Jenn Gulbrand – Age 61
Motivational Speaker, Storyteller, 2x Author, Podcast Host, Coach, Somatic Healer
About me
In January of 2020, Jenn Gulbrand became a corporate dropout, leaving her position as Co-Founder of a Premier Sales Training Company in the Life Sciences space. After having spent 35 years leading companies in the health and wellness space, she knew she was being called to do something more.
Today, she stands at the intersection of healing and storytelling as a beacon for those seeking authentic transformation. Jenn’s journey of spiritual awakening now illuminates the path for others as a motivational speaker, author, and somatic healer. Through her best-selling book “Embody Your Essence” and the collaborative anthology “SheBreathes Soul Stories,” Jenn demonstrates the profound power of vulnerability in healing.
Weaving together ancient wisdom with modern healing practices, Jenn creates sacred spaces where stories become medicine. As a Somatic Therapy practitioner, coach, and energy healer, she guides others to break free from limiting beliefs and step into their full potential. Her voice extends beyond the written word through her podcasts “High Vibes + Grateful Heart” and “SheBreathes Soul Stories,” where she continues to inspire hearts and minds while building a community of courageous storytellers ready to embrace their authentic selves.
Jenn is a builder of heart-centered communities and safe, supportive spaces for growth and healing through destination retreats and WeBreathe Wellness Collective, a sharing collective where individual women in business can share in the space and associated costs to run their own businesses and have the best of many worlds.
There is more in the works, including Jenn’s first book of poetry and a book on the topic of shame. Keep an eye out as Jenn continues to build her platform and expand her message.
What do you do and why do you do it?
As a Trauma-Informed Somatics Therapy Practitioner, Well-Being Coach, and Holistic Healer, I empower people to live in better alignment with their true nature. I combine positive psychology, mindfulness, meditation, breath work, movement, integrated energy, and vibrational sound healing to improve client’s well-being and return them to a state of balance and alignment. I spread this message through a growing media platform, two podcasts, books, and building safe, collaborative communities.
What changed for you after age 50?
Everything! I call myself a Corporate Dropout Gone Goddess. After 35 years of leading companies in the health and wellness space, I followed my soul’s calling to focus on building heart-centered communities and safe, supportive spaces for growth and healing.
What would you tell the 20 or 30-year-old YOU?
- Lighten up!
- Release your burdens, and don’t take yourself too seriously.
- Stop putting so much emphasis on what everyone else thinks about you because we are not here to please others.
- Take risks. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes—simply learn from them.
- Our journey is to be here on Earth School to learn how to feed our own soul… to love and accept ourselves.
- You are enough JUST AS YOU ARE. You don’t have to prove yourself or earn it.
- Enjoy the ride and have more fun!
What do you think you’ll tell yourself in retrospect at the end of your life?
You made a difference in the lives of many with your loving, kind spirit.
What impact do you think increased visibility can have on your business?
Raise the collective vibration and radiate more joy.
Who or what inspires you and why?
I am inspired every day by the women in my community who have overcome challenges in their lives…who have worked through the healing process and kept moving forward toward the light to become the fullest expression of themselves.
Something else I’d like to share
I just published my first book, Embody Your Essence: Break Patterns of Suffering and Reclaim Your Joy.
My inspiration for writing this book came from deep contemplation regarding my own life and a desire to develop more conscious connections with the people in my life. After nearly six decades in this energy body, I realized that when we show up authentically, expose our vulnerabilities, and share our real stories. We begin to heal ourselves and one another. Henry David Thoreau said, “We are constantly being invited to be who we are,” but how many of us accept the invitation to show up authentically in our interactions with others? How often do we feel safe enough to bring our whole self to a conversation or to a relationship? Why don’t we go deeper in our interactions with one another?
In a world where people hide to stay “safe,” speaking our vulnerable truth is one of the most courageous things we can do. I want to serve as a catalyst for a movement toward being more consciously connected—to a place where we find the courage to show up with empathy, authenticity, a recognition of shared values and common experiences, and a safe, supportive container in which to share who we really are at our deepest layers. Conscious connections are made when we share the unfiltered essence of ourselves with others, including our true identities—not just our joys, but our pain, thoughts, feelings, life experiences, dreams, and desires.
Studies confirm that our brains are hardwired to reach out and interact with other people. Receptors light up when we interact intimately and honestly with friends, family, and community. When we make meaningful connections with other people, we strengthen our immune systems, recover from disease faster, and live longer. Meaningful human connection lower our rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide. So why do we keep our truths locked in a vault for most of our lives, feeling lost, alone, broken, and disconnected from ourselves and one another?
I believe we are held back by our own subconscious limiting beliefs and fears of being misunderstood, being judged, and not belonging. Here I am, showing up in my wholeness, to reveal my true essence—who I am, what I have experienced, and how those experiences have shaped my life—with the intention of helping others on their path to healing.
The shift that will lead us to deeper, more fulfilling relationships and connectedness will happen when we begin looking at our commonalities and recognizing our shared experiences. What a difference we will make when we show up authentically with a desire to listen and learn and be fully present for one another through more conscious and connected communications, receptivity, and understanding.
“What happens to us as humans when we experience a traumatic event is that we create a story in our subconscious about who we are and what that all means. These stories can form limiting beliefs that persist into adulthood and can act as roadblocks unless they are addressed and healed.”
Jenn Gulbrand
The Brief
Reinvention is the name of the game
After 35 years leading companies in the health and wellness space, Jenn listened to the call to do something more. And in early 2020, she officially left the safe and secure corporate arena and stepped into being a goddess. She boldly signed the lease for a space across the hall that was 3x the size of the space where she started her side-hustle back in 1996.
The WeBreathe Wellness Center was born with all good intentions to bring well-being and a sense of belonging to a wider community, and then… COVID shut down the world a few weeks later.
As people began re-emerging from lockdown, the WeBreathe Wellness Center provided the perfect place for people to gather in community and access the programs and support they needed to restore themselves – physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Healing trauma is essential for breaking generational cycles and improving overall well-being
The conversation, of course, went to healing trauma to break generational cycles and improve overall well-being. Jenn shared that understanding and addressing trauma can help rewrite subconscious scripts that have been holding people back.
Healing is also an opportunity to expand your self-awareness. Instead of passing down the unresolved trauma to our children or through other relationships, we break those patterns of suffering. Self-healing can interrupt the cycle of generational trauma and pave the way for healthier patterns for future generations.
Jenn is also trained in somatic healing exercises. She stresses the importance of body-based healing: “We focus very much on our beautiful brains…but our bodies hold the records of all those things that happened to us. So if we’re only living from the head up and the neck up, we’re not healing. We’re just thinking it through or processing it.” Healing is a multi-dimensional process that involves not just the brain but also the heart and body.
Community connection can facilitate healing and reduce feelings of isolation
We are both passionate about building community, and Jenn shared her experiences of creating a community around supporting healing and reducing feelings of isolation and loneliness. She shared her experience of creating safe, supportive communities and spaces that foster deep connections and provide opportunities for growth and healing in a space that makes everyone feel welcome.
The process of healing and personal growth involves both feeling and confronting pain
We talked about acknowledging pain and confronting it as a crucial part of the healing process. Feeling and releasing the pain can lead to profound personal growth and healing. “You got to feel it to heal it,” The healing process involves confronting and processing past traumas and experiences.
Be sure to connect with Jenn and keep up on all the ways she is bringing healing into the world.