Just Jenna

You guys, I just realized something, and I know this might sound ridiculous, but I mean this with the utmost sincerity. I just realized that I am a child. I just realized that I am a baby infant child. Like, that’s truly where I’m at. It’s truly where I’m at. I am such an infant, infant, infant... in terms of my human experience. Okay? Like, I have just been chatting with people that are 50 years...

I want to tell you guys about my summer plans, my big summer of 2026. What is Jenna gonna be up to? My whole MO is making mistakes. That’s what I’m going to do this summer. I’m gonna make mistakes. I am going to. I’m gonna do the wrong thing. All the time, and I’m gonna keep doing it. I’m gonna say yes to the wrong invitation. I’m gonna say no when I should have said yes. I’m probably going to kis...

Okay, so I’m currently reading The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, and it’s... well, it’s changing. It’s changing my life. It’s exactly what I need to be reading right now because I didn’t realize before this book how much I am unnecessarily thinking. Okay, and like what my thinking does to me, a.k.a. causing suffering. And I’m reading this passage right now and I just want to read it out loud. I w...

So I just started my walk. I’m probably going to be huffing and puffing. Mama’s on her incline. Okay. Mama’s on her incline. And you know, I kind of had some... I had some sour news. That came into my orbit. Just some sour news. Okay. You know what? So I closed my laptop. I was like, I’m going outside. This is the perfect time to go on a walk. I start walking to one of my paths that I go on and I...

You guys. I have no idea if this is going to work, but if you’re hearing this, that means that it somehow worked. So I’ve had a lot of epiphanies recently, and the number one epiphany is I hate the way that I have been expressing myself on social media. Hate it. Disgusting. It’s not who I am. I was trying to conform to these rules, and I just... I know it has to be made up and you know what, you k...

A rocket engineer left spacecraft behind because he thought farming was a bigger unsolved problem. What he built is called Halter, and it is the clearest proof yet that AI and nature do not have to be in conflict. Halter is a solar-powered smart collar for cattle. It tracks health, behavior, and location in real time. It creates virtual fences with a sound cue instead of wire. It lets one farmer m...

I have a lot of feelings about AI and I needed to get them out. I talk about why anyone claiming to know exactly where this is going is lying to you, why I am still somehow hopeful about all of it, and why AI is basically just a magnifying glass for who you already are. Get full access to Just Jenna at jennamarilyn.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, Jenna Marilyn is on the move (literally), and sharing two of the quietest strategies she's used to create more momentum in her life. The first: stop telling people your goals before they happen. Not because you don't trust them. Because talk is cheap, and the energy you spend announcing a dream is energy you're not spending building it. Jenna breaks down why broadcasti...

Jenna's outside. Recording live from a walk, because life is moving fast and she's moving with it. This week's revillization: no matter what choice you make, it's all crazy. Quit your job or stay. Get married or don't. Go left or go right. Every option is insane, every outcome is uncertain, and the sooner you accept that, the sooner you stop sitting in decision paralysis waitin...

Why do driven, deeply feeling people keep burning out? Not because they're too much. Because they keep pouring into the wrong containers. After 12 days of nonstop work, Jenna hit a wall. This episode is what came out of a three-hour mountain hike, a lot of tears, and one very clear revillization: stop diagnosing yourself for someone else's symptoms. Your energy, your ambition, your love. N...

In this episode, Jenna Marilyn talks about something she’s been living for years but finally found language for: individuation. The process of becoming who you actually are instead of who you were conditioned to be. She breaks down the difference between your true nature and the version of you that was shaped by family, culture, survival, and approval. Not as something wrong, but as something buil...

In this episode, Jenna Marilyn picks up where last week left off. After sharing a message about becoming self-resourced, she realized something important was missing. Not because it was wrong, but because it wasn’t complete. What if the reason you feel behind, broken, or like you’re doing life wrong has nothing to do with you being wrong at all? Jenna introduces the idea of a personal curriculum....

In this episode, Jenna Marilyn shares the revillization that quietly changed everything: if you want something, it is your job to go get it. Not someday. Not through someone else. You. Now. Jenna breaks down what financial, emotional, and life skill dependence actually look like in real life and why they're subtle enough that most people don't catch them until the resentment is already the...

