November 13, 2024 • 35 mins
Jenny Rogers, a certified life elite coach and dynamic creator, joins us for an episode brimming with inspiration and authenticity. Known for her vibrant journey of dreaming big, Jenny shares how the steadfast support of her family fueled her ambition to live a life untethered by fear. Her engaging storytelling reveals how experiences as a music teacher, author, and speaker have shaped her into a formidable force for creativity and empowerment. Jenny opens up about her book, "Mama Bear Meditations," which offers poignant messages of strength and courage, resonating deeply with communities facing collective challenges. Through her outreach work in Africa and her holistic coaching approach, she exemplifies how embracing one's dreams can lead to a fulfilling and transformative existence.
Journey with us as Jenny unravels how life's trials, such as trauma and divorce, can become catalysts for profound personal growth. She candidly discusses writing her meditation books as a pathway to connection and self-discovery, and how this endeavor tied into her coaching philosophy. Encouraged by success coach Mitch Matthews, Jenny transitioned into success coaching, empowering others to find clarity and focus amidst life's transitions. Her insightful methods emphasize individuality and personal growth, inviting listeners to recognize their unique gifts and explore new paths. Join us to uncover the powerful narratives that have shaped Jenny's path and be inspired to rediscover your dreams.
To help you to navigate the home buying and mortgage process, Jonathan & Steve are currently licensed in Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Virginia, contact us today at 423-491-5405 or visit www.jonathanandsteve.com.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well, welcome back everybody to another episode of
our Benchmark Happenings podcast, and today I have the Jenny
Rogers with us to interview.
So, jenny, thank you so muchfor being here today.
Thank you for having me.
Okay, and so Jenny said I'mgoing to be real mature on this
podcast.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I'm going to be so mature that you're going to
wonder who I am.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I said please don't be, let's just have fun.
So we were talking earlier and Iwas like, okay, jenny, I'm like
where in the world do I startwith you, I mean, on this
interview?
I'm thinking now I know why Tomis as successful as he is.
You're amazing children thatyou have.
You truly are your mama bear,love your children.
(01:28):
But I was looking at youreverything that you've
accomplished certified lifeelite coach, author, speaker,
music teacher, a creator.
You love to create musicprograms, worship, books, videos
, and you play the piano.
I'm like okay, like I'm alittle intimidated here.
(01:52):
What please don't tell us about, I mean what all you were doing
.
I mean there's just so manythings.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Um, that's, that's probably being eclectic.
So I would say definitely gypsy, gypsy girl who just like flips
and does different littlethings all the time.
But I would say um to, to kindof come up with the core of how
do I um, you know how do Imaneuver is I've always had
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permission to dream.
So I'm a dreamer, and a dreamersince a little kid.
So there was nothing that Ithat I kind of dreamed of, that
my parents would not say you cando that, you can do that.
And I think having thatpermission to and feeling
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empowered to do whatever Iwanted to do was a blessing,
because I don't think everybodyhas that, but that's the one
thing that I wanted to give mykids Is because if there was
anything I am more grateful, sograteful for, would the
permission that they gave me tobe my truest self and uh, and
(03:09):
that.
So all of those things that yousee are just, um, it's just the
journey of literally livinglife, you know, just living it,
um, as it's kind of coming fromthe intuitive down into my
reality and and saying, okay, Iwant to do this.
And my second blessing after myparents for sure give me
(03:32):
permission is my husband givingme permission and uh, and not
many people have that.
So, um, I mean, believe me whenhe uh and I mean, believe me,
when he, before he proposed tome.
I was writing him songs andsinging to him that he's the
prince of my palace.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
He's your, he was your handsome prince right and
the hero of my time.
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I was that kind of girl when.
I was young and he gave mepermission to always be that
girl.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I, and so that was um , that was super, so it doesn't,
um, it doesn't mean that I uh,would you know, I just did
anything I want to cause youhave to kind of move through
passages of kids and all of that, but the the core of my being
is a dreamer.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
A dreamer and you know I think dreams are so
important because I've alwaysheard.
You know, if you stop dreaming,you die, and we are created in
the image of God and we'rebeautiful creations every one of
us and I love.
I was reading through your bookMama Bear Meditations, so, and
(04:45):
I thought as I was readingthrough your book, mama Bear
Meditations so, and I thought asI was reading through some of
it today, I thought how timelyto have this book in the midst
of what has happened to our areawith the hurricane and the
flooding, and I thought, havingthe permission to be still, to
be quiet, to wait upon the Lord.
One of your meditations and Ithink it was the ninth one, it
(05:07):
was from the book of Joshua, andI'm studying the book of Joshua
right now and it was like bestrong and be courageous, for I,
the Lord, am with you and Ithought we need to hear that
right now, jenny.
So it's like everything is justso timely and I love the book,
but I wanted to just I love howyou're sharing.
(05:28):
You know being a dreamer andyour parents just giving you
that permission.
You raised your children withthat in mind and you know just
going through that journey andnow you've stepped into being a
life coach, success coach, andso tell us, what does that look
like?
How do you coach someone tohelp them discover their journey
(05:52):
and to maybe to dream again?
Maybe they stop dreaming.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Oh, how did I get there?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Wow, I know it's a long story, I'm sure because you
know I'm kind of talking fromthe journey.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
So I have you know, like you probably saw in my
website, I've gone through allthe passages.
You know the passages of whereyou know the family were in need
of insurance.
So I've got to get a school joband school job and Tom wanted
(06:26):
to start his own practice, andso you go through these what I
would call crossroads, and so Iwent from that, from teaching,
into being on church staff andthen from church staff I went
into an outreach phase which Ilove.
Noaa outreach was just such aGod thing, such a God thing
(06:48):
which took me to Africa and Igot to teach over there in the
College of Yayondi and inCameroon.
So all of those things led me toanother'm 67, 66 right now, and
when I was 62, maybe, or 60,probably 62, I really felt there
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was another passage.
There was another thing Ineeded to do, and I was teaching
at Dobbins Bend.
I was the choral director there.
I was the choral director atSevier before that, and so I
knew a lot of kids and I wasable to still do my thing, which
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is literally empower and givepermission for them to dream and
to become whatever it is thattheir truest self was and to
move in that natural.
