Always on My Way

28/06/2026

Seven years ago, on a scorching June day, Lluís and I arrived in Barcelona after walking 16,000 kilometers from Bangkok. 🚶‍♀️🌏

Two years ago, on the summer solstice, I published The In Between: Journeying From Fear to Courage. 📖

At first glance, those seem like two very different milestones.

Looking back, I realize they were both exploring the same question:
What happens between fear and courage?

Not the dramatic kind of courage.
The everyday kind.

The courage to begin. To trust yourself. To say yes. To take one small step when you can't yet see the whole path.

On Tuesday, June 30, I'm celebrating both anniversaries with a special online gathering called Walk Beyond Your Edges.

We'll watch the Bangkok Barcelona On Foot documentary, dive into a live Q&A, and then spend some time journaling about the fears, hopes, and next steps unfolding in our own lives.

✨ Bring a notebook, your favorite pen, and an open heart.

🔗 Registration link is in my linktr.ee bio link.

25/06/2026

💛 Two anniversaries. One celebration. One invitation.

Seven years ago, on a very hot day in June (much like today), Lluís and I completed a 16,000-kilometer walk from Bangkok to Barcelona.

Two years ago, on the solstice, my book, The In Between: Journeying From Fear to Courage, was published.

To celebrate the passing of time, I'm hosting a free online gathering on Tuesday, June 30:

🎬 Screening of Bangkok Barcelona On Foot
🎤 Live Q&A with me and Lluís
✍️ Guided journaling inspired by The In Between

We'll spend an evening exploring the territory between fear and courage and aski ourselves:
What is fear trying to tell me?
What does courage look like now?
What emotional stepping stone could help me move forward?

Whether you're navigating change, dreaming up a new adventure, or simply craving meaningful conversation, you're invited into our Zoom space.

📅 Tuesday, June 30
⏰ 6-8 p.m. Barcelona/Europe time (noon to 2 p.m. ET/New York)
💻 Online via Zoom

🔎 Find out more here,
https://www.meetup.com/mindful-writing-immersives-in-person/events/315299670/?eventOrigin=group_events_list

👉 Register here to get the Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/.../register/4GpCgX0VRMW-yLc5pemNGw

**Walk Beyond Your Edges:** **From Bangkok to Barcelona, From Fear to Courage** *A Film Screening + Guided Journaling Experience* **Tuesday, June 30 • Live on Zoom** **Fr

21/05/2026

Yesterday, I guided a Journeying From Fear to Courage journaling workshop in Barcelona.

I came 90 minutes early, and took my time setting up the space...the welcome table...the chairs...choosing the music and vibe I wanted people to feel as they stepped into our cozy corner of the world (Thank you and Mar from the bookstore for your help!🌻).

People arrived. They flipped through their workbooks. We shook off the day and stretched, made space in our bodies. We settled our minds, and remembered to exhale. We slowed down time, and we're in the present moment.

I watched how the participants connected with each other. I noticed them pondering the prompts, searching for their most aligned response. I appreciated how they dropped deeper, and connected to themselves and their own knowing.

I'm a solopreneur, meaning I'm running a business on my own. That means I am a CEO, Chief Everything Officer. In this moment, I probably could have put on my head of marketing hat, remembering to take at least a couple of photos of the interactions unfolding in front of me.

Instead, in between the parts I intentionally guided, in between the space-holding and appreciative inquiry, instead of being a boss-queen doing it all, I was just Jenn, human Jenn, enjoying being with other humans being human, sorting through their stories, and putting pen to paper.

Know how many photos I took of the group, these people gathering, for marketing and future promotional use, the social proof that this special moment really happened?

Zero. None.

I was under the spell of consciously connecting, and letting the magic of togetherness do its thing...and that didn't require photos or videos...it didn't require pressure or performance. It asked only that I observe...from a heart-centered place of curiosity and wonder.

Today, back home, carrying yesterday's joy close to me, I thought how nice, how simple, how sincere it is to be near people without having to broadcast it in all the ways.

Moments like this can cherished in quiet ways.

When is the last time you had a moment like that?

17/05/2026

Courage isn't something you switch on. ✨

Between the fear you feel and the courageous action you choose lies a wide-open landscape worth exploring. There are emotions, signals, and wisdom you were probably never taught to see, feel or know.

Next Wednesday in Barcelona, I'm bringing my spiral labyrinth, 's emotional wheel, and a workbook full of writing prompts to for an evening of guided journaling and honest exploration.

No writing experience needed. Just bring a pen, some curiosity, and whatever fear you've been carrying lately. I'll show how we walk towards a new kind of courage that's needed now.

📍 Backstory Bookshop
Carrer Mallorca 330, L'Eixample

📅 Wednesday, May 20 · 6:00–7:30 PM

RSVP via the lintr.ee link in my bio

15/04/2026

Courage isn’t a trait. It’s a process.

Come and learn a new way of being brave.

✨ Friday, April 24 | Barcelona

Barcelona Activa’s Lidera, in conjunction with Barcelona Women’s Network, presents
The In Between: From Fear to Courage in Life and Leadership, guided by yours truly.💯

An experiential workshop exploring the space between fear and courageous action through introspection, reflection, writing, and a walk through a labyrinth.

For women building, leading, and evolving.

Sign up via linktr.ee/jennbaljko link in my bio.

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10/04/2026

I used to think you had courage or you didn't. You showed up or you didn’t.
Life, and a 16,000-kilometer walk, taught me otherwise.

There’s a quieter territory most of us move through but rarely name: The In Between.

Between fear and courage is a charged, profoundly rich liminal space where doubt, hope, hesitation, anger, and determination move guide up forward...and inward..

