I'm good. Thank you for having me. I'm excited doing a little like two and one today on this Saturday, which is a little unlike me. I never film on a Saturday. No, same.

Saturday's are for the girls. First of all, not for the boys. Frick the boys. I also like I try not to work on Saturday's Sundays. I try to get off of social media, which I've been pretty bad lately, but there's something so important about just taking your your weekends off. And I mean, I know your podcast name is fun on the weekends. Weekdays. Weekdays. Oh, I messed up. Fun on the weekdays. Okay, so there's no fun on the weekends or what? No, I still do. I still do, but at the time when I started the podcast, I mean, I was in a very different way.

Like lifestyle, and I am now I was still working my corporate job, which I'm sure will probably touch on a little bit, but I just like found the importance of not just saving the weekend time to like do things that I wanted to do and enjoy like my life essentially and have fun. So I do still work on weekends now, but not as much. I work more now now that I like don't have the corporate job, which I'm sure you understand. I mean, we're here together. You can always work. Yeah, just always something to be done. Always.

This is our first time meeting for those that don't know. This is Jenna palette. Yes, how like, okay. So this is our first time meeting. I followed you on TikTok. I think when I started seeing you pop up in Conner's content, because I know Conner for a bit. And I was like, who's this girl? She's so fun. She's so spunky. And you just have like a really infectious fun, charismatic personality. Like you're really fun follow. Oh, I just got his mom. I love that. And I'm just someone I'm like, I just like love and encourage

people. And I really do think you have just a really good vibe about you. And so we like just chatting. We were like, let's do a podcast together. And so she also has a podcast. It's fun on the weekdays. Not weekends. Janine get it right. Um, and you're also on TikTok. And then is there anything else? Like, you do like meet and greets a lot as well. Yeah. Yeah. So I started doing more events, honestly, just in like the past month or two. I was able to bring on an event planner to help me do all of that. Because I'm

sure as you know, like there's just so much going on in life that there's a lot of things that you want to do. And you just constantly like make excuses for yourself of why you're not doing them. And then one day just hit me. I was like, you know what? The reason why I'm not doing it, because I don't have a bandwidth. I need to just find someone I trust. And so yeah, I've been doing more events now. And honestly, the goal is just to bring girls together that like listen to my podcast. I love them and just like help them make friends because a lot of people are moving to a new city or maybe they've lived somewhere for a long time that they just they feel like they've maxed out the people that they can meet.

But really, I mean, the podcast has brought so many girls together. And so the reason why I'm in Dallas is because I did an event last night. So yeah, how was that? It was really good. The Rangers. Did you make it to home base? I threw the first pitch. I think that's. Yeah, I don't want to watch baseball. So I literally couldn't tell you. I called it the first throw and everyone's like, Jenna, that's wrong. So I threw the first pitch. And that was really cool. My parents reposted on Facebook first thing. As soon as I sent it, we love supportive parents. Yeah. And it was great. There were like three hundred.

150 people that came out. Some people came alone or some girls like met people through my group meetings or brought their boyfriend or husband along. It was it was great. It was good time. I think that is like one of my most favorite things about social media is the fact that you can connect people. Like I started this group called the abide tribe. And it's like the same thing like a Facebook page. It's like for Christian women. And like I want them to find community in their cities. And so they're all meeting each other as well. And like I literally just the other day was talking to my assistant too. And I was like, I don't know.

I was like, how can we make an event for like these girls to like find each other in their cities and like kind of doing like a tour. So like the Houston girls can find each other. The dust rolls can find each other. The Austin girls can find each other. Because I'll probably keep it first Texas base. But I think that's like my favorite part about social media is like the power that you have to connect into influence and inspire. And I'm just I think that's so cool that you do that because I don't feel like many people do that. Yeah. I mean, it's it's definitely like it's a lot of work.

I would say it's it's more so like mental work. I guess because like when you do meet people that I've been watching you online and they feel like they really know you and your friends and everything. You just want to like put your best self forward. And when you're doing that for like a few hours at a time with a couple hundred people. It can be a lot. So I mean, I love doing it. And I have a few more planned like for the rest of the summer. But it's really honestly like probably the best thing that I get to do that come out that came out of the podcast that I never really had a vision of doing it.

It's just I'm sure you know, people will message you and be like, Oh, you're in the city. Like, let's get together. Let's get all the time. Let's get coffee. Right. I think it's so fun. It is so fun. But you can only do so much. So I'm like, all right. Well, I have this platform and all these people are coming to me like wanting to make friends. So why don't I just connect the people that are trying to meet people. And we can all just do it like at one time. And I can kind of like do everything at once. And it's been really great. I mean, I've had really great feedback. And I think it's also just really nice. I mean, the people that follow me are literally the reason why I'm able to

do it as a career and like sustain myself. So just to be able to meet the people that support me, I think is I mean, like the least that I can do. Yeah. No, I love that. You know, I really do feel like and we'll get more into the social media stuff because I do want to hear more of like your story. But I feel like and maybe this is a hot take. But so many people I follow. It's just all about like them. And it's just like, I want to have the perfect look and the perfect body. And like they don't really use their platform to like genuinely help people. It's just

about like portraying this perfect lifestyle. And I'm like, that's kind of old and like that's kind of done. And it's honestly really rare for me to hear about creators that are like doing that. And I think that's why I'm like intrigued by you and inspired. And I'm like, man, like I love that there's someone else doing that out there because most people really aren't or maybe they just don't even know how to do it. You know, because it is a lot. It's a lot to manage. That's kind of why I've been struggling too. Because I'm like, okay, I have to find an event. I need to like make sure I have like security and like all these things that it's I mean, little is going to the list.

