387. Find Your “Tingle” & Live Wild with Justina Blakeney Multidisciplinary artist and designer – Justina Blakeney – joins Glennon, Abby, and Amanda to discuss living close to one's true self and Justina’s insights on self-expression and creativity. Discover: -How to know whether you’re having a spiritual awakening or a midlife crisis -The beauty of being an outsider -What to do when you get to the goal and say, “Now what?” -How to balance creativity and discipline More on Justina: Justina Blakeney is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and New York Times Bestselling Author. She is the Founder and Chief Creative Officer of the home décor brand, Jungalow® and the author of several design books including Jungalow; Decorate Wild! and The New Bohemians book series. Justina lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Jason, their kiddo, Ida, her kitties, Juju and Nova, and 52 houseplants. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: Who is Justina Blakeney and what is her creative journey?
Today is the day, pod squad, that I have been waiting for lo so many, lo so many years. I know. Years. Because one of my favorite humans is here. Yes. And I don't even think she knows that she's one of my favorite humans. It might get a little embarrassing for you, Justina. Okay. First, I'm going to read your bio. That's what's happening now. And then I'll tell you the things.
Justina Blakeney is a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and New York Times bestselling author and She is the founder and chief creative officer of the home decor brand Jungalo. So good. If all of my hopes and dreams and untamedness came together in one brand, it's Jungalo. And the author of several design books, including Jungalo Decorate Wild and the New Bohemians book series.
Justina lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Jason, their kiddo, Ida. her kitties, Juju and Nova, and 52 houseplants because- Wow. Of course. All right. So real quick, Justina, I just, since I first met you, I think we've only been in rooms together a few times. I just, I feel like you are someone to me that feels like you live very close to your wild, like meaning-
Not wild like I think what sometimes people think of that as like necessarily loud or no, just I mean wild like your truest self. You seem like a human being who lives very from the inside out and not from the outside in. I can feel it in how you create and how you speak and how you dress and how you parent. And you're always that person.
What I want for everyone listening is just to be more of who they are. And so what I try to remind myself when I'm around you is not that I need to be more like Justina, but that I need to be more me. But I don't know if you remember this. We sat in a room together at like a really cool thing we do with a bunch of other women.
And we're supposed to go around at the end and all say what our brave goal is for the future. after this get together and everybody was saying things like for their companies or whatever. And I said, my goal is that I'm going to call Justina and ask her to be friends with me. I, of course, did not do that. But here we are.
Hi. Can I tell a brief little quick story about Justina and I's first real meeting?
Yeah.
Do you remember this, Justina?
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Chapter 2: How does Justina Blakeney define living wildly?
And that is sometimes where I think other voices come in and have to sometimes tell her like, it's okay to relax. It's okay to rest. And it's okay to disappoint people. But overall, I do think that my inner voices, the chorus is a beautiful one.
I've listened to you a lot talk about a time in your life when you were ignoring all the messages. We're in a collective midlife crisis. So a lot of the things we've been talking about are how our lives and our bodies are always speaking to us about what we want and we need. And then Because of a lot of things, we ignore that. And then we wonder why we're fucked.
So talk to us about how meditation brought you back in touch with yourself and what that looks like now.
And also, could you tell us how you knew, how you could tell that you were stuck?
Yeah. I remember a conversation I had with a dear friend a few years ago. I said, and this is sort of right after COVID and right after we went through and lived in a whole big house renovation. And I was just not in a good place and working a lot. And I told her, I said, I don't have any free time. But if I did, I'm not even sure what I would do in it. I remember telling her that.
I was just like, I don't know what I do for fun anymore at this stage in my life. I'm just not sure. If I were to go away by myself for a weekend to Palm Springs or something, I don't know what I would do. And that thought really scared me because I've always felt really clear about sort of my passions and my purpose. And I just felt, yeah, really unsure and really run ragged. And
I wasn't feeling good in my body. And I'd been dealing with years and years of like a nervous tummy. And I just wasn't in a good place. And I knew. I knew I wasn't in a good place. But I mean, I'm going to get real with the pod squad. I think y'all can handle it. But I'd had diarrhea for like five years straight and just sort of ignored it and just was like, oh, yeah, well, you know.
this is how my tummy is, you know, and I never really did anything about it or paid any attention to it. And one day I was on the throne and my tummy was just feeling so bad. And I just heard this voice coming from inside. And it was just like, you are not listening to you are not listening. She kept saying that over and over again, you're not listening.
And she said, I've been telling you everything you need to know for so long and you're not listening. And that was a real turning point for me. I was like, okay. Okay, I'm going to start listening now. And I did. And so that was really the beginning of my meditation practice, which I was very resistant to. I'm an Aries. I have like go, go, go energy, all of that.
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