Did I Mention We Now Have a Podcast?
A hoi hoi nerderinos,
Greetings - from the other side of podcast production.
Yes, we have a podcast now. It’s based on the very viral story that also lead to my (truly) life changing diagnoses … I now very openly talk about.
What I thought was this “big thing” about someone else … took me on this incredible journey of self discovery.
For 37 years I had been walking around on the planet definitely knowing I was different … but had no idea that there was a name for said difference.
It’s also wild because when I write I hear notes … and now I can do the same with sound itself. It’s very cool to have these conditions and do something totally different than from what I have done before creatively.
I’m so effing proud of myself for getting this done … and while I know it’s only the first step …. please know to have gotten here was a BIG fucking deal.
New episodes will be out every Thursday.
Thank you for your continued support along my very unexpected and unbelievably true story.
<3 always, Jen
Episode One: That Time I Found Out My “Followers” Were Real
Jen Friel can read a stranger in seconds. She always thought it was intuition — a gut feeling she couldn't quite explain. Then the strangers started showing up everywhere. Watching. Rotating. Following a pattern only she could see.
For years, Jen tried to tell people what was happening. Friends were confused. The police couldn't help. Everyone had the same response: you're being paranoid. But Jen refused to give up. She documented everything, stayed silent, and waited.
Then came the proof — a single piece of surveillance footage that changed everything.
What followed was a terrifying unraveling: a private investigator, background reports that ran fifteen pages deep, and the arrest of someone she had co-founded a company with — on charges of attempted murder, extortion, and kidnapping.
But the most shocking discovery wasn't about the people following her. It was about herself — and the answer to a question she had been asking her entire life: why am I so different?
This is the unbelievably true story of Talk Nerdy to Me founder Jen Friel — told in her own words for the first time.