Today we’d like to introduce you to Aine Kmen.
Hi Aine, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
I spent the last decade in various marketing and growth leadership roles inside early-stage startup teams across the US, EU, and Brazil. That work gave me firsthand understanding of founder pressure, cognitive overload, rapid decision cycles, and the mental demands of building something from scratch.
Earlier in my career I worked on community and fundraising projects with the Jane Goodall Institute and other national non-profits, which helped me see the value of connecting with audiences and gave me lots of public speaking experience – from small, intimate events to groups of thousands.
Although I taught journaling workshops for years as a side passion, my interest deepened while navigating a period of chronic health challenges. I came across and used structured writing techniques that had a powerful impact on resolving my conditions.
That experience made me wonder: if writing can support the healing of physical symptoms at that level, what else can it change for us?
JournalingFix reflects this undertaking – my deep dive into translating research-backed concepts of what’s really going on in our brains – into quick simple writing protocols people can use to gain back agency, overcome overwhelm and overthinking, and keep an intellectual edge in our AI-saturated work world.
Together, this work is shaping talks, workshops, and online library of micro-journaling resources – grounded in real experience and clear research – that resonate with audiences navigating complexity, pressure, and constant input.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
It’s been a great adventure, and working with early stage startups is both energizing and a bit scary, as many don’t make it, so I’ve experienced multiple layoffs and feel really connected to other people who have also lost jobs. Each closed door has led to even more incredible opportunities, though, so I feel really fortunate.
My health issues that started a couple of years ago were also really stressful – I was diagnosed with multiple autoimmune issues and a nerve condition called arachnoiditis which brought excruciating pain. But the journaling protocols I used help me work through that and all of it led to the eventual idea behind JournalingFix.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your business?
My work creating JournalingFix draws on research into how attention, thinking, and agency actually work, using friction-less journaling techniques to help people make sense of their thoughts, reduce mental friction, and feel steadier in how they show up day to day.
My goal is to really help people understand the science of what’s happening in their brains, and have them have a toolkit of simple journaling practices they can use to change how they think, act, and regulate throughout their day.
It’s different than long-form reflective journaling, which is also a great process, but for some people can lead to deepening rumination or can feel vague to get started writing. JournalingFix’s structured micro-writing protocols are meant to be used to solve for specific issues – things like returning to focus after a disruption, getting the spark of a creative idea back, closing down circular thinking so it doesn’t hijack your day, end-of-day processes to remove threat bias and stop limiting patterns so they don’t roll into the next day.
Right now I’m providing workshops and speaking to groups and teams, plus building out the online site to house the protocol library, and supporting people with a newsletter and additional content.
I’m excited at how well it’s been received, and how helpful it’s been so far to the people I’ve shared it with, and really looking forward to launching the next phases of it.
How do you define success?
Success for me is knowing that I’m in the flow of what I’m meant to be doing, having true connection with people by sharing work that’s meant to be hatched in the world.
It also means having time to do things I love – like sailing!
Contact Info:
- Website: https://journalingfix.com
