Tennille Jenkins: Content Creator and Co-Founder of The Tennille Life

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🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Tennille Jenkins is a content creator and co-founder of the popular and long-running blog The Tennille Life. She studied interior architecture and design in college and started her career as an interior designer before spending several years as a stay-at-home mom with her two daughters. At age 30, she began to consider returning to the workforce and unexpectedly landed a job as a corporate flight attendant with the prestigious private flight company Clay Lacy Aviation. She eventually met Magic Johnson and became his private flight attendant for over eight years. In 2016, craving a creative outlet, she started a blog and Instagram account called The Tennille Life. It was there where she documented her style, travel adventures, and thoughts on aging, confidence, beauty over age 40, and more. By 2020, she’d built a significant following and realized that the time was right for her to make another career leap. So, she left her flight attendant position and became a full-time content creator. Over the last five years, she’s grown her audience to over 317,000 followers and has worked with brands like Nordstrom, Shiseido, La Mer, Estée Lauder, Summer Fridays, RoC, Tata Harper, and many more.

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1:07.0	Hi, everyone. I'm Hilary Kerr, the co-founder and chief content officer of Who What Where, and this is Second Life, a podcast spotlighting women who have truly inspiring careers.
1:11.7	We're talking about their work journeys, what they've learned from the process of setting aside their doubts or fears, and what happens when they embark on their second life.
1:17.8	Today on the show, I'm chatting with the content creator, Teneal Jenkins.
1:22.4	This episode is a fun one because we're catching Teneal basically on her fourth life. She studied interior design
1:30.0	and architecture in college and then started her career as an interior designer. She spent
1:36.0	several years as a stay-at-home mom with her two daughters and then around 30 she began to
1:41.3	think about re-entering the workplace, but returning to interior design
1:45.3	didn't interest her anymore. She landed a job as a corporate flight attendant working for a
1:51.1	private aviation company. After a few years of freelancing for different private clients,
1:56.8	she met and clicked with the one and only Magic Johnson and his family. From there, she became
2:03.7	the Johnson's private flight attendant traveling the world with them for eight and a half years.
2:09.4	In 2016, she started her blog and Instagram page, The Tenil Life, on the side, so that she could have
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