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A life told through film sets, heartbreak, reinvention, and the instinct that refused to quit. This is what happens when you have no map and a busted compass.
I spent 25 years painting and designing worlds that weren’t real—before I learned how to live inside one that was.
For 25 years, I was paid to create environments that made people feel something.
Cities that were made of foam.
Marble that was actually wood.
Spaces where nothing was accidental.
Every detail meant something.
And somewhere along the way, I realized:
It’s not just film, television, and theater sets that work like this.
It’s everything.
The spaces we live in. The lives we build. The things we surround ourselves with.
They’re all communicating something about who we were, who we are or who we are becoming.
And life?
Life doesn’t follow a script.
Maps stop working.
Plans collapse.
Compasses spin.
And sometimes the real story only begins when everything you thought was guiding you disappears.
Hi, I’m Jolene.
I’ve spent the last 25 years behind the scenes in film, across 38 countries—
building a life out of escapades, detours, and epiphanies.
What I didn’t realize at the time was:
I wasn’t just building worlds.
I was learning how to read them.
This is that story.
Not the polished version. The real one.
The one where I:
built a 25-year career in film without a plan
fell in love with someone who changed everything
traveled around the world with no real direction
lost him five months after a cancer diagnosis
and had to rebuild an entire life from nothing
If something in your life feels off—
and you can’t explain why—
you’re in the right place.
Start here:
🎬 I Didn’t Plan This Life—It Just Happened
How I accidentally built a 25-year career in movies
🌍 We Built a Life Without a Plan
How we lived around the world and made it work
💔 The Moment Everything Fell Apart
What happened when life stopped following the script
🔥 I Had to Start Over From Nothing
What came after—and how I found my way back
Some of this is shared openly.
The deeper parts—the ones that changed me—
live underneath.
Off course, on purpose.
Hop in the sidecar.
We ride at dawn.