Finding Your Casual Magic

Hi friends, welcome back to another episode of ✨Finding Your Casual Magic✨ This week, we’re exploring joy, optimism, and how the smallest moments can light up our lives - even when everything feels heavy. Joining me is the radiant David Larbi, a content creator, poet, and host of the podcast Mindful Moments. He’s also the author of the wonderful new book, Frequently Happy: 52 Mindful Moments to Bring Hope and Joy, which is all about embracing everyday magic. In today’s episode, David opens up about his journey of finding joy in the little things and reframing life’s challenges with gratitude instead of guilt. From his love of words and storytelling to what he’s learned from setbacks, David’s insights will inspire you to see the magic in your own life. 🌻 We begin with a grounding meditation (always a good idea to centre yourself) and chat about: Why optimism isn’t about ignoring challenges but about navigating them with hope 🌈 How storytelling can help you take control of your own narrative 🎭 David’s journey from school journaling to becoming a published author ✍️ The lessons he learned from his shoulder injury and the power of slowing down Finding joy in connection - even if it means embracing the “cringe” sometimes! We also share our ‘Casual Magic of the Week,’ with David’s moment being so heartwarming it’ll make you smile (even if he’s keeping his playlist secret!). 💛 The episode closes with my ‘Casual Magic of the Week’ and we hear from Marwyn who shares their Casual Magic followed by intention setting for the week ahead. Grab your journal or a cosy drink, and join us in reflecting on: What went well this week? What are you proud of? What challenged you? Let’s set a powerful intention for the week ahead. 🌟 I just want to send you this reminder that no matter where you are in your self confidence journey, no matter how you might feel today, you are always enough. 💛 🎧 Find David online: Instagram: @DavidLarbi Get his book Frequently Happy: https://lnk.to/frequentlyhappy Timestamps: 0:00 - 2:40 - Introduction to Casual Magic and Guest:, David Larbi 3:02 - 5:38 - Grounding Meditation Exercise 6:07 - 9:04 - David's View on Optimism 11:20 - 12:46 - Casual Magic vs. Small Joys: David shares his concept of small joys 13:47 - 15:01 - Writing Process of David's Book 15:16 - 16:57 - Embracing Sensitivity and Emotions 17:22 - 19:44 - Frequently Happy: Explanation of the frequently happy concept 20:28 - 21:02 - Reflecting on Guilt and Gratitude 27:09 - 29:58 - Advocating Optimism During Hard Times 31:14 - 32:08 - Practical Tips for Finding Joy in Adversity 37:39 - 39:15 - Dealing with Seasons and Cultural Pessimism 41:20 - 42:33 - Developing a Love for Words and Storytelling 44:35 - 45:13 - Influence of Words in Shaping Narrative 50:05 - 51:34 - Influence of Language on Perspective 1:01:46 - 1:03:59 - Learning from Setbacks 1:06:21 - 1:06:45 - Casual Magic Moments 1:08:40 - 1:09:31 - Listener's Casual Magic of the Week 1:10:26 - 1:11:07 - Intentions for the Week 1:12:07 - 1:12:54 - Closing Thoughts and Gratitude 💌 Want to share your own moment of magic? Send a 60-second voice note/video to @casualmagicpodcast on Instagram or email [email protected] with your magical moment. Pics are welcome, too! We’ll pick one a week to share in the podcast and on here so we can all participate in your joy!! CONTACT ME Business Enquiries: [email protected] Instagram: @unjadedjade TikTok: @unjadedjade This is Finding Your Casual Magic with UnJaded Jade. Produced by The Podcast Guys. Theme Music by Francesca Lu. For more Finding Your Casual Magic, go to @casualmagicpodcast on Instagram!!

