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The Every Day Genius of Jill C Brown

Photo of Jill C Brown in an airplane, courtesy of same. Used with permission.

Jill Brown exudes a quiet wisdom, but beneath that calm exterior is an insatiable and curious energy combined with a deep love for adventure, what she calls a need for ZOOM. She seems to have integrated her own paradox quite well!

Mar 03, 2026 7 min read

Our First Feature

Meet Jill C Brown

I have never met Jill C Brown in person. We live roughly 4,000 miles apart, separated by the Atlantic Ocean. I live in North Central Arkansas; she lives in Wales.

What I love about Jill is that she embodies authenticity. She is soft-spoken but her words land firmly in your heart.

We have been friends online for 5 years, collaborating on Facebook, via email, in video-chats, and more. She graciously volunteered to be my first podcast guest back in October 2025, and again she is my first Featured Genius. It only seems fitting. 💞

Please allow me to introduce my beautiful friend Jill C. Brown!

🩵 Michele Jennae

The Interview

1. What is your "work" in the world currently?

Michele Jennae: What are you working on? Where is your focus currently?

Jill C Brown: Most recently, it has been clutter-clearing using the [Denise] Linn method. She explains how everything is energy and our connection with everything affects our life.

Everything around us is energy and as such everything needs movement too. Some things want to stay with us but might better be seen in a different room or simply used. Holding on to clothes that are broken or don’t fit maybe just don’t align with who we are or who we are becoming.

2. What is your dream?

Michele Jennae: What is the dream you have, the one you'll regret if you don't pursue it. What does it mean to you to have it? And What does that look like?

Jill C Brown: Staying in my peace.

It’s as simple as waking and enjoying peace that reflects my inner being. It looks like never passing up an opportunity for a new experience, to notice all that surrounds me.

3. What do you wake up for?

Michele Jennae: What do you wake for? What thread runs through your days?

Jill C Brown: To give gratitude and be part of life. My days are filled with laughter, watching squirrels always get me laughing. Good conversations and music. Cheering everyone on in all they do.

4. What's the hardest thing you've ever done?

Michele Jennae: What's the hardest thing you've ever done. Please tell me about it.

Jill C Brown: Going self-employed when I was 27 or 28 years old with no knowledge of what it entailed. There was no google back then to find things out.

I remember seeing an ad in the paper to become a driving instructor and thinking I’d really enjoy doing that, so I called them and arranged to find out more.

I started training while still in my place of work after getting a loan to pay for the course. I ended up taking a voluntary redundancy (a severance package) when offered by my work which paid off the loan and began my new path.

5. How did you succeed at that hard thing?

Michele Jennae: How did you succeed at that hard thing? What inner and outer resources did you access?

Jill C Brown: I asked lots of questions, making mistakes. and I continued to take training.

In the beginning it was difficult, so I moved to a different area. It took about six months to build up even though I started with a franchise who were all over the U.K. and had high street branches booking in the lessons. An experienced instructor told me to stay for two years and learn everything I could about the business and then to go independent, so that's what I did.

When I said I was leaving they told me I wouldn’t last six months on my own, but I didn’t believe it as I couldn’t imagine failing and went on independently for twenty-two years.

6. What do you see as your top 1-3 strengths?

Michele Jennae: What are your top 3 Strengths? Can you give a brief example when you most use each strength or why they're important to you?

Jill C Brown: Honesty, integrity and love.

I speak truthfully. Ask me and I will always give an honest answer, not what I think someone wants to hear.

Living in integrity is something I do even when alone so I can always look myself in the eyes and smile.

Love is everything, it heals and ripples out through all space and time.

Michele Jennae: How do you feel that honesty and integrity are different from each other?

Jill C Brown: Honesty is what you speak, integrity is what you live without anyone being around, it’s a way of being.

Michele Jennae: Yes, that resonates deeply.

7. Do you have a WHY?

Michele Jennae: What is your why? Your burning mission to show up in the world and contribute? Tell me about your WHY and your HOW?

