Just Nona
Just Nona is a faith-anchored, emotionally honest, and psychologically grounded podcast for women who are ready to do the deeper work of healing. This evolved format moves beyond interviews into focused, heart-level conversations centered around one powerful question at a time—questions about identity, unworthiness, rejection, resilience, purpose, and the quiet battles women fight while succeeding publicly.
Host Nona Jones—author, CEO, preacher, and leadership coach—draws from personal testimony, biblical truth, and behavioral science to help listeners confront what’s shaping them beneath the surface and re-form their identity from the inside out. Through intentional teaching, “Heart Question” segments, and practical frameworks, Just Nona challenges internalized lies, disrupts cultural narratives, and equips women to live from wholeness rather than performance.
Episodes
77 episodes
How Do I Heal A Leader Wound? | Just Nona
What do you do when the person who hurt you is also the person in authority over you? In this new episode of Just Nona, I’m answering this question with insights from my new book, The Power of Petty Prayers. A listene...
How Do I Heal From Betrayal? | Just Nona
What do you do when you forgave them; but it still stings?Not because your forgiveness was fake.Not because you are bitter.Not because you did not “forgive for real.”But because forgiveness and healing are not the same t...
Why Am I Still Hurt After Forgiving Them? | Just Nona
What do you do when you forgave them; but you are still hurt?Not because you are bitter.Not because you are immature.Not because you did not “forgive for real.”But because they never acknowledged what they did. They neve...
Why Do I Keep Getting Used? | Just Nona
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that belongs to people who are genuinely gifted.Not the exhaustion of someone struggling to keep up. But the exhaustion of someone who keeps getting asked — because they are capable, because they...
Why Did Everyone Abandon Me… Including God? | Just Nona
There is a particular kind of loneliness that belongs to the trial season.Not the loneliness of being unknown. But the loneliness of being known — by people who have walked with you for years — and discovering, in the moment you needed them...
How Do I Keep Hope When Everything Falls Apart? | Just Nona
There is a particular kind of pain that comes when you do everything right and it still falls apart.Not the pain of consequences. Not the result of a bad decision. But the pain of obedience. Of following what you genuinely believed God ...
How Do I Let Go When I Don't Want To? | Just Nona
There is a grief that does not get talked about enough.Not the grief of losing someone to death. Not the grief of a dramatic betrayal. But the quieter, more confusing grief of losing someone whose season in your life simply ended. Someone y...
How Do I Follow God When I’m Afraid? | Just Nona
There is a particular tension nobody prepares you for when God calls you.Not the tension of not knowing what to do. But the tension of knowing — feeling it clearly in your spirit, celebrating it in your soul — and still feeling afraid to fu...
Why Doesn’t God Care About Women? Trauma and Silence in the Church | Just Nona
If you read the Bible with open eyes you will notice that most of the heroes are men, that women in the Old Testament were often defined by their ability to bear children, that polygamy was practiced by men called righteous while women were sha...
Can Addiction Keep Me Out of Heaven? | Just Nona
There are some questions that reveal just how much pain a person is carrying.Not because the question is wrong, but because of what it takes to finally ask it out loud.What does it mean when someone has been sitting alone with t...
Divorce and Abandonment. What the Bible Actually Says | Just Nona
There are some questions people of faith are afraid to ask out loud.Not because they do not feel them, but because they are afraid of being judged, misunderstood, or confronted with what the answer might require.One of those que...
Why You Keep Choosing The Wrong People | Just Nona
There are some relational tensions that don't have clean answers.Not because you don't want resolution — but because the path to resolution isn't fully in your control. And if you have ever experienced a strained relationship with a par...
How Long Are You Responsible for Their Pain? | Just Nona
You did the work. You had the hard conversation. You acknowledged the hurt. You apologized — more than once. And you meant it.But no matter what you do, it is not enough. The wound keeps coming back up. The tension keeps showing up at t...
Why No Contact Can Be Protection | Just Nona
There are some relational tensions that don't have clean answers.Not because you don't want resolution — but because the path to resolution isn't fully in your control. And if you have ever experienced a strained relationship with a par...
How to Heal a Broken Heart When Life Keeps Hurting | Just Nona
You're praying. You're showing up with faith. You're doing the work. And yet — disappointment keeps showing up too. Heartache. Loneliness. Unmet expectations. Emotional fatigue.And after a while, a tension begins to build. Because you w...
How Do I Stay Grateful After Loss? | Just Nona
There are some seasons that don't just stretch you — they strip you.Not all at once, but layer by layer. Things you built. Things you trusted. Things you thought were secure. And suddenly what once felt stable feels uncertain. What once...
The Part of Surrender Nobody Talks About (And Why You're Probably Closer Than You Think) | Just Nona
We sing about surrender. We pray about it. We say the words — "God, I give You my life" — and in those moments, we mean them.But then life starts unfolding. God begins to lead in directions we didn't expect. He asks us to release things...
They Lied About You, Betrayed You, and Tried to Erase Your Future (Here's How to Stay Whole) | Just Nona
There are wounds that don't just hurt — they disorient you.The kind you didn't see coming. The kind that doesn't just affect what happened to you, but how you see people, how you trust, and sometimes how you see yourself. And then there...
The Loneliness Nobody Warns You About When You Start Growing (And What to Do With It) | Just Nona
There are seasons where growth doesn't feel exciting. It feels isolating.You start thinking differently. Responding differently. Wanting different things. The conversations that used to feel normal don't fit anymore. The environments fe...
You Are Not Behind — You Are Living in God's Timeline (Even When It Doesn't Look Like It) | Just Nona
There is a quiet pressure that builds over time. Not always from other people — but from within.A silent inventory of what your life is, and what it isn't. A comparison between where you are and where you thought you would be by now. And...
When God Says No to Your Prayer (And You're Still Expected to Have Faith) | Just Nona
There are questions we carry in silence — not because we don't feel them, but because we're afraid of what it means to say them out loud.Questions like: Why is this still happening? Why have I prayed for years and nothing has changed? W...
The Lie Rejection Told You About Yourself (And How to Finally Stop Believing It) // Just Nona
Rejection hurts. But repeated rejection? That rewires you.Research shows that relational rejection activates the same neural pathways as physical pain. And when it keeps happening — through heartbreak, abandonment, friendships that disap...
Why They Don't Apologize (And Why It Hurts So Much) // Just Nona
Do you keep getting hurt… but the apology never comes? Not from your partner. Not from your family. Not even from people who know they hurt you.It makes you question yourself. Why didn’t they acknowledge it? Why do they apologize to oth...
Introducing Just Nona: Official Trailer // Just Nona
For the last three years, I’ve had the honor of hosting The Nona Jones Show, bringing you thoughtful conversations with friends, experts, and voices across culture, leadership, and faith. I’ve loved every moment of it, but over the last few mon...
Courtney Pray Duke: Finding Hope After Loss// The Nona Jones Show
Grief can knock the breath out of you. One moment life feels steady — and the next, everything you knew is gone.In this episode of The Nona Jones Show, I sit down with author and speaker Courtney Pray Duke, who was widowed at 29 and lef...