In this vivid and vulnerable episode of Recalculating, Jolene Dames takes listeners back to her first trip to Hawaii—a two-month adventure that begins with a Charlie Brown Christmas tree and ends in the arms of the wild ocean.
What starts as a dreamy post-film-project escape quickly turns into a life-altering series of moments: her first time snorkeling, a brush with coral that leaves a literal scar, and a black sand beach encounter with a pod of dolphins that changes her forever. Along the way, Jolene confronts fears born from childhood imagination (including a spaghetti-shaped shark named Jaws), reflects on grief and identity, and explores how the versions of ourselves we create in relationship and travel don’t always come home with us.
This is more than a travel story—it’s a meditation on transformation, memory, and the wild beauty of letting go.
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