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Values & Identity

Meet Jenn.

I am joyful. I am a daughter, a sister, a leader. I love to make others feel better. I embody kindness, grit, perseverance. I am a runner. I'm an overthinker, an analyst. I'm a future founder. I'm curious and passionate to a fault.

I want to be perceived as kind, empathetic, moderate, willing to listen and learn. A leader. Highly capable. Successful. Holistic. Joyful. A romantic lover of life.

The values that hold the structure up

Kindness

Kindness first. Extend grace.

This is the foundation everything else is built on.

I show kindness — not because it's easy, but because it's who I am.

I learned this in Hiroshima. I carry it everywhere.

Before honesty, before ambition, before anything — be kind.

Be Openly Curious

Ask the next question. Then the one after that.

Curiosity isn't passive — it's a commitment to never assuming you already know.

I am passionate to a fault, and I'd rather be that than indifferent.

Absurdity for New Meaning

The beautiful chaos of my mind is not a bug — it's the feature.

Take the thing that doesn't make sense and sit with it until it teaches you something.

The Taco Bell Ultra Marathon. College essays on a 22-mile run. This is how I think.

Be Radically Honest

But kind first. Always kind first.

Radical honesty without kindness is cruelty. Kindness without honesty is cowardice.

I am telling you who I am. If you can't handle that, that's your problem.

Read: Nietzsche & radical honesty

Being Uncomfortable

Being uncomfortable is how you grow.

If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you.

I don't run from discomfort. I run through it — literally.

Relentless Ambition

I am a future founder. I know this about myself.

The joy and the ambition — it comes from doing all of this.

Dig deeper. You got this. Keep saying it until you believe it.

The Marathon Mindset

The relentless pursuit of perfection in running maps to everything else in life.

Started running in April 2022. The discipline, the suffering, the refusal to quit — it all transfers.

Mind over matterKeep goingHow you finish a workout says a lot about youDig deeperGet comfortable being uncomfortableIT'S TOUGH BUT YOU'RE TOUGHERBelieve in yourself. You're worth more than you think.

Nunca dejé de creer en mí, tú también deberías de creer en ti, vales más de lo que piensas Bad Bunny

Vulnerability Creates Connection

Don't be afraid to be vulnerable. It leads to honest connection.

I'm okay being vulnerable. That's beautiful.

I don't believe in erasing the past. There is always merit.

Everything happens for a reason — but only if you are willing to understand what the lesson was.

We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster that we go bankrupt.

I am a first-generation Hispanic woman who grew up below the poverty line.

That is the foundation. Everything I've built — the ambition, the joy, the grit — comes from knowing where I started and refusing to forget it.

I am proud of who I am. And it took a lot of work to get there. The decisions I make to support that — it's all a feedback loop.

I accept that I am fallible. That there is always more to learn, more eras to experience, more growth to be had.

The Compass

There are phrases, words, moments I keep returning to — a web that has become my compass in life.

On a 22-mile run, I was thinking: what are the values I have? What are the phrases I always go back to? And I kept saying to myself — you got this. Dig deeper. Things to myself in Spanish, to remember. Remembering my mom — where I came from, what makes me me. That's the foundation.

The more I say them, the more I find myself in alignment. And it brings a sense of peace — because when I look at my north star, I know I'm going and doing the right things.

This page is not branding. It is a reminder to myself.

And if it resonates with you, then maybe we are meant to build something meaningful together.

I'm not willing to compromise who I am. At some point, it's just — let Jenn be Jenn.

March 2026