About | Jenna Cosgrove

If you have to have one more conversation about what you’re doing after school ends, you’ll scream.

That’s because you’re just over the monotony of it all, right?

You go to the same school every day. You talk to the same friends every day. You have the same same conversations every day. You walk the same way home every day. Over and over again.

And you don’t think that would be such a problem if you felt like you were a part of it, that you fit in. But you don’t.

You don’t look like the girls on Instagram (nor do you have the followers).
Your parents don’t have the money to go skiing with everyone else.
Everyone’s talking about this University and that degree, but you have no idea what you want to do after school.

You know you’re meant to do something awesome and creative. You just don’t know what. Or how. Or even if you’re good enough to do exactly what you want.

I know exactly how you feel.

My name is Jenna Cosgrove, and I felt the exact same feelings not that long ago.

In fact, I was just thinking the other day about all the things I was told about my ideas for what I wanted to do after school.

I told my parents I wanted to be an interior designer. They told me that was stupid.
I told my guidance counsellor I wanted to be an air hostess. He told me that I was too fat and ugly to do that.

It really didn’t help that I had no idea what I wanted to do anyway.

I had this whole list of things that could be me – working in film and music, married to someone famous. Making movies, writing books. All the stuff that really interested me (sounds familiar, right?).

But I was really scared about doing the work that really interested because honestly?

I just didn’t think someone like me could ever do something like that. I didn’t think I was good enough.

Fast forward a few years, I still feel like my dreams for my life probably aren’t achievable and maybe I’m not that good (hard to shake that nagging voice inside your head), but I’ve done some really cool things too.

I created a film series that was funded by Australia’s film industry which will open the doors in so many ways for me.
I wrote a book called Tattoo.

Of all the things I’ve done, I think the book is something I’m most proud of. Because I really wrote it for me when I was in school and trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life.

And I guess, in a way, I’ve written it for you too.

It’s okay that you don’t have everything figured out.

It’s okay that you want to be a creative but you don’t know how you’ll make it happen.

It’s okay to crave adventure and to not want to follow the well-worn track of High School -> University -> Married -> Buy A House -> Have Kids -> Get A Promotion.

This book is for the girls who crave adventure and are figuring things out as they go.

This book is for you.

Jenna x

If you have to have one more conversation about what you’re doing after school ends, you’ll scream.

My name is Jenna Cosgrove, and I felt the exact same feelings not that long ago.

Tattoo – Kindle

Tattoo – Paperback