What I’ve learned:
➡️ Courage isn’t a switch. It's a process.
➡️ It’s something we cultivate, practice and shape over time.
➡️ When we're aware of what's in the liminal space, we shift, and that shift influences our choices.

This is the terrain I keep returning to in my life, my work, my book The In Between, and in the workshops I’m bringing into Barcelona this spring.

If you’re in a season of change or reinvention, or just find yourself questioning everything, you might already be standing in The In Between.

If you want to explore it with others, join me:
✨ April 24 — The In Between: From Fear to Courage in Life & Leadership - A LIDERA + Barcelona Women’s Network event
✨ May 20 — Journeying From Fear to Courage at Backstory Bookshop

Come walk into your heart of courage.
linktr.ee/jennbaljko

10/04/2026

I used to think courage was something I either had or didn’t have.

That I was either showing up or holding back.
That I was a wimp or a warrior.

But somewhere along the way, somewhere in the middle of my 16,000-kilometer walk, I began to notice something else.

There’s something we don’t often recognize or talk about: There’s a liminal space between fear and courage.

In this space, emotions–doubt, hesitation, uncertainty, anger, hope, inspiration, determination, to name just a few–guide us forward…and inward.

They are as much a part of the path as fear and courage themselves.

What I’ve come to understand is this:
➡️ Courage isn’t a switch you turn on and off.
➡️ Like joy, it’s something you can cultivate.
➡️ There’s a process, a map, that helps you step into your heart of courage.
➡️ And when you move through that “in between” with awareness and intention, something shifts.

This is the work I’ve been exploring in my life, in my book The In Between, and now in the workshops I’m bringing to Barcelona this spring.

If you’re curious and in the city, join me…
✨ April 24 — The In Between: From Fear to Courage in Life & Leadership.
A LIDERA and Barcelona Women's Network event for women ready to redefine their leadership with intention

✨ May 20 — Journeying From Fear to Courage.
A reflective journaling workshop at Backstory Bookshop to examine the choices we make between fear and courage.
If you’re in a moment of growth, reinvention, or transformation, you may already be feeling this inward curve.

Wondering how navigating your fears and your brave choices may influence your path?

Come explore the edges. Walk the labyrinth into your heart of courage.

linktr.ee/jennbaljko

17/03/2026

Join me for In Creative Cahoots: Take Your Seat & Create, a 2-hour virtual, free, co-working session where you bring your own project and use focused, creativity-boosting intervals to make real progress in a supportive space.

We begin with a burst of dancing/free-form movement, catch our breath with a short intention-setting meditation, pull an oracle card, and then roll up our sleeves in dive into a long block of creative flow.

🗓 Thursday, March 19
and on every 3rd Thursday of the month
⏰ 4–6 p.m. Barcelona time (Please confirm your time zone as time has sprung ahead in different regions, https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter)

👉 Sign up to get the Zoom link: https://alwaysonmyway.com/coworking

Why come?
🫰🏼You’ll have a dedicated, distraction-free pocket of time to actually create — not just think about creating.

🏹 You’ll tap into that sweet spot where structure meets flow (and your brain gets a double-dose boost of motivation and ease)

💪🏼 You’ll leave with a happy feeling of moving your beloved project forward and a satisfying sense of "I showed up and did it!"

It might just become your favorite part of the week. 😘

11/03/2026

Remember those intentions you planted back in January? 🤔

Or the ones you imagined at the start of the Fire Horse year in February?

How are those seeds doing?

Are they growing…
or did they quietly disappear somewhere in the busy-ness of life?

It's ok. Be honest with yourself.
And wherever you're at, you can recalibrate.

That’s exactly what this weekend’s Write Through the ’Pause workshop is for.

🌱 Planting Your Seedlings in Your Heart’s Garden

In just a couple of hours, through meditation, movement, mindful writing, and simple creative mapping, we’ll take most meaningful intentions and help it become something real...a seedling with a place to grow in your life.

🌿 Two ways to join:

✨In person — Saturday, March 14
Half-day workshop at Cal Martí Guest Nest in Vilafranca del Penedès, outside Barcelona on the R4 train line.

Guest Co-Facilitator: Voice Artist Carrie Lewis, from will help us activate our sacred YES!

Registration closes Thursday, March 12, and spots are limited!

✨Online via Zoom — Sunday, March 15
Interactive 2-hour workshop
Registration closes Saturday, March 14.

If something in you is ready to grow again this spring, join us in Vilafranca del Penedès at Cal Martí Guest Nest or on Zoom.

👉 Tickets through the Eventbrite link in my profile.

💖 Trust that your heart knows what to grow next.🌱





SpringIntentions

18/01/2026

Ten years ago on Jan. 16, 2016, on my 44th birthday, I started a long 3.5-year walk.

Bangkok was the starting point, and Barcelona was the finish line.

Who would’ve thought that those first steps would have shaped an entire decade? Not me, not really.

I knew a walk like this would bring extraordinary high points and many low points.

But 10 years ago when I took this photo, I couldn’t have even imagined how much this walk would have influenced, shaped, and created my life between then and now.

Do you ever really know where life is taking you?

Here's my latest Substack post wondering out loud about the power a statement–a question–like "Who would've thought..." has.

https://joyjourneyingwithjenn.substack.com/p/who-wouldve-thought

Oh, and on the 10-year anniversary of starting my version of a Marco Polo adventure across two continents, you can access the documentary on-demand at Films For Action https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/bangkok-barcelona-on-foot/, and on Curios https://www.curios.com/collections/0xfb20266b00d48209b33fc5723a57ee5987922aa4

, amazing, huh?