This letter is part 1 of a 3-part series, adapted from a talk I gave to a client organization in October 2025 in celebration of Disability Employment Awareness Month.

In Part 3 of the Awakening the Heart series, we're looking at why acts of kindness and service are powerful resilience-builders — possibly the exact things we need if we're to overcome so much divisiveness in our relationships and discourse.

Jennifer is joined by friend and colleague Lauren Goldberg to talk about her simple but brilliant Career Support Care Packages, which perfectly illustrate how generosity can restore our sense of agency and hope when everything feels so dispiriting. 

This week, I checked something off my bucket list.

I live in Providence, RI where there is a monthly event called PechaKucha Night. Originating in Japan, it's an adult show-and-tell using 20 powerpoint slides x 20 seconds each. I knew since attending my first PechaKucha Night years ago I wanted to do one. So a few months ago, I got inspired and signed my ass up to present!

I wanted to talk about a sense of belonging.

It’s been over a month from launching Career Support Care Packages to world! It’s been a fun ride so far and I am just getting started.

I want to share the story and intention behind these care packages, plus where I see it going from here.

Before I do anything remotely impressive, like really perform, A+, top-notch kind of thing, something always happens to me. 

I fall apart. I get mopey. I sulk. I am in angst, questioning whether I can do ANYTHING and discrediting any other accomplishment I have made up until that point. Brain drama, for real.

Around this time 11 years ago, I left my first full-time job after only 4 months.

It was a terrible fit. I was doing work that didn't play at all to my strengths. The job did the opposite, calling attention to all of my limitations and leaving me panicked, exhausted, and feeling sorry for myself everyday.
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A part of me may always cringe a little bit when I think about it, but I can look back now and see all the red flags

This post is for folks job searching who have never had to job search before (or haven’t in a long time). Here are my best job searching tips, from the trenches with job searching clients.

I was thrilled to join Sara Chandran, Inclusion Consultant, Communications Specialist, and Founder at Fresh & Fearless UK, on her podcast Out of The Office. Using The Office episode “Goodbye, Toby” (Season 4, Episode 18) as a lens, we explore disability, inclusive language, and neurodiversity in the workplace.