Just Nona

Nona Jones

Just Nona is a faith-anchored, emotionally honest, and psychologically grounded podcast for women who are ready to do the deeper work of healing. This evolved format moves beyond interviews into focused, heart-level conversations centered around one powerful question at a time—questions about identity, unworthiness, rejection, resilience, purpose, and the quiet battles women fight while succeeding publicly. Host Nona Jones—author, CEO, preacher, and leadership coach—draws from personal testimony, biblical truth, and behavioral science to help listeners confront what’s shaping them beneath the surface and re-form their identity from the inside out. Through intentional teaching, “Heart Question” segments, and practical frameworks, Just Nona challenges internalized lies, disrupts cultural narratives, and equips women to live from wholeness rather than performance.

  1. 4d ago ·  Video

    How Do You Grieve Someone Who's Still in Your Life? | Just Nona with Nona Jones

    Send us Fan Mail How do you grieve someone who is still in your life, but the relationship you once hoped for no longer exists? Not because you stopped loving them. Not because you haven't forgiven them. Not because you haven't surrendered the pain to God. But because the person is still there, and the relationship is no longer what you needed, expected, or prayed it would be. And now you're grieving someone who hasn't actually left your life. In this new episode of Just Nona, I'm answering this question with insights from my new book, The Power of Petty Prayers, which is now available wherever books are sold. Felicity from Jacksonville, Florida, asked how to navigate the pain that remains after genuine forgiveness and surrender. After experiencing years of hurt, disappointment, and broken expectations in a relationship, she made the difficult decision to limit access to someone she still loves. Although she's worked through the anger and resentment, the grief remains. This is a real conversation about ambiguous loss, forgiveness, unresolved grief, emotional healing, boundaries, broken relationships, and learning how to love someone without losing yourself in the process. I also share deeply personal experiences from my relationship with my mother and how God has helped me navigate the grief of loving someone who is physically present but emotionally and relationally absent. Because sometimes the pain that remains after forgiveness isn't evidence that you haven't forgiven. It's evidence that you're grieving. And grief and forgiveness are not the same thing. You can forgive someone completely and still grieve the relationship you hoped you would have. You can love someone deeply and still establish healthy boundaries. You can surrender your pain to God and still need His grace to heal the wounds that remain. The goal isn't to pretend that the loss doesn't hurt. It's to learn how to invite God's grace into the places where the pain still lives. And sometimes healing means learning how to love someone according to the relationship you actually have, not the relationship you wish you had. The Power of Petty Prayers is OUT NOW! If you've genuinely forgiven someone but still carry the pain of what happened, this book will help you understand what remains after forgiveness and begin the deeper work of healing. Order your copy TODAY: https://www.nonajones.com/books

  2. Oct 19 ·  Video

    How Do I Forgive an Employee Who Hurt Me? | Just Nona with Nona Jones

    Send us Fan Mail What do you do when someone you treated like family hurts you, and you're left wondering how to forgive them without letting them back into your life? Not because you stopped loving them. Not because you want to hold on to resentment. Not because you don't believe in forgiveness. But because the relationship was more than professional. You invested in them. You cared about their family. You opened your heart to them. And when things fell apart, you weren't just losing an employee. You were grieving someone you loved. In this new episode of Just Nona, I'm answering this question with insights from my new book, The Power of Petty Prayers, which is now available wherever books are sold. A listener named Bettrena, a business owner in Georgia, asked how to navigate workplace forgiveness after experiencing disappointment from employees she treated like family. One relationship in particular involved a young woman she considered a daughter, whose children felt like her own grandchildren. Although they've parted ways, she still loves them deeply but struggles with whether she can trust them again. This is a real conversation about workplace forgiveness, leadership, betrayal, grief, personal boundaries, accountability, rebuilding trust, and learning how to love people without losing yourself in the process. I also share a personal experience that taught me how easily the lines between professional and personal relationships can become blurred, and why loving people deeply doesn't mean abandoning the boundaries that protect both the relationship and the business. Because forgiveness does not mean reemployment. Loving someone does not mean giving them unlimited access to your life. And being a compassionate leader does not mean you have to carry responsibility for everyone you care about. You can forgive someone and still let them go. You can love someone and still establish boundaries. You can keep your heart open without allowing past disappointments to change who God created you to be. The answer is not to stop loving people. It's to learn how to love with wisdom, structure, and accountability. The Power of Petty Prayers is OUT NOW! If you've forgiven someone but are still carrying the pain of what happened, this book will help you begin the deeper work of healing. Order your copy TODAY: https://www.nonajones.com/books