And when I got to that point, Iknow I told Tom I I really want
to retire and I knew that Icould do more at DB.
It was not like I did, you know.
It was not like okay, I don'tlike my job.
Or, you know, I loved my job.
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I don't even think there is ajob that I've had in my life
that I didn't like.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
That's wonderful.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I went into it with bloom, where you're planted, and
I went from the fact that Iabsolutely love helping people
realize how beautiful they are,just their beauty and their
potential and what, and alsojust kind of what God put in
them to gift the world.
And I could see it, andsometimes they couldn't see it,
(08:25):
but I saw it.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
And you saw it.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
And so that gave me opportunity.
So everywhere I've been, I'vehad opportunity to do that very
thing.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
That's great, even in .
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Africa, every school I've ever been in, every church
I've ever been to and, mostimportantly, with my children.
Yes.
And that was one of the reasonsof writing the book was one of
the reasons of writing the book.
So this book was my transitionfrom teaching to the coaching.
So in that time I didn't knowwhat I was going to do, but I
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knew that I had learned a lotand I had to unlearn a lot in my
life and I had come to a placewhere I wanted to, to broaden my
influence, to expand, you knowto, to be able to say that.
And my children were gone.
So I was like, well, who's?
Who's?
Who's going to listen to me?
(09:18):
Who's my audience?
Where's my stage?
No, I'm just kidding.
Okay, um, um.
But so I was like, how am I,how, when, how am I supposed to
tell people what I've learnedabout?
what matters in life.
What?
Really matters and so I uhpicked random 10 people that, uh
(09:41):
, that were in my kids age agegroup at the time, so they were
the 20s to the 30s, or maybe 25to 35.
Okay Well you know, 20s to 30s,and I thought who are the people
that if I was to sit in a roomwith and share, be vulnerable
(10:03):
enough to share information,what it is I've learned about
life, the deep things about thechurch, about family, about love
, about pain, all the thingsthat you experience in life, and
who would I want to sit in thatroom and share what I've
(10:25):
learned about it and then alsobe vulnerable to say what I had
to unlearn, learned about it,and then also be vulnerable to
say what I had to unlearn, whatI brought into being a mom,
brought in to from being, youknow, a child of a broken family
.
So my parents divorced rightwhen I was in high school, very
crucial time in my life.
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And so I had that broken familyexperience where we all divided,
and I had things that I broughtinto my marriage from that
tragedy, from that trauma in mylife.
And when I say trauma, it is atrauma, it's not.
I don't think you can measurepain.
(11:07):
You know, everyone has thispain that they that has created
a um, a fear in their life.
My fear was separation.
My fear was like what if?
Um, you know, what if?
Tom's not going to be heretomorrow?
What if?
And I, uh, what if?
I, you know, with my children,I wanted everything to be the
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same all the time because itwasn't anymore with mine and I
wanted traditions more than Iever wanted them before.
And when I was growing up wemoved every six months and all
of a sudden I went into mymarriage and with my three kids
and I wanted the same house andI wanted everything the same and
I wanted everything comfortableand under my control and that
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stability.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
We were looking for that stability and that comfort.
You know, uh, we had Stevesister on for a podcast and we
did one on divorce and how itimpacts children.
She's a, she's a counselor, andyou're right, it is a trauma
and divorce is a trauma to yourchildren 100%.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
It even tried, like even the divorces that have
happened while in my, myextended family have affected my
current family, and so it's,it's all it kind of what I would
call unravels you.
You know, it makes you feellike things are out of your
control, are out of your control.
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And that's a good thing,because that's an opportunity to
grow, to realize, to unlearnthe fact that you could even
think you're in control.
I mean, we just have experiencedthis past weekend of all the
control that you thought you hadwith your house is always going
to be standing and there'salways going to be food in the
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refrigerator, there's alwaysgoing to be power on and, of
course, you're going to haveyour internet so that you can,
you know, watch your, yourfootball game.
You know all those things thatyou thought you had control of.
You really don't, so it'simportant to unlearn that.
And so, uh, with the book, youknow, I was 60, I guess I, I, um
(13:11):
, I retired at 62 and I startedwriting then and, um, and it was
, I just thought I would just goday by day and I did it on a
text message, so it wasn'treally okay.
I'm going to write a book onmama bear meditation.
I'm going to write a bookcalled Mama Bear Meditation.
No, no, I only called it MamaBear because these kids, the 10
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that I chose, they called meMama B and that was because of
the connection with my kids andkind of the place I was in their
life in the 20s and 30s.
And I even picked a couple ofkids that had graduated, that
had been with me at DobbinsBennett and graduated and I put
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them on that text thread and I,you know, literally when I wrote
one, I didn't put myself on aschedule.
Oh, I'm going to write one aweek and I'm going to be like
Richard.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Ward or you know no so no pressure, it was no
pressure, I love that.
So no pressure, it was nopressure, I love that.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I just wanted to sit in a room and.
I needed all I asked of themjust let me know you read it,
that they were in the room,because if I know that that
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someone is is receiving it, itgives me all this, this um,
excitement to do some, to keepgoing, to keep going.
So they and I said, but don'tcomment, because, again, a
meditation is my thoughts, butfor it to become your thoughts
you have to, you have to put itkind of in a contemplative state
which would be that you go onelayer deeper and you would sit
(14:56):
in kind of your soul and say,okay, I want to recognize what
this is in my life and I want toappreciate this in a different
way.
Not what, not what Jenny wrote,but what is it writing in me?
You know what's coming out ofme, and that's contemplation.
(15:19):
So I wanted them just to sit inthe meditation.
So anyway, after you know, Iwrote like maybe 10 or 15 and on
my little text thread severalpeople would say can I be on
your text thread?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
So I added them to the to the text thread Again
maybe after yeah, it was beingread, it was making an impact.
Well, I just I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I felt I had a community of where I was still
teaching from the journey.
You know, I was teaching frommy journey and I knew that
whatever the Holy Spirit wantedto do in that meditation was
going to be in their moment ofbeing still and they were going
to stop because the meditations,even the second book that I'm
(16:04):
writing, it's even a morecontemplative type of writing
than this one was.
