The Joy Diving Podcast

Today’s conversation was with Sid who’s known as @sidcasticdz on social media, a bright Algerian content creator who does it all, a Youtube creator slash Podcaster who’s very passionate about the concept of creating itself and sees it as a form of artistic self expression.

In this conversation we talked about how he has been exploring this journey of doing exactly that for the past 3 years. Sharing ideas/Books/ Articles online that he learns and masters well enough to create content about as well as trying to transmit an audiovisual experience to the viewer & how he figured out his ‘why’ of doing things. 

He also gave insight about what he learned along the way that I personally found super interesting, I hope you’ll enjoy this very long deep dive about figuring out content creation & story telling through audiovisual.

Make sure to check Sid's content at @sidcasticdz on instagram as well as his Youtube channel at : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_HLd5VOxr0MUn4vxZkNWLw

today’s conversation was with the very brilliant @Melissa_lakrib, Melissa is an Algerian English teacher (graduated from ENS) who’s currently majoring as well in political science in the American university in Cairo.

Melissa is also the founder of @Algeunesse, an Algerian NGO who works on promoting civil work in the Algerian community.

Our talk today was around finding yourself through this sense of engagement in the community and being an active member of society and how this can serve as a way to find fulfillment and happiness in a person’s life.

We also shared our thoughts on fear and how sometimes it can stop you from doing a lot of things.

We got vulnerable, emotional & most importantly real!

I personally loved this conversation so much and hope you’ll enjoy it too.

Ayoub Hamdi is an Algerian vlogger and film maker, medical student as well as a certified coach, in this episode we got the chance to talk about his own personal experience with pursuing his passion which is content creating and filmmaking and the risks that came with that. Between deciding to pursue your passion or pursuing a somehow stable lifestlye, Ayoub elaborated his thoughts on that and why sometimes it is very fundamentally important to question what you actually want in life and with the altering experiences that come with it.

Malak Belkacem is an Algerian Makeup influencer & a content creator with over 1M followers on Instagram, this huge platform allowed her to have an amazing community but despite their support, she had to go through a lot of cyber bullying and hate comments along the years.

in this episode, Malak shares her personal experience with the entire journey and how a simple comment can mentally feel challenging and draining, especially for younger females as she herself started very young.

We discussed how it feels to receive comments like this as I also shared my own personal experience with being cyber bullied back in high school, as well as what you should do and the mindset you should adopt if you ever want to go into social media and the blogging industry.

Make sure to check Malak at @malak_Belkacem on instagram!

Today we have Belkis or also known as @missjeudi, Belkis  and I talk about how diet culture has effected us so far and discuss our different yet similar relationship to food and the emotions we sign to it as well as our body image issues . Belkis also shared her own personal story of dieting since the age 9 and how she feels about that.  We also talked about where health falls in the equation and the motives females usually tend to choose to diet for. We ended up the conversation by talking about discovering intuitive eating and how to figure out a way to apply it in our own personal eating habits and daily life.    if you think you suffer from any type of eating disorder make sure to see a doctor for an adequate diagnosis.

Today we have nana! Also known as @hermessyhead, a YouTuber, an artist & a blogger as well as someone who went through the entire process of weight loss and adapting a more healthier life style.

In this episode We discussed our thoughts on weight loss in general and what worked for both us specifically as well as diet culture, health issues & the hardships that this journey comes with.

in today's episode, Roumiassa is our guest! a 5th year medical student & an instagram blogger, We together discussed studying medicine in Algeria, medical vulgarization and we talked about the importance of being updated and doing research and documentation.

In today’s episode, we had the honor to have Ikram as our guest, someone very courageous and someone who decided to shift her career drastically, she tells us more all about it in today’s episode; how going from English literature to human rights in the future might be the exact thing she has been waiting for her entire life.

In today’s episode i had a very interesting conversation with my best friend Wissem! Where we talked about media and the narrative it upholds sometimes, how conspiracy theories work, how this quarantine feels like taking our freedom away and this pattern of trying to constantly be over productive and doing something. 

 في حلقة اليوم، حكينا انا و وسام على الاعلام و كيفاه الاعلام يخمم، كيفاه الحجر الصحي نحالنا الحرية تاعنا و هدا الاحساس الدائم بلي لازم  دايمن تكون تدير  في حاجة و لا عندك حاجة تخدم عليها.