Shyanne Beatty is a Han Gwich'in Athabascan originally from Eagle, Alaska. She is a future Glamping Business Owner, an MC, a former Radio Personality, a Professional Communicator, a corporate fundraiser, Vice President of the Alaska Native Village Corporation Association (ANVCA), a singer, and a World traveler. Shyanne is a fabulous unicorn of a person. She can command a room with her voice, style, and charisma. She knows how to dazzle you with her culture, her deep Alaska Native historical...

Victoria Qutuuq Buschman, PhD On June 2, 2021, Victoria became the first Iñupiaq Dr. of Conservation Biology. She is Iñupiaq Inuit living on Kalaallit Nunaat land (Greenland). She is a well-traveled wildlife and Conservation Biologist, a researcher, and a Climber.  She was raised between the vast tundra of Utqiaġvik, Alaska and northern California. She has lived and worked across the Arctic in an effort to promote how Indigenous Peoples fundamentally shape Arctic biodiversity conservation,...

This is my generational trauma story. This was a very personal and hard story to tell.  But it is important to shed light on the topic and openly talk about it.  For most of my life, it was 'taboo' to talk about such things in my family.  Now I am breaking down this wall, this barrier because we, as Native people need to normalize mental health and begin to heal our pasts that was carried from generation to generation.   Lets break the cycle. Have a listen and please let me know what you...

Qupanuk Olsen is a Greenlandic Content creator. She created the Facebook page, Q's Greenland and she has amassed a huge following on Tiktok as well. Through social media, she shows the world, Greenland through her lens, a Greenlandic Inuit woman. She educates and informs people about Greenland culture, people, and places all the while speaking in English to her audience because she wants people outside of Greenland to know about her land through her eyes. She is a dynamic woman, wife, mother,...

What is digital marketing?  And why is it important to know?  It's important because it is in our everyday lives.  Check out this episode to get a basic understanding of Digital Marketing and what it means to you.  

I had the honor of interviewing my first guest on the Naetif Jen Podcast.  Aka Hansen is a noteworthy leader in the ‘decolonize’ movement in Greenland, an advocate for the LGBTQ community, and her visual storytelling as a film director a filmmaker.  But Aka can also be credited with contributions to discussions on Greenlandic issues.  She is an Inuk from Nuuk, Greenland.  She has two beautiful kids.  When she’s not busy with her kids or advocacy work, she is an avid earring beader. You can...

For the past decade I've kept a running list of the life lessons as they happened to me.  It is something that I thought I'd share with you and perhaps our youth, so they can learn from my mistakes.  Anyways, enjoy and I hope it leaves you with some sense of reflection.  Take care!

Here are the 10 Things I learned from working for an international Danish shipping company here in Greenland. 

I made this episode when I just got fired.  I was shocked and reeling for it.  It was so crazy how it all happened.  Anyways...I will maintain that I was unfairly terminated from my job.  Now besides my livelihood is taken away, my immigration status to stay here in GL is being jeopardized as well.  Who knows what is to come for us. 

Here is my personal finance journey.  It includes all the things I learned, actively did to improve my financial situation for me and my family.  Its a wild ride when it comes to money, but its one that everyone must go on to know how to manage your money. 

Listen to how we got to Greenland, how we got situated and how far we've come in our unconventional Danglish Life. 

This first episode is about my past, who I am and where I come from, the present, the future and generally an Introduction to this podcast.  We discuss money, marketing, and my expat life.  It’s all the things that we didn’t know that we thought we should know like how to manage money, personal finance, mental health and wellness, its all the things that matter.  And maybe it’s the taboo things that you may be curious about but not talked about.

Welcome to the Naetif Jen podcast.  I discuss all the things including money, marketing, and my life abroad.  As an Alaskan expat living in Greenland, my life is anything but boring, but I'll leave that for you to decide.  Welcome to my journey.