An Inspired Chat with Jenn Drakes TNLP, MTLT/MCYF, TCHt, MPrac-TMIA, MH + Prosci CM

We’re looking forward to introducing you to Jenn Drakes TNLP, MTLT/MCYF, TCHt, MPrac-TMIA, MH + Prosci CM. Check out our conversation below.

Jenn, it’s always a pleasure to learn from you and your journey. Let’s start with a bit of a warmup: What are you being called to do now, that you may have been afraid of before?
I’m being called to help people remember their worth — to awaken what’s already within them — and to engineer the conditions where their highest potential can finally emerge. My work is part seer, part strategist: I help people see themselves clearly, and then build the internal architecture to rise from that truth.

For a long time, I couldn’t fully step into that calling because I was still dimming my own light. Releasing the weight I carried — much of it rooted in fear — became my initiation. Through that, I learned to embrace my full potential and own my path unapologetically.

I’ve grown into guiding others to rise into their brilliance. That’s what Divintastical Living is all about — becoming the artisan of your own life, shaping it in truth through awareness, action, and love. It’s sacred work that demands courage, because those I serve can’t afford for me to walk beside them in fear.

In releasing my fears — accepting my natural talents, opening to visibility, leaning into bigger stages, and pursuing deeper partnerships — I can now hold your potential until you can hold it yourself.

I’m creating a legacy that guides you to radiate your own magnificence — the same way I continue to grow into mine.

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I’m Jenn Drakes — a transformational speaker, strategist, and author devoted to inspiring conscious living and leadership through my movement, Divintastical Living.

At its heart, Divintastical Living is about becoming the artisan of your own life — pursuing catalytic transformations to expand your possibilities and reclaim authority across every dimension of living. Through my initiative, GO Divintastical Excellence, I prepare individuals and organizations to stay relevant and empowered in these rapidly changing times — where self-awareness meets performance and compassion becomes strength.

I champion a new era of leadership rooted in human truth — grounded in lived experience, reinforced by psychological safety, and elevated through relational intelligence.

I also lead Shop Divintastical, a lifestyle brand merging mindset and lifestyle for mind-body celebration. Known by my community as The Original Goddess for my grounded wisdom and vibrant presence, my work helps people rise with awareness, lead with courage, and live Divintastically.

Thanks for sharing that. Would love to go back in time and hear about how your past might have impacted who you are today. What did you believe about yourself as a child that you no longer believe?
As a child, I believed I was too dark, too different, too much of what the world said was “less than.” I thought I had to work twice as hard to be seen, and harder still to be accepted. So I became the overachiever — perfectionist, people-pleaser, and unrelenting worker — building worth through doing instead of being.

Except perfection is a mask that hides pain, and eventually, I got tired of carrying both. I now call myself a recovering perfectionist. I’ve claimed the worth I hold, and I humbly walk tall — rejecting the labels of others and the limits of my past. I achieve through passion and ease. Faith is my road, sovereignty guides my steps, and love is the footprint I leave behind.

I now know that love and worth aren’t currencies to be earned; they are divine birthrights to be remembered.
That truth changed everything — because once you stop trying to prove your value, you start embodying it. That’s when life stops being a performance and starts becoming Divintastical — real, radiant, expansive, and free.

What have been the defining wounds of your life—and how have you healed them?
The wounds that shaped me weren’t loud ones — they were quiet, heavy, and internal.
Growing up, I absorbed the belief that I wasn’t enough: not light enough, not beautiful enough, not worthy enough. Those messages rooted themselves deep, and from them grew perfectionism, overachievement, and a relentless need to prove myself.

For years, I lived by unspoken rules:
Work harder than everyone else.
Depend on no one.
Outperform your pain.

Those patterns looked like strength from the outside, yet inside they were prisons. My real wound wasn’t insecurity — it was the belief that I had to earn my right to exist fully.

Healing didn’t happen in a single moment; it was a reclamation. I had to unlearn the voice that told me dimming was safer than shining. I had to soften the armor that perfection built. I had to face the fear that visibility would cost me more than invisibility ever did.

And slowly, I began releasing the weight — physically, emotionally, spiritually.
I said yes to my worth.
I honored my voice.
I embraced my own beauty, power, and presence without apology.

Faith became my road.
Sovereignty guided my steps.
Love became the footprint I leave behind.

I now know that worth isn’t earned, and love isn’t conditional.
Healing, for me, has been the return to that truth — real, radiant, expansive, and free.

Next, maybe we can discuss some of your foundational philosophies and views? Where are smart people getting it totally wrong today?
Smart people are getting it wrong in one crucial place: they keep underestimating their own value — and it’s costing them the brilliance their life is trying to express through them.

I see brilliant, capable humans — from young adults to executives — who can analyze data, build strategies, and solve impossible problems, yet when it comes to their own worth, they shrink. They dismiss their intuitive knowing. They doubt their brilliance. They let fear dictate decisions that should be guided by truth and inner authority.

Intelligence can’t override unworthiness. Achievement can’t mask the feeling of “not enough.” And high performers are often the ones carrying the deepest self-doubt, because they’ve learned to outrun it with productivity.

Smart people overestimate the power of intellect and underestimate the power of the nervous system. You can’t think your way into worthiness — you have to feel safe enough to embody it.

What they’re missing is this: worth isn’t earned, negotiated, or proven. It’s inherent. And when smart people finally understand that — not intellectually, instead viscerally — everything changes. Their leadership expands. Their relationships deepen. Their creativity ignites. Their resilience becomes rooted instead of reactive.

My work exists to bridge that gap. To help people see themselves clearly, claim their value fully, and operate from a place of sovereignty rather than fear. Because the truth is, the world doesn’t need “smarter” people — it needs people who know their value and lead from it.

Thank you so much for all of your openness so far. Maybe we can close with a future oriented question. What is the story you hope people tell about you when you’re gone?
I hope they say I was a woman who lived awake — someone who stood fiercely and lovingly for human potential, and who believed without wavering that we are capable of far more than the world has conditioned us to imagine. That I saw people not just as they appeared, but as they could be when they rose into their fullest, truest, most sovereign selves.

I hope they say I chose love when fear was easier, sovereignty when conformity was rewarded, and truth even when it shook the room. That I helped others remember who they were before the world dimmed their brilliance — and guided them in reclaiming their capacity for greatness, healing, leadership, and love long before they believed it themselves. That my life’s work was never about building a brand; it was about awakening something ancient and powerful in the human spirit.

I hope they say I lived my own ascension with integrity — rising, shedding, expanding, and returning to truth again and again until the mission of this lifetime was complete. That I didn’t just teach transformation; I embodied it. And in doing so, I showed people how to become the artisans of their own lives — shaping their stories with intention, moving through chaos with grace, and turning pain into pathways.

And ultimately, I hope the story sounded like this:

She helped rehumanize leadership in a world that had forgotten the human behind the role. She built something that wasn’t a business, rather a legacy of consciousness.
A movement.
A homecoming.
A permission slip to live divinely and audaciously human.

She reminded us that we were always more than our wounds, more than our titles, more than the stories we inherited. She walked through the world as a catalyst — leaving people lighter, elevated, emboldened, and more in love with who they had the capacity to become.

She lived her message, completed her mission, and led with love every step of the way.

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