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.
That the scars of your trauma, your lived experience, don't need to remain scars. You can paint over them with the loudest colors of your imagination, your perseverance, your will to love life exactly as it was. As it is.
The values that hold the structure up
Kindness
Kindness first. Extend grace.
This is the foundation everything else is built on.
I show kindness because it is who I am, not because it is easy.
I learned this in Hiroshima. I carry it everywhere.
Before honesty, before ambition, before anything: be kind.
We Care, We See, We Consider
The hours I pour into something for someone are not extra. They are the point.
Perfection to detail is what care looks like when it is real: every photo checked, every caption true, every word kept.
If it has your name on it, I saw you. I considered you. That is what we do.
Open Curiosity
I ask the next question. Then the one after that.
Curiosity is active. It is 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 is the feature.
The thing that does not make sense is usually where the lesson starts.
The Taco Bell Ultra Marathon. College essays on a 22-mile run. This is how I think.
Radical Honesty
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 to wrestle with and adjudicate. I have a far larger life project to execute.
Being Uncomfortable
Discomfort has usually meant I am close to something worth understanding.
I trust the awkward middle more than I used to.
I don't run from discomfort. I run through it, literally.
Built Ambition
I am a future founder. I know this about myself.
The ambition is real, but it lives next to joy.
I care about the life I am building, so I stay close to the work.
The Marathon Mindset
Pienso en mamá. ¿Cómo lo hiciste cuando fue tan difícil?
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.
“Nunca dejé de creer en mí, tú también deberías creer en ti, vales más de lo que piensas”- Bad Bunny
Read: On Making It Yours →Vulnerability
Vulnerability makes honest connection possible.
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 only if I am 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, including the ambition, the joy, and 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 are all part of the 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? I kept returning to the words that ground me: remember where you came from, keep looking closer, trust what you have survived. Things to myself in Spanish, to remember. Remembering my mom and what makes me me. That's the foundation.
The more I say them, the more aligned I feel. It brings a sense of peace because the words point me back to what matters.
This page is not branding. It is a reminder to myself.
If it resonates with you, I am glad you found it.