Jackie Henrion is a writer, educator, and former corporate executive whose work bridges financial literacy, mindfulness, and the creative arts. She holds an MBA from the University of Puget Sound and spent more than twenty years in executive roles in corporate purchasing and procurement, specializing in negotiation, cost and price analysis, quality control systems, fiduciary responsibility, and strategic communications. Her professional work included trust asset management, stock trading, and real estate investment.
In 1995, during a period of personal and professional transition, Henrion began developing what would become the Financial Selfie™, a framework for mapping both financial and personal assets through reflective inquiry. Drawing on decades of experience in finance as well as contemplative practices such as mindfulness and meditation, she created an approach to decision-making that integrates practical financial tools with self-awareness. This methodology forms the foundation of her book Counting On Yourself: A Woman's Way to Wholistic Wealth.
Alongside her work in finance and writing, Henrion has maintained a long creative practice. From 2014 to 2022 she hosted the weekly live radio program Songs-Voices-Poems on 88.5 KRFY in Sandpoint, Idaho, curating conversations that brought together poetry, music, and cultural reflection. She is also an ASCAP-affiliated singer-songwriter with two released albums.
Henrion earned an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in 2018. Her first book, Rerooted (Turtle Moon Publishing, 2019), blends poetry and narrative in a multi-genre exploration of identity and reinvention.
She has also contributed to collaborative literary projects. In 2022 she curated and edited Sandpointed, an anthology of work from the Sandpoint Monday Writers, a long-running free-writing group of women writers in Sandpoint, Idaho. Her later book Collabitation explores place-based creative dialogue through an interplay of poetry and visual art created in collaboration with photographer and digital artist Dan Earle.
Raised in Greenwich Village by artist parents, Henrion developed an early appreciation for literature, music, and philosophy that continues to inform her writing. She now lives in St. George, Utah, where she teaches Wholistic Wealth for Women at Utah Tech University's Institute of Continued Learning and writes the Substack column You Make The Culture.