Merry Christmas!! Happy end of 2024! And welcome to a very special bonus Q&A episode of ✨ Finding your Casual Magic ✨ (the last one of the year!!)

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 findingyourcasualmagic@gmail.com — 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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