Just Jax Podcast

Episode 15: Scratch-and-Dent to Sacred Worth: The Crocheted Dog Miracle

Catch up on the story with Episode 14:  I Called Bullshit on the Meditation—Then Everything Shifted with Brenda Johnston

💡 Episode 15 Overview

What does healing look like when it shows up in a box?
This week, Jax unpacks a hand-crocheted miracle—one that took fifty years to land. Inside that box: a basset hound made of yarn, sent without a card, wit...

🎙️ Episode 14 — I Called Bullshit on the Meditation. Then Everything Changed.

A spiritual faceplant, an unexpected breakthrough, and a path back to myself.
Guest: Brenda Johnston, subconscious strategist and host of The Limitless Life

Some meditations feel like magic.
Others feel like manipulation.

This one felt like a trap—until everything shifted.

This episode begins with resistance and ends with something I never expected: a ...

🎙️ Episode 13 – The Healing Modality Salad

Mirror Work, EFT, Tarot, and Ho’oponopono: How I Released Blame and Reclaimed My Voice

When I gave healing a fair shot, I started with the mirror. I met my younger self eye to eye—and she deserved more.

Henri McKinnon’s self-awareness work gave me language for what I had carried. Tarot dropped a truth bomb I never expected, and the Five of Pentacles showed me two figures I needed to let go.

T...

Transform What L.O.S.E.R. Means: Separating Identity from Inheritance

A mental health deep-dive into setting emotional boundaries with unhealed parents

“You’re just like your dad.” That sentence stuck to me for years. It shaped how I saw myself, how I explained my mistakes, how I stayed quiet when I should’ve spoken.

This episode opens with a letter from my mother—a clipping from an old Anne Landers column—and a full-on gut check abo...

🎙️ Show Notes – Episode 4: From Brain F.A.R.T.s to Brilliance: 30 Days to a Cursive Puzzle Book

Subtitle: The Final Piece of the Ultimate Cursive Writing Adventure

Description:
This is it—the final piece of the ultimate cursive writing adventure. Episode 4 brings it all home: one idea sparked on April Fool’s Day, 30 days of grit, and a puzzle book that changed everything.

Bones, my quiet hero, kept me steady while I built somethin...

🎧 Show Notes — Episode 10: Wands, Warnings & the Wisdom War; Cursive Writing Meets Christian Controversy

This episode comes in hot with a wise wizard, a shape-shifting croc, and a church pew that taught me more about identity than any sermon ever could.
Turns out, I walked away from organized religion years ago as gracefully as you can from a nuclear disaster—only to end up selling a cursive curriculum to the very same crowd...

Episode 2: Fired the First, Found the Fox — How One Artist Sparked a Curriculum Revolution

Part 2 of the Crack the Cursive Code Series

Last week’s episode uncovered how a meme, a pangram sentence, and a chicken in a bathrobe started an unexpected curriculum movement.

Now in Part 2, we dive deeper.

This is the chapter where Jax learns the difference between finding help and finding the right help. From a ghostwriter who...

This is the part where the messy middle becomes the origin story.

In Part 1 of the Crack the Cursive Code series, Jax opens up about how a part-time homeschool setup, a drool-covered workbook, and a chicken in a bathrobe sparked something bigger than any plan ever could.

📜 There was no plan to become a curriculum.
It began as chaos, as survival, as resistance.
But somehow—through scribbles, memes, and magic—it became a full-blown prog...

What if your name carried more than just your identity—what if it carried your shame, your survival, your silence?

In this episode, I walk you through the journey from Jackie to Jacqueline to Jax. Each name came with a story. A volume level. A place I was allowed to stand.

For Jackie? That place was third. Third place in class. Third place in the family. Third place in life.
Because shining too bright felt risky—and staying small felt...

🎙️ Episode 6 — The Cat Came Back – Part 2

When the Plan Falls Apart, Make It Yours

What started with a stolen cat ended with a 21-foot mural, four real felines, and a lesson in public transformation.

In this follow-up to Episode 5, I sit down with my friend Jen to unpack what happened after the theft stalled everything. This was the beginning of the big section of the mural—the part I never imagined I could finish. But the rewrite ga...

The Cat Came Back, Part 1 — Facing Fear and Making the First Move

Subtitle: Courage Feels Small Before It Feels Strong

What if the first thing you meet when you chase a dream… is a monster?
Last week, you heard Marny’s story — a massive "can" forged through surviving a life-altering stroke.
This week, the "can" is quieter, smaller — but no less powerful.

In this episode of Just Jax, I take you behind the scenes of my first terrifying, e...

This one’s personal. This one’s powerful. And this one? It proves that showing up—messy, uncertain, and shaking a little—is still showing up.

Two years ago, Marny Flanagan was a high-vibe hairstylist and was working and teaching full-time. Then came the stroke. It took her speech, her balance, her right arm. But what it couldn’t touch? Her grit. Her humor. Her refusal to stop moving.

This week on Just Jax, you’ll hear how Marny re-ta...

🎙️ The Power of NOT: Leaving Home for Real — Emotionally, Mentally, Finally

Ever feel like you're doing all the right things but still stuck in the same emotional loop? Like your body left, but your mind and heart are still sitting at the kitchen table, replaying old conversations that never went the way you needed?

In this episode of Just Jax, we’re digging into the surprisingly destructive power of the word “NOT”—how it creeps int...

In part two of our three-part series on powerful three-letter words, we move from HUH—that spark of realization—to CAN, the undeniable force of self-belief.

Today, we’re breaking down what it really means to take on challenges bigger than you, why courage and context matter more than raw power, and how betting on yourself (even when no one else does) is the ultimate game-changer. If you’ve ever doubted your ability to take on life’...

The Power of Huh: Turning Sh*t Into Fertilizer

Life can come and sh*t on your sandwich. Believe me, I’ve been there. In this episode, we’re diving into those messy, frustrating moments and how just one thought can flip the script.

I’m getting real with you in this one, sharing a personal moment where I felt like a total failure, sitting on the edge of my bed, drowning in doubt. It all started with a yoga class (don’t ask—some of us a...