So you'll find when you see thesecond one.
I can't wait.
That it's more when I saycontemplate, it's more open.
I wrote the second one witharms open.
Where this one, I was kind oflike going like this with my
babies.
(16:24):
Yeah, kind of holding it close,Going like okay, this is what
I've learned and this is what Ihad to unlearn, and in those 35
years we've all been togetherand then with, with mama bear
too, I've been going.
Okay, I want to.
I want to now just open it upto that contemplative place of
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of.
I want to call it um,recognition, awareness, so that
I look, I can look at it and itspeaks to me and that's what.
So, in other words, titles ofmeditations, and this would be
wind you know it would be ocean,but it's not in the way that
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you think of wind, you know it'slike going to be beyond that
definition.
It is whatever, scientific,whatever, and so when that
happened about midway throughthe book, I'll get to my
coaching, because the coaching,it literally ties in.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
It really does, because as I was reading through
this and, uh, reading aboutyour, your coaching, I thought
this has been that, that process, that refining process and that
journey that you've allowedyourself to go through.
Yeah, and I can see the passion.
I can see the passion in youand the life that just I'm so,
(17:52):
you know, you're so excited andthat's that's contagious.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
It is I do.
I get so excited aboutconnecting with people on a
level that is their, their,their truest love, their truest,
their natural, and what they'vebeen afraid to say.
But now they can say it becauseI've given them permission to
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say it, and this is I know I'min this job Well, I'll get to
the coaching in a minute.
I would love art Like I wouldlove to see what a 30, a 30 ish
person would draw when they readthose.
(18:40):
And my niece was an artist oris a creative, um, um artist in
Austin and I and of course she'sway beyond an illustrator,
she's so good and I said, hey,caroline, would you if you she
was on my list?
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I mean, she was on my text onyour text group text yeah and uh
, my, you know a couple of mynieces and and I said, uh, would
said would you just like, don'tthink about it, would you just
sketch whatever comes to yourmind, even halfway through, or
just read it and then just sitback and then just draw.
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And I said I'm not, I'm notgoing to change it, I'm not even
going to ask what it is.
I said it's, I'm going to sendit in the thread.
And so it became more of acollaboration of hearts and
everybody was kind of of I wantto call just oozing together you
(19:45):
know just kind of comingtogether.
And so she did that.
And as she was doing it, um, Igot to around 30, 35 and they,
and I thought, man, I gotta stoplike this.
You know what is this?
And um, and that's when one ofthe kids in the thread said can
you, can you make this into abook and we can just go back and
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remember and when and I've donethis before, so don't think
this is my first rodeo.
Uh, I have and if anybody's outthere listening that had kids of
my kids age during the highschool years and we had a little
incident in our house.
it wasn't really good and, ohyes, um, I said for me not to
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tell your parents what happenedhere.
Um, then I think you need tocome to my house for the next.
I think it was like six weeksand, um, and I'm going to write
about this and we're going to,we're going.
It's called life is the sourceand, uh, because, and so I'm,
I'm getting at that again.
After we did six weeks, theysaid can you put this in a book?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
And I did that for them.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
So when they said, can you put it in the book, I
thought great, and I I, so I putmama bear together and that's
how the book came out.
As that was happening, I wasreally um, you know I'm, I was
always doing the editing for Tom, and again that's for for for
performance medicine, and againmy coaching, and what I do best
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is empowering and and to seewhat I know somebody wants to do
and then, help them create aplan to get there.
So I was still doing thatbecause we have to get there.
So I was still doing thatbecause we have a family
business.
So I was still doing that withBen and with Andy and with Kel
and and that kind of uh, gettingclarity and focus on what you
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want to do in this and you don'thave to do it in the business,
you could do it somewhere else.
I was still kind of sortingthat out.
And then I ran across at acreative content conference, at
Christ Fellowship.
I ran across a coach, a successcoach, mitch Matthews, and he
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blew me away Immediately when hestarted talking about coaching
and the way he was describingsuccess coaching.
I was like that's what I'msupposed to do.
So he became my coach and fromthere.
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I went through the training andhis elite coaching, training and
um, and then launched apractice and said and I really
wanted it to be, I really kindof wanted it to be out of the
shadows of performance medicine,because, again, it's a little
bit deeper than um, thanmedicine, it's, it's, it's the
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fiber of who you are.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yeah, it's holistic.
It's truly holistic, it's thefiber of who you are.
Yeah, it's truly holistic, it'sthe fiber of who you are.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
We're talking now about how you're wired up to
gift the world and if you'velived in the shadows of someone
awesomely great, like my husbandand I've been in the shadows of
performance, which I I lovebecause I have found my own.
You know, I've always found myown quote stage, if you want to
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say the place where I, I, um, I,I have my influence.
But you know, the decision was,do I want to?
It was my next step inperformance medicine and that
just I kept thinking that washis, that's his story.
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Yes.
That's his DNA, and so I thoughtI really wanted to go back.
And this is how Jenny J gotthere, because that's my middle
name is.
I really grew up as Jenny Jinx,okay.
That's.
Who told me Mary was Jenny Jinx, okay.
And so I thought, you know whatI'm gonna.
I'm going to kind of go back tomy roots and that's why in?
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My website.
You'll see dad um learning todive in and and I just spent
some time with Mitch, my coach,and and he said, spend time
where you were at your mostnatural self.
And I went back in time and allthose little things where I I
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remember them giving mepermission just to dive in.
Do it, you know.
Go to college.
What do you want to do?
I play the piano and like, yes,play.
You know.
I write songs, be a songwriter.
And you know I was, I was that.
Uh, so I went back to all thefreedom that I had and created
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the website and moved into thiskind of place in my life where I
can help people get thatclarity and focus in their life.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
And that's so needed now, jenny, in people's lives,
because I think there's morenoise and confusion now than
ever I mean, I've never seen itin all of my years and I think
that's what we need is thatgroundedness.
You know and I love what you'resaying about people that you
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know you're a gift.
Each person is a gift to theworld.
