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The Truth IsAuthor: Kathryn Flaschner
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Jedidiah Jenkins: The Authority of Your Own Questions
Episode 11
Wednesday, 3 December, 2025
What if the clarity you’re looking for isn’t “out there” at all, but already inside you — waiting for the moment it comes into view?In this conversation, NYT bestselling author and adventurer Jedidiah Jenkins sits down with us to talk about revelation, habituation, aging, and what it means to build a life you’re actually comfortable being yourself in.Jed talks about how his books — from To Shake the Sleeping Self through Mother, Nature and now his upcoming fourth — trace the long arc of becoming, moving through the mother wound, his religious upbringing, and the early experiences that sharpened his curiosity. He shares why he sees revelation as the moment when previously collected pieces finally organize into clarity, and how trusting the authority of his own questions has guided his life and work.We talk through:Revelation vs. information — why most “aha” moments are old truths finally landing in the right orderHabituation and the hedonic treadmill — how we get used to everything, even the life we once wanted, and how Jed disrupts that patternHow he now makes sense of the 30-year-old who biked from Oregon to Patagonia — and the life that opened because of itHow his first three books became a trilogy of healing the mother woundWhy living fully as yourself quietly liberates other people to do the sameHis eight-week, no-phone sabbatical in rural Colorado during the election — and what surfaced when the noise stoppedWhy he believes many of us are one sabbatical away from a breakthroughEntering the “youngest old person” season of life and finding a beginner’s mindset again in midlifeWe also talk about the truth of the moment — how naming what’s real as it arises becomes its own form of presence — and how Jed has had to rebuild his sense of truth from the inside out after growing up inside a religious system that defined it for him. He reflects on learning to trust the authority of his own questions, and why that practice continues to shape his life and his work.And yes — we talk about the leaf.The one Kathryn caught during a silent walk at Jed’s retreat, the one that never touched the ground. Jed wrote on it: What falls will feed the new. It becomes a quiet throughline for this conversation about clarity, courage, and letting what’s no longer true fall away so something more honest can grow.More from Jedidiah Jenkins:• Website — www.jedidiahjenkins.com• Instagram — @jedidiahjenkins• Substack — jedidiahjenkins.substack.com• Forthcoming fourth book — out fall 2026 (fun sneak peek at the process mentioned in the episode)Connect with The Truth Is:🎥 Watch the full conversation on YouTube → @thetruthis_pod📸 Follow on Instagram → @thetruthis_podcastCreditsHosted by Kathryn FlaschnerEdited by Dan CrollMusic by Will SavinoVisual Identity by Sarah Gainer & Jonathan BushAdvised by Natalie Tulloch
