On Becoming with Jess

Jess reflects on the idea of home through years of movement across cities, countries, and versions of herself. From Sydney to London, Amsterdam to Spain, she explores how each space shaped her understanding of belonging, not just as a place, but as a feeling, a rhythm, and a relationship. Blending personal stories with cultural insight, she unpacks the tension between freedom and stability, indepe...

In this episode, Jess reflects on a quiet, unexpected return to ritual during her time in Spain. Set against the noise of a life in motion, she explores how injury, solitude, and displacement softened something in her, leading her back to spaces she once outgrew. This is not a story about religion in the traditional sense, but about rhythm, surrender, and the search for peace in a world that rarel...

Jess reflects on the quiet exhaustion of being “the capable one.” Raised between cultures that valued resilience, independence, and hard work, she explores how strength can become identity and how, over time, that identity can begin to feel heavy. Through personal stories and cultural reflection, she unpacks the tension many women experience between achievement and softness, self-sufficiency and t...

In this episode of On Becoming , Jess explores the quiet power of changing how we see ourselves, beginning with a long-awaited decision to cut her hair. What starts as a physical transformation unfolds into something deeper, shaped by heartbreak, reinvention, and the subtle ways identity is tied to appearance. Drawing on personal reflections, cultural influences, and moments of vulnerability, she...

In this episode of On Becoming , Jess reflects on her journey with alcohol and what it meant to step away from it. Five years on, she revisits the environments, identities, and emotions that shaped her relationship with drinking, from early experiences across Australia and the Czech Republic to the quiet turning point that led her to stop. Through personal journal excerpts and honest reflection, s...

Sydney to Amsterdam. No return ticket. No real plan. This is the episode where Jess traces it all back, the pandemic that held her in place, the New Year's Eve at a petrol station that broke something open, falling in love in two languages, and what two years cycling through European fog actually taught her about belonging. Some stories you carry for years before you know how to tell them. Thi...

A small corner of the internet for quiet reflection. On Becoming documents the feelings, findings, and questions that come with living life a little differently, wherever that takes you.