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What's in a Name?
Belonging, Name Discovery
Ever wondered if there was any meaning in your name? My podcast explores all things onomatology... the study of names!
S6.03-137 - "Shana" - Say It Right: Names, Meaning, and Respect
Refine your purpose and leadership skills by joining the Intentional Leadership Network: https://www.intentionalleadernetwork.com/a/2148165226/4EW66BNT Follow Shana on Instagram: @rhymeswith__babynames EPISODE DESCRIPTION A baby name consultant and former tech manager talks through what a name...
S6.02-136 - "Haley" - Does Changing Your Name Change You?
EPISODE DESCRIPTION Most people know a one line definition of their name and never look further. This conversation goes past that. A guest who briefly went by her middle name in college talks through what it was like to answer to two different names, why one version of herself felt more outgoing tha...
S6.01-135 - "Zaria" - What Does My Unusual Name Really Mean
EPISODE DESCRIPTION This episode follows one guest through the full process of tracing an uncommon name back to its origins and figuring out what, if anything, it says about her. If you have ever looked up your own name and found three or four conflicting definitions, or wondered why a name that no ...
S5.30-134 - "Greg" - How Name Meaning Shapes Identity And Behavior
Summary This conversation looks at what happens when someone actually learns the meaning of their first name and then decides to live up to it. The guest, Greg Modd, an HR consultant and military veteran, explains how a name meaning watchful or vigilant lines up with a career built on anticipating r...
S5.29-133 - "Noah" - What Your Name Reveals About You
This episode explores what it feels like to carry a name most people associate with the opposite gender, and how the meaning behind a name can shape identity, personality, and life direction. Through a conversation with a guest named Noah, a Canadian woman in HR technology, listeners learn why an un...
S5.28-132 - "William" - How Your Name Shapes Who You Become
This conversation explores how the meaning behind a first name can mirror and reinforce a person's identity, values, and way of moving through the world. The guest, whose name means resolute protector and strong-willed warrior, explains why that meaning fits him so precisely and how learning it conf...
S5.27-131 - What's in a Name... "Sean" - Part Two
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Jayma welcomes Sean back for a part 2 conversation, revisiting the meaning behind his name (Sean, "God is gracious," and Conrad, "brave counsel") and how it continues to shape his life and work as an executive coach. Sean opens up about his roots as a fourth-g...
S5.26-130 - What's in a Name... "Jayma"
Send us Fan Mail In this milestone episode of What's in a Name?, host Jayma sits down with her very first guest who shares her name, a fellow Jayma podcasting from Northwest Ohio. A real estate agent, wife, mom, grandmother, and two-time cancer survivor, this Jayma opens up about her journey f...
S5.25-129 - What's in a Name... "Bonnie"
Send us Fan Mail Bonnie: Beauty, Words, and the Stories Names Carry What happens when you interview a fellow name lover who has built an entire aesthetic around the beauty of words? In this episode, Jayma sits down with Bonnie, a guest from Australia whose name means "beautiful" and "good," and whos...
S5.24-128 - What's in a Name... "Shirah and Paul"
Send us Fan Mail This episode of What's in a Name? features a first for the show: a father-daughter duo, Shirah and Paul, joining me together from Wisconsin. Shirah unpacks how her Hebrew name means "poetic song", while Paul reveals the surprising tension between his first name Paul, meaning "small ...