You are an inspiration Jennifer Sey! Like you, my husband and I publicly fought the woke illiberal orthodoxy being shoved down children’s throats at our fancy SF private school. We were vilified, shunned and ended up moving our family of 6 to OC. So many silver linings in a difficult year (my husband and I are better than ever) and together we are fighting for kids, truth and freedom. Keep up the great work and can’t wait to see what is to come from you in 2023!
"I’ve not much interest in anyone who accepted lockdowns and school closures, vaccine mandates and the shunning of the unvaccinated. Or didn’t accept it, but stayed quiet in the face of it. These conformists agreed to too much harm to others while cocooned in the safety of their privileged existences. They chose the safety of the group over challenging lies and the curtailment of basic civil rights." That was a bittersweet passage. It has been difficult for me to fully move beyond the cowards in my life in 2022. Hope to be free of them, or hear an apology from them in 2023.
I enjoy following you and your husband's journey. Being on the journey with our Vaccine Injured son for many years, it has exposed my wife and me to some really great people. I am also looking forward to 2023.
Thanks for your bravery and commitment to truth. In 2022, I focused on family more but also planned a meeting dedicated to truth about the pandemic. I spent most of 2022 in “Facebook jail”…a badge of honor. Check out kytruthsummit.com for more truth about the medical establishment. Find a direct primary care doctor for your family.
The “Career advancing lies” that your former executive team members will of necessity continue to choke down because of the delusion that they will be rewarded will taste rancid when the inevitable day comes that they are no longer pure enough ideologically or have advanced into an untenable age/ health cost bracket. Frankly, Jen, thank God you got out on your own terms. You now have freedom to speak your truth to a public who appreciates you. Your people realize that they don’t have to agree with everything you say while still considering the validity of your thought process and the evidence. And because you come by your beliefs honestly and openly, we are here for you.
Jennifer- I have been reading and following your posts for a few months and continue to be amazed at your courage and resilience. What you describe in this piece with respect to other big corporate employees is disheartening, but not surprising. The opposite of courage. You have proven that personal success is in your shoes, not in your job. Happy New Year! James
The big 2023 event for me will be on Vaishnavi Sundar's youtube channel, Lime Soda Films. She interviewed 30 ex-wives of men who now say they are us, just like us, no different from any woman in the sisterhood. And BTW, I just have to do a few more rounds of electrolysis, sorry about this month's child support. My 2 sons experienced a different kind of isolation. While we wait for Behind the Looking Glass to come out this coming year, here's a window into what San Francisco did to me:
I’m very pleased to join your substack and want you to know that I am so on the same page as you! I relate to your experiences, observations, perspectives and ultimately the hard choice of being loyal to your own thoughts and voice. Forgive me but I have a lot to say about that.
I first heard of your advocacy work and your decision to leave Levi’s in Bari's FreePress article. I then heard you with Joey Dumont on his True Thirty podcast in November, and I just recently finished reading your eye opening book – Levi’s Unbuttoned. Among other things I loved about your book I particularly loved learning about your experience shaping the marketing of Levis for women and the idea that we are our best authentic selves when wearing Levis. I know that to be true for me as I came of age in the early 80s. After reading your story, I love Levis more than ever but ironically now simultaneously hate the company and execs who betrayed their said values.
Over the pandemic, I had a similar self-actualizing journey as a mom advocating for her 6th grade son to attend in-person school in 2020. And once schools opened, I advocated against other restrictions and practices which didn’t jive with my understanding of the data and scientific truths on mortality/morbidity risk and transmission. As a public health professional with an MPH and over 20 years in Prevention Prg Administration, and expertise in health education, behavior change and harm reduction, I joined my son’s school’s Covid Task Force and strongly advocated for a return to in-person learning, as well as approaches and practices that would result in the fewest harms and the most benefits for students, teachers and parents. I advocated for outdoor education and ventilation so that mask-use could be minimized, understanding that cloth masks did little to prevent transmission (like using a chain link fence to block a bee), and interfered with interpersonal communication and relationship building. I quickly realized that I was swimming upstream while other health professionals raced downstream in a mass group think, using extreme fear-based reactive approaches they had latched onto without considering whether they actually made sense or caused unwarranted consequential harms to children and adolescents.
It was and is still a frustrating time for thinking people. My partner and I were and are avid readers of everything Covid from all sources - mainstream and alternative. We very quickly detected the inconsistencies, contradictions and holes in the mainstream narratives. We understood how the mRNA injections were designed to create antibodies but had concerns from the gate about subsequent unintended effects of such a non-sterilizing vaccine. Because we are relatively young and healthy and eventually gained natural immunity, we didn’t think it made sense for our family. Mostly, because the cardiovascular risks of the mRNA injection to our then 12-year-old son far outweighed the risks of Covid, especially since he had already acquired immunity. Anyway, that decision made us extremely unpopular with my side of the family (all lifelong loyal Dems, as I had been) including my mother who sent unbelievable texts shaming me! Fortunately, she has eased up in the last year. My partner is African American, and her family was in general more skeptical though many fell in line - her parents did not.
