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 ground. Through self-trust, detachment from outcomes, and reconnecting to something deeper than the mind, movement becomes possible.

You don’t figure life out first. You participate in it.

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Host: Jenna Marilyn

Producer: JD Ferrell

Presented by: THE Modern Podcast Network and ThemodernHQ.com

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 the moment itself, but about fear of our own unedited expression inside it. She breaks down how living in your head creates the illusion of control while quietly pulling you out of your body, your breath, and the present moment.

This episode is a reminder that life doesn’t want to be handled. It wants to be experienced. Presence is not passive. It is an active refusal to abandon the moment and retreat into thought. When you stop trying to manage yourself and allow yourself to be here, life becomes something you actually remember.

The present moment does not need improvement. It needs your participation.

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Host: Jenna Marilyn

Producer: JD Ferrell

Presented by: THE Modern Podcast Network and ThemodernHQ.com

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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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.

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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.

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Host: Jenna Marilyn

Producer: JD Ferrell

Presented by: THE Modern Podcast Network and ThemodernHQ.com

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. When high-dopamine options stay available, the nervous system is wired to lose the debate every time. This episode explores why removing choice creates relief, how environment beats willpower, and why fewer decisions can feel like freedom instead of restriction.

If you are tired of arguing with yourself, breaking promises you meant to keep, or carrying quiet shame about habits you thought you would have outgrown, this episode offers a different approach. You do not need to fight yourself. You need to set yourself up. Freedom is not self-control. It is fewer choices.

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Host: Jenna Marilyn

Producer: JD Ferrell

Presented by: THE Modern Podcast Network and Themodern.fm

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, unglamorous moments that make up real growth. Jenna unpacks why failure isn’t rare or shameful, why avoidance is what actually keeps people stuck, and how the way you treat “small things” reveals how you handle the big ones too.

A meaningful life isn’t built by waiting for certainty or impressive outcomes. It’s built by responding to what’s in front of you, learning as you go, and choosing the kind of struggle that moves your story forward. Pick up the pennies or don’t. Either way, life keeps asking.

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Host: Jenna Marilyn

Producer: JD Ferrell

Presented by: THE Modern Podcast Network and Themodern.fm

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 herself. Her internal state stayed intact.

From there, Jenna explores what she is learning about free will, mindfulness, and why life’s sequence of events will happen no matter what. Appointments, traffic, money, work stress, text messages, success, disappointment. The events keep unfolding. How you respond while they unfold is where choice actually lives.

This episode is not about suppressing emotions or pretending things do not matter. It is about learning how to pause and choosing not to suffer unnecessarily when nothing is actually threatening you.

Because when you stop living as the effect of your life and start living as the cause, everything changes, even when nothing else does.

Follow Jenna on Instagram: @jennamarilyn_

Email thoughts to: jenna.andrix@gmail.com

Host: Jenna Marilyn

Producer: JD Ferrell

Presented by: THE Modern Podcast Network and Themodern.fm