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Combining my 30+ years of expertise & experience with my 54+ years of life experiences & fuckery, I bring down-to-earth genuine warmth, easygoing laughter, quirky wit, & a willingness to “go there” - making me a super relatable and engaging guest

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I LOVE SHARING MY KNOWLEDGE, WISDOM, & EXPERTISE AROUND...

✨ Making your epic visions & dreams and living your best damn life inevitable with my unconventional approach that's been fine-tuned over 30+ years as a strategic project manager, my own transformation, and years coaching & consulting both personally and professionally

✨ Showing up bold, courageous, & unapologetically myself - especially as I get older (shameless aging FTW) which helps others give themselves permission to showcase their own boldness

✨ Why we should look to the future instead of our past to start LIVING the lives we WANT and more importantly, I'll share how

✨ Overcoming decades of loneliness & resentment and how I hit rock bottom even though life was pretty damn good

✨ Almost walking away from the one person (my husband) who'd always had my back and loved me no matter what and the subsequent rebuilding myself from the inside out

✨ Finally healing from childhood traumas and going from self-hating TO loving the hell out of myself & my life

✨ Losing both parents 9 months apart and how it unlocked new layers of healing and self-compassion

✨ And all the stories in between. I'm in my 50s and have a LOT of wisdom, expertise, and experience to draw from

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Meet Jen Vertanen ~ part coach, part consultant, part visionary ass kicker, and part F-bomb dropping cheerleader for folks wanting to make a difference in the world starting with their own lives. Jen is the strategic meets tactical meets HAVING FUN WHILE YOU'RE DOING IT unicorn with a heart of gold and mouth like a sailor.

She has 30+ years helping folks - from Fortune 50 behemoths to scrappy start-ups to empty nesters wanting more from life - turn pipe dreams into realities and as the host of Your Best Damn Life she's on a mission to help YOU turn your "someday...maybe?" into "Holy shit, I'm actually doing it!".

Jen is obsessed with stories of old people doing super cool shit (sacred aging FTW!), poorly written smut, and living her best damn life as a homebody in her possibly haunted home in St. Paul with her hubby (they became empty nesters in Fall '23 after 33 years raising babies) and newfs bingeing Amazing Race while also honoring her paradoxical need for people and new experiences.

Website: yourbestdamnlife.com
Your Best Damn Life Podcast: yourbestdamnlife.com/podcast
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I live in a possibly haunted home built in 1905 in the heart of St. Paul (Twin Cities, MN) with my husband and 2 drooly newfs. We became empty-nesters in Fall '23 and thankfully, still love and like each other after all these years (we did a lot of work on that!)

I'm mama to three adult kiddos. I love them deeply and mothering them helped heal ME from a shitty childhood though motherhood didn't come easily or naturally. I'm a 1970 Gen X baby but my kids call me a Millennial and I'm not sure how to take that lol

I love vintage Aquaman and extra 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ smut (hello, Bigfoot 👣), and if you hadn't noticed....I have a thing for b👀bs

I don't do clutching your pearls, playing the woe is me victim, all the reasons why something won't work for YOU, anything and everything MAGA, or an unwillingness to "go there"

I identify as queer (pansexual) in a cishet marriage with a dude (Mr. V.). He's my person to do life with 💖

I'm a strategic project manager with 30+ years of experience and certified Life Coach. I blend the art + science​ of getting shit done & I know how to motivate and inspire people and break big concepts down into teeny tiny actions which is why I not only help folks do the work to love the hell out of themselves but also, bring their Bold AF Visions to life

I have an ADHD brain and Type 2 Diabetes. I've done a loooooot of work to make sure my brain 🧠 and body 💃🏼 stay well-supported though I'm far (far) from perfect

I'm pretty good at making gold from the shit &  lessons to learn but I also have an aversion to toxic positivity, love & light, positive/high vibes only. You can miss me with that harmful, gaslight-y bullshit. There's gold in both the light & the darkness and I'm not here to be one-note

I LOVE my charming awkwardness. You may not and that's ok...I get it lol!

Behind-the-scenes

I rebuilt myself from the inside out (it really was that dramatic) in 2015 and went from hating myself and trying to escape my life in all sorts of unhealthy ways TO living and loving the hell out of myself and my life. I know intimately how hard this work can be which is why I get so much joy helping others build deep self-belief so they can live their best damn lives too

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