crying in my jacuzzi

About crying in my jacuzzi

Join seasoned Transformational Coach & longtime activist, Dana Balicki, for a wildride into the jacuzzi-verse to explore the ebbs & flows of living an examined life. Each and every episode invites you to explore the strange magic of humaning together in these wild times.™ With 13 years of coaching expertise, Dana blends irreverent reverence, spiritual insight, decolonial teachings, collective movement-building, high-woo, personal narrative, and grounded growth-oriented practicality for deep, thought-provoking conversations. Sound editing and design by Rose Blakelock, theme song by Kat Otteson, artwork by Natalee Miller! Extra support by robot cohost Alex & robot producer (and part-time cohost) Janet.

Publisher

dana balicki

Category

education · religion & spirituality · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

25 May 2023

Latest episode

7 Nov 2025

Latest episodes

47 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Nov 2025

   Postcolonial Jitters

   What happens when you no longer want the dream you worked for (capitalism anyone, lol)? When the worked-so-hard-for-thing stops singing back? And can we make the trade for something riskier and more honest—prioritizing resonance over metrics and presence over pace? In this ep, we dare to embrace changes not as failures, but as craft, maturity, and a detangling (rebellion as practice!) from our cultural, colonial conditioning. We also get a surprise visit multi-dimensional house-call from a b...

2. 

   2 Oct 2025

   Gag Me with a Healthy NO: Neurobiology, Resonance, and Empathy with Sarah Peyton

   What if empathy isn’t gone—just thirsty—and the rehydration begins in your nervous system and our emotional bodies? We sit down with author, neuroscience educator, and my teacher, Sarah Peyton, to explore accompaniment, the body-based practice of bringing your full self into relationship and letting resonance change you. From the rise of fascism to climate grief and information overload, we trace how overwhelm disconnects us from a healthy, sacred NO—and how tending to our disgust...

3. 

   11 Sept 2025

   Overcoming Certainty & Embracing Conscious Confusion

   What happens when we swap our desperate (conditioned) grasping for certainty for a curious(ly awkward) embrace of confusion? This episode invites you into a radical reframing of confusion—not as weakness or failure, but as an appropriate, even necessary response to our rapidly changing world. Cultural messaging tells us confusion should be avoided, fixed, overcome. That if we’re confused, somehow we’re failing life! Abso-f$%king-lutely not. Through personal stories, practical guidance, ...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

62 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

52 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 50 / 100

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Quality

60

Social presence

97

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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