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Life of JEM: my life in the inland empire

Life of JEM: my life in the inland empire

By Juanita E. Mantz Pelaez

Life of JEM: My Life In The Inland Empire: A podcast about the zany childhood and adult adventures of a girl from the Inland Empire who moved out of the Inland Empire only to end up back in the Inland Empire.
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Visualize and keep dreaming

Life of JEM: my life in the inland empire Jul 27, 2023

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Visualize and keep dreaming

Visualize and keep dreaming

JEM talks about how & why visualization works in her writing career
Jul 27, 202310:43
Talking while driving

Talking while driving

About genre and joy
Jul 21, 202310:30
Talking while driving

Talking while driving

On finding your bliss
Jun 29, 202322:59
Talking while driving episode 2

Talking while driving episode 2

JEM talks about expectations and how to manage them both personally and professionally
Jun 27, 202321:38
Talking while driving

Talking while driving

A new podcast episode from the producer of life of jem is all about life and talking while driving
Jun 22, 202310:37
Cocoon

Cocoon

About JEM’s mom and her mom’s love of JEM’s dad, a cowboy!
Apr 16, 202008:06
Meeting David Sedaris and other celebrity interactions

Meeting David Sedaris and other celebrity interactions

Hear JEM tell her tale of meeting her idols including Mister T!!!
Apr 15, 202005:48
Klutz

Klutz

JEM details how being a klutz can be cool
Apr 13, 202003:56
Country Girl

Country Girl

An episode about how JEM finally found a fondness for her dad’s music
Apr 12, 202005:24
TV Wasteland

TV Wasteland

JEM talks about the television shows that she loved as a kid and the way the shows captured blue collar life in the 1970s and 1980s
Apr 11, 202005:36
Breakfast at Benji’s

Breakfast at Benji’s

This episode tells a scary story of waitressing and walking home late at night as only JEM can tell it!
Apr 08, 202008:33
Junior College Daze

Junior College Daze

JEM tells a story about her first job as a writer working on her junior college newspaper and the feel of a warm freshly pressed newspaper in her hand...
Apr 07, 202006:55
Sing Your Life!

Sing Your Life!

An episode about JEM’s many music obsessions, and of course, it includes a piece on her love for The Smiths!
Apr 05, 202006:49
Sweet and tender hooligans

Sweet and tender hooligans

JEM details her exploits and adventures as a teen growing up in the IE! Named after a Smiths song!
Apr 03, 202005:51
Memory Box

Memory Box

A take about JEM’s father Big John who grew up poor, dirt poor, in Montana and how he met her mom Judy. True stories from JEM!
Apr 01, 202005:53
Here’s to you Melinda T!

Here’s to you Melinda T!

A story about JEM’s bestie since elementary school! There’s a prom story in it, kinda like 16 Candles but JEM’s date was no Jake Ryan!!!
Mar 30, 202005:49
Fourth of July

Fourth of July

An episode of JEM’s YA years with melancholy memories of backyard barbecues and fireworks in the IE!
Mar 29, 202005:56
A Girl’s Hunger

A Girl’s Hunger

JEM takes you down nosalgia lane with a chronicle of her favorite food memories!!
Mar 28, 202008:09
Drunkerella: JEM tries to redeem herself at the annual Public Defender Gala!

Drunkerella: JEM tries to redeem herself at the annual Public Defender Gala!

JEM in true rockstar fashion, doubles down at the Public Defender Gala! Her exploits are truly outrageous and the music at the end, wowza!
Mar 26, 202008:09
Being Belinda and other fantasies of childhood

Being Belinda and other fantasies of childhood

As a kid, JEM was obsessed with wanting to be Belinda Carlisle (of the all girl band the Go-Go’s). Listen to the sweet memories she has of rocking out to their music in her living room with her sisters.
Mar 23, 202005:31
A Mantz Christmas Story

A Mantz Christmas Story

JEM tells a tale of a Christmas long long ago... and her Barbie dream house. Dedicated to her dad, John W. Mantz, jr., who loved Christmas
Mar 23, 202006:45
Why one should not do the sprinkler dance at the public defender gala

Why one should not do the sprinkler dance at the public defender gala

JEM is many drinks in at a work party and makes the mistake of getting on the dance floor
Mar 23, 202003:57
Girl Fight: a trilogy of lil stories about JEM and the theme is “girl fight”.

Girl Fight: a trilogy of lil stories about JEM and the theme is “girl fight”.

JEM has a mouth way too big for her britches! Thank goodness she’s a twin!
Mar 22, 202007:32
This is not a love song-inspired by a PIL song...how JEM met her soulmate!

This is not a love song-inspired by a PIL song...how JEM met her soulmate!

A true love story, as only JEM can tell it!
Mar 21, 202007:15
My fair inland empire girl- JEM leaves Cali for Texas!

My fair inland empire girl- JEM leaves Cali for Texas!

JEM leaves her home for large law firm life in Texas, but it’s not all she thought it would be...
Mar 20, 202006:36