Jennie Garth's 'Rewarding' New Podcast Calls Back to an Iconic “90210” Moment: It's 'Important to Me' (Exclusive)

The 'Beverly Hills, 90210' alum tells PEOPLE exclusively about how she hopes to "help" and "inspire" fans with her new iHeart podcast, 'I Choose Me with Jennie Garth', out April 30

Jennie Garth is ready to step into an all-new chapter with her next project. This time around, it's going to be deeply personal.

PEOPLE can exclusively reveal that the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum is launching a podcast titled I Choose Me with Jennie Garth. Her latest venture, launching through iHeart on April 30, is slated to be very raw as she shares experiences from her personal and professional life that she's never unveiled before.

"I love podcasting and have just fallen in love with it since doing OMG," Garth, 52, tells PEOPLE, referencing her 90210MG podcast with former costar and pal Tori Spelling.

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"As much as I love talking about 90210 and the episode content from the past, it stimulated this urge in me to talk about something more important, somehow. Something more important to me, I guess. Something a little bit more relatable, just current, what we're all dealing with," she continues. "I think that we're all dealing with the same things. Even back then, it's all the same. It's just a different iteration of what our challenges in life are. And everybody's circumstances are different, but that doesn't change that we're all dealing with the same issues."

"Even though I'm talking about my life and things that have happened to me in my life, I can almost guarantee you that these are the same things that you're dealing with in your life, just expressed in a different way or having different circumstances," she adds.

Being "the person that drives the show," Garth says, is a different feeling for the actress, who hopes her podcast will be a useful source to "help" or "inspire" listeners who tune in. "Crafting an episode in a way that can truly affect people is an art, and I'm learning to do it and relying on my producers at this point, but really definitely learning as I'm going and really loving it," she explains.

Garth still hasn't "gotten to the therapeutic part" as she's "only a few in," though she admits: "I need a little more time with that one."

"That's the thing about it, I love to connect with people on a soul level [and] on a deeper level, so talking about stuff that is a little deeper for me is just more comfortable," the What I Like About You alum says. "I feel like in that respect, I'm more comfortable just talking about things that are more human and more shared experiences. And certainly, things that I've lived through and learned from and grown from."

Garth says her desire to dive deeper into the podcast world has "been percolating for a while." She teases that "the sky's the limit" on what she'll discuss "because there's not much I haven't lived through." However, some topics include "the choice of staying married" after she briefly separated from her husband Dave Abrams several years ago and "choosing to become a mom" in her early twenties.

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90210 fans may have noticed that Garth's new project borrows its namesake from the show's iconic "I Choose Me" moment, where her character Kelly Taylor was made to pick between love interests Brandon Walsh (Jason Priestly) and Dylan McKay (Luke Perry) but ultimately, chose herself. Yet, this isn't something that resonated with the actress until later in life.

"Honestly, even though I said it in the '90s, 'I Choose Me,' it never really came full circle for me until I was older. Probably, I want to say 49 or 50 years old, where I was like, 'There's really something here to that line,'" she says.

"I started to meet a lot of women, maybe at autograph signings or just out in the real world, that told me what an impact that line had on them," she continues. "And nobody really knew it at our young age in the '90s, but as they got older, it's just something that comes back to you as you get old enough to handle what that statement means and be able to incorporate it into your life, because it's not the easiest thing to remember when you're just in the heat of all the moments of growing up."

From Garth's perspective, "I think that just the overall synergy of this whole 'I Choose Me' movement for me is what it's creating in my life on a career level, and just moving forward with the podcast and finally getting clear," she says.

"All my life, I've known and been told by, whether it was my parents or different prominent people in my life, or even horoscopes, saying, 'You're here to do something unique. You're here to use your voice and your platform.' And as a young girl, I would hear that and think, 'What platform? What voice? I don't know what you're talking about,'" she explains. "But now as it's all falling into place that this message from my younger years is coming back full circle to be something that I want to talk about, I don't care about talking about my next project, honestly."

Garth concludes, "I don't care about self-promoting. I want to talk about something that means something to me, and this next thing is that for me. It's really, really rewarding."

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I Choose Me with Jennie Garth podcast, distributed by iHeartPodcasts, launches on April 30 and can be listened to anywhere podcasts are heard.

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