The Uncommon Room Podcast
by Jessie Broome
This podcast is dedicated to uncommonly genuine conversations about topics that most of us experience but rarely have the opportunity to discuss. Your host, Jessie, gets real with her guests in each episode so that it can serve as a starting point for conversations with others. This podcast believes that vulnerable conversation leads to deeper relationships with others which is why your questions, experiences, doubts and beliefs are welcome here! Join the conversation on instagram @uncommonroompod. Thanks for listening!
Episodes
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Figuring Out Personal Finances
In this episode, Jessie and her guest Will discuss all things money and finances. You'll hear about what they think about money, why they think that, and what they do with it. From discussing how our parents handle money carrying over into our adult lives, to what budgeting looks like, to...
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Confession #3: I am Sad
In this episode, Jessie has a special guest (her husband Stephen) on the podcast to discuss how their recent life circumstances coupled with mental illness has effected both of them emotionally. It's been a sad season of life and we never know what to expect next. So here we are, in our sadness...
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Confession #2: I'm Too Busy To Rest
For the second episode in the series Confessions, your host Jessie shares about her struggle to slow down. She discusses the hurriedness of our world, the pressure to be productive, and how she has begun to think about how to live differently and deliberately. Follow us @uncommonroompod on...
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Confession #1: I Don't Want To Feel This Way
Welcome to the new series called Confessions, where your host Jessie shares a confession about herself in each condensed episodes. She will walk you through her process of learning and moving through different emotions, thoughts and experiences. In this episode, Jessie discusses how she…
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Purity Culture Pt. 2: Now What?
In this follow up conversation to our first purity culture episode, we discuss how we can move forward in our sexuality now that we've identified how Purity Culture has effected us. Dr. Camden Morgante, licensed clinical psychologist, college professor, and writer joins us to discuss how we can...
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Forming and Maintaining Friendships
In this episode, Jessie has her friends Jamie and Maddie on to discuss their experience with friendships post-grad. Finding and upholding friendships can be draining, confusing and even lonely at times. But as we start to learn ourselves and recognize our expectations, we begin to see that...
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Adulting: What We Wish We Would Have Known
In this episode, Jessie has her cousin and best friend Virginia on to chat about growing up and the windy road that is adulting. They discuss how they've walked through different things that they weren't prepared for and where they land now. Adulting involves a lot of relearning, unmet...
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Problems with Purity Culture
Purity Culture refers to the many narratives taught mostly by protestant Christians that advocated complete celibacy before marriage. The narratives also created a hyper focus on sexuality as a key measurement of being quote on quote “right with God”. The way that these narratives were taught and...
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Homosexuality in the Church
In this episode, Jonathan Bell aka JBell joins Jessie to talk about his specific experience with being a follower of Jesus and being gay. JBell tells his story and some of the positive and negative responses to his sexuality. Jessie and JBell break down what it would look like for the Church to...
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Season Two Trailer
Welcome to the Uncommon Room Podcast! In each episode, your host, Jessie, sits down to chat with people in her community on topics that most of us can relate to, but don't typically have the opportunity to discuss with others. We hope the episodes serve as a starting point for future…
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Getting to the Heart of It
In this mini-sode, your host Jessie rides solo and gives her experience and advice on some of the hot topics that listeners requested. In this final episode of season one, you'll hear everything from how to communicate during an argument with your significant other to how to take care of yourself...
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Pursuing our Passions
On this episode, my friends Kealia and Jamie join in on a conversation about how we pursue our passions as millennials. It may be easier to have a steady, consistent job that pays the bills but we challenge one another to seek out ways to fuel our creativity and passions outside of work. We also...
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Managing Our Expectations
All of us have experienced unmet expectations and disappointment in our relationships and circumstances. In this episode, my friend Kealia and I talk about how we have learned to manage and respond to our expectations. We also dive into some tough questions like, "Is it possible to not have...
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Navigating Comparative Suffering
*DISCLAIMER* This episode was planned & recorded before the protests following George Floyd's murder. We understand that we have a limited view of suffering as two privileged, white women. We are aware that our suffering is very different and we do not experience the same daily fear and suffering...
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Learning Body Acceptance
My friends Avery and Grace join a discussion about a topic that seems to be coming up a lot lately: body image. Every single person has an opinion about their bodies. You may not know it, but you take part in self-talk daily. Once we bring awareness to our thoughts about ourselves, we are able to...
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How to Practice Mindfulness and Self-Care
This episode was scheduled way before the coronavirus outbreak but it couldn't have been more timely for the uncertainty our world is experiencing right now. In this mini-sode, we stress the importance of listening to our bodies, and making it a priority to take care of ourselves. My dear friend...
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My Anxiety Has a Name
My friends Avery and Annie were brave enough to share their individual experiences with anxiety. In this episode, we dive into why it is important to identify your anxiety instead of keeping it in the dark. Though none of us can say that we have or will ever fully overcome our anxiety, we are...
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How our Parents Have Impacted Us
In this episode, my dear friend Avery and I chat about how both of us are seeing the impact that our childhoods have had on our lives and how that effects us today. The shift from obeying parents to honoring them happens for everyone at different stages. Today we talk through that shift for each…
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We're All Just Figuring It Out
On this episode, my friends Kelsey and Kealia join me to talk all things RELATIONSHIPS. We are each at different stages relationally so we thought it would be fun to discuss the pros and cons together. We also discuss how unmet expectations and new challenges have actually helped us develop our...
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Growing through the struggle of life change and decision making
In this episode, Kelsey and I discuss life changes and big decisions that we've gone through in our lives. We are all constantly faced with decisions we have to make and depending on your personality type, that either frightens you or excites you. Through our conversation, however, we realize…
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About this show
This podcast is dedicated to uncommonly genuine conversations about topics that most of us experience but rarely have the opportunity to discuss. Your host, Jessie, gets real with her guests in each episode so that it can serve as a starting point for conversations with others. This podcast believes that vulnerable conversation leads to deeper relationships with others which is why your questions, experiences, doubts and beliefs are welcome here! Join the conversation on instagram @uncommonroompod. Thanks for listening!
Hosted by
Jessie Broome