Merry Christmas!! Happy end of 2024! And welcome to a very special bonus Q&A episode of ✨ Finding your Casual Magic ✨ (the last one of the year!!) I hope you're feeling festiveee!! As it's coming to the end of 2024 today I am sitting down to reflect on my year answering some questions you guys have sent in. I look at all sorts of topics from career to love life, queerness, feeling lost in your 20s, feeling insecure and the crazy world of social media. I really hope that this episode feels like a safe space to pause and take a moment to really reflect on all that has happened in this year for you, the good and the bad, and to really decide what energy and intention you want to carry into your 2025. It is genuinely such a joy as always to be hosting this podcast and that you guys are in this corner of the Internet with me. So many like minded people all around the world, all of us interested in self growth and introspection and trying to find optimism in an objectively difficult world and it's just an honour. As always I start with a guided meditation to be here with intentionality, to use this time and space as a true break from from the hectic whirlwind of the rest of your life. Before we launch into the end of year Q&A!!! The episode closes with my ‘Casual Magic of the Week’ and we hear from Lauren (@beanovegan on Instagram) who shares their Casual Magic followed by intention setting for the week ahead. Learn a language online with Lingoda. Get a 10% discount and up to 45 free classes in your first 3 months when you sign up to Lingoda Flex today with my code NEWYEARMAGIC https://try.lingoda.com/NewYearMagic [ad] Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:19 Festive decorations 00:36 End-of-year reflections 00:58 Mixed feelings about 2024 01:00 Episode overview: reflection and Q&A session 02:26 The magic of winter and introspection 03:01 Guided meditation 05:36 Reflecting on your year using Year Compass 07:07 Jade’s personal reflections on the year 08:46 Most proud accomplishment: ending a long-term relationship 10:08 Biggest success: starting the podcast 11:22 Theme of the year: relationships and personal growth 13:00 German language learning journey 14:21 Best way to learn a language 16:02 Advice on sharing relationships online 17:51 Coping with a breakup 20:41 Reflecting on a breakup and moving forward 21:20 Discussing queerness and overcoming internalised homophobia 24:34 Advice for young queer individuals 24:53 Starting a podcast – planning and initial stages 27:11 Addressing world issues and resilience 29:35 Practising casual magic and staying hopeful 31:55 Navigating life post-university and self-compassion 33:37 Defining what is "enough" and self-acceptance 38:24 Balancing social media use as a content creator 40:36 Understanding Choice Architecture 41:02 Listener Appreciation and Podcast Community 41:22 Casual Magic of the Year: Personal Anecdote 42:55 Casual Magic of the week 44:00 Reflecting on the Year 44:43 Final Words and Encouragement If you’d like to be featured as the Casual Magic of the week: 💌 Notice a moment of casual magic in your week. What was something beautiful in your daily life? A special moment or reflection? 💌  DM us a ~60 second voice message or video to @casualmagicpodcast on instagram or email it to findingyourcasualmagic@gmail.com — feel free to include any pictures of your casual magic if you have any!! 💌  Start the voicenote by introducing yourself and where you’re from!! 💌  Tell us in your DM / email if you want to be tagged if chosen. 💌  We’ll pick one a week to share in the podcast and on here so we can all participate in your joy!! CONTACT ME  Business Enquiries: unjadedjade@sixteenth.com   Instagram - @unjadedjade TikTok: @unjadedjade This is Finding Your Casual Magic with UnJaded Jade Produced by The Podcast Guys Theme music by Francesca Lu   For more Finding Your Casual Magic, go to @casualmagicpodcast on Instagram!! https://www.instagram.com/casualmagicpodcast/