The World Builders

In this episode, Jenni Gritters explores why your message isn't reaching the right people — and how a simple shift in focus (not a messaging overhaul) can change everything. She shares a transmission from her guides about finding your "soul family," pruning the platforms that drain you, and letting your unedited voice travel freely to those already ready to receive it. The takeaway is a 60-90 day experiment: Show up in fewer places, go deeper in the right ones, and stop translating yourself for people who aren't ready yet.

Resources:

• Tune into the last episode Jenni recorded about managing fear
• Read Jenni's Substack about how to tune your energy each morning
• Learn more about the Water Council, which begins July 27th: https://www.theworldbuilders.co/the-council

If you're listening to this today: You're being initiated. And the timing is exactly right, even when it feels blocky, squeezy, and uncomfortable. In this solo episode, Jenni Gritters shares a channeled transmission about why the compression you're feeling right now is not a sign to stop, but an invitation into a new chapter of your vocation. Your job now is to learn how to dance with fear instead of being swallowed by it, and why sunshine, breath, and other people are the antidotes that widen your view and let the light back in.

Join Jenni for the next round of The Council: https://www.theworldbuilders.co/the-council

Discover your World Building archetype here: https://worldbuilders.zite.so/

Read more about how to energetically tune the dial each morning: https://jennigritters.substack.com/p/tuning-the-dial-of-your-frequency

A quick note: Since recording this, July's fire council is full but Jenni has opened up a second cohort -- the water council -- which will kick off later in July. The application for the program lives here, and you can learn more about the program at the WB website.

Jenni explores why the traditional guru-based coaching model is dying and what's rising in its place — a more collective, community-driven approach to business growth. She breaks down the cultural forces driving this shift, including rising loneliness, economic pressure, and a collective exhaustion with hierarchical structures, and introduces the Council model as an ancient yet radically relevant alternative. This episode is a must-listen for coaches, creatives, and entrepreneurs who are craving a more relational, soul-centered way to grow their businesses without sacrificing belonging or well-being.

Resources:

• Learn more about The Council model in World Builders
• Learn your World Building archetype
• Stay tuned for The Collective's grand opening mid-summer

A quick note: Since recording this, July's fire council is full but Jenni has opened up a second cohort -- the water council -- which will kick off later in July. The application for the program lives here, and you can learn more about the program details at the WB website.

Jenni kicks off Season 2 of the World Builders Podcast with a solo episode diving into the powerful confluence of astrological and seasonal energies shaping the weeks ahead.

Drawing from astrology, Celtic tradition, and Native American moon cycles, Jenni weaves together a rich tapestry of themes to help listeners navigate an "inner winter" during peak summer. This episode is an invitation to slow down, trust your inner compass, and do the foundational identity work that prepares you for a year of bold visibility and growth.

Seasons & Cycles Discussed:

• Cancer Season (June 23 – July 23)
• Mercury Retrograde (in Cancer, through July 23)
• Jupiter moves into Leo (June 30 – July 2027)
• Summer Solstice (June 21)
• Celtic Wheel of the Year — Letha Festival
• Strawberry Full Moon (June 29)

Major Themes:

• Inner knowing over external measurements of success
• Ripening instead of forcing — patience, pleasure & trust
• Preparation for visibility starts with internal work
• Redefining safety and belonging on your own terms

How to get involved in the World Builders ecosystem:

• Put in an application for The Council
• Make your way through The Reckoning diagnostic
• Stay tuned for the grand opening of The Collective mid-summer

This is the final episode of season 1 of The World Builders. Thank you SO MUCH for supporting this body of work. If you love it, please leave a review!

Jenni will be back in a few weeks (late June 2026) with a new season of solo episodes focused on how to meet the current moment with intuition, imagination and steadiness -- especially if you're an intuitive, deeply feeling human being.

In this episode, Jenni sits down with messaging strategist and creative writing coach Lois Mac for a conversation about what it actually takes to stop hiding and start building a body of work that feels true. They dig into the long game of finding your voice, the grief that comes with finally believing you're allowed to make money from your creativity, and why the most expressed version of you is the most powerful business strategy you have. If you've ever felt like marketing and creative expression were fundamentally at odds, Lois will absolutely change your mind.

Things you'll learn about in this episode:

• Why deep feelers, visionaries, and artists struggle most with traditional marketing
• Lois's journey from ghostwriter and agency copywriter to building her own voice and methodology
• The grief of finally believing creative work can be sustainable
• Why motherhood often sharpens ambition and reduces BS
• The difference between trying to be impressive and actually having something to say
• Why uncensored expression and strategic communication are two sides of the same coin
• The two writing practices everyone needs: reflective and expressive
• What AI is actually doing to the creative market (and why it's good news for those of us with a real point of view and relational approach)
• Why the "starving artist" identity is one of the most insidious things keeping creatives broke
• Lois's Sweet Talk methodology and how she helps people find their true message through personalized creative rituals
• The cultural shift happening right now and why this is genuinely the artist's era

You can follow Lois @ Up Club, or on Instagram, or via her Substack.

What's up and coming with World Builders:

• Apply for one of the final spots in the July 15th start Fire Council cohort
• Define your money season & practical next steps toward accumulation & margin via The Reckoning
• Learn about your World Building Archetype

What's your World Building archetype, and what does it teach you about your way of moving in the world? Find out here.

A transmission from Jenni about why so many high-achievers are drowning in a calendar they built themselves — and why simply "fixing the Tetris" will never actually work. She walks through the real reason we stay over-busy (it's not a time management problem), and the step-by-step process she used to go from coaching 22 one-to-one clients to a model that gives her more spaciousness, better client results, and a calendar she actually loves. If you've been craving ease but keep filling your schedule back up the moment things slow down, this one will hit close to home.

What comes next:

• Put in your application for The Council
• Follow Jenni's personal Instagram
• Follow Jenni's Substack and watch it evolve

If you've ever felt like you're carrying the weight of your finances completely alone, this one's for you.

In this solo episode, Jenni reads the second essay in her Substack money series — a raw, honest look at the pressure grip: what it is, why high achievers and eldest daughters know it so well, and how it quietly drives poor money decisions from a place of urgency and lack. You'll walk away with two practical tools to loosen pressure's hold and start making money decisions from creativity, joy, and expansion instead.

Read the full essay series here: https://jennigritters.substack.com/p/when-financial-panic-blocks-the-door

Register for The Initiation (June 10th start) here: https://www.theworldbuilders.co/the-initiation

Use this free diagnostic to label your money season & next steps for growth: https://www.theworldbuilders.co/the-reckoning

Follow Jenni on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/jennigritters/

Love this? Check out The Initiation, our upcoming 4-week stabilization & foundations program. We start June 10th.

In this episode, Jenni sits down with seven-figure business mentor and poet Amber Lilyestrom to explore what it actually takes to stop building a business from your wounds and start building from your vision.

Amber shares her raw backstory, from testifying in court at age five to leaving a decade-long career the day after her daughter was born, and how those experiences shaped the mentor she is today. You'll walk away with a new framework for understanding why your strategy isn't the problem, what your capacity is, and what it looks like to finally build a business (and a life) that is fully, unapologetically yours.

Follow Amber:

• On Substack
• On Instagram
• Via her podcast
• Buy Amber's most recent poetry book, Little Big Beautiful Things

Join the World Builders' ecosystem:

• Find your world building archetype
• Leave a review for this podcast
• Join us at our next free gathering, The Clearing

Listen to Jenni & Amber talking about Jenni's growth path.

Love this conversation? Learn how to make the kind of money that supports your evolution (even when you need to hide in a cave of becoming) in our next free masterclass, May 22nd, called The Current.

In this episode, Jenni sits down with journalist, artist, and queer liberation advocate Mike DeSocio — a longtime coaching client and collaborator — to trace his journey from Eagle Scout and buttoned-up corporate journalist to living freely and fully in Milan, Italy.

Mike opens up about the grief of leaving a six-year relationship, the cascade of structures he outgrew (monogamy, home ownership, a 9-to-5), and how choosing his desires over respectability unlocked a new level of creative and personal freedom.

This conversation is a wild permission slip to question the scaffolding in your own life, chase queer joy unapologetically, and build a world where you are completely, magnetically yourself.

RESOURCES:

• Join Mike's Finocchio newsletter & community
• Read Mike's book, Morally Straight
• Book a virtual photoshoot with Mike
• Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed
• Adrienne Maree Brown: Pleasure Activism
• Follow poet Alok Vaid-Menon

JOIN THE WORLD BUILDERS' ECOSYSTEM:

• Register for The Current to set up a financial structure that ebbs and flows with your creativity (May 22nd)
• Join The Clearing for free community coaching & nervous system attunement
• Put in your application for The Council
• Find your World Builders' archetype

This is your invitation to join the Cyclical Wealth Blueprint workshop on May 22nd! Register here.

If you're making money but it keeps slipping through your fingers, you're not broken -- but it is time to lean into accumulation mode.

In this episode, Jenni breaks down the two phases of financial growth — stabilization and accumulation — and what it actually takes to move between them as a creative, cyclical human. This is an honest, unglamorous money conversation about personal accountability, maturity and not just making money, but HOLDING it.

In this episode, Jenni covers:

• The difference between stabilization and accumulation — and how to know which phase you're in
• The 5 money grips (shame, self-doubt, fear, hiding, and pressure) that block you from seeing your finances clearly
• Why creatives and neurodivergent founders tend to spend money the moment they make it — and the nervous system reason behind it
• What emotional regulation, long-term thinking, and identity work actually have to do with building wealth
• The solopreneur-to-CEO shift and why it requires a completely different relationship with money
• How to start building margin so your nervous system can finally rest
  

Resources:

• Apply for The Council (July cohorts): https://www.theworldbuilders.co/the-council
• Join our next live Clearing event (free): https://www.theworldbuilders.co/the-clearing
• Register for the Cyclical Wealth Blueprint masterclass: https://world-builders.kit.com/bb5eb97520
• Learn your World Building Archetype: https://worldbuilders.zite.so/