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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like this may be the beginning of the end.... [/quote]

What are Jen's real options moving forward?  She's almost 50 and has beaten the white progressive suburban wine mom girlboss of all the things to death.  Besides other women do this much better and are a lot younger.  She completely lost her former evangelical audience, which left with a lot of pain and sadness and were never really replaced as progressive fans are not as loyal and are a lot more fickle.  She never had an HGTV audience.  She already wrote her manifesto which sold bupkis.  Her cook book didn't sell either.   Her podcasts are bore fests with guests no one cares about.   Her charity grift is over, same as Glennon's which is a strange coincidence.  [/quote]

Curious what do you consider her manifesto? I’ll be honest, I’ve never read any of her books. I’m just an internet lurker. I followed her for a bit on fb but when Syd came out and her tone became OTT progressive I unfollowed. Then I found this rabbit hole.[/quote]

She called her book Fierce Free and Full of Fire her "manifesto", the summation of all her heard earned girlboss wisdom for the masses.  It was a disjointed and messy humble braggy master of life, love, and family, and all the things book that sold way less than her others.  It was also released right before her marriage exploded.  At one time she actually begged her tribe to buy it in a live post.

Anyone else read FFF out there?  It was terrible.[/quote]

While Jen really is a gifted writer, she is also a narcissist and I don't think she could successfully make the jump to writing about something other than herself, what she thinks, and how wonderful she is. Other forms of nonfiction writing are out there but they're low paying and the market is saturated with people who've been laid off by magazines and newspapers out there competing for work with shitty pay. I just don't see it.

She could potentially teach creative writing, maybe at the community college level or teach communications some type of trade program. She's not qualified to teach at university level. That big sis energy and her natural charisma would translate well to teaching. However, I think she'd get in her own way with the narcissim because her knowledge couldn't be front and center, SHE would have to be front and center. And, while I think she'd relate well to young people, I don't think they'd give her the adulation and affirmation she needs. It's really very sad.

She's gotten some decent engagement on her last few Instagram posts and there's enough people saying shit like "Jen save Texas" and "I need to know what you think on all things" that keep her in that mindset of thinking she's still got it. Unless all those people magically convert to Able shoppers and book club members, tI don't see her progressive fangirl wine moms supporting her financially.

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