They're like planning the event. And I was like, there's so much involved. I don't know if I can do it. But it's going to see that you did it. And you did it well. Yeah. And I think too, just like starting small one thing that I've been trying to make a goal is just like once a week or at least once every couple weeks. Go on like a walk with people in the area and anybody can show up. I did that a couple weeks ago. And then that like took off. And now there's like 500 girls in my Austin like walk on weekdays group. And the goal is literally just like you meet up like after work or before work. And you go on a walk. And.

You're already going to be like exercising regardless. So why not just like make a new friend while you do it. And so I think starting small and doing those like little community meetups was really great. And I mean, when I first started social media, people would reach out. They're like, oh my God, I'm in Austin. I'm like, okay, cool. Let me meet you out. And I would do that all the time. So fun. As you like grow and you're starting like a business and stuff. Um, I'm like, okay, how can I, how can I meet everybody at once? So it's definitely doable. And we can we can I'll share my please. No, I love that you even do the walk sing. And I also think what's

really cool is that a lot of people don't want to do that because they are, they want to maintain this like, I'm in touchable image. And I'm like, no, like you're not any better than anybody because you have followers. So I love that you're still willing to be like, Hey, let's get coffee. Like I should do that a lot. Like I'll meet followers all the time. Like the literally the other day, I met this girl in the event. And I gave her my number. And I was like, Hey, Tex, if you want to go to the porch together. And she was like, Oh my gosh, really? And I was like, yeah. And I think it's so fun. It's like, and again, like what you're saying, you can't do it all the time because you literally be doing it.

You want it all day long every single day, whatever. But I think it's cool to still kind of be like, Hey, I know I have these followers, but that doesn't mean I'm like better than you were like untouchable. Yeah, definitely. And I think also to the only way to like grow your community is by actually having a community. And without that type of like interaction that is genuine and one on one. It's not necessarily a community, right? Like what you just said, it's just a following. It's like just a number. And that's just not my goal at all. I could have 500 followers that are extremely

engaged in love and care about me versus 500,000 that I maybe have like a couple of viral videos. And they don't know anything about me. Yeah, that's the difference. And I think you can always tell and people's content, like who just wants to get viral and like get the fastest amount of followers as fast as possible, whatever versus someone that's genuinely like, I'm building in community. I want to provide value to you. I want to know y'all. I want to give you content that's genuinely going to help you. And I feel like I see that in your content where I'm like, little what I'm like watching yourself. I'm like, okay, this really genuinely

feels like I know you. Like when you showed up, I was like, oh, yeah, I know that you guys got new rugs. I like know everything. So it's kind of funny. But I do want to hear more about like your story. So you are from Wisconsin. Wisconsin. Oh, no, did I mess up again? Oh, hi, oh, hi, you are right with the mid Wisconsin is the Midwest, right? Yeah. Okay. Yes, you got that right? You're good. Just a few states. I really didn't want to like do too much research because I really want to get to know.

People like as they're here, but I've been butchering it. Oh my gosh, you're totally fine. There has been times where I've like butchered people's names and like, really, you need to do your research. I'm like, you know what? That's when you do that. It's just so calm. Not calculated. It's so just like thought out that it's just not. Yeah, I don't want to be a talk show. Like this is a podcast. Yeah. So I'm from Cleveland, Ohio. I say Cleveland just because it's the nearest biggest city, but I'm actually from Payne'sville. So yeah. So I grew up there. I went to college at Kent State, which is only an hour.

Where are we from where I live? Kent or Ken Kent. Okay. Kent State. Okay. Would you study there? So I went to school for fashion merchandising. Okay. Yes. And I graduated in 2020, which was, you know, right when the pandemic was happening. And I remember I was a bartender at the time. And the day that we closed the bar, we were all like, okay, it's going to be like two weeks, whatever. And I was honestly just freaking out because I'm like, this is my source of income right now. Right. And I was trying to save up money so that when I graduated, I can move somewhere. And I

then, yeah, it turned out it was not two weeks. It was two years. So it's so crazy. Yeah. So during that time, then I graduated and I moved to Austin in July of 2020. So I've been in Austin for almost two years. Wow. Wait, what prompted you to move to Austin? Yeah. So this is my like claim to fame, my origin story for anybody that's like followed me from the very beginning. I so basically when I was graduating college, I knew that I wanted to move to Austin.

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