Each person is so special andand each person is so unique,
and it's just getting to thatpoint of where you're guiding
people through this success,coaching to become who God
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intended for them to be.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
And they can do that even in rough passages.
So, in other words, I do seethe person who's in the midst of
a divorce and they are at acrossroads and they need to
really get into that intuitiveis.
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You know what do, what do youwant me to know about this and
what do you want me to unlearn?
And then, what do you want meto learn?
And in that transition, um, acoach is is the perfect fit,
because it's not really acounseling thing, I mean, the
marriage is done, you know, and,and we are moving on.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
This is where we are in life.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
This is where we are Plot a new course, yeah, and
what I do is say is literally Ido a, I do a complimentary call,
they have an hour of freecoaching and I literally coach
in that hour like I would coachthem as an ally who was with me
for three months, and so in thathour I really asked the
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question is okay, what do youlove about what you're doing
right now?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yes, what is it that you love?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
And then, what is that one thing that you might
want to change about what you'redoing?
Right now.
And then get to and you and Iand I just am a listener and I'm
typing the whole timeeverything that they're saying.
And somehow.
I mean God, just he just doesit.
I always look at my mind mapthat I'm typing on and I'm, and
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it's almost like a star comesout and God's saying this is who
they are, this is what theylove.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Oh, that just gave me chills.
This is what they love.
That's powerful.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
And I mean I just had a call today and he was 38,
from North Carolina, and it wasjust amazing to kind of his past
and what he's done in the past38 years and where he was right
now and what in how he describedhis job, what he loved about it
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and what he would change?
and then I asked that crazyquestion is that hey, what if I
gave you a million bucks rightnow, no strings attached, I'm
just going to hand it to you.
You don't have to worry aboutmoney right now.
What would you do in this nextyear with your life?
What would you, what do youwant to do?
Speaker 2 (28:22):
What a great question .
Speaker 3 (28:23):
And he.
I mean literally, it was likeit was like the.
He I mean literally, it waslike it was like the.
Just, it just broke out of himlike the water gushed down and
everything.
He is so passionate about whathe and his wife would do for
others what his, what he longedto do all his life and this and
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I was like, oh my gosh, we needto hook up.
Man, yes, we need to hook up.
I mean, I love what you'redoing, but this is a crossroad,
even the very fact that you gotmy number that you even like,
and he did it last night.
So this is just a night, andthere was a spot open this
(29:08):
morning at 11 and he booked itlast night and I'm telling you
that if he hadn't have done that, he would never have done it.
Yeah, and that's not acoincidence.
It's not a coincidence.
And I said and again, you know,he said he only had like watch
this.
He said I now only have 30minutes.
And I said well, you know whydon't we do it at a time in
which you're not rushed at all.
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You know, I'll open any time upwhat is a good day for you.
He literally texted back andsaid I canceled my next
appointment.
And I said ah, I said well,it's me.
And I thought so, that was justthat's how much it was in him
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that I'm at, I'm at the.
I'm at, not at a crossroad, it'sjust, I'm at a point of change.
Sure, let's not even call it acrossroad, let's just say change
.
And I, I absolutely love change.
So I know people hate it Mostpeople don't Most people don't
Because it's challenging.
And it causes conflict.
It does you don't, Most peopledon't, Because it's challenging
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and it causes conflict it does.
You know it's very you knoweverything's got, everything
kind of gets out of order, and Ilove out of order.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Well, but, jenny, that's the only way we're going
to grow.
If we're not challenged, if wedon't have trials and
tribulations, if we don't havehardships, we never grow.
And just thank you for beingthere to be that person for
others and walking with themthrough this journey.
So I know that this is going tobe just it's going to be.
(30:43):
It is amazing and it's going tobe amazing, and you're going to
continue to help so many peopleand your passion is just it's
so contagious, as I said before.
So we want people to be able toget in touch with you.
The website, so I've got Jennyat JennyRogerscom right or is?
(31:04):
it different.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Well, no, the website .
We've got to remember that Jman, we have to remember the J.
If you do?
This is no joke.
If you do, jennyrogerscom, ifyou do, she's a wonderful lady
out there.
Oh yes, yes, yes.
Yes, she's in London andactually I contacted her.
She's, uh, I think, in her midseventies or eighties and uh,
(31:30):
cause she's written so manygreat books and I was just thank
the Lord that you wrote so manygreat books and case and this
happens to be your name and alsoyou just happen to be a coach.
I said because if somebody doesget us mixed up, they'll just
think I'm that old and that'sbeautiful because she's aged so
beautifully.
But my website is Jenny J and Ieven thought about just having
(31:53):
it at Jenny J, butJennyJRogerscom.
And then my email is, of course, Jenny at JennyJRogerscom.
Okay.
And.
I'll just kind of keep doingthat.
Jenny J, Jenny J.
I like it.
It's got a nice ring to it Alittle, jenny J.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
So we have to have that.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
J after Jenny, if you're going to find me.
Well, we want to find you Ifyou're going to find me.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Got to find Jenny J Jenny.
J.
That's where it's at Jenny J,it's got a nice ring.
We need to have Andy here andhe could come up will write the
music for Jenny J.
Yes.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
And it will be all well.
Actually, the music, oh, it'snot on there, but I did write
the music for it.
It's called the Traveler andDave gosh, jenny Rogers, dave,
cellist in Bristol.
So I'm losing his last name andI absolutely love playing with
him Right right.
But anyway, he helped me withthe song called the Traveler.
But I definitely want to getthe message out that on my
(33:04):
website there's a book, a free,complimentary call.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
And I have open slots for them to do that.
For those times I do thecomplimentary calls so.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
so, everybody, please go on.
And if you are thinking aboutthis and change in life, maybe
you're a little scared, maybeyou're caught in up in some
confusion, maybe you've just,you know, you've just been going
through life and just find itdull, maybe you've lost your
sense to dream, like you did asa child.
(33:37):
Contact Jenny, jenny J, andlet's do a consultation with her
.
So, jenny, thank you for beingon today.
I can't wait to bring you backto talk about how it's going,
your coaching, your next book.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
So I want you to sign my book.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
I got my mama bear meditations with me today and
that's another thing.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Books are available, obviously, on Amazon, but mama
bear meditations is also awebsite, so a lot of people will
, will, um will, subscribe tothe website and they get my
block, my meditation.
