Women Like Me Stories & Business

Send us Fan Mail What if the patterns you can’t break… aren’t about willpower at all? What if your body is protecting you in ways you don’t even realize? Some conversations don’t just inform you… They slow you down long enough to feel what you’ve been carrying. In this episode, I sit down with Anya Lewis, founder of Angel Wears Prana, to explore trauma healing, nervous system regulation, intuition...

Send us Fan Mail Migraine disease is not “just a headache.” It can take your vision, your balance, your words, and leave you trying to explain something invisible while the world minimizes what you’re going through. In this powerful and unfiltered conversation, we sit down with Arleen Davis , who joins us from China, as she shares her chapter, “Migraine Disease, My Journey of Discovery.” What begi...

Send us Fan Mail Ever feel like you’re living on the sidelines of your own life? In this powerful episode, Lisa Huppee shares her journey from self-doubt and feeling like the “black sheep” to rebuilding her life after divorce, illness, and unexpected setbacks.  From starting over at 40 to launching a home care business after 50, right before COVID, this is a story about resilience, reinvention, an...

Send us Fan Mail  People pleasing and codependency are often trauma responses rooted in nervous system dysregulation, not personality traits.  If you’ve built your identity around being “the calm one,” “the helpful one,” or “the strong one,” there may be a hidden cost: exhaustion, resentment, and losing yourself in the process. In this powerful episode, we sit down with Nicky Yazbeck , a trauma-in...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when your body suddenly stops working, and no one believes you? After a tick bite during a dream trip overseas, Allie Chandler’s life changed overnight. Her heart rate spiked to 220, her body felt completely unfamiliar, and doctors struggled to explain what was happening. Like many people living with chronic illness , she was told anxiety might be the cause. But the t...

Send us Fan Mail What do people regret most when life is ending? In this powerful conversation, Kandace Stoneman shares the life-changing lessons she learned working in hospice and long-term care at just 24 years old. Kandace joins Julie Fairhurst to discuss her chapter, “The Courage to Live Without Regrets,” from Women Like Me: The Space Before and After, and the emotional realities of caregiving...

Send us Fan Mail What if Amelia Earhart’s disappearance isn’t just an unsolved mystery, but a reflection of who we are and what we choose to believe? In this powerful conversation, Julie Fairhurst sits down with author Rachel Hartigan to explore the three most debated theories surrounding Earhart’s fate: crash and sink, castaway on Nikumaroro, or capture by the Japanese. But this episode goes far...

Send us Fan Mail Pain that gets waved off. Periods that stop, then don’t stop. Labs that don’t tell the full story. In this powerful conversation, Monica Reagor joins us to unpack the reality of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) — from delayed diagnosis and insulin resistance to advocacy and policy change. So many women wait seven to ten years for answers. Monica explains why, and what you can do t...

Send us Fan Mail When momentum stalls in your business, the instinct is to push harder. Add more platforms. Try new trends. Hustle louder. But what if the real answer isn’t force… it’s alignment? In this powerful conversation, Julie sits down with returning guest Melodie Dewsbury to unpack what it really takes to relaunch your business from a place of clarity instead of chaos. From saving for tool...

Send us Fan Mail What if the most important travel skill isn’t packing light—but knowing when it’s time to come home? In this episode, we sit down with author and traveler Melissa Rodway to explore the deeper side of adventure: travel ego, judgment on the road, solo travel for women, and the quiet courage it takes to leave, and to return. Melissa shares how travel strips away identity labels and r...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when faith no longer fits inside traditional church walls? In this powerful conversation, Irish interfaith minister and spiritual companion Patricia Higgins shares her vision of “rewilding faith” — reclaiming spirituality through ceremony, retreats, sacred dialogue, and inclusive community spaces. We explore:  • Why many women feel spiritually disconnected  • The diff...

Send us Fan Mail What if success stopped being about a paycheck and started being about the people you help rise? In this powerful conversation, corporate sales leader and investor Christine Valdez shares how she shifted from survival mode as a single mom to building long-term wealth through rentals, multifamily investing, LP syndications, and private equity. We talk honestly about: • Growing up i...

