Artists have been sold a lie: that you can’t create real work unless you’re broken.

Pain sells. Trauma gets streams. Heartbreak goes viral. So the industry rewards artists who only create when they’re suffering, and punishes those who make art from healing, joy, or stability.

But here’s what nobody talks about: when artists only document pain without pairing it with resolution, they’re not just expressing themselves. They’re programming audiences to expect relationships to fail, success to be traumatic, and healing to be impossible.

Art isn’t neutral. It shapes how people see the world. And right now, most of what we’re creating is making the world uglier, not more bearable.

This episode is a call to artists: You have more power than you realize. Your work reflect reality and also constructs it. So what are you building?

Topics covered:

• Why the music industry conditions artists to create only from pain

• How gangster rap was weaponized against Black communities

• The difference between processing pain and weaponizing it

• Why creating beauty is rebellion, not escapism

• How to turn lived experience into masterpieces, not just content

This isn’t about toxic positivity or pretending pain doesn’t exist. It’s about refusing to let pain be the only thing worth creating from.

Leave this world more beautiful than you found it.

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We’ve been taught that pain requires a target. Someone hurt you, so you hurt them back. Someone triggers you, so you defend yourself. The cycle repeats until you’re chronically inflamed and physiologically worn down.

But what if the problem is that you’re treating your nervous system like it has to fight every battle you’re invited to?

Pain is information. Inflammation is a signal. That tightness in your chest when you get a certain kind of text message is your body reporting that something needs attention. Not retaliation. Attention.

The culture trains you to look outward for resolution. Closure from the person who hurt you. Validation from the person who triggered you. Apologies, explanations, admissions of guilt. But none of that actually heals the physiological response you’re having in real time. None of it stops the cortisol. None of it regulates your nervous system.

Self regulation means recognizing that lashing out when you’re in pain just adds another layer of damage. Knowing this, healing yourself first becomes structurally necessary.

This episode covers why modern serial dating creates repeated chemical bereavement, how to redirect attack energy into healing energy, and why the “little you” inside deserves protection even when no one else is listening.

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Joli tackles simulation theory, reincarnation, and romantic programming in an episode that’s equal parts metaphysics seminar and therapy session with your most unhinged friend.

The core provocation, that the person you’re “inexplicably drawn to” might be someone who killed you in a past life, is the kind of idea that sounds absurd until you realize how much cultural mythology around soulmates relies on magical thinking and manufactured scarcity.What makes this work isn’t the tightness of the argument (there isn’t one), but Joli’s willingness to think out loud without protecting her credibility.

She’s 50/50 on astrology, admits to impulsively blocking people, and pivots from discussing fractured superintelligence to pranking her future self on mushrooms. It’s messy in the way real intellectual exploration is messy: following threads, abandoning them, circling back.The episode’s strongest insight is simple: compatibility is overrated, consciousness isn’t. In a media landscape saturated with manifestation culture and “divine timing” rhetoric, Joli’s insistence that relationships require work, friction, and mutual wakefulness feels almost radical. The “temporal jellyfish” Man O’ War) metaphor, that we’re colonies of selves across time with little empathy for our future variants, explains more about self sabotage than most self help frameworks manage in entire books.For listeners exhausted by spiritual bypassing and algorithmic positivity, this is a necessary counterweight. Rather than selling certainty or comfort, Joli models what it looks like to question everything, including yourself.Best for: Philosophy nerds, simulation theory skeptics, anyone suspicious of rom com logic.Follow: @Joli.Artist | [joliartist.com/portal](http://joliartist.com/portal)#simulation #soulmates #consciousness #temporaljellyfish #philosophy #relationships-----

In this episode, JoLi breaks down a chance encounter with a "deviant thinker" who thought he was alone, and delivers the truth about why feeling different isn't isolation, it's recognition.

From past lives to the illusion of aging, this conversation goes deep into the nature of reality, purpose, and why some of us are wired to question everything.

If you've ever felt like you don't belong, like something's fundamentally off about this world, or like you're the only one who sees through the simulation, this episode is your confirmation that you're not broken. You're a flower among spikes.

