Writing As Deciphering
Jackie Henrion is a writer, educator, and former radio host whose work explores the rich terrain where mindfulness, language, and lived experience intersect. From 2014 to 2022, she hosted the weekly live radio show Songs-Voices-Poems on 88.5 KRFY in Sandpoint, Idaho, curating a vibrant blend of poetry, music, and conversation around the ways we interpret and express our realities. Now based in St. George, Utah, she continues to engage her audience through archived broadcasts and a Facebook community dedicated to the show's enduring themes.
Raised in the heart of Greenwich Village by artist parents, Jackie absorbed the cultural currents of fine arts, literature, philosophy, and music from an early age. These influences now infuse her Substack feed, You Make The Culture, where she examines how meaning is made and shared in a fractured world.
Before returning to her creative roots, Jackie spent over twenty years in executive roles in corporate purchasing and procurement, honing expertise in negotiation, cost and price analysis, quality control specifications, fiduciary responsibility, and strategic communications. She earned her MBA from the University of Puget Sound, building on a foundation in psychology to become a respected leader in male-dominated industries.
In 1995, a year of profound transition marked by both professional retirement and personal transformation, Jackie developed the "Financial Selfie"—a groundbreaking framework for mapping both financial and personal assets through the lens of mindfulness. Drawing on more than thirty years of experience in trust asset management—including stock trading and real estate investment—she created a model that blends traditional financial literacy with contemplative practices. The result is a wholistic approach to wealth that honors both tangible resources and inner clarity.
Jackie's creative path includes decades as a singer-songwriter and ASCAP artist, with two released albums and a third in development. Her passion for language and storytelling led her to earn an MFA from Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in 2018.
Her debut book, Rerooted (Turtle Moon Publishing, 2019), is a multi-genre fictional biography that blends poetry, narrative, and personal mythology to explore themes of identity, resilience, and reinvention. She also contributed the introduction to Poet's Apprentice Vol. 1 by Randy Roark, an intimate reflection on Roark's time as Allen Ginsberg's archivist. Jackie continues to collaborate with fellow Naropa writers, offering close readings and editorial support.
In 2022, she led the creation of Sandpointed, a curated anthology of work from the Sandpoint Monday Writers, a free-writing group she belonged to for over fifteen years. Turtle Moon Publishing once again partnered with her to bring the project to life, in keeping with their mission to elevate women's voices.
Today, Jackie teaches "Wholistic Wealth for Women" at Utah Tech University's Institute of Continued Learning—an experiential course that brings together mindfulness, finance, and personal empowerment to help women cultivate meaningful, sustainable prosperity.
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Rerooted
A Weaving of Women
Rerooted is a fictionalized story based on the life of Marie Root. It portrays a woman who escapes a brutal marriage in Michigan via the recently completed Northern Pacific Railroad. In 1908 she arrives at the lakeside logging and mining town of Hope, Idaho. Her survival depends on making choices common to other women in history. Ultimately she seizes the opportunity to rescue the Hotel Hope from a gambling debt, stamping her own brand on its “hospitality services.”
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Author: Contact@jackiehenrion.com
Press: (Click for link)
Giant Steps Press Blog 6/23/16
Sandpoint Reader - At The Root of It All by Lyndsie Keibert 8/22/19
Assembling The Pieces: Review by Shayna Sengstock 11/15/19
Montana/Idaho Senior Independent - Hope In History by Carrie Scozzaro 2/4/20
Song Publication by Bonner County Human Rights Task Force 2021
"You Make The Culture" Newsletter (Substack) by Jackie Henrion 2022