It's Bananas
Welcome to It's Bananas, the podcast where we build an appetite for juicy living with your host, Becky Onnesta. She explores how tasting new and diverse fruits can lead to self discovery, joy and connection. But the thing is...you don't have to love fruit in order to enjoy all the juicy details. The whole idea is to figure out what you love for yourself.
Every episode, she spills all the details of what's on her mind and what's on her table connecting the dots between fruit and the human experience. She'll peel back the layers around how tasting fruit unexpectedly led her to herself, to finding joy and to the biggest holy grail of them all -- connection. It's deep, it's delicious, and It's Bananas!
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 15
- Years Active
- 2023
Season Finale: 23 Things I Learned from Fruit in 2023
In this season finale, I wrap up the season with 23 of my favorite things I learned from fruit this season including the unexpected value of licking things, why I don't want to live without my planne…
From Chaos to Control: Persimmons and the Power of Meals
This week is one of my favorite episodes so far and I’m joined by one of my favorite humans, Max Daniels to talk about:
The sexiness that is the hachiya persimmon.
How long would it take if you ate one…
Rest vs. Joy: Pondering Priorities with Pomegranates
This week I explore the question: What do I prioritize over doing the things that make me happy? I discuss:
- How I use lists…or don’t
- Prioritizing ease and why I don’t buy pomegranates
- Whether or not you…
Pearfect Planning - Exploring Joy with Alison
This week Alison joins our table to gush about planners and how they pair pearfectly with joy. In this episode we find out:
- If pears and peanut butter pair up and whether Alison always has peanut butt…
Throw It Away? There Is No 'Away'
Let’s talk literal and metaphorical composting with Megan Goehring! Becky finally learns how to compost and realizes she’s been out of compliance for seven embarrassing years. But first — we share a …
Do Grape Minds Think Alike? Sharing What We Love
Our host, Becky, the Fruit Maven, is joined this week by her first esteemed guest, Lia Riley, co-host of Afternoona Delight and Afternoona Army podcasts. Becky carries precious cargo 500 miles to sha…
Fig Love: Fated Mates, One-Night Stands, and Unexpected Pregnancies
Feeling like a juicy superhero, our Fruit Maven saves a single fig from its lonely fate and shares a shocking secret. From there she dives into a romance for the ages with fated mates, one night stan…
Rambutan Rendevous: Finding Sweetness in Hairy Situations
We all love those big, memorable moments in life, but what about the smaller, hairier situations? Can we turn life's mundane into moments of pure magic?
In this episode I spill the beans on some truly…
Brave Enough: A Taste of Courage with the Aprium
We have to be brave more often than we give ourselves credit for. Let’s talk strategies for befriending our fear when we want to reach for something bigger like joy or connection. Plus I "bravely" di…
Grape Expectations: When You Need a Little Help from Your Friends
This episode takes a different approach to the idea of joy as I recently met unexpected heartache. I explore grapes as an analogy for community and ask some tricky questions: What is the role of comm…
Fruit Confessions: A Love-Hate Melonfesto
In this episode I rant about the sneaky unwritten rules that sometimes hold us back from fully embracing what we love. Plus – I reveal my ultimate fruit nemesis, and spill all the juicy details. This…
The Cherry on Top: What the Hell is Joy?
How much do words matter and what happens when we define and reclaim them? This episode defines joy, happiness and enjoyment, while diving into the fascinating stories around the naming of the Black …
Unleashing the Inner Dragonfruit
What are you supposed to do when you realize you’ve put yourself into a box and are silencing the very voice you want to have? Can you go full Game of Thrones and pretend to be Khaleesi, the Mother o…
Picasso Melon: Painting a Path to Joy
How do you figure out what you love? And can a Picasso Melon help? If you lose your sparkle, can fruit help you get it back? Find out in today’s episodes where I tell the story of how fruit was the u…
It's Bananas Introduction
Build an appetite for juicy living with ‘It’s Bananas,’ a podcast where your host, Becky Onnesta, explores how tasting new and diverse fruits can lead to self-discovery, joy, and connection. New epis…