Jenni Gritters

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Business Coach, Health Writer and Editor at Freelance

I teach solopreneurs how to build simple businesses that feel like home, and I write about building mine. Let's work together ⬇️

Articles

The 2 Best Diaper Pails of 2025

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Jenni Gritters |Winnie Yang

A dedicated diaper pail can make the hourly task of changing a baby’s diaper easier and conceal the stink of the discard pile. After testing 15 diaper pails, we found that the Munchkin Step Diaper Pail provides the best odor control and is the easiest to use. If you don’t want to have to buy special bags, or you’re looking for something smaller, the Ubbi Steel Diaper Pail is another great choice.
8 Best Baby Bottles of 2025 - Reviewed

2 months ago | reviewed.com | Jenni Gritters |Kate Ellsworth

The best baby bottles are Comotomo and Dr. Brown's Natural Flow. We also tested bottles by Lansinoh, MAM, Munchkin, Tommee Tippee, and more to find the top bottle around.
The 8 Best Down Jackets of 2025

Feb 7, 2025 | nytimes.com | Catherine Harnden |Jenni Gritters

A high-quality down jacket can keep you comfortable during everything from backyard social gatherings to winter snowshoe adventures. To help us choose our favorites, 10 testers romped across every corner of New Hampshire’s iconic Presidential Range and throughout the Pacific Northwest in 57 insulated jackets, covering more than 300 miles. We took on conditions that ranged from frosty to wet to mild.
The Best Toys For 4-Year-Old Boys To Gift This Year

Oct 30, 2024 | forbes.com | Margaret Badore |Jenni Gritters |Alexandra Frost

Four-year-olds are magical creatures—everything is fun, their imaginations are primed for creativity, and the world is one big playground to explore. Toys that capture both their wants and their learning brains’ needs are ideal for this age. After all, these playful preschoolers tend to be quite busy and active.
The 4 Best Baby Carriers, Tested And Approved By Parents And Kids

Sep 26, 2024 | forbes.com | Jenni Gritters

As a long-time product reviewer and an active mom to a 3-year-old and 6-month-old, I know how tricky it can be to find the right baby carrier for your family. To help make the choice easier, I tested nine of the best baby carriers (focusing on structured models) to select the winners.
A mission to save local news

Aug 28, 2024 | hub.jhu.edu | Jenni Gritters

Tamer Morsy, Engr '24, is on a mission to save local news. In 2018, he started to learn about the dire status of the news industry, and he wanted to help. In 2020, Morsy's news app, SpotlightNews, was born with the bold tagline: "For Readers. Not Followers."Spotlight's mission is to provide a simple news reading experience without pop-ups or ads. You choose the publications you'd like to read, then the feed offers a wide variety of stories from each. You can also sort by topic.
Why I don’t care if you make 6 figures

Aug 23, 2024 | jennigritters.medium.com | Jenni Gritters

A few months ago, I was invited to be a guest on Melanie Padgett Powers podcast, The Deliberate Freelancer. I’m a long-time fan of Melanie’s and was delighted to get to chat with her about my recent journey. I shared more about my fears and challenges than I have publicly anywhere else, especially related to working with my partner. One of the most important parts of the conversation, though, happened about three-quarters of the way in.
Congruence in action

Aug 16, 2024 | jennigritters.medium.com | Jenni Gritters

One night, I pulled a card from The Rose Oracle, one of my favorite decks, called Temple of the Rose. It’s a message to deeply trust and heal the sacred thread of the feminine by expressing your truth. The card’s description literally said, “Sing the song you came here to sing. This is how you reclaim your power.”A few months ago, I decided to pull back on my spring mastermind group, The [Sustainable] Scale Club.
"Productivity" culture is broken

Jul 26, 2024 | jennigritters.medium.com | Jenni Gritters

Time management can be one of the biggest challenges of shifting away from full-time work because there's no one to hold you accountable every day and deadlines often come every few weeks, if that. How, then, do you shape your day in a way that serves you? Where's the middle ground between over-busy and burned-out, and active procrastination? Let's start with story time: Leila showed up for coaching last year with a fixation on productivity.
Slow growth looks like

Jul 19, 2024 | jennigritters.medium.com | Jenni Gritters

I spend a lot of time talking about slow growth with my clients, many of whom are caregivers, living with chronic mental or physical illnesses, or recovering from burnout. Recently, L'Oreal Thompson Payton called it "slowth," which made me giggle and felt spot on. For many of the folks in my world, myself included, we're doing the deep work of trying to reset the way we work so we can actually feel good, versus running ourselves into ground as we chase unrealistic expectations.