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  • My Summer Plan is to Make Mistakes

    My Summer Plan is to Make Mistakes
    2026/06/02

    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 kiss somebody. There, I said it. I’m probably gonna kiss someone that I shouldn’t. For sure. I’m going to go to the party. I’m gonna stay in. I am going to listen to my intuition, and I’m going to go for the glory, and I’m going to be wrong. And I’m going to be right.

    But what I do know for sure is that I’m going to be making mistakes, and that’s what I’m going to be doing this summer, starting right now. Starting right now, that is my MO. Also, I don’t even know what MO means. M-O, that is my mission. Onward. That’s what MO means to me right now. My mission onward is to make mistakes.

    I have been feeling like, if I don’t make the perfect choice and be this perfect person in this present moment, my whole future is going to collapse and fall apart. And I know this cannot be true. But I have been operating at like such a level of responsibility where I’m like, I need to do this thing, like it has to be perfect. I’m just like, enough, Jenna. Enough. It makes no sense.

    And I am only where I’m at today because I’ve made so many mistakes. And somewhere along the way, you guys, I need to spill the beans about something. Somewhere along the way I started judging myself. And it’s only came to light recently. Because I’ve had a lot of my friends, strangers, family, whatever, they always come to me and share with me their stuff. They always tell me their things. Their mistakes, if you will. Because they always say to me, Jenna, you don’t have a judgmental bone in your body. Like I feel like I can tell you anything. I feel like I can be whoever I am around you and you don’t care.

    And it’s so true. I don’t have a judgmental bone in my body towards other people.

    When it comes to myself... I have been judging myself. I’m judging myself all the time. Like I’m putting myself under this microscope and I’m like assessing myself as though I’m something linear, as if my life is like a start and then a finish. When I’m like, wait a second. I have the universe inside of me, babe. Like we are here. I am here. This is what’s going on for me too. Like I’m having all these experiences. And I have to stop judging myself. I have to start allowing myself to continue to make these mistakes because every time I make mistakes, oh my god, it just helps me grow and I learn and I evolve and that’s the whole point.

    And so yeah, I just wanted to share this with anyone who, you know, listens to me. That’s my whole MO. My mission onward. Again, I don’t know if MO’s the right word here, but my MO, my mission onward... wait, is onward? Yeah, it starts with an O. I was like, wait. F**k. Um, but this is my mission onward. To make mistakes. I am going to just keep ripping it. I gotta keep ripping it.

    And on the outside looking in, someone who knows me might be like, what? Like, this doesn’t feel new to me. No, there has been an internal shift. Because I realize I have been judging myself. And I don’t judge other people. I really could give 2 s***s what other people are doing. Because I see other people so, so just like as this perfect mess, cluster of energy, atoms, DNA, years and years and years and thousands of years of evolution. I’m just like, you are a beautiful masterpiece. You are a mess and you are a human and I love it.

    And somewhere along the way I stopped realizing and remembering, that’s what it is, I stopped remembering that those same things apply to me.

    And I’m gonna allow myself to keep making mistakes and smile through it and not judge myself through it and just like, mess up. I’m gonna keep messing up. That’s what I’m gonna do. And I know it’s like silly because it’s like, this summer I’m gonna make mistakes. But I really mean for the rest of my life. And I’m just like, I need to be cool with it because it’s going to keep happening. And so I’m just like, I need to get over myself.

    So. In case you’re wondering, yes, I will be making a lot of mistakes and... jokes on... capitalism. I’m not going to judge myself anymore. And I am gonna blame capitalism. I need something to put my finger at in this very moment. So capitalism it is. Joke’s on you.



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  • Allowing the “isness” of all Things

