Hi, I’m Donavon

Don-ations started because I’ve always loved real conversation.
Not small talk but actual, honest, “this is what I’m going through” kind of conversation. When you’re with the right people and you drop the act, you get clarity, you feel seen, you feel less alone, and life makes a little more sense.

I took my love of conversation and started sending voice memos to my family group text in the mornings. It was motivational reminders, affirmations, or just me sharing what I was thinking about with an insightful takeaway. Then I started sending them to my friends. Eventually, people I didn’t even send them to were asking if they could be included because they heard about them from someone else.

That’s when it clicked that this needed to exist on a bigger scale.
That’s how the Don-ations Podcast was born.

Now, Don-ations is more than just a podcast.
It’s about being seen.
It’s about having a safe place to be real.
It’s about learning the lessons life keeps trying to teach you and actually growing from them, without losing yourself in the process.

I’m not trying to be a guru. I’m just here to do the work with you, and remind you that you’re not doing it alone.

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A young man with dark hair, wearing a tan baseball cap backwards and a light gray sweatshirt, sitting at a table with his hands clasped. There is a lamp and a plant in the background.