The Self Awareness Journey Podcast

JJ Parker and Melissa Albers have been running this conversation for over five years, and the friendship shows. They're both coaches, but the show isn't structured like a coaching session. It's two people who know each other well talking through the weekly friction points of trying to stay aware of your own patterns when life keeps pulling you off track. Episodes run about 20 to 30 minutes, drop weekly, and tend to pick one narrow theme: defensiveness at work, why certain criticism stings more than it should, the difference between a preference and a value, how nostalgia distorts present-day decisions. JJ brings the more analytical lens, Melissa the more intuitive one, and they'll openly disagree on how to interpret something. That honesty is the draw. Neither pretends to have arrived. Both will admit when they've fumbled a situation in their own lives that morning, and that keeps the show grounded in practice rather than theory. For emotional intelligence work specifically, the episodes on trigger tracking, boundary-setting without resentment, and repairing relationships after a reactive moment are worth bookmarking. It's a quiet show in the best sense: no fireworks, just steady, useful conversation between two people doing the work alongside their listeners.