So they've actually seen mewrite the second book.
Uh, if, if they go onto thatwebsite, it's called mama bear
(34:22):
meditationscom.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Awesome, all right, well, thank you, jenny, for
being on the show today.
Thank you for having meAbsolutely, it's a pleasure.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
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Speaker 2 (00:44):
Well, welcome back everybody to another episode of
our Benchmark Happenings podcast, and today I have the Jenny
Rogers with us to interview.
So, jenny, thank you so muchfor being here today.
Thank you for having me.
Okay, and so Jenny said I'mgoing to be real mature on this
podcast.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I'm going to be so mature that you're going to
wonder who I am.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I said please don't be, let's just have fun.
So we were talking earlier and Iwas like, okay, jenny, I'm like
where in the world do I startwith you, I mean, on this
interview?
I'm thinking now I know why Tomis as successful as he is.
You're amazing children thatyou have.
You truly are your mama bear,love your children.
(01:28):
But I was looking at youreverything that you've
accomplished certified lifeelite coach, author, speaker,
music teacher, a creator.
You love to create musicprograms, worship, books, videos
, and you play the piano.
I'm like okay, like I'm alittle intimidated here.
(01:52):
What please don't tell us about, I mean what all you were doing
.
I mean there's just so manythings.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Um, that's, that's probably being eclectic.
So I would say definitely gypsy, gypsy girl who just like flips
and does different littlethings all the time.
But I would say um to, to kindof come up with the core of how
do I um, you know how do Imaneuver is I've always had
(02:22):
permission to dream.
So I'm a dreamer, and a dreamersince a little kid.
So there was nothing that Ithat I kind of dreamed of, that
my parents would not say you cando that, you can do that.
And I think having thatpermission to and feeling
(02:45):
empowered to do whatever Iwanted to do was a blessing,
because I don't think everybodyhas that, but that's the one
thing that I wanted to give mykids Is because if there was
anything I am more grateful, sograteful for, would the
permission that they gave me tobe my truest self and uh, and
(03:09):
that.
So all of those things that yousee are just, um, it's just the
journey of literally livinglife, you know, just living it,
um, as it's kind of coming fromthe intuitive down into my
reality and and saying, okay, Iwant to do this.
And my second blessing after myparents for sure give me
(03:32):
permission is my husband givingme permission and uh, and not
many people have that.
So, um, I mean, believe me whenhe uh and I mean, believe me,
when he, before he proposed tome.
I was writing him songs andsinging to him that he's the
prince of my palace.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
He's your, he was your handsome prince right and
the hero of my time.
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I was that kind of girl when.
I was young and he gave mepermission to always be that
girl.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
And.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I, and so that was um , that was super, so it doesn't,
um, it doesn't mean that I uh,would you know, I just did
anything I want to cause youhave to kind of move through
passages of kids and all of that, but the the core of my being
is a dreamer.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
A dreamer and you know I think dreams are so
important because I've alwaysheard.
You know, if you stop dreaming,you die, and we are created in
the image of God and we'rebeautiful creations every one of
us and I love.
I was reading through your bookMama Bear Meditations, so, and
(04:45):
I thought as I was readingthrough your book, mama Bear
Meditations so, and I thought asI was reading through some of
it today, I thought how timelyto have this book in the midst
of what has happened to our areawith the hurricane and the
flooding, and I thought, havingthe permission to be still, to
be quiet, to wait upon the Lord.
One of your meditations and Ithink it was the ninth one, it
(05:07):
was from the book of Joshua, andI'm studying the book of Joshua
right now and it was like bestrong and be courageous, for I,
the Lord, am with you and Ithought we need to hear that
right now, jenny.
So it's like everything is justso timely and I love the book,
but I wanted to just I love howyou're sharing.
(05:28):
You know being a dreamer andyour parents just giving you
that permission.
You raised your children withthat in mind and you know just
going through that journey andnow you've stepped into being a
life coach, success coach, andso tell us, what does that look
like?
How do you coach someone tohelp them discover their journey
(05:52):
and to maybe to dream again?
Maybe they stop dreaming.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Oh, how did I get there?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Wow, I know it's a long story, I'm sure because you
know I'm kind of talking fromthe journey.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
So I have you know, like you probably saw in my
website, I've gone through allthe passages.
You know the passages of whereyou know the family were in need
of insurance.
So I've got to get a school joband school job and Tom wanted
(06:26):
to start his own practice, andso you go through these what I
would call crossroads, and so Iwent from that, from teaching,
into being on church staff andthen from church staff I went
into an outreach phase which Ilove.
Noaa outreach was just such aGod thing, such a God thing
(06:48):
which took me to Africa and Igot to teach over there in the
College of Yayondi and inCameroon.
So all of those things led me toanother'm 67, 66 right now, and
when I was 62, maybe, or 60,probably 62, I really felt there
(07:13):
was another passage.
There was another thing Ineeded to do, and I was teaching
at Dobbins Bend.
I was the choral director there.
I was the choral director atSevier before that, and so I
knew a lot of kids and I wasable to still do my thing, which
(07:35):
is literally empower and givepermission for them to dream and
to become whatever it is thattheir truest self was and to
move in that natural.
And when I got to that point, Iknow I told Tom I I really want
to retire and I knew that Icould do more at DB.
It was not like I did, you know.
It was not like okay, I don'tlike my job.
Or, you know, I loved my job.
(07:57):
I don't even think there is ajob that I've had in my life
that I didn't like.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
That's wonderful.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
I went into it with bloom, where you're planted, and
I went from the fact that Iabsolutely love helping people
realize how beautiful they are,just their beauty and their
potential and what, and alsojust kind of what God put in
them to gift the world.
And I could see it, andsometimes they couldn't see it,
(08:25):
but I saw it.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
And you saw it.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
And so that gave me opportunity.
So everywhere I've been, I'vehad opportunity to do that very
thing.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
That's great, even in .
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Africa, every school I've ever been in, every church
I've ever been to and, mostimportantly, with my children.
