Episode 33

Your Dream Life Grows When You Grow, Too

Published on: 22nd May, 2025

In this soul-deep solo episode, DeAndra shares what most people miss when they talk about success: your dream life doesn’t arrive when everything’s perfect, it arrives when you become the version of you who can hold it.

From launching Party Shop Avenue during burnout, to trusting the soft path of her new brand, DeAndra gets real about fear, friendship, and finding your flow again. She shares the behind-the-scenes stories of learning to trust herself, choose rest, and honor the woman she’s becoming, even when it’s uncomfortable.


This episode is your reminder that the business, life, and clarity you desire is already unfolding, through who you're choosing to be, moment by moment.


🧠 What You'll Hear In This Episode:

  • The real reason your dream life may not have landed yet
  • How DeAndra launched Party Shop Avenue without a plan, just faith
  • What happens when you ignore your gut in friendships and business
  • The surprising strength in choosing softness over hustle
  • How rest, stillness, and surrender became her business strategy
  • Why becoming “her” isn’t about rushing, it’s about showing up one soft step at a time


✍🏽 Journal Prompt from the Episode:

Who am I becoming… and what’s one little way I can act like her today?


🛍️ Mentioned in This Episode:

  • The S.O.F.T. Method™ Community (free + premium options coming soon)
  • DeAndra’s Instagram: @deandrajalisa

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About the Podcast

The DeAndra Jalisa Podcast
Welcome to The DeAndra Jalisa Podcast—the place for creatives who are ready to stop playing small and start getting paid for what they know. From messy beginnings to building luxe, structured businesses, DeAndra shares the behind-the-scenes of entrepreneurship, clarity breakthroughs, and the systems that make it all flow. Each episode blends real talk, strategy, and soul-led guidance to help you package your skills, launch with ease, and step fully into your Soft CEO era.

About your host

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DeAndra Crismon


DeAndra Jalisa Crismon is the founder of Party Shop Avenue. A bespoke balloon design company located in Los Angeles, California. DeAndra has been in the event industry for almost 10 years. She was a wedding planner and event designer who wanted to create something unique for the industry.

Which gave birth to Party Shop Avenue in 2017, she started posting her beautiful creations and her designs started to spread the internet like wildfire.

DeAndra has been able to work with some notable brands and influencers throughout her career. Clients like, Guess, Boohoo, Fabletics, Netflix, Fashion Nova, Mastros Franchise, Ispy, Colourpop, Sivan Ayla, Jessi Malay, Shayla Mitchell, Draymond Green, and many more. DeAndra had one of the biggest jobs of her career back in 2018 when she was flown out to New York to showcase her designs with Ipsy for Ispy Creator Day. Not to mention her designs were featured on Good Morning America the same week.

Now DeAndra is still persevering in the industry but is now mentoring aspiring creatives on how to grow successful creative businesses.