The Happiest Sad Person Podcast

Alessandra Jacobs
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Eternal optimist who also perpetually worries the world is ending -- you know, normal people stuff.

  1. 06/25/2024

    your girl got hacked | the happiest sad person podcast

    Send us a text Episode #39 of The Happiest Sad Person Podcast. Join me, Alessandra, as I explain how on earth I was hacked in the year of our lord, 2024. Yep, you heard that right. I talk about how I'm trying to learn something from this whole experience and how I maybe manifested it by accident. (Whoops:( ) It's really a take on trying to make lemonade from some nasty lemons. So, take a listen and commiserate if you too are going through it -- or get some relief that you're not in my situation. As always, it's a choose your own adventure experience. Also, feel free to report my hacked accounts to help a girl out. They are linked below! :) ---------------------- Things mentioned in the video: Facebook Manufacturing Outrage What it Takes to Get Back an Account from Meta Facebook Perhaps Guilty of Stoking Civil Unrest Abroad Meta -- The Tech Monopoly Meta Layoffs, Including Customer Service Optimistic Nihilism Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Gone Girl Movie High Taste/Low Skill Quote: “Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know it's normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through." ― Ira Glass --------------- Links: Podcast Instagram Personal Instagram How I host my podcast (affiliate link) Logo (affiliate link) ----------------- Timestamps:  ----------------- FTC Notice: Some of the above links do contain affiliate links in which I d Support the show

    21 min

  2. 06/11/2024

    showing up is the first step | the happiest sad person podcast

    Send us a text Episode #38 of The Happiest Sad Person Podcast. Join me, Alessandra, as I open up about my desire not to film today and my futile addiction to perfectionism (always to my own detriment). I also give my own spin on the notion that the grass is not greener on the other side and how social media makes me feel behind and depressed. It's really an ode to the idea that there's nothing more hollow than fulfilling someone else's dreams. So, listen to this pod -- and then go get those dreams, girl! [or guy, ambition don't discriminate here] !! As always, email suggestions to 11jacobsa@gmail.com. ---------------------- Things mentioned in the video: Why We Procrastinate About The Things We Care About The Addiction of Seeking Perfection Using Anger as Motivation Humans Need to Belong (Sometimes to Our Detriment) Kinship Altruism Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky Introduction to Genetics and Evolution Coursera Class Rich Roll Podcast Clip about Showing Up on the Hard Days The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy Joey Diaz On Rogan Richard lewis & Larry David -- A Match Made in Purgatory (in the best possible way) --------------- Links: Podcast Instagram Personal Instagram How I host my podcast (affiliate link) Logo (affiliate link) ----------------- Timestamps:  ----------------- FTC Notice: Some of the above links do contain affiliate links in which I do receive a payment. Support the show

    28 min

  3. 06/05/2024

    adulthood ain't the bees knees | the happiest sad person podcast

    Send us a text Episode #37 of The Happiest Sad Person Podcast. Join me, Alessandra, as I discuss designing my own hodgepodge syllabus for my life-long education plan (or at least for the foreseeable future). I also muse on the sadness that is adulthood, how we "childify" America, and how to find the simple joys as a grown-up -- for me it naturally involves dry erase markers. It's a perfect combo of social commentary and self-betterment, what's better than that? :) Things mentioned: 75 Hard Impressionist Paintings of Leisure History of Leisure Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins Goggins on Leadership Rogan and Goggins the First Time Around BUD/S & Seal Training The Compound effect Keats' "When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be" Masterpieces of World Literature Class Goethe book I Bought Harvard Classics and Their Lore (including both the good and the bad) Goggins' Cookie Jar David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell Acromegaly and Goliath Diseases in the Bible The American Child Conundrum The Over-parenting Crisis You Probably Haven't Realized is a Problem The History of the Protestant Work Ethic and Puritanical America The Origins of Pull Yourself up by Your Bootstraps Existential America Returning Perhaps? Links: Podcast Instagram Personal Instagram How I host my podcast (affiliate link) Lo Support the show

    52 min

  4. 05/26/2024

    life is one loooong hallway | the happiest sad person podcast

    Send us a text Episode #36 of The Happiest Sad Person Podcast. Join me, Alessandra, as I embrace the unemployed yet somehow constantly busy life of a creative. I also muse on Harrison Butker's commencement speech and how repulsive I find that way of thinking and how to potentially use existentialism as the salve -- spoiler alert, it always comes back to existentialism. Just like for another YouTuber it always relates back to tuberculosis. :) As always, email suggestions to 11jacobsa@gmail.com. ---------------------- Things mentioned in the video: Scrivener The Stamet's Stack Soul Boom by Rainn Wilson The Baháʼí faith Dwight Schrute's Descriptive Personality Statistics The Office’s Rainn Wilson on meaning and happiness Harrison Butker's Speech The Religious Battle Behind Harrison Butker’s Culture-War Speech TikTok I filmed responding to Harrison Butker's speech Carl Jung Archetypes An Interesting Idea in Gender Existentialism Beauvoir | an overview The Importance of Crop Diversity Beyond the Binary in Nature Beyond the Binary in Nature 2 Simone de Beauvoir Books The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir A Hero's Journey Makes you an existentialist -- and Happier? --------------- Links: Podcast Instagram Personal Instagram How I host my podcast (affiliate link) Logo (affiliate link) ----------------- Timestamps:  ----------------- FTC Notice: Some of the above links do contain affiliate links in which I do receive a payment. Support the show