Yes.
And that was one of the reasonsof writing the book was one of
the reasons of writing the book.
So this book was my transitionfrom teaching to the coaching.
So in that time I didn't knowwhat I was going to do, but I
(08:57):
knew that I had learned a lotand I had to unlearn a lot in my
life and I had come to a placewhere I wanted to, to broaden my
influence, to expand, you knowto, to be able to say that.
And my children were gone.
So I was like, well, who's?
Who's?
Who's going to listen to me?
(09:18):
Who's my audience?
Where's my stage?
No, I'm just kidding.
Okay, um, um.
But so I was like, how am I,how, when, how am I supposed to
tell people what I've learnedabout?
what matters in life.
What?
Really matters and so I uhpicked random 10 people that, uh
(09:41):
, that were in my kids age agegroup at the time, so they were
the 20s to the 30s, or maybe 25to 35.
Okay Well you know, 20s to 30s,and I thought who are the people
that if I was to sit in a roomwith and share, be vulnerable
(10:03):
enough to share information,what it is I've learned about
life, the deep things about thechurch, about family, about love
, about pain, all the thingsthat you experience in life, and
who would I want to sit in thatroom and share what I've
(10:25):
learned about it and then alsobe vulnerable to say what I had
to unlearn, learned about it,and then also be vulnerable to
say what I had to unlearn, whatI brought into being a mom,
brought in to from being, youknow, a child of a broken family
.
So my parents divorced rightwhen I was in high school, very
crucial time in my life.
(10:45):
And so I had that broken familyexperience where we all divided,
and I had things that I broughtinto my marriage from that
tragedy, from that trauma in mylife.
And when I say trauma, it is atrauma, it's not.
I don't think you can measurepain.
(11:07):
You know, everyone has thispain that they that has created
a um, a fear in their life.
My fear was separation.
My fear was like what if?
Um, you know, what if?
Tom's not going to be heretomorrow?
What if?
And I, uh, what if?
I, you know, with my children,I wanted everything to be the
(11:27):
same all the time because itwasn't anymore with mine and I
wanted traditions more than Iever wanted them before.
And when I was growing up wemoved every six months and all
of a sudden I went into mymarriage and with my three kids
and I wanted the same house andI wanted everything the same and
I wanted everything comfortableand under my control and that
(11:49):
stability.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
We were looking for that stability and that comfort.
You know, uh, we had Stevesister on for a podcast and we
did one on divorce and how itimpacts children.
She's a, she's a counselor, andyou're right, it is a trauma
and divorce is a trauma to yourchildren 100%.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
It even tried, like even the divorces that have
happened while in my, myextended family have affected my
current family, and so it's,it's all it kind of what I would
call unravels you.
You know, it makes you feellike things are out of your
control, are out of your control.
(12:28):
And that's a good thing,because that's an opportunity to
grow, to realize, to unlearnthe fact that you could even
think you're in control.
I mean, we just have experiencedthis past weekend of all the
control that you thought you hadwith your house is always going
to be standing and there'salways going to be food in the
(12:50):
refrigerator, there's alwaysgoing to be power on and, of
course, you're going to haveyour internet so that you can,
you know, watch your, yourfootball game.
You know all those things thatyou thought you had control of.
You really don't, so it'simportant to unlearn that.
And so, uh, with the book, youknow, I was 60, I guess I, I, um
(13:11):
, I retired at 62 and I startedwriting then and, um, and it was
, I just thought I would just goday by day and I did it on a
text message, so it wasn'treally okay.
I'm going to write a book onmama bear meditation.
I'm going to write a bookcalled Mama Bear Meditation.
No, no, I only called it MamaBear because these kids, the 10
(13:34):
that I chose, they called meMama B and that was because of
the connection with my kids andkind of the place I was in their
life in the 20s and 30s.
And I even picked a couple ofkids that had graduated, that
had been with me at DobbinsBennett and graduated and I put
(13:54):
them on that text thread and I,you know, literally when I wrote
one, I didn't put myself on aschedule.
Oh, I'm going to write one aweek and I'm going to be like
Richard.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Ward or you know no so no pressure, it was no
pressure, I love that.
So no pressure, it was nopressure, I love that.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I just wanted to sit in a room and.
I needed all I asked of themjust let me know you read it,
that they were in the room,because if I know that that
(14:34):
someone is is receiving it, itgives me all this, this um,
excitement to do some, to keepgoing, to keep going.
So they and I said, but don'tcomment, because, again, a
meditation is my thoughts, butfor it to become your thoughts
you have to, you have to put itkind of in a contemplative state
which would be that you go onelayer deeper and you would sit
(14:56):
in kind of your soul and say,okay, I want to recognize what
this is in my life and I want toappreciate this in a different
way.
Not what, not what Jenny wrote,but what is it writing in me?
You know what's coming out ofme, and that's contemplation.
(15:19):
So I wanted them just to sit inthe meditation.
So anyway, after you know, Iwrote like maybe 10 or 15 and on
my little text thread severalpeople would say can I be on
your text thread?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
So I added them to the to the text thread Again
maybe after yeah, it was beingread, it was making an impact.
Well, I just I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I felt I had a community of where I was still
teaching from the journey.
You know, I was teaching frommy journey and I knew that
whatever the Holy Spirit wantedto do in that meditation was
going to be in their moment ofbeing still and they were going
to stop because the meditations,even the second book that I'm
(16:04):
writing, it's even a morecontemplative type of writing
than this one was.
So you'll find when you see thesecond one.
I can't wait.
That it's more when I saycontemplate, it's more open.
I wrote the second one witharms open.
Where this one, I was kind oflike going like this with my
babies.
(16:24):
Yeah, kind of holding it close,Going like okay, this is what
I've learned and this is what Ihad to unlearn, and in those 35
years we've all been togetherand then with, with mama bear
too, I've been going.
Okay, I want to.
I want to now just open it upto that contemplative place of
(16:48):
of.
I want to call it um,recognition, awareness, so that
I look, I can look at it and itspeaks to me and that's what.
So, in other words, titles ofmeditations, and this would be
wind you know it would be ocean,but it's not in the way that
(17:08):
you think of wind, you know it'slike going to be beyond that
definition.
