I hope you're feeling festiveee!! As it's coming to the end of 2024 today I am sitting down to reflect on my year answering some questions you guys have sent in. I look at all sorts of topics from career to love life, queerness, feeling lost in your 20s, feeling insecure and the crazy world of social media. I really hope that this episode feels like a safe space to pause and take a moment to really reflect on all that has happened in this year for you, the good and the bad, and to really decide what energy and intention you want to carry into your 2025.

It is genuinely such a joy as always to be hosting this podcast and that you guys are in this corner of the Internet with me. So many like minded people all around the world, all of us interested in self growth and introspection and trying to find optimism in an objectively difficult world and it's just an honour.

As always I start with a guided meditation to be here with intentionality, to use this time and space as a true break from from the hectic whirlwind of the rest of your life. Before we launch into the end of year Q&A!!!

The episode closes with my ‘Casual Magic of the Week’ and we hear from Lauren (@beanovegan on Instagram) who shares their Casual Magic followed by intention setting for the week ahead.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

00:19 Festive decorations

00:36 End-of-year reflections

00:58 Mixed feelings about 2024

01:00 Episode overview: reflection and Q&A session

02:26 The magic of winter and introspection

03:01 Guided meditation

05:36 Reflecting on your year using Year Compass

07:07 Jade’s personal reflections on the year

08:46 Most proud accomplishment: ending a long-term relationship

10:08 Biggest success: starting the podcast

11:22 Theme of the year: relationships and personal growth

13:00 German language learning journey

14:21 Best way to learn a language

16:02 Advice on sharing relationships online

17:51 Coping with a breakup

20:41 Reflecting on a breakup and moving forward

21:20 Discussing queerness and overcoming internalised homophobia

24:34 Advice for young queer individuals

24:53 Starting a podcast – planning and initial stages

27:11 Addressing world issues and resilience

29:35 Practising casual magic and staying hopeful

31:55 Navigating life post-university and self-compassion

33:37 Defining what is "enough" and self-acceptance

38:24 Balancing social media use as a content creator

40:36 Understanding Choice Architecture

41:02 Listener Appreciation and Podcast Community

41:22 Casual Magic of the Year: Personal Anecdote

42:55 Casual Magic of the week

44:00 Reflecting on the Year

44:43 Final Words and Encouragement

If you’d like to be featured as the Casual Magic of the week:

💌 Notice a moment of casual magic in your week. What was something beautiful in your daily life? A special moment or reflection?

💌  DM us a ~60 second voice message or video to @casualmagicpodcast on instagram or email it to [email protected] — feel free to include any pictures of your casual magic if you have any!!

💌  Start the voicenote by introducing yourself and where you’re from!!

💌  Tell us in your DM / email if you want to be tagged if chosen.

💌  We’ll pick one a week to share in the podcast and on here so we can all participate in your joy!!

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This is Finding Your Casual Magic with UnJaded Jade

Produced by The Podcast Guys

Theme music by Francesca Lu

 

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