    Allowing the “isness” of all Things
    2026/05/30
    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 wanna read it out loud. That’s what I want to do. Like it’s so crazy to me that I’m like... wait, is this what I... yes. Okay. I’m just gonna rip it.So I’m on page 182. And the little section within this chapter is called Impermanence and the Cycles of Life. And it goes.However, as long as you are in the physical dimension and linked to the collective human psyche, physical pain, although rare, is still possible. This is not to be confused with suffering. The mental emotional pain. All suffering is ego created and due to resistance.I underlined that for a reason. Because I’ve realized so much throughout these last couple of weeks, well, the last couple of years, let’s get real. But especially the last couple of weeks reading this book, that all of my suffering is created by thoughts that stem from psychological time. Psychological time being thinking about the past or thinking about the future. And then me resisting the present moment because I’m thinking about the past or the future. Okay?Anyways, I will continue to read on here.As long as you are in this dimension, you are still subject to its cyclical nature and the law of impermanence of all things, but you no longer perceive this as bad, it just is. Through allowing the isness of all things, a deeper dimension underneath the play of opposites reveals itself to you, as an abiding presence, an unchanging deep stillness, an uncaused joy beyond good and bad. This is the joy of being, the peace of God.A caveat, when he says the word being, he’s talking about God. When I say God, I mean the universe, nature, whoever Siddhartha Gautama found when he was enlightened under the tree, whoever Jesus was talking about. Like I’m talking about that thing. However anyone else sees it, I have no idea. But anyways, I just kind of wanted to put that out there as well.And I just love that he said allowing the isness of all things. Just allowing things to be what they are. Because human beings, we have this... it’s an illusion, through my understanding. Of cause and effect, good and bad, right and wrong, evil and good, whatever. And he’s saying that underneath that, underneath our mind perceiving things as good and bad, cause and effect, right and wrong, whatever, is the isness of all things, which completely prevails. They prevail against this whole notion of something being good or bad. It just is. And he’s saying that is the joy and the peace of God. Okay?Anyways. On the level of form, also when he’s saying form, he’s just talking about reality. He’s talking about being alive, being a human being. Like physical reality.So on the level of form, there is birth and death, creation and destruction, growth and dissolution of seemingly separate forms. This is reflected everywhere, in the lifecycle of a star or a planet, a physical body, a tree, a flower, in the rise and fall of nations, political systems, civilizations, and in the inevitable cycles of gain and loss in the life of an individual. There are cycles of success, when things come to you and thrive, and cycles of failure, when they wither or disintegrate, and you have to let them go in order to make room for new things to arise, or for transformation to happen. If you cling and resist at that point, it means you are refusing to go with the flow of life and you will suffer.I’m going to read that again. If you cling and resist at that point, a.k.a. when you cling and resist to transformation, when you resist these cycles of life, then you will suffer. Period.And it’s so true because it’s so much resistance moving on.It is not true that the upcycle is good and the downcycle is bad, except in the mind’s judgment. So true. Growth is usually considered positive, but nothing can grow forever. If growth of whatever kind were to go on and on, it would eventually become monstrous and destructive. Dissolution is needed for new growth to happen. One cannot exist without the other. The down cycle is absolutely essential for spiritual realization. You must have failed deeply on some level, or experienced some deep loss or pain, to be drawn to the spiritual dimension.I can concur.Or perhaps your very success became empty and meaningless and so turned out to be failure. Failure lies concealed in every success, and success in every failure. In this world, which is to say the level of form, everybody fails sooner or later. Of course. And every achievement eventually comes to naught. All forms are impermanent. You can still be active and enjoy manifesting and creating new forms and ...
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  • Love Is All Around You Even If It's Not About You

