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Braking news 🚙🚙🚙 We had a wild ride (that could’ve been way more wild in a bad way!!) right when we got to Sonoma 😅😅 the moral of the story is check your tires, check your brakes, make a fuss, carry your paperwork, and if you have to make 8-20 customer service calls, make sure you do it at golden hour on a ranch 😅😅 What’s the craziest thing that’s happened to you on a road trip? #roadtrip #crazystory #westcoast #wildride #disaster

Redding —> San Francisco! 🚗📘 toot toot! We’re on our way! Yesterday we were in the car for an eternity. We ate really yummy rice bowls in Portland! We ate All Of The Chips! We saw so many dear friends! We crashed at my friend Rachel’s house even though she’s glamping right now (god bless friends who just give you the code to their house!)! We crushed nine episodes of Beth’s Dead podcast (please send rec’s for episodic podcasts!!) Off to @bookpassageferrybuilding for a conversation with @eringi

And so the official road trip begins! Today’s the biggest driving day - bellingham > Portland (stop for an event > drive to Redding = many hours many kms many miles 😵‍💫😮‍💨🥴🫣 tell us what podcasts to listen to! Tell us what car snacks to get! #roadtrip #westcoast #portland #sanfrancisco #behindthescenes

West Coast! I’m home! I would love to meet you! I wrote ‘The Table Where We Meet’ about the dinner series I run, Dinner With Strangers, where no one can say what they do for work and instead we answer questions about where we come from, what we care about, and what we’re learning. I’m bringing questions from dinner along with me on this tour and love that at every stop so far the rooms have been full of strangers mingling and introducing themselves to each other. I’m spending a day in these citi

SURREAL MOMENTS CONTINUE!!! Very jazzed to see @amandosanj’s article on ‘The Table Where We Meet’ in @ellecanada 📕📖📘📚 ‘THE TABLE WHERE WE MEET’ BOOK TOUR 📍New York City - July 7-12 📍Toronto - July 14 📍Vancouver, BC - July 16 📍Bellingham, WA - July 17 📍Vancouver, Wa - July 18 📍San Francisco, CA - July 19 📍Montecito, CA - July 21 Event details and ticket links can be found at jessjanz.com/book-tour (link in bio of course xoxo) #booktour #vancouverbc #bellingham #portlandoregon #writingcommunity

We’re all looking for places of belonging, and yet the places we go to convene with others often don’t do a great job at fostering connectedness. We go to the gym and see the same people at the same time every day and don’t introduce ourselves. We go to shows and find our seats and take in the show and go home. We go to concerts and know every word to every song, just like the person beside us, and never ask them when they started listening to the band. I didn’t want to show up to these rooms an

So random so rare for a Type B artist to be running late for her own book tour kick-off 😅🙈 We had a blast last night at @Bibliotheque! The most thoughtful wine pairings! A room full of loved ones and new friends! If last night was any indication of how the next three weeks are going to be, from now on I’ll be floating on a cloud ☁️ Clothes: @Meg Jewelry: @BIKO Stylist: @LaurenWalkerLee #newyorkfashion #booktour #grwm #torontofashion #fashioninspo

Turns out people are awesome and very kind and very generous and very supportive and that’s a good sign for us :) This morning I almost left my phone in my bathroom and my uber driver reminded me to grab my phone charger and I have my passport and flew through the airport and everything feels steeped in magic and I can’t wait to hang out with you all over the place. 👯‍♀️ Let’s hang out all over the place! ‘THE TABLE WHERE WE MEET’ BOOK TOUR 📍New York City - July 7-12 📍Toronto - July 14 📍Vancouv

I don’t know what’s going to happen but up never have and we never do and it’s going to be what it is 🤷🏼‍♀️ New York! I’ll be at @Bibliotheque tonight for my book launch with Nick LaParra! See you soon! #writingabook #writingcommunity #dinnerwithstrangers #nyclife #nyctiktok

Dinner With Strangers started with a few questions: how would we introduce ourselves if we didn’t say what we did for work, and if people are brave enough to share something about themselves, would we all be able to learn something about each other by the end of an evening? I host Dinner With Strangers monthly in Toronto, and I’m available to host a night of guided conversation for your own friend groups, communities, and companies too! Visit jessjanz.com or send me an email at jessjanz@gmail.c

I host a monthly dinner series called Dinner With Strangers, with the only rule being that no one can say what they do for work. Instead we talk about what we love, what’s on our mind, what we’re learning, and what we’re wondering about. When we take away our normal constructs of conversation, it’s amazing what we can learn about each other. Our next dinner is on Thursday, October 12th. Go to jessjanz.com to learn more! #askgoodquestions #dinnerwithstrangers #torontodinner #torontonightlife #