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Authentic Marketing for a Spiritual Business

spiritual Jen

March 11, 2026

Why I Don’t “Market” My Work (And Why It Still Works) For a long time, I thought I was bad at marketing my spiritual business. I didn’t want to convince people.I didn’t want to pressure anyone.I didn’t want to act bigger than I am. Most online marketing felt like noise made by tired people trying […]

How to Live in a Good Way: An Indigenous Approach to Rooted Living

Jen living in a good way

March 11, 2026

When I was growing up in Alaska, I often heard a phrase from elders and family members. “You should always try to live in a good way. Live in a good way This was never delivered like a lecture or as a result of an action. No one pulled out a list of rules or […]

The Six Pillars of Returning

six pillars

February 5, 2026

The Foundation of the Rooted Living When I began writing the Rooted Guide, I was not trying to design a framework. I was trying to survive my own disconnection with honesty. I was asking questions that do not come from curiosity alone, but from lived tension. Am I walking in a good way?What happens when […]

Why I Left AI for a More Rooted Life in a Disconnected World

January 30, 2026

This Was Not a Rebrand. It Was a Reckoning. I do not hate technology. Actually, far from it. Nor am I here to shame your phone. I have one too. But I stepped back from AI and tech-heavy spaces because something in me started to feel hollow. Not tired.Not confused. Hollow. Like my work was […]

Nature Does Not Hurry. Neither Did Rooted.

Rooted living

January 30, 2026

A Guide to Return to What Matters I thought finishing the Rooted Guide by December 2025 would be a matter of discipline. Why? This has been living in my head for years, and if I didn’t get it out now, it would simply die as another great idea. And I couldn’t have that at all. […]

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

jen jul never enough

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 […]

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