Jamie Green
patreon
Taking Your Answers: Transformative Experiences☆彡
🕑 Added 2025-08-21 01:31:38 +0000 UTCHi patron I am trying something a little new and fun in September's upcoming monthly podcast. Don't hate me if it sucks major style, and I might do this only once and hate it myself. But I'm doing a themed podcast, aka a podcast centering around an actual topic.
The topic for September is transformative experiences. This can be anything in your life that you've done that changed the trajectory of your life/mindset somehow. This should be something that impacted you positively (even if the event itself was not necessarily a positive thing) and it doesn't have to be some huge life thing. It could be as simple as watching a movie or changing a habit in your life. Big ones are okay too. I kind of want to hear them all because I'm greedy. <3
For the first half of the podcast I'll talk about some of my transformative experiences and in the second half I'll be reading some of yours.
can't wait to hear them, let me know if this is completely and utterly unclear and/or difficult to understand :)
-JG
Comments
Grace Ammons
In March I took a trip to the Netherlands to see my long distance boyfriend at the time and he broke up with me halfway into the trip. I think I would’ve thought that I’d be in shambles, but I actually used it as an opportunity to make the most of a bad situation and proved to myself that I have a lot of resilience and adaptability. I ended up having a great rest of the trip regardless :D I don’t feel like the same person after that week, in the best way possible
Leslie
TL;DR sometimes not getting a dream job is the best thing that can happen to you.
Leslie
I was a theater major and worked painting sets for 5 years after school. The work itself was fun, but pretty much everything else about my life was a struggle. The boss was horrible and abusive. My partner was horrible and abusive. My living situation was precarious because I didn’t make enough money to pay all my bills. I thought everything was about to change when a new job opportunity appeared. I could paint for my mentor at a university the next year because their assistant was leaving. I was ecstatic. It was the stability I needed. I was brave enough to break up with my partner and leave my horrible boss. I only needed to freelance for a few months. A month later, my mentor met with me and said their assistant was staying on for another year. I lost the job. I was devastated. There were no other jobs like this in town. I had nothing else lined up. I wasn’t able to move to another town with more opportunities either. I couldn’t help it- I sobbed uncontrollably in front of her. I had a total breakdown. I hated myself, my choices. I didn’t know what to do. She told me something in that moment that stuck with me. She said that I was the one that will save myself. In every moment, I am becoming the person that will embrace all of my past selves, love them, and protect them. I will reach back to the person I am now and say “I’ve got you”. That moment pushed me away from a career that was not working for me. I resolved to get a day job to actually support myself. It was rocky, but within a year, I had a job with a regular paycheck. 4 more years after that, I had a comfortable salary at a tech job. Do I wish I was making art instead of typing at a computer? Absolutely. But I have a house, savings, a happy relationship, and a vibrant social life. I absolutely love my life, and I’m grateful to my past self for enduring that disappointment to get me here. I swore when I got a day job that I’d still make art, and I do. I’m manic about it. It was the deal I made with myself: I could carry my past self to safety, but I had to bring her dreams along, too.
