About this episode
Halley and Jaz reflect on their experiences during the early COVID-19 days and how it transformed their lives.
this week on Delusional Diaries, Halley and Jaz are taking it all the way back to the early covid days, and realizing just how insane that era actually was. what started as a “two-week break” turned into a full identity crisis, and the girls unpack exactly where they were when everything shut down. from Halley barely surviving unpaid internships, college, and New York burnout, to Jaz thriving in her corporate era before getting abruptly pulled into HR for a literal covid exposure scandal, their origin stories are crazy, funny and life-altering. it’s the kind of hindsight that makes you go… wait, that actually changed everything. they get real about how losing their routines, jobs, and sense of normalcy forced them into completely different paths: ones that ultimately led them to where they are now, together in the studio. from getting laid off and spiraling into depression, to starting TikTok “as a joke” and accidentally building careers, they talk about the weird in-between phase of doing nothing, doing too much, and trying to figure out who you are when everything familiar disappears. it’s honest, relatable, reflective, and lowkey proof that sometimes your lowest point is…
People in this episode
Hosts: Halley, Jaz
Topics covered
- COVID-19
- identity crisis
- career changes
- mental health
- nostalgia
- personal growth
Keywords
- COVID-19
- identity crisis
- career
- mental health
- TikTok
- nostalgia
- New York
- personal growth
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: TikTok
Places: New York
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