    Love Is All Around You Even If It's Not About You
    2026/05/28
    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 hear these like... I hear these little girls talking. Like I think I see someone coming. I think I see someone coming. And like I hear noise and laughter and like yeah, just like little girl voices and giggling.And I’m like, what is going on?Out of the corner of my eye, I see these little girls. They’re on this path that I’m on right now. And they’re just going up and down this hill on their bike. Just having such a good time.And it just hit me. I just had this overwhelming voice message feeling, whatever.A tale of oldest time baby. Just love is all around you even if it’s not about you. There is joy. There is love. There is so many amazing things happening. All of the time. All around you. And just, if something... if love isn’t... if you’re not feeling love, if you’re not feeling joy, if you’re not feeling like child, kid like laughter... it doesn’t mean it doesn’t f*****g exist.And I just feel like I needed that reminder because again, I just had a sour moment. A sour moment. There was no love in that room. No, there wasn’t. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. And that doesn’t mean that it’s anything to even like hold on to. Just a reminder of like, oh my god, go outside. Go on a little walk, ski baby. And just see.All of these beautiful things happening around you. And I just needed that reminder. I did. Cause I’m like, you know, it’s not going as I would prefer. Classic. Absolute classic. But there is still so much love happening all around me. Even if I’m not directly being the one affected. In this moment in time. My turn’s coming.It almost actually kind of reminds me of... now that I’m thinking about it... when I used to serve, like serve tables, work in restaurants, whatever. You know, every one in a blue moon there would just be like a table or a party or people that would come in and they would just like tip fat. Like they would walk in. So this is how it works when you work in a restaurant. Usually there is like some system in play of like, we are rotating. So if this table comes in then Jenna gets it, then Carter gets it, then Adam gets it, then Taylor gets it. Okay. Then you just like keep rotating in this circle. That’s why it’s fair, as fair as possible, right?And sometimes like, you just know. There’s like certain people that come in, certain groups that come in, where you’re like, boom, they’re gonna spend a s**t ton of money and you’re gonna get a fat tip. You’re gonna get a fat tip.And I always knew when that was happening. Like, if it’s not my turn right now, it’ll be my turn tomorrow. It’ll be my turn next week. That’s why, because I had some co-workers sometimes that would be so, so bitter and jealous of other co-workers getting those like big tips, those big tables, those good nights, those lucky rotations, those whatever. And it always confused me why people were bitter. Because I’m like, dude, your turn is coming. Like your turn is coming. This is how the system works, baby. Like so and so is having a really good night but tomorrow might be your night. Like you never really know.And I think that’s... I don’t know why I’m thinking about all of this right now on my walk. But I think maybe it’s because I needed to remind myself of this right now. Of like, okay...It’s not... it’s... it might just not be my turn. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. It’s the same with love. Like I’m not feeling love right now. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Go outside. Look at those little girls. Like they are having a blast. They are having a blast. Giggling. Making me feel so happy. Then guess what? Oh, I did feel love. I did feel joy. Because I was infected by their happiness. Their joy. Their whatever.And it’s just like... don’t get so... Jenna, I’m talking to myself, I’m not talking to anyone else. Like Jenna, don’t get so attached and gripped towards these outcomes. Like your turn is coming. Your turn is coming, babe. Oh my god, it’s coming. Just like everyone else’s. Yeah. Right. I’m like, please. Right? Anybody. Anybody at all. But...Maybe it’s the ribs talking. Before I left for my walk I was like, well I obviously need a snack. Has anyone ever... okay I got a couple. Have you ever ate food underwater? One. Two. Have you ever ate like a snack or like brought a snack like in the shower? Or like a drink in the shower or something like that? Like those places where you’re not supposed to be consuming. It’s just like, I don’t know. It’s fun to do that.I just find it...
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  • I Still Don't Know What I'm Doing