    33 min

  5. 05/15/2024

    just busy chopping wood & carrying water | the happiest sad person podcast

    Send us a text Episode #35 of The Happiest Sad Person Podcast. Join me, Alessandra, as I discuss being unemployed whilst keeping up my spirits -- and keeping myself busy. I end with an excerpt of my book that connects to the conversation, and I promise it relates. :) As always, email suggestions to 11jacobsa@gmail.com. ---------------------- Things mentioned in the video: Libby Library App Books by Eckhart Tolle Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs Transcendental Meditation The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie What happened to Salman Rushdie, all from a book --------------- Links: Podcast Instagram Personal Instagram How I host my podcast (affiliate link) Logo (affiliate link) ----------------- Timestamps:  ----------------- FTC Notice: Some of the above links do contain affiliate links in which I do receive a payment. Support the show

    33 min

  6. 03/25/2024

    our modern world limits our experience of love | the happiest sad person podcast

    Send us a text Episode #34 of The Happiest Sad Person Podcast. Join me, Alessandra, as I discuss the limitations of love our modern society has created -- but I tried to end it with some tangible suggestions for actually fixing the problem. My rule to live by: You can't complain about something unless you're actively trying to work on it. As always, email suggestions to 11jacobsa@gmail.com. ---------------------- Things mentioned in the video: The Atlantic Babysitter Article Over-parenting article 1 Over-parenting article 2 The Five People You Meet in Heaven Book The Importance of Third Places Cul-de-Sacs in America A More Walkable Community --------------- Links: Podcast Instagram Personal Instagram How I host my podcast (affiliate link) Logo (affiliate link) ----------------- Timestamps:  00:00 - 01:1 ----------------- FTC Notice: Some of the above links do contain affiliate links in which I do receive a payment. Support the show

    14 min

  7. 03/19/2024

    depression mode -- what are we all doing here, bro? | the happiest sad person podcast

    Send us a text Episode #33 of The Happiest Sad Person Podcast. this was filmed a month ago Join me, Alessandra, as I document a bout of depression mode in my life. It is a bit of woe mixed with, hopefully, some optimism at the end. Always a bit of happy entangled with a whole lot of sad. As always, email suggestions to 11jacobsa@gmail.com. ---------------------- Things mentioned in the video: Social Contract Theory How to Revamp the Social Contract in our Modern World An interview about b******t jobs Bullshit jobs book --------------- Links: Podcast Instagram Personal Instagram How I host my podcast (affiliate link) Logo (affiliate link) ----------------- FTC Notice: Some of the above links do contain affiliate links in which I do receive a payment. Support the show

    19 min

  8. 02/08/2024

    i'm trying to get rejected 100 times in 2024 | the happiest sad person podcast

    Send us a text Episode #32 of The Happiest Sad Person Podcast. Join me, Alessandra, as I try to repair my relationship with rejection and seek out getting no's in the wild. It's regular therapy alongside rejection therapy in 2024. As always, email suggestions to 11jacobsa@gmail.com. ---------------------- Things mentioned in the video: Changes by Jax Anderson Lyrics: Scared to Start by Michael Marcagi Lyrics: Ohio by Stephen Markley The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton The B3 Chair John Ruskin's Essay "On Restoration" The story of the British Bicycle Racing Team & Marginal Gains Identity and the Concept of Change Cal Newport Video that includes deciding upon your values Atomic Habits by James Clear The Sopranos Severance CitiesX: The Past, Present and Future of Urban Life How Your Nervous System Works & Changes | The Huberman Lab Podcast Rejection Therapy Ted Talk 100 Days of Rejection Videos Playlist --------------- Links: Podcast Instagram Personal Instagram How I host my podcast (affiliate link) Logo (affiliate link) ----------------- Timestamps:  00:00 - 01:19 Intro 01:20 - 05:58 What I've been listening to 05:59 - 20:58 What I've been reading 20:59 - 22:05 What I've been watching 22:06 - 24:50 What I've been learning 24:51 - 31:15 seeking rejection  31:16 - 39:20 Quotes & outro ----------------- FTC Notice: Some of the above links do contain affiliate links in which I do receive a payment. Support the show

    39 min
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Eternal optimist who also perpetually worries the world is ending -- you know, normal people stuff.

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  • Creator
    Alessandra Jacobs
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    39
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2024 The Happiest Sad Person Podcast
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