Hello friends, welcome back to the twelfth episode of ✨ Finding your Casual Magic ✨ (Happy New Year!!!) Have you ever caught yourself saying, oh, I'll be happy when I have the perfect partner and I'm no longer single? When I finally quit the job and I'm in my dream career, when I go on my dream holiday, or when climate change is solved and no one's suffering in the world anymore? When have you reached a goal but felt unfulfilled shortly after? Have you ever caught yourself thinking that when you cross that finish line everything will fall into place, only to realise that there's a new race ahead? I really hope today's episode re inspires you to realise that today is a gift. Your life is a gift, and your life is actually pretty amazing right now as it is. Today we're looking at something that I'm so passionate about. The illusion that our lives will feel better in the future after some vague outcome or life event, when the truth is you will carry the feelings that you have about yourself and your life now into whatever destination you're trying to get to. I'm going to walk you through a visualisation to help you really feel the deeper messages of today's episode and this idea of the arrival fallacy, which is when we think that upon achieving our goals, we'll finally attain all the happiness we desire, when in reality, a lot of the time the goalpost just changes. I'm also going to tell you about some of the happiest people that I've ever met and how generally the source of their happiness is being content with the now exactly as they are, with exactly everything that they have. The episode closes with my ‘Casual Magic of the Week’ and we hear from Marlene who shares their Casual Magic followed by intention setting for the week ahead. Timestamps: 00:00 - 01:30 Introduction: What is Casual Magic? 01:31 - 03:30 The Arrival Fallacy: Happiness Isn't a Destination 03:31 - 06:30 Guided Meditation: Finding Presence in the Now 06:31 - 08:30 Visualisation: The Mountain Climb and the Joy of the Journey 08:31 - 13:00 Learning to Appreciate the Trail: Jade's Personal Reflections 13:01 - 18:00 Finding Joy in Language Learning: Jade's German Journey 18:01 - 20:30 Lingoda and the Joy of Process-Oriented Learning 20:31 - 26:30 Overcoming the Arrival Fallacy: Academic Peaks and Personal Growth 26:31 - 31:30 The Psychology of Goal-Driven Happiness: Impact Bias and Hedonic Treadmill 31:31 - 35:00 Imposter Syndrome and Neglecting the Process 35:01 - 40:00 The Happiest People Jade Knows: Stories of Contentment and Gratitude 40:01 - 45:00 Daily Turning Points: Cultivating Casual Magic in Everyday Life 45:01 - 50:00 Reflections and Journal Prompts: Finding Gratitude in the Now 50:01 - 53:00 Jade’s Casual Magic of the Week 53:01 - 53:33 Listener's Casual Magic of the Week 53:37 - 55:51 Weekly Reflection and Intentions: Setting the Tone for the New Year 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!! CONTACT ME Business Enquiries: [email protected] Instagram - @unjadedjade TikTok: @unjadedjade This is Finding Your Casual Magic with UnJaded Jade Produced by The Podcast Guys Theme music by Francesca Lu For more Finding Your Casual Magic, go to @casualmagicpodcast on Instagram!!

Hello friends, welcome back to a very special bonus episode of ✨ Finding your Casual Magic ✨  So many of you guys DM'd me on Instagram asking for a guided meditation and I thought what better time of year than as we're all looking ahead into the new year thinking about our dreams, daring to dream again, thinking about what we want to manifest into this next chapter of our lives. So I really hope that this time can allow you to fill your cup, bring in the positive energy that you desire, and really help you tune into gratitude for all the abundance that's already present in your life so that you can help invite more in. And if you've never meditated before, I promise it's not scary. I really invite you to be open minded, to allow your experience to be whatever it is and and I really hope that you come away from the next 15 to 20 minutes feeling some kind of energy shift. You can practice this meditation whenever you like, but I recommend returning to it regularly if you really want these manifestations and visualisations to embed themselves in your psyche. I hope you enjoyed this episode and as always I just want to send you this reminder that no matter where you are in your self confidence journey, no matter how you might feel today, you are always enough. 💛 Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction and purpose of the guided meditation 00:28 Intentions and benefits of the guided meditation 01:02 Beginning the meditation: finding a comfortable position 01:43 Tuning into Your Breath 02:21 Deep Cleaning Breaths 03:27 Grounding awareness and releasing tension 05:55 Focus on your heart 07:12 Invoking gratitude 09:01 Turning towards the future 10:56 Creating a path of intention 12:23 Setting a Clear Intention for the Year Ahead 14:03 Returning to Present Moment 14:20 Conclusion and gratitude 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!! CONTACT ME  Business Enquiries: [email protected]   Instagram - @unjadedjade TikTok: @unjadedjade This is Finding Your Casual Magic with UnJaded Jade Produced by The Podcast Guys Theme music by Francesca Lu   For more Finding Your Casual Magic, go to @casualmagicpodcast on Instagram!! https://www.instagram.com/casualmagicpodcast/

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. Learn a language online with Lingoda. Get a 10% discount and up to 45 free classes in your first 3 months when you sign up to Lingoda Flex today with my code NEWYEARMAGIC https://try.lingoda.com/NewYearMagic [ad] 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!! CONTACT ME  Business Enquiries: [email protected]   Instagram - @unjadedjade TikTok: @unjadedjade This is Finding Your Casual Magic with UnJaded Jade Produced by The Podcast Guys Theme music by Francesca Lu   For more Finding Your Casual Magic, go to @casualmagicpodcast on Instagram!! https://www.instagram.com/casualmagicpodcast/