Jenna Morton, Pickle Planet founder
Jenna Morton is a Canadian writer & mother with more than twenty-five years of work in print, broadcast, & digital media.
Jenna connects family with community, showing how pride in where you live builds resilience, creativity, economic opportunity, and more.
She’s been featured nationally by Today’s Parent, the Globe and Mail, Huffington Post, Global TV, CBC Radio, and extensively throughout regional media. Her parenting resource, Pickle Planet Moncton, has been connecting families with each other and their community since 2015.
Jenna was the contributing editor of Family 1st/Famille en premier, New Brunswick’s free, bilingual parenting magazine, which published for two years (folded due to the pandemic).
She is the co-host/producer of the Pickle Planet Podcast, aired daily on RogersTV in New Brunswick, and the host/producer of:
- WordCraft, a podcast for the Writer’s Federation of New Brunswick
- Small Brains, Big Dreams, a podcast with leading neurologists around the world, sharing insights on the role of mentorship in medicine
- Amazing Places, a podcast for the Fundy Biosphere Region
- NeoChats, a podcast for the Canadian Association of Neonatal Nurses
- With you in the NICU, a podcast for Canadian Premature Babies Foundation
Jenna was also a weekly op-ed contributor for Brunswick News for three years; you can find a selection of her 100+ columns here.
Jenna has presented at The Swell Atlantic in Sydney, Cape Breton, at BlogJam Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia, at the Savvy Sale Owners Conference in San Antonio, Texas, and with numerous online groups. She’s often asked to host events, speak on panels, and visit school groups to speak on a variety of topics.
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Interested in having Jenna as a guest on your podcast, speak at your event, or add her perspective on parenting to your article? Email her today!
Here’s a little of what she might share …
I believe strong communities raise strong children.
Children who are resilient.
Children who are confident.
Children who are creative.
Children who are connected to people & to place.
Children who know they belong.
Children who grow up feeling this connection carry it forward.
Into business.
Into volunteer work.
Into leadership roles.
Into stronger communities that become a beacon to those searching for a place to belong.
Being proud of where you call home — feeling that you belong — boosts creativity, confidence, & economy.
When we are proud of the place we call home, it creates a sense of belonging that ripples through everything.
It improves mental health.
It sparks creativity.
It fosters civic engagement & community volunteerism.
It spurs innovation.
It fuels economic growth.
All of which increases population attraction & retention.
Pickle Planet is focused on creating that sense of pride, belonging, & connection that strengthens our community.