We Didn’t Turn Out Ok

We Didn’t Turn Out OK is a top-ranked parenting and personal growth podcast exploring how unresolved childhood experiences shape the way we love, lead, and parent.

Hosted by educator and entrepreneur Jennie Monness, the show blends psychology, storytelling, and lived experience to examine the patterns we inherited — urgency, people-pleasing, fear, perfectionism — and what it looks like to consciously interrupt them.

Through deeply human conversations with founders, creators, and cultural voices, Jennie explores a core question:

What happens when parenting becomes the catalyst for our own healing?

At its heart, the podcast is about raising emotionally secure children by doing the inner work ourselves, creating homes built on awareness instead of reaction, connection instead of control.

It’s not about being perfect parents.

It’s about being present ones.

Guests have included: Emily Oster, Whitney Port, Rebecca Minkoff, Stephanie Gottlieb, Allison Williams, Neha Ruch, Tovah Klein, and Lucie Fink.