In this episode, Jenna Marilyn talks about the strange feeling that something is shifting right now, not just out in the world, but inside people too. Work, education, money, technology, and even cultural expectations around adulthood are being questioned in ways they haven’t been before. Structures that once felt stable suddenly feel uncertain. And when external systems start cracking, the intern...

In this episode, Jenna Marilyn talks about prayer and why it doesn’t have to belong to religion to be powerful. She shares the exact structure she says every morning and how it evolved from loving kindness meditation into a daily nervous system anchor. From gratitude and environment to health, alignment, certainty, protection, desire, and surrender, Jenna walks through the sequence she uses to int...

In this episode, Jenna Marilyn shares 12 spiritual ideas she actually lives by. Not rituals. Not aesthetics. Not things that sound profound on the internet. These are the beliefs that shape how she moves, decides, creates, and participates in her own life. From participation without guarantees, to trusting the intelligence of the body, to choosing creation over consumption, Jenna breaks down the p...

In this episode, Jenna Marilyn shares the core idea behind Just Jenna: not knowing what you’re doing, but doing it anyway. Not because you have it figured out. Not because you feel ready. But because life wants you to participate. She reflects on uncertainty, being a beginner, and why waiting to feel ready keeps people stuck. You don’t need certainty about the route. You need certainty about the g...

In this episode, Jenna Marilyn talks about the quiet way people miss their own lives. Not because nothing is happening, but because they’re stuck in their heads, managing themselves, rehearsing themselves, and trying to perform the “right” way inside moments that were never meant to be controlled. Through a conversation that sparked a revitalization, Jenna explores why anxiety is often not about t...

In this episode, Jenna Marilyn shares a reminder that quietly changed her entire life. Giving is not about being “good,” being selfless, or proving anything. It is about circulation. It is about keeping the channel open inside your body and inside your life. She tells the story of a simple practice she started at 19 that made her feel like a magician in her car. Silently blessing strangers. Sendin...

In this episode, Jenna Marilyn reflects on her podcast journey, not as a success story, but as a relationship that had to mature. What started as a long-held dream became frustrating, awkward, and imperfect once it actually arrived. And that tension taught her something important. Jenna walks through the three evolutions of Just Jenna , from forcing it, to letting it be easy, to choosing intention...

Modern culture is obsessed with linear progress. More growth, more productivity, more optimization, more forward motion. But reality is cyclical. And when you try to live by a linear model in a cyclical world, you burn out, abandon things too early, and lose meaning. In this episode, Jenna Marilyn explores how the pressure to always improve, pivot, and reinvent teaches us to leave instead of stay....

In this episode, Jenna Marilyn explores why so many people feel stuck in cycles they genuinely want to escape. Scrolling, sugar, overconsumption, late nights, compulsive habits. And why it is not because they are lazy, weak, or lacking willpower. Drawing from personal experience and addiction neuroscience, Jenna reframes discipline entirely. The real problem is not motivation. It is negotiation. W...

In this episode, Jenna Marilyn explores a metaphor that completely reframed the way she sees effort, failure, and what actually builds a meaningful life. Some people only respect $100 bills. Others pick up pennies. And those two people are relating to life in fundamentally different ways. This conversation isn’t about money. It’s about energy. About who’s willing to stay impressed by the small, un...

In this episode, Jenna Marilyn reflects on a small but meaningful shift she noticed while dealing with something very ordinary: a health insurance phone call. Nothing went wrong. Nothing was dramatic. The situation unfolded, required some time and effort, and resolved the way these things usually do. What stood out was this. Before the call, during it, and after it ended, she still felt like herse...

In this episode, Jenna Marilyn talks about why so many people feel confused, unmotivated, and disconnected right now and it’s not because they’re lazy or broken. It’s because we’re living in a world obsessed with outcomes while completely skipping the middle. With infinite information, infinite goals, and constant comparison, meaning gets lost when we don’t devote ourselves to the process. Jenna b...