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. Sending joy, peace, and goodwill with no expectation in return. Not as a belief system. As an experiment. And the result was immediate. Something softened. Something moved.

Jenna breaks down the Law of Giving through real life, nature, and systems, explaining why nothing stays alive if it does not move. Why hoarding blocks flow. And why giving and receiving are not separate actions but two ends of the same loop. She also offers simple, grounded ways to practice this in everyday life, starting with the things that cost nothing: attention, presence, listening, appreciation, and love.

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Email thoughts or reflections to: jenna.andrix@gmail.com

Host: Jenna Marilyn

Producer: JD Ferrell

Presented by: THE Modern Podcast Network and ThemodernHQ.com

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 intentional growth, and why staying with something after the fantasy dissolves is where real fulfillment begins. Along the way, she draws parallels to journaling, self-documentation, and the quiet power of capturing your thoughts across time.

This episode is a meditation on devotion without pressure, hobbies that don’t need to be monetized, and how to recognize when a desire is genuinely yours, not inherited, not performative, not borrowed. A reminder that some dreams aren’t meant to pay off. They’re meant to stay with you.

Not everything you love needs to become something else.

Follow Jenna on Instagram: @jennamarilyn_

Email thoughts or reflections to: jenna.andrix@gmail.com

Host: Jenna Marilyn

Producer: JD Ferrell

Presented by: THE Modern Podcast Network and ThemodernHQ.com

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. To quit instead of tend. To chase what’s next instead of commit to what’s already here. She breaks down why repetition, routine, and returning have been quietly devalued, and how that disconnection from natural cycles shows up as exhaustion and confusion.

Wisdom lives in staying. In returning. In tending to relationships, practices, and seasons long enough for depth to form. Meaning is not created by novelty or constant escalation. It is built through commitment, attention, and participation over time.

Follow Jenna on Instagram: @jennamarilyn_

Email thoughts or reflections to: jenna.andrix@gmail.com

Host: Jenna Marilyn

Producer: JD Ferrell

Presented by: THE Modern Podcast Network and ThemodernHQ.com