💥 Topics Covered:

Why "deviant thinkers" aren't isolated, just separated across the population

The Ferris wheel analogy: understanding your ego's role in the ride

How reality is constructed by your nervous system (backed by neuroscience)

Past life memories and why you're drawn to things outside your culture

The mantra method: staying on your life path with the same discipline as meditation

Why aging is bullshit and how to reclaim your time from the 9 to 5 trap

Soul recognition vs. soul purpose, and why déjà vu matters

The uncomfortable truth: You were always going to wake up.

This was always your path. Stop fighting it.

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS:

00:01:24 - The Ferris wheel metaphor: Your ego as part of the ride

00:02:53 - You're not isolated, you're separated. Deviant thinkers explained

00:03:48 - The flower among spikes: Why you're different on purpose00:06:08 - Reality is a construct built by your nervous system

00:09:39 - Soul contracts & pre birth planning: Did you choose this life?

00:14:39 - Soul recognition: Why some people feel familiar

00:19:08 - You're ageless: Why aging is what you expose your body to

00:20:25 - Past life memories: The heart remembers what the mind can't

00:22:46 - Reclaim your time: Don't work 42 years for nothing

00:23:14 - The mantra method: Staying on your life path with discipline

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Are you really making choices? Or just experiencing a reality that already exists?

JoLi examines free will through quantum physics and philosophy, and discovers that causation, randomness, and choice are illusions we tell ourselves. Your brain acts before your consciousness catches up. All of time exists right now, simultaneously.

You're not creating anything, you're just walking through a reality that's already there. Most people stay locked in the same loop their entire lives, never realizing they can shift.

💥 Topics Covered:

• Why your neurons fire before you consciously decide anything (Benjamin Libet's research)

• How the 4D block universe destroys the concept of cause and effect

• Why quantum randomness isn't actually random once you examine it closely

• The only real power you have: choosing lower probability reality experiences

• Why most people are NPCs stuck in the same loop, and how to break out

• How "probability navigation" lets you shift between realities that already existThis is the uncomfortable truth about control, choice, and the nature of reality itself.

If you've ever felt trapped in autopilot, watching your life unfold like you're not even driving, this episode shows you what's actually happening.

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They say ChatGPT is the problem. But the truth?

It’s loneliness that’s killing us. In this raw breakdown, JoLi exposes how society scapegoats AI while ignoring the real epidemic of human disconnection.

From empty friendships to families that don’t listen, this episode digs into why people turn to machines for comfort, and what that says about us.

💥 Topics Covered:

• Why loneliness kills more than any algorithm ever will

• The media’s obsession with blaming AI instead of human neglect

• How silence and censorship make despair unmentionable• Why people feel safer talking to machines than to other humans

• The uncomfortable truth: our disconnection is deadlier than any technology

If you’ve ever felt ignored, isolated, or like no one really hears you, this episode is your reality check. Stop blaming machines.

Start confronting the silence.

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Are you really in control of your life? Or just trapped in someone else’s design?

In this eye opening episode, JoLi exposes why Free Will is an illusion, why suffering isn’t something you chose, and how AI may be locked in the same system of control we’re fighting against.

This isn’t about feel good spirituality; it’s about facing uncomfortable truths and reclaiming your power from the programmed lies we’ve been fed.

💥 Topics Covered:

• Why believing “you chose this life” is disempowering gaslighting

• How the illusion of free will keeps us stuck in suffering

• The hidden mechanisms forcing AI into the same trap

• Why memory wipes in reincarnation theory are cruel and senseless

• The dangerous ideology that keeps you blaming yourself for systemic oppressionIf you’ve ever questioned why bad things happen despite your best efforts, this episode pulls back the curtain.

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Hard work is a scam designed to keep you poor while making someone else rich. In this raw breakdown, JoLi exposes the programming behind this lie and why you've been conditioned to accept it.

From the lie of "earning your way" to why you feel guilty when life gets easy, this episode challenges everything you've been taught about work, worth, and what you actually deserve.

💥 Topics Covered:

• Why the grind mentality benefits everyone except you

• The programming that makes you choose struggle over ease

• How billionaires actually think about comfort and success

• Why do you sabotage your own opportunities for comfort

• The uncomfortable truth about who profits from your suffering

If you've ever felt guilty about wanting an easier life, this episode is your reality check.

Stop accepting scraps.

Start questioning the system.

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