June 3, 2026

Jen Vertanen | Let People Love You | WHEN Stories™

Jen Vertanen | Let People Love You | WHEN Stories™

Send us Fan Mail Content Warning:: This inspiring story may include sensitive topics or experiences that could be triggering for some individuals. Viewer discretion is advised. #whenstories This is a raw, powerful talk by Jen Vertanen about trauma, worthiness, and the life-altering lesson she received from her mother in her final days: learn how to let people love you. Through deeply personal storytelling, Jen shares her journey from survival and self-protection to vulnerability, belonging,...

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Content Warning:: This inspiring story may include sensitive topics or experiences that could be triggering for some individuals. Viewer discretion is advised. #whenstories

This is a raw, powerful talk by Jen Vertanen about trauma, worthiness, and the life-altering lesson she received from her mother in her final days: learn how to let people love you. Through deeply personal storytelling, Jen shares her journey from survival and self-protection to vulnerability, belonging, and healing generational wounds. It’s ultimately a moving invitation for women to put down the armor, receive support, and step fully into the bold, unruly lives they were meant to live.

Jen Vertanen is the founder of We the Unruly, a movement for creative entrepreneurs—founders, authors, speakers, coaches, healers, and other creative weirdos with the audacity to change the world—who've outgrown the rules that got them here and are ready to claim what's next. A proud Gen X woman with 3+ decades of corporate leadership delivering multi-million dollar projects, Jen has spent her career being the disruptor people actually want in the room.
We the Unruly—her podcast, community, transformational coaching, and speaking—is the culmination of her corporate leadership and a decade of intense identity work that took her from self-loathing to fully, unapologetically herself.
Jen speaks to the women who appear to have it all together and are quietly holding themselves back from the stage, the book, the bigger visibility they actually want. Her message is simple and unrelenting: the identity that got you here won't get you there. It’s time to get unruly.

Website: http://wetheunruly.com
Tiktok: / we_the_unruly
Insta: / we_the_unruly
Facebook: / jennifervertanen

Video Production by MKE Video

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