Just Jenna

A guy at work gave me a $100 tip last night for some relationship advice I gave him, so I figured I’d give it away for free today on the podcast. This one’s about situationships, boundaries, and the guts it takes to actually say what you want, even when it rocks the boat. Get full access to Just Jenna at jennamarilyn.substack.com/subscribe

I have a thought experiment for you: personify the present moment. Imagine it as an actual person you're in a relationship with, not a concept, not a background hum, an actual person you interact with every single day. Now look at how you've been treating them. Most of us treat the present moment like an obstacle, a means to an end, or an enemy. And if you were to treat a person this way, you and...

What if the experience of life isn’t really about what’s happening, but about what you’re telling yourself is happening. Two people can watch the same sunset and have two completely different experiences of it. The sunset stayed exactly the same for both of them. The difference was entirely in the thoughts they were having in their heads. So is life really just what we think about while we’re livi...

What you seek, you shall find. Period. Every person, every experience, every place contains both positivity and negativity; the one you get is the one you’re looking for. It’s easy to be a negative Nancy, that’s the cop out, and most people default to it without even realizing they’re doing it. If your knee-jerk reaction is negative, I want to introduce you to the joy journal. A little something I...

I ripped out my retainer to record this one- a midnight reflection on yet another book consuming my thoughts, this time A New Earth. Eckhart Tolle’s take on sin (missing the mark, not breaking a rule) sent me down a rabbit hole connecting Shakespeare, Jesus on the cross, and why identifying with your roles and thoughts might be the fastest way to miss the whole point of being alive. Unedited, half...

For most of my life, I didn’t realize I was subconsciously trying to prove my value before anyone even got to know me: showing off a skill, a resource, something useful, so they would want to keep me around. This episode is about the moment I caught myself doing it, what changed when I stopped, and what shifted when I decided to just show up as myself. I talk about why the quality of my relationsh...

there’s nothing about the human experience that is nonchalant to me #straightup Get full access to Just Jenna at jennamarilyn.substack.com/subscribe

I have a theory about relationships, and it starts with an egg toss. You know the game: two people throwing a fragile egg back and forth, stepping back after every catch, raising the stakes each round. Nobody wins alone. You need the best throw and the best catch, every single time, or the whole thing breaks. I think that’s what a good relationship looks like. But here’s where it gets complicated....

so I went on a hike to clear my head and came back with a full theory of everything instead. this episode's about why our generation is lonelier than any before it, why church attendance is about to make a comeback, and why AI freeing up our brains could kick off something like a second cognitive revolution. also: new religions are coming, and yes, protein vapes are next. a rattlesnake and two coy...

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...