Living Dvnly

About Living Dvnly

Stories We Return To is a podcast about the experiences, ideas, films, books, relationships, and cultural moments that stay with us, and what we notice when we return to them from a different place in our lives. Hosted by Amber Janae, each episode explores identity, creativity, culture, intentional living, and the ways our understanding of ourselves changes over time.

Publisher

Amber Janae

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 May 2023

Latest episode

22 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

11 of 35 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   22 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Life You Want May Require Disappointing Who You Thought You'd Be: On Self-Disappointment, Changing Expectations, and Redefining Success

   Host Amber Janae shares her journey of navigating self-disappointment and redefining success by releasing past expectations and embracing her evolving ambitions.

2. 

   15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   What We Return To Reveals Who We’ve Become: On Nostalgia & the Distance Between Then and Now

   Host Amber Janae explores how nostalgia reveals our evolving identities and what truly matters when revisiting past experiences.

3. 

   8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Starting Over, Creative Freedom & Choosing Yourself

   Host [Host Name] explores personal evolution and creative rebirth, sharing insights on trusting instincts and embracing a new chapter with newfound freedom.

Inside a recent episode

The Life You Want May Require Disappointing Who You Thought You'd Be: On Self-Disappointment, Changing Expectations, and Redefining Success

Published 22 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I realized that becoming my own person not only required me to stop living according to someone else's expectations, I also had to confront the expectations that I had inherited and absorbed to the point that I had begun calling these things my own and feeling like they were actually a reflection of who I am and what I wanted. Buckle up because today we are returning to the versions of ourselves that we learn to become. And we are going to unpack and explore what happens when the life that feels right to us starts to conflict with the person that we once believed that we needed to be according to other people's expectations. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

9,283

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.6 / 5

14 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 58 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

48

Social presence

91

YouTube

74

Engagement

51

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