Jenna Nimri shared their story and experiences with us recently and you can find our conversation below.
Hi Jenna, thank you for taking the time to reflect back on your journey with us. I think our readers are in for a real treat. There is so much we can all learn from each other and so thank you again for opening up with us. Let’s get into it: What is something outside of work that is bringing you joy lately?
So many things! one being has been my garden, I have been growing delicious gourmet mushrooms in my garden like Pink Oyster Mushroom, Golden Oyster Mushrooms, and Wine Cap Mushrooms, it’s been so exciting and rewarding. My garden has never felt more enchanting and whimsical. It makes me feel like i’m living in the country side of europe.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I am artist and I express my work in acting, screen writing, poetry, visual art, and how I choose to live my life. My art is for myself first, a laboratory for life where I can test ideas, study the madness of reality, and examine my pain. As unique as the circumstances of my life might be, I know my pain is not unique to me and I know when I express my pain I am expressing the pain of the million other women who are like me. Those who are willing to open themselves up for me to entrance them will leave feeling alive, magical, with a heightened sense of conciseness and curiosity. My mission is to bring balance. Balance between chaos and order, love and hate, right and wrong, curiosity and acceptance, death and life, mystery and reality. I am the embodiment of the sacred balance between heaven and earth. I like to dwell where truth, beauty, and paradox meet.
Amazing, so let’s take a moment to go back in time. Who were you before the world told you who you had to be?
I was the most curious poor country side girl who loved nature and saw magic and joy in everything. My happiest moments were roaming the forests in jordan foraging for wild plants, picking wild rare orchids, and buying wild mushrooms from nomadic boys. I danced ballet and once performed in a play in front of King Hussein. Looking at my younger self now as an adult, I realize how talented, and beautiful that girl was before the world taught me to hate myself. I’m having so much joy bringing her back into my life now, loving myself, and remembering who I am.
When you were sad or scared as a child, what helped?
always, always, always. I’ve always been a sad girl, it’s a tragedy being born a girl in this world. But I love it at the same time, sadness can be magical. Being a dreamer is what helped me to survive, they say what helps you survive ends up destroying you by creating dysfunction in your adulthood, but I believe being a dreamer can actually become your super power if you’re brave enough to take actionable steps.
I think our readers would appreciate hearing more about your values and what you think matters in life and career, etc. So our next question is along those lines. Is the public version of you the real you?
Yes and no, it’s the heightened, idealized version of myself. It’s who I aspire to be. She’s real, and she’s alive and breathing inside of me. but I have to curate her within the dimension of reality. In my real day-to-day life, I can be more messy.
Okay, we’ve made it essentially to the end. One last question before you go. If you knew you had 10 years left, what would you stop doing immediately?
saying yes to things I want to say no to. I’m already doing that, but I would be a lot more strict.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://m.imdb.com/name/nm5796490/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennanimri?igsh=ZHd6aGNzbml6dzVk&utm_source=qr