Send us Fan Mail What if the real measure of leadership isn’t how much you achieve, but how alive you feel while creating it? In this episode, we sit down with Jaclyn Orent to explore a bold shift in founder identity, from optimization, grind, and quiet burnout to resonance, joy, and sustainable impact. Jaclyn introduces the concept of the cultural catalyst : a leader whose ideal vision fuels chan...

Send us Fan Mail Pain that no one can see can still define every hour of your day. In this episode, we sit down with Dasha Maslennikova , a kinesiologist who spent 13 years navigating her own post-accident chronic pain. Together, we unpack how movement, mindset, and nervous system regulation can turn a stuck cycle into real, sustainable progress. Rather than chasing quick fixes or waiting for a pe...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes the hardest stories are the ones we can’t keep inside. In this deeply honest episode, we sit down with Thomasine Snelick—known to friends and family as Tommi , a 27-year-old from rural Pennsylvania, who shares the devastating loss of her brother to suicide, and, just eighteen months later, the death of her stepfather. Two losses. One young life forever changed. What foll...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when the life you’ve built looks successful, but quietly starves your spirit? In this episode, author and book coach Amy Bernstein shares her journey from a high-paying, high-stress government career to a creative life built on courage, strategy, and radical self-honesty. What began as a fleeting thought on a train platform became a clear mandate, and instead of burni...

Send us Fan Mail  What if the patterns repeating in your life are not random, but driven by thoughts you barely notice?  In this episode, Julie Fairhurst interviews author and teacher Mikail Maillet to explore how awareness, belief, and imagination shape relationships, careers, and everyday meaning.  Drawing from his book Your Mind or Your Life , Mikhail explains why mindset is not mystical thinki...

Send us Fan Mail Your mind is already rehearsing your future, often by accident.  Your mind is already rehearsing your future—often without you realizing it. In this episode, Julie Fairhurst explains the real science behind visualization and how mental rehearsal shapes identity, behavior, and success. Learn why your brain takes imagined experiences seriously, how worry uses the same mechanism as v...

Send us Fan Mail Promotions don’t hinge on performance alone; they hinge on perception. In this 4-minute video, Julie Fairhurst breaks down the research behind executive presence and translates it into practical, repeatable behaviors ambitious professionals can use immediately, especially women navigating leadership spaces still shaped by old norms. You’ll learn why high-performing women are often...

Send us Fan Mail What makes a reader forget the bath is running and the coffee went cold? We sit down with novelist Frank Talaber to map the exact blend of hooks, humor, and hard research that makes escape inevitable. Frank opens his playbook: how to seize attention on page one, how to layer smell, texture, sound, and light so a scene feels walked through, and why a well-timed joke inside a dark m...

Send us Fan Mail We explore how real healing can happen without reopening old wounds by restoring safety in the body, rewiring implicit memories, and taking back power in the present. Kristen Windsor shares her journey from decades of diagnoses to creating embodied practices that make change last. • the limits and harms of retelling trauma as a primary method • the role of implicit memories in ner...

Send us Fan Mail What if the life you want starts when you stop apologizing for wanting it? Julie sits down with author and realtor Janie Steele, married at 16, mom by 20, now a grandmother at 50, to talk about reinvention that’s brave, messy, and deeply human.  Janie didn’t just write a debut novel at 50; she self-published a 399-page, dialogue-rich story she’s actively pitching for the screen. A...

Send us Fan Mail What if success stopped sounding like a checklist and started feeling like a life that actually fits? Julie unpacks a new, saner playbook for women who are done with proving, pleasing, and sprinting on fumes, and ready for a success that feels grounded, honest, and deeply theirs. Instead of measuring yourself against someone else’s timeline, Julie leans into seasons: building, hea...

Send us Fan Mail The ground can vanish in an instant. When Leah Abrams’ 46-year marriage ended without warning, she fell into a full-body grief that shattered identity, routine, and the story she thought she was living. What followed wasn’t a dramatic comeback—it was the tiniest of choices, repeated: notice the sun on a pine, call a friend, take a breath.  We sit down with Leah—life coach, grief g...

Send us Fan Mail What does it take to rebuild when life burns down everything you love? Julie sits with nurse, author, and founder Elisabeth Mack to trace a path from childhood trauma and family estrangement to a joyful marriage, a thriving wine business, and then the unthinkable: a financial collapse and her husband’s suicide.  The turning point arrived in a chiropractor’s office, where a cannabi...