About Jenny-May

Kia ora, I’m Jenny-May.

I’ve had several careers and more than a few resets.

I represented New Zealand as a Silver Fern and as a New Zealand women’s touch player. I worked as a police officer, coached and led elite athletes, and spent decades in broadcasting. I’m also an award-winning broadcaster, author of a #1 bestseller, MC, keynote speaker and business owner.

I’ve interviewed prime ministers and people sharing some of the most personal moments of their lives. I’ve worked on courts, in locker rooms, studios, control rooms, meeting rooms and live events where anything could happen.

I’m proud of those roles, but none of them tells the whole story of who I am.

I’m also a wife, mum, daughter, friend and wahine Māori continuing to strengthen my connection to identity, language and whakapapa. Those parts of me shape how I enter a room, how I listen and how I make space for other people.

What experience has taught me

Life has asked me to perform under pressure, lead people, be led by others, begin again and work out who I am when a role or title changes.

For a long time, I thought confidence belonged to people who felt certain. My experience has taught me something different.

Confidence is learning to trust what you have built through experience, even when doubt is still present. It’s remembering that you aren’t walking into the next moment empty-handed.

You take every experience with you—the wins, the mistakes, the difficult seasons and the lessons you didn’t understand until much later.

Grief changed me

Losing my oldest brother and then my dad four months later changed me.

Grief taught me that not every moment can be fixed and not every RESET is about charging forward. Sometimes the response the moment needs is for us to stop, take a breath and sit honestly with what we’re carrying.

It also taught me that grief doesn’t move in a straight line. We can be functioning, laughing and moving through life while still carrying something incredibly heavy.

That experience eventually led me to create Sit With It, a journal for anyone needing somewhere for the noise to go.

Why RESET

I didn’t sit down one day and invent RESET. I have built a philosophy around it through decades of responding to pressure, uncertainty, change, grief and new beginnings.

Some of my resets were visible to everyone. Others happened quietly while I was working out who I was without a particular role, or why something that had always worked for me no longer did.

Over time, I began to understand that a RESET doesn’t erase what came before. It allows you to take everything you have experienced and learnt into what comes next.

That philosophy now connects my speaking, courses, journals, practical tools and clothing.

I’m still using it. I’m still learning. I’m still evolving.