(BEST OF) Follow the Tingle with Justina Blakeney
episodePreviously titled “Follow the Tingle with Justina Blakeney” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 4, 2026
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello pod squad. Welcome back to We Can Do Hard Things. This is the last week of January, settling into a new year. And I think by the last week of January, we have all realized that every one of our resolutions were bullshit and that we were in fact never going to do any of those.
What is the significance of letting go of self-improvement resolutions?
And we might begin to wonder why we resolved to resolve only to be defeated by ourselves by the third week. So if that is you, welcome back. We too are with you. on the journey. So instead of resolving to change ourselves because that has worked exactly zero times, why don't we resolve to not change ourselves and just get to know who the hell we are underneath all that we desire to change. So here's the deal. Getting back to who we are, which is where we were always going in the first place. Let's start there. Okay. And one way to get to know who we actually are, if we are brave enough to trust it, is to trust our delight. That is a big clue to us. The thing that taps into and makes us feel like maybe that was like a little tiny baby itch of curiosity, of creativity, of delight, of what our guest today, the remarkable, delightful Justina Blakeney calls the tingle.
When we have lost such touch with ourselves that we're not real sure how to get back in, the tingle is a great clue for us. Okay, so we want to get closer to our wild. We want to sense our tingle. We want to trust it because our tingle tells us what we desire, what we want, what we love. And those are the things, incidentally, that we will be very good at. Justina talks about her design life, her creativity, her home as an extension of herself. Each object is a story that makes her life more beautiful. She shares ways to bring more joy and meaning into your spaces to get to know your creativity and bring more joy and meaning into your life. She respects herself so greatly. She respects her creativity greatly.
She brings it out of everyone else. She is a designer, but also has designed a damn good life. Please listen and be inspired and please track your tingle with our conversation with Justina Blakeney.
Thank you.
All right. So real quick, Justina, 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.
How can we connect with our true selves through 'the tingle'?
vary 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. 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 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?
Yes, I do.
So we were doing this exercise of, I don't know, it was like an opening up. There's many women there. This is the first time we've met all of each other. And we had to... go to a stranger and stare into said stranger's eyes and thank God Justina was my partner for this.
And it was right after COVID. And I hadn't been in front of anyone's face at all. Anyway, it was pretty wild.
And you and I, we have a closeness now because of this eye-staring contest that we got into. And I just want to say it was super awkward and weird. And then now knowing you, it's like, oh, my God, that's hilarious. So I just want to say that because I think that it's perfect.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:24
2
What is the significance of letting go of self-improvement resolutions?
0:24–3:28
3
How can we connect with our true selves through 'the tingle'?
3:28–10:26
4
What role does creativity play in personal fulfillment?
10:26–11:10
5
How does Justina Blakeney define her design philosophy?
11:10–11:16
6
What are the benefits of surrounding ourselves with meaningful objects?
11:16–30:19
7
How can we cultivate a sense of belonging in our lives?
30:19–1:00:11
Speakers
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