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WHEN Stories Radio Network
WHEN Everything Changed…
Welcome to the WHEN Stories Radio Network.
The WHEN Stories Radio Network is a curated broadcast platform documenting the moments that change everything — when lived experience becomes authority, and a story is formally placed on record.
Hosted by Wendy Babcock and the Certified WHEN Stories Facilitators, each broadcast features women who have taken the WHEN Stories stage to share a defining moment from their life or business. These are not guest interviews or open submissions. Every story you hear has been intentionally developed, delivered live on stage, and professionally documented as part of the WHEN Stories experience.
Each broadcast includes an authority-framing conversation followed by the speaker’s live stage story — preserving the moment their work, voice, and message became visible in a permanent way.
The WHEN Stories Radio Network exists to honor transformation, resilience, and leadership — not as inspiration alone, but as legacy. These stories are archived as part of a growing public record, reminding us that impact doesn’t just happen… it’s claimed, spoken, and preserved.
Listen to broadcasts that move beyond motivation and into meaning.
Stories that don’t disappear after the applause fades.
Stories that live on.
This is WHEN Stories. On record.
All broadcasts originate from the WHEN Stories stage.
To learn more about the experience or to take the stage, visit
👉 http://whenstories.com
WHEN Stories Radio Network
Jen Vertanen | Let People Love You | WHEN Stories™
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Content Warning:: This inspiring story may include sensitive topics or experiences that could be triggering for some individuals. Viewer discretion is advised. #whenstories
This is a raw, powerful talk by Jen Vertanen about trauma, worthiness, and the life-altering lesson she received from her mother in her final days: learn how to let people love you. Through deeply personal storytelling, Jen shares her journey from survival and self-protection to vulnerability, belonging, and healing generational wounds. It’s ultimately a moving invitation for women to put down the armor, receive support, and step fully into the bold, unruly lives they were meant to live.
Jen Vertanen is the founder of We the Unruly, a movement for creative entrepreneurs—founders, authors, speakers, coaches, healers, and other creative weirdos with the audacity to change the world—who've outgrown the rules that got them here and are ready to claim what's next. A proud Gen X woman with 3+ decades of corporate leadership delivering multi-million dollar projects, Jen has spent her career being the disruptor people actually want in the room.
We the Unruly—her podcast, community, transformational coaching, and speaking—is the culmination of her corporate leadership and a decade of intense identity work that took her from self-loathing to fully, unapologetically herself.
Jen speaks to the women who appear to have it all together and are quietly holding themselves back from the stage, the book, the bigger visibility they actually want. Her message is simple and unrelenting: the identity that got you here won't get you there. It’s time to get unruly.
Website: http://wetheunruly.com
Tiktok: / we_the_unruly
Insta: / we_the_unruly
Facebook: / jennifervertanen
Video Production by MKE Video
SPONSORED BY:
Kate Carter with Kate Carter Coaching
Kristin Adkins with Crash Design Co.
Cassandra Vohs-Demann with Your Confident Voice
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