If I'm Honest with Julia Landauer

We love female allies. Women supporting women is a crucial element in the quest for equity and equality, yet our culture has regularly promoted female rivalries. In this episode of If I’m Honest, Julia Landauer suggests some reasons that women may feel in competition with each other, highlights five things that women can do to support each other, and she celebrates some of the women who have been...

External validation makes us feel good, but can getting a lot of it be a bad thing? In this episode of If I’m Honest, Julia Landauer dives into the double-edged-sword subject of external validation. She discusses how sometimes we need external validation to know we’re doing our jobs, she shares how getting too much positive feedback early in life made her feel inadequate later in life, and she giv...

In this episode of If I’m Honest, Julia Landauer chats with Ashley Louise, the Co-Founder and CEO of Ladies Get Paid, which is a thriving community of 60,000+ women. In addition to co-founding LGP, Ashley is an accomplished entrepreneur, community builder, marketer and brand builder, who has dedicated her career to empowering women to level up personally, professionally and financially. In this co...

Julia Landauer is the first to admit that an element of the success she found in her racing career has been  male allies. Allies are important in every fight for equality and equity and there are many ways to be an ally. In this episode of If I’m Honest, Julia highlights five men who have been strong male allies in her racing career, as well as the ways that each of these men acted that made them...

We all have moments in life that trigger an identity shift: maybe it’s going from being a stellar student in college to feeling like a little fish in the big pond of the real world; maybe it’s finally getting a dream job; maybe it’s getting a challenging medical diagnosis. Everyone experiences things that force them to reassess who they are and how they walk through the world. On this week’s episo...

In this inaugural guest episode, Julia sits down with Hannah Newhouse, a racer-turned-motorsports broadcaster. They discuss Hannah’s racing background, their shared time on track, and their mutual favorite NASCAR driver, as well as that hot mic moment Hannah had early in her broadcasting career, owning and recovering from mistakes, and living life authentically. Follow Hannah on Instagram and Twit...

Julia Landauer uses Glennon Doyle’s podcast name, “We Can Do Hard Things,” as her mantra when things get tough; it’s her boost of confidence. And while it’s human nature to try to avoid hard things, there are many benefits to doing challenging things. In this episode of If I’m Honest, Julia shares why she likes doing hard things (ahem, racecar driving), details a moment with her go-karting coach t...

Did you know that motorsports racing is one of the few sports where men and women compete together to the highest levels? That being said, there are still very few women racing in motorsports. In an effort to change that, several all-women racing series, including the W Series and F1 Academy, have been developed over the last five years, with varying types of reception and success. In this episode...

The feeling of disappointment is common, but did you know that what chemically happens in the brain to produce disappointment is quite rare? In this episode of If I’m Honest, Julia Landauer paints the picture for what it’s like to be in the pits at the Daytona 500, describes her most disappointing moment of 2023, gives an overview of the science behind feeling disappointed, and shares what she per...

Sales are hard. Pitching is hard. Anyone in those fields knows that there are exponentially more “no’s” than there are “yes’s.” Julia Landauer has been pitching racing sponsorship, speaking engagements, and content partnerships for over a decade and is an expert at rejection. In this episode of If I’m Honest, Julia shares a tactic she uses to persevere through sales, compliments of Winston Churchi...

Maren Morris once sang, “a pearl without the pressure wouldn't be a pearl at all.” Pressure is, inevitably, a part of life, and in this episode of If I’m Honest, Julia Landauer shares her tips on how to stay focused under pressure. Reading directly from her journal entries from 2015, Julia shares how she managed the pressure of trying to win her NASCAR Championships, she talks about embarrassing m...

Introducing the “Hot Take” segment of If I’m Honest , which is an occasional episode where Julia Landauer gives her unfiltered commentary on a relevant subject or event. In “Hot Take: Formula 1,” Julia gives an overview of the motorsports series Formula 1, shares why she thinks there are no women competing, comments on Formula 1: Drive to Survive (and Guenther Steiner’s famous quote), gives her un...

Taylor Swift probably doesn’t know that she empowered Julia Landauer to enter the real world knowing about her value, but that’s exactly what she did when she pulled her music from Spotify. In this episode of If I’m Honest, Julia shares the wisdom she left college with, how she determined what fee to quote for her first speaking client, and things we can all do to develop an understanding of our e...

Most people get a pretty clear image in their mind when they hear the name “Pamela Anderson,” and it probably includes blonde hair, big boobs, and a red swimsuit. In this episode of If I’m Honest, Julia Landauer discusses her personal reckoning after watching Netflix’s documentary, “Pamela: A Love Story”...that she has unfairly judged a lot of people. Julia dives into learning to have grace for ot...

You know that doubt that creeps up when you kind of want to try something but a voice in your head tells you you shouldn’t? Or the frustration when you think you communicated a request clearly, but the other person didn’t get it? In her debut episode of If I’m Honest , Julia Landauer discusses the importance of always clearly and concisely asking for what you want and need. She a...

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