  3. Sep 28 ·  Video

    How Do I Heal From Betrayal? | Just Nona with Nona Jones

    Send us Fan Mail What do you do when you forgave them; but it still stings? Not because your forgiveness was fake. Not because you are bitter. Not because you did not “forgive for real.” But because forgiveness and healing are not the same thing. You can release the debt, release the anger, release the right to retaliation, and still feel the sting of what happened because forgiveness is the decision; healing is the process. In this new episode of Just Nona, I’m answering this question with insights from my new book, The Power of Petty Prayers. Dr. Chanté, a physician and resilience coach, asked how to rebuild when there are still remnants of betrayal — especially betrayal from people she deeply loved and trusted. This is a real conversation about forgiveness, healing, betrayal, empathy, rebuilding trust, grieving what was lost, and understanding why the pain may still remain even after you have genuinely forgiven. Because sometimes the issue is not that you have not forgiven. Sometimes the issue is that no one taught you how to heal from the hurt that remained. Order The Power of Petty Prayers TODAY by clicking here: https://www.nonajones.com/books This conversation also connects to my new free webinar, When Forgiveness Doesn’t Heal, where I share principles from The Power of Petty Prayers to help you heal when you’re wounded, weary, and still carrying pain after forgiveness. Register for the first FREE session here: https://insideoutleadership.easywebinar.live/WFDH

  4. Sep 7 ·  Video

    Why Did Everyone Abandon Me… Including God? | Just Nona with Nona Jones

    Send us Fan Mail There is a particular kind of loneliness that belongs to the trial season. Not the loneliness of being unknown. But the loneliness of being known — by people who have walked with you for years — and discovering, in the moment you needed them most, that they are nowhere to be found. And then there is the silence. Not just from people. But from God. The prayers that feel like they are hitting the ceiling. The quietness where you expected a word. In this episode of Just Nona, I am answering a heart question from a listener named Ellen from McDonough, Georgia, who is navigating a trial season in which both things are true at the same time: God feels silent, and the people she counted on are absent. She is also raising a deeper question about what it actually means for the body of Christ to carry each other's burdens — and why it so rarely looks like what Scripture describes. This is a real, honest, pastoral conversation about two of the hardest experiences a person of faith can face simultaneously. We talk about: What God's silence actually is — and the critical difference between God being quiet and God being gone Why silence is often the environment in which the deepest formation happens — and what it is producing beneath the surface that noise would have drowned out The story of Elijah in 1 Kings 19 — and what God did before He spoke, and how He spoke when He finally did Why some people are absent in your trial season — and what God may be revealing through their absence What genuine burden-bearing actually looks like in practice — and why so many people help in the way that is comfortable for them rather than the way that is actually needed The identity distortion that happens when silence and human absence arrive together — and why the conclusion it produces is not the truth And the practical steps for staying engaged with God when He feels quiet and rebuilding the right support when the wrong people have disappeared God is not gone. The silence is not empty. And what He is forming in you in this season is worth the cost of the quiet.

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Just Nona is a faith-anchored, emotionally honest, and psychologically grounded podcast for women who are ready to do the deeper work of healing. This evolved format moves beyond interviews into focused, heart-level conversations centered around one powerful question at a time—questions about identity, unworthiness, rejection, resilience, purpose, and the quiet battles women fight while succeeding publicly. Host Nona Jones—author, CEO, preacher, and leadership coach—draws from personal testimony, biblical truth, and behavioral science to help listeners confront what’s shaping them beneath the surface and re-form their identity from the inside out. Through intentional teaching, “Heart Question” segments, and practical frameworks, Just Nona challenges internalized lies, disrupts cultural narratives, and equips women to live from wholeness rather than performance.

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