Julie explores life with curiosity, creativity, and connection. I share observations with humor, offering perspective on the world and how it shapes us—lightening life’s complexities along the way.
If It Scares You a Little, It’s Probably Growth. A 10 Day Mindful Activist Reset Let’s talk about fear. Not the real kind. Not the “there is a bear in the kitchen” kind. The quieter kind. The email-you-haven’t-sent kind. The boundary-you-haven’t-
You Don’t Need More Information. You Need More Courage. A 10 Day Mindful Activist Reset Let me gently say something that might sting just a little. You do not need another book. You do not need another podcast. You do not need another webinar promising “breakthrough.” You need to
A 10 Day Mindful Activist Reset Perfect. For Newsletter #3, we’ll build on another core principle: Chase value, not money. Money is the benchmark of value given. Same tone. Slightly amused. Slightly sharp. Deeply grounded. Stop Chasing Money. Start Becoming Valuable. Let me say something mildly rebellious in a
A 10-Day Mindful Activist Reset: Your Nervous System Wants You Small. Your Soul Does Not. There’s something no one tells you about personal growth: Your body will resist it. Not because you’re lazy. Not because you lack discipline. Not because you’re “bad at follow-through.” But
A 10-Day Mindful Activist Reset: Who You Are Becoming For the next ten days, we’re going to do something intentional. Not frantic. Not performative. Not “new year, new me” energy. Intentional. This is a series about identity. About growth. About the quiet mechanics that shape a life — whether
Ten days. Ten ideas. A clearer mind in chaotic times. If the last few months have felt like trying to drink from a firehose of chaos, you are not alone. Every morning brings a fresh batch of headlines that make you wonder if someone accidentally replaced reality with a late-
Julie’s Journal — Sunday Edition If you woke up this morning feeling a little groggy, it’s not your imagination. Overnight the clocks sprang forward for daylight saving time. Somewhere around 2:00 a.m., the clock jumped to 3:00 a.m., and just like that an entire hour
Weekend Exhale: Permission to Unclench If you are reading this, congratulations. You survived another week in the United States of America — the only country where the news cycle moves faster than a caffeinated squirrel on roller skates. Take a breath. Seriously. Right now. Because somewhere between geopolitical brinkmanship, stock market
I feel we’re in a repeating cycle, one that just never ends. If you’ve glanced at the news lately—and let’s be honest, it’s hard not to—you might feel like the national mood has shifted from “concerned citizens” to “passengers on a roller coaster that
Sometimes a political campaign begins with consultants, polling memos, and donors. And sometimes it begins with a middle-school teacher who decides he’s had enough. That’s essentially the story of James Talarico the 36-year-old Texas lawmaker who has been drawing national attention for a campaign that
There are moments in Washington when the political theater becomes so absurd that the script falls apart. Yesterday’s Senate hearing with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was one of those moments. And the most striking part? The sharpest criticism didn’t come from Democrats. It came from a Republican.
Ah, nothing says serious statesmanship like issuing ultimatums from Mar-a-Lago, threatening billions of people with military action, and then pivoting to… a photo op with your own naval fleet. Welcome back to the Trump foreign policy spectacle, folks — brought to you by chaos, confusion, and the faint whiff