In This Episode:  

• We talk about the positive side of TikTok, the validation and community that it can provide for people who are being authentic to who they are.
• How do you find the balance between finding harmony between stretching outside of your comfort zone and still being authentic and true to yourself? We talk about that.
• Joanna shares about doing auditions and trying to get some acting gigs. 
• We ask Joanna what it has been like being thrust into the spotlight with her explosive growth on Tiktok.
• We talk about religion and how it impacts our lives.
• Joanna talks about how important of a role her mom played in her life and how she empowered her by valuing her opinion, making her feel heard, and supporting her.
• We talk about gender norms, Joanna's discussions on her Tiktok community, and how the rules are trained into us from our youth. That's the category we have been trained to put upon people. It's a difficult unlearning process. 
• Joanna shares about wanting to get rid of gender pronouns and the complexity of the issues surrounding why she advocates this.  

Links To Things We Talk About: 

• Unlearn 16 on TikTok
• Brené Brown on Empathy
• Unlearn 16: Class is in Session Podcast

Quotes from Today's Episode:

"We try so hard in this world. Sometimes, we all do, myself included, try to be what we think people want or people need or what people are going to identify as legitimate and serious. And in that, we lose all of our authenticity, and when we lose our authenticity, our message stops mattering anyway." - Joanna.

"I don't think I'm smart enough to be scared," - said Joanna.

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