Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque

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Barely Famous · Falling in Love with the Process with Joanna “JoJo” Levesque · 22 Nov 2024 podcast

She's like, oh, my God, I'm on page 85. And this was the book that I didn't even know I needed. And please tell her like, you know, this, that and the other. And I was like, that is the coolest thing. I cannot believe that I'm in someone's backpack and that they took out my book and are reading it while they're having their matcha latte. I'm like, this is so crazy.

My biggest dream?

My biggest dream. I've got to live out my biggest dreams. You have? I just wanted to see the world. Where's your favorite place? This is going to be such a corny answer, but I can find something I like about almost anywhere I am. Okay. And that's one of my – I appreciate that about myself. Absolutely. That I can be in Louisville, Kentucky and be like, isn't this quaint? Isn't this precious?

Let's go to the whiskey distillery. And I can be – I want to find something charming about each place that I'm in. I could be in –

Jakarta Indonesia and be like oh my god the food here is so amazing and look at how everybody's covered and that's fascinating and it's different yeah you know oh and the the call to prayer like wow what a cool sound that is and how amazing how reverent people are for and I can be in Tokyo and I can be like oh my god the public transportation here like we're all packed in so crazy and I'm bumping elbows with strangers and I really love the the differences and similarities in when you get to travel and

So that was a big dream of mine, and it still is. I'm still going to get to go to places I haven't – there's so many places I haven't been to. I haven't been to Africa at all. That's a whole continent for me to explore. I'm really looking forward to that. There's so much of the world. At the end of last year, I did a tour of Australia and New Zealand, and that was wonderful.

It was my first time in New Zealand, which the Maori name for that is Awatearoa. And that was just such an amazing, amazing – Blessing to be there. And we were met at the airport by Maori people. And they gave us a traditional dance and a welcome. And I was in shambles. It's on my TikTok if you want to see.

Weeping. I've always been so moved by the haka, which they perform like before sporting events or sometimes at weddings. I'm so moved by... Oh, so, so beautiful. And then we, they taught us about touching noses. It's such an intimate thing. It's completely, you know, people of all ages will just come together and touch noses and breathe in together. Like, I was like, so intimate and human. Yeah.

So I just love that. I mean, I'm such a nerd for that stuff. I'm such a...

Slut for humanity. I just think it's so beautiful, all the different expressions of it.

And what's also cool is that I don't know if you knew, but they also teach Maori language in the schools there.

So whether you're of Maori descent or not. they really seem to make sure that that's at the forefront. And I just think that's so fire, and I wish we took a page out of that book in our country.

I'm a faithful woman at this point in my life. I'm a woman of faith. Have you always been? No. I've been through – that's something I talk about here too is like I grew up Catholic, grew up in the choir loft watching my mom be a soloist, a soprano at our church in St. Mary's in Foxborough. And I love the – I don't know if it's quite ancient, but like how old Catholicism is.

I love the ritual of it.

I think about, I can hear like my childhood priest being like, with him and him and him in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and honor is yours, almighty father, forever and ever.

And I can hear – I can smell the incense and I can hear the bagpipes at the – for a funeral procession and all that is meaningful to me. Yeah. And then I kind of fell out of Catholicism for a while and then I found non-denominational Christianity. First it was Pentecostal evangelism. Okay. I was dating someone in my band who was – playing in a Pentecostal church. Then I found that.

It was a completely different style of music, more gospel, more Christian contemporary. And then I was saved in that church. Then I And that pastor was disappointing and then I had church hurt from that. And I saw – he was like – there was a scandal where he cheated on his wife and then he's like stealing money from church. And I'm like, no. And then I'm like, I don't know about this stuff.

So then I stepped away and then I found non-denominational Christianity in another relationship that I was in. Then when that relationship – He cheated on me with a girl from the church. Then I was like, oh, hell no. All you Christians are full of shit. You know, and then I needed to. And then I was like, oh, it's but it's not about the people. And we should be mad at the sin, not the sinner.

Or what is what is the thing? Eat the sin, not the sinner or something like that. Because we're all going to sin. I have found more of a spiritual... I love the framework of Christianity. I've explored other frameworks as well. Yoga has been a part of my life for a long time. And people think that that might be a religion in itself. But I just think of it as a practice and a devotion. And...

In L.A., I started going to this place called the Center for Self-Realization, which sounds like a cult. I don't think it is. But founded by Paramahansa Yogananda, who wrote Autobiography of a Yogi. And he brought yoga to the West in, like, the 1920s. And so I was really interested in, like, what he espoused was there's all these connections between the major world religions.

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