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From Corporate Reject to Bridge Builder: What I Learned from 100+ Rejections in Denmark

November 3, 2025

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 […]

Why I’m Bringing Back the Podcast (And What’s Different about this relaunch)

November 3, 2025

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 […]

Never Quite Enough: Creating My Own Way in a Country That Doesn’t See Me

November 3, 2025

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 […]