Tune Up Your Warrior
Tune Up Your Warrior
Podcast Description
As a lifelong learner, I believe that understanding different perspectives is key to growth. Tune Up Your Warrior is a space where I invite warriors in their fields to dig into the topics that shape our world, challenge our beliefs, and impact everyday people.
No lip service. No performative actions. No fake conversations—just real, honest dialogue with guests who bring unique experiences and perspectives to the table.
Each episode, we explore stories that matter—whether it's navigating identity, challenging norms, or confronting the complex realities of our industries and communities.
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The podcast focuses on personal stories and discussions about identity, leadership, health, and the power of listening. Episodes range from exploring gendered expectations in sports with guests like Lisa 'Longball' Vlooswyk to discussing the importance of health with Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng, and examining political conversations with Jenny Mitchell, highlighting themes of resilience, equity, and community building.
As a lifelong learner, I believe that understanding different perspectives is key to growth. Tune Up Your Warrior is a space where I invite warriors in their fields to dig into the topics that shape our world, challenge our beliefs, and impact everyday people.
No lip service. No performative actions. No fake conversations—just real, honest dialogue with guests who bring unique experiences and perspectives to the table.
Each episode, we explore stories that matter—whether it’s navigating identity, challenging norms, or confronting the complex realities of our industries and communities.
In this closing solo episode of Season 4 of Tune Up Your Warrior, Jenny Chen reflects on belonging, what it means, where we find it, and how we learn to create it for ourselves and others.
She shares more of her own story, including the experiences that shaped her understanding of identity, visibility, and finding her place in spaces that were not always designed with her in mind.
From there, Jenny looks back on her year of yes, a year of choosing possibility, taking risks, and saying yes to opportunities she never could have planned for.
And then came the summer of yes.
A summer spent with people who made her feel like she belonged. A summer filled with unexpected invitations, new friendships, community, laughter, uncomfortable firsts, and some pretty incredible opportunities that she never went looking for.
What she realized is that almost none of those opportunities came from chasing them. They came through relationships. Through people she had met in this chapter who were doing incredible things themselves and who invited her into their worlds.
Because maybe that is what belonging actually looks like.
Not one giant moment when somebody finally tells you that you have made it, but hundreds of smaller ones. Being invited. Being remembered. Being trusted. Making room for somebody else. And leaving people feeling a little more seen than they did before they met you.
Jenny also reflects on what four seasons of Tune Up Your Warrior have taught her, and expresses her gratitude to every guest who trusted her with their story, everyone behind the scenes who helped make these conversations possible, and every listener who pressed play, shared an episode, or reached out to say that something they heard stayed with them.
Season 4 may be ending, but the year of yes isn't over yet.
Tune Up Your Warrior is taking a short summer break before returning for Season 5 on September 9, with a very special guest joining Jenny behind the microphone: her husband, Dan.
Until then, thank you for listening, for sharing these stories, and for being part of this little podcast that somehow became something much bigger than Jenny ever imagined. 🎙️❤️
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