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A potential client reached out asking for an AI agent. “Everyone’s doing AI,” they said. “We need to keep up.” I asked the question I always ask: “What problem are you actually trying to solve?” There was a pause. Then: “We can’t find anything. Documents are everywhere. It takes us hours to locate what we […]

Denmark said no to me well over 100 times. Every job application. Every interview. Every “we went with someone else” email. Every “you’re overqualified” conversation. Every silence after a promising meeting. For years, I thought I was unemployable. Turns out, I was just building something else. If you’ve ever faced rejection that made you question […]

For years, I tried to be one thing. The corporate executive. The spiritual practitioner. The systems person. The creative. The strategist. The intuitive. Pick one, the internet said. Niche down. Be known for ONE thing. That’s how you build a successful business. So I tried. Man, did I try. And I was miserable. Because here’s […]

The Jen Jul Podcast went quiet for a while. Not because I ran out of things to say. Not because I got bored or lost interest. But because I was figuring out what I actually wanted to say. And now I know. If you’ve been following along, you might have noticed the silence. The episodes […]

There’s a line I read recently that hit close to home: “Some days it feels as if I’m not Native enough for my own people because I use the tools we have been given, and never Western enough for the system that was built to destroy us.” ~Maija Katak Lukin That sentence held me still […]