Jennifer Gulbrandsen
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Writer, Podcaster, Digital Media Gadfly, Former Supermodel. Get the realness at jennifergulbrandsen.com
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What's That Smell?
While I could probably fill volumes with embarrassing moments at my age, we all have that one that happens to us early in our lives that sticks with us forever. For me, this event occurred when I was fifteen years old, and still makes me cringe myself inside out remembering it to this day. So why not put it in a public forum?
By Jennifer Gulbrandsen5 years ago in Confessions
3 Keys To Staying Relevant In Your Career
Once you’ve settled into your career of choice, it can be very easy to rest on your laurels and focus mainly on the job at hand. There’s nothing wrong with this if you do your job well, but what happens when you’re a couple of decades into your field, and you see new innovations and techniques coming your way that could quickly render you irrelevant?
By Jennifer Gulbrandsen5 years ago in Journal
Next Whiskey Bar - Lisle, IL
Lisle, IL is one of the last ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ small towns outside of Chicago, but it is definitely a big-time spot for food. Out of all of the great eats in this town, the one I always make THE destination for visiting friends and family, or when I need a pick-me-up is Next Whiskey Bar located on Main St. in the downtown district.
By Jennifer Gulbrandsen5 years ago in Feast
You Had Me At Merlot
My friend Gwen decided it would be fun to have a girls’ night out on the town at a local wine bar since we’ve been locked inside our houses for the last year. Wine bars aren’t typically my scene because I’m more of a hard seltzer on a boat kind of girl. My palate isn’t what one would call, refined.
By Jennifer Gulbrandsen5 years ago in Humans
Dear 2021, It's Not You. It's Me.
New Year's Resolutions have never really been a thing for me. I tend to go with a word or a theme for the year, and let that be my mantra. One year, "You're Going To Do It!" was on a continuous loop in my head, and it was a year of huge achievement for me. Last year, my mantra was, "Balance and Peace."
By Jennifer Gulbrandsen5 years ago in Motivation
My 2020 Soundtrack
As 2020 finally finds itself on the way out and we blow our noisemakers alone in our living rooms this Thursday offering it good riddance, we have to do these requisite round ups of the year that was. I have no idea why, apparently it's the law or something.
By Jennifer Gulbrandsen5 years ago in Beat
The Magic of Holiday Card Outtakes
Ahhh, Christmas card photos… the one picture you take that either serves as a highlight for the year, or a window into the chaos of real life. As 2020’s holiday season hits its peak, I realized I didn’t do a Christmas photo to commemorate this year. Maybe I’ll snap a few cute pictures of my dog and surly teens on the holiday to post on social media, but I didn’t even think of a Christmas photo this year. Who wants to commemorate this period of time that feels like the last semester of clown college?
By Jennifer Gulbrandsen5 years ago in Families
Bringing Back The Newspaper Wrapping
One of my favorite Christmas memories from my childhood would be the gifts we would receive from my father. You knew which ones were his because they were always oddly shaped and wrapped in the Sunday comics. These gifts wouldn’t be the trendy things we asked for in the 90s like a bookshelf stereo or a Starter jacket, (hello, I am a hundred years old) but they would contain cool things like bongo drums from a second hand shop in Iowa City, or the bootleg 4 CD set of a Pearl Jam concert one of Dad’s sound buddies recorded off the board.
By Jennifer Gulbrandsen5 years ago in Families
2020 Holiday Gift Guide For The Person Who Has Everything
Well, here we are… the 2020 holiday season. This time of year looks totally different than we’re used to, which is mostly sad, but if we’re going to pretend to find a bright side, there really isn’t any pressure to have gifts arrive on time for people outside of your immediate household, and you’re also going to be doing most of your shopping at home online, drink in hand, with or without pants.
By Jennifer Gulbrandsen5 years ago in Lifehack
SERIES FICTION | 'Nothing Left To Subtract - The First Sequel'
To read the first book in this series 'Some Die Just To Live' by Jennifer Gulbrandsen - click here. The human condition is to truly know nothing, while demanding answers to everything. It’s why we are desperately looking for the meaning in everything around us.
By Jennifer Gulbrandsen5 years ago in Futurism
