Hey, I’m Jen!

I’m Jen Krahn.  I go by Jen.  Or Jenny.  Or Jennifer.  Take your pick.  Usually Jennifer in business, Jen for most people and Jenny almost as a term of endearment.  I have a 17 yr old son Jado and a 15 yr old daughter Jorg  .. pronounced George, short for Jorgia.  We live in West Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley in BC in Canada.  God’s country really. 

We moved here for the stellar quality of life when I was prego with Jado.  Welcome to your beautiful life in KTown kiddo… where there is nothing but sunshine from morning till night in the summer months.. except in 2020 where nothing is as it were and we are attempting to embrace the overcast. 

I have walked away from a 27 year career in money management.  I  would say I’m going through a midlife crisis.  Legit.  Let’s be real.  So now I am at this place… Who am I and what does my second half look like? I just celebrated a milestone.  And let me tell you 50 is not easy.  In fact I’d say it has felt more like going through a meat grinder.  Squeezing every single part of me into oblivion attempting to find meaning in it all but everything resulting in mush.  Daily attempts to piece it together but really not sure if it is working at all.. still looks like a big bowl of mush to me. 

I spent my life helping people with their money. From my life as a Banker to helping people with their Investments, Mortgages, Insurance, and most recently as a Broker of Private Equity raising capital for private companies of all kinds in North America. Exciting yet stressful. Now I am helping to launch a new Network Marketing company called SoulLife. Over the years I have become more interested in health. I have learned that our soil is depleted of minerals which we desperately need. SoulLife is helping us to absorb minerals again. It has been fascinating to see the results in people.

My kids are amazing and yet they are assholes. Am I allowed to say that? I believe I ask them every day ‘what did I do wrong?’   When I am asking for the 17th time to get out of bed or you will be late for your ‘thing’.  Which also makes me a codependent parent I believe.  Somehow I just don’t have the heart to watch them sleep in and lose their job.  Parenting 101 FAIL. 

Ultimately I am blessed.  Very much so.  My parents are alive and very involved in our lives, my kids are good humans at the end of the day.  We have a beautiful to us home.  I’m still here so I give thanks.  Please join me on my journey of not knowing what I’m doing on this crazy roller coaster of life.