Both of our families live in Southern California, but we thankfully moved to Northwest Montana 12 years ago. The culture gap between our old and our new homeland grew a few more sizes over the pandemic and we now feel very estranged from many friends and some family members. On top of the pandemic weirdness, we confronted the politics of DEI which we are still struggling with as a mixed-race family at a progressive predominantly white school determined “to do the right thing” which doesn’t feel like the right thing for our kind of family.
and her recently self-published book titled "The Illusion of Division” of which I spent countless hours editing and strategizing with her about the best delivery of the concepts she so articulately presented in her book - an incredibly bonding experience which I’m sure you and your husband, Daniel, experienced in the writing of your book.
You might also enjoy her website https://www.letsgetunplugged.com/ where she has blogged extensively over similar observations and perspectives that you have also written and spoken out about.
Our nation is truly at a peculiar crossroads, that's for sure. Thank you so much for advocating for our kids, telling your story and contributing to a movement that aims to save our democracy.
Jennifer, I applaud your guts & tenacity to take on the spineless that inhabited the upper corner offices, middle management & other low level mgrs at Levi's. It takes a special person who's comfortable in their skin to step aside and challenge the status quo. I spent 30+ yrs in radio broadcasting (hot air sales side), 15 yrs running my own media planning/creative/buying agency, until the questionable virus chaos decimated our business. Who needed to advertise that their business was closed. The upside, the last 2+ yrs has brought more like-minded people together to share and spread the truth, which we all questioned from day one. I'm still confused, who is the arbiter of mis/dis information? Corporate people like you and other media journalists ie: (Tara Henley - ex CBC) are leaving in droves, thank god it took this plandemic for them to see the bright light. welcome to 2023, the best is yet to come!
I "would feel comfortable actually working with you in a company" whose mission and values include "[k]ids, free speech, truth." Let's connect on LinkedIn, Twitter, here, and elsewhere and explore what liberty and freedom to parent while protecting children should be and how parents have a powerful voice - one that effects necessary changes. David DeLugas, Executive Director.
You are an inspiration Jennifer Sey! Like you, my husband and I publicly fought the woke illiberal orthodoxy being shoved down children’s throats at our fancy SF private school. We were vilified, shunned and ended up moving our family of 6 to OC. So many silver linings in a difficult year (my husband and I are better than ever) and together we are fighting for kids, truth and freedom. Keep up the great work and can’t wait to see what is to come from you in 2023!
Great to see parents like you fighting for your kids!
"I’ve not much interest in anyone who accepted lockdowns and school closures, vaccine mandates and the shunning of the unvaccinated. Or didn’t accept it, but stayed quiet in the face of it. These conformists agreed to too much harm to others while cocooned in the safety of their privileged existences. They chose the safety of the group over challenging lies and the curtailment of basic civil rights." That was a bittersweet passage. It has been difficult for me to fully move beyond the cowards in my life in 2022. Hope to be free of them, or hear an apology from them in 2023.
Been following you on Twitter regularly, saw you on Tucker Today and been reading your substack.
Well done!
I enjoy following you and your husband's journey. Being on the journey with our Vaccine Injured son for many years, it has exposed my wife and me to some really great people. I am also looking forward to 2023.
Happy New Year.
Thanks for your bravery and commitment to truth. In 2022, I focused on family more but also planned a meeting dedicated to truth about the pandemic. I spent most of 2022 in “Facebook jail”…a badge of honor. Check out kytruthsummit.com for more truth about the medical establishment. Find a direct primary care doctor for your family.
Love you! As much as I HATE what has happened to the world with covid, I’m as least grateful that it brought us together. ❤️
ditto!
The “Career advancing lies” that your former executive team members will of necessity continue to choke down because of the delusion that they will be rewarded will taste rancid when the inevitable day comes that they are no longer pure enough ideologically or have advanced into an untenable age/ health cost bracket. Frankly, Jen, thank God you got out on your own terms. You now have freedom to speak your truth to a public who appreciates you. Your people realize that they don’t have to agree with everything you say while still considering the validity of your thought process and the evidence. And because you come by your beliefs honestly and openly, we are here for you.
Bravo Jen!
Happy New Year to you! Can’t wait to read what you have to Sey in 2023!!
Keep doing what you’re doing, Jennifer! You’re a true inspiration.
Jennifer- I have been reading and following your posts for a few months and continue to be amazed at your courage and resilience. What you describe in this piece with respect to other big corporate employees is disheartening, but not surprising. The opposite of courage. You have proven that personal success is in your shoes, not in your job. Happy New Year! James
Happy new year to you too!
The big 2023 event for me will be on Vaishnavi Sundar's youtube channel, Lime Soda Films. She interviewed 30 ex-wives of men who now say they are us, just like us, no different from any woman in the sisterhood. And BTW, I just have to do a few more rounds of electrolysis, sorry about this month's child support. My 2 sons experienced a different kind of isolation. While we wait for Behind the Looking Glass to come out this coming year, here's a window into what San Francisco did to me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-V2WVBLcJM&t=244s
I’m very pleased to join your substack and want you to know that I am so on the same page as you! I relate to your experiences, observations, perspectives and ultimately the hard choice of being loyal to your own thoughts and voice. Forgive me but I have a lot to say about that.