Jill C Brown: My WHY has always been about clearing. I went missing as a small child and my mother found me in a stream throwing out sticks and stones. I said I was helping God keep the water flowing. My HOW is through my belief that we all have ‘can do shoes’™️ so I have a deep belief in "all things are possible."

Michele Jennae: I love this story, Jill! How did your mother respond to you having gone missing?

Jill C Brown: The full story is my mother walked me up a country lane to a tiny chapel for Sunday school. I insisted at 3 I could go in alone, so I waved my mother goodbye.

She got home and felt uneasy and returned to the chapel to find that I hadn’t gone in. She walked further up the lane searching for me and found me in the stream. There was no shouting or anger; I remember she was calm and wanted to know what I was thinking.

I remember us walking back home talking with her and I believe she was explaining to me why going off like that wasn’t a good idea.

Michele Jennae: Your story reminds me of one I heard of the naturalist Jane Goodall, who as a toddler disappeared into a chicken coop for three hours to wait and watch until she discovered how the eggs were laid. When her mother found her, though frantic, she noticed the light in Jane's eyes and instead of scolding her, began to ask her about where she had been with curiosity.

It sounds like your mother was made of the same cloth. A lovely parenting model.

Jill C Brown: I was a bit over-energized. My mother used to look at me sleeping and I’d suddenly open my eyes and grin. She always thought, "Here we go!"
She’d tell me stories about birds in the garden, so I’d stand still long enough to get dressed as I didn’t stay still much.

It’s quite funny. She’d get told off by doctors, for example, because it was hard to keep me in bed. It's not that I wasn't calm as a child, it's that everything for me was just ZOOM!

8. What does your best possible future self look like?

Michele Jennae: Can you give an example of a future scenario with your best possible future self? How is that future self different from who you are now?

Jill C Brown: Like my self is now, but "more" because of things I’m yet to experience. I see my future self smiling at me cheering me on.

I'm smiling, loving everything I can see and hear, expanding on everything I do now.

9. What obstacles will you have to overcome?

Michele Jennae: What obstacles will you have to overcome on the way to your future self? What might present itself inside you and in the world to challenge you in pursuing your dreams?

Jill C Brown: I don’t see them as obstacles but gifts to experience. To stay neutral can be challenging at times. Staying peaceful within is my goal. Nothing outside of myself can stop my inner being from staying centered.

Michele Jennae: What specific "gifts" might present in your path that are learning experiences?

Jill C Brown: Everything is a gift; every day is a learning opportunity, watching nature. Everything encountered has a solution. It can be tricky to see things as an observer, but it gets easier with practice and that brings a quality of lightness.

10.What really lights you up?

Michele Jennae: What really lights you up? What brings you the most joy?

Jill C Brown: Adventure! I went missing another time with a little boy. We climbed down a quarry looking at what was down there. A search party went looking for us and heard our voices. They didn’t shout in case we fell as it was a steep climb up the quarry face.

Michele Jennae: Wow! A little explorer. Always looking for the next adventure.

Jill C Brown: Yes, adventure lights me up. I’ve even bought a battery chainsaw so I can be dangerous on my own. 😄 I am always in my head, building stuff. Chris (my husband) really loves it.

I have so many stories of adventures. Snowmobiling, dog sledding, flying...

Once, I was parked up with a learner driver and a small plane flew over, and I happened to say I’d love to try flying. She knew all about it as her brother had learned and her uncle was also an airline pilot.

I decided to go to the local airport and set up a lesson and so began my flying adventure.

I will never forget how it felt the first time I went up on my own, looking out the window thinking I had to get it right; now I was on my own. I loved all fifteen minutes of flying that first circuit and landing safely.

The adventure was so incredible, and I ended up married to my instructor Chris! We’ve had so many adventures in the years we’ve been married.

Editor's note: Listen to the podcast episode where Jill ends up meeting her husband Chris.

11. Final Question

Michele Jennae: You mentioned that staying in your peace is your dream. And yet you also have all this energy. How do you channel your energy, your ZOOM?

Jill C Brown: I've learned to direct it up or down. Whether it's decluttering a room, or working with my own energies, the principles are the same.