Today we’d like to introduce you to Jenner Linden.
Hi Jenner, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
Fresh out of film school, I landed a dream job as a graphic designer for the largest NBC news affiliate in the midwest. On the outside, it looked like a great job. The performer in me loved working for a company that had a huge impact on the community. Plus it made me feel special when I told people what I did for a living and they would say, “Oh wow, do you know, Belinda Jensen?” -a famous news personality in Minnesota. “I do.”
The truth was, the work I was doing was very depressing. Working for the news, I was inundated with all the awful things happening in our community and the world. Far too often I had to create graphics of children who were missing or killed and the families that were grieving their sudden loss.
I didn’t realize it then, but for those three years, it was like a dark cloud hanging over me. I wanted to make my impact, but how? I knew I wanted to create a different conversation in the world. One that inspired and empowered people, but I didn’t know where to start. So, I left my “glamorous” job, moved, and moved to the west coast. I figured I would rather wait tables in San Diego than continue work for the news in Minnesota. And that’s what I did for the next two years, wait tables.
During this time I got wrapped up in my social life and my on-again-of-again relationship. It wasn’t until that relationship finally ended for good that I took a step back and looked at the reality of my life. I always knew I was meant for more, but what did that mean for me? And so, my journey inward began. I spent the next three years connecting to my heart, clearing out the people and things in my life, and developing a deep self-love for myself.
I dug deep into my own shadow (subconscious) through modalities like NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Psychology), EFT tapping, meditation, Feng Shui, working with coaches, going to seminars, and reading everything about the transformation that I could get my hands on. I know it was time for me to make an impact in the world.
Through this work, I realized that I was the only one standing in my way of sharing inspiring stories in the world. I decided to take matters into my own hands and threw a huge fundraiser with a live auction, bands, and even two visual artists who created art on the spot! I raised enough money to travel to Honduras for a month and shoot a documentary for an Orphanage, Hogar de Armor. And I didn’t stop there! I went on to create a 48-hour film festival called Spoken Word Cinema. Filmmakers had 48 hours to create their cinematic interpretation of a local poet’s poem. It was a huge success! I rented out a theater in Boulder, Colorado to showcase the films and the poets.
Now I have my own stories to inspire and empower. So I really was following my heart on this path of film and how I can share different messages in the world to create a different conversation. I was thinking “how can I put energy into the world that was creating a different kind of conversation”? And it wasn’t until 2016. when I realized that I really wanted to help others do the same to inspire them, to create and do amazing things in the world, whether that’s through a business, whether that’s through just a heart-centered project, but just really creating something different and having the confidence and inner knowing to just do it.
That’s where my membership community, The Wild Ones, essentially started from this idea to bring together different experts, including myself, and really offer people a place to come transform their lives, be themselves, and evolve their spirit. Today I get to support creatives, dreamers, magical people, and visionaries to see their unique brilliance.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
When I launched my business in 2016, I really didn’t have any clients. I didn’t have any money. I had a little bit of savings. I didn’t have much, and it was a big struggle at first. The reason it was a struggle is that I was still trying to do what I thought I was supposed to do. I thought if I wanted to be in this world of personal development I had to be a coach I had to do group coaching, I had to do one on one coaching, and I had to look this certain way. And I struggled with that for a really long time.
I kept putting myself out there and putting myself out there and it just never really filled me the way that I thought it would. And it wasn’t until I took a break from it. I had been doing events with The Wild Ones the whole time I was trying to do this coaching thing. And really The Wild Ones was more of this outlet for me. It was this way of meeting people, of being part of the conversation of meeting experts. So I took this break from coaching, which was essentially like, I knew energetically, I had to like to close up shop. It had to happen. And I had to do some internal reflection like, what do I really wanna do? And the thing that kept coming out for me was The Wild Ones.
I wanted to grow this in a way that was meaningful, but I didn’t know what it was. I didn’t know that it was a membership. I didn’t know, because at the time we were just doing in-person events and actually trying to take it online, which wasn’t super easy in 2019, cause people weren’t really ready for that yet.
Which I guess is another challenge, but it wasn’t really until I took that pause that I got really clear that The Wild Ones is what I wanted to do as in, I wanted to create these events. I wanted to create a community. At the time I thought they would be in person and around the world like these different clusters in major cities around the world. But of course, 2020 proved to be a different story.
And because of 2020, I was able to actually launch a really amazing program so people would get to know us, it’s our Rewilding Virtual Retreat, We had our third year, and this year started out with 1500 people. We had close to 8,000 this past year that signed up for the retreat. So it’s grown exponentially and it’s also what launched what The Wild One’s membership is today. So, I would definitely say that resilience was something, I mean, for someone to go from, what was that three years? I mean, it was three years of not making a lot of money. I was also dealing with so many personal things.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about The Wild Ones?
The Wild Ones is a membership portal for heart-centered seekers + leaders to transform your life and connect to your sacred community.
Since launching in 2016, The Wild Ones has grown to more than 30 thousand people joining us from all over the world. The Wild Ones has cultivated a healing space where members are free to explore their WILD side and their path to personal freedom. We combine ancient wisdom with modern neuroscience to support your wild self-expression, transformation, and sovereignty. Offering secret workshops, energetic resets, and potent rituals from trusted experts around the world.
What sets us apart is there’s a genuineness I feel in our community. The wild ones just really offer this space for people to just be themselves. They don’t have to show up and be this certain thing in a certain way or say things a certain way. They don’t have to be like, you know, yoga body and drinking smoothies all day long. I think that’s kind of what sets us apart. It’s really just showing up and being open. What also sets us apart is that we bring in teachers from so many different backgrounds and modalities from around the world.
Alright, so to wrap up, is there anything else you’d like to share with us?
The Wild Ones is really a place for everyone. It’s for men, women, and non-binary. It’s really a place for you to explore yourself, what you really want in this world, and your conditioning – as who we’ve come to be in this life is learned. It’s all learned behavior until we actually do the work to go back and look at what we learned and what we want to keep and what we don’t want to keep.
A lot of us end up in our twenties, thirties, or forties, and feel defeated and like we weren’t cut out for this life or like we did something wrong or wondering why we feel the way we feel or why aren’t happy. They have all the things that they’re supposed to have, and just keep going through life thinking that the parameters and the structure that’s been put in place for us are the structure by which we need to live by.
And that’s how to be happy, but it’s not the truth. The truth is really the experiment or the game of life. It’s really that deeper connection with ourselves. It’s coming back to us and to our hearts and to our souls and to our divine purpose, not purpose as in school teacher, firefighter, doctor, lawyer… purpose as in the expression of yourself.
That’s what the wild ones are all about. It’s about creating this container where we have a different conversation where you get to explore yourself in a way that you haven’t probably been able to in other ways. And what’s really great about the wild ones, and what sets us apart is that we bring in all of these different teachers.
So it’s not just me being there and sharing the wisdom that I learned because there are so many amazing people on this journey. There are so many amazing teachers that can share their wisdom and their insights in a way that is so incredibly powerful, so incredibly beautiful. And it really is that space for everyone to learn and express. It’s not just my voice, it’s many voices, it’s many people that have been on this path and have found wisdom within themselves and are sharing it in a way that may help people get out of their own heads and out of their boxes.
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