tell your story and go after everything you want in life.

This week, we are joined by Ms. Pansy for a much-needed conversation about money, taxes, and business structure for content creators and entrepreneurs.

For creators especially, this conversation makes one thing very clear: once your hobby begins generating income, it is time to start thinking like a business owner. Ms. Pansy breaks down the difference between a hobby and a business, why it is important to separate personal and business expenses, when to consider an LLC, what an S-Corp actually means, and how to approach write-offs without getting yourself in trouble.

As we begin turning our passions into profit, we do not have to know everything, but we do need to be willing to learn, ask questions, track our expenses, and build habits that support the legacy we say we want.

Grab your pen and paper, friend. It is time to start treating our content creation and side hustles like full-blown businesses.

Chapters: 

00:00 - The Foundation + Ms. Pansy’s background 

14:05 - The transition from hobby to business

19:53 - Business Structures 

43:43 - Preparing for financial growth 

Reflection Questions

1. What beliefs or lessons about money did you inherit, and how are they helping or limiting the way you manage your finances today?
2. What habits from this episode do you need to implement in order to start treating your gifts, content, or side hustle as something worthy of structure, protection, and long-term financial planning?