I first heard of your advocacy work and your decision to leave Levi’s in Bari's FreePress article. I then heard you with Joey Dumont on his True Thirty podcast in November, and I just recently finished reading your eye opening book – Levi’s Unbuttoned. Among other things I loved about your book I particularly loved learning about your experience shaping the marketing of Levis for women and the idea that we are our best authentic selves when wearing Levis. I know that to be true for me as I came of age in the early 80s. After reading your story, I love Levis more than ever but ironically now simultaneously hate the company and execs who betrayed their said values.
Over the pandemic, I had a similar self-actualizing journey as a mom advocating for her 6th grade son to attend in-person school in 2020. And once schools opened, I advocated against other restrictions and practices which didn’t jive with my understanding of the data and scientific truths on mortality/morbidity risk and transmission. As a public health professional with an MPH and over 20 years in Prevention Prg Administration, and expertise in health education, behavior change and harm reduction, I joined my son’s school’s Covid Task Force and strongly advocated for a return to in-person learning, as well as approaches and practices that would result in the fewest harms and the most benefits for students, teachers and parents. I advocated for outdoor education and ventilation so that mask-use could be minimized, understanding that cloth masks did little to prevent transmission (like using a chain link fence to block a bee), and interfered with interpersonal communication and relationship building. I quickly realized that I was swimming upstream while other health professionals raced downstream in a mass group think, using extreme fear-based reactive approaches they had latched onto without considering whether they actually made sense or caused unwarranted consequential harms to children and adolescents.
It was and is still a frustrating time for thinking people. My partner and I were and are avid readers of everything Covid from all sources - mainstream and alternative. We very quickly detected the inconsistencies, contradictions and holes in the mainstream narratives. We understood how the mRNA injections were designed to create antibodies but had concerns from the gate about subsequent unintended effects of such a non-sterilizing vaccine. Because we are relatively young and healthy and eventually gained natural immunity, we didn’t think it made sense for our family. Mostly, because the cardiovascular risks of the mRNA injection to our then 12-year-old son far outweighed the risks of Covid, especially since he had already acquired immunity. Anyway, that decision made us extremely unpopular with my side of the family (all lifelong loyal Dems, as I had been) including my mother who sent unbelievable texts shaming me! Fortunately, she has eased up in the last year. My partner is African American, and her family was in general more skeptical though many fell in line - her parents did not.
Both of our families live in Southern California, but we thankfully moved to Northwest Montana 12 years ago. The culture gap between our old and our new homeland grew a few more sizes over the pandemic and we now feel very estranged from many friends and some family members. On top of the pandemic weirdness, we confronted the politics of DEI which we are still struggling with as a mixed-race family at a progressive predominantly white school determined “to do the right thing” which doesn’t feel like the right thing for our kind of family.
I think my partner’s recent TEDx Talks might resonate with you https://www.ted.com/talks/monica_harris_the_labels_that_divide_us
and her recently self-published book titled "The Illusion of Division” of which I spent countless hours editing and strategizing with her about the best delivery of the concepts she so articulately presented in her book - an incredibly bonding experience which I’m sure you and your husband, Daniel, experienced in the writing of your book.
Illusion of Division is available in Paperback from Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Illusion-Division-Monica-Harris/dp/B0BDLQW9M2/ref=sr_1_1?crid=322LGIWTZ8X0W&keywords=the+illusion+of+division+harris&qid=1672613910&sprefix=the+illusion+of+div%2Caps%2C203&sr=8-1
You might also enjoy her website https://www.letsgetunplugged.com/ where she has blogged extensively over similar observations and perspectives that you have also written and spoken out about.
Our nation is truly at a peculiar crossroads, that's for sure. Thank you so much for advocating for our kids, telling your story and contributing to a movement that aims to save our democracy.
cultist neo-fascist, forced birther. and scene
Jennifer, I applaud your guts & tenacity to take on the spineless that inhabited the upper corner offices, middle management & other low level mgrs at Levi's. It takes a special person who's comfortable in their skin to step aside and challenge the status quo. I spent 30+ yrs in radio broadcasting (hot air sales side), 15 yrs running my own media planning/creative/buying agency, until the questionable virus chaos decimated our business. Who needed to advertise that their business was closed. The upside, the last 2+ yrs has brought more like-minded people together to share and spread the truth, which we all questioned from day one. I'm still confused, who is the arbiter of mis/dis information? Corporate people like you and other media journalists ie: (Tara Henley - ex CBC) are leaving in droves, thank god it took this plandemic for them to see the bright light. welcome to 2023, the best is yet to come!
I "would feel comfortable actually working with you in a company" whose mission and values include "[k]ids, free speech, truth." Let's connect on LinkedIn, Twitter, here, and elsewhere and explore what liberty and freedom to parent while protecting children should be and how parents have a powerful voice - one that effects necessary changes. David DeLugas, Executive Director.