Welcome to Trying in Public: because we are really all just making it up as we go. Hosted by Destany Iman Martin, this is where we talk big dreams, questionable decisions, career pivots, dating, friendships, heartbreak, creativity, and becoming the person you’re trying to be. No gurus, no perfect answers, no pretending to have it all together. Just honest conversations, funny stories, and figuring it out in real time. Pull up a chair, girl! Let's figure it out.
You Can't Share Your Dreams With Everyone (It Is What It Is)
Hiiii!On this quick episode, I discuss a recent conversation I had with my dad that led to me a realization about sharing my dreams with people. Some people are not capable of "holding" your dreams with care. Sometimes, as much as we wish this wasn't the case, we can't share our dreams with the people "closest" to us. Protect yourself, your heart and your dreams!!
11 Oct 2026
A Love Letter to My Homegirls
A little love letter to my homegirls 💌In this episode, I talk about the ways my friends have shown me love, how my friendships are already giving me so much of the love I am looking for, and how much I have learned about love through them! Friendship is NOT always easy, and it takes effort, honesty, and a willingness to work through the hard stuff. But its soooooo worth it.Just a reminder that some of the greatest loves of our lives might already be here.
4 Oct 2026
Your Mother Wound is Holding You Back
I love my mom, but I can also admit that being her daughter hurt me deeply.
In this episode of Trying in Public, I am talking about the complicated reality of loving a parent while also having to heal from parts of your childhood. I get into my mother wound, growing up too fast, the ways our parents’ pain can become our own, and what it looks like to stop organizing your life around our childhood trauma.
This is not about blaming my mom or reducing the relationship to it's hardest moments. It is about making room for two things to be true at once: I can understand her, love her, and have compassion for everything that she has been through, while still being honest about what it did to me and how I have had to heal from it.
At some point, understanding where it came from just is not enough. You have to decide what you are going to do with it.
23 Sept 2026
Trying in Recovery: Picking Up the Pieces
Recovery is weird because getting sober was only the beginning. Then came the part where I actually had to meet find again.
In this episode, we are getting into what recovery has really looked like for me: the good, the bad, the ugly, and, of course, the funny. The rebuilding. The uncomfortable realizations. Learning how to exist without constantly trying to escape myself. Figuring out who I am outside of survival mode and slowly finding my way back home to me!
Recovery definitely has not been this linear journey where everything suddenly made sense. It’s been messy, hilarious, painful, freeing, and sometimes deeply uncomfortable. But somewhere in all of that, I started recognizing myself again. Challenging, but beautiful! This is what trying looks like in recovery.
13 Sept 2026
Trying in Addiction: Becoming an Alcoholic in my 20's
In this episode of Trying in Public, I’m telling the story of my relationship with alcohol. From some of my earliest experiences with drinking, to college, New York, and eventually the moments that forced me to really confront what alcohol had become in my life.
This story happened over the span of about four or five years, and trauma has a funny way of impacting your memory and your sense of time. I tried to tell everything as honestly and accurately as I could. I do have a phenomenal memory unfortunately, so it should be pretty accurate lol.
There are funny parts, embarrassing parts, things I can laugh about now, and things that are still hard to revisit. But more than anything, this is the story of how something that started out feeling normal and fun slowly became something much bigger, and what it has looked like finding my way back to myself on the other side of it.
I’m not telling this story because I have everything figured out. I’m telling it because this is Trying in Public, and healing counts too.
Be kind to me! I’m just a (healing) gurl 🤎
Love y’all xoxoxo
3 Sept 2026
The Art of Trying
Welcome to Trying in Public! In the very first episode, I’m getting into the story behind this podcast, what brought me here, and the very real process of trying to figure my life out while everyone is looking. We’re talking big dreams, questionable decisions, starting over, and what happens when the life you thought you were building doesn’t quite go according to plan.
In here, there are perfect answers. No five-year plan chile! Just me, figuring it out in real time. Welcome to the beginning!
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