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Life of JEM: My Life In The Inland Empire: A podcast about the zany childhood and adult adventures of a girl from the Inland Empire who moved out of the Inland Empire only to end up back in the Inland Empire.
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Visualize and keep dreaming
JEM talks about how & why visualization works in her writing career
Talking while driving episode 2
JEM talks about expectations and how to manage them both personally and professionally
Talking while driving
A new podcast episode from the producer of life of jem is all about life and talking while driving
Meeting David Sedaris and other celebrity interactions
Hear JEM tell her tale of meeting her idols including Mister T!!!
Country Girl
An episode about how JEM finally found a fondness for her dad’s music
TV Wasteland
JEM talks about the television shows that she loved as a kid and the way the shows captured blue collar life in the 1970s and 1980s
Breakfast at Benji’s
This episode tells a scary story of waitressing and walking home late at night as only JEM can tell it!
Junior College Daze
JEM tells a story about her first job as a writer working on her junior college newspaper and the feel of a warm freshly pressed newspaper in her hand...
Sing Your Life!
An episode about JEM’s many music obsessions, and of course, it includes a piece on her love for The Smiths!
Sweet and tender hooligans
JEM details her exploits and adventures as a teen growing up in the IE! Named after a Smiths song!
Memory Box
A take about JEM’s father Big John who grew up poor, dirt poor, in Montana and how he met her mom Judy. True stories from JEM!
Here’s to you Melinda T!
A story about JEM’s bestie since elementary school! There’s a prom story in it, kinda like 16 Candles but JEM’s date was no Jake Ryan!!!
Fourth of July
An episode of JEM’s YA years with melancholy memories of backyard barbecues and fireworks in the IE!
A Girl’s Hunger
JEM takes you down nosalgia lane with a chronicle of her favorite food memories!!
Drunkerella: JEM tries to redeem herself at the annual Public Defender Gala!
JEM in true rockstar fashion, doubles down at the Public Defender Gala! Her exploits are truly outrageous and the music at the end, wowza!
Being Belinda and other fantasies of childhood
As a kid, JEM was obsessed with wanting to be Belinda Carlisle (of the all girl band the Go-Go’s). Listen to the sweet memories she has of rocking out to their music in her living room with her sisters.
A Mantz Christmas Story
JEM tells a tale of a Christmas long long ago... and her Barbie dream house. Dedicated to her dad, John W. Mantz, jr., who loved Christmas
Why one should not do the sprinkler dance at the public defender gala
JEM is many drinks in at a work party and makes the mistake of getting on the dance floor
Girl Fight: a trilogy of lil stories about JEM and the theme is “girl fight”.
JEM has a mouth way too big for her britches! Thank goodness she’s a twin!
This is not a love song-inspired by a PIL song...how JEM met her soulmate!
A true love story, as only JEM can tell it!
My fair inland empire girl- JEM leaves Cali for Texas!
JEM leaves her home for large law firm life in Texas, but it’s not all she thought it would be...
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About a girl from the inland empire who left the inland empire only to return to the inland empire