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

Love Is All Around You Even If It's Not About You

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 fun. It just like feels silly. And it’s kind of what I do sometimes on my walks. I just grabbed two, what I call two pieces of rib. How would you say this? We made ribs last night and there was two, two like rib, rib bones left with meat on it. And so I grabbed that for my walk. So I’m walking around the subdivision just mowing down on my ribs, bitter about... you know, something not going the way that I preferred. I finished my ribs. I walked down this like little path and then I just hear the girls giggling. And I’m like, wow. This is what it’s all about, baby. Right here. Love is all around you even if it’s not about you. I feel like the universe was screaming at me. And because I really just want to start just... my rough ass voice memos. My unthought through b******t. No plan. No nothing. No f*****g strategy. Just like uploading this. Like this is what I want to do. So this is what I’m doing. And I’m like, I think this is it. Take it or leave it. Take it or leave it. 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I Still Don't Know What I'm Doing

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 or something, or I’m just like, I have like an earpiece. I don’t know, again, I don’t, I don’t know, I don’t know the details. I don’t know the details. I’m just making a prediction because if I’m right I just want to like have something to point back to. Anyways, but I picture myself hearing a voice saying like, okay Jenna, these were the emails that came in overnight. This is what you have going on today. You have this. John reached out and asked if he could grab dinner at 6. Are you available, yes or no? And then I could be like, yes, I’m available. And then the voice would respond back to me, okay, I will respond for you. Is that okay? And then I say, yes, send. Boom, message sent. That’s what I mean by like, smartphones are changing. Like I think we’re gonna be able to use technology in that way where we’re not actually looking at a screen, which is my dream. Oh my god, it is my dream to be able to access technology without looking at a screen. Oh my god, I have a bone to pick with screens in general. They make my brain feel like a little crazy rat. I don’t like it. I don’t. The screens for me, it’s like too much. But nonetheless I wanted to make that prediction and I’m just like, I just want to make voice memos and this is how I’m going to express myself. And I don’t want to do this like, it feels insulting. Like literally, like I hate going online because it’s like ad ad ad ad ad ad ad ad, everything’s a reel and ads, rage bait b******t. Like it’s crazy. Like being online is insane. It gives me a headache. I hate it. I’m addicted to it. It’s disgusting. Like it’s horrible. It’s just so rotten. And like, I don’t want to reach my quote-unquote people because that is why I’m doing this. Because like, I just, like, I want to continue to connect with like-minded people so we can just talk, vibe, live, I don’t know, express ourselves with one another, hang out. I’m in Orange County, by the way. So I’m like, if you’re in Orange County, hit me up. Seriously. Please. But anyways. So what was I saying? Oh wait, what was I saying? Okay, I remember what I was saying. I brought all this up because I don’t want to reach my people through that b******t. Like I literally think short-form content is such b******t. I think it’s such b******t. And I just, like, I can’t participate in it. Oh my god, I feel sick inside that I have been. Ew. I can’t. I just like, there’s no way. I have to stay true to myself. I feel like, literally, I hate it. I hate it. I think it’s rotten. I think it’s rotten for everybody. Oh my god. I just like, if we could all just get off the phones it would just be so nice. Well I guess I just really have a bone to pick with just like algorithms and social media and like brain and I just think our brain is so important. And it’s so important for us to protect our brain, protect our thoughts. Because if you keep feeding your brain something again and again and again and again and again, your brain just starts, it starts creating these more like concrete pathways, right? Where it’s just like, it starts embedding itself into your psyche, right? And so if you’re consuming content, you’re consuming just like b******t. And like your brain is literally changing because of it. And I’m like, oh my god. And like it’s b******t. Oh my god. Like this brain, it’s like so ratty town. It’s not good. Oh my god, the neighbors are playing some music. Can you guys hear that? But tonight’s gonna be a good, good night. I don’t know if you can hear that or not but okay, I’m gonna totally wrap this up now. This is long enough. This is long enough. Also it’s like we’re busy, like I would... oh I’m just gonna do this. I’m gonna do this. This is what I want to do. This is how I want to express myself. So I am. Okay, more to come. More to come. I love you guys. I hope you have a beautiful day. Cheers. How are you? Wait, I’m like, wait, I’m not done. I’m like, if you are listening to this, how are you doing? Let me know. And I’m not just saying that to like, for someone to follow me or like this or something. Like I’m genuinely like here to vibe, to make connection, to kick it, you know what I’m saying? Like I’m just imagining... There’s like other women out there. Because I’ve met some. I’ve met some amazing women through social media, and just like being ourself online. Like I have my two favorite people out here, Carlie and Katie. Yes ladies. Like it’s just like we met through social media and like I can’t, I can’t help but to be so like still in it in that way, you know what I mean? But oh my god, like the TikToks and making a hook and doing a caption and three times a day and posting like this and you have to use these keywords and AI is picking up on the data anyways and so it doesn’t even matter and it’s such like a game and an algorithm and it’s such a nightmare. It’s a nightmare and it’s stupid. But it does have the ability to connect people, which is amazing. So I’m like, okay. This is my voice. From Ohio. My name is Jenna. And yeah I’m like, I’m not, I don’t want to edit anything. I don’t want to use a microphone. I don’t want to use my face. I don’t want to do some crazy strategy. I just want to be Jenna, damn it. Like that’s so, what this is. This is what, okay, whatever. Enough about me. Good god. Okay anyways, I love you guys and I hope you have a beautiful, magical, glorious day. I’m just gonna rip it on here. Seriously. 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The Farmer Gets an App. The Cow Gets a Voice. This Is AI Done Right.

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 [http://halterhq.com] New episodes every Tuesday. Just Jenna is a solo-host podcast about AI, crumbling systems, and going your own way. Get full access to Just Jenna at jennamarilyn.substack.com/subscribe [https://jennamarilyn.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

I Have Things To Say About AI - #046

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. Get full access to Just Jenna at jennamarilyn.substack.com/subscribe [https://jennamarilyn.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

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

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. Follow Jenna on Instagram @jennamarilyn_ and @justjennapod Get full access to Just Jenna at jennamarilyn.substack.com/subscribe [https://jennamarilyn.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]