    I Still Don't Know What I'm Doing
    2026/05/27
    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 know, maybe the rules aren’t made up. Well, I mean, everything’s made up. That’s not the point. The point is, the point is, I have literally been fighting for my life trying to figure out internally, asking myself a million questions a day, how I want to show up online. And all I want to do is make voice memos. I don’t want to record my face. I don’t want to have a production. I don’t want to clip. I don’t want to do 5 billion TikToks a day. I don’t care about my... these messaging pillars, the hooks, the captions, the hashtags. I don’t care about none of it. I hate it all. I think it’s stupid. I think it’s rotten. I think all this is so rotten for our brains and I don’t want to be involved in it. And I have really complicated feelings about social media in general, but I do believe in the communication device nature of this. Like, I am saying this like I’m speaking to somebody. I don’t know who I’m talking to right now, but if you’re hearing me, hello. Hello. Okay. But anyways, the point is...Everything that I believe and everything that I feel and everything that I want to say to people, I have to embody it or I feel sick. I feel off. I feel sick and twisted if I’m not in alignment. Like the price, the cost for me...Hold on. I need to take a drink of water. I am a little zooted.But anyways, the price of me not staying true to myself, me not being Jenna, me... whatever. I physically feel off. Like my body speaks to me. I don’t know how else to explain it. If you know, you know. My body’s been screaming at me because I have been trying to... the social media thing. It doesn’t matter. I don’t need to get into it because I’m just not going to participate anymore. I’m moving on. I’m doing what I want to do. Like I’m not... the systems are crumbling. But...Anyways, I just want to have a voice memo. I just want to express myself. I want this to be what it is.I really think social media is just rotten. Whether you’re consuming it or creating it, I feel like it’s all rotten. And again, not all of it, but just at least real short-form content. That’s what I mean. Short-form content. I feel like it’s just absolutely rotten. And what these tech billionaire dudes are doing on the back end of all this social media stuff to get and harvest your attention and your time. It’s just so sick and twisted and I... it’s mortifying. It is mortifying to me.And so I want to express myself because I want to connect with other people. Because I don’t know, it’s who I am. It’s in my nature.So my idea is I want to, because I just have like, I have thoughts. I have thoughts and I’m thirsty and I want to express myself because I’ve had these ideas and these predictions and oh my god, there’s so many things I don’t share because I can’t figure out how it is I want to convey my message. I’m like, oh my god, do I want to write about it? Do I want to create some visual thing? Do I want to do long form? Do I want to teach it? How do I want to go about expressing myself? Oh my god. A tale as old as time. You know what I mean? But anyways, all I want to do is make voice memos, express myself, and express my predictions because I just need to jump. I need to jump in. I need to land the plane.I think in the next couple of years, phones, our phones are going to go away. I literally think our phones are going to evolve. They’re going to morph in some capacity. In what way, I don’t know. But I know it. I know it’s going to change.I think there’s just... I almost think this might be crazy. No, I know it’s not crazy because I see a vision of myself in the future doing this. I literally envision our phones being like earpieces or like glasses or something, because I think we’re going to be able to use our phones for certain tasks, like communication channel tasks or like work that you need to be doing on a computer or something. We’re going to be able to do them through speaking and language and... it’s going to be a different hardware. It’s not going to be the phone. I think it might be an earpiece where you talk. I just... do you know what I mean? Maybe you know what I mean. Maybe you don’t know what I mean. But I just needed to get that off my chest.I imagine myself wearing a pair of glasses. And I’m waking up. It’s in the morning. I put on these glasses. I get my cup of coffee. I go outside and I start my morning. Just a little walk around the block. Just a little walk around the block, okay? And I’m imagining myself speaking to like my glasses...
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  • The Farmer Gets an App. The Cow Gets a Voice. This Is AI Done Right.

    The Farmer Gets an App. The Cow Gets a Voice. This Is AI Done Right.
    2026/05/12

    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 manage what used to require dozens of people. As of 2026 it runs on 600,000 cattle across New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. American ranchers have replaced more than 11,000 miles of physical fencing with a drawing on a phone screen. The avoided cost alone is $220 million.

    Farmer suicide rates in the US run two to five times the national average. These are people carrying animals, land, weather, and market conditions they cannot control, all at once. Halter gives them something they have never had: real-time information from anywhere. The technology makes room for the human. That is the whole point.

    Jenna covers the Cowgorithm, what 7 billion hours of animal behavior data actually built, and why cattle guided by virtual fencing are now reducing wildfire fuel on public land in California without a single post in the ground.

    This is solar punk. Humans win. Animals win. Land wins. Everyone wins.

    Halter: halterhq.com

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  • I Have Things To Say About AI - #046

    I Have Things To Say About AI - #046
    2026/05/05

    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.



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    34 分
  • EP 45 | Why You Should Stop Telling People Your Goals (And What to Do Instead)

    EP 45 | Why You Should Stop Telling People Your Goals (And What to Do Instead)
    2026/04/28

    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 broadcasting your intentions feels productive but isn't, what actually happens to your focus when you contain your goals, and why results-first is the only story worth telling.


    The second: record your life. Journals, voice memos, notes app, whatever works. Because the proof that things always work out already exists inside your own history -- you just haven't gone back to read it yet. Jenna shares how looking back at her own words gave her a confidence that nothing external ever could, and why seeing the pattern of your own life is one of the most grounding things you can do.


    If you've ever announced your next move before you made it, wondered why your goals aren't gaining traction, or forgotten how far you've already come -- this episode is your reminder to keep it close, do the work, and let the results speak.


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  • 44 | It's All Crazy Anyway (So Pick the One You're Proud Of)

    44 | It's All Crazy Anyway (So Pick the One You're Proud Of)
    2026/04/21

    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 waiting for a certainty that will never come.

    The brain is addicted to certainty. It will keep feeding you thoughts, pros and cons lists, what-ifs, anything to create the illusion of a guaranteed outcome. But certainty is a complete illusion.

    So what do you do? You stop feeding it. You make the move. You pick the option you'd be proud of, not the one that feels safe, not the one that feels certain, and you keep going.

    Because either way? It's gonna be absolutely crazy.

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    10 分