Jedidiah jenkins biography
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- Jedidiah Jenkins is a travel writer, an entrepreneur, and the New York Times bestselling author of To Shake the Sleeping Self.
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The Queer, Spiritual Journey of Jedidiah Jenkins
Travel writer, author To Shake the Sleeping Self, and executive editor of Wilderness magazine, 36-year-old Jedidiah Jenkins of Tennessee wants to take us all on a journey of discovery and personal reconciliation -- one like he's been on.
He grew up a closeted evangelical Christian just south of Nashville. And while Jenkins still cherishes fondly his boyhood memories of collecting Civil War bullets in the creek that ran through his small farms and helping pull calves from their birthing mothers, growing up gay in the Deep South was not easy.
Jenkins felt out of place and fell into a pattern of molding his life to accommodate the expectations of others. Years later as a lawyer approaching the age of 30, Jenkins realized he needed to come to terms with his past or else be funneled into a life not of his own choosing.
So, in a moment of unexpected inspiration, he made the decision to ride a bicycle from Oregon to Patagonia. Never one to consider himself an athlete, Jenkins nonetheless spent 16 months on an epic 14,000
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The Isolation Journals with Suleika Jaouad
Many people dream about leaving their jobs to travel the world, but Jedidiah Jenkins is one of the few to turn that dream into a reality. Finding himself dissatisfied with his day-to-day life and eager to make a stronger connection with the natural world, Jed upended everything and embarked on a sixteen-month, 10,000-mile bicycle trip that took him from Oregon to Patagonia.
This experience is the subject of Jed's bestselling memoir To Shake the Sleeping Self. In early February 2021, he published his second book, an essay collection called Like Streams to the Ocean. It’s full of profound reflections on topics like ego and love and the things that make us who we are.
Jed is brilliant and hilarious, and what an honor it was to host him for a Studio Visit. This interview is excerpted from our conversation and edited for clarity.
You can watch a replay of the Studio Visit with Jedidiah Jenkins here.
Suleika Jaouad: Jed, I’m really interested in your path to becoming a writer. I know your parents are writers. Their five- Overall Performance Story With the clarity that made his debut, To Shake the Sleeping Self, a national best seller, Jedidiah Jenkins brings together new and old writings to explore the eight themes all of us face as we find our way in life: ego, family, home, friendship, love, work, death, the soul....•
Like Streams to the Ocean
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