It is whatever, scientific,whatever, and so when that
happened about midway throughthe book, I'll get to my
coaching, because the coaching,it literally ties in.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
It really does, because as I was reading through
this and, uh, reading aboutyour, your coaching, I thought
this has been that, that process, that refining process and that
journey that you've allowedyourself to go through.
Yeah, and I can see the passion.
I can see the passion in youand the life that just I'm so,
(17:52):
you know, you're so excited andthat's that's contagious.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
It is I do.
I get so excited aboutconnecting with people on a
level that is their, their,their truest love, their truest,
their natural, and what they'vebeen afraid to say.
But now they can say it becauseI've given them permission to
(18:18):
say it, and this is I know I'min this job Well, I'll get to
the coaching in a minute.
I would love art Like I wouldlove to see what a 30, a 30 ish
person would draw when they readthose.
(18:40):
And my niece was an artist oris a creative, um, um artist in
Austin and I and of course she'sway beyond an illustrator,
she's so good and I said, hey,caroline, would you if you she
was on my list?
(19:00):
I mean, she was on my text onyour text group text yeah and uh
, my, you know a couple of mynieces and and I said, uh, would
said would you just like, don'tthink about it, would you just
sketch whatever comes to yourmind, even halfway through, or
just read it and then just sitback and then just draw.
(19:20):
And I said I'm not, I'm notgoing to change it, I'm not even
going to ask what it is.
I said it's, I'm going to sendit in the thread.
And so it became more of acollaboration of hearts and
everybody was kind of of I wantto call just oozing together you
(19:45):
know just kind of comingtogether.
And so she did that.
And as she was doing it, um, Igot to around 30, 35 and they,
and I thought, man, I gotta stoplike this.
You know what is this?
And um, and that's when one ofthe kids in the thread said can
you, can you make this into abook and we can just go back and
(20:08):
remember and when and I've donethis before, so don't think
this is my first rodeo.
Uh, I have and if anybody's outthere listening that had kids of
my kids age during the highschool years and we had a little
incident in our house.
it wasn't really good and, ohyes, um, I said for me not to
(20:31):
tell your parents what happenedhere.
Um, then I think you need tocome to my house for the next.
I think it was like six weeksand, um, and I'm going to write
about this and we're going to,we're going.
It's called life is the sourceand, uh, because, and so I'm,
I'm getting at that again.
After we did six weeks, theysaid can you put this in a book?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
And I did that for them.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
So when they said, can you put it in the book, I
thought great, and I I, so I putmama bear together and that's
how the book came out.
As that was happening, I wasreally um, you know I'm, I was
always doing the editing for Tom, and again that's for for for
performance medicine, and againmy coaching, and what I do best
(21:19):
is empowering and and to seewhat I know somebody wants to do
and then, help them create aplan to get there.
So I was still doing thatbecause we have to get there.
So I was still doing thatbecause we have a family
business.
So I was still doing that withBen and with Andy and with Kel
and and that kind of uh, gettingclarity and focus on what you
(21:39):
want to do in this and you don'thave to do it in the business,
you could do it somewhere else.
I was still kind of sortingthat out.
And then I ran across at acreative content conference, at
Christ Fellowship.
I ran across a coach, a successcoach, mitch Matthews, and he
(22:00):
blew me away Immediately when hestarted talking about coaching
and the way he was describingsuccess coaching.
I was like that's what I'msupposed to do.
So he became my coach and fromthere.
(22:22):
I went through the training andhis elite coaching, training and
um, and then launched apractice and said and I really
wanted it to be, I really kindof wanted it to be out of the
shadows of performance medicine,because, again, it's a little
bit deeper than um, thanmedicine, it's, it's, it's the
(22:45):
fiber of who you are.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yeah, it's holistic.
It's truly holistic, it's thefiber of who you are.
Yeah, it's truly holistic, it'sthe fiber of who you are.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
We're talking now about how you're wired up to
gift the world and if you'velived in the shadows of someone
awesomely great, like my husbandand I've been in the shadows of
performance, which I I lovebecause I have found my own.
You know, I've always found myown quote stage, if you want to
(23:14):
say the place where I, I, um, I,I have my influence.
But you know, the decision was,do I want to?
It was my next step inperformance medicine and that
just I kept thinking that washis, that's his story.
(23:37):
Yes.
That's his DNA, and so I thoughtI really wanted to go back.
And this is how Jenny J gotthere, because that's my middle
name is.
I really grew up as Jenny Jinx,okay.
That's.
Who told me Mary was Jenny Jinx, okay.
And so I thought, you know whatI'm gonna.
I'm going to kind of go back tomy roots and that's why in?
(24:00):
My website.
You'll see dad um learning todive in and and I just spent
some time with Mitch, my coach,and and he said, spend time
where you were at your mostnatural self.
And I went back in time and allthose little things where I I
(24:25):
remember them giving mepermission just to dive in.
Do it, you know.
Go to college.
What do you want to do?
I play the piano and like, yes,play.
You know.
I write songs, be a songwriter.
And you know I was, I was that.
Uh, so I went back to all thefreedom that I had and created
(24:49):
the website and moved into thiskind of place in my life where I
can help people get thatclarity and focus in their life.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
And that's so needed now, jenny, in people's lives,
because I think there's morenoise and confusion now than
ever I mean, I've never seen itin all of my years and I think
that's what we need is thatgroundedness.
You know and I love what you'resaying about people that you
(25:25):
know you're a gift.
Each person is a gift to theworld.
Each person is so special andand each person is so unique,
and it's just getting to thatpoint of where you're guiding
people through this success,coaching to become who God
(25:46):
intended for them to be.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
And they can do that even in rough passages.
So, in other words, I do seethe person who's in the midst of
a divorce and they are at acrossroads and they need to
really get into that intuitiveis.
(26:10):
You know what do, what do youwant me to know about this and
what do you want me to unlearn?
And then, what do you want meto learn?
And in that transition, um, acoach is is the perfect fit,
because it's not really acounseling thing, I mean, the
marriage is done, you know, and,and we are moving on.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
This is where we are in life.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
This is where we are Plot a new course, yeah, and
what I do is say is literally Ido a, I do a complimentary call,
they have an hour of freecoaching and I literally coach
in that hour like I would coachthem as an ally who was with me
for three months, and so in thathour I really asked the
(26:55):
question is okay, what do youlove about what you're doing
right now?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yes, what is it that you love?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
And then, what is that one thing that you might
want to change about what you'redoing?
Right now.
And then get to and you and Iand I just am a listener and I'm
typing the whole timeeverything that they're saying.
And somehow.
I mean God, just he just doesit.
I always look at my mind mapthat I'm typing on and I'm, and
(27:22):
it's almost like a star comesout and God's saying this is who
they are, this is what theylove.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Oh, that just gave me chills.
This is what they love.
That's powerful.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
And I mean I just had a call today and he was 38,
from North Carolina, and it wasjust amazing to kind of his past
and what he's done in the past38 years and where he was right
now and what in how he describedhis job, what he loved about it
(28:00):
and what he would change?
and then I asked that crazyquestion is that hey, what if I
gave you a million bucks rightnow, no strings attached, I'm
just going to hand it to you.
You don't have to worry aboutmoney right now.
What would you do in this nextyear with your life?
What would you, what do youwant to do?
Speaker 2 (28:22):
What a great question .
Speaker 3 (28:23):
And he.
I mean literally, it was likeit was like the.
He I mean literally, it waslike it was like the.
Just, it just broke out of himlike the water gushed down and
everything.
He is so passionate about whathe and his wife would do for
others what his, what he longedto do all his life and this and
(28:45):
I was like, oh my gosh, we needto hook up.
Man, yes, we need to hook up.
I mean, I love what you'redoing, but this is a crossroad,
even the very fact that you gotmy number that you even like,
and he did it last night.
So this is just a night, andthere was a spot open this
(29:08):
morning at 11 and he booked itlast night and I'm telling you
that if he hadn't have done that, he would never have done it.
Yeah, and that's not acoincidence.
It's not a coincidence.
And I said and again, you know,he said he only had like watch
this.
He said I now only have 30minutes.
And I said well, you know whydon't we do it at a time in
which you're not rushed at all.
(29:29):
You know, I'll open any time upwhat is a good day for you.
He literally texted back andsaid I canceled my next
appointment.
And I said ah, I said well,it's me.
And I thought so, that was justthat's how much it was in him
(29:50):
that I'm at, I'm at the.
I'm at, not at a crossroad, it'sjust, I'm at a point of change.
Sure, let's not even call it acrossroad, let's just say change
.
And I, I absolutely love change.
So I know people hate it Mostpeople don't Most people don't
Because it's challenging.
And it causes conflict.
It does you don't, Most peopledon't, Because it's challenging
(30:12):
and it causes conflict it does.
You know it's very you knoweverything's got, everything
kind of gets out of order, and Ilove out of order.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
Well, but, jenny, that's the only way we're going
to grow.
If we're not challenged, if wedon't have trials and
tribulations, if we don't havehardships, we never grow.
And just thank you for beingthere to be that person for
others and walking with themthrough this journey.
So I know that this is going tobe just it's going to be.
(30:43):
It is amazing and it's going tobe amazing, and you're going to
continue to help so many peopleand your passion is just it's
so contagious, as I said before.
So we want people to be able toget in touch with you.
The website, so I've got Jennyat JennyRogerscom right or is?
(31:04):
it different.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Well, no, the website .
We've got to remember that Jman, we have to remember the J.
If you do?
This is no joke.
If you do, jennyrogerscom, ifyou do, she's a wonderful lady
out there.
Oh yes, yes, yes.
Yes, she's in London andactually I contacted her.
She's, uh, I think, in her midseventies or eighties and uh,
(31:30):
cause she's written so manygreat books and I was just thank
the Lord that you wrote so manygreat books and case and this
happens to be your name and alsoyou just happen to be a coach.
I said because if somebody doesget us mixed up, they'll just
think I'm that old and that'sbeautiful because she's aged so
beautifully.
But my website is Jenny J and Ieven thought about just having
(31:53):
it at Jenny J, butJennyJRogerscom.
And then my email is, of course, Jenny at JennyJRogerscom.
Okay.
And.
I'll just kind of keep doingthat.
Jenny J, Jenny J.
I like it.
It's got a nice ring to it Alittle, jenny J.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
So we have to have that.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
J after Jenny, if you're going to find me.
Well, we want to find you Ifyou're going to find me.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Got to find Jenny J Jenny.
J.
That's where it's at Jenny J,it's got a nice ring.
We need to have Andy here andhe could come up will write the
music for Jenny J.
Yes.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
And it will be all well.
Actually, the music, oh, it'snot on there, but I did write
the music for it.
It's called the Traveler andDave gosh, jenny Rogers, dave,
cellist in Bristol.
So I'm losing his last name andI absolutely love playing with
him Right right.
But anyway, he helped me withthe song called the Traveler.
But I definitely want to getthe message out that on my
(33:04):
website there's a book, a free,complimentary call.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
And I have open slots for them to do that.
For those times I do thecomplimentary calls so.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
so, everybody, please go on.
And if you are thinking aboutthis and change in life, maybe
you're a little scared, maybeyou're caught in up in some
confusion, maybe you've just,you know, you've just been going
through life and just find itdull, maybe you've lost your
sense to dream, like you did asa child.
(33:37):
Contact Jenny, jenny J, andlet's do a consultation with her
.
So, jenny, thank you for beingon today.
I can't wait to bring you backto talk about how it's going,
your coaching, your next book.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
So I want you to sign my book.
Speaker 2 (33:55):
I got my mama bear meditations with me today and
that's another thing.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Books are available, obviously, on Amazon, but mama
bear meditations is also awebsite, so a lot of people will
, will, um will, subscribe tothe website and they get my
block, my meditation.
So they've actually seen mewrite the second book.
Uh, if, if they go onto thatwebsite, it's called mama bear
(34:22):
meditationscom.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Awesome, all right, well, thank you, jenny, for
being on the show today.
Thank you for having meAbsolutely, it's a pleasure.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
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