Hope Phahla

Tongue Tied

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What does it actually mean to figure your life out while you’re still in the middle of living it? Tongue Tied is a podcast about navigating your twenties through music, storytelling, and honest conversations about everything that comes with growing into yourself in real time. Hosted by Hope Phahla, this show lives in the in-between: the identity shifts, uncertainty, relationships, creative ambitions, cultural expectations, and all the moments that are somehow both exciting and deeply confusing at the exact same time. Told through the lens of a first-generation creative balancing ambition, iden...

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Hope Phahla

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invisible timelines & the myth of having it all figured out 10.05.2026 30:32

In this episode of Tongue Tied, I’m talking about invisible timelines, social media, the pressure to have everything figured out in your twenties, progress over perfection, and why every decision somehow feels permanent when you’re 22. We get into comparison, uncertainty, and learning how to stop treating life like a race when realistically…most of us are just improvising. A little existential, a...

intro: being multi-passionate is kind of exhausting 10.05.2026 24:40

In this first episode of Tongue Tied, I talk about the very specific chaos of wanting to do everything at once – creative careers, too many passions, identity crises, and the pressure to “pick a lane” when every version of your life sounds interesting. This episode is part introduction, part existential spiral, and part me trying to figure out what this podcast actually is in real time. Bare with...

Tongue Tied Trailer 10.05.2026 1:14

A quick intro to Tongue Tied. I’m Hope, and this is basically a space where I talk through life in my twenties – music, identity, creative ambition, relationships, overthinking, and trying to figure out who you are while you’re still becoming her. I’m a first-gen creative navigating life and my career in real time, and a lot of this podcast is just honest conversations, storytelling, and using mus...