Hi! I’m Jennifer.

I'm a writer, artist, podcast host, coach, and the founder of Creative Foresight.

I've spent the past 13 years building an expansive creative practice—one that has taken many forms and refused to fit in a single box.

I started a blog in 2013—my first public display of my my creativity. Since then, I've written a book. Launched and fully funded a Kickstarter. Hosted podcasts. Founded a 250-person creative community in Tucson. Gone on a speaking tour. Built/closed/rebuilt a coaching business. Created and still write a newsletter. I’m currently illustrating a children's book I wrote.

I've spent 10 years working in tech, leading customer education programs and consulting. I've left stable corporate jobs multiple times to bet on my creative work. I've been a stay-at-home mom. I've been the side-hustler and the business expander and the one who chose corporate stability when that served my family. All of these can coexist.

Because through all of it, I've kept creating.

My current life

I live in Iowa City, Iowa with my husband and two young sons. We moved here recently after spending the past 12 years in the Southwest.

I'm in the fullest, most demanding season of life—two little kids, a creative practice, a coaching business, a podcast, all of it. And I’m feeling my most expansive.

I've lived in both the artist world and the corporate world. I've climbed the ladder and walked away from it. I've freelanced and had steady paychecks. I've hidden my creative self and put it front and center.

What I know now: your creativity is worth betting on.

Not because it's guaranteed to work.
Because choosing it today creates the future you actually want to live in.

For Podcast Hosts & Event Organizers

Speaking Topics

Creative Foresight: Why Choosing Creativity Today Creates a Better Tomorrow

The philosophy behind trusting that creative desire is worth following because it changes how the future unfolds. Choosing creativity leads to positive impact in your life, community and the world.

The Body of Work Perspective: Nothing Was Wasted

How to see the throughline in a multi-faceted creative life and trust that every season was preparation for your most truthful work to come through next.

Creative Risk in the Fullest Season: Motherhood, Career, and Creative Power

Why creativity matters most when life is most demanding, and how to keep creating when everything else is asking for your attention.

Jennifer’s Bio

(You can use any of these bios to introduce me)

Short Version

Jennifer Spoelma is a writer, artist, podcast host, and founder of Creative Foresight—a philosophy centered on trusting creative desire as positive leading. Over 13 years, she's built an expansive body of work including a self-published book, children's book illustration, a 250-member creative community, and a decade in tech. She helps creatives reorganize their lives around creative power through Body of Work coaching and co-hosts the Creative Current podcast.

Longer Version

Jennifer Spoelma is a writer, artist, podcast host, coach, and founder of Creative Foresight—a philosophy built on the belief that choosing creativity today creates a better tomorrow.

Over 13 years, Jennifer has built a creative practice that refuses to fit in one box. She's self-published a book (Kickstarter-funded), illustrated children's books, founded a 250-member creative community, created a speaking tour, and spent 10 years in tech leading customer education. She's coached clients to $20k-$70k raises and helped others launch creative businesses alongside corporate jobs.

Now, Jennifer helps people recover direct access to their creative power through Body of Work, her six-month coaching partnership. She co-hosts Creative Current, exploring creative philosophy and practice, and is building Creative Foresight as a framework for a generation of creatives.

She lives in Iowa City, Iowa with her husband and two young sons, proving daily that you don't wait for life to calm down before choosing creativity—you choose creativity, and then life gets easier.