Baylee Jennings | FJ Creative Studios
Weekly musings, research, and lived experiences centering around the creative process, intuition, manifestation, flow state, falling in love with the everyday magic that exists all around you, and creating the life of your dreams. Plus, the occasional love letter or two. đź’Ś | Baylee Jennings is a writer, artist, surface designer, marketer, & multi-passionate entrepreneur who believes more than anything that you deserve to be head over heels in love with your life.
999: What does it mean?
Hi, Reader, It's been a little while since you've heard from me, and we can get into that another time. The TL;DR is that I've been deeply focused on finishing The Becoming Journal, writing my new book series, A Divine Renaissance Romance, and understanding where this next iteration of FJ Creative Studios wants to go. More on those first few items, soon, but the reason I'm writing to you today is about that last one: the future of FJ Creative Studios. One of the aspects of that future is...
You'll never be here again
Ever learned a new skill, Reader? If you can walk (or read), I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you have. Let's take those exact skills, for example. You weren't very good at them when you started, were you? You probably stumbled, stuttered, and sounded a little like gibberish. If you had any sense of personal awareness during this time, you likely would have been humiliated by how awful you were. Your parents would have taken pictures, and you would have said, "OMG NO! Delete those! You'd...
You ever want to slap your husband?
The last few weeks have been more than a little hectic in my world, Reader. And while it's my instinct to retreat within my little hermit corner when major setbacks and life events like this happen... I made a promise to share what the real behind-the-scenes of building an aligned business looks like with you, and that means the ugly parts, too. So here goes... Two weeks ago, my father-in-law had emergency open-heart surgery. Previously a super healthy and fit guy, this was incredibly...
The messy middle of rebuilding — plus an opportunity to work together
Hey Reader, Last week, I started sharing my journey from total burnout and “how tf did I get here?” to career sabbatical to what I’m coming to feel like is my creative rebirth. And if you’ve been following along, you might be thinking by now… Okay, very cool for you… but what does this have to do with me? Let’s be real—the world right now is a lot. We’re all feeling it in different ways, from tons of different angles. Some days are inspiring and feel like we can push through into a brighter...
The breakthrough I found in surrender
Hey Reader, I know I said I was gonna write an email to you every day… but like everything else in our lives and businesses, that’s ever-evolving, and we always have the right to change our minds! (This is my way of admitting that I got lost in blog-writing and website design land yesterday, and by the time I remembered I needed to write this email, allll of my brain juice had been drained from me completely. So… sorryyy (but you get it, right?)) Anyway, when we last spoke, I shared that, in...
Why I walked away from everything I spent 5 years building
Hey Reader, Yesterday, I told you a little bit of the story of how my life and business have changed and shifted dramatically in the past year. (If you haven’t read it yet, go check it out. I’ll be here when you get back!) All of those shifts led me to a realization that was, all at once, terrifying and liberating: I’d lost touch with who I truly am. And it was time to come home to her. See, I’ve always been a writer. I’ve been other things, too, but writing has been a steadfast companion in...
Where I've been hiding
Hey friend, It's been a good little while since we connected properly, 100% my bad—but I've really, really missed our chats. My life has been full these past several months—not in the way of hustle or grind, for once in my life, but in the small, quiet, sometimes mundane moments that seem to make up our lives. You wanna know what’s wild? I’ve recently realized that it’s these exact moments that actually fill my cup. To me, they make life worth living. And vulnerably speaking, after the last...
Your toxic ex & shitty first drafts
BAYLEE JENNINGS Love Letters Heya Reader, If you didn't already know, I'm writing a romance series. Right now, I'm knee-deep into shitty first draft territory. It's awful — but it's progress — and I'm loving it. This is something I've been thinking about a lot lately, the beautiful disaster that is a first draft. You know, that document that looks like it was written by a caffeine-possessed raccoon who just found the trash dump? Me, during my nightly zoomies. More on that, later. Yeah, that...
Manatee, osprey, GBH | Every Day Magic
My husband, Brandon, and I currently live in central FL. We’re living with his parents while we build this phase of our businesses and save to buy our dream home: a 40ft liveaboard sailboat. We’re blessed enough to both have remote jobs, him as a wellness coach (check out his site here if you’re interested, he truly is amazing at his career) and me of course, as a writer. So this lends itself to the occasional cafe, library, and sometimes, even coastal workday. Something important to know...
Grandma, blackberries, & honeysuckle | Every Day Magic
Hello, lovely. Welcome to the first installation of a new writing experiment I'm calling "Every Day Magic." These love notes serve to raise your spirits and open your perception to the good still very prevalent in the world — even through times when the light seems to be quite dimmed by the shadow of the darkness. It is, and has always been, my deeply held belief that even in the darkest of times, the sun always rises — and therefore, there's always